Project
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Funded by Medical Research Council.
Collaboration with Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea, International Institute for Environment and Development, International Land Coalition, Taraz State University, The James Hutton Institute, The World Bank, Universidade Estadual De Santa Cruz, University of Dundee, University of East Anglia, University of Edinburgh, University of Florida and University of Kent.
United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) promote global economic and social prosperity while simultaneously seeking to protect the environment. All UN member states are signatories to achieving SDGs under the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. However, competing objectives of SDGs and stakeholders can require decision-makers to make trade-offs, potentially leading to damaging and unequal distribution of costs and benefits for people and the environment. To address this challenge at global to local scales, The Beacon Project will use hydropower development as a model system and employ interdisciplinary thinking and methods to quantify the trade-offs, conflicts and synergies between SDGs and stakeholders. The overarching aim of The Beacon Project is to identify, forecast, prevent and mitigate conflicts associated with development processes, to achieve equitable sustainable development now and beyond the 2030 sustainable development targets.
Total award value £963,901.82
Senior Research Fellow, BES
Professor, Biological and Environmental Sciences
Article
Gupta G, Kotiyal R & Jones I (2024) Dual ecological and socio-cultural fragmentation induced by hydropower dams: case studies from the Greater Himalayan region of India. Zoological Research Diversity and Conservation. https://doi.org/10.24272/j.issn.2097-3772.2023.008
Article
Palmeirim AF, Benchimol M, Storck-Tonon D, Bueno AS, Jones IL, Klein G & Peres CA (2024) Biodiversity responses to insular fragmentation in Amazonia: two decades of research in the Balbina Hydroelectric Reservoir. Zoological Research Diversity and Conservation. https://doi.org/10.24272/j.issn.2097-3772.2023.007
Article
Elsy AD, Pfeifer M, Jones IL, DeWalt SJ, Lopez OR & Dent DH (2023) Incomplete recovery of tree community composition and rare species after 120 years of tropical forest succession in Panama. Biotropica. https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.13275
Article
Soil resistance and recovery during Neotropical forest succession
van der Sande MT, Powers JS, Kuyper TW, Norden N, Salgado-Negret B, Silva de Almeida J, Bongers F, Delgado D, Dent DH, Derroire G, Marcos do Espírito Santo M, Dupuy JM, Wilson Fernandes G, Jones IL & Poorter L (2023) Soil resistance and recovery during Neotropical forest succession. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 378 (1867), Art. No.: 20210074. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2021.0074
Article
Jones IL, Timoshenko A, Zuban I, Zhadan K, Cusack JJ, Duthie AB, Hodgson ID, Minderman J, Pozo RA, Whytock RC & Bunnefeld N (2022) Achieving international biodiversity targets: learning from local norms, values and actions regarding migratory waterfowl management in Kazakhstan. Journal of Applied Ecology, 59 (7), pp. 1911-1924. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.14198
Manual / Guide
The NCRM wayfinder guide to equitable research relations in and after Covid-19
Healy A, Kadungure A, Smith C, McFee E, Nakebembe E, Jones I, Fledderjohann J, McQuaid K, Le Doare K, Contractor S & Rashid S (2022) The NCRM wayfinder guide to equitable research relations in and after Covid-19. Southampton: National Centre for Research Methods. https://eprints.ncrm.ac.uk/id/eprint/4561/
Working Paper
Models as games: a novel approach for ‘gamesourcing’ parameter data and communicating complex models
Minderman J, Duthie AB, Jones IL, Thomas-Walters L, Bach A, Nuttall M & Bunnefeld N (2021) Models as games: a novel approach for ‘gamesourcing’ parameter data and communicating complex models. BioRxiv. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.09.23.461497v1