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Connected Conservation: Rethinking conservation for a telecoupled world
(Biological Conservation, 2023)
The convergence of the biodiversity and climate crises, widening of wealth inequality, and most recently the COVID-19 pandemic underscore the urgent need to mobilize change to secure sustainable futures. Centres of tropical ...
Multilingualism for pluralising knowledge and decision making about people and nature relationships
(People and Nature, 2023)
The need for a pluralistic approach to biodiversity conservation science and policy is increasingly being recognized. We argue that plural perspectives require multilingualism in the sources and processes. Unless the ...
On the links between nature's values and language
(People and Nature, 2023)
Recent research into the plural values about nature is focusing on relational values as a concept through which to better understand the breadth and importance of situated human–nature relations. However, potential relevance ...
Participatory mapping of ecosystem services across a gradient of agricultural intensification in West Kalimantan, Indonesia
(Ecosystems and People, 2023)
Agrarian change affects the supply and demand of ecosystem services (ES) by reducing the extent of natural ecosystems. Agricultural intensification can lead to changes in land covers and livelihood opportunities and it ...
Mapping the planet’s critical natural assets
(Nature Ecology and Evolution, 2023)
Sustaining the organisms, ecosystems and processes that underpin human wellbeing is necessary to achieve sustainable development. Here we define critical natural assets as the natural and semi-natural ecosystems that provide ...
Transformation for inclusive conservation: evidence on values, decisions, and impacts in protected areas
(Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 2023)
As countries consider new area-based conservation targets under the Convention on Biological Diversity, protected areas (PAs) and their impacts on people and nature are coming under increasing scrutiny. We review the ...
Justice, sustainability, and the diverse values of nature: why they matter for biodiversity conservation
(Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 2023)
Aiming at just and sustainable futures for biodiversity conservation requires clarity concerning how justice relates to the diverse values of nature. By drawing upon and expanding on the recent Values Assessment of ...
The impact of multipurpose dams on the values of nature's contributions to people under a water-energy-food nexus framing
(Ecological Economics, 2023-04-01)
The paper proposes a probabilistic approach to the assessment of the impacts of multipurpose dams. It is framed around the notion of Nature's Contributions to People (NCP) in the setting of the Water-Energy-Food nexus. The ...
Pluralizing environmental values for urban planning: How to uncover the diversity of imaginaries about socio-natures from Vitoria-Gasteiz (Basque Country, Spain)
(People and Nature, 2023-08-01)
Cities have pushed forward re-naturing initiatives in local planning agendas. Discourses and rationales for such interventions tend to follow instrumental framings often narrowed down to the economic, health and ecological ...
Five levels of internalizing environmental externalities: decision-making based on instrumental and relational values of nature
(Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 2023-08-01)