Resilience-Regenerative Ecology
To inspire systemic change to restore impacted natural systems and their hydrological functions in ecological communities located in the Southwest Florida bioregion to reduce global warming impacts.
Objectives:
To provide a centralized forum for dialogue and support for participants in our bioregion to discuss and identify restoration projects and to provide input and technical knowledge and needs in the southwest Florida bioregion.
Invite key players to meet with the working group and board members to relate their engagement, successes and key impediments they encounter in advancing their work.
Establish a collaborative leadership group of regional, state and national restoration ecologists, hydrologists and governmental leaders and invite them and key players to an invitation only meeting (zoom) to facilitate sharing their work and opportunities to apply resilience ecology initiatives and projects in S.W. Florida.
To facilitate formation of a S.W. Florida Ecological Restoration Team as a working group to identify and provide technical knowledge to regional governments and those interested in restoring natural systems functions.
To facilitate meetings and connections (both one-on-one and groups) to collaborate and solve shared problems and identify specific systems and locations for resilience ecological and hydrological restoration projects.
Establish demonstration projects in the forested wetland community on the UUCFM campus
An important RESET CONVERSATION on Resilance Post-Hurricane Ian:
Win Everham is a Professor of Ecology and Environmental Studies in the Water School at Florida Gulf Coast University. He teaches courses at a variety of levels across the discipline, including an undergraduate capstone course for Environmental Studies majors, “Conservation Strategies for a Sustainable Future” and the graduate course “Concepts in the Application of Sustainability”. In this RESET CONVERSATIONS session, Everham addresses the difficult questions surrounding the rebuilding of Southwest Florida’s hardest-hit communities during hurricane Ian.