Biodiversity offsets are a new topic in research and education
In recent years Biodiversity offsets have become a topic of interest in academia and as such been covered in various projects and reports worldwide. As a result, young researchers and PhD candidates have started to engage in this field and I am very happy to see more and more very extensive and highly valuable master thesis, PhD studies and other student work emerge in the biodiversity offsets field. For young researchers and PhD candidates it is even more important than for senior researchers to focus on the strong interlinkages between experts on biodiversity offsets worldwide as their networks usually aren’t as widespread and elaborated as those of senior researchers and practitioners.
This site therfore aims to provide a common platform specifically for young researchers and PhD candidates to get to know each other and exchange and comment on their own and the others’ work. If you would like to introduce yourself or present and discuss you research topic here, please contact me (this is greatly appreciated). You can do that here.
PhDs on Biodiversity Offsets
Ana Villarroya (2012). “Ecological compensation and Environmental Impact Assessment in Spain: current practice and recommendations for improvement”
Baptiste Regnery (2013). “Les mesures compensatoires pour la biodiversité. Conception et perspectives d’application”
Joe Bull (2014). “Biodiversity offsets for moving conservation targets”
Michael Curran (2014). “Compensating the biodiversity impacts of land use: Toward ecologically equal exchange in the North–South context”
Carlos Ferreira (2014). “Biodiversity offset markets: current challenges and prospective developments”
Anne-Charlotte Vaissière (2014): “Organizational and institutional issues of implementing biodiversity offsets policies. A case study of continental and offshore wetlands”
Megan Evans (ongoing). “An interdisciplinary approach to evaluating environmental policy: the case of biodiversity offsetting”
Barbara Goncalves (ongoing): “Planning for Landscape scale conservation”
Adeline Bas (ongoing): “Biodiversity offsets in the context of offshore windfarms in France”
Céline Jacob (ongoing): “Marine and coastal biodiversity offsets implementation in France”
Melissa Bos (ongoing): “Marine Biodiversity Offsets”
Rachel Morrison (ongoing): “Operationalising Biodiversity Offsetting through Environmental Impact Assessment: Interactions and Outcomes for No Net Loss of Biodiversity”
Victoria Griffiths (ongoing): “Integrating social gains with ‘no net loss’ of biodiversity”
Lucie Bezombes (ongoing): “Development of a methodology to calculate ecological equivalence in the mitigation hierarchy context in France : taking into account ecological, spatial and temporal aspects”
Master theses and other student works on Biodiversity Offsets
Genevieve Hayes (2014). Achieving and Measuring Net Positive Impact in a new era of corporate-NGO partnerships — a case study of the BirdLife-CEMEX partnership
Bachelor and master courses related to Biodiversity Offsets
MSc in Biodiversity, Conservation and Management at University of Oxford (UK): includes offsetting through lectures in the conservation governance module (before: class project)
Our one-year full-time MSc course develops knowledge and critical understanding of conservation and biodiversity science and practice, and the socio-economic, political, cultural and institutional environments within which policy and management decisions are made.
Msc in Economics of Land Use and Biodiversity Conservation at Brandenburg Technische Universität Cottbus (Germany): includes two weaks coursework (4h) on offsetting
Contents:
• optimal spatial allocation of land use
• policy instruments for sustainable land use (PES, conservation banking)
• institutions and governance structures, common pool resources
• REDD (reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation)