Rewilding in the British policy landscape. : A qualitative analysis of policy documents related to rewilding

Acknowledgements The authors would like to thank two anonymous reviewers and the editor for helpful feedback that improved our manuscript. Funding This research was financially supported by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and the University of Aberdeen through QUADRAT DTP.Peer reviewe

Describing and mapping where people experience tranquillity. An exploration based on interviews and Flickr photographs

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Investigating sense of place as a cultural ecosystem service in different landscapes through the lens of language

We are grateful for the comments and feedback of three anonymous reviewers. We thank Olga Chesnokova for her help in calculating cosine similarity measures. The research on which this paper is based was financially supported by the cogito foundation through the project ‘How language shapes our sense of place’, grant no. 15-129-R.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Characterising and mapping potential and experienced tranquillity: From a state of mind to a cultural ecosystem service

Tranquil places that induce a sense of calm and peacefulness are important for those seeking respite from their stressful everyday lives. Although tranquillity is a word commonly used in everyday English, we show that its definition is complex, most often encompassing sight and hearing, with strong cultural and historical influences. To shed light on the concept of tranquillity and related research in geography and other disciplines, we (i) trace how tranquillity has been conceptualised and characterised (ii) outline how the potential for tranquillity has been modelled in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and (iii) highlight methods capable of extracting individual experiences of tranquillity from interviews, public participation GIS and text analysis. We conclude by charting a research agenda for tranquillity that makes a case for theory development across disciplines including human geography, GIS, and environmental psychology, with interdisciplinary methodologies that should be implemented and developed to better reflect the importance of the combination of physical environment and lived human experience in shaping experienced tranquillity. Based on its importance for people's well‐being, we argue for the recognition of tranquillity as a cultural ecosystem service in its own right. Finally, we call for a more holistic inclusion of tranquillity in policy‐making and planning, where a focus on tranquillity and associated positive landscape and soundscape elements could help extend the focus beyond simply protection from noise, towards creating liveable and healthy environments for the future

Characterising and mapping potential and experienced tranquillity : From a state of mind to a cultural ecosystem service

Funding Information: Many thanks to Graeme Willis (Campaign to Protect Rural England) and Nick Groome (Ordnance Survey) for their help in accessing the National Tranquillity Mapping Data. We would like to thank all the contributors to Geograph British Isles (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License) whose contributions were used to map tranquil and silent locations in the Lake District.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

‘This is not the jungle, this is my barbecho’ : semantics of ethnoecological landscape categories in the Bolivian Amazon

This work was supported from the ‘Forschungskredit’ by the University of Zurich [grant number FK-13-104]; Hans Vontobel Foundation; Maya Behn-Eschenburg Foundation; Ormella Foundation; and Parrotia Foundation.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Introduction : The trouble with forest: Definitions, values and boundaries

Acknowledgements. We are grateful to the anonymous reviewers for their constructive and thoughtful comments on a draft version of this paper. We would also like to thank the participants at the workshop in Stels on “the trouble with defining forest: semantics, ontology, territoriality” in June 2016 for their comments and discussions that contributed to the ideas in this paper. Any errors in this paper remain of course our own.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Characterising and mapping potential and experienced tranquillity: from a state of mind to a cultural ecosystem service

Tranquil places that induce a sense of calm and peacefulness are important for those seeking respite from their stressful everyday lives. Although tranquillity is a word commonly used in everyday English, we show that its definition is complex, most often encompassing sight and hearing, with strong cultural and historical influences. To shed light on the concept of tranquillity and related research in geography and other disciplines, we (i) trace how tranquillity has been conceptualised and characterised (ii) outline how the potential for tranquillity has been modelled in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and (iii) highlight methods capable of extracting individual experiences of tranquillity from interviews, public participation GIS and text analysis. We conclude by charting a research agenda for tranquillity that makes a case for theory development across disciplines including human geography, GIS, and environmental psychology, with interdisciplinary methodologies that should be implemented and developed to better reflect the importance of the combination of physical environment and lived human experience in shaping experienced tranquillity. Based on its importance for people's well-being, we argue for the recognition of tranquillity as a cultural ecosystem service in its own right. Finally, we call for a more holistic inclusion of tranquillity in policy-making and planning, where a focus on tranquillity and associated positive landscape and soundscape elements could help extend the focus beyond simply protection from noise, towards creating liveable and healthy environments for the future

Modelling ranging behaviour of female orang-utans: a case study in Tuanan, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia

Quantification of the spatial needs of individuals and populations is vitally important for management and conservation. Geographic information systems (GIS) have recently become important analytical tools in wildlife biology, improving our ability to understand animal movement patterns, especially when very large data sets are collected. This study aims at combining the field of GIS with primatology to model and analyse space-use patterns of wild orang-utans. Home ranges of female orang-utans in the Tuanan Mawas forest reserve in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia were modelled with kernel density estimation methods. Kernel results were compared with minimum convex polygon estimates, and were found to perform better, because they were less sensitive to sample size and produced more reliable estimates. Furthermore, daily travel paths were calculated from 970 complete follow days. Annual ranges for the resident females were approximately 200ha and remained stable over several years; total home range size was estimated to be 275ha. On average, each female shared a third of her home range with each neighbouring female. Orang-utan females in Tuanan built their night nest on average 414m away from the morning nest, whereas average daily travel path length was 777m. A significant effect of fruit availability on day path length was found. Sexually active females covered longer distances per day and may also temporarily expand their range

Best Practice for Forensic Fishing : Combining Text Processing with an Environmental History View of Historic Travel Writing in Loch Lomond, Scotland

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