A Fischer
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 26511 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | A Fischer |
| NOMBRES | A |
| APELLIDO | Fischer |
| FIRMA | FISCHER A |
| AFILIACIONES | James Hutton Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0034-3690 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 59 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 277 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 59 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1966 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Uncomfortable trade-offs in plant protection – public perceptions of chemical and biotechnology options
Improvements to the agricultural system and tackling challenges emerging from societal, geo-political or climate change requires decision makers to consider trade-offs between technological solutions and consumer preferences. Such a challenge is the breeding of resilient crops through traditional techniques (i.e. crossbreeding, mutagenesis) and new breeding techniques (i.e. transgenesis, cisgenic genetic modification, intragenesis, genome editing…
Iteration, collaboration and transformation
This essay describes the nature of community and public engagement at the Mistra Environmental Communication program, an eight-year program, based in Sweden, focused on how communication shapes sustainability transformations. The paper describes the critical, engaged, and change-oriented approaches that guide the program’s work, outlining collaborative practices, and formats developed with a range of societal partners. The program chooses to use …
Freedom as a discursive instrument in Swedish transition governance
How research on communication can help to understand the management of natural resources and sustainability transformations
Communication is an integral part of natural resource management and sustainability transformations, and questions on how communication helps or hinders the development of more sustainable relationships between people and their environments have become increasingly urgent. This special issue directs our attention to the processes and outcomes of such communication and explores what a focus on communication makes visible and accessible for practic…
How justice shapes transition governance – a discourse analysis of Swedish policy debates
In both policy-making and academia, the realisation is growing that transitions striving for sustainability have to be just to be socially accepted. This insight has given rise to institutionalised approaches to a “just transition” – but also beyond these, justice is a key challenge in the governance of sustainability transitions. In this paper, we examine how justice arguments are being used in national-level discourses of transition governance …
Exploring the impacts of woodland management on ecosystem services – a deliberative method
There is a need for operational decision-making methodologies applicable at local management scales which are inclusive and enable the integration of plural values, knowledges and perspectives of co-produced ecosystem services. Here we describe a deliberative scenