All Outputs (126)

The converging world: The social and environmental impact of convergence (2015)
Report

This 96-page report undertakes an ecosystem service analysis of SROI (social report on investment from linked investment in renewable energy and forest restoration in Tamil Nadu, India, as a strategic approach to low-carbon development in an internat... Read More about The converging world: The social and environmental impact of convergence.

Community-based groundwater and ecosystem restoration in semi-arid north Rajasthan (1): Socio-economic progress and lessons for groundwater-dependentareas (2015)
Journal Article

Groundwater is a vital resource in arid and semi-arid regions, increasingly relied upon for year-round access, though lack of both study and regulation contribute to unsustainable pressures potentially contributing to a negative spiral of ecological,... Read More about Community-based groundwater and ecosystem restoration in semi-arid north Rajasthan (1): Socio-economic progress and lessons for groundwater-dependentareas.

Rebirthing the landscape (2015)
Journal Article

An account of the community-based groundwater recharge activities of the NGO Tarun Bharat Sangh in semi-arid north Rajasthan

A working typology of response options to manage environmental change and their scope for complementarity using an Ecosystem Approach (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. A diverse range of response options is available for decision-makers to manage environmental change and meet sustainability objectives. These can include inter alia: top-down statutory regulation and levies; bottom-up initiatives... Read More about A working typology of response options to manage environmental change and their scope for complementarity using an Ecosystem Approach.

Investing in our rivers (2015)
Journal Article

This article makes the case for investment in the natural infrastructure of rivers, highlighting the societal benefits that would flow from it yet their substantial externalisation from current economic thinking with associated deterioration of socia... Read More about Investing in our rivers.

Identifying robust response options to manage environmental change using an Ecosystem Approach: A stress-testing case study for the UK (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. A diverse range of response options was evaluated in terms of their utility for sustaining ecosystem services in the UK. Robustness of response options was investigated by applying a 'stress-testing' method which evaluated expect... Read More about Identifying robust response options to manage environmental change using an Ecosystem Approach: A stress-testing case study for the UK.

River Habitats for Coarse Fish: How Fish Use Rivers and How We Can Help Them (2015)
Book

This book:
• Everard, M. (2015). River Habitats for Coarse Fish: How Fish Use Rivers and How We Can Help Them. Old Pond Publishing.

is in three parts:

1. How Britain’s diverse coarse fish species use river habitats throughout their life cycles... Read More about River Habitats for Coarse Fish: How Fish Use Rivers and How We Can Help Them.

Breathing Space: The Natural and Unnatural History of Air (2015)
Book

The air and the atmosphere, respectively the physical ‘stuff’ we breathe and the wider gaseous and energetic layers surrounding our home planet, comprise immensely complex and dynamic flows of energy, matter and living things. The atmosphere is, by... Read More about Breathing Space: The Natural and Unnatural History of Air.

What are shared and social values of ecosystems? (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015. Social valuation of ecosystem services and public policy alternatives is one of the greatest challenges facing ecological economists today. Frameworks for valuing nature increasingly include shared/social values as a distinct category of valu... Read More about What are shared and social values of ecosystems?.

Realizing the value of fluvial geomorphology (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015 International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research. Fluvial geomorphological forms and processes exert a fundamental influence on riverine processes and functions. They thereby contribute significantly to beneficial servi... Read More about Realizing the value of fluvial geomorphology.

Ecosystem services assessment at Steart Peninsula, Somerset, UK (2014)
Journal Article

© 2014 Elsevier B.V. A systemic valuation was undertaken of marginal changes in ecosystem services assessed as likely to result from the Steart Coastal Management project, some in monetary terms and others semi-quantified. The Steart Coastal Manageme... Read More about Ecosystem services assessment at Steart Peninsula, Somerset, UK.

Water security for nature and people (2014)
Journal Article

Improving coherence of ecosystem service provision between scales (2014)
Journal Article

© 2014 Elsevier B.V. High-level consensus about safeguarding ecosystem services for optimal benefits to society is not yet matched by transposition to field scale. Various 'societal levers' - markets, statutory legislation, common/civil law, market-b... Read More about Improving coherence of ecosystem service provision between scales.

UK National Ecosystem Assessment follow-on: Synthesis of key findings (2014)
Report

The benefits of fringing mangrove systems to Mumbai (2014)
Journal Article

Mumbai's mangroves have been significantly depleted through historical city development and continuing encroachment. These mangroves are important for production of a range of ecosystem services. Recent conservation-oriented orders in India's courts... Read More about The benefits of fringing mangrove systems to Mumbai.

Integrating Integrated Water Management (2014)
Journal Article

© 2014, Thomas Telford Services Ltd. All rights reserved. The water cycle is a contiguous system interconnected with human activities. Management has tended to be fragmented across anthropocentrically defined disciplines, potentially generating unint... Read More about Integrating Integrated Water Management.

The Hydropolitics of Dams: Engineering or Ecosystems? (2013)
Book

Humanity’s diverse activities are all ultimately buoyed by fresh waters and the water-yielding ecosystems with which we have co-evolved. Control of water flows was central to the settlement of humanity, forming not only the foundation of our first c... Read More about The Hydropolitics of Dams: Engineering or Ecosystems?.

Facilitating implementation of landscape-scale water management: The integrated constructed wetland concept (2012)
Journal Article

This research addressed measures necessary to overcome barriers to the implementation of integrated resource management solutions delivering multiple ecosystem services, using the case of the Anne Valley integrated constructed wetlands (ICWs) in Coun... Read More about Facilitating implementation of landscape-scale water management: The integrated constructed wetland concept.

Why does 'good ecological status' matter? (2012)
Journal Article

Achievement of 'good ecological status' under the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD), and various 'environmental outcomes' under other legislation and strategies, are accepted as important by environmental interests. However, support from the wider p... Read More about Why does 'good ecological status' matter?.

Common Ground: The Sharing of Land and Landscapes for Sustainability (2011)
Book

The landscapes that humanity has inhabited throughout our evolutionary history have simultaneously met our needs and substantially shaped our progress. We too, through our gifts of innovation and foresight (as indeed our lack of it), have substantia... Read More about Common Ground: The Sharing of Land and Landscapes for Sustainability.