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Dans le cadre de la Nuit européenne des chercheurs, l’Institut français de Finlande est ravi d’accueillir Helena Tukiainen, géographe et une des lauréates du Prix FINA (French Institute Nordic Award 2020), pour nous parler comment la diversité de la nature abiotique a été considéré dans le Congrès mondial de la nature de l’UICN organisé du 3 au 11 septembre 2021 à Marseille. Elle mets en valeur notamment les thématiques liés aux sites patrimoine mondial et à l’industrie minière.
Le webinaire aura lieu en anglais.
L’événement sera diffusé en direct sur notre page Facebook puis en replay sur notre Chaîne Youtube
Biography
I am a geographer from the University of Oulu, Finland. My research focuses on the dynamics of geodiversity and biodiversity, and especially to their mutual relationships. In the current iGeoBio project which I work in as a postdoctoral researcher, we are exploring new empirical evidence for this relationship on different spatial and temporal scales. One of my key motivations to study this topic is to find new advantages for nature conservation, especially for halting the biodiversity loss in changing climate. Geodiversity, or the abiotic diversity of the earth´s surface (including variation in rock, soil, hydrology, topography and geomorphology) has conservation value itself but also a great potential to be used as a coarse filter strategy for biodiversity conservation. The FINA award offers me an excellent opportunity to attend to the IUCN conference, where I would like to share our findings about geodiversity- biodiversity relationships and discuss how geodiversity information could be utilized and considered in nature conservation.