ECOS Feature Articles

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

You can search the Archive by subject, author or edition.

 

Search Results for: policy

ECOS 40(2): Prudential value and the meaning of nature conservation

Land managers’ motives for caring for nature may be more deeply personal than we realise… [...]

ECOS 40(2): ECOS revisited – the early 90s melting pot

Editions reviewed:ECOS 12(1), 12(2), 14(1), 14(3/4) In 1991, James Robertson writing about his own official [...]

ECOS Subject search

ECOS 40(1): Editorial: A future vintage?

Editorial by Geoffrey Wain A future vintage? So here we are. ECOS at 40. On [...]

ECOS 40(1): Wisdom or dogma? Reflections on the People’s Manifesto for Wildlife

Wisdom or dogma? Reflections on the People’s Manifesto for Wildlife We need a Species’ Manifesto [...]

ECOS 40(1): ECOS revisited – highlights and lessons from the early years

Editions Reviewed: ECOS 1 (2), 1 (4), 4 (1) Refreshed perspectives… For many of us [...]

ECOS 40(1): Book Review: Climate Change and British Wildlife

CLIMATE CHANGE AND BRITISH WILDLIFE Trevor BeeBee Bloomsbury2018366 PagesHardback £35ISBN: 978 147294 3194 Review by Peter Taylor [...]

ECOS 39(6): The people’s manifesto for wildlife – solid ideas or flaky ideals?

The wildlife manifesto launched by Chris Packham is a lengthy wish list in need of [...]

ECOS 39(5): Book review: PLOUGHING A NEW FURROW

PLOUGHING A NEW FURROW A blueprint for wildlife friendly farming Malcolm Smith Whittles Publishing2018272 pagesPaperback [...]

ECOS 39(4): End of the rainbow?

A road trip through the Pyrenees to the Sierra Nevada observing both animal and human [...]