A5062049187- Forest Management and Policy
- Forest Insect Ecology and Management
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Environmental Education and Sustainability
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- Climate Change Policy and Economics
- Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management
- Rural development and sustainability
- Environmental Philosophy and Ethics
- Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses
- Noise Effects and Management
- Animal and Plant Science Education
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Plant and animal studies
- Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
- Art Therapy and Mental Health
- Sustainability and Ecological Systems Analysis
- Environmental law and policy
- Socioeconomics of Resources and Conservation
- Innovation, Sustainability, Human-Machine Systems
Bangor University
2018-2024
Plunkett Foundation
2016-2018
Forest Research
2009-2016
University of Exeter
2015-2016
Research Research (South Africa)
2011
University of Leicester
2003-2007
Life cycle assessment is an analysis technique used to assess the environmental burdens of products or production processes. Ecosystem services a concept understand ways functioning ecosystems support human wellbeing. Both are how anthropogenic pressures impact environment. The integration ecosystem as indicators in life increasingly being explored, however there several limitations with current frameworks. A brief review existing approaches found they incorporate midpoint within traditional...
SUMMARY Collaborative management is a widely accepted means of resolving conflict amongst natural resource stakeholders. Power sharing central to most conceptualizations collaboration, but theoretical insights about power are only rarely used interrogate collaborative processes. Agenda-setting theory was analyse cases deer in England, Scotland and Indiana (USA). agendas across scales social contexts were found be primarily set by contextual factors, particularly stakeholders drawing on...
Wild game management for hunting in Western society has become increasingly complex as stakeholders have multiplied and 'sustainability' influences the contemporary debate. This paper questions whether current legal framework management, which evolved from early European civilisations to focus on 'hunting rights', is relevant regulate environmental, social economic dimensions of wild their management. Employing a narrative analysis deer, study identifies key legislative tenets highlights...
The values of forests have been extensively researched by focusing on general public perspectives with different frameworks used to categorise them. Studies also explored forest manager values; however, there is limited evidence the they associate specific tree species. Understanding more about managers’ regarding a particular species important when considering how make decisions and might respond pests disease threats. In this study, we oak trees effects pest risk known as Acute Oak Decline...
The ‘under-management’ of forests is a long-standing challenge for forest policy in Europe and North America. In research arenas it most frequently explained via reference to individual land-managers’ decisions made on the basis calculations economic cost benefit: manifestation ‘attitudes’, ‘behaviour’, ‘choice’ paradigm. This paper seeks this analytic perspective by considering through theoretical lens social practice theory. Drawing extensive qualitative data from UK, describes deep-rooted...
In Britain, wild deer can be conceptualised as a commons, although complex institutional structure -founded largely upon land-ownership and notions of stalking rights -has evolved over several hundred years to regulate access this resource.In recent decades, however, number socio-political, economic ecological factors have fundamentally altered the nature resource, introducing new impacts along with interactions between them, their environment an increasing variety stakeholders.These drivers...
Recent UK government policy design has drawn heavily on insights from behavioural sciences, however, engagement with these ideas in the forestry sector been limited. This article critically reflects interface between forest and 'behaviour'. After considering what term 'behaviour' may mean context, we draw a literature review to develop four key principles that can be used guide interventions seeking change. These recommend interventions: (1) are grounded an understanding of individual's...
Increased time spent in nature can enhance physical health and mental wellbeing. The UK Government's '25 Year Environment Plan' recommends extending the benefits of contact with to a wider group people, including those challenges. This study investigated whether nature-based interventions (NBIs) for people mild challenges could generate positive social return on investment (SROI). Between May 2017 January 2019, 120 participants at six outdoor sites Wales participated 6 12-week NBI, which...