Category: ecology
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Assisted regeneration could make farmers money
Here is the media release for my recent paper in Environmental Science & Policy: http://www.anu.edu.au/news/all-news/assisted-regeneration-could-make-farmers-money Researchers have found that assisting vegetation to grow back naturally could be a far more profitable way for farmers to lock in carbon than the more commonly considered method of planting trees and shrubs. PhD researcher Megan Evans from The Australian…
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Environmental offset policy and bridging the science-policy divide
The latest issue of Decision Point magazine features a brief article outlining some the “co-benefits” that have been generated through the collaboration between the Department of the Environment and researchers from the Environmental Decisions Group which resulted in EPBC Act environmental offsets assessment guide. I’ve previously blogged about this collaboration here, but as mentioned in…
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Does “irreplaceability” tell us where to prioritise protected area management?
I was asked by The Conversation to provide some comments on an new paper published by Soizic Le Saout and colleagues this week in Science. You can read my comments and those of a number of other scientists in the article. But I thought I’d share some more thoughts on the paper here. Update 18/11/13: Added…
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ANZSEE 2013 Conference: 11-14 November, 2013
A belated shout- out on behalf of the Australia New Zealand Society for Ecological Economics (ANZSEE), who is organizing what I think will be a pretty amazing conference from 11-14 November 2013, at the Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU in Canberra. (I might be biased – I’m the Secretary of ANZSEE and part of the…
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A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush: Paper accepted at the 15th Annual BIOECON Conference, Cambridge
I woke to the exciting news this morning that my paper has been accepted for presentation at the 15th Annual BIOECON Conference, to be held at King’s College in Cambridge, UK from 18 – 20th September 2013. I’m looking forward to travelling to the UK, and hope to visit some of the fantastic universities and institutions while…
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Biodiversity offsets in practice: the case of the Striped Legless Lizard
Last week I joined a field trip run as part of the Biodiversity Conservation (ENVS3039) course at the ANU. The students have been introduced to the concept of biodiversity offsetting during lectures, but now they can put that knowledge into practice. As part of their assessment, the students were asked to develop a biodiversity offset proposal to compensate…
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Can we offset biodiversity losses?
This article was published in The Conversation, 6 May 2013 Update: Also republished in the Brisbane Times and SBS News Australia, 7 May 2013 Megan Evans & Martine Maron Clive Palmer’s China First Coal Project is entering the last stages of review for its proposed coal mine in Queensland’s Bimblebox Nature Refuge. As part of the Supplementary Environmental Impact…
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Calculating the benefits of conservation actions
In the new issue of Decision Point magazine, Martine Maron from UQ has penned an article on a collaboration I was involved with between researchers in the NERP Environmental Decisions Hub, and the Australian Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities (DSEWPaC) staff. ………………………………………………………………………………… It’s projected that nearly a billion hectares of terrestrial ecosystems will…
Megan C. Evans 