The Sibthorp Papers
The Ecosystem Approach: guidance for 2020 and beyond
‘Nearly two decades ago, the Sibthorp Trust challenged traditional thinking on conservation and was a major driver in the elaboration of the Ecosystem Approach and its underlying principles. The Trust continues to question the conventional ways in which the natural environment is viewed and managed. The adoption of the Ecosystem Approach by the Convention on Biological Diversity and its incorporation into the national policies of many contracting parties has done much to change the attitudes of many people, from seeing conservation of nature as an isolated endeavour to one where healthy ecosystems are essential to human well being.
To integrate environmental sustainability, economic prosperity and social well being, the Trust held a series of workshop with international experts. From this work the Trust distilled 20 guidelines for effective implementation and mainstreaming of the Ecosystem Approach.
A pdf of the guidance can be dowloaded by clicking here
Ecosystem Management: Questions for Science and Society
‘Ecosystem Management: Questions for Science and Society’, a digital copy of the proceedings from our first seminar is available by clicking here
Edited by Edward Maltby, Martin Holdgate, Mike Acreman and Antony Weir
Do Conservation Targets Help?
The publication of the Second Sithorp Seminar; Do Conservation Targets Help? is available for purchase through the Natural History Book Society.
Hard copies of this book are available from the Trust (please use the 'Contact us' page) for a donation of £15 or greater (please pay via the gofundme link on the 'Funding raising' page).
Edited by Edward Maltby, Conor Linstead and Vernon Heywood
'Ecosystem and Health' captures the outputs from the Third Sibthorp Seminar, which took a critical look at the evidence for the link between ecosystems and human health and examined some of the policy implications of these links for the UK. This is a fast changing and increasingly important area, and has significant implications for the policies and practices of many sectors from health to conservation and agriculture.
The links between ecosystems and health cover a wide spectrum of issues. To focus the discussion, the seminar concentrated on three key aspects of this broad topic: the influence of access to green spaces and nature on well-being; the current and potential future threats to human health from diseases in the wild that can be transmitted to humans; and the role of ecosystems in reducing the exposure of people to pollutants and pathogens. Key presentations from the seminar have been included in this book as written papers
Hard copies of this book are available from the Trust (please use the 'Contact us' page) for a donation of £15 or greater (please pay via the gofundme link on the 'Funding raising' page).
The Climate change action after Copenhagen. What Next?
The Sibthorp Trust has published a provocative series of articles for the general public to stimulate formative debate on climate change in the in the post Copenhagen period by inviting a range of commentators to give their personal perspectives on where we are going and what needs to be done. The paper addresses the follows issues.
1. Was FCCC CoP 15 a failure?
2. Are new inter and intra governmental mechanisms needed?
3. Why is the scientific consensus not getting through?
4. Will the technology development stumble now?
5. How should the public be mobilised to act rather than just opine?
6. What are the critical next steps?