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SUMMARY:Taking a landscape perspective on social and ecological resilience
   - Dr Alexandra Morel (University of Oxford)
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191122T161500Z
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191122T183000Z
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DESCRIPTION:OCTF seminar followed by drinks - all welcome\n\nEven under cu
 rrent climate conditions\, it is difficult to predict how a complex system
  such as a forest ecosystem or agriculturally dependent community will res
 pond to a climate shock. Unfortunately\, at the same time our knowledge of
  these systems is dramatically improving\, our accelerating carbon emissio
 ns are rapidly changing the conditions under which these systems have evol
 ved. Globally\, we need to balance efforts to mitigate carbon emissions wh
 ile attempting to adapt to the novel climate conditions we are creating\; 
 hence\, the interest in concepts like resilience and resistance. Resilienc
 e and resistance can be conceptualised as emergent properties of a complex
  system. Resilience is often measured as the rate at which a system can re
 cover following a disturbance\, while resistance refers to the ability for
  a system to absorb a shock with minimal change in function. Therefore\, t
 aking into account the variability in climate conditions and their impact 
 on forest or farm productivity will be necessary for supporting climate re
 silient or resistant communities. Often these impacts act over a landscape
 \, whereby forests or farms can be positively or negatively affected by th
 e proximity to or size of intact natural systems\, which suggests that ach
 ieving resilience or resistance will require spatially coordinated plannin
 g. This talk will present some of our latest findings from smallholder cof
 fee and cocoa landscapes in Ethiopia and Ghana impacted by the recent 2015
 /16 El Niño as well as discussion of the latest metrics on estimating for
 est resilience to accelerating climate change.\n\n\nAlexandra Morel has fo
 cused her research at the interface of ecosystem science and development\,
  primarily through understanding the ecology of agricultural commodity pro
 duction in the tropics. She has combined ground-data and remote sensing me
 thods to look at the carbon footprint of palm oil production in Malaysian 
 Borneo\, landscape and management drivers of smallholder coffee and cocoa 
 yields\, the scale of productivity captured for human consumption in a coc
 oa landscape and the immediate impacts of the 2015/16 El Niño on smallhol
 der livelihoods in Ghana and Ethiopia. Dr. Morel completed her MSc and DPh
 il at the Environmental Change Institute followed by a fellowship at Colum
 bia University’s Earth Institute. She is currently a post-doctoral resea
 rcher with the Zoological Society of London and Honorary Research Associat
 e at the University of Oxford.\n\nSpeakers:\nDr Alexandra Morel (Universit
 y of Oxford)
LOCATION:Dyson Perrins Building (Beckit Room\, first floor)\, off South Pa
 rks Road OX1 3QY
TZID:Europe/London
URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/6a1f9c75-a8cf-4d75-9c0d-d4aab5dd626e/
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