Projects

Project meetings

  • The project inception workshop was held in Kampala, Uganda in May 2016, and a report can be downloaded here.
  • The first annual project meeting was held in Kampala, Uganda in April 2017, and a report can be downloaded here.
  • The second annual project meeting was held in Kampala, Uganda in March 2018:
    • The meeting report can be downloaded here.
    • The Natural Capital workshop  minutes can be downloaded here.
    • The presentations can be downloaded here:

No Net Loss – J.W. Bull

No Net Loss Guidelines – J.W. Bull

Achieving No Net Loss for People and Biodiversity – Victoria Griffiths

Natural Capital of development projects in Uganda – Julia Baker

 

 

Conference presentations

  • Victoria Griffiths presented her research at the International Congress for Conservation Biology 2017, Cartagena, Columbia, July 2017
  • Victoria Griffiths presented her research at the at the Annual Conference for the International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA 2018), Durban, South Africa in May 2018.
  • Joe Bull launched the social good practice principles at the annual BBOP conference, Paris, France in November 2018. Slides can be accessed here.
  • Victoria Griffiths presented her research at the at the Annual Conference for the International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA 2019), Brisbane, Australia in May 2019
  • Victoria Griffiths and EJ Milner-Gulland will present at the International Congress for Conservation Biology 2019, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in July 2019

 

Publications

Download the project flyer here

Download the stakeholder and institutional analysis here

Read our paper published in Conservation Biology December 2019 Moving from biodiversity offsets to a target‐based approach for ecological compensation.

Read our paper published in Conservation Biology Volume 33, February 2019: No net loss for people and biodiversity, Victoria F. Griffiths, Joseph W. Bull, Julia Baker, E.J. Milner‐Gulland

Read our paper published in Biological Conservation Volume 236, August 2019: Local people’s preferences for biodiversity offsets to achieve ‘no net loss’ for economic developments, Victoria F. Griffiths, Oleg Sheremet, Nick Hanley, Julia Baker, J oseph W. Bull,  E.J.Milner-Gulland

Read our blog, Ensuring Biodiversity Net Gain delivers for people, published on Inside Ecology. 25th Jan 2019

IUCN blog on the good practice principles here

Report on the: Re-assessment of the Terrestrial Biodiversity (Flora and Avi-Fauna) in Bujagali, Kalagala and Isimba Hydropower Dams and Offsets, Uganda. Produced by Nature Uganda. Download the document here.

Read the report by Julia Baker and Milly Oakley in 2019: “Assessing social economic outcomes from biodiversity ‘no net loss’ on infrastructure development, using Natural Capital Accounting – a case study from Uganda” here

Read Helena Newell’s 2018 MSc thesis: Natural capital accounting to support assessment of the “no net loss” principle for biodiversity and people for an infrastructure project in Uganda (pdf)

Read our article in the February 2019 Darwin newsletter, “Built on collaboration: new good practice principles to achieve No Net Loss for people and biodiversity” here

Julia Patricia Gordon Jones, Joseph William Bull, Dilys Roe, Julia Baker, Victoria Frances Griffiths, Malcolm Starkey, Laura Jane Sonter, E.J.Milner-Gulland. Net Gain: Seeking Better Outcomes for Local People when Mitigating Biodiversity Loss from Development One Earth Volume 1, Issue 2, 25 October 2019, Pages 195-201

Martine Maron, Jeremy S. Simmonds, James E. M. Watson, Laura J. Sonter, Leon Bennun, Victoria F. Griffiths  Fabien Quétier, Amrei von Hase, Stephen Edwards, Hugo Rainey, Joseph W. Bull, Conrad E. Savy, Ray Victurine, Joseph Kiesecker, Philippe Puydarrieux, Todd Stevens, Naïg Cozannet and Julia P. G. Jones. Global no net loss of natural ecosystems. Nature Ecology & Evolution

Social good practice principles

On the 20th of November 2018, a symposium was held to launch a set of good practice principles “Ensuring No Net Loss for people as well as biodiversity”

Download the Good Practice Principles document here

Presentation material for the BBOP webinar on the good practice principles, September 2018, can be accessed here

IUCN blog on the good practice principles here

Read our article in the February 2019 Darwin newsletter here: Built on collaboration: new good practice principles to achieve No Net Loss for people and biodiversity. here

 

Policy and industry briefs

Industrial Brief for Uganda: Achieving No Net Loss for people and biodiversity in Uganda

International Industrial Brief: Achieving net gain for people and biodiversity

U-PCLG policy brief: Achieving ‘no net loss’ for people and biodiversity in Uganda 

Training

On the 28th of June 2018 a training module was carried out by Dr Julia Baker on the social aspects of biodiversity no net loss. Slides can be downloaded here.

On Feb 14th 2019 a Training Course was held. Dr. Julia Baker’s slides on No Net Loss for People & Biodiversity can be downloaded here.

The No Net Loss for People & Biodiversity: Check List can be downloaded here.

The training report can be downloaded here.

 

More information

Research ethics and data management here.

Webinar for the Natural Capital Coalition 28th May 2019: gaps between conceptual and operational implementation of Natural Capital Accounting in a developing country context.

Download the presentation, minutes, and attendance list.

 

Media reports

Prof. EJ. Milner-Gulland was invited to do a guest lecture at the Aga Khan Development Network in April 2017 in Kampala. Read the press coverage here:

Daily Monitor: 6th April 2017

Saturday Monitor: 8th April 2017