45th Macaulay Lecture with Gretchen C. Daily
Professor Gretchen C. Daily discusses the need to place a value on nature if we wish to transition towards a more sustainable economy!
About 45th Macaulay Lecture with Gretchen C. Daily
45th TB Macaulay Lecture – Valuing nature for transformation: innovations in policy, finance and practice around the world with Professor Gretchen C. Daily.
An awakening is underway, to the values of nature as an engine of well-being and prosperity – and to the risks and devastating costs of its loss. In her lecture, Professor Gretchen C. Daily will describe key frontiers in understanding human dependence nature – for material basics of nutrition, health, climate security, and economic security to ethereal senses of belonging, beauty, and spirit. Making this understanding accessible and actionable is crucial, to inform the profound societal transformations necessary to secure the biosphere and the human future.
Through vivid examples, Gretchen will bring to life the rapidly growing movement to bring the values of earth’s lands, waters, and biodiversity into the mainstream of decision-making. She will describe pioneering models of success for valuing nature in policy, planning, finance, and practice. These innovations – often born in small countries – use new forms of science, technology, and partnership. They are increasingly scalable, illuminating pathways toward green, inclusive development across the world.
As Scotland pursues a strategic approach to natural capital whilst aiming to have a Nature Positive Scotland by 2030, Gretchen will outline how crucial the role is of recognising the value of natural capital in transitioning towards a more sustainable economy and society and consider the policy and practices that other countries have adopted in approaching this complex yet hugely important and hopeful transformation.
Biography
Professor Gretchen C. Daily is the co-founder and Faculty Director of the Stanford Natural Capital Project, Bing Professor of Environmental Science; Senior Fellow in the Woods Institute; and Director of the Center for Conservation Biology at Stanford University.
She is a fellow of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts, and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. She has received numerous international honors including the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement (2020), BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2019), Blue Planet Prize (2017), Volvo Environment Prize (2012), Midori Prize for Biodiversity (2010), and the International Cosmos Prize (2009).
Event details:
The TB Macaulay Lecture is delivered in partnership by the Macaulay Development Trust and The James Hutton Institute. It aims to connect scientific evidence with civic society on the big issues affecting our land and people and specifically to reach those who influence and make decisions on policy.
Date: Tuesday, 10th September 2024
Venue: Edinburgh International Conference Centre, EICC
Programme:
1700-1800: Pre-lecture exhibition
1800-1930: 45th TB Macaulay Lecture and Q&A session
1930–2100: Post-lecture reception
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