NREM Seminar Series, Dr. Gerry Marten

Title of Presentation: EcoTipping Points: Levers for Positive Change

Abstract of Presentation:
EcoTipping Points are catalytic actions that turn environmental and social decline to a course of restoration and sustainability. The EcoTipping Points Project (www.ecotippingpoints.org) has collected a hundred success stories from around the world to extract and disseminate the lessons they offer. What does it take to create an EcoTipping Point? The story of a farming community in Thailand, which restored its watershed to health after damaging it severely, points to key ingredients for success. EcoTipping Point studies offer exciting possibilities for Masters Plan B projects. The presentation will examine what it takes for communities to create their own success stories, as well as ongoing research and activities to refine EcoTipping Point principles and their application.

Bio data for speaker introduction:
Dr. Marten has lived and conducted ecological research in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Honduras, Kenya, Thailand, and Japan. He has studied how a variety of ecosystems function and what determines whether human-ecosystem interaction is sustainable or not sustainable. In recent years he has focused on communicating to the public what environmental science and systems science offer that everyone should know.

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