This discussion meeting will bring together experts on nature-based solutions to discuss how they can support a healthy and resilient water environment, whilst delivering multiple benefits for people and nature.
Each speaker will provide a short presentation exploring their views on the role of nature-based solutions in delivering multiple benefits and how these can be delivered in practice. Speakers will touch on projects that have taken place both in the UK and internationally.
We will then move into a panel discussion, where attendees will have the opportunity to pose their questions and hear more about the key enablers for developing and embedding nature-based solutions.
This event has been organised by the FWR’s Water Environment and Ecosystem Services Technical Panel, leading on previous work they have done on enabling nature-based solutions.
Our speakers
Joff Edevane
Joff is a past freshwater biologist with 30 years of industry experience in wastewater treatment and environmental regulation, currently focusing on the reduction and treatment of storm overflows, nature based solutions and catchment approaches.
Mark Everard
Mark has been working on ecosystem services and the concepts leading up to the formulation of that term since the late 1970s. His background is in aquatic sciences but this has morphed into the wider systemic implications of the societal benefits of nature, and the vulnerability of nature to society, in a range of roles in science, policy, practical implementation and broadcasting in UK/Europe, Africa, East Asia and Australia. As a systems scientist, Mark supports the concept of nature-based solutions, though is concerned that many applications lack a systemic framing. Mark’s work developing practical tools such as those adopted and implemented globally the Ramsar Convention and its signatories represent important steps towards mainstreaming these concepts, though against the current co worrying backdrop of retractions from commitments to sustainable development around the world.
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