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Value pluralism, religious particularity, and environmental policy in pursuit of a sustainable future (2023)
Journal Article
Ives, C. D. (in press). Value pluralism, religious particularity, and environmental policy in pursuit of a sustainable future. Reviews in Science, Religion and Theology, 2(4), 4-26

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
Ives, C. D., Schäpke, N., Woiwode, C., & Wamsler, C. (2023). IMAGINE sustainability: integrated inner-outer transformation in research, education and practice. Sustainability Science, 18(6), 2777-2786. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-023-01368-3

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
Tandarić, N., Watkins, C., & Ives, C. D. (2022). “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. Urban Forestry and Urban Greening, 77, Article 127736. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2022.127736

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
Ives, C. D., Buys, C., Ogunbode, C., Palmer, M., Rose, A., & Valerio, R. (2022). Activating faith: pro-environmental responses to a Christian text on sustainability. Sustainability Science, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-022-01197-w

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
Tandarić, N., Ives, C. D., & Watkins, C. (2022). From city in the park to “greenery in plant pots”: The influence of socialist and post-socialist planning on opportunities for cultural ecosystem services. Land Use Policy, 120, Article 106309. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2022.106309

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
D'Souza, M., Johnson, M. F., & Ives, C. D. (2021). Values influence public perceptions of flood management schemes. Journal of Environmental Management, 291, Article 112636. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.112636

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.

Growing evidence of the interconnections between modern slavery, environmental degradation, and climate change (2021)
Journal Article
Decker Sparks, J. L., Boyd, D. S., Jackson, B., Ives, C. D., & Bales, K. (2021). Growing evidence of the interconnections between modern slavery, environmental degradation, and climate change. One Earth, 4(2), 181-191. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2021.01.015

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.

Indigenous plants promote insect biodiversity in urban greenspaces (2021)
Journal Article
Mata, L., Andersen, A. N., Morán-Ordóñez, A., Hahs, A. K., Ives, C. D., Bickel, D., …Lynch, Y. (2021). Indigenous plants promote insect biodiversity in urban greenspaces. Ecological Applications, 31(4), Article e02309. https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.2309

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.

Transforming knowledge systems for life on Earth: Visions of future systems and how to get there (2020)
Journal Article
Fazey, I., Schäpke, N., Caniglia, G., Hodgson, A., Kendrick, I., Lyon, C., …Ives, C. D. (2020). Transforming knowledge systems for life on Earth: Visions of future systems and how to get there. Energy Research and Social Science, 70, Article 101724. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2020.101724

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
Jackson, B., Boyd, D. S., Ives, C. D., Decker Sparks, J. L., Foody, G. M., Marsh, S., & Bales, K. (2020). Remote sensing of fish-processing in the Sundarbans Reserve Forest, Bangladesh: an insight into the modern slavery-environment nexus in the coastal fringe. Maritime Studies, 19(4), 429–444. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40152-020-00199-7

© 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
Tandari?, N., Ives, C. D., & Watkins, C. (2020). Can we plan for urban cultural ecosystem services?. Journal of Urban Ecology, 6(1), https://doi.org/10.1093/jue/juaa016

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
Zawawi, A. A., Porter, N., & Ives, C. D. (2020). Greenways and Sustainable Urban Mobility Systems. In R. M. Doheim, A. A. Farag, & E. Kamel (Eds.), Humanizing cities through car-free city development and transformation (32-71). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-3507-3.ch002

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
Riechers, M., Dorninger, C., Abson, D. J., Apetrei, C. I., Derwort, P., Ives, C. D., …von Wehrden, H. (2020). Leverage points for sustainability transformation: a review on interventions in food and energy systems. Ecological Economics, 171, 106570. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2019.106570

© 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
Lechner, A. M., Gomes, R. L., Rodrigues, L., Ashfold, M. J., Selvam, S. B., Wong, E. P., …Gibbins, C. (2020). Challenges and considerations of applying nature-based solutions in low- and middle-income countries in Southeast and East Asia. Blue-Green Systems, 2(1), 331-351. https://doi.org/10.2166/bgs.2020.014

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
Kenter, J. O., Raymond, C. M., van Riper, C. J., Azzopardi, E., Brear, M. R., Calcagni, F., …Thankappan, S. (2019). Loving the mess: navigating diversity and conflict in social values for sustainability. Sustainability Science, 14(5), 1439-1461. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-019-00726-4

© 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
Mata, L., Garrard, G. E., Fidler, F., Ives, C. D., Maller, C., Wilson, J., …Bekessy, S. A. (2019). Punching above their weight: the ecological and social benefits of pop‐up parks. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 17(6), 341-347. https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2060

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
Ives, C. D., Freeth, R., & Fischer, J. (2019). Inside-out sustainability: the neglect of inner worlds. AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-019-01187-w

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.

How just and just how? A systematic review of social equity in conservation research (2018)
Journal Article
Friedman, R. S., Law, E. A., Bennett, N. J., Ives, C. D., Thorn, J. P., & Wilson, K. A. (2018). How just and just how? A systematic review of social equity in conservation research. Environmental Research Letters, 13(5), https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aabcde

Background: Conservation decisions not only impact wildlife, habitat, and environmental health, but also human wellbeing and social justice. The inclusion of safeguards and equity considerations in the conservation field has increasingly garnered att... Read More about How just and just how? A systematic review of social equity in conservation research.

