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Kerry Waylen @kerrywaylen.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

I am happy to hear that the final meeting of @merlin-project.bsky.social is going well in Ghent today (and sorry not to be there!). A key insight is that responding to the climate & biodiversity emergencies involve partnerships across sectors– people drive #Nature-based Solutions."

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Kerry Waylen @kerrywaylen.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

For me this reiterates the importance of focusing on supporting #collaboration to work holistically in landscapes, and to not make assumptions about what framings, data and activities will help that for #sustainability .

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Kerry Waylen @kerrywaylen.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

They were generally valued for co-producing plans and enroling new partners; they all considered nature in terms of assets and the services it can produce, but monetary #valuation wasn't always key.

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Kerry Waylen @kerrywaylen.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

We explore how taking a 'natural capital approach' played out in 6 landscape-level initiatives. There were varied interpretations of what taking a #naturalcapital approach means.

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Kerry Waylen @kerrywaylen.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Happy to share our new paper "Natural capital approaches to decision-making for collaborative landscape governance" led by @jayneglass.bsky.social also supported by Mark Reed, Leo Peskett & Brady Stevens. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Natural capital approaches to decision-making for collaborative landscape governance

This study explores if and how natural capital approaches can support collaborative landscape governance. We selected six initiatives across the UK th…

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Kerry Waylen @kerrywaylen.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Looking forward to a super set of speakers and talks related to #transformation for #sustainability at this year's @alterneteurope.bsky.social conference

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Kerry Waylen @kerrywaylen.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

I'd particularly like to encourage submissions for our session on #Resilience to #climate extremes - open to submissions from all disciplinary perspectives - deadline 28th Feb.

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Kerry Waylen @kerrywaylen.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

The @alterneteurope.bsky.social 2025 conference is coming soon in May - a great venue for pan-european networking developments on socio-#ecological science and management. The theme this year is Transformative change for #biodiversity alterneteurope.eu/conference20... #transformation

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Alternet Conference 2025 - Alternet

The first European Platform for Biodiversity Research Strategy, an EU-funded project managed by Alternet and its consortium partners.

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Kerry Waylen @kerrywaylen.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Both papers aim to support and refine our practice at developing Nature-Based Solutions in line with the IUCN global standard, and reflect our partnerships with diverse academic and practitioner colleagues – best wishes to our nature-based friends for 2025!

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Kerry Waylen @kerrywaylen.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

One, led by Alhassan Ibrahim is on “Raising standards for stakeholder engagement in Nature-based Solutions: Navigating the why, when, who and how” in Environmental Science & Policy journal www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Raising standards for stakeholder engagement in Nature-based Solutions: Navigating the why, when, who and how

Working with people is inherent to Nature-Based Solutions (NbS). The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Global Standard for Nature-…

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Kerry Waylen @kerrywaylen.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

To round off 2024, I’m very happy to share 2 papers from our work on #Nature-Based Solutions, linked to the @merlin-project.bsky.social and also supported by the Scottish Government’s RESAS strategic research programme...

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