Megan

Meacham

PhD

Researcher

+46 707 417 450

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Profile summary

  • Ecosystem services
  • Ecosystem service bundles
  • Multifunctionality
  • Biodiversity
  • Finance

Megan Meacham’s research focuses on how people use, manage and depend on nature.

Meacham is a researcher at the Stockholm Resilience Centre, where she focuses on the benefits people receive from nature (ecosystem services) and how and where they are produced. Her recent work has demonstrated the importance of understanding the relationships among ecosystem services and managing for reoccurring sets of ecosystem services (bundles). In addition, Meacham uses the ecosystem service concept to show how biodiversity is underpinning the financial sector and how the financial sector is impacting biodiversity.

Meacham is the program manager of two research programs.

  1. Finance to Revive Biodiversity (FinBio). Funded by Mistra
  2. Advancing the research frontier of biosphere stewardship, a strategic research collaboration and postdoc program between the Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, and the Natural Capital Project, Stanford University. Funded by the Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation

Meacham is the course leader and lecture for the course Ecosystem Service Assessments, a 4-credit course at Stockholm University.

Meacham completed her PhD at Stockholm University in Sustainability Science. Her PhD thesis was titled, “Social-ecological dynamics of ecosystem service bundles.” Meacham used the ecosystem service bundle concept to describe social-ecological landscapes within Sweden. She explored how social, geographic and ecological dynamics relate to ecosystem service bundles. She advanced the ecosystem service bundle approach by testing accessible data, feasible methods and expanding comparability with other assessments.

Meacham also holds a MSc degree in Ecosystem, Governance and Globalization (Stockholm University, 2009) and BSc degree in Economics (University of Wisconsin, 2006).

Meacham was previously the coordinator for the Program for Ecosystem Change and Society (PECS) within Future Earth. She is still a member of PECS and collaborates with several other international projects.

Supervising

Bianca Voicu, co-supervising

Publications by Meacham, Megan