All Outputs (32)

The role of religion in shaping the values of nature (2024)
Journal Article

Environmental discourse frequently understands the values of nature as being instrumental, intrinsic, or relational and measured in biophysical, sociocultural, or monetary terms. Yet these specific values and value indicators are underpinned by world... Read More about The role of religion in shaping the values of nature.

Value pluralism, religious particularity, and environmental policy in pursuit of a sustainable future (2023)
Journal Article

Science has presented a clear picture about global environmental destabilisation and the need for dramatic solutions to ensure a safe and flourishing future. Current policy approaches are grossly insufficient to reverse the decline in key indicators... Read More about Value pluralism, religious particularity, and environmental policy in pursuit of a sustainable future.

IMAGINE sustainability: integrated inner-outer transformation in research, education and practice (2023)
Journal Article

There has been a recent proliferation of research and practice on the interior dimensions of sustainability, such as values, beliefs, worldviews and inner capacities. This nascent field of inner transformation is dynamic and emerging, with varied ter... Read More about IMAGINE sustainability: integrated inner-outer transformation in research, education and practice.

“In the garden, I make up for what I can’t in the park”: Reconnecting retired adults with nature through cultural ecosystem services from urban gardens (2022)
Journal Article

While cultural ecosystem services (CES) provided by collective urban gardens have been researched for more than a decade, how knowledge of CES can inform the governance of gardens and enhance gardeners’ wellbeing remains a challenge. Retired adults a... Read More about “In the garden, I make up for what I can’t in the park”: Reconnecting retired adults with nature through cultural ecosystem services from urban gardens.

Activating faith: pro-environmental responses to a Christian text on sustainability (2022)
Journal Article

With growing attention on the importance of values, beliefs and worldviews in shaping environmental outcomes, there remains little research on religion and sustainability transformations. We explored the impact of the Archbishop of Canterbury’s envir... Read More about Activating faith: pro-environmental responses to a Christian text on sustainability.

From city in the park to “greenery in plant pots”: The influence of socialist and post-socialist planning on opportunities for cultural ecosystem services (2022)
Journal Article

The paper examines the links between the cultural ecosystem services concept, political ideologies and urban planning. In particular, it investigates the extent to which cultural ecosystem services were considered in urban planning in socialist and p... Read More about From city in the park to “greenery in plant pots”: The influence of socialist and post-socialist planning on opportunities for cultural ecosystem services.

Values influence public perceptions of flood management schemes (2021)
Journal Article

Natural Flood Management (NFM) is now well established as a paradigm for reducing flood risk. It is characterised by adopting a catchment-wide hydrological perspective and implementing solutions that work with natural processes such as wetlands, ripa... Read More about Values influence public perceptions of flood management schemes.

Indigenous plants promote insect biodiversity in urban greenspaces (2021)
Journal Article

The contribution of urban greenspaces to support biodiversity and provide benefits for people is increasingly recognized. However, ongoing management practices favor vegetation oversimplification, often limiting greenspaces to lawns and tree canopy r... Read More about Indigenous plants promote insect biodiversity in urban greenspaces.

Growing evidence of the interconnections between modern slavery, environmental degradation, and climate change (2021)
Journal Article

The modern slavery–environmental degradation–climate change nexus may threaten the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Globally, approximately 12.2 million workers are entrapped in modern slavery in environmentally degrading acti... Read More about Growing evidence of the interconnections between modern slavery, environmental degradation, and climate change.

Transforming knowledge systems for life on Earth: Visions of future systems and how to get there (2020)
Journal Article

Formalised knowledge systems, including universities and research institutes, are important for contemporary societies. They are, however, also arguably failing humanity when their impact is measured against the level of progress being made in stimul... Read More about Transforming knowledge systems for life on Earth: Visions of future systems and how to get there.

