The Sustainability Skills & Education (SusSEd) series is a collection of engaging and interactive lunchtime talks, designed to give you the knowledge and skills needed to bring about a more sustainable world. Delivered by academics and PhD scholars from the Grantham Centre for Sustainable futures, these sessions will cover different aspects of sustainability, and will be held between February 4th and March 5th, 12:10-1pm. This year the talks will focus on Soil and the World Beneath Our Feet. Whether you're pushing to develop the skills needed to make a real difference or just want to hear more about what sustainability entails, everyone is welcome at our free sessions!

Unintended consequences of single issue environmentalism: Be careful what you wish for…

Some of the biggest challenges of our time require bold policy decisions to tackle them. However these issues are often a lot more nuanced than they initially appear. Professor Duncan Cameron, co-director of the Plant Production and Protection Centre, will give us an expert's insight into this; "In this lecture I will explore how policy decisions, that from first principles appear sensible mechanisms for enhancing the environmental sustainability of food production, can ultimately generate perverse and unintentional negative environmental consequences. I will use examples from my research into sustainable food production that take a systems level approach to developing policy interventions that enhance sustainability of the agri-food system. I will specifically focus on my recent research into links between marine and terrestrial food productions systems taking aquaculture in Tasmania as a case study.".

Please note booking your place for these talks is not strictly necessary, but it will help the organisers greatly and allow you to avoid disappointment should the venue become full. Thank you.

SusSEd 1 - Duncan Cameron: Consequences of Single Issue Environmentalism