ECOS Feature Articles

Welcome to the ECOS Archive - a compendium of 40 years of commentary and challenging writing on nature conservation in Britain.

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Author Archives: Emily Adams

ECOS 35 (2) Summer 2014 Closer to the natural world? The achievements of Access to Nature grants. Helen Bovey

Abstract: The Access to Nature programme helped nearly 950,000 people experience nature, many for the [...]

ECOS 35 (2) Summer 2014 The benefits of engaging with nature through learning in natural environments. Justin Dillon

Abstract: Learning in the natural environment has a number of direct and indirect benefits. So [...]

ECOS 35 (2) Summer 2014 The rise of citizen science: How can community research help nature? Kay Haw

Abstract: Citizen science is a popular way of gathering data and involving the public in [...]

ECOS 35 (2) Summer 2014 Navigating nature: how to heal our blurred vision of wildlife

Abstract: Parents, grandparents, and even teachers, are no longer able to ‘introduce young children to [...]

ECOS 35 (2) Summer 2014 Editorial: Finding our way back to nature. Geoffrey Wain

Download this article as a PDF: ECOS 35-2-1 Finding our way – Editorial

ECOS 35 (1) Spring 2014 Book reviews

Books: – Brede High Woods: The history and wildlife of a High Weald woodland. Patrick [...]

ECOS 35 (1) Spring 2014 Speaking for myself. Martin Spray

Abstract: I may not know what the truth is – but do I have to [...]

ECOS 35 (1) Spring 2014 The Somerset badger cull – the theory and the practice. Amanda Barrett

Abstract: This article describes events at close quarters, as the author followed some of the [...]

ECOS 35 (1) Spring 2014 What future for Bears in Western Europe? Charles J. Wilson

Abstract: The brown bear has been pushed to the remotest forests and mountains in western [...]

ECOS 35 (1) The Call of the Wild: perceptions, history, people and ecology in the emerging paradigms of wilding. Ian Rotherham

Abstract: This article introduces some key issues of nature conservation and future landscapes in the [...]