natural capital
Trustable AI in Mapping
Hannah’s Trustable AI in Mapping (TAiM) project was funded by over £1m from Innovate UK, the UK’s innovation agency. The project has developed new standards to assess the reliability of Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms used in environmental mapping. The consortium of geospatial and environmental data experts issued a joint press release: “From Black Box to Benchmark,…
Horizon Scan Roundtable: Exploring Place-based Approaches to Natural Capital
The Scottish Forum on Natural Capital recently hosted its Horizon Scan Roundtable, bringing together over 50 influential leaders from across the environmental, policy, and land management sectors to explore place-based natural capital approaches in Scotland. This high-level event, which included expert talks, targeted interventions, and dynamic breakout sessions, provided a critical space for discussing how…
OSPREY services take flight
Highlands Rewilding supports land owners facing increasingly complex and competing demands on limited land uses to pivot towards profitable nature positive business models, while creating benefits for local communities. With OSPREY, operating System Partnerships for Rewilding, we co-design a roadmap to nature recovery and profitability with land owners. Together, we co-create land management plans, and…
Scotland’s Natural Capital Market Framework launches
Mr Tom Arthur MSP this morning launched Scotland’s first Natural Capital Market Framework at the Nature Finance UK 2024 conference in London. As Co-Chair, Hannah was able to chat to the Minister about the support that the Scottish Forum on Natural Capital and its Hubs could offer around the framework’s seven principles and their actions. Hannah’s 2023…
Chairing the Scottish Forum on Natural Capital
Hannah has been appointed co-Chair of the Scottish Forum on Natural Capital. She joined the forum and turned her professional focus and energy to nature positive solutions to the climate emergency and biodiversity crisis in 2020. Hannah has been a co-lead of the Nature Finance Pioneers Hub since its early days, when it was a…
Developing Highlands Rewilding’s businesses
Highlands Rewilding aims to become one of the most impactful accelerators of nature-based solutions in the world by 2026. Rewilding is a progressive approach to nature conservation that revitalises forest, peatlands and pastures, providing space for wildlife and flora to flourish and communities to thrive. It creates a landscape that boosts biodiversity, carbon sequestration and job creation for guardians of the expanding wildland, all at…
What a year…
This year in January, I became Co-Director of the Thriving Natural Capital Challenge Centre and Reader at SRUC, and blogged previously about that. 2022 has been an extremely busy and exciting time. I have now been Principle Investigator on 11 projects, successfully receiving almost £600k grants, including an award from Scottish government for Trustable Credit,…
Co-directing for Thriving Natural Capital
In January 2022, I became the Co-director of The Thriving Natural Capital Challenge Centre at SRUC. Our goal is to research and build ecosystem markets to meet net-zero targets and reverse the biodiversity decline. We support thriving rural communities through regenerative agriculture and conservation. Natural capital can be defined as ‘renewable and non-renewable stocks of natural…
Bioregioning Tayside – new podcast
Hannah finds out about bioregioning in a new podcast, and discover how it helps us to see the unique places where we live and work with new eyes, helping us reconnect to and restore the ecological systems of which we are a part and upon which we all depend. We hear about the benefits Bioregioning…