The Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management ( CIEEM , / ˈ s aɪ iː m / SY -eem ) is the professional body which represents and supports ecologists and environmental managers , mainly in the United Kingdom but increasingly in Ireland and mainland Europe, and the rest of the world.
8-431: CIEEM's vision is of a healthy natural environment for the benefit of current and future generations. Established in 1991, CIEEM now has over 6,000 members drawn from local authorities, government agencies, industry, environmental consultancy, teaching/research, and NGOs. Formerly known as IEEM, CIEEM attained a royal charter in 2013, being recognised for its high level of professionalism. The Inaugural President from 1991–94
16-511: A number of annual awards including: CIEEM Medal The CIEEM Medal is the Institute’s premier award and is presented in recognition of an outstanding single or lifelong contribution to the field of ecology and environmental management. Best Practice Awards Five best practice awards recognise the highest standards of ecological and environmental management practice by CIEEM members. Tony Bradshaw Award The Tony Bradshaw Award, named after
24-816: Is a constituent body of the Society for the Environment and the Environmental Policy Forum (EPF). CIEEM is also a member of the IUCN-UK Committee and a supporter member of Greener UK. CIEEM is a member of the UN Decade of Biodiversity 2011-2020 partnership, and was a signatory of the Countdown 2010 agreement to help save biodiversity and a member of the 2010 International Year of Biodiversity UK partnership. The Institute makes
32-758: The British Ecological Society for 1982–83 and the Inaugural President of the Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management in 1991–94. In 1991 he delivered the Croonian Lecture to the Royal Society on Genostasis and the limits to Evolution . He was one of the founding trustees on the creation of National Museums Liverpool in 1986. He married Betty Alliston and had 3 daughters. This article about
40-621: The University College of Wales , first as a research student in Aberystwyth University and then as a lecturer in the Department of Agricultural Botany at Bangor University . There he worked on the adaptation of plants to heavy metal pollution, demonstrating the ability of natural selection to bring about rapid evolutionary changes in natural grasses, even in very localized situations. In 1968 Bradshaw accepted
48-665: The Institute's first president, recognises exceptional projects in the Best Practice Awards above. Source: CIEEM past presidents Tony Bradshaw Anthony David Bradshaw FRS (17 January 1926 – 21 August 2008) was a British evolutionary ecologist . Bradshaw was born in Kew, Surrey and educated at St Pauls School, Hammersmith . His father was H. Chalton Bradshaw , an architect. Bradshaw later read Botany at Jesus College, Cambridge and in 1947 moved to
56-648: The position of Chair of Botany at the University of Liverpool where he pioneered novel ideas in the field of restoration ecology to polluted sites recover without the need to cover them in imported topsoil. His work on the revegetation of china clay tips in Cornwall formed the basis of the techniques behind the Eden Project . In 1982 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society . He was President of
64-408: Was the ecologist Tony Bradshaw FRS. CIEEM provides a variety of services (including conferences, training, events, guidance and advice) to develop the competency and standards of professional ecologists and environmental managers and also to promote ecology and environmental management as a profession. CIEEM members are able to become Chartered Ecologists and/or Chartered Environmentalists. CIEEM
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