All Outputs (143)

The Ecosystems Revolution: Co-creating a Symbiotic Future (2016)
Book
Everard, M. (2016). The Ecosystems Revolution: Co-creating a Symbiotic Future. UK: Palgrave

The Ecosystems Revolution: Co-creating a Symbiotic Future is all about humanity’s relationship with the natural world, how it has shifted throughout our evolutionary journey, and how we urgently need to accelerate its evolution on a far more symbioti... Read More about The Ecosystems Revolution: Co-creating a Symbiotic Future.

Community-based groundwater and ecosystem restoration in semi-arid north Rajasthan (2): Reviving cultural meaning and value (2016)
Journal Article
Everard, M. (2016). Community-based groundwater and ecosystem restoration in semi-arid north Rajasthan (2): Reviving cultural meaning and value. Ecosystem Services, 18, 33-44. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2016.01.007

© 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.

Flood resilience on the railways – solutions, appraisal and decision-making (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Clark, B., Parkin, J., Everard, M., Quinn, N., & Parkhurst, G. (2016, January). Flood resilience on the railways – solutions, appraisal and decision-making. Paper presented at 48th Universities' Transport Studies Group Conference, Bristol, UK

The welfare costs of weather related disruption on the transport network have been estimated to be between £100m and £520m per day of disruption in England. This paper presents a case study of a mainline railway cutting and tunnel, which is situated... Read More about Flood resilience on the railways – solutions, appraisal and decision-making.

Progress with integration of ecosystem services in sustainable drainage system (2016)
Book Chapter
Everard, M., McInnes, R., & Gouda, H. (2016). Progress with integration of ecosystem services in sustainable drainage system. In C. Booth, & S. Charlesworth, S.M. (Eds.), Sustainable Surface Water Management: A Handbook for SUDs. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell

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.

Know Your Freshwater Fishes (2016)
Book
Everard, M. (2016). Know Your Freshwater Fishes. Sheffield, England: Old Pond Publishing

This pocket-sized book provides information about the 54 native, invasive and naturalised species found today in the fresh waters of the British Isles. These fresh waters range from torrential hill streams to powerful rivers and wide, meandering low... Read More about Know Your Freshwater Fishes.

The converging world: The social and environmental impact of convergence (2015)
Report
Everard, M. (2015). The converging world: The social and environmental impact of convergence

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
Everard, M. (2015). Community-based groundwater and ecosystem restoration in semi-arid north Rajasthan (1): Socio-economic progress and lessons for groundwater-dependentareas. Ecosystem Services, 16, 125-135

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
Everard, M. (2015). Rebirthing the landscape

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
Brown, I., & Everard, M. (2015). A working typology of response options to manage environmental change and their scope for complementarity using an Ecosystem Approach. Environmental Science and Policy, 52, 61-73. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2015.05.006

© 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.

Identifying robust response options to manage environmental change using an Ecosystem Approach: A stress-testing case study for the UK (2015)
Journal Article
Brown, I., Berry, P., Everard, M., Firbank, L., Harrison, P., Lundy, L., …Watts, K. (2015). Identifying robust response options to manage environmental change using an Ecosystem Approach: A stress-testing case study for the UK. Environmental Science and Policy, 52, 74-88. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2015.05.005

© 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.

Investing in our rivers (2015)
Journal Article
Everard, M. (2015). Investing in our rivers

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.

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

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
Everard, M. (2015). Breathing Space: The Natural and Unnatural History of Air. London: Zed Books

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
Kenter, J. O., O'Brien, L., Hockley, N., Ravenscroft, N., Fazey, I., Irvine, K. N., …Williams, S. (2015). What are shared and social values of ecosystems?. Ecological Economics, 111, 86-99. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2015.01.006

© 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
Everard, M., & Quinn, N. (2015). Realizing the value of fluvial geomorphology. International Journal of River Basin Management, 13(4), 487-500. https://doi.org/10.1080/15715124.2015.1048457

© 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
Vieira da Silva, L., Everard, M., & Shore, R. G. (2014). Ecosystem services assessment at Steart Peninsula, Somerset, UK. Ecosystem Services, 10, 19-34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2014.07.008

© 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
Everard, M. (2014). Water security for nature and people

Improving coherence of ecosystem service provision between scales (2014)
Journal Article
Everard, M., Dick, J., Kendall, H., Smith, R., Slee, B., Couldrick, L., …McDonald, C. (2014). Improving coherence of ecosystem service provision between scales. Ecosystem Services, 9, 66-74. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2014.04.006

© 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.

Law and science in conflict: The resurrection of maximum sustainable yield (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Appleby, T., Everard, M., & Simpson, S. (2014, June). Law and science in conflict: The resurrection of maximum sustainable yield. Presented at Marine and Coastal Policy Forum 2014, University of Plymouth

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.

UK National Ecosystem Assessment follow-on: Synthesis of key findings (2014)
Report
Albon, S., Turner, K., Watson, B., Anger, A., Baker, J., Bateman, I., …Wilson, L. (2014). UK National Ecosystem Assessment follow-on: Synthesis of key findings