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Why do people go to nature? Enhancing the recognition and scope of cultural ecosystem services in landscape

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract The cultural ecosystem services (CES) framework allows to systematically analyse non‐material human–nature relationships and can help to increase the recognition and scope of various intangible place‐based values. Although the amount of scientific literature addressing CES has increased over the last few decades, studies largely focus only on ...
Jan Daněk   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Wildland–urban interface expansion: Towards comprehensive planning processes

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Wildland–urban interface (WUI) expansion is accelerating in numerous regions around the world due to increasing amenity‐led migration processes, defined as the movement of people seeking higher environmental quality. While WUI areas are complex social–ecological systems requiring holistic planning and management, they are usually approached ...
Clara Mosso   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Urban adults' engagement in nature education and its interplay with everyday lived experiences: A case study from Shenzhen, China

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Currently, scholarship on education to foster connectedness with nature primarily focuses on children. As adults likewise face the disconnection from nature and play a key role in influencing children, it is important to understand how they perceive, engage in, and benefit from relevant programmes.
Xiaoxue Chen, Zuyi Lyu, Junxi Qian
wiley   +1 more source

Range‐wide sampling reveals cryptic lineages but largely conserved mycorrhizal associations in the Japanese fairy lantern Thismia kobensis

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
The jewel‐like flowers of Thismia are as rare as they are beautiful, often recorded from only a single site per species. Access to 15 populations of T. kobensis has enabled an uncommon, range‐wide assessment of morphology, genetics, and fungal partners. Our analyses showed that T.
Kenji Suetsugu   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Umbilical Aesthetics in Kenya: A Survey of Shape, Position, and Gender Preferences. [PDF]

open access: yesPlast Reconstr Surg Glob Open
Fofung SK, Wabwire B, Wanjeri JK.
europepmc   +1 more source

The Cinderella tree, Quillaja saponaria – A soap story

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Our current understanding of plants has been shaped by the entwining of different cultures. The Chilean soapbark tree, traditionally valued as a source of natural soap, was shown by serendipitous research in France in the 1900s to produce compounds that can boost the immune response to vaccines.
Anne Osbourn
wiley   +1 more source

Beautiful Wreckage

open access: yesRevue LISA, 2020
William D. Ehrhart
doaj   +1 more source

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