All Outputs (12)

Community-based groundwater and ecosystem restoration in semi-arid north Rajasthan (2): Reviving cultural meaning and value (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Elsevier B.V. Cultural and other less directly exploited ecosystem services tend to be excluded from decision-making, yet may underlie strong ties between people and their surroundings providing significant incentives for engagement with ecosy... Read More about Community-based groundwater and ecosystem restoration in semi-arid north Rajasthan (2): Reviving cultural meaning and value.

Progress with integration of ecosystem services in sustainable drainage system (2016)
Book Chapter

Society is moving from management addressing single or few outcomes towards recognition that all interventions have systemic impacts. Water management in urban environments presents particular challenges related to growing populations in finite land... Read More about Progress with integration of ecosystem services in sustainable drainage system.

Law and science in conflict: The resurrection of maximum sustainable yield (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

For the first time the law on maximum sustainable yield changes the burden of proof, it is now up to the government to demonstrate sustainable fisheries. The right to fish is no longer untrammelled.

Maximum sustainable yield? Fish, fishers and people (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper examines the basis of 4 fundamental laws governing fisheries and human interaction with the sea: coastal states’ rights, obligations for sustainable fishing, duties for health and safety at sea and the public trust obligations in the way t... Read More about Maximum sustainable yield? Fish, fishers and people.

Plenty More Fish in the Sea? A working paper on the legal issues related to fishing beyond maximum sustainable yield: A UK case study (2013)
Preprint / Working Paper

Systemic solutions for multi-benefit water and environmental management (2013)
Journal Article

The environmental and financial costs of inputs to, and unintended consequences arising from narrow consideration of outputs from, water and environmental management technologies highlight the need for low-input solutions that optimise outcomes acros... Read More about Systemic solutions for multi-benefit water and environmental management.

Safeguarding the provision of ecosystem services in catchment systems (2013)
Journal Article

A narrow technocentric focus on a few favored ecosystem services (generally provisioning services) has led to ecosystem degradation globally, including catchment systems and their capacities to support human well-being. Increasing recognition of the... Read More about Safeguarding the provision of ecosystem services in catchment systems.

The challenges and implications of linking wetland science to policy in agricultural landscapes - experience from the UK National Ecosystem Assessment (2013)
Journal Article

Wetlands have been the focus of conflicts in societal priorities throughout human history, with competing demands for water and land use delivering a range of ecosystem services but contributing to severe degradation and loss. Conservation of wetland... Read More about The challenges and implications of linking wetland science to policy in agricultural landscapes - experience from the UK National Ecosystem Assessment.

Rediscovering the value of urban rivers (2012)
Journal Article

Rivers commonly serve as defining, founding features of human settlements, yet urbanisation has degraded them, often to the extent that they no longer provide the services to society from which the settlements developed. Urban river restoration has e... Read More about Rediscovering the value of urban rivers.

Safeguarding the societal value of land (2009)
Journal Article

There is an extensive academic literature on relative cultural perspectives about the value of land, landscapes, ecosystems and natural resources (for example Posey and Strang). Our purpose in this paper is not to review that body of work. Rather,... Read More about Safeguarding the societal value of land.

Tools for the equitable and sustainable use of ecosystem resources: Parts 1 and 2 (2009)
Journal Article

Recognition over the past century of the benefits provided by land and landscapes has seen a net shift in balance from the private interests of landowners towards broader beneficiaries across society, with post-apartheid constitutional and legislativ... Read More about Tools for the equitable and sustainable use of ecosystem resources: Parts 1 and 2.

Flood management: From defence to sustainability (2009)
Journal Article

The problem of flood risk management is as old as settled human communities, preceding even the first telling of Noah's biblical flood. It remains a significant concern today in our highly populated, intensively developed world, albeit that understan... Read More about Flood management: From defence to sustainability.