Richard J Ladle
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 143384 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Richard J Ladle |
| NOMBRES | Richard J |
| APELLIDO | Ladle |
| FIRMA | LADLE R J |
| AFILIACIONES | Universidade Federal de Alagoas |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3200-3946 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 30 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 83 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2005 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Community-based management expands ecosystem protection footprint in Amazonian forests
Community-based conservation has gained traction in the Brazilian Amazon because of its potential in combining territorial protection, local well-being and biodiversity conservation. We assessed the footprint of effective protection, areas actively monitored and defended through community-led surveillance, where illegal activities such as poaching, fishing and logging are successfully prevented, within the largest community-based fisheries conser…
Assessing the political vulnerability of National Parks in sub‐Saharan Africa using data on digital trends and engagement
National Parks (NPs) and other protected areas in sub‐Saharan Africa are crucial in attracting international tourists interested in wildlife tourism, contributing to national economies. Despite their cultural, economic, and conservation significance, these areas face diverse development threats, leading to pressures for protected area downgrading, downsizing, or degazettement (known as PADDD). We comprehensively analyse the geographical, historic…
Language-specific hotspots of interest in IUCN Red Listed terrestrial mammals
Biodiversity conservation continues to be a global priority and insights into societal interest and support for targeted species conservation actions are essential for their success. Taking advantage of emerging culturomics methods, here we propose a new methodology for mapping societal interest towards terrestrial mammals by combining the IUCN Red List range maps with indicators of societal interest towards species derived from Wikipedia pagevie…
The contribution of fishing to human well-being in Brazilian coastal communities
Linking social organization, attitudes, and stakeholder empowerment in MPA governance
Keep your distance
Mountain gorilla Gorilla beringei beringei trekking is a substantial source of revenue for the conservation of this threatened primate and its habitat. Trekking, however, may pose a threat of human‐to‐gorilla disease transmission that could have disastrous effects on wild gorillas. We used 858 photographs posted on Instagram in 2013–2019 to analyse the proximity of tourists visiting mountain gorillas in the wild. We classified photographs of the …
A digital approach to quantifying political vulnerability of protected areas
Revealing the hidden value of protected areas
A place‐based participatory mapping approach for assessing cultural ecosystem services in urban green space
Cultural Ecosystem Services (CES) encompass a range of social, cultural and health benefits to local communities, for example recreation, spirituality, a sense of place and local identity. However, these complex and place‐specific CES are often overlooked in rapid land management decisions and assessed using broad, top–down approaches. We use the Toolkit for Ecosystem Service Site‐based Assessment (TESSA) to examine a novel approach to rapid asse…
Monitoring and mapping non-governmental conservation action in Amazonia
Cultural ecosystem services and decision‐making
Cultural ecosystem services (CES) are some of the most difficult ecosystem services (ES) to characterize and connect to specific ecosystem processes. Given their connections to human emotion, deep meaning, fulfilment and motivation, they are also crucial for human well‐being. Scholars have published hundreds of peer‐reviewed articles addressing CES in myriad ways. In this systematic review, we analyse 232 peer‐reviewed articles on CES and examine…
A culturomics approach to quantifying the salience of species on the global internet
Conservation will only be successful over the long term if people support conservation goals. While many factors may influence the level of such support, it is clear that people are more willing to conserve species and places that they are familiar with and which provide them with something they value. Until now this dimension has been largely lacking from conservation decision‐making and its underlying scientific evidence base. This is understan…
Anthropology of Conservation NGOs
Are capacity deficits in local government leaving the Amazon vulnerable to environmental change
Streamlining or sidestepping? Political pressure to revise environmental licensing and EIA in Brazil
Modelling Local Attitudes to Protected Areas in Developing Countries
During a time of intensifying competition for land, Protected Areas (PAs) are coming under increasing pressure to justify their status. Positive local attitudes to a PA are a potentially important component of any such justification, especially in the developing world where human pressure on natural resources is often high. However, despite numerous studies our understanding of what drives positive attitudes to PAs is still exceedingly limited. H…
Ecological outcomes of Atlantic Forest restoration initiatives by sugar cane producers
Riverine fishers' knowledge of extreme climatic events in the Brazilian Amazonia
BACKGROUND: Climate change is altering climate patterns, mainly increasing the frequency and intensity of extreme events with potentially serious impacts on natural resources and the people that use them. Adapting to such impacts will require the integration of scientific and local (folk) knowledge, especially the first-hand experiences and perceptions of resource users such as fishers. In this study, we identify how commercial riverine fishers i…
Nature apps
Apps are small task-orientated programs with the potential to integrate the computational and sensing capacities of smartphones with the power of cloud computing, social networking, and crowdsourcing. They have the potential to transform how humans interact with nature, cause a step change in the quantity and resolution of biodiversity data, democratize access to environmental knowledge, and reinvigorate ways of enjoying nature. To assess the ext…
