Ted Lawrence

I work on the frontlines of conservation in rural multifunctional landscapes, and particularly in the tropics where levels of biodiversity are exceptional and Indigenous people traditionally manage the natural resources, but also where the status of both are threatened due to the broader political economy, climate and land-use change that drive changes to landscape heterogeneity and impact biodiversity and traditional livelihoods.

I'm a landscape ecologist and conservation scientist whose work spans ecosystem, landscape, Regional (subnational), and global change ecology and conservation. My expertise is in the science and management of the spatial complexity and transformation of landscape patterns and processes, the anthropogenic drivers of landscape and Regional (subnational) dynamics, and landscape planning and spatial design to implement conservation strategies. I'm trained across the social and natural sciences to spatially examine Working Landscapes as dynamic and complex social-ecological systems comprising heterogeneous biophysical patterns and processes, political-economic organization, and socio-cultural institutions.