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Environment and Sustainability Institute

Perspectives on personalised ecology

31 March 2023

This was an Environment and Sustainability Institute (ESI), RENEW and Biodiversity and People network event.

Each of us has a personalised ecology, a set of direct interactions with the natural world that change through the day, the week, the season, and across our lifetimes. The scale and composition of these interactions varies greatly between people, and are shaped by opportunities, capabilities and motivations. These personalised ecologies have a wide variety of impacts both for the individual concerned, and for responses to the biodiversity crisis. Here we bring together a diversity of perspectives on personalised ecology and its importance.

Agenda

10.00am Tea/ coffee
10.30am

Welcome and Introduction

Professor Kevin J. Gaston (Environment and Sustainability Institute)

11.00am

Ethical perspectives on the extinction of experience*

Professor Catriona McKinnon (Politics)

11.30am

Finding home in the tin slimes: Gt Wheal Seton Settling Tanks as a place of ecological and poetic revelation*

Dr John Clarke (English)

12.00pm

Coastal environments, health, and well-being*

Dr Lewis Elliott (European Centre for Environment & Human Health)

12.30pm

Personal Ecologies: Perspectives from the People's Assembly for Nature*

Alex Hunt (National Trust)

01.00pm Lunch

*20 mins talk + 10 mins Q&A session

Watch a recording of the event

We are proud to be celebrating the ESI’s first decade of successful operation and are holding a series of events to mark #esi10 throughout this academic year.