The role of socio-economic factors in planning and managing urban ecosystem services (2018)
Journal Article
Wilkerson, M. L., Mitchell, M. G., Shanahan, D., Wilson, K. A., Ives, C. D., Lovelock, C. E., & Rhodes, J. R. (2018). The role of socio-economic factors in planning and managing urban ecosystem services. Ecosystem Services, 31A, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2018.02.017

How green spaces in cities benefit urban residents depends critically on the interaction between biophysical and socio-economic factors. Urban ecosystem services are affected by both ecosystem characteristics and the social and economic attributes of... Read More about The role of socio-economic factors in planning and managing urban ecosystem services.

Reconnecting with nature for sustainability (2018)
Journal Article
Ives, C. D., Abson, D. J., Wehrden, H. V., Dorninger, C., Klaniecki, K., & Fischer, J. (2018). Reconnecting with nature for sustainability. Sustainability Science, 13(5), 1389-1397. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-018-0542-9

Calls for humanity to ‘reconnect to nature’ have grown increasingly louder from both scholars and civil society. Yet, there is relatively little coherence about what reconnecting to nature means, why it should happen and how it can be achieved. We pr... Read More about Reconnecting with nature for sustainability.

Spatial scale influences how people value and perceive green open space (2017)
Journal Article
Ives, C. D., Gordon, A., Oke, C., Raymond, C. M., Hehir, A., & Bekessy, S. A. (2018). Spatial scale influences how people value and perceive green open space. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 61(12), 2133-2150. https://doi.org/10.1080/09640568.2017.1388219

It is important for landscape planners and managers to understand how urban residents value and interact with green open spaces. However, the effect of spatial scale on values and perceptions of green open spaces has to date received little attention... Read More about Spatial scale influences how people value and perceive green open space.

Equity trade-offs in conservation decision making (2017)
Journal Article
Law, E. A., Bennett, N. J., Ives, C. D., Friedman, R., Davis, K. J., Archibald, C., & Wilson, K. A. (2018). Equity trade-offs in conservation decision making. Conservation Biology, 32(2), 294-303. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13008

Conservation decisions increasingly involve multiple environmental and social objectives, which result in complex decision contexts with high potential for trade-offs. Improving social equity is one such objective that is often considered an enabler... Read More about Equity trade-offs in conservation decision making.

Human–nature connection: a multidisciplinary review (2017)
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Ives, C. D., Giusti, M., Fischer, J., Abson, D. J., Klaniecki, K., Dorninger, C., …Von Wehrden, H. (2017). Human–nature connection: a multidisciplinary review. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 26-27, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2017.05.005

In sustainability science calls are increasing for humanity to (re-)connect with nature, yet no systematic synthesis of the empirical literature on human–nature connection (HNC) exists. We reviewed 475 publications on HNC and found that most research... Read More about Human–nature connection: a multidisciplinary review.

A model integrating social-cultural concepts of nature into frameworks of interaction between social and natural systems (2017)
Journal Article
Muhar, A., Raymond, C. M., van den Born, R. J., Bauer, N., Böck, K., Braito, M., …van Riper, C. J. (2018). A model integrating social-cultural concepts of nature into frameworks of interaction between social and natural systems. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 61(5-6), 756-777. https://doi.org/10.1080/09640568.2017.1327424

Existing frameworks for analysing interactions between social and natural systems (e.g. Social-Ecological Systems framework, Ecosystem Services concept) do not sufficiently consider and operationalize the dynamic interactions between people's values,... Read More about A model integrating social-cultural concepts of nature into frameworks of interaction between social and natural systems.

Capturing residents’ values for urban green space: Mapping, analysis and guidance for practice (2017)
Journal Article
Ives, C. D., Oke, C., Hehir, A., Gordon, A., Wang, Y., & Bekessy, S. A. (2017). Capturing residents’ values for urban green space: Mapping, analysis and guidance for practice. Landscape and Urban Planning, 161, 32-43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2016.12.010

Planning for green space is guided by standards and guidelines but there is currently little understanding of the variety of values people assign to green spaces or their determinants. Land use planners need to know what values are associated with di... Read More about Capturing residents’ values for urban green space: Mapping, analysis and guidance for practice.

Leverage points for sustainability transformation (2016)
Journal Article
Abson, D. J., Fischer, J., Leventon, J., Newig, J., Schomerus, T., Vilsmaier, U., …Lang, D. J. (2017). Leverage points for sustainability transformation. AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment, 46(1), 30-39. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-016-0800-y

Despite substantial focus on sustainability issues in both science and politics, humanity remains on largely unsustainable development trajectories. Partly, this is due to the failure of sustainability science to engage with the root causes of unsust... Read More about Leverage points for sustainability transformation.

The ethics of offsetting nature (2015)
Journal Article
Ives, C. D., & Bekessy, S. A. (2015). The ethics of offsetting nature. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 13(10), 568-573. doi:10.1890/150021