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• Dr Sen Li

• Alison Smith

• Dr Jang-Hwan Jo

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• Ecosystems Lab

• Biodiversity, ecosystem services and climate adaptation

• Ecosystems Governance Group

• Ecosystem Stewardship

• Harrison, P.A., Jäger, J., Frantzeskaki, N. and Berry, P. (2019) Understanding high-end climate change: from impacts to co-creating integrated and transformative solutions. Regional Environmental Change, 19: 621–627
• Pedde, S., Kok, K., Hölscher, K., Frantzeskaki, N., Holman, I., Dunford, R., Smith, A. and Jäger, J. (2019) Advancing the use of scenarios to understand society’s capacity to achieve the 1.5 degree target. Global Environmental Change, 56: 75-85.
• Priess, J.A., Hauck, J., Haines-Young, R., Alkemade, R., Mandryk, M., Veerkamp, C.J., Bela, G. Berry, P., Dunford, R., Harrison, P., Keune, H., Kok, M., Kopperoinen, L., Maes, J., Pataki, G., Preda, E., Schleyer, C., Vadineanu, A., Aulian, G. (2019) New EU-Level Scenarios on the Future of Ecosystem Services in Atlas of Ecosystem Services, ed. Schröter, M. et al. pp. 135-140.
• Seddon, N., Chausson, A., Berry, P.M., Girardin, C., Smith, A.C. and Turner, B. (2019) Understanding the value and limits of nature-based solutions to climate change and other global challenges. Philosophical Transactions B.
• Seddon, N., Turner, B., Berry, P., Chausson, A. and Girardin, C.A.J. (2019) Grounding nature-based climate solutions in sound biodiversity science. Nature Climate Change, 9: 82-87.
• Smith, A., Berry, P., Barker, J. and Lazarus, N. (2019) A toolkit for planning and evaluating urban GI – in Bicester and beyond. Town & Country Planning, 88(5) – special issue on Mainstreaming Green Infrastructure.
• Lenormand, M. et al (2018) Multiscale socio-ecological networks in the age of information. Plos One.
• Smith, A.C., Harrison, P.A., Pérez Soba, M., Archaux, F., Blicharska, M., Egoh, B.N., Eros, T., Fabrega Domenech, N., György, A.I., Haines-Young, R., Li, S., Lommelen, E., Meiresonne, L., Miguel Ayala, L., Mononen, L., Simpson, G., Stange, E., Turkelboom, F., Uiterwijk, M., Veerkamp, C.J. and Wyllie de Echeverria, V. (2017) How natural capital delivers ecosystem services: A typology derived from a systematic review. Ecosystem Services, 26: 111-126.
• Harrison, P.A., Dunford, R.W., Holman, I.P. and Rounsevell, M.D.A. (2016) Climate change impact modelling needs to include cross-sectoral interactions, Nature Climate Change
• Garcia-Llorente, M., Harrison, P., Berry, P., Palomo, I., Gomez-Baggethun, E., Iniesta-Arandia, I., Montes, C., Garcia del Amo, D. and Martin-Lopez, B. (2016) What can conservation strategies learn from the ecosystem services approach? Insights from ecosystem assessments in two Spanish protected areas. Biodiversity and Conservation.
• Dubrovsky, M., Trnka, M., Holman, I.P., Svobodova, E., Harrison, P.A. (2015) Developing a reduced-form ensemble of climate change scenarios for Europe and its application to selected impact indicators. Climatic Change, 128(3-4): 169-186.
• Dunford, R., Harrison, P.A., Jager, J., Rounsevell, M.D.A. and Tinch, R. (2015) Exploring climate change vulnerability across sectors and scenarios using indicators of impacts and coping capacity. Climatic Change, 128(3): 339-354.
• Dunford, R.W., Smith, A.C., Harrison, P.A. and Hanganu, D. (2015) Ecosystem service provision in a changing Europe: adapting to the impacts of combined climate and socio-economic change. Landscape Ecology, 30(3): 443-461.
• Harrison, P.A., Dunford, R., Savin, C., Rounsevell, M.D.A., Holman, A.S., Kebede, A.S. and Stuch, B. (2015) Cross-sectoral impacts of climate change and socio-economic change for multiple, European land- and water-based sectors. Climatic Change, 128(3-4).
• Harrison, P.A., Holman, I.P. and Berry, P.M. (2015) Assessing cross-sectoral climate change impacts, vulnerability and adaptation: an introduction to the CLIMSAVE project. Climatic Change, 128(3-4): 153-167.
• Saarikoski, H., Jax, K., Harrison, P.A., Primmer, E., Barton, D.N., Mononen, L., Vihervaara, P., Furman, E. (2015) Exploring operational ecosystem service definitions: The case of boreal forests. Ecosystem Services.

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Healthy ecosystems provide services that are essential for our quality of life, including clean air and water, food, a stable climate, protection against flooding and soil erosion, and attractive green space for inspiration and recreation. The value of the 'natural capital' that underpins these services is increasingly recognised by policymakers. 'Green infrastructure' and 'nature-based solutions' can be cost-effective approaches for addressing urgent societal problems, with multiple benefits for health and well-being, disaster risk reduction, climate mitigation and inclusive economic development.

However, natural capital and the services it provides are under threat from human impacts, including climate change. It is also increasingly clear that new approaches to conservation are needed, which recognise that nature and people are inextricably linked in social-ecological systems. Our research aims to increase understanding of these complex human-climate-ecosystem interactions, to develop more effective policies for managing our natural capital. We are at the forefront of integrating and improving techniques for observing and projecting the effects of environmental change on species, ecosystems and the services they provide. We are also researching adaptation options for biodiversity and how mitigation and adaptation measures in other sectors might impact on biodiversity. More specifically we are involved in:

• mapping, assessing and valuing natural capital, green infrastructure and ecosystem services;
• using sectoral and integrated modelling techniques to project changes in the potential distributions of species and ecosystems at local, regional and global scales and to assess their adaptive capacity and vulnerability to climate change;
• investigating the role of adaptation and mitigation measures in different sectors in offsetting the projected changes and their impacts on biodiversity;
• costing adaptation in natural ecosystems to climate change;
• developing a user-friendly, interactive and web-based platform for stakeholder-led climate change adaptation and vulnerability assessment which explicitly evaluates cross-sectoral interactions between the key sectors driving landscape change in Europe;
• quantifying the contribution of different organisms, and the effects of various drivers of change, on the provision of ecosystem services;
• assessing the implications of the above for conservation policy and management.

Full list of archived ecosystem related projects.