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Ned Horning
principal scientist 🇺🇸
Ned has over 35 years of research and applications remote sensing, GIS, and related skills including field mapping and the collection of training and validation data to aid and evaluate remote sensing-based mapping projects. His specialties include mapping and monitoring land cover at local through global scales and developing geospatial data processing and analysis education and outreach materials.
Related interests include developing methods to acquire and process imagery acquired using low altitude platforms to extract information for mapping and monitoring species and landscapes. He worked over 18 years for the American Museum of Natural History's Center for Biodiversity and Conservation. He also worked nine years at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland and spent nine years working as an independent geospatial consultant.
Rethinking the Demand Side for Environmental Stewardship Credits
Ned Horning
he article explores the challenges faced by Regen Network in selling Environmental Stewardship credits, highlighting the need to rethink the demand side of these credits. It critiques conventional approaches that oversimplify ecosystem services for market transactions, advocating for a deeper understanding and alignment of buyers' values with the complexity of ecological projects. The article calls for innovative tools and strategies to foster more meaningful buyer engagement with regenerative practices, emphasizing the importance of shifting from traditional commodity-like exchanges to relationship-driven ecosystem stewardship.
Rewarding the Practice of Grazing in Vineyard Systems through Environmental Stewardship Projects
Ned Horning
The article highlights a new methodology developed under Regen Network’s Environmental Stewardship initiative, focusing on high-density, short-duration rotational sheep grazing in vineyard systems. This practice aims to improve ecosystem functioning, such as soil health and nutrient retention, while providing rewards based on the grazing process rather than measured outcomes. The methodology, piloted in California, demonstrates ecological and economic benefits and sets the groundwork for scaling sustainable vineyard management practices through stewardship credits.
Introducing the Environmental Stewardship Initiative at Regen Network
Ned Horning
This is part one of a three-part series on the Environmental Stewardship initiative at Regen Network. In this first segment, we introduce the initiative and distinguish it from conventional payment-for-ecosystem-services approaches.
