Biodiversity & societyPublications

Urban grassland and verge guidelines

Why do we need to change the way we manage urban grass? Although uniformly short grass used to be seen as a sign of good management, people now are becoming more ...

Mapping Ongoing Nature Restoration Activities in Oxfordshire

HERO workshops 2 and 3 in late 2021 identified a need to collect data on where existing nature recovery activities are already taking place in Oxfordshire, so that we know ...

Ethical dilemma: Should we get rid of mosquitoes? – Talya Hackett

Mosquitoes are responsible for more human deaths every year than any other animal, but very few of the 3,500 mosquito species actually transmit deadly diseases to humans. Scientists have been ...

What is Nature Positive? Listen to this podcast to find out

What does #COP15 buzzword ‘nature positive’ mean? A historic deal has been struck at the UN’s biodiversity conference, Cop15, which will set a course for nature recovery from now until 2050, ...

Urban Meadow and Verge Guidelines Poster

This is the poster arising from the 6th HERO workshop. Held in May 2022, and led by Alison smith and Cecilia Dahlsjö, the purpose of the workshop was to consider ...

Urban grassland management

This is the report arising from the 6th HERO workshop. Held in May 2022, and led by Alison smith and Cecilia Dahlsjö, the purpose of the workshop was to consider ...

Building bridges: engaging the environmental social sciences and humanities

Social and environmental challenges are deeply interwoven. Responding to overlapping concerns about climate change, biodiversity loss and inequality is not merely a scientific or technical enterprise, but also a deeply ...

Connectivity modelling for a species-driven nature recovery network in Oxfordshire

The development of England’s new Nature Recovery Network has been piloted in several counties in the country, but few has systematically mapped connectivity based on species dispersal. This study proposes and ...

Social Dimensions of Nature Recovery Across Oxfordshire

This fourth workshop refines the social science research agenda of HERO and outlines the socio-economic and cultural barriers to effective change in the Nature Recovery Landscape. The session began with ...