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Knowledge Exchange event on rewilding
20 Oct 2025 - 23 Oct 2025 • ICMS, Bayes Centre, Edinburgh , United Kingdom
Organizer:
The International Centre for Mathematical Sciences (ICMS)
Abstract:
Achieving sustainable human-wildlife coexistence in well-functioning ecosystems is a vitally important and major challenge under global change. In this context, Rewilding, an emerging paradigm in ecosystem restoration, is viewed by a growing number of scientists as central to the restoration agenda. Rewilding differs from more established conservation approaches as it de-emphasizes efforts towards preserving or bringing back certain focal species or habitats, in favour of prioritising the connectivity and health of the ecosystem as a whole. More precisely, the emphasis is on restoration of ecosystem services (such as pollination, water purification, carbon storage, etc) and their underpinning ecosystem functions. Other defining features of rewilding are the requirement of minimal ongoing management and viewing ecosystems as social-ecological systems. The latter point provides space for different scales of rewilding, from the most purist at one end of the spectrum, to small-scale urban rewilding at the other. While mathematics has played a key role in ecology for well over a century, its use in rewilding remains limited. This is in part due to the fact that the rewilding approach is still in the early phases of developing a rigorous scientific foundation. The purpose of this KE event is to bring together academic and non-academic scientists in mathematics and ecology, in order to tackle some of the practical problems related to rewilding. The ICMS has previously funded a term long programme, Rewilding mathematics. The perspectives paper Mathematical Perspectives on Rewilding is the outcome of that programme and the theoretical premise of this KE event.
Event listing ID:
1670086
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CREST 2026 — 3rd International Conference on Construction Resources for Environmentally Sustainable Technologies
07 Sep 2026 - 08 Sep 2026 • Cambridge, United Kingdom
Abstract:
CREST 2026 evolved from a collaboration between University of Cambridge and Kyushu University with the aim of addressing issues related to natural and man-made disasters and the impacts of climate change. This will include solutions to these disasters through the use of alternative resources, disruptive technologies and disaster mitigation measures which will allow the building of a sustainable and resilient society using geo-engineering.
Abstract submission deadline:
31 Aug 2025
Event listing ID:
1665635


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