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Transforming disaster risk reduction with AI and Big Data: Legal and interdisciplinary perspectives (2025)
Journal Article

Managing complex disaster risks requires interdisciplinary efforts. Breaking down silos between law, social sciences, and natural sciences is critical for all processes of disaster risk reduction. It is essential to explore how AI enhances understand... Read More about Transforming disaster risk reduction with AI and Big Data: Legal and interdisciplinary perspectives.

The efficacy of biodiversity and ecosystem assessment approaches for informing a regenerative approach to built development (2023)
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The built environment, even at its “greenest,” inevitably entails changing ecosystem structure and function. Multiple sustainable development tools and approaches are available to reduce environmental harm from built development. However, the reality... Read More about The efficacy of biodiversity and ecosystem assessment approaches for informing a regenerative approach to built development.

Methodological innovations within the RAWES framework for use in development scenarios (2023)
Journal Article

Built development changes the nature of land and its ecosystems, with diverse ramifications for human well-being and the resilience of the socioecological system. Robust and replicable approaches are required to assess ecosystem services generated by... Read More about Methodological innovations within the RAWES framework for use in development scenarios.

Exploring the prioritisation of biodiversity amongst small- to medium-sized enterprise leaders with strong bigger-than-self value orientation (2023)
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This paper reports on a quantitative study of prioritisation of biodiversity amongst small- to medium-sized enterprise (SME) leaders. Existing research indicates that value orientation impacts propensity for pro-environmental behaviours. However, as... Read More about Exploring the prioritisation of biodiversity amongst small- to medium-sized enterprise leaders with strong bigger-than-self value orientation.

Hydropower: The good, the bad and the ugly (2023)
Journal Article

Mark Everard examines the benefits and repercussions of harnessing water for power. People require energy for their daily needs and for development. In a climate-aware world, we know we need low-carbon energy. For decades, hydropower has been promot... Read More about Hydropower: The good, the bad and the ugly.

British Wildlife Freshwater fishes report 2022 (2023)
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This article provides an overview of novel issues and challenges in the world of British freshwater fishes throughout 2022.

Successive heatwaves driving temperatures in Britain above 40oC for the first time defined summer 2022, with drought extend... Read More about British Wildlife Freshwater fishes report 2022.

Wildlife reports: Freshwater fishes (2022)
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A review of conservation-relevant issues around British Freshwater fishes in 2022

Assessment of the sustainable use of chemicals on a level playing field (2022)
Journal Article

Misleading conclusions can result from applying tools beyond the purposes for which they were designed. A range of chemical assessment systems was compared against a set of principles germane to the sustainable use of chemicals relevant to the whole... Read More about Assessment of the sustainable use of chemicals on a level playing field.

Editorial: The accelerating pace of environmental change (2022)
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This Editorial prefaces a special edition celbrating 50 years since the UN 'Stockholm Conference', founding of UNEP and publication of the seminal 'Limits to Growth' study by the Club of Rome, looking ahead to future challenges

Introduction: The 1970s and all that... (2022)
Journal Article

This Introduction opens a special edition celbrating 50 years since the UN 'Stockholm Conference', founding of UNEP and publication of the seminal 'Limits to Growth' study by the Club of Rome, looking ahead to future challenges

Reassessing the multiple values of lowland British floodplains (2022)
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Ecosystem services provided by lowland British floodplains respectively under semi-natural conditions and converted for intensive maize production were assessed. Floodplains across lowland Britain have been extensively disconnected from river channel... Read More about Reassessing the multiple values of lowland British floodplains.

Assessment of heavy metals pollution in soft sediment of the Severn Estuary and inner Bristol Channel system (2021)
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For several decades, the Severn Estuary and Bristol Channel have been contaminated by heavy metals despite the many ecosystem services it provides. Therefore, this paper is devoted to the systematic assessment of heavy metals (Cd, Cr, Ni, Zn and Pb)... Read More about Assessment of heavy metals pollution in soft sediment of the Severn Estuary and inner Bristol Channel system.

Weather, climate and perceptions of risk (2021)
Journal Article

Mark Everard points out that a crisp and simple distinction between weather and climate may be more elusive than we have assumed.

Migration: A systemic consideration (2021)
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The article takes a systemic view of animal migration informed by ecosystem services

How well do we understand the migratory habitats and needs of freshwater fish? (2021)
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The article reviews what we do iknow and, importantly, the substantial areas we overlook regarding the migratory needs for freshwater fishes

Wetlands, nutrient neutrality and the failure of market economics (2021)
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As markets seek to reconceptualise wetlands, do we risk losing a glorious opportunity to stem their degradation and loss?
Robert McInnes and Mark Everard report

Assessing the societal benefits of mahseer (Torspp.) fishes to strengthen the basis for their conservation (2021)
Journal Article

Mahseer (Torspp., Cyprinidae) are iconic, large-bodied, migratory freshwater fishes of Asian rivers. Long valued as a food source and serving other societal roles, these fishes are severely threatened by a broad range of interacting and escalating hu... Read More about Assessing the societal benefits of mahseer (Torspp.) fishes to strengthen the basis for their conservation.

Atmospheric ammonia and nitrogen deposition on Irish Natura 2000 sites: Implications for Irish agriculture (2021)
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With growing global demand for food, the agriculture sector worldwide is under pressure to intensify and expand, risking acceleration of existing negative biodiversity impacts. Agriculture is the dominant source of ammonia (NH3) emissions, which can... Read More about Atmospheric ammonia and nitrogen deposition on Irish Natura 2000 sites: Implications for Irish agriculture.

Evaluation of the ecosystem services provided by the Kailadevi wildlife sanctuary, Rajasthan, India (2021)
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Kailadevi Wildlife Sanctuary (KWLS), in Rajasthan (India), lost its Tiger (Panthera tigris) population in 2000, though since 2019 Tigers have over-spilled from the adjacent Ranthambhore National Park (RNP). Though protected, the forests of KWLS are d... Read More about Evaluation of the ecosystem services provided by the Kailadevi wildlife sanctuary, Rajasthan, India.

Evaluation of the ecosystem services provided by the Kailadevi Wildlife Sanctuary, Rajasthan, India (2021)
Journal Article

Kailadevi Wildlife Sanctuary (KWLS), in Rajasthan (India), lost its tiger population in 2000, though since 2019 tigers have over-spilled from the adjacent Ranthambhore National Park (RNP). Though protected, the forests of KWLS are depleted through e... Read More about Evaluation of the ecosystem services provided by the Kailadevi Wildlife Sanctuary, Rajasthan, India.