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SUMMARY:Tropical Forests and Climate Change: Biological and Anthropologica
 l Perspectives - Speaker to be confirmed
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CONTACT:Dr Michelle Cain
DESCRIPTION:A panel bringing biologists and anthropologists together to di
 scuss tropical forests and climate change.\n\nWant to learn more about rai
 nforests and their role in the climate change debate? From South America t
 o Southeast Asia\, tropical forests support vast webs of plant and animal 
 life. Worlds of green light shrouded in memory and mist\, they also store 
 25% of terrestrial carbon and play a vital role in maintaining the planet
 ’s climate. As the human population grows\, 12 million hectares of rainf
 orest cover is lost each year - and with it medicine\, food\, and spiritua
 l space for forest-dependent peoples.\n\nHow does ethnobiology relate to c
 limate change? What significance do rainforest plants have for human cultu
 res? Join us as we bring biologists and anthropologists together to discus
 s interdisciplinary approaches to these and other issues.\n\nSpeakers:\n\n
 Dr. François Barbira-Freedman\nDivision of Social Anthropology\, Universi
 ty of Cambridge\n\nProfessor David Coomes\nDepartment of Plant Sciences\, 
 University of Cambridge\n\nDr. Lewis Daly\nTeaching Fellow in Anthropology
 \, Environment\, and Development at University College London\n\nDr. Rajin
 dra K. Puri\nSenior Lecturer in Environmental Anthropology\, University of
  Kent\n\nWine and nibbles provided. This is a free event.\n\nhttps://www.e
 ventbrite.co.uk/e/tropical-forests-and-climate-change-biological-and-anthr
 opological-perspectives-tickets-31641300983\n\nAbout the panelists:\n\nDr 
 Françoise Barbira-Freedman has worked as a medical anthropologist at the 
 University of Cambridge since she received her PhD in Social Anthropology 
 in 1979. She has done extensive longitudinal field research In Western Ama
 zonia on shamanism\, medicinal plant use\, maternal and child health and i
 ndigenous resurgence. After spending long periods of fieldwork in Peru\, i
 ncluding two pregnancies and stays with her young family\, she was inspire
 d to share the gentle approach to parenting of her Amazonian hosts among f
 riends in the UK. She also directs two outreach projects derived from her 
 academic research\, Birthlight\, a registered UK charity and Ampika\, a sp
 in out company from the University of Cambridge.\n\nProfessor David Coomes
  is Head of the Forest Ecology and Conservation Group. Conserving the worl
 d’s dwindling biological diversity is one of the most pressing issues fa
 cing mankind. He leads a research group that is actively engaged in addres
 sing these issues\, as well as tackling more fundamental ecological questi
 ons. Focussing on forest conservation and ecology\, his research uses larg
 e databases and modern computational approaches\, alongside traditional fi
 eld approaches.\n\nDr Lewis Daly completed his doctorate in Anthropology a
 t the University of Oxford in 2015. His thesis\, based on fieldwork with t
 he Makushi people of Amazonian Guyana\, concerned people-plant relationshi
 ps in the indigenous culture and cosmology. Lewis's research interests inc
 lude ethnobotany\, agro-ecological systems\, crop varietal diversity\, Ame
 rindian perspectivism\, and the politics of conservation (PES\, REDD+\, ec
 otourism). Lewis is currently working on an ethno-ornithological project c
 oncerning bird-based conservation with the NGO BirdLife International and 
 the Ethno-ornithology World Archive (EWA) in Oxford. He is also collaborat
 ing with the Museu Goeldi (MPEG) in Belém\, Brazil\, on a project explori
 ng the sensory ecology of shamanism in Amazonia.\n\nDr. Rajindra K. Puri i
 s the Director of the Centre for Biocultural Diversity\, School of Anthrop
 ology and Conservation\, University of Kent\, Canterbury in addition to hi
 s role at UCL. He also convenes Kent’s Ethnobotany and Environmental Ant
 hropology MSc programmes.\n\nTrained as an ecological anthropologist and e
 thnobiologist\, over the past 25 years Dr. Puri has been studying the hist
 orical ecology of a rainforest valley in Indonesian Borneo\, documenting t
 he ethnobiological knowledge of Penan Benalui hunter-gatherers and Kenyah 
 swidden agriculturalists\, elucidating the causes and consequences of trad
 e in wild animals and plants\, and developing theory and methods for an ap
 plied conservation anthropology.\nHis recent work has been on local adapta
 tion to climatic variability and environmental change in Asia and Europe. 
 He was a co-investigator on the ESPA project Human Adaptation to Biodivers
 ity Change\, where he studied local adaptation to Lantana camera in the MM
  Hills\, southern Karnataka. This work has drawn him into research on inva
 sive species\, and other ways changes in biodiversity due to climate chang
 e threaten biocultural diversity and local livelihoods. He is now thinking
  about how anthropologists can contribute to climate change science\, and 
 specifically developing mixed methods for studying local responses to envi
 ronmental change.\n
LOCATION:The Pavilion Room\, Hughes Hall\, Wollaston Rd\, Cambridge CB1 2E
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