Projects
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Biodiversity and ecosystem function responses to woodland creation
United Kingdom
This project aims to understand biodiversity and ecosystem function responses to different woodland creation methods. We are working at The Carbon Community experiment in Wales to understand how aboveground and belowground biodiversity responds to forest type (Sitka spruce monoculture vs mixed native broadleaf), soil microbiome inoculation and enhanced weathering. Focussing on invertebrates, we... Read more
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Associated members
Emily Warner
Daniel Bowen
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Nature-based insetting analytical framework
Global
To explore practical yet ecologically and socially robust approaches to implement nature based solutions along supply chains, we have set up a social venture spin out of Oxford University Innovation: Nature-based Insetting. The NbI team are developing a innovative NbI Analytical Framework, supported by a quantitative model, to provide the evidence for companies to monitor their impacts and depende... Read more
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Associated members
Cécile A.J. Girardin
Seth Thomas
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HARP Project: Facilitating Sustainable Reforestation in Tropical Agricultural Landscapes – The High Agricultural Reforestation Potential (HARP) Toolkit
Ghana, Vietnam
This project asks how can practitioner and scientific information be better integrated to enhance the sustainability of agroforestry transitions in smallholder production landscapes? Focussing on Ghana and Vietnam, to address this question we use transdisciplinary, human-centred design, remote sensing, on-farm biophysical measurements, socio-economic household surveys, and semi-structured intervie... Read more
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Associated members
William Thompson
Caleb Bram
Van Thi Hai Van
Jonna Halonen
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Sustain-Cocoa: Sustainable sourcing policies for biodiversity protection, climate mitigation, and improved livelihoods in the cocoa sector
Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana
This projects aims to understand the conditions under which supply-chain sustainability initiatives are able to facilitate agroforestry adoption. It also asks what are the socio-economic and environmental trade-offs of diversified agroforestry? The work involves semi-structured interviews, on-farm biophysical measurements, and socio-economic household surveys conducted in Ghana and Cote D’Ivoir... Read more
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Associated members
William Thompson
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Nature-based solutions for resilient infrastructure systems in Jamaica, Bangladesh and the Maldives
Bangladesh, Jamaica, Maldives
This project investigates the benefits and costs of NbS in enhancing the resilience of infrastructure systems, including water supplies, renewable energy, transport systems and flood protection. It uses geospatial tools to inform the prioritization of NbS and their deployment where they will yield the greatest benefits for infrastructure resilience, biodiversity, livelihoods and carbon sequestrati... Read more
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Associated members
Robyn Haggis
Minerva Singh
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Understanding the value and limits of NbS to address climate change and other development challenges in the Philippines
Philippines
This research presents a country-specific review of nature-based solutions (NbS) for transformative change in the Global South. In the context of the Philippines, this project will elucidate evidence of NbS outcomes, understand the country’s priorities for, and enablers and barriers to, interventions, and lastly, explore the potential for NbS to address climate change and other sustainable devel... Read more
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Associated members
Katrina Kendall
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Conserving sharks and rays in the global south
Bangladesh
This project assesses the vulnerability of shark species and sustainability of elasmobranch fishery against contemporary fishing pressures. This information is being integrated into the National Plan of Action for Sharks and rays-Bangladesh as part of the Food and Agriculture Organization’s International Plan of Action for Conservation and Management of Sharks. The research explores the ecologic... Read more
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Associated members
Alifa Bintha Haque
Rachel Cavanagh
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Addressing climate vulnerability with nature-based solutions in Bangladesh
Bangladesh
Bangladesh, like many lower income countries, is exceptionally vulnerable to increased climate risks, exacerbated by environmental degradation and socio-economic challenges including the COVID-19 pandemic. Nature-based solutions could provide cost-effective options to address these challenges but policymakers lack evidence on their effectiveness. To address this, we produced a comprehensive synthe... Read more
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Associated members
Tasfia Tasnim
Alison Smith
Beth Turner
Alexandre Chausson
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Biodiversity outcomes of nature-based solutions for adaptation in the Tropical Andes
Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela
South America is one of the most biologically diverse areas of the planet, however this diversity is threatened hugely by human activity and the changing climate. This project explores the outcomes of Nature-based Solutions for Adaptation upon biodiversity in the Tropical Andean region of South America and works towards building the evidence base of NbS for Adaptation. Using a combination of syste... Read more
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Associated members
Katie Lois Hutchinson
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Synergies and trade-offs between net zero policies and biodiversity conservation in Brazil
Brazil
This project develops and deploys economic landuse modelling to understand the synergies and trade-offs between net zero policies and biodiversity conservation, including the role of nature-based solutions, in climate mitigation efforts, with a particular focus on Brazil. The project also seeks to understand the impacts on ecosystems of different trade policies and supply chain agreements.... Read more
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Associated members
Aline Soterroni
Michael Obersteiner
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Investigating the biodiversity, social and sustainable development outcomes of achieving net-zero in the UK
United Kingdom
This project explores the climatic, environmental and wider consequences of greenhouse gas removal (GGR) methods. GGR is expected to form an integral part in achieving a climatically sustainable future, and features prominently (sometimes at enormous scale) in domestic and international pathways that successfully reach ‘net-zero’ emissions. The diversity of different practices and relative lac... Read more
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Associated members
John Lynch
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Scaling-up nature-based solutions in the UK
United Kingdom
There is an urgent need to develop realistic landscape-scale assessments of the implementation potentials of NbS that maximise potential synergies between climate change and biodiversity goals, manage trade-offs, and are biophysically and socially feasible, equitable and economically viable. To meet this challenge, we are using new geospatial methods to develop a comprehensive approach to guide wh... Read more
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Associated members
Alison Smith
John Lynch
Aline Soterroni
Emily Warner
Audrey Wagner
Caitlin Hafferty
Zachary Posnik
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