Multilinguismo nas ciências ambientais
Comment to: Bortolus, A. 2012. Running like Alice and losing good ideas: On the quasi-compulsive use of English by non-native English speaking scientists. AMBIO 41: 769–772. doi:10.1007/s13280-012-0339-5. Writing in Ambio, Bortolus (2012) recently argued that many non-native English-speaking environmental scientists invest a disproportionate amount of time in over-coming language barriers, limiting the impact of their research, and constraining t…
The Demise of the Golden Toad and the Creation of a Climate Change Icon Species
There is an unavoidable degree of uncertainty associated with future climate projections, and even more unpredictability about the potential impact of different climate scenarios on the ecology and distribution of organisms. Conservationists face a major public communications challenge to both raise awareness and mobilise support for conservation and climate change mitigation/adaptation policies while realistically representing complex and uncert…
Missed opportunities
A New Framework for Natural Resource Management in Amazonia
Defining Flagship Uses is Critical for Flagship Selection
Towards an intradisciplinary bio‐geography
Scientists and the media
Despite the uncertainties associated with forecasts of the possible negative effects of climate change on natural environments, such research is often widely reported in the news media. Here we review the presentation in the UK news media and on the internet of an academic study published in Nature, forecasting future global extinctions as a result of climate change. The results and conclusions of the study were widely misrepresented, especially …
Streamlining or sidestepping? Political pressure to revise environmental licensing and EIA in Brazil
Riverine fishers' knowledge of extreme climatic events in the Brazilian Amazonia
BACKGROUND: Climate change is altering climate patterns, mainly increasing the frequency and intensity of extreme events with potentially serious impacts on natural resources and the people that use them. Adapting to such impacts will require the integration of scientific and local (folk) knowledge, especially the first-hand experiences and perceptions of resource users such as fishers. In this study, we identify how commercial riverine fishers i…
Nature apps
Apps are small task-orientated programs with the potential to integrate the computational and sensing capacities of smartphones with the power of cloud computing, social networking, and crowdsourcing. They have the potential to transform how humans interact with nature, cause a step change in the quantity and resolution of biodiversity data, democratize access to environmental knowledge, and reinvigorate ways of enjoying nature. To assess the ext…
Defining Flagship Uses is Critical for Flagship Selection
Hidden dangers of a citation culture
The influence of the journal impact factor and the effect of a 'citation culture' on science and scientists have been discussed extensively (Lawrence 2007; Curr Biol 17:R583-585). Nevertheless, many still believe that the number of citations a paper receives provides some measure of its quality. This belief may be unfounded, however, as there are 2 substantial areas of error that can distort a citation count or any metric based on a citation coun…
Natural disasters’ and newspapers
In this paper we explore the concept of ‘natural disasters’ as opportunities for influencing public perceptions of the environment through the media. We provide a critical analysis of the discourse in a selection of newspaper articles and identify the way in which various actors have utilised UK national newspaper coverage of the Asian tsunami to promote particular agendas and to legitimise policies and actions. A systematic and iterative samplin…
Are capacity deficits in local government leaving the Amazon vulnerable to environmental change
Towards an intradisciplinary bio‐geography
Origins, Uses, and Transformation of Extinction Rhetoric
Ecological outcomes of Atlantic Forest restoration initiatives by sugar cane producers
Multilinguismo nas ciências ambientais
Comment to: Bortolus, A. 2012. Running like Alice and losing good ideas: On the quasi-compulsive use of English by non-native English speaking scientists. AMBIO 41: 769–772. doi:10.1007/s13280-012-0339-5. Writing in Ambio, Bortolus (2012) recently argued that many non-native English-speaking environmental scientists invest a disproportionate amount of time in over-coming language barriers, limiting the impact of their research, and constraining t…
Missed opportunities
Monitoring and mapping non-governmental conservation action in Amazonia
A New Framework for Natural Resource Management in Amazonia
Scientists and the media
Despite the uncertainties associated with forecasts of the possible negative effects of climate change on natural environments, such research is often widely reported in the news media. Here we review the presentation in the UK news media and on the internet of an academic study published in Nature, forecasting future global extinctions as a result of climate change. The results and conclusions of the study were widely misrepresented, especially …
Natural disasters’ and newspapers
In this paper we explore the concept of ‘natural disasters’ as opportunities for influencing public perceptions of the environment through the media. We provide a critical analysis of the discourse in a selection of newspaper articles and identify the way in which various actors have utilised UK national newspaper coverage of the Asian tsunami to promote particular agendas and to legitimise policies and actions. A systematic and iterative samplin…
Hidden dangers of a citation culture
The influence of the journal impact factor and the effect of a 'citation culture' on science and scientists have been discussed extensively (Lawrence 2007; Curr Biol 17:R583-585). Nevertheless, many still believe that the number of citations a paper receives provides some measure of its quality. This belief may be unfounded, however, as there are 2 substantial areas of error that can distort a citation count or any metric based on a citation coun…
