Keynote: Dr. Lenore Fahrig
Dr. Fahrig is a Chancellor’s Professor of Biology and Gray Merriam Chair in Landscape Ecology at Carleton University. Lenore is a highly cited researcher with over 74,000 citations. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, recipient of the Distinguished Landscape Ecologist Award from the North American Association for Landscape Ecology and the Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal, Canada’s top award in Science and Engineering.
While Dr. Fahrig’s work typically explores the impacts of farming on biodiversity and given that farming is increasingly corporate and commercialized, it makes it a setting with close parallels to other firm types. Large firms are increasingly measuring and reporting their biodiversity impacts but as this is an emerging area, learning from biodiversity specialists will help bridge learning from this field to sustainability accounting researchers and practitioners interested in strategies to increase biodiversity.