Search Results - "James C. R. Smart"

Predictable waves of sequential forest degradation and biodiversity loss spreading from an African city by Ahrends, Antje, Burgess, Neil D., Milledge, Simon A. H., Bulling, Mark T., Fisher, Brendan, Smart, James C. R., Clarke, G. Philip, Mhoro, Boniface E., Lewis, Simon L., Dasgupta, Partha Sarathi

“…Tropical forest degradation emits carbon at a rate of ∼0.5 Pg·y⁻¹, reduces biodiversity, and facilitates forest clearance. Understanding degradation drivers…”
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Reduction of Baltic Sea Nutrient Inputs and Allocation of Abatement Costs Within the Baltic Sea Catchment by Wulff, Fredrik, Humborg, Christoph, Andersen, Hans Estrup, Blicher-Mathiesen, Gitte, Czajkowski, Mikołaj, Elofsson, Katarina, Fonnesbech-Wulff, Anders, Hasler, Berit, Hong, Bongghi, Jansons, Viesturs, Mörth, Carl-Magnus, Smart, James C. R, Smedberg, Erik, Stålnacke, Per, Swaney, Dennis P, Thodsen, Hans, Was, Adam, Żylicz, Tomasz

“…The Baltic Sea Action Plan (BSAP) requires tools to simulate effects and costs of various nutrient abatement strategies. Hierarchically connected databases and…”
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Evaluating farmers’ likely participation in a payment programme for water quality protection in the UK uplands by Beharry-Borg, Nesha, Smart, James C. R., Termansen, Mette, Hubacek, Klaus

“…Maintaining drinking water quality is essential to water companies and their customers, and agricultural non-point source pollution is a major cause of water…”
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Analysis of the carbon sequestration costs of afforestation and reforestation agroforestry practices and the use of cost curves to evaluate their potential for implementation of climate change mitigation by Torres, Arturo Balderas, Marchant, Rob, Lovett, Jon C., Smart, James C.R., Tipper, Richard

“…Carbon sequestration in forest sinks is an important strategy to remove greenhouse gases and to mitigate climate change; however its implementation has been…”
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Fisheries mismanagement by O’Leary, Bethan C., Smart, James C.R., Neale, Fiona C., Hawkins, Julie P., Newman, Stephanie, Milman, Amy C., Roberts, Callum M.

“…► We analyse TAC setting decisions by EU ministers from 1987 to 2011 for 11 species. ► In 68% of decisions TACs were set higher than scientific advice, on…”
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Evaluating the effectiveness and efficiency of biodiversity conservation spending by Laycock, Helen F., Moran, Dominic, Smart, James C.R., Raffaelli, David G., White, Piran C.L.

“…Evaluation of effectiveness and efficiency should be an integral component of biodiversity conservation strategies. We used Cost-Utility Analysis (CUA) and…”
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Motivators and barriers to adoption of Improved Land Management Practices. A focus on practice change for water quality improvement in Great Barrier Reef catchments by Coggan, Anthea, Thorburn, Peter, Fielke, Simon, Hay, Rachel, Smart, James C.R.

“…To protect and improve water quality in the Great Barrier Reef, the Queensland Government's Reef 2050 Water Quality Improvement Plan targets that 90% of…”
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Constructed Wetlands Suitability for Sugarcane Profitability, Freshwater Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services by Canning, Adam D., Smart, James C. R., Dyke, Joshua, Curwen, Graeme, Hasan, Syezlin, Waltham, Nathan J.

