Melanie Smith

ORCID: 0000-0002-1818-1511
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Research Areas
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Forest Management and Policy
  • Urban Green Space and Health
  • Ecology, Conservation, and Geographical Studies
  • Indoor Air Quality and Microbial Exposure
  • Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
  • Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
  • Global Healthcare and Medical Tourism
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
  • Effects of Vibration on Health
  • Forest ecology and management
  • Geographies of human-animal interactions
  • Adventure Sports and Sensation Seeking
  • Cognitive and psychological constructs research
  • Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
  • Environmental Philosophy and Ethics
  • Rural development and sustainability
  • Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management

University of the Highlands and Islands
2017-2021

Centre for Social Sciences
2019

Institute for Sociology
2019

University of Applied Science Budapest
2019

University of Tartu
2019

Hungarian Academy of Sciences
2018

Durham University
1975

Climate-Smart Forestry (CSF) is an emerging branch of sustainable forest management that aims to manage forests in response climate change. Specific CSF strategies are viewed as a way forward for developing suitable responses and enhancing the provision ecosystem services. However, there currently lack comprehensive cohesive assessment implement CSF. This paper describes step-by-step process developed shared definition CSF, selecting indicators assess "climate-smartness" management....

10.1016/j.ecoser.2020.101113 article EN cc-by-nc-nd Ecosystem Services 2020-05-07

According to the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (2005 (MEA). (2005). Ecosystems and human wellbeing: Synthesis. Washington, DC: Island Press. [Google Scholar]), Services are divided into four main categories: supporting, regulating, provisioning, cultural services. The Cultural (CES) represent physical, intellectual, spiritual interactions with ecosystems land/seascapes. current work aims strengthen links between CES Tourism, by presenting how conceptualization of can contribute researching...

10.1080/14616688.2018.1522545 article EN Tourism Geographies 2019-01-26

Many criticisms have been made about the ability of traditional evaluation measures to provide genuinely useful information. They rarely tell trainer anything he does not already know, and investigation their objectivity suggests that they frequently do little more than reinforce in trainer's mind answers wishes hear.

10.1108/eb055291 article EN Personnel Review 1975-04-01

Academic interest in ecosystem services has been growing the past ten years with an increasing number of research studies and papers being dedicated to this complex diverse field enquiry.The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MEA 2005) suggested that cultural values were not recognised enough landscape planning management.This paper therefore focuses on Cultural Services (CES), one four main categories (MEA, 2005).Cultural (CES) include aesthetics, heritage, inspiration, spirituality, sense...

10.18030/socio.hu.2018en.17 article EN Socio hu 2018-01-01
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