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‘Should’ and ‘can’ active restoration be used in biodiversity offsets? Stakeholder perspectives from New South Wales, Australia

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite their controversial nature, biodiversity offsets are often used as a regulatory tool to counterbalance the impacts of land clearing on biodiversity. Offsets usually aim to achieve no net loss (NNL) of biodiversity through protection and/or restoration of habitat.
Laure‐Elise Ruoso, Roel Plant, Stephanie Hernandez, Josh Dorrough   +3 more
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Amazonian fish migration as a social–cultural–ecological process

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract In this study, we highlight the rich perspectives and explanations of fish migration held by Indigenous groups across the Amazon. We present the aspects of Indigenous cosmological stories, drawing from our exploratory review of cultural ethnographies and grey literature, as well as the authors' own experiences. We ask, how do Amazonian peoples
LuLu Victoria‐Lacy, Thiago B. A. Couto, Natalia C. Piland, Jesús Dámaso, Stephannie Fernandes, Simone Athayde, Elizabeth P. Anderson   +6 more
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A dramaturgy of uncertainty: Transdisciplinary manoeuvres across forestry and theatre

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract The uncertainties of climate change mean that forestry adaptation strategies are often complex and contested. Research has suggested that there is an interest in the forestry sector for facilitated dialogue about uncertainty (de Pellegrin Llorente et al., 2023).
Rachel Clive, Deirdre Heddon, Jordan Rydlewski, David Edwards, Chris Fremantle   +4 more
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Gendered, embodied knowledge within a Welsh agricultural context and the importance of listening to farmers in the rewilding debate

Area, EarlyView., 2022
This article uses examples from practice‐led‐research to explore the tensions between rewilding and the gendered embodied knowledge of upland farmers in an area of Wales, UK called the Cambrian Mountains. This paper argues that within the context of the polarising ideas of rewilding, sensitivity and the need to listen to the embodied, situated ...
Ffion Jones
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Embedding rewilding in policy: Perspectives on overcoming barriers and unlocking opportunities

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Rewilding initiatives are increasing in number across Europe and the UK in response to a growing awareness of substantial nature depletion, despite a lack of policy, guidance and legislation. Ongoing transformations of UK environmental policies offer a ‘policy window’ in which rewilding could become established as a key strategy for nature ...
Charlotte R. Hopkins, Esther E. Brooker, Kristy A. Adaway, Clare E. Collins, Clare Cowgill, Matthew C. Morgan, Charlotte E. Trotman, Dylan Thompson‐Jones, Jonathan D. Bolland, Neil M. Burns, Africa Gómez, F. Blake Morton, Robert Bailey, Amelia Bateman‐Young, Felicitas ten Brink, Richard K. Broughton, Jack H. Hatfield, Nico B. King, Charlotte Le Marquand, Louisa Mamalis, Chloe Mason, Marta Maziarz, Kieran P. McCloskey, Benjamin E. Miller, Niamh S. Morris, Tien T. T. Nguyen, Dean Page, Emma‐Lee L. Peterson, Benjamin Pile, Ben Stainton, Darryl Villaret, India Stephenson, Lori Lawson Handley   +32 more
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Rewilding: An emotional nature

Area, EarlyView., 2022
Abstract Rewilding is an emotional subject. It inspires passions and argument in spades. As a form of conservation, rewilding offers exciting possibilities to address ecological crises but it is also a threat for many people, leading to dispute and impasse.
Sophie Wynne‐Jones
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Environmental impact assessment based on particulate matter, and chlorophyll content of urban trees

Scientific Reports
The amount of dust deposited on tree leaves is a cost-effective indicator of air quality. Our aim was to explore the leaf surface deposition, and chlorophyll content of leaves along a road section that started at an intersection, and ended in a less ...
Vanda Éva Abriha-Molnár, Szilárd Szabó, Tibor Magura, Béla Tóthmérész, Dávid Abriha, Bianka Sipos, Edina Simon   +6 more
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Transdisciplinary plant sciences: A review

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Socio‐ecological crises such as biodiversity loss, climate change, and food insecurity require academic expertise and also the inclusion of diverse actors outside of academia such as farmers, policymakers, and local communities. This article develops a synthesizing account of “transdisciplinary plant sciences” that aim to co‐create research and ...
David Ludwig
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From Sustainability to Regeneration: Mapping the Conceptual Foundations and Future Directions of Regenerative Development

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates the theoretical and conceptual foundations of regenerative development and its relationship to sustainable development. Amid deepening global polycrises and growing disenchantment with the term “sustainability,” there is increasing interest in regeneration as a paradigm that moves beyond harm reduction and efficiency ...
Rosalind Yunibandhu, Philip Hallinger
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Doing public theology in the anthropocene towards life-creating theology

Verbum et Ecclesia, 2015
If one presumes that we are today living in the anthropocene, how does this challenge the doing of public theology? What is the calling of a public theologian in the anthropocene?
Johann-Albrecht Meylahn
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