Integrating quantitative social, ecological and mathematical sciences into landscape decision-making
EBDW03
7 September 2020 to 10 September 2020
Workshop theme
In July 2019 the Isaac Newton Institute (INI) Programme Mathematical and statistical challenges in landscape decision-making brought together environmental and mathematical scientists to discuss the issues facing landscape decision-makers and how mathematical and statistical approaches could help. The programme identified key research priorities within four areas: Decision-making under uncertainty, Spatial/temporal scaling, Coupling models to represent interactions within landscape systems and Representing processes in landscape models. It also led to a number of research proposals funded under the UKRI Strategic Priority Fund (SPF) “Landscape Decisions: Toward a new framework for using land assets” mathematical and statistical challenges call.
The aim of this follow-on workshop is to build on this work by exploring how to integrate state-of-the-art social modelling approaches with environmental and mathematical approaches in landscape decision-making. This is vital, as landscapes are complex systems, involving interactions between both natural and human processes. The workshop will also, provide an opportunity to feedback on methodological advances made since the INI programme and match these to the changing needs of stakeholders.
Given the current restrictions on movement, due to the ongoing pandemic, the INI intends to run this workshop virtually across 5 days. All talks and discussion sessions will be available virtually. This will include talks from both academics and stakeholders as well as breakout discussion sessions to identify research gaps and priorities. While the initial INI programme focused on bringing together the environmental and mathematical sciences research communities, the primary goal of this follow-on workshop is to further extend these interdisciplinary links to the social sciences community. This is crucial in order to advance a holistic understanding of landscape decision-making.
This workshop will include:
- Talks on the state-of-the-art in quantitative social and environmental and mathematical approaches to modelling landscape systems.
- Discussions on how to integrate quantitative social modelling approaches into existing quantitative approaches in landscape decision-making
- Summary of key outcomes and research roadmaps that emerged from the INI programme “Mathematical and statistical challenges in landscape decision-making”.
- Stakeholder perspective on current challenges in landscape decision-making.
- Feedback from projects funded under the UKRI Strategic Priority Fund (SPF) “Landscape Decisions: Toward a new framework for using land assets” mathematical and statistical challenges call.
Participants in the workshop will include a highly interdisciplinary mix of both academic and non-academic researchers as well as stakeholders working on land-related research and policy questions. These will include (but not be limited to) participants interested in ecological modelling, social modelling, as well as mathematicians, statisticians and computer and data scientists with expertise in system modelling, uncertainty quantification and decision-making who are also interested in these wide ranging applied questions.
The deadline for applications has now passed, but if you wish to participate virtually, please contact workshops[at]newton.ac[dot]uk.
The application is closed
Timetable
| Monday 7th September 2020 | |||
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| 13:30 to 13:40 | Room 1 | ||
| 13:40 to 14:40 |
Session 1 - Outputs from 2019 Research Programme - CHAIR - Viktoria Spaiser |
Room 1 | |
| 13:40 to 14:00 |
Peter Challenor University of Exeter |
Room 1 | 
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| 14:00 to 14:20 |
Felix Eigenbrod University of Southampton |
Room 1 |
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| 14:20 to 14:40 |
Paula Harrison Centre for Ecology & Hydrology |
Room 1 |
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| Tuesday 8th September 2020 | |||
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| 09:30 to 11:00 | Room 1 | ||
| 09:30 to 09:55 |
James Skates Welsh Government |
Room 1 |
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| 09:55 to 10:20 |
Daniel McGonigle Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs ; Pam Berry Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; University of Oxford |
Room 1 |
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| 10:20 to 10:45 |
Sue Pritchard Food, Farming and Countryside Commission |
Room 1 |
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| 10:45 to 11:00 |
Heiko Balzter University of Leicester |
Room 1 |
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| 11:30 to 13:30 | No Room Required | ||
| 13:30 to 13:50 |
Mark Brewer Biomathematics & Statistics Scotland (BioSS) |
Room 1 |
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| 13:30 to 14:50 |
Session 3: Landscape and Decisions Large Maths Call Project Presentations - CHAIR Peter Challenor |
Room 1 | |
| 13:50 to 14:10 |
Richard Everitt University of Warwick; University of Reading |
Room 1 |
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| 14:10 to 14:30 |
David Large University of Nottingham |
Room 1 |
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| 14:30 to 14:50 |
Eleni Matechou University of Kent |
Room 1 |
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| 14:50 to 16:00 | No Room Required | ||
| 16:00 to 17:30 | Discussion Room | ||
| Thursday 10th September 2020 | |||
