Nature Recovery for Landscape Resilience
2026 Landscape Ecology UK Conference
7-9 July 2025, University of Manchester, UK
Scope and Theme
Resilience is critical for future landscapes and the human and ecological communities that they support. Addressing the coupled ecological and climate crises requires the restoration of natural processes at multiple scales. Proposed solutions must therefore improve the resilience of landscapes to a range of interacting stressors.
Current advances in landscape ecology are building landscape resilience against multiple threats including increased risk of flooding, drought, heat stress, habitat loss and intensive land-use.
This international conference will showcase new insights, methods and interventions that are making progress towards reversing biodiversity decline, restoring ecosystem functioning and the enhanced provision of ecosystem services at the landscape scale.
Conference speakers will report on the latest developments in habitat restoration, local and national government policy, and understanding the drivers of change that affect landscape resilience.
Audience
We aim to bring together people from across science, policy, conservation, finance and industry, to learn and share approaches to monitor and report ecosystem recovery. This multidisciplinary conference will appeal to anyone with an interest in landscape restoration, impacts of anthropogenic disturbance on landscapes, nature-based solutions to climate change, and natural capital markets.
Programme
The conference will take place on the 7th and 8th of July in the Core Technology Facility at the University of Manchester (6 Grafton St, Manchester, M13 9WU), followed by fieldtrips on 9th July. There will be an informal welcome reception in the early evening on Monday 6th July, and a conference dinner on the 7th.
Registration and Abstracts Submissions
Details to follow in early 2026
Conference Organisers
The conference is organised by Prof. Jonny Huck and Dr Matt Dennis, and hosted by the Collective for Integrated Restoration, Conservation and Landscapes Ecology (CIRCLE).