Mountains in Norway
Photo: Lovisa Molin

The Interdisciplinary Conservation Network (ICN) is a meeting place for university employees and students who work with or have an interest in nature conservation. Our aim is to connect people across faculties and disciplines at NMBU and to facilitate interdisciplinary conservation research.

About the network

Activities

We arrange monthly meetings which are open to all employees at NMBU.

  • Upcoming Events

    27 February 2025

    Conservation's fascination with forest: discussion of the following paper, Sustainability Hub from 15h00-16h00

    7 April 2025

    Professor John-Andrew McNeish will talk about the idea of giving legal rights to natural entities, such as forests, rivers or mountains., Sustainability Hub from 15h00-16h00

    24 April 2025

    Assistant Professor Sareh Saeidi Derakhshi will talk about “kind architecture”, architecture practices that foster multispecies co-living to reduce biodiversity loss and increase the quality of life for both human and nonhuman inhabitants of architecture, Sustainability Hub from 15h00-16h00

  • Past Events

    28 November 2024

    Rewilding: a transformative pathway to coexistence with Dara Sands, Sustainability Hub from 15h00-16h00

    31 October 2024

    Panel discussion about sustainable management of wild salmon with Thrond Haugenand Hans Magnus Gjøen

    26 September 2024

    Wasimuddin on host-agent-environment interface

    25 April 2024

    The Global Economic Value of Avoiding Deforestation of the Amazon Rainforests by Ståle Navrud

    21 March 2024

    The Myth of Balance in Nature by Simon Schowanek

    29 February 2024

    Science and policy in Norwegian species and land management by Richard Bischof & Øystein Aas

    25 January 2024

    Indigenous people and conservation by Aida Cuni Sanchez

    23 November 2023

    Julia Naime (Rainforest Foundation Norway) on supply chain policies of transition minerals. Julia will also share her experience on how different it is to do research of advocacy purposes as compare as writing an academic paper.