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We may not know much about the deep sea, but do we care about mining it?

Published online: 26 Oct 2021

Authors: Kaikkonen, L. & Putten, I. van

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

The way we value the environment affects how we treat it. While public awareness of human impacts on the ocean is increasing, industrial activities in...

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Can we model cultural ecosystem services, and are we measuring the right things?

Published online: 08 Aug 2022

Authors: Jones, L. & Boeri, M. & Christie, M. & Durance, I. & Evans, K. L. & Fletcher, D. & Harrison, L. & Jorgensen, A. & Masante, D. & McGinlay, J. & Paterson, D. M. & Schmucki, R. & Short, C. & Small, N. & Southon, G. & Stojanovic, T. & Waters, R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Cultural ecosystem services (CES), a key aspect of nature's contributions to people, remain a challenge to incorporate into decision making. One contr...

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An experimental test of the impact of avian diversity on attentional benefits and enjoyment of people experiencing urban green-space.

Published online: 07 Aug 2022

Authors: Douglas, J. W. A. & Evans, K. L.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Biodiversity may play a key role in generating the well-being benefits of visiting green-spaces. The ability of people to accurately perceive variatio...

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Identifying land management approaches which deliver for both people and nature.

Published online: 26 Feb 2021

Published by: British Ecological Society

Authors: Balfour, N. J. & Durrant, R. & Ely, A. & Sandom, C. J.

Content type: Blog

This paper presents the results of studies conducted to identify management strategies to help inform how ecosystems should be restored in areas of hi...

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Human-nature relationships through the lens of reciprocity: insights from indigenous and local knowledge systems.

Published online: 22 May 2025

Authors: Teixidor-Toneu, I. & Fernández-Llamazares, Á. & Abel, R. A. & Batdelger, G. & Bell, E. & Caillon, S. & Cantor, M. & Correia, J. E. & Díaz, S. & Fisk, J. & Greene, A. & Greening, S. & Hoyte, S. & Kalle, R. & Loayza, G. & Mattalia, G. & Montúfar, R. & Ojeda, J. & Phatthanaphraiwan, S. & Vaccaro, I. & Ban, N. C.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

In the context of climate change, biodiversity decline and social injustice, reciprocity emerges as a way of living and being in this world that holds...

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Gugwilx'ya'ansk and goats: indigenous perspectives on governance, stewardship and relationality in mountain goat (mati) hunting in Gitga'at territory.

Published online: 22 May 2025

Authors: Greening, S.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Indigenous peoples' deep time relationships with ecosystems hold valuable lessons on how humans can relate to, and be stewards in, the natural world. ...

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Analysing perceptions of nature and nature's contributions to people for a Swiss ecological infrastructure.

Published online: 31 Jan 2025

Authors: Cracco, M. & Walters, G. & Loup, R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Understanding how a population perceives nature and nature's contributions to people is key to designing a society's ecological infrastructure. Narrat...

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Discovering how the public interact with, respond to, and talk about British woodlands.

Published online: 26 Sep 2021

Published by: British Ecological Society

Authors: Austen, G. E. & Dallimer Martin & Irvine, K. N. & Maund, P. R. & Fish, R. D. & Davies, Z. G.

Content type: Blog

The aim of this study is to find out if there were particular ways the public think and speak about biodiversity. This might be in response to how a s...

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What motivates backyard conservation behaviours?

Published online: 20 Oct 2021

Published by: British Ecological Society

Authors: Woolley, C. K. & Hartleya, S. & Nelsona, N. J. & Shanahan, D. F.

Content type: Blog

This study explored what different backyard conservation activities appeal to different sorts of people in New Zealand, and what motivates participati...

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Coastal transformations and connections: revealing values through the community voice method.

Published online: 14 Aug 2023

Authors: Acott, T. G. & Willis, C. & Ranger, S. & Cumming, G. & Richardson, P. & O'Neill, R. & Ford, A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

A wealth of evidence suggests an important relationship between nature and human health and well-being and this appears to hold particular resonance f...

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