The European Biodiversity Strategy 2030 commits Union Member States to legally protect a minimum of 30% of the European Union’s land and sea area and to strictly protect at least a third of these protected areas. European Members States are also committed to effectively manage conservation areas and to restore Europe’s natural capital, thus taking a leading role in the Post-2020 Convention on . . . [ Read More ]
Operations Research in Turbulent Times Conference
Miguel Bastos Araújo will have the pleasure to give the opening keynote address to the XXII Congress of the Portuguese Association for Operational Research taking place at the University of Évora between the 6th and 8th of November. This year’s topic is “Operations Research in Turbulent Times: Adaptation and Resilience” and the talk will focus on “Self-organisation of complex networks in . . . [ Read More ]
Biodiversity 2030: New Agenda for Conservation under Climate Change
Publicado o estudo "Biodiversidade 2030: Nova Agenda para a Conservação em Contexto de Alterações Climáticas", encomendado pelo Ministério do Ambiente e Ação Climática e coordenado por Miguel Bastos Araújo. Participam ainda, como coordenadores setoriais, Sara Antunes, Emanuel Gonçalves, Rosário Oliveira, Sofia Santos e Isabel Sousa Pinto. O trabalho beneficiou ainda da colaboração empenhada de 14 . . . [ Read More ]
From science to climate change adaptation action
Interview to the Eugénio de Almeida Foundation book on social entrepreneurship: https://www.fea.pt/.../FEA_empreendedorismo_social_FINAL.pdf . . . [ Read More ]
Climate change adaptation: complexity and uncertainty
I was asked to write an essay about climate change adaptation. The original version can be read here, but I copy below the full text too because the format is not the most user friendly: Adaptação à mudança num contexto de complexidade e incerteza O mundo encontra-se num processo de transformação profunda. Se as alterações climáticas e a perda de biodiversidade globais já estavam na agenda . . . [ Read More ]
Interview in “20minutos”
Recent interview in the Spanish newspaper: "20minutos" . . . [ Read More ]
Interview to El País: “Estamos cambiando el funcionamiento elemental del planeta”
Manuel B. Araújo (Bruselas, Bélgica, 1969) explica que su especialidad, la biogeografía, surge de una pregunta muy antigua: ¿Por qué los seres vivos están distribuidos como están? “Es decir, ¿por qué, por ejemplo, los canguros no han habitado nunca la península Ibérica?”, ilustra el investigador del Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales del CSIC, recientemente galardonado con el Ernst Haeckel Prize . . . [ Read More ]
Interview to The Cult: “Nuestra actividad económica y nuestra propia existencia dependen de la biodiversidad”
I leave you with my recent "in depth" interview to the magazine "The Cult" dealing with various issues of biogeography, global change, environmental management, science funding, etc. Bit thank to the journalist Guzmán Urrero for his professionalism. The interview is in Spanish and can be read here. . . . [ Read More ]