by Helen Bunting | Jan 9, 2025
One of Georgina Mace’s many transformational research contributions was to provide a universally applicable framework for incorporating any or all elements and connections of the natural environment within conventional economic decision-making. We apply this natural...
by Helen Bunting | Dec 3, 2024
Gaussian processes (GPs) are generally regarded as the gold standard surrogate model for emulating computationally expensive computer-based simulators. However, the problem of training GPs as accurately as possible with a minimum number of model evaluations remains...
by Caroline Kennedy | Nov 13, 2024
Land use change is crucial to addressing the existential threats of climate change and biodiversity loss while enhancing food security [M. Zurek et al., Science 376, 1416–1421 (2022)]. The interconnected and spatially varying nature of the impacts of land use change...
by Helen Bunting | Nov 5, 2024
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methods are increasingly used for policy decision-making in the context of identifying and scaling up sustainable carbon dioxide removal (CDR) interventions. This article critically reviews CDR LCA case-studies through three key lenses...
by Helen Bunting | Oct 31, 2024
Sustainability requires that we restore biodiversity and wider ecosystem services, yet developments such as new housing inevitably cause environmental impacts. Accordingly, developers are increasingly required to resource offset projects, delivering biodiversity or...