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Public willingness to engage in backyard conservation in New Zealand: exploring motivations and barriers for participation.

Published online: 25 Oct 2021

Authors: Woolley, C. K. & Hartley, S. & Nelson, N. J. & Shanahan, D. F.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Citizen science and participatory conservation offer benefits to urban wildlife and help foster human-nature relationships in cities. To optimize cons...

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Invasion landscapes as social-ecological systems: role of social factors in invasive plant species control.

Published online: 29 Oct 2021

Authors: Yletyinen, J. & Perry, G. L. W. & Burge, O. R. & Mason, N. W. H. & Stahlmann-Brown, P.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Biological invasions are a major threat to biodiversity and human well-being. Scientists and environmental managers typically seek ecological solution...

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Environmental monitoring: the scale and speed of implementation varies according to the degree of people's involvement.

Published online: 01 Dec 2010

Authors: Danielsen, F. & Burgess, N. D. & Jensen, P. M. & Pirhofer-Walzl, K.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Solutions to the global environmental crisis require scientific knowledge and responses spanning different spatial scales and levels of societal organ...

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Climate change for forest policy-makers: an approach for integrating climate change into national forest policy in support of sustainable forest management, version 2.0.

Published online: 26 Jun 2019

Content type: Bulletin

The paper is based on a governance framework that recognizes eight essential elements of forest governance. These elements, which include stakeholder ...

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Behaviour and attitude changes after using a turtle conservation citizen science app.

Published online: 26 Feb 2021

Published by: British Ecological Society

Authors: Santori, C. & Keith, R. J. & Whittington, C. M. & Thompson, M. B. & Dyke, J. U. van & Spencer, R. J.

Content type: Blog

An online questionnaire to investigate the consequences of using TurtleSAT, a citizen science app that was developed to collect locations of freshwate...

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Can environmental cash transfers reduce deforestation and improve social outcomes?: a regression discontinuity analysis of Mexico's national program (2011-2014).

Published online: 17 Apr 2019

Published by: World Bank Group

Authors: Alix-Garcia, J. M. & Sims, K. R. E. & Orozco-Olvera, V. H. & Costica, L. & Fernandez Medina, J. D. & Romo-Monroy, S. & Pagiola, S.

Content type: Bulletin

Environmental conditional cash transfers, or "payments for ecosystem services" are a centerpiece of global efforts to protect biodiversity, safeguard ...

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Participation for protection: how collaboration between local communities, government agencies, and researchers can protect native species from invasive species.

Published online: 04 Nov 2020

Authors: Caceres-Escobar, H. & Kark, S. & Atkinson, S. C. & Possingham, H. P. & Davis, K. J.

Content type: Blog

This article describes a six-step framework that includes local ecological, economic and social knowledge to select the best management strategies to ...

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Making forest concessions in the tropics work to achieve the 2030 Agenda: voluntary guidelines.

Published online: 26 Jun 2019

Content type: Bulletin

This proposed Voluntary Guidelines focuses on promoting SFM in concessions of public natural production forests in tropical regions. They build on the...

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The relational nature of citizen science.

Published online: 16 Nov 2024

Authors: Moon, K. & Yates, S. & Callaghan, C. T. & Thompson, M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Most citizen science research inherently separates the observer (citizen science participant) from the observation (e.g. data point), placing artifici...

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Success from the bottom. Participatory monitoring and restoration of forests.

Published online: 26 Apr 2017

Authors: Evans, K. A. & Guariguata, M. R.

Content type: Bulletin

This review presents a series of lessons learned, synthesized from reviews of over 100 articles and interviews with experts on forest restoration. The...

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