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Children's perspectives on quality in local natural outdoor spaces: Research to co-create a quantitative measure for children and young people.

Published online: 05 Aug 2023

Published by: Natural England

Content type: Reports

The aim of this research was to gain a better understanding of children's perspectives on what 'quality' means in their local natural environments. Th...

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Scattered trees: a complementary strategy for facilitating adaptive responses to climate change in modified landscapes?

Published online: 05 Aug 2009

Authors: Manning, A. D. & Gibbons, P. & Lindenmayer, D. B.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Facilitating adaptive responses of organisms in modified landscape will be essential to overcome the negative effects of climate change and its intera...

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Sensing, feeling, thinking: relating to nature with the body, heart and mind.

Published online: 08 Aug 2022

Authors: Pramova, E. & Locatelli, B. & Valdivia-Díaz, M. & Vallet, A. & Quispe Conde, Y. & Djoudi, H. & Colloff, M. J. & Bousquet, F. & Tassin, J. & Roldan, C. M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

The cultural ecosystem services (CES) construct has evolved to accommodate multiple worldviews, knowledge systems and conceptualizations of nature and...

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Nature relatedness: a protective factor for snake and spider fears and phobias.

Published online: 24 Aug 2022

Authors: Zsido, A. N. & Coelho, C. M. & Polák, J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Worldwide, urbanization has created completely novel environments, which bring many conveniences but carry several drawbacks too. One of the most impo...

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Social adaptation can reduce the strength of social-ecological feedbacks from ecosystem degradation.

Published online: 08 Aug 2022

Authors: Bartelet, H. A. & Barnes, M. L. & Zoeller, K. C. & Cumming, G. S.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Feedbacks between people and ecosystems are central to the study of social-ecological systems (SES) but remain poorly understood. It is commonly assum...

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Greenery hypothesis: an evolutionary explanation for why presence/absence of green affects humans.

Published online: 09 Jul 2024

Authors: Fukano, Y. & Soga, M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

A growing body of empirical evidence shows that experiences of nature provide people with diverse psychological benefits, including improved cognitive...

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Peopled landscapes: questions of coexistence in invasive plant management and rewilding.

Published online: 09 Jul 2024

Authors: Atchison, J. & Pickerill, J. & Arnold, C. & Gibbs, L. M. & Gill, N. & Hubbard, E. & Lorimer, J. & Watson, M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

The concept of 'peopled landscapes' is based on the notion that it is not possible, nor socially or politically desirable, to remove people from the e...

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Linking network ecology and ecosystem services to benefit people.

Published online: 09 Sep 2024

Authors: Stanworth, A. & Peh, K. S. H. & Morris, R. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Ecosystems are rapidly degraded by anthropogenic pressures, affecting the provision of ecosystem services. Therefore, it is increasingly important tha...

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Differing priorities explain why some people profit from an alien invader, while others lose out.

Published online: 27 Apr 2021

Published by: British Ecological Society

Authors: Linders, T. E. W. & Schaffner, U. & Alamirew, T. & Allan, E. & Choge, S. K. & Eschen, R. & Shiferaw, H. & Manning, P.

Content type: Blog

This paper describes the impact of the invasive tree, Prosopis juliflora, on the supply of ecosystem services. Prosopis significantly increased the su...

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Housing and labor productivity of female tea pluckers in Sri Lanka.

Published online: 30 Nov 2016

Authors: Kalyanaratne, A.

Content type: Bulletin

This study analyzes the link between labor productivity of tea-plantation workers in Sri Lanka and their living conditions. The results indicate a sig...

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