Centre for Sustainable Forests and Landscapes

📢 We're hiring! PDRA landscape-scale natural capital accounting and biodiversity reporting. UE07: £40,247 Per Annum Pro Rata Full Time, 35 hours per week Fixed-term until November 2027 We are looking for an interdisciplinary researcher with knowledge and experience in natural capital or ecosystem accounting to work within the Centre for Sustainable Forests and Landscapes on the Horizon Europe funded CircHive project until November 2027 to develop new natural capital accounting methodologies to support urban and rural natural capital and biodiversity reporting. The role involves co-development and testing with the University of Edinburgh Forest and Peatland (FPP) landscape restoration project and The City of Edinburgh Council (CEC) to deliver useful and usable approaches to support decision-making. Skills and attributes for success:  ✔️ Experience in applying natural capital concepts. ✔️ Experience using a range of data analysis methods. ✔️ Knowledge of the traditional ecological and new nature tech methods for collecting biodiversity data for and from natural capital projects. ✔️ Experience of working collaboratively in large, diverse teams. ➡️ Learn more about the job description and application details here: https://lnkd.in/dRT7up7A ➡️ Apply before the closing date: 18 February 2025, 11:59pm GMT. University of Edinburgh Social Responsibility & Sustainability | The City of Edinburgh Council | CircHive | School of GeoSciences | The University of Edinburgh #naturalcapital #biodiversityreporting #greenjobs #research #hiring

📢 Calling all undergraduate and postgraduate students interested in the themes surrounding People, Nature and Climate. Registration is now open for Scotland’s Nature Student Conference which will be held on the 18th and 19th of March, 2025 at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh 🌳 This student-focused and student-led conference offers a wonderful opportunity for students to: ✅ Hear from a range of speakers from Scotland's nature sector. ✅ Meet and discuss their work with government staff, agencies, NGOs, researchers and fellow students from across Scotland. ✅ Give a talk or exhibit a poster focusing on any aspect of Scotland's nature, including the natural, physical and social sciences. 🔈 Confirmed speakers include Professor Mathew Williams - The Scottish Government's Chief Scientific Adviser for Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture and Dr Janet Fisher - Senior Lecturer in Geosciences at The University of Edinburgh, both CSFL members. The event is co-hosted by NatureScot, The University of Edinburgh and the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and supported by the Centre for Sustainable Forests and Landscapes. Register to attend here: https://lnkd.in/dqx2tsr9

Delighted to be co-organising this year’s #IALE Landscape Ecology UK conference, hosted by the Centre for Sustainable Forests and Landscapes. 🌳🌲⛰️ 👉Working on #landscape scale restoration? 👉Experience in monitoring change at landscape scale? Submit and abstract if you are keen to present! Practitioner, student and early career abstracts especially welcome 🤗

Join us for our first Edinburgh Forests and Landscapes Network (EFLN) event of 2025 on Wednesday, 5th February at 4:00 PM in the Conference Room, Edinburgh Climate Change Institute 📍 📽️ This exciting session will include the film screening of 'Three Words for Forest: Exploring Uncertainty in a Time of Climate Crisis' - a new play that draws on interviews with 30 forest practitioners, ecologists and policy-makers from across the UK and Europe to understand the challenges of making decisions in the face of multiple risks and deep uncertainties. The screening of the recording of the play will be followed by an informal discussion facilitated by Rachel Clive, Deirdre Heddon and Marc J. Metzger, with drinks and networking afterwards 🥂 Three Words for Forest is one outcome of newLEAF: Learning to adapt to an uncertain future: linking genes, trees, people and processes for more resilient treescapes, a project funded by NERC: Natural Environment Research Council as part of the Future of UK Treescapes programme.  Learn more about the newLEAF project here: https://lnkd.in/dVxXHpPU

Thanks to Natashi Pilon, Franciele Peixoto, Rafael S. Oliveira, Ana Carolina C. Oliveira, and Giselda Durigan for writing this important letter about conserving tropical grasslands and savannas!  The letter was first presented at the CBD COP in October, and is not published in Plants, People, Planet. I am very happy to sign this letter and be included as a co-author on the publication. Savannas are important ecosystems, and we need to do more to protect them! https://lnkd.in/eA6UrfAm

The Edinburgh Environment and Development Network (EEDN) is back this January with an exciting session titled 'Sustainability Dilemmas: governing landscapes and a changing polity in Nepal' with guest speaker - Andrea Nightingale, Professor of Human Geography at the University of Oslo. 🌳 In #Nepal, forests have long been central to public authority and the process of moving from one state regime to another has played out in a slow shift in authority often centered in forest #governance. This session showcases how efforts at rule always have leakages, people and landscapes which slip out sideways and offer possibilities for something new. By focusing on the #landscapes that result - both territorial and imaginative - Andrea opens up practices of rule to a new kind of scrutiny, one that is capable of revealing possibilities for change and #sustainability. Come along tomorrow from 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm at 📍High School Yards Teaching Centre (located behind ECCI) for an insightful event followed by networking over drinks 🥂 🗓️ The spring EEDN schedule will be out soon! If you would like to lead a future session, do get in touch with us. 

👇Do submit an abstract and come to Bratislava in September for the #IALE 2025 European #LandscapeEcology conference! And let’s have a great representation from Landscape Ecology UK !

👇 🌳 Working in #woodland #restoration in #Scotland? There is still time to share your knowledge and support us to develop a research strategy to support practical restoration needs (with The Woodland Trust, Future Woodlands Scotland, Borders Forest Trust, and Trees for Life). 🙏

🔗 Read our new article on Insights into Nature's Resilience & Recovery: removing the roof from the world's longest-running #tropicalforest drought experiment, in the #Amazon which addresses a critical ecological question of our time - the future of tropical forests in a changing climate 🌳 https://lnkd.in/d7HMzmaP The University of Edinburgh I Universidade Federal do Pará I MCT / Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi I Universidade Estadual de Campinas I NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory I UCLA I University of Exeter I UCL I Ghent University I Met Office I CREAF I Space Intelligence Credit: Paulo Bittencourt (University of Exeter and Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd).

As we wrap up 2024, we wanted to thank our colleagues, partners and the wider #Edinburgh Forest and Landscape Network for their continued support, collaboration and interest in our efforts towards accelerating interdisciplinary research, partnerships, teaching, and innovation in #sustainable #forests and #landscapes 🌳 🔗 Read the first edition of our newsletter that highlights this year’s key successes and some of our plans for 2025 ⬇️