[Enviro-lunch] final Enviro-lunch seminar this Thursday

[Kyungjin Min]

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Hello all,



This Thursday Dr. Tracey Osborne will give the final seminar of the
semester ( 5/7, 12-1 pm). Enviro-lunch seminars have been not possible
without your support. So, we would like to appreciate your participation.
We hope to see you this week too!



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*Title: *

Decolonizing Carbon: Indigenous-led Climate Change Mitigation in the Amazon
Rainforest



*Abstract:*

Climate change is the most urgent environmental issue of our time and
forests represent an effective nature-based solution.  Tropical forests,
among the top 5 solutions for addressing climate change in Paul Hawken’s
book *Drawdown*, hold enormous potential for mitigating climate change
because of their dual benefit. Avoided deforestation prevents the release
of carbon dioxide and as trees grow they are a powerful carbon sink that
sequesters and stores carbon in biomass and soils. The primary strategy for
climate change mitigation in tropical forests is the mechanism REDD+, which
stands for *Reducing emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation *in
developing countries and includes sustainable forest management,
conservation and the enhancement of carbon stocks (the plus). However REDD+
has been highly controversial for its failure to address the main drivers
of deforestation and constraining the access of local and Indigenous
communities to forest resources. In this presentation I will share the
conceptual framework of an innovative climate change mitigation project
being developed in collaboration with an Indigenous community in the
Ecuadorian Amazon. This project is based on Indigenous worldviews and
adopts decolonial methods that privilege research frameworks respecting
both western and Indigenous forms of knowledge. This project supports the
University of California’s carbon neutral goals and includes a diverse
collaborative team of researchers, Indigenous forest technicians, NGOs
staff, a technology data team, and students in various aspects of the
project. Our intention is to develop a model for Indigenous-led climate
change mitigation that is viable for the larger Amazon Rainforest.



*Bio:*

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Tracey Osborne is Associate Professor and Presidential Chair in the
Management of Complex Systems Department and the Management of Innovation,
Sustainability and Technology

Program at the University of California, Merced. Her research focuses on
the social and political economic dimensions of climate change mitigation
in tropical forests and the role of Indigenous Peoples, the politics of
climate finance (with particular emphasis on carbon markets), global
environmental governance, and climate equity and justice. She has worked on
these issues globally with extensive field experience in Mexico and the
Amazon (Peru, Ecuador and Guyana). She also leads the Climate Alliance
Mapping Project, a collaborative effort between academics, environmental
non-governmental organizations, and Indigenous organizations working for a
socially-just response to climate change through research, maps and digital
stories. The mapping project is an initiative of the Public Political
Ecology Lab, which Tracey founded and directs to support engaged
scholarship by communicating environmental research to broader publics. Her
work has been published in high-impact geography, social science and
interdisciplinary journals, and she has been invited to share her research
internationally in academic and non-academic venues such as Conference of
the Parties climate change meetings. She received her PhD from the Energy
and Resources Group at the University of California, Berkeley.





KJ and Yang



Organizers for Spring 2020: KJ Min and Yang Yang

Faculty coordinator: Asmeret Asefaw Berhe



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You can find the semester schedule below.



Date

Speaker

Topic

2/6

Yang Yang

@ UC Merced

Altitudinal patterns of nutrient fluxes and pools at the Sierra Nevada



2/13

Jing Yan

@ UC Merced

Where small-scale process matters: linking transport behaviors of
nano-sized colloids and rhizosphere water, nutrient dynamics to soil
ecosystem functions

2/20

Dipankar Dwivedi

@ Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Biogeochemical controls on river water quality: Quantifying dynamic
surface-subsurface interactions using reactive transport models



2/27

Lauren Hale

@ USDA

Utilizing rhizosphere microbiomes to improve soil health

3/5

Alex Leven

@ Fugro

Working outside of the academia

3/12

cancelled



3/19

Eric Slessarev

@ Lawrence Livermore National Lab

Using the state-factor concept to model pedogenesis at the global scale





3/26

spring break



4/2

Zulema Valdez

@ UC Merced

Climate Change and Wildfire Sufferance among Rural California Residents

4/9

Caddie Bergren

@ UC ANR

Climate smart agriculture



4/16

Hannah Waterhouse

@ UC Davis

Managing greenhouse gas emissions from agricultural soils



4/23

Luna Reyes

@ UC Merced

Leverage your coding skills to get your science out there

4/30

Ryan Bart

@ UC Merced

Coupling ecohydrology with wildfires



5/7

Tracey Osborne

 @ UC Merced

Decolonizing Carbon: Indigenous-led Climate Change Mitigation in the Amazon
Rainforest
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