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ScotPEN Wellcome Engagement Award
30th June 20211st July 2022
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ScotPEN Wellcome Engagement Award

Diana Feliciano and Pete Smith at the University of Aberdeen have been awarded a ScotPEN Wellcome Engagement Award for a project engaging School children entitled ‘Food systems in a changing climate: from global to local’. Food systems contribute both to climate change and depletion of natural resources. Climate change can also affect adversely food production in...

Prof Georgina Mace talks about the Natural Capital  approach and how it can be used to inform policy decisions
31st August 20206th October 2020
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Prof Georgina Mace talks about the Natural Capital approach and how it can be used to inform policy decisions

Last month Georgina Mace and Ian Bateman published an important article in Nature Sustainability proposing a practical framework for using the theory of natural capital in policy decisions.  Here Georgina talks about how it can be used: What is the natural capital approach to decision making? Natural capital describes the stock of natural resources that...