Natalie Kopytko

University of Leeds · School of Earth and Environment

Critical to sustainable agriculture, agrobiodiversity conservation provides immediate benefits and retains options for climate change adaptation. Reframing conservation as sustainable seed innovation allows for a dynamic view of farmer contributions. Sustainable seed innovation entails in situ conservation and the innovation of new plant varieties...

(This article summarizes and adds some new details and explanations to the Position Paper submitted to the Government of India on means of promoting sustainable seed innovation. The full (original) text of the Position Paper is also available on Research Gate. Comments are welcome on this article version as well as on the original Position Paper, t...

This is a multi-disciplinary research based position paper being prepared for Government of India on means of promoting sustainable seed innovations, i.e., promoting research and in situ innovations with agrobiodiversity by all stakeholders, especially small farmers, with the aim of enhancing their income, supporting the cause of conservation and s...

Energy poses challenges to environmental studies because of climate change and other effects, and field trips are indispensable aids to learning. They enable students to see situations first-hand, and many are joyous and fun, such as field trips to forests, wetlands, wildlife reserves, or communities exhibiting positive contributions to safeguardin...

The agri-food sector must adapt to changes in climate variability, while also helping to mitigate climate change. Measures termed ‘triple-win’ mitigate and adapt to climate change, while also improving soil health, thereby increasing yields. These measures might appear to be the easiest to implement, but in practice, barriers prevent full realisati...

Increasing support to small-holder farmers plays an important part in meeting the climate and development challenges of agriculture: realizing global food security under increasing climate variability, while also reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and conserving natural resources. Cooperatives offer a well-established livelihood strategy and means...

Many nuclear power plants were situated next to the ocean to have ready access to huge volumes of water, and sometimes they were built on land that was not very high above mean sea level. These characteristics may cause problems if ocean levels rise the one or two meters that most climatologists project as a result of climate change. The core of th...

The agri-food sector has contributed significantly to climate change, but has an important role to play in climate change mitigation and adaptation. The agri-food sector has many potential win-win-win strategies that benefit mitigation and adaptation, and also deliver gains in rural income and land management. Post-Soviet transition economies provi...

Their dependency on water leaves nuclear power plants vulnerable to rising temperatures, drought and flood, says Natalie Kopytko

Many policy-makers view nuclear power as a mitigation for climate change. Efforts to mitigate and adapt to climate change, however, interact with existing and new nuclear power plants, and these installations must contend with dilemmas between adaptation and mitigation. This paper develops five criteria to assess the adaptation-mitigation dilemma o...

This paper addresses challenges to resource managers' use of scientific research, and reports strategies and informatics tools to ameliorate those challenges. Our work involves repurposing fundamental ecology research data for resource managers, in particular for field foresters who make decisions regarding which trees to leave when harvesting timb...

Ecologists aim to answer fundamental scientific questions regarding the natural world. Resource managers make practical decisions about natural resources, often with incomplete data. Our goal is to make research results more available to managers who decide which trees to leave when a forest stand is harvested. To that end, we work with Washington...