Geography and the Environment
Description: Collection of talks organised by or hosted in the School of Geography and the Environment.
Talks:

Tuesday 22 April 2025

What is the role of academia in addressing the biodiversity crisis?
Date: 22 April 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Speaker s: Professor Tim Coulson (Department of Zoology, University of Oxford), EJ Milner-Gulland (Tasso Leventis Professor of Biodiversity), Professor Leah Gerber (Arizona State University)
Venue Details: ONLINE
Organiser: Carlyn Samuel (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Leah Gerber (Arizona State University)

Friday 2 May 2025

Economics of Nature-Based Solutions for Mitigating Climate Change
Date: 2 May 2025, 16:15 - 17:30
Speaker : Edward Barbier (Colorado State University)
Venue: Dyson Perrins Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QY
Venue Details: Main lecture theatre (1st floor, lift available)
Organisers: Carlyn Samuel (University of Oxford), Jane Applegarth (University of Oxford, Oxford University Centre for the Environment)
Host: Professor Yadvinder Malhi (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 7 May 2025

Natural Connection: What Indigenous Wisdom & Marginalised People Teach us about Environmental Action
Date: 7 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Joycelyn Longdon (University of Cambridge)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Organiser: Lila Stewart-Roberts (Department of Biology)
Host: Lila Stewart-Roberts (Department of Biology)

Monday 12 May 2025

Transport, Science and Policy: Reflections on being an Aotearoa New Zealand Government Transport Chief Science Advisor - Prof Simon Kingham
Date: 12 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Simon Kingham (Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha/the University of Canterbury)
Venue: Dyson Perrins Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QY
Venue Details: Diversity Room, SOGE
Organiser: Dr Debbie Hopkins (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Debbie Hopkins (University of Oxford)

Thursday 15 May 2025

Walking Lahore’s Orange Line
Date: 15 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: Dr Chris Moffat (Queen Mary University of London), Dr Ammara Maqsood (UCL), Fizzah Sajjad (The London School of Economics and Poltical Science)
Venue Details: Online only
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 20 May 2025

ONE Annual Lecture and briefing event
Date: 20 May 2025, 16:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Danny Sriskandarajah (Chief Executive at New Economics Foundation)
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: L1
Organiser: Environmental Change Institute (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The Tourism Geopolitics of China’s Arctic Interventions
Date: 20 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Dr Benjamin Lucca Iaquinto (Department of Geography, University of Hong Kong)
Venue: Dyson Perrins Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QY
Venue Details: Desert Room
Organiser: Dr Debbie Hopkins (School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Debbie Hopkins (School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford)

Friday 30 May 2025

Megafauna recovery and relevance amidst people and poverty in India
Date: 30 May 2025, 16:15 - 17:30
Speaker : Ninad Mungi (Aarhus University, Denmark)
Venue: Dyson Perrins Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QY
Venue Details: Main lecture theatre (1st floor, lift available)
Organisers: Carlyn Samuel (University of Oxford), Jane Applegarth (University of Oxford, Oxford University Centre for the Environment)
Host: Professor Yadvinder Malhi (University of Oxford)

This list contains talks from the following series:
Biodiversity Network Coffee Seminar Series
ECI Big Ideas Seminar
Energy Colloquia
Energy Colloquia Series
Energy Events
Environmental Change Institute
Food Thinkers Lunches
Food Thinkers Lunches - Trinity Term 2018
Geographies of informal and precarious labour - Transformations & Technological Natures Seminars
IFSTAL
Life after the Anthropocene
NatureFinance@Oxford Seminar Series
NEST - New Energy Systems Thinkers
Net Zero Home School
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests
Oxford Interdisciplinary Microbiome Project
Oxford Water Network
Oxford Water Networks Water Quality Series (2019-2020)
Sandscapes
School of Geography and the Environment
Smith School Business Fellows
Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment
SoGE Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation Cluster Events
SoGE Climate Systems and Policy Cluster Events
SoGE Economy and Society Cluster Events
SoGE Landscape Dynamics Cluster events
SoGE Political Worlds Cluster Events
SoGE Technological Life Cluster events
Technological Natures & Transformations Hilary 2017 Seminar Series
Technological Natures & Transformations Michaelmas 2016 Seminar Series
Transport Studies Seminar Series 2025
Transport Studies Unit (TSU) Lunchtime Seminar Series
TSU Seminar Series
TSU Seminar Series, Hilary Term 2017 : Transport & Mobilities Across the Life Course
TSU Seminar Series Trinity 2016