Mountain biking (MTBing) has become one of the most popular recreational activities and
this trend is further amplified with the enhanced use of electrically assisted mountain bikes …

This collaborative essay grows out of a debate about the relationship between aesthetics
and ecology and the possibility of an “ecological aesthetic” that affects landscape planning …

Landscapes develop and evolve through an interacting series of processes–climatic,
geological, ecological and cultural–over varying periods of time. These processes shape the …

The roots of environmental aesthetics reach back to the ideas of eighteenth-century thinkers
who found nature an ideal source of aesthetic experience. Today, having blossomed into a …

Background The relevance of the early twentieth-century retrenchment of disinterestedness
and formalism to the development of environmental aesthetics is to be found in the fact that a …

Landscape preferences shape decision-making and drive the ecological outcomes of urban
landscapes. We investigate how people's landscape preferences are shaped by the green …

We propose a framework for understanding the role that the social sciences should play in
ecosystem management. Most of the ecosystem management literature assumes that …

The loss of biological diversity is a major environmental problem occurring on a global
scale. Human-environment researchers have an important role in shaping policy and …

Since the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Project proposed the valuation of ecosystem
services—defined as regulatory, provisional, ecosystem and cultural—the question arises as …

This study empirically analyzes the evolution of national forest values in recent years. Four
broad categories of forest values are distinguished: economic/utilitarian, life support …