Research team

Collaborators

All of RENEW’s 30+ partners are being invited to participate in this exciting mission.

Aims 

ExCASES missions provide short, intense periods of focus towards issues that have been communicated as priorities for RENEW partner organisations and external stakeholders. The ExCASES team work collaboratively with people across different sectors and disciplines, co-designing research and participatory processes to generate empowering outcomes for people and the environment.    

With this ExCASES mission, RENEW will explore different views, perspectives and ambitions on biodiversity renewal and renewal practices. There are many different perspectives on what “biodiversity renewal” means and what it looks like. This can sometimes be a barrier to collaboration and effective action. Through the mission, we aim to:  

• Better understand the range of perspectives held by different stakeholders, including academics and practitioners 
• Identify and highlight areas of agreement and disagreement  
• Enhance mutual understanding and elucidate future priorities.
  

Approach

The RENEW community comprises a wide range of different viewpoints and disciplines from across science, arts, humanities, policy, business, conservation, land management and community action. This diversity is part of RENEW’s strength, but it also brings a wide range of perspectives, language and ways of working.   

We are addressing this head-on, inviting partners to join us in collectively uncovering these different worldviews and building a shared understanding of what biodiversity renewal outcomes might look like, how their benefits might be felt and what our preferences are for achieving them.  

We will be using the new Restoration Partnership Development Tool, developed by the Universities of Edinburgh and Cambridge. This uses an online survey and participatory workshops to enable deliberation on wide-ranging stakeholder perspectives and aspirations. This will help participants to understand each other’s points of view and contribute to fairer and more effective biodiversity renewal practices, strategies and policies.  

We will be holding a participatory workshop at the RENEW Biodiversity Parliament being held at London Wetland Centre in November 2024. Through this process we aim to facilitate sensitive discussion of areas of agreement and disagreement, improving mutual understanding and a shared vision for what is needed to achieve biodiversity renewal.  

Next Steps

We encourage all partners to participate by registering to attend the Biodiversity Parliament.