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Using natural capital and ecosystem services to facilitate participatory environmental decision making: results from a systematic map.

Published online: 08 Aug 2022

Authors: Hinson, C. & O'Keeffe, J. & Mijic, A. & Bryden, J. & Grootveld, J. van & Collins, A. M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

The rights all people have for involvement in environmental decision making has long been established yet collaborative resource management has had mi...

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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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Disentangling the complexity of human-nature interactions.

Published online: 09 Jul 2024

Authors: Bennett, E. M. & Reyers, B.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Human-nature interactions have been identified as an important leverage point for achieving sustainability. Processes to recognize, protect, improve a...

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Special Feature: Informing decision-making with indigenous and local knowledge and science.

Published online: 21 Oct 2021

Content type: Journal issue

This special section, which contains 5 papers, highlights some of the many benefits which can occur when research and decision-making are informed by ...

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Experimental harvest of waterfowl eggs informs management by indigenous peoples.

Published online: 26 Mar 2021

Published by: British Ecological Society

Authors: Herse, M. R. & Tylianakis, J. M. & Scott, N. J. & Brown, D. & Cranwell, I. & Henry, J. & Pauling, C. & McIntosh, A. R. & Gormley, A. M. & Lyver, P. O.

Content type: Blog

An experiment was conducted by the Māori tribe Ngāi Tahu and researchers (Māori and non-Māori) in Aotearoa/New Zealand, to assess how customary egg ha...

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Contribution of Indigenous Peoples' understandings and relational frameworks to invasive alien species management.

Published online: 12 Oct 2023

Authors: Wehi, P. M. & Kamelamela, K. L. & Whyte, K. & Watene, K. & Reo, N.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Introduced species that spread and become invasive are recognised as a major threat to global biological diversity, ecosystem resilience and economic ...

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Relational values of nature in empirical research: a systematic review.

Published online: 12 Oct 2023

Authors: Pratson, D. F. & Adams, N. & Gould, R. K.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

In the past 5 years, scholarly and policy attention to relational values, a concept that articulates plural values of nature, has grown steadily. To d...

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Indigenous peoples' habitation history drives present-day forest biodiversity.

Published online: 04 Nov 2020

Authors: Fisher, J. A. & Shackelford, N. & Hocking, M. D. & Trant, A. J. & Starzomski, B. M.

Content type: Blog

This research highlights the fundamental long-term role of humans in ecosystems of British Columbia, Canada. It also improves the understanding of the...

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Smartphone interactions and nature benefits: how predominant approaches picture social life and ways of advancing this work.

Published online: 07 Aug 2022

Authors: Hitchings, R. & Maller, C.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Whether new technologies will have a positive impact on how societies experience nature depends on how particular devices and populations come to inte...

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