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No dominion over nature: why treating ecosystems like machines will lead to boom and bust in food supply (2014)
Report
Huxham, M., Hartley, S., Pretty, J., & Tett, P. (2014). No dominion over nature: why treating ecosystems like machines will lead to boom and bust in food supply. London: Friends of the Earth England and Wales

Healthy ecosystems are essential for the long-term wellbeing of humans as they provide vital services such as food production, pollination, climate regulation and flood protection.
Global trends including population growth, changing diets and consum... Read More about No dominion over nature: why treating ecosystems like machines will lead to boom and bust in food supply.

The importance of mangroves to people: a call to action (2014)
Report
Duke, N., Nagelkerken, I., Agardy, T., Wells, S., van Lavieren, H., & Huxham, M. (2014). The importance of mangroves to people: a call to action. Cambridge: United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre

This global synthesis report serves as a call to action to decision makers. It provides a science-based synthesis of the different types of goods and services provided by mangroves and the associated risks in losing these services in the face of ongo... Read More about The importance of mangroves to people: a call to action.

The place-based impact of built environments: Diabetes, living conditions, homes and neighbourhoods (2014)
Journal Article
Sidawi, B., Deakin, M., & Al-Hariri, M. T. A. (2016). The place-based impact of built environments: Diabetes, living conditions, homes and neighbourhoods. Indoor and Built Environment, 25(3), 495-508. https://doi.org/10.1177/1420326x14556909

Abstract
Many studies have demonstrated the adverse effect built environments have on health and differentiated between their direct and indirect impacts. In the case of diabetes and other chronic diseases, such studies concentrate on the direct imp... Read More about The place-based impact of built environments: Diabetes, living conditions, homes and neighbourhoods.

Vesper: Visualising species archives (2014)
Journal Article
Graham, M., & Kennedy, J. (2014). Vesper: Visualising species archives. Ecological Informatics, 24, 132-147. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2014.08.004

Vesper (Visual Exploration of SPEcies-referenced Repositories) is a tool that visualises Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A) datasets, and is aimed at reducing the amount of time and effort expended by biologists to ascertain the quality of data they are gen... Read More about Vesper: Visualising species archives.