The Nature Recovery Podcast

The Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery
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The Nature Recovery Podcast

The Nature Recovery Podcast looks at some of the major challenges we face to global biodiversity. It takes a look at the various ways we are trying to halt the decline in biodiversity and the challenges inherent in these approaches. We also talk to a number of leading figures in the field of Nature Recovery and find out more about their work.

  1. OCT 30

    Stakeholder engagement for landscape-scale recovery

    Send us a textThis month sees the publication of The Nattergal Report on Stakeholder Engagement Best Practice for Landscape-scale Nature Recovery Projects. Developed for the Boothby Wildland Landscape Recovery project, and funded via the DEFRA Landscape Recovery Development Phase, the report was led by the Countryside and Community Research Institute (CCRI) at the University of Gloucestershire and the Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and Agile Initiative projects at Oxford University, wi...

    45 min

  2. OCT 14

    Financing Community Nature Recovery with Christoph Warrack

    Send us a textWho pays is a challenging question in any nature recovery project. In this episode we chat with Christoph Warrack of Woodland Savers (https://woodlandsavers.org/) about how they use a mix of finance sources to enable community ownership of natural areas. Reports referenced:The Lawton Review - Making Space for Nature (2010), and The State of Natural Capital report (2024).The Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery is interested in promoting a wide variety of views and opinions on n...

    48 min

  3. AUG 12

    Social Justice, Conservation and Complexity with Professor E.J. Milner-Gulland

    Send us a textOur guest this week is Professor Dame E.J. Milner-Gulland who is the Tasso Leventis Professor of Biodiversity at Oxford. She leads the Interdisciplinary Centre for Conservation Science, founded the Conservation Optimism organization and co-founded the Saiga Conservation Alliance. In June 2024 she published a perspectives piece entitled Now is the time for conservationists to stand up for social justicehttps://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.300...

    24 min

  4. MAR 26

    Anthromes with Erle Ellis

    Send us a textHuman societies and their use of land have transformed ecology across this planet for thousands of years. As a result, the global patterns of life on Earth, the biomes, can no longer be understood without considering how humans have altered them. Anthromes, or anthropogenic biomes, characterise the globally significant ecological patterns created by sustained direct human interactions with ecosystems, including agriculture, urbanisation, and other land uses. Anthromes now cover ...

    39 min

  5. MAR 14

    If you believe...An alternative vision for the role of the state with Dr. Sophus Zu Ermgassen

    Send us a textWhat role does the state have to play in nature recovery?If we are serious about halting the decline in biodiversity do we need to lay out a more ambitious agenda that can unify the currently fragmented aspects of private nature finance, state intervention and the role of public sector institutions. This is part of the argument raised buy Dr. Sophus zu Ermgassen and a team of experts in a recent pre-print: https://osf.io/preprints/osf/td4qjWe talk to him about this mission-drive...

    31 min

  6. FEB 12

    Rewilding: People and Participation

    Send us a textThis week we look at Rewilding from the social perspective. Most of the challenges currently facing nature can be linked to human activity and more specific human prioritizations of one type of land use over another. So when we come to look at solutions to biodiversity loss (Rewilding being one of the most well known) its essential that we understand the role of people in making these solutions work.. It's hoped that Nature Recovery projects supported by local commun...

    37 min

  7. 12/28/2023

    Scales of Fishing with Professor Christina Hicks

    Send us a textOn this podcast we are joined by guest host Alena Goebel as we talk to Professor Christina Hicks about the impact of fishing on our oceans. We examine the differences in scales of fisheries and the important nutritional role fish plays in numerous communities. We look at what is meant by sustainable fisheries and the differences between large scale fish production verus community governed artisanal fishing.Christina is an Environmental Social Scientist interested in the relation...

    29 min

  8. 10/04/2023

    Who gets a say and who doesn't? with Dr Alix Dietzel and Dr. Caitlin Hafferty

    Send us a textIn this episode Dr Alix Dietzel and Dr. Caitlin Hafferty discuss 'Just Transitions' and discuss different approaches to societal change whether it be decarbonization or recovering nature. If we only focus on the technical aspects we will eliminate the voices of those who are directly impacted. For change to be effective and purposeful, it's essential that people get a say and participate from every sector of society.You can find out more about their work here:https://www.bristol...

    37 min
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The Nature Recovery Podcast looks at some of the major challenges we face to global biodiversity. It takes a look at the various ways we are trying to halt the decline in biodiversity and the challenges inherent in these approaches. We also talk to a number of leading figures in the field of Nature Recovery and find out more about their work.

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  • Creator
    The Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2024
  • Episodes
    17
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © 2024 The Nature Recovery Podcast
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