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Events
Forthcoming LEC events are listed here, from open days to seminars and conferences.
Breathe Easier: Resolving critical air-quality problems with passive directional sampling'
Dr Maria Angeles Solera Garcia, Lancaster Environment Centre
Friday 24th February 2012, 1500-1600
LEC Training Room 2
Ensuring Water Resource Security: Assessing Water-Related Business Risks
Wednesday 29th February 2012, 0930-1600
LEC Training Rooms 1 And 2
Catchment Change Network hosts NERC Water Security Knowledge Exchange Programme (WSKEP) workshop. Lead presentations for the workshop and facilitated discussion include:
Going Beyond Dangerous Climate Change: Exploring the void between rhetoric and reality in reducing carbon emissions
Professor Kevin Anderson, University of Manchester
Wednesday 29th February 2012, 1430-1530
Marcus Merriman Lecture Theatre
Unprecedented growth in recent emissions demands a radical departure from the mitigation proposals suggested by many policy makers and scientific reports. This presentation strips away the rhetoric of such proposals to reveal a profound challenge to science and society. It argues that our abject failure to reduce emissions leaves the global community with stark choices. To continue the delusion that emission can be controlled through rhetoric, financial fine-tuning and piecemeal incrementalism; to view the future as one of futility and despair; or to acknowledge that the greatest obstacles to real change are an absence of honesty and imagination alongside a fear of change itself. The paper concludes that whilst 2°C futures are all but lost, early harnessing of human will and ingenuity may yet offer opportunities to deliver relatively low-carbon and climate-resilient communities.
After Cancun: The Impossibility of Carbon Trading
Professor David Campbell, University of Leeds
Wednesday 29th February 2012, 1600-1700
Cavendish Colloquium Room
Lancaster Law School & Lancaster Environment Centre
UCAS Open Day - Environmental Science schemes
Saturday 10th March 2012
Lancaster Environment Centre
Environmental Science schemes open day.
Nitrogen and Phosphorus dynamics in a groundwater-fed river from high-frequency automated sampling. River Leith, Cumbria
Dr Magdalena Bieroza, Lancaster Environment Centre
Tuesday 13th March 2012, 1200-1300
LEC Training Rooms 1 And 2
LEC Semainar
Eco Innovation in the North West - Celebrating success - planning for the future
Wednesday 14th March 2012, 0900-1430
BT Convention Centre, Liverpool
LEC Postgraduate Open Day
Saturday 17th March 2012, 1200-1600
Lancaster Environment Centre
Find out about the Lancaster Environment Centre's taught and research-based postgraduate courses.
Temporal variability in water flux and nitrogen biogeochemistry in hyporheic zone sediments and Benthic macroinvertebrate community response to neutral mine drainage in central Wales
Dr Patrick Byrne, Lancaster Environment Centre
Monday 19th March 2012, 1300-1400
LEC Training Rooms 1 And 2
Two presentations will be given:
UCAS Open Day - Environmental Science schemes
Tuesday 20th March 2012
Lancaster Environment Centre
Environmental Science schemes open day.
UCAS Open Day - Geography schemes
Wednesday 21st March 2012
Lancaster Environment Centre
Geography schemes open day.
UCAS Open Day - Geography schemes
Wednesday 28th March 2012
Lancaster Environment Centre
Geography schemes open day.
What does rural-urban migration mean for Amazonian people and forests?
Dr Luke Parry, Lancaster Environment Centre
Wednesday 25th April 2012, 1600-1700
LEC Training Rooms 1 And 2
Rural-urban migration has contributed to the rapid growth of urban areas in developing countries, including in tropical forest regions. The consequences of urbanization for conservation and development goals are highly contested. Rural depopulation and land abandonment may facilitate forest recovery and prevent the extinction of forest species. Alternatively, the increased demand for forest resources by migrants with strong rural ties could increase the ecological footprints of expanding cities, undermining the potential benefits of rural depopulation for threatened forests. We examined the well-being of rural-urban migrants in two rainforest cities in the Brazilian Amazon. We also assessed food security and household reliance on rural areas for income and food. Our results from 156 randomly selected households indicate that the majority of families in the two cities along the River Madeira had migrated from rural areas, motivated by a desire for education and other factors, including extreme climatic events. Compared to non-migrants, migrant households had low cash incomes and often lacked access to reliable water and electricity supplies. We found that recent migrant households frequently maintained a rural livelihoods portfolio although rural-urban linkages reduced over time since arrival in a city. All households consumed wild forms of animal protein, particularly fish. For the first time we document widespread consumption of hunted forest animals and river turtles by urban consumers in the Amazon. However, recent migrants consumed particularly high quantities of forest and river-sourced animal protein and gradually switched to farmed foods. We consider the policy levers available to facilitate poverty alleviation in growing urban centres and minimize the ecological impacts of urban consumption in rainforest regions.
LEC Postgraduate Open Day
Saturday 12th May 2012, 1200-1600
Lancaster Environment Centre
Find out about the Lancaster Environment Centre's taught and research-based postgraduate courses.
LEC Postgraduate Open Day
Saturday 14th July 2012, 1200-1600
Lancaster Environment Centre
Find out about the Lancaster Environment Centre's taught and research-based postgraduate courses.