Hosted by the Nottingham branch of the Geographical Association - School of Education and School of Geography
Presented by Dr Doreen Boyd, School of Geography and Centre for Environmental Geochemistry, University of Nottingham
We all have an important role to play in helping achieve the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In this lecture I will discuss how geography can contribute to this with a focus on SDG no. 8.7: child labour, forced labour, modern slavery and human trafficking. In particular I will explain how technologies and geographically located data can help in providing evidence for sites of modern slavery, particularly in South Asia’s ‘Brick Belt’. In doing so I will also illustrate how the 17 SDGs are in fact linked and that a multi-disciplinary approach to addressing them is required. Something that geography as a discipline, and us as geographers, is well positioned to do
Dr Doreen Boyd is an Associate Professor of Earth Observation in the School of Geography. Her main research interests are in the optimal exploitation of remote sensing systems to understand ecosystem services provided by terrestrial systems, particularly tropical rainforests, temperate peatlands, boreal forests and mountains.
Refreshments will be provided after the lecture.
School groups and pre-lecture session
School teachers are encouraged to bring geograpahy A level students to the lecture and also have the opportunity of attending a pre-lecture session at 4.30pm.
The pre-lecture session is for school groups only and limited to 25 places so tickets will be allocated on a first come, first served basis.
Geospatial Technologies: From GIS to Public Display
Gary Priestnall will briefly introduce the range of geospatial technologies available to capture, analyse and visualise patterns in space and through time. There will be then be time to view several examples of visualisation technology including the display of flood risk patterns displayed over a 3D printed town model.
Please use the links above to register for the lecture and please register separately for the pre-lecture session.