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Category Archives: Health & well-being

Hidden threats to Biodiversity in Local Government

Featuredby Dr Robert Bloomfield 4 Comments

A meeting in Westminster of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Biodiversity (APPG) in September 2014 concluded that the lack of ecological capacity in our local authorities as not only […]

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Biodiversity offsetting, Biodiversity policy, Ecosystem services, Health & well-being, News

Project Wild Thing

October 17, 2013by Dr Robert Bloomfield Leave a comment

I wrote previously about the dislocation of children from nature and the risks this brings to their wider development, confidence and self esteem (see Wild child full of grace….). The […]

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Education, Engagement, Health & well-being, Informal learning

A global outlook on urbanisation

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Stockholm Resilience Center (SRC) have created an interactive version of the report City Biodiversity Outlook 1 which was launched at the CBD COP in Hyderabad in 2012. With a video […]

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Biodiversity policy, Ecosystem services, Green intrastructure, Health & well-being, Informal learning, Science
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The economic case for green-infrastructure

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A new report sets out  a clearer case for investment in multi-functional green space or Green Infrastructure (GI) by considering its contribution to economic growth. The authors based their conclusions […]

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Biodiversity policy, Business and biodiversity, Ecosystem services, Green intrastructure, Health & well-being, News

Lost tribes or global stewards?

April 3, 2013by Dr Robert Bloomfield 2 Comments

‘At the heart of biodiversity stewardship is the opportunity to build a new relationship between indigenous peoples and Nation States…’  Brazilian photographer Salgado’s new exhibition Genesis aims to highlight “the […]

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Arts, Biodiversity and carbon, Biodiversity policy, Citizen science, Ecosystem services, Engagement, Health & well-being, Science
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Soil biodiversity creates a rice production revolution

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Hardly known in the west a revolution is taking place across the rice-producing world – and the secret lies in enabling soil biodiversity to thrive. The method, known as the System of Rice […]

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Agro-eco, Business and biodiversity, Ecosystem services, Health & well-being, Informal learning, News, Science
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Useful links to biodiversity reports

February 11, 2013by Dr Robert Bloomfield Leave a comment

I have added a new resource page to bioDiverse, starting with links to some of the most influential reports at the science-policy interface.

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Biodiversity and carbon, Biodiversity policy, Business and biodiversity, Ecosystem services, Health & well-being

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