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Nature's Glass: Half-Full or Half-Empty?
Public Lecture - London, United Kingdom
The world's governments failed to meet their pledge of reducing the rate of biodiversity loss by 2010. Wild populations, their habitats, and the benefits they provide for people, are continuing to decline. But is the situation hopeless? In my talk I will examine a series of case studies where things are getting better rather than worse. I will explore how the motivations for conservation, the approaches adopted, and the people involved are changing and becoming increasingly diverse. I will investigate what lessons these examples yield about how conservation might increase its success rate – and examine what together these stories tell us about the prospects for nature in the 21st century.
Speaker: Professor Andrew Balmford
Andrew Balmford FRS is Professor of Conservation Science at University of Cambridge.
Professor Balmford's main research interests are in the costs and benefits of effective conservation, quantifying the changing state of nature, identifying efficient conservation responses and exploring how conservation efforts might best be reconciled with farming. To try to have most impact he focuses his research in developing countries and on collaborations with conservation practitioners and with colleagues in other disciplines. He has recently finished writing Wild Hope (University of Chicago Press, 2012), a popular-level book examining conservation success stories from around the world.
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Website: Nature's Glass: Half-Full or Half-Empty?
6:30 pm – 7:30 pm on Monday 10 December 2012
The Royal Society, London
London, United Kingdom
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British Hypertension Society Annual Scientific Meeting
Scientific Conference - Queens’ College Cambridge, UK
The programme includes presentations by invited speakers on a broad range of
topics including sleep and cardiovascular disease, blood pressure variability and
cardiovascular imaging in the hypertensive patient. In addition, the meeting will
commence on Monday afternoon with a session dedicated to the NICE
Hypertension Guidelines, which will have been launched only one month before
the conference. The Sir George Pickering Lecture will be given by one of the
Society’s founding member. The programme will also feature interesting and unusual clinical cases, a debate on the
use of experimental models in hypertension research, an update on the latest
news from clinical trials and parallel nurse sessions. The remainder of the
programme will consist of oral and poster presentations based on submitted
abstracts.
(Courtesy of http://www.bhsoc.org/courses_conferences.stm)
Mon, Sep 10, 2012 - Wed, Sep 12, 2012
Queens’ College Cambridge
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