A Decade of Undisciplined Landscape Research: Integrative, Emergent and Solution‑Driven Science Through Strong Partnerships. Research Seminar by Marc Metzer
The Higher Technical School of Agricultural, Food and Biosystems Engineering (ETSIAAB) and its Research Centre for the Management of Agricultural and Environmental Risks (CEIGRAM) are holding a seminar on undisciplined research at the landscape scale. In this seminar, entitled “A Decade of Undisciplined Landscape Research: Integrative, Emergent and Solution-Driven Science Through Strong Partnerships” and given by Dr Marc Metzer, both students and researchers will have the opportunity to learn about and discuss how this type of research can provide solutions to the climate and biodiversity crisis with a leading expert in this field.
The seminar will be held on Wednesday, 11 February, at 12:30 p.m., in the Aula Magna of the ETSIAAB. It will be conducted in English.
We live in a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous world, facing complex problems and a perfect storm of global challenges. In his lecture, Marc Metzer will reflect on how “undisciplined” research at the landscape scale can provide useful, applicable knowledge that can be used to inform solutions to the climate and biodiversity crises. To do this, he will draw on a series of collaborative rural and urban projects in Scotland, sharing both examples of success and failure. Although challenging for many reasons, he hopes to convince the audience of the importance and enjoyment of conducting undisciplined research at the landscape scale.
Marc Metzer is an undisciplined professor of Environment and Society at the University of Edinburgh. Over the past 20 years, he has collaborated on a wide range of interdisciplinary projects focusing on the potential impacts of global environmental change on ecosystems and the services they provide to society. His early work focused on mapping the vulnerability of ecosystem services to global change. This sparked his interest in scenario development and stakeholder engagement, as well as understanding normative visions of sustainable land use. His recent work focuses on transdisciplinary collaborations with non-academic partners, with the aim of producing useful and applicable knowledge that can be used to support sustainable land management. Marc has co-authored over 100 academic articles, focusing primarily on aspects of sustainable land use, ecosystem services and natural capital in the context of global challenges. He is Director of the Centre for Sustainable Forests and Landscapes at the University of Edinburgh, chairs the UK National Committee for UNESCO’s Man and the Biosphere Programme, and is President of Landscape Ecology UK, the British region of the International Association for Landscape Ecology.
