I talked today to a woman who will be joining our graduate program next year. She explained she had already gotten to know me by watching a video of a talk I gave at the University of Tennessee about using portfolio to reduce uncertainty in conservation outcomes from planned conservation networks. It was a surprise to me to learn that the talk was publicly available, but here it is. Next week I’ll try to have a blog post about all the research I’m doing related to this talk.

Photo courtesy of Brooks Kaiser

I had the great good fortune to attend the 18th Annual BIOECON Conference in Cambridge England last month. The presenters represented a stellar sampling of the best researchers the economics of conservation and resource management worldwide. My keynote talk, “Uncertainty in and distribution of the benefits of conservation,” gave me an opportunity to make the case to our community that we should work more on understanding how the benefits of conservation are distributed among groups of people in our societies, and how we can modify conservation planning to reduce the chances of conservation catastrophe resulting from climate change. I welcome the international conversation we can have about those issues, given the diverse nature of both social inequities and climate change impacts across countries.

Hope to see those folks and many others at BIOECON next year in Tilburg.