Professor of Conservation Science, Bangor University
Julia is interested in how people interact with natural resources and how incentives can be best designed to maintain ecosystem services; for example the growing field of Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) and how schemes such as REDD+ can effectively deliver global environmental benefits while also having a positive impact on local livelihoods. She also has a strong interest in the design of robust conservation monitoring using different types of data, and in analysing the evidence underpinning environmental policies and decisions.
'Worthless' forest carbon offsets risk exacerbating climate change
Aug 25, 2023 08:00 am UTC| Nature
In early 2023, the Guardian published an article suggesting that more than 90% of rainforest carbon offsets are worthless. These credits are essentially a promise to protect forests and can be bought as a way to offset...
A 'sapphire rush' has sent at least 45,000 miners into Madagascar's protected rainforests
Nov 22, 2016 00:07 am UTC| Insights & Views
The rainforests of Didy in eastern Madagascar usually ring with the calls of the indri, the islands largest lemur. There is a different noise now: the chopping of trees, digging of gravel, and cheers of encouragement from...
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