“…Freshwater ecosystems, such as wetlands, are among the most impacted by agricultural expansion and intensification through extensive drainage and pollution…”
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Land use conversion to improve water quality in high DIN risk, low-lying sugarcane areas of the Great Barrier Reef catchments by Waltham, Nathan J., Wegscheidl, Carla, Volders, Adrian, Smart, James C.R., Hasan, Syezlin, Lédée, Elodie, Waterhouse, Jane

“…Eutrophication of coastal and nearshore receiving environments downstream of intensive agricultural production areas is a global issue. The Reef 2050 Water…”
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Tradeable Nitrogen Abatement Practices for Diffuse Agricultural Emissions: A ‘Smart Market’ Approach by Hasan, Syezlin, Hansen, Line Block, Smart, James C. R., Hasler, Berit, Termansen, Mette

“…Markets in pollution permits for managing environmental quality have been advocated by economists since early 1970s as a mechanism that can deliver pollution…”
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Public preferences for production of local and global ecosystem services by Drake, Ben, Smart, James C. R., Termansen, Mette, Hubacek, Klaus

“…Many regulating ecosystem services exhibit non-excludability and non-rivalry characteristics akin to public goods. This makes it unlikely that such regulating…”
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Assessment of temporal trends in ecosystem health using an holistic indicator by Wiegand, Jessica, Raffaelli, Dave, Smart, James C.R., White, Piran C.L.

“…The Ecosystem Approach to environmental management, with its explicit acknowledgment of the environmental, social and economic elements within ecological…”
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The impact of changing climate on perennial crops: the case of tea production in Sri Lanka by Gunathilaka, R. P. Dayani, Smart, James C. R., Fleming, Christopher M.

“…The plantation crop sector, particularly tea, is a key contributor to the Sri Lankan economy in terms of foreign exchange earnings, employment, and food…”
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Cost-Effectiveness of Treatment Wetlands for Nitrogen Removal in Tropical and Subtropical Australia by Emad Kavehei, Syezlin Hasan, Carla Wegscheidl, Matthew Griffiths, James C. R. Smart, Carlos Bueno, Liz Owen, Kambez Akrami, Mel Shepherd, Scott Lowe, Maria Fernanda Adame

“…Treatment wetlands can reduce nitrogen (N) pollution in waterways. However, the shortage of information on their cost-effectiveness has resulted in their…”
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Water quality trading markets – Integrating land and marine based measures under a smart market approach by Filippelli, Raphael, Termansen, Mette, Hasan, Syezlin, Hasler, Berit, Hansen, Line, Smart, James C.R.

“…Implementation of effective policy instruments to reduce emissions from non-point agricultural sources has been challenging. Mussel farming has the potential…”
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Revealing the dominant discourses of stakeholders towards natural resource management in Port Resolution, Vanuatu, using Q-method by Buckwell, Andrew, Fleming, Christopher, Muurmans, Maggie, Smart, James C.R., Ware, Dan, Mackey, Brendan

“…Rural communities in Pacific small island states, which rely directly and acutely on the benefits from ecosystem services, face a range of interlinking threats…”
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Ecosystem services in connected catchment to coast ecosystems: Monitoring to detect emerging trends by Brown, Christopher J., Saint Ange, Chantal, Connolly, Rod M., Hasan, Syezlin, Jackson, Sue, McMahon, Joseph M., Smart, James C.R.

“…There is an increasing need for long-term monitoring of ecosystems and their services to inform on-ground management. The supply of many ecosystem services…”
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Incentivising the collaborative management of mobile ecological resources by Austin, Zoë, Smart, James C.R., Yearley, Steven, Irvine, R. Justin, White, Piran C.L.

“…•Collaborative management can deliver ecological objectives at the landscape level.•We use a mixed-methods approach to understand collaboration in wild deer…”
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Using a choice experiment and birder preferences to guide bird-conservation funding by Steven, Rochelle, Smart, James C. R., Morrison, Clare, Castley, J. Guy

“…Conservation of biodiversity, including birds, continues to challenge natural-area managers. Stated-preference methods (e.g., choice experiment [CE]) are…”
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Vegetation and longitudinal coarse sediment connectivity affect the ability of ecosystem restoration to reduce riverbank erosion and turbidity in drinking water by McMahon, Joseph M., Olley, Jon M., Brooks, Andrew P., Smart, James C.R., Stewart-Koster, Ben, Venables, William N., Curwen, Graeme, Kemp, Justine, Stewart, Morag, Saxton, Nina, Haddadchi, Arman, Stout, Justin C.

“…It is a substantial challenge to quantify the benefits which ecosystems provide to water supply at scales large enough to support policy making. This study…”
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