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Tag Archives: Environmental resiliance

Indonesia – forest carbon scheme steps up a notch…

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Back in June 2013 I wrote a blog on the Ribma Raya project in a prime area for Orang Utan conservation  in Kalimantan, Indonesia. I reported how through various political machinations […]

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Biodiversity and carbon, Biodiversity policy, Business and biodiversity, News

Storms, Cloudbursts and flooding – learning from Copenhagen

January 22, 2014by Dr Robert Bloomfield Leave a comment

In Denmark the State of Green reports on how city of Copenhagen is rethinking its strategy to sudden storms and the increased risk of flooding exacerbated by the impact of climate […]

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Biodiversity policy, Green intrastructure

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

Ever wonder where the rain goes?

October 11, 2013by Dr Robert Bloomfield 3 Comments

CIRIA have produced two great little animations that help explain how to manage water in urban spaces by mimicking the  ecosystem processes that take place in natural watersheds. Not only does […]

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Ecosystem services, Green intrastructure
Green wall image

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

On the Origin of Environmentalism by means of Biological Diversity

April 20, 2013by Dr Robert Bloomfield Leave a comment

  A hundred years after his death Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) is usually remembered, if at all, as the other person who alongside Darwin discovered evolution’s mechanism Natural Selection. The truth […]

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Ecosystem services, Engagement, Science

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

No flies on bio-diverse fields

February 19, 2013by Dr Robert Bloomfield Leave a comment

A recent article in Plos One highlights how organic farming favours insects, and therefore insect pollinated plants in meadows and wheat fields.  The study explored nine different landscapes under different levels […]

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Agro-eco, Ecosystem services, News, Science

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