It provides a range of benefits for schools, including digital access to a new magazine called 'Geography Today'.
One of the benefits is free access to RGS School Member Lectures.
In this talk Professor Gemma Harvey will share insights from projects on rewilding, restoration and natural flood management to explore how working with natural processes can support nature recovery and the delivery of ecosystem services including the mitigation of floods and droughts. Such approaches are necessary to drive transformative change in societal responses to climate change and biodiversity loss.
Working with natural processes to reduce environmental harm and drive nature recovery are essential to responses to the interconnected emergencies of climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution.
Biological energy influences Earth surface processes because many species are ‘ecosystem engineers’, capable of transforming habitats and modulating ecosystem resource flows. Such interactions between life and landscapes influence environmental restoration, resilience and hazards.
Research has demonstrated how trees and plants can assist the geomorphic and ecological recovery of degraded rivers and revealed that the contribution animals make to shaping the Earth’s surface is far more significant than historically recognised.
Gemma Harvey is Professor of Physical Geography at Queen Mary University of London. Her research explores feedbacks between plants and animals and Earth surface processes, and how these influence landscape restoration and management.
