All Outputs (143)

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.

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.

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

Air as a common good (2013)
Journal Article

Ecosystem services provide a framework for integrated assessment of the societal benefits provided by air, the largest ecosystem on the planet, which has been substantially overlooked in former management frameworks. Many attributes of air are 'commo... Read More about Air as a common good.

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.

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?.

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.

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?.

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.

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.

Gharial (Gavialis gangeticus) populations and human influences on habitat on the River Chambal, India (2011)
Journal Article

The gharial, Gavialis gangeticus (Gmelin 1789), a piscivorous reptile of Asian river systems, is increasingly threatened by diverse human pressures. Three survey expeditions were launched to monitor gharial populations, notable wildlife, and the acti... Read More about Gharial (Gavialis gangeticus) populations and human influences on habitat on the River Chambal, India.

Recreational angling markets to advance the conservation of a reach of the Western Ramganga River, India (2011)
Journal Article

1. Mahseer fishes of the genus Tor are 'iconic species' in Indian rivers, representing 'flagship' species for conservation purposes but with additional exploitable, cultural and economic values. Conservation action is required to address their vulner... Read More about Recreational angling markets to advance the conservation of a reach of the Western Ramganga River, India.

Have we neglected the societal importance of sand dunes? An ecosystem services perspective (2010)
Journal Article

1. Coastal sand dunes are widespread worldwide, including around the coasts of the British Isles and Europe, providing a wide range of functions some of which are recognized for their socio-economic benefits. 2. In some localities, their contribution... Read More about Have we neglected the societal importance of sand dunes? An ecosystem services perspective.

The development of bird indicators for British fresh waters and wetlands (2010)
Journal Article

Population trends of breeding birds in freshwater habitats generated from long-term monitoring in the UK provide biodiversity indicators for some wetland habitats. Bird species were assigned to target wetland habitats based on evidence of their assoc... Read More about The development of bird indicators for British fresh waters and wetlands.

Ecosystem services and the common law: Evaluating the full scale of damages (2009)
Journal Article

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.