Dr Rajindra Puri, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Anthropology, has overseen the publication of a special issue of the journal AMBIO, dedicated to the emerging field of Human Adaptation to Biodiversity Change, a science-policy topic which has been explored at the Centre for Biocultural Diversity at Kent for the last decade.
Edited by Professor Patricia Howard, Professor Gretta Pecl, Dr Tom Thornton and Dr Puri, this volume features ten articles that report on the development of conceptual frameworks, methods and policy tools to investigate a largely overlooked area of research on the dynamics of biocultural diversity, driven by climate change impacts and other drivers of biodiversity change (e.g. invasive species, habitat loss, over-exploitation, pollution).
The impetus for the issue comes from the CBCD research project HABC, originally funded by ESPA-NERC, and a symposium panel sponsored by the CBCD at the RAI 2016 Conference on Anthropology, Weather and Climate Change.
More publications by CBCD staff and fellows can be found here.