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Digital fire technologies and community networks: Cultivating just sociotechnical practices for living with planetary change

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Fires are expanding in frequency and intensity worldwide due to climate change and land‐use transformations. At the same time, fire often plays a regenerative role in ecosystems. Traditional and cultural practices incorporate fire use for landscape management and landscape renewal. In this complex matrix of fire ecologies, digital technologies
Jennifer Gabrys, Paula Tiara Torres, Pablo González Rivas   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A transformative conservation framework for advancing human-wildlife dynamics in India

Discover Conservation
Human-wildlife conflict represents one of the most complex and urgent challenges in biodiversity conservation, especially in India, where ecological richness intersects with dense human populations.
Amit Kumar Batar
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Designing for biodiversity data in place: Species, encounters, and interfaces

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Species occurrence data, which records the presence of an organism at a point in space and time, is central to environmental science and its opening up to new forms of participation such as citizen science. Such data are increasingly aggregated and mobilised, reaching diverse audiences.
Mitchell Whitelaw, Adrian Mackenzie, Martin Westgate, Kylie Morrow   +3 more
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Belief and the beast: Religion and attitudes towards tigers in Central India

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Human perceptions of wildlife are critical to shaping conservation outcomes, particularly in landscapes where people coexist with large carnivores. Religion, a deeply rooted sociocultural force, remains underexplored in the context of human–wildlife conflict.
Sathvika Krishnan, Poonam Dhanwatey, Harshwardhan Dhanwatey, Andrew Gosler, Claudio Sillero‐Zubiri   +4 more
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Human–wildlife coexistence and social context: Evidence from farmer communities in southern Sri Lanka

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Studies on human–wildlife interactions (HWI) often focus on conflict mitigation studies, thus overlooking underlying factors that influence community decisions to coexist with wildlife. To address this knowledge gap, we collected empirical evidence of how community interactions with wildlife are shaped by their social contexts.
Anuradhi Dulangi Jayasinghe, Georgette Leah Burns, Johanna Nalau, Duan Biggs   +3 more
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Rewilding's technological experiments: Virtual reality and scalable narratives of rewilding in the Scottish highlands

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Depictions of rewilded landscapes reveal the underlying principles shaping the future of rewilding. This paper analyses a virtual reality (VR) model of a rewilding project in the Scottish Highlands that is advertised as a vision of a rewilded nature in 50 to 100 years' time.
Nick Sidwell
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Mammal Mia: A review on how ecological and human dimension research on urban wild mammals can benefit future biophilic cities

Basic and Applied Ecology
Future cities have the potential to be biodiverse areas in which humans and wildlife can coexist. However, the success of creating or maintaining wildlife-inclusive future cities can be challenged by management actions that are solely based on ecological
Simon S. Moesch, Thilo Wellmann, Dagmar Haase, Manisha Bhardwaj   +3 more
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Perceptions of nativeness shift quite rapidly over time

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract The spread of non‐native species has emerged as one of the most pressing challenges for conservation and ecosystem management. Yet attitudes towards species change, making it possible for non‐native species to be perceived as native after some time.
Alex J. Jensen, Lily M. Thompson, Aaron J. Bunch   +2 more
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Emotional costs and empathy are associated with tolerance towards wolves

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract The recovery and growing population of grey wolves (Canis lupus) in Germany has increased interactions with livestock owners. Ensuring the continued protection and survival of wolves requires understanding the socio‐psychological factors that shape people's tolerance towards coexisting with them.
Annika Metz, Matthias Waltert, Mahmood Soofi   +2 more
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Determining the values of soil‐mediated contributions to people: A comparative European perspective

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Soil health is a fundamental element underpinning terrestrial ecosystems, yet it is persistently threatened by the ongoing process of land degradation, leading to detrimental impacts on human well‐being. However, there is a paucity of research on the extent to which humans are dependent on soils and the societal values attributed to their ...
Katja Schmidt, Daniel Johnson, Charlott Scholz, Lena Chowdhury, Alexandra Dehnhardt   +4 more
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