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| 09:30 to 09:45 |
Felix Eigenbrod University of Southampton ; Paula Harrison Centre for Ecology & Hydrology |
Room 1 | |
| 09:30 to 15:15 |
Session 6: Integrating social, mathematical and enviro-ecological modelling - Group Discussions |
Discussion Room | |
| 09:45 to 12:00 | Room 1 | ||
| 12:00 to 13:30 | No Room Required | ||
| 13:30 to 14:30 |
Reporting back from breakout groups on gaps and priorities for future research |
Room 1 | |
| 14:30 to 14:45 |
Viktoria Spaiser University of Leeds |
Room 1 | |
| 14:45 to 15:15 |
Felix Eigenbrod University of Southampton ; Paula Harrison Centre for Ecology & Hydrology ; Peter Challenor University of Exeter ; Viktoria Spaiser University of Leeds |
Room 1 | |
Organisers
- Viktoria Spaiser University of Leeds
- Peter Challenor University of Exeter
- Felix Eigenbrod University of Southampton
- Paula Harrison Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
- Jane Leeks Newton Gateway to Mathematics
Speakers
- Viktoria Spaiser University of Leeds
- Heiko Balzter University of Leicester
- Pam Berry Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; University of Oxford
- Jakub Bijak University of Southampton
- Mark Brewer Biomathematics & Statistics Scotland (BioSS)
- Peter Challenor University of Exeter
- Alexis Comber University of Leeds
- Brett Day University of Exeter
- Felix Eigenbrod University of Southampton
- Richard Everitt University of Warwick; University of Reading
- Paula Harrison Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
- Marc Keuschnigg Linköpings Universitet
- David Large University of Nottingham
- Eleni Matechou University of Kent
- Daniel McGonigle Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Suzy Moat University of Warwick
- Gary Polhill The James Hutton Institute
- Sue Pritchard Food, Farming and Countryside Commission
- Mark Rounsevell Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT); University of Edinburgh
- James Skates Welsh Government
- Milena Tsvetkova London School of Economics
Participants
- Viktoria Spaiser University of Leeds
- Peter Ashwin University of Exeter
- Martine Barons University of Warwick
- Ian Bateman University of Exeter
- Jakub Bijak University of Southampton
- Gordon Blair Lancaster University
- Ronni Bowman Defence Science and Technology Laboratory; Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute
- Andrew Bradley University of Nottingham
- Mark Brewer Biomathematics & Statistics Scotland (BioSS)
- John Bruun University of Exeter
- Christopher Budd University of Bath
- Eduard Campillo-Funollet University of Sussex
- Peter Challenor University of Exeter
- Frankie Cho University of Exeter; University of Queensland
- Beth Cole University of Leicester
- Peter Coleman BEIS - Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
- Alexis Comber University of Leeds
- Stephen Cornell University of Liverpool
- Carole Dalin University College London
- Ciara Dangerfield University of Cambridge
- Brett Day University of Exeter
- Chris Dent University of Edinburgh; The Alan Turing Institute
- Jan Dick Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
- Felix Eigenbrod University of Southampton
- Darren Evans Newcastle University
- Richard Everitt University of Warwick; University of Reading
- Francesca Froy University College London
- Hannah Fry University College London
- Emma Gardner University of Reading
- Jiaqi Ge University of Leeds/University of Loughborough
- Alessandro Gimona The James Hutton Institute
- Laura Graham University of Birmingham
- Alex Hagen-zanker University of Surrey
- Claire Harris Biomathematics & Statistics Scotland (BioSS); University of Glasgow
- Paula Harrison Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
- Jenny Hodgson University of Liverpool
- Ian Holman Cranfield University
- Vincent Keenan University of Strathclyde; Biomathematics & Statistics Scotland (BioSS)
- Simon Kerley Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
- Marc Keuschnigg Linköpings Universitet
- Rebecca Killlick Lancaster University
- Adam Kleczkowski University of Strathclyde
- Bill Kunin University of Leeds
- SM Labib University of Manchester
- David Large University of Nottingham
- Christopher Lee University of Exeter
- Eleni Matechou University of Kent
- Daniel McGonigle Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Ewan Mchenry None / Other
- Alice Milne Rothamsted Research
- Suzy Moat University of Warwick
- Dali Rani Nayak University of Aberdeen
- Tom Oliver University of Reading; Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Oluwole Oyebamiji Lancaster University - Mathematics and Statistic Dept.
- Sandhya Patidar Heriot-Watt University
- Gary Polhill The James Hutton Institute
- Sue Pritchard Food, Farming and Countryside Commission
- Richard Reeve University of Glasgow
- Werner Rolf Technische Universität München
- Mark Rounsevell Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT); University of Edinburgh
- Nick Schurch Biomathematics & Statistics Scotland (BioSS)
- Marian Scott University of Glasgow
- Qingying Shu Lancaster University
- Rafael Silva University of Edinburgh
- Leandro Soriano Marcolino Lancaster University
- Amy Thomas Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
- Erica Thompson London School of Economics
- Julia M. Touza University of York
- Milena Tsvetkova London School of Economics
- Simon Willcock Bangor University
- Emma Wright Joint Nature Conservation Committee
- Jingyan Yu University of Surrey
- Ce Zhang Lancaster University; Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
- Guy Ziv University of Leeds
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