Category Archives: Articles
ECOS 35 (1) Spring 2014 Scratching the surface: let’s love our soils. David Hogan
Abstract: Acknowledging the importance of soils and threats to their quality are vital in land-use [...]
ECOS 35 (1) Spring 2014 Agricultural reform in England – Towards a greener farm policy? Lisa Schneidau
Abstract: The current round of farm policy negotiations will shape the next seven years. Why [...]
ECOS 35 (1) Spring 2014 Does traditional farming still meet nature conservation needs? Robert Deane
Abstract: Are traditional farming and conservation aims really as compatible as we suppose, or is [...]
ECOS 35 (1) Spring 2014 Why don’t environmental payments work? John Bowers
Abstract: The origins of agri-environment schemes (AES) lie with safeguarding SSSIs in the late 1960s [...]
ECOS 35 (3/4) Reintroductions in Scotland – an update on beaver, boar and lynx. Alan Featherstone Watson
Abstract: This article provides an overview of the policy debates on the potential for returning [...]
ECOS 35 (3/4) Studying past landscape change to inform future conservation. Nicholas Macgregor, Kevin Watts, Kirsty Park, Elisa Fuents-Montemayor, Simon Duffield
Abstract: The WrEN project, led by the University of Stirling, Forest Research and Natural England, [...]
ECOS 35 (3/4) Winter 2014. Experiments with the wild at the Oostvaardersplassen. Jamie Lorimer & Clemens Driessen
Abstract:This article draws on a discussion of the differences between laboratory and field experiments to [...]
ECOS 35 (3/4) Heathland conservation grazing: it’s not all good. Jonty Denton
Abstract: This article discusses the efficacy of heathland grazing, and questions the cost effectiveness, lack [...]
ECOS 35 (3/4) Rewilding in Britain: lessons from the past 15 years. Peter Taylor
Abstract: The profile of rewilding is rising and the old and struggling order of conservation [...]
ECOS 35 (3/4) Cambrian Wildwood – new ventures in a wilder landscape. Simon Ayres and Sophie Wynne-Jones
Abstract: Cambrian Wildwood is an ambitious project to rewild an area in the uplands of [...]