Adapting Conservation to a Changing Climate
Natural England - BES Conference
11 - 12 January 2011, Charles Darwin House, London
Natural England and the British Ecological Society organised a two-day conference in January 2011, exploring how practical conservation measures could facilitate adaptation to climate change.
There is much interest in approaches allowing conservation and climate change adaptation objectives to be met simultaneously, using what is sometimes called ecosystem-based adaptation, for example, identifying where creating wetlands can provide flood defence. This conference aimed to provide a timely review and synthesis of this area of research.
Effective adaptation research requires a strong partnership between researchers, practitioners and policy makers. It is essential that adaptation measures are developed on the basis of sound science, combined with a rigorous assessment of their feasibility and acceptability to society. This conference aimed to bring scientists together with policy makers and those implementing adaptation measures.
Conference Report
The report of the meeting was published in September 2011 and is available to download here [Adobe PDF, 577 Kb]
and from the Natural England website.
Presentations
A selection of presentations from the conference are below. **PLEASE CONTACT THE AUTHORS, USING EMAIL ADDRESSES SUPPLIED BELOW, FOR PERMISSION BEFORE USING MATERIAL FROM THESE PRESENTATIONS.**
Climate change adaptation and ecosystems: scientific challenges and opportunities
[Adobe PDF, 2513 Kb] | Prof. Bob Watson |
Conservation in the wider context of climate change adaptation
[Adobe PDF, 2218 Kb] | Prof. A Watkinson |
The European context for adapting nature conservation to climate change
[Adobe PDF, 1355 Kb] | Dr Jan Plesnik |
Common conservation challenges in a changing climate
[Adobe PDF, 861 Kb] | Richard Smithers |
Making space for nature in a changing world
[Adobe PDF, 766 Kb] | Prof. Sir John Lawton FRS |
Resilience to climate change in theory and in practice
[Adobe PDF, 1209 Kb] | Dr Mike Morecroft |
Landscape structure and population resilience
[Adobe PDF, 1398 Kb] | Dr Tom Oliver |
An ecological basis for adaptation to climate change
[Adobe PDF, 1230 Kb] | Prof. Phil Grime |
The range expansion of the silver-spotted skipper buttefly: lessons for conservation under climate change
[Adobe PDF, 2293 Kb] | Dr Jon Bennie |
Moving plants and animals for conservation when the historic range loses legitimacy
[Adobe PDF, 1154 Kb] | Dr Sarah Dalrymple |
Winners, losers and conservation priorities
[Adobe PDF, 952 Kb] | Prof. Chris Thomas |
Adapting the model - predicting the effect of environmental change for conservation
[Adobe PDF, 1239 Kb] | Prof. Matthew Evans |
The climatic risk atlas for butterflies
[Adobe PDF, 1885 Kb] | Dr Martin Warren |
Projecting the benefits of landscape-scale conservation for wildlife and people
[Adobe PDF, 1321 Kb] | Dr Kathy Hodder |
Embracing adaptation at the RSPB
[Adobe PDF, 1167 Kb] | Malcolm Ausden and Alice Hadiman |
Adaptation indicators for biodiversity
[Adobe PDF, 68 Kb] | Mike Harley |
Integrating climate change adaptation and mitigation
[Adobe PDF, 1247 Kb] | Dr Pam Berry |
Multifunctional forests
[Adobe PDF, 2887 Kb] | Dr Mark Broadmeadow |
Future climate, changes in land-use capabiliyy and potential trade-offs between agriculture and forest services
[Adobe PDF, 2959 Kb] | Dr Alessandro Gimona |
Do wetlands reduce floods?
[Adobe PDF, 2922 Kb] | Prof. Mike Acreman |
Further information
For further information please contact Dr Mike Morecroft, Natural England or the BES Policy Team.
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