Dr Bethanna Jackson is a Senior Lecturer School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences at Victoria University Wellington. Bethanna’s research addresses the impact of land management and climate change on multiple ecosystem services, including flood risk, agricultural productivity, water quality, biodiversity, erosion, cultural services, green-house gas emissions, and amenity/socio-economic impacts. We talk about the LUCI project – […]


Knowing the impact can be used to start a conversation, to reflect on choices.

For better or for worse, technology is seen as the future; computing can shift culture in ways that are aligned with sustainability.

If I put sustainability into the software system requirements, that means during testing I now have to test whether the system meets those sustainability requirements. What I’m doing now is finding those metrics.

How do we nurture and scale up the seeds of the better Anthropocene?

I value my kidneys, but I have no intention of selling them. But for some reason when we look at wetlands that function as the kidneys of our ecosystem, they are for sale. There’s something wrong there.

The essence of ecology is that it is all around us.

A responsibility mindset – a focus on compliance – is not a strong narrative for change.