Remote sensing of fish-processing in the Sundarbans Reserve Forest, Bangladesh: an insight into the modern slavery-environment nexus in the coastal fringe (2020)
Journal Article

© 2020, The Author(s). Land-based fish-processing activities in coastal fringe areas and their social-ecological impacts have often been overlooked by marine scientists and antislavery groups. Using remote sensing methods, the location and impacts of... Read More about Remote sensing of fish-processing in the Sundarbans Reserve Forest, Bangladesh: an insight into the modern slavery-environment nexus in the coastal fringe.

Can we plan for urban cultural ecosystem services? (2020)
Journal Article

Despite being intangible, subjective and difficult to measure, cultural ecosystem services (CES) are more comprehensible and meaningful to people than many other services. They contribute greatly to the quality of urban life and achieving sustainabil... Read More about Can we plan for urban cultural ecosystem services?.

Greenways and Sustainable Urban Mobility Systems (2020)
Book Chapter

This chapter describes how greenways can be a constituent of sustainable urban mobility (SUM) systems that reduce automobile dependence while simultaneously having positive environmental and social co-benefits. It begins by providing a brief backgrou... Read More about Greenways and Sustainable Urban Mobility Systems.

Leverage points for sustainability transformation: a review on interventions in food and energy systems (2020)
Journal Article

© 2019 Elsevier B.V. There is increasing recognition that sustainability science should be solutions orientated and that such solutions will often require transformative change. However, the concrete sustainability interventions are often not clearly... Read More about Leverage points for sustainability transformation: a review on interventions in food and energy systems.

Challenges and considerations of applying nature-based solutions in low- and middle-income countries in Southeast and East Asia (2020)
Journal Article

Low- and middle-income countries in Southeast and East Asia face a range of challenges related to the rapid pace of urbanisation in the region, the scale of pollution, climate change, loss of ecosystem services and associated difficulties for ecologi... Read More about Challenges and considerations of applying nature-based solutions in low- and middle-income countries in Southeast and East Asia.

Loving the mess: navigating diversity and conflict in social values for sustainability (2019)
Journal Article

© 2019, The Author(s). This paper concludes a special feature of Sustainability Science that explores a broad range of social value theoretical traditions, such as religious studies, social psychology, indigenous knowledge, economics, sociology, and... Read More about Loving the mess: navigating diversity and conflict in social values for sustainability.

Punching above their weight: the ecological and social benefits of pop‐up parks (2019)
Journal Article

Current global enthusiasm for urban greening and bringing nature back into cities is unprecedented. Evidence of the socioecological benefits of large, permanent greenspaces is mounting, but the collective potential for pop‐up parks (PUPs) – small, te... Read More about Punching above their weight: the ecological and social benefits of pop‐up parks.

Inside-out sustainability: the neglect of inner worlds (2019)
Journal Article

In the context of continuing ecosystem degradation and deepening socio-economic inequality, sustainability scientists must question the adequacy of current scholarship and practice. We argue that pre-occupation with external phenomena and collective... Read More about Inside-out sustainability: the neglect of inner worlds.

Religion and social values for sustainability (2019)
Journal Article
Ives, C. D., & Kidwell, J. (2019). Religion and social values for sustainability. Sustainability Science, 14(5), 1355-1362. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-019-00657-0

Discourse on social values as they relate to environmental and sustainability issues has almost exclusively been conducted in a secular intellectual context. However, with a renewed emphasis on culture as defining and shaping links between people and... Read More about Religion and social values for sustainability.

Achieving the promise of integration in social-ecological research: a review and prospectus (2018)
Journal Article
Guerrero, A. M., Bennett, N. J., Wilson, K. A., Carter, N., Gill, D., Mills, M., …Nuno, A. (2018). Achieving the promise of integration in social-ecological research: a review and prospectus. Ecology and Society, 23(3), Article 38. https://doi.org/10.5751/es-10232-230338

An integrated understanding of both social and ecological aspects of environmental issues is essential to address pressing sustainability challenges. An integrated social-ecological systems perspective is purported to provide a better understanding o... Read More about Achieving the promise of integration in social-ecological research: a review and prospectus.