It is often claimed that conserving evolutionary history is more efficient than species‐based
approaches for capturing the attributes of biodiversity that benefit people. This claim …

Conservation professionals are familiar with value‐driven research and practice. However,
recent efforts to use strategic communication, specifically conservation messaging, to affect …

Agri-environmental incentive programs seek to compensate farmers for changes to enhance
ecosystem services and/or biodiversity, yet enrolling participants is a common challenge …

Environmental ethics is the discipline in philosophy that studies the moral relationship of
human beings to, and also the value and moral status of, the environment and its non …

ABSTRACT In March 2017, the Whanganui River in Aotearoa New Zealand was the first
river to officially receive the status of a legal person. This legal personhood is based on the …

Grasslands are the most extensive terrestrial biome on Earth and are critically important for
forage, biodiversity, and ecosystem services. This book brings together an international …

Biological conservation practices and approaches take many forms. Conservation projects
do not only differ in their aims and methods, but also concerning their conceptual and …

Although there is growing interest in safeguarding the Tree of Life to preserve the human
benefits that are directly provided by biodiversity, their evolutionary distribution remains …

Ecologists routinely engage directly or indirectly with policy. Long portrayed as a tradeoff
between a scientist's societal impact and their credibility, the decision to advocate for …

We argue that it is both possible and timely to relax the assumption of anthropocentrism in
agricultural and resource economics. We advocate for the incorporation of sentientist …