The (im)balance of nature
This has profound implications for conservation management and policy and has driven an (incomplete) transition from managing to maintain (bio)diversity and ecological stability at some historically derived “optimum” to managing to maintain important ecosystem and evolutionary processes such as nutrient cycles and migration. Here, we investigate whether this change from a “balance of nature” metaphor to a more dynamic perspective (“flux of nature…
Towards an intradisciplinary bio‐geography
Origins, Uses, and Transformation of Extinction Rhetoric
Defining Flagship Uses is Critical for Flagship Selection
A New Framework for Natural Resource Management in Amazonia
The Demise of the Golden Toad and the Creation of a Climate Change Icon Species
There is an unavoidable degree of uncertainty associated with future climate projections, and even more unpredictability about the potential impact of different climate scenarios on the ecology and distribution of organisms. Conservationists face a major public communications challenge to both raise awareness and mobilise support for conservation and climate change mitigation/adaptation policies while realistically representing complex and uncert…
Missed opportunities
Multilinguismo nas ciências ambientais
Comment to: Bortolus, A. 2012. Running like Alice and losing good ideas: On the quasi-compulsive use of English by non-native English speaking scientists. AMBIO 41: 769–772. doi:10.1007/s13280-012-0339-5. Writing in Ambio, Bortolus (2012) recently argued that many non-native English-speaking environmental scientists invest a disproportionate amount of time in over-coming language barriers, limiting the impact of their research, and constraining t…
Nature apps
Apps are small task-orientated programs with the potential to integrate the computational and sensing capacities of smartphones with the power of cloud computing, social networking, and crowdsourcing. They have the potential to transform how humans interact with nature, cause a step change in the quantity and resolution of biodiversity data, democratize access to environmental knowledge, and reinvigorate ways of enjoying nature. To assess the ext…
Modelling Local Attitudes to Protected Areas in Developing Countries
During a time of intensifying competition for land, Protected Areas (PAs) are coming under increasing pressure to justify their status. Positive local attitudes to a PA are a potentially important component of any such justification, especially in the developing world where human pressure on natural resources is often high. However, despite numerous studies our understanding of what drives positive attitudes to PAs is still exceedingly limited. H…
Ecological outcomes of Atlantic Forest restoration initiatives by sugar cane producers
Riverine fishers' knowledge of extreme climatic events in the Brazilian Amazonia
BACKGROUND: Climate change is altering climate patterns, mainly increasing the frequency and intensity of extreme events with potentially serious impacts on natural resources and the people that use them. Adapting to such impacts will require the integration of scientific and local (folk) knowledge, especially the first-hand experiences and perceptions of resource users such as fishers. In this study, we identify how commercial riverine fishers i…
Are capacity deficits in local government leaving the Amazon vulnerable to environmental change
Streamlining or sidestepping? Political pressure to revise environmental licensing and EIA in Brazil
Anthropology of Conservation NGOs
Cultural ecosystem services and decision‐making
Cultural ecosystem services (CES) are some of the most difficult ecosystem services (ES) to characterize and connect to specific ecosystem processes. Given their connections to human emotion, deep meaning, fulfilment and motivation, they are also crucial for human well‐being. Scholars have published hundreds of peer‐reviewed articles addressing CES in myriad ways. In this systematic review, we analyse 232 peer‐reviewed articles on CES and examine…
A culturomics approach to quantifying the salience of species on the global internet
Conservation will only be successful over the long term if people support conservation goals. While many factors may influence the level of such support, it is clear that people are more willing to conserve species and places that they are familiar with and which provide them with something they value. Until now this dimension has been largely lacking from conservation decision‐making and its underlying scientific evidence base. This is understan…
A place‐based participatory mapping approach for assessing cultural ecosystem services in urban green space
Cultural Ecosystem Services (CES) encompass a range of social, cultural and health benefits to local communities, for example recreation, spirituality, a sense of place and local identity. However, these complex and place‐specific CES are often overlooked in rapid land management decisions and assessed using broad, top–down approaches. We use the Toolkit for Ecosystem Service Site‐based Assessment (TESSA) to examine a novel approach to rapid asse…
Monitoring and mapping non-governmental conservation action in Amazonia
Linking social organization, attitudes, and stakeholder empowerment in MPA governance
Keep your distance
Mountain gorilla Gorilla beringei beringei trekking is a substantial source of revenue for the conservation of this threatened primate and its habitat. Trekking, however, may pose a threat of human‐to‐gorilla disease transmission that could have disastrous effects on wild gorillas. We used 858 photographs posted on Instagram in 2013–2019 to analyse the proximity of tourists visiting mountain gorillas in the wild. We classified photographs of the …
A digital approach to quantifying political vulnerability of protected areas
Geography (17 obras) · Political science (17 obras) · Computer Science (14 obras) · Ecology (14 obras) · Sociology (13 obras) · Environmental resource management (12 obras) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (11 obras) · Environmental planning (9 obras) · Animal and Plant Science Education (8 obras) · Business (8 obras)