conservation

Integrated mitigation and adaptation planning: using LEAP, WEAP and macroeconomic modelling to plan climate-resilient development

SEI brief / WEAP and LEAP tools can help governments align their mitigation and adaptation strategies to maximize their limited climate finance in water and energy systems.

Prescribed heather burning on peatlands: a review of ten key claims made about heather management impacts and implications for future UK policy

Journal article / A total ban on controlled burning is unproductive: alternative heather management planning should be site-specific and include a robust comparison with burning.

Forest fires, conflict, and disrupted landscapes

Other publication / This chapter explores how wildfires expose hidden conflicts and power asymmetries in landscape planning, challenging the idea of landscapes as neutral spaces.

Unveiling pervasive assumptions: moving beyond the poverty-biodiversity loss association in conservation

Journal article / This paper challenges the idea that poverty drives biodiversity loss and proposes a new approach for more just and effective conservation.

Predictability of cottonwood recruitment along a dynamic, regulated river

Journal article / This article investigates the use of different algorithms to predict cottonwood growth around river banks and its implications in river conservation.

Quantifying the unseen benefits: an innovative economic valuation of the social and cultural values of trees, woods, and forests at risk

Journal article / Economic valuations of trees must take account of their social and cultural values if they are to accurately reflect the financial benefits of treescapes.

First UNCCRD Delta Summit 2025

Past event / The summit on 17-20 March aims to deliver a White Paper to the United Nations to make operational the UN Convention for Conserving Deltas (UNCCRD).

Time to fix the biodiversity leak

Journal article / Biodiversity leakage - displacing nature-damaging human activities by protecting or restoring areas of land - undermines global conservation efforts.

How is the concept of charisma used in the academic literature about biodiversity conservation? A systematic map protocol

Journal article / The authors present a protocol to systematically map the application of "charisma" in biodiversity conservation within peer-reviewed academic literature.