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INSTRUCTORS Celia Harvey, Conservation International
Dr. Celia A. Harvey is Vice President
of Global Change and Ecosystem Services at Conservation International
and has 15 years of international experience working in biodiversity
conservation, climate change (both adaptation and mitigation) and
tropical forestry. As leader of the Global Change and Ecosystem Services
department, Dr. Harvey is responsible for formulating the strategic
direction, goals and implementation of a science agenda that focuses
on understanding systemic threats to biodiversity, analyzing opportunities
for harnessing ecosystem service benefits to society, and supporting
science-based decision-making approaches for integrating biodiversity
conservation and human well-being. Together with her staff of 20 scientists,
she leads innovative research on climate change adaptation, climate
change mitigation, land use change and deforestation trends in biodiversity
hotspots and wilderness areas, and integrated approaches for linking
ecosystem services to human wellbeing in conservation landscapes.
She also plays a key role in the institutional climate change team,
providing science-based support to policy, markets and field implementation
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