December 2021

Job advertisements:

• Senior/Research Fellow in Econometric Modelling for Energy and the Environment - UCL

• Environmental Policy Specialist - ICF

envecon 2022 keynote speaker announcement

We are happy to announce that Emily McKenzie, Technical Director at the Taskforce on Nature-Related Financial Disclosures (TNFD), will be our keynote speaker at envecon 2022.

Emily’s experience in conducting high-quality, high-impact projects using applied environmental economics is unmatched. We are incredibly fortunate - and excited – to have her as our keynote speaker.

At the TNFD, Emily is working to support a shift in global financial flows toward nature-positive outcomes. While working for the UK government, Emily led the analytical team which produced the Independent Dasgupta Review on the Economics of Biodiversity. Prior to this, she helped design the Environmental Land Management Scheme at Defra. Emily also helped develop the Capitals Coalition’s Natural Capital Protocol and worked in the WWF Global Science team for a decade, where, among many other projects, she established and led the Natural Capital Project at Stanford University.

envecon 2022 will take place online on Friday,18th March, and registrations will open in January. If you would like to present your work, or suggest a session topic for the conference, please do so before January 4th by emailing uknee@uknee.org.uk.

British Ecological Society release their Guide to Interdisciplinary Research

We increasingly hear calls for more interdisciplinary approaches to tackling the deeply complex problems of climate change, biodiversity loss, and the increasing pressures on Earth’s planetary boundaries. But resources to help practitioners develop an interdisciplinary approach are few and far between.

Because of this, the British Ecological Society have released their Interdisciplinary Research Guide as a part of their Guides to Better Science publication series. The guide is for researchers embarking on their first interdisciplinary project. It covers practical steps to take when conceiving, planning, or participating in an interdisciplinary project.

We hope the guide will be useful to you when broadening the scope of your research. If you are interested in learning more about interdisciplinary approaches, join us at envecon 2022 (Friday, 18th March) where UKNEE and the British Ecological Society will host a join session on this topic. Registration will open in January.

envecon 2022: call for abstracts and session proposals

envecon 2022 will take place on Friday 18th March. Save the date!

So far, we have confirmed our keynote speaker as Emily McKenzie and our first session topic, which will be on interdisciplinary research with the British Ecological Society. Registration will open in January and more news will come soon – so watch this space.

How to present your work at envecon

To present at next year's envecon, please submit a short abstract on the work you would like to present. We are seeking 2-page abstracts of academically rigorous work that has direct implications for practitioners. Abstracts should convey the theory tested, results, and their practical implications.

Topics of particular interest can be seen in the table shown on this page. You can also get in touch with us if you’d like to organise a panel or papers session around a particular topic.