SLBI Series. Urban rewilding: pasts and possible futures.

Professor Gemma Harvey shares her work on biogeomorphology and landscape restoration and rewilding. Join Professor Gemma Harvey share her work on landscape restoration and rewilding. Gemma will discuss what rewilding means in urban areas, drawing on her recent work in Walthamstow. She will outline the interactive and developmental relationship between plants, animals and landforms- known as biogeomorphology - and how it influences landscape restoration and management. About Gemma Harvey Gemma is a Professor of Physical Geography at Queen Mary University of London. Her research explores feedbacks between plants and animals and Earth surface processes, and how these influence landscape restoration and management. She works with local and national stakeholders in the environmental sector including pioneering rewilding sites, government agencies, NGOs and local action groups on landscape rewilding and urban greening projects. She currently holds a NERC Knowledge Exchange Fellowship to embed environmental and geospatial science in nature recovery and rewilding. She has held advisory roles for Rewilding Britain’s Monitoring Framework and the Enfield Chase Landscape Recovery Project. Accessibility Our building entrance is not wheelchair accessible but does have an entrance with a single step. The workshop takes place on the ground floor and there are no stairs once inside. We have a hearing loop and if you need this to support access please let us know. If you have any other access needs please get in touch at [email protected]