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Climate change is arguably the biggest challenge of our time, and construction has a huge role to play in helping to mitigate it. Biodiversity is considered our strongest natural defence against climate change; yet, the fields of ecology and construction have often been seen as two competing interests with no common ground.
This course explores how the two can instead be integrated with each other, so that we can meet our future construction needs while still protecting the natural world. Learners will be introduced to the fundamental concepts of how the built and natural environments can be blended, discover what data a project might need, and will try some basic survey techniques for themselves.
This session is led by Elanor Alun, Lecturer, School of Architecture, Construction and Environment.
About Elanor
Elanor spent four years working in conservation management and land management before moving back into academia. She specialises in biodiversity, ecology, land management and climate change, and trained in ecological survey techniques at Oxford University; her published work is primarily in the field of land reclamation and its biodiversity impacts. She is currently working as a lecturer on UWTSD’s Environment, Sustainability and Climate Change course.
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