Marcus Collier
Dublin
Marcus is a sustainability scientist and his research covers a wide range of human-environment interconnectivity, environmental risk and resilience, transdisciplinary methodologies and novel ecosystems. Over the years he has carried out research in social-ecological interactions in industrial peatlands and field boundary evaluation and grading. He has also examined the biodiversity impact implications of GM crops and conifer afforestation in the Irish landscape. Marcus is the principal investigator of the TURAS FP7 project, which has devised novel and future-oriented transition solutions for building urban resilience. Marcus is also a work package leader on another FP7 project, OPERAs, leading a research team devising methods for valuing cultural ecosystem services. He is a panel evaluator for the European Research Council consolidator grants, as well as Horizon 2020 and Marie Skłodowska-Curie.
More by this author at The Nature of Cities
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Story. Telling. If you had a project from science or practice and wanted to make it a better story — one that could reach into new audiences — what would you do?
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We have had trouble getting people’s attention about climate change. Some climate activists glued themself to a van Gogh painting (and others). Is this helpful?
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From Design to City Life: What It Takes to Bring Nature-based Solutions to Urban Reality
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Covid has upended all the normal routines in our lives and work. How do you imagine you might be changed by it, both professionally, but also personally as you negotiate a new post-virus “normal”?
Africa, Awareness, Biodiversity, Climate change, Communities, Conservation, Covid-19, Culture, Disasters/Red zone, Economics, Ecosystem services, Europe, Experiencing Nature, Green Infrastructure, Health, Justice, Livability, North America, Parks, Participation/Democracy, Planning, Pollution, Resilience, South America, Sustainability, Wildlife People Interactions -
The spirit of Dada welcomes you to TNOC Summit: What is the nature of the city of our dreams?
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Our goal is to empower cities to plan for a positive natural future. What is one specific action that should be taken to achieve this goal?
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What is one thing every ecologist should know about urban ecology?
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How can we make urban nature and its value more apparent, more “visible” to people?