ECOS Archive

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

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ECOS Archive
ECOS Author: Simon Leadbeater

Someone who, through misadventure, finds themselves in middle age living off-grid in a static mobile home under Luton’s ever busier flight path.

Simon Leadbeater is a small woodland and meadow owner living in Hertfordshire.

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Book Review: Thirteen paces by four

THIRTEEN PACES BY FOUR: Backyard Biophilia and the Emerging Earth Ethic Joe Gray Dixi Books, [...]

22
Feb
Book Review: The Imagination of Plants

THE IMAGINATION OF PLANTS: A Book of Botanical Mythology Mathew Hall State University of New [...]

08
Apr
Crisis talks: old wisdom meets new energy

Two eye-witness accounts of November’s ECOS/UCL mini-conference To mark our 40th anniversary, ECOS joined forces [...]

30
Jan
ECOS 40(1): ECOS revisited – the shape of things to come?

Editions Reviewed: ECOS 8(1), 8(2), 8(4), 10(3), 25(1), 28(1) How to make people love; how [...]

28
Feb
ECOS 40(1): Book Review: Thus Spoke the Plant

THUS SPOKE THE PLANT A remarkable journey of groundbreaking scientific discoveries and personal encounters with [...]

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28
Feb
ECOS 39 (3): Meat: The Alpha and Omega of Extinction

In assessing the various causes of species’ extinction, humans need to recognise the dominant influence [...]

13
Jul
ECOS 38 (3): Book Reviews: Confessions of a recovering environmentalist

CONFESSIONS OF A RECOVERING ENVIRONMENTALIST Paul Kingsnorth Faber & Faber 2017 284 pages ISBN: 978-0-571-32969-4 [...]

19
Dec
ECOS 38 (5): Book Review: Woodland Development

WOODLAND DEVELOPMENT A Long Term Study of Lady Park Wood George Peterken and Edward Mountford [...]

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06
Nov
Book Review: The Wood For The Trees and The Hidden Life Of Trees

THE WOOD FOR THE TREES The Long View of Nature from a Small Wood Richard [...]

09
Mar
ECOS 37 (2) Rewilding versus re-creating and re-homing: Lessons from a PAWS woodland. Simon Leadbeater

Abstract: This article discusses lessons for rewilding from pursuing complementary management objectives to halt and [...]

10
Aug