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Dr Phil Platts

VP, Geospatial and Earth Observation

Dr Phil Platts's interests

  • Energy

  • Water

  • Nature-Based Solutions

  • Blue Carbon

  • Forestry

  • Soil Carbon & Agriculture

  • Waste

  • Biodiversity

  • Biomass sampling

  • Carbon mapping

  • Causal inference

  • Climate modelling

  • Co-benefits

  • Conservation science

  • Data science

  • Drone surveys

  • Environmental economics

  • Field scientist

  • Fire dynamics

  • Forest carbon

  • Geoinformatics

  • Geostatistics

  • Geospatial sciences

  • GIS

  • Hydrology

  • Mathematics

  • Plant sciences

  • Process models

  • Remote sensing

  • Satellite imagery

  • Sustainable Development Goals

Dr Phil Platts is a conservation scientist whose work looks at the measurement and modelling of forest biodiversity, ecosystem services, and conservation costs. Much of his doctoral and post-doctoral work focused on 'sky island' rainforests in eastern and southern Africa.

Before joining BeZero, he was a senior researcher at the University of York, examining the economic costs and benefits of conservation, and exploring remote mountain forests in Mozambique. Phil's research and commentary have appeared in Nature, Science, National Geographic, the Guardian, and the World Economic Forum, among others.

Selected publications

2024, A biogeographical appraisal of the threatened South East Africa Montane Archipelago ecoregion

2023, Inequitable gains and losses from conservation in a global biodiversity hotspot

2021, High aboveground carbon stock of African tropical montane forests

Education

  • University of Cambridge, Post-Doctoral Research Associate in Ecosystem Services, looking at economic costs and benefits of conservation.

  • University of Cranfield, Post-Doctoral Researcher in Hydrological Modelling.

  • University of York, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Environment and Biology, modelling climate change impacts on species, ecosystem services and food security.

  • University of York, PhD Environmental Science, mapping conservation priorities in Tanzania and Kenya.

  • Universities of York and Linköping, MRes Mathematics in the Living Environment, with a thesis on food webs and meta-community dynamics.

  • University of York, MSc Mathematics, with a dissertation on climate regulation.

Research associations

  • Honorary Fellow at the University of York

  • Research Fellow at Royal Geographical Society

  • Member of IUCN SSC Climate Change Specialist Group

Learn more about Phil's academic history and publications

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