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

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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   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Designing for biodiversity data in place: Species, encounters, and interfaces

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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   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Remote sensing and citizen science for habitat mapping: A machine learning approach to lowland heathland in Surrey, UK

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract In a time of extensive global biodiversity loss, conservation efforts increasingly rely on high‐resolution, accurate, up‐to‐date habitat maps to guide decision‐making and strategic interventions. Many products have been developed in response, using machine learning (ML) methods to automate habitat classification, often relying on satellite ...
Victoria Webster   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Theories of care help explain a peri‐urban tree diversity paradox

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Abstract Since diversity is often a management objective for peri‐urban tree communities on public land, one might expect to find greater diversity there than on private land, where such objectives are less common. However, this expectation rests on an assumption that people control diversity towards objectives, overlooking the role of relationships ...
Jacqueline Hamilton   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A qualitative evaluation of a community‐based approach to protected area law enforcement

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Abstract People living in and around terrestrial and marine protected areas can contribute to protected area law enforcement in different ways. While the involvement of local residents is considered important for bringing benefits to both conservation and people, evaluations of community‐based approaches to protected area law enforcement are limited ...
William Sharkey   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Caring with forests: Human and more‐than‐human care in forest occupations in Germany

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Abstract Drawing on ongoing ethnographic and participatory action research within forest occupations in Germany, this paper develops the concept of ‘caring with forests’ to theorise the mutual, multidimensional relationships of care that emerge between humans and more‐than‐human beings in environmental protest settings.
Sebastian Garbe
wiley   +1 more source

Belief and the beast: Religion and attitudes towards tigers in Central India

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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   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Human–wildlife coexistence and social context: Evidence from farmer communities in southern Sri Lanka

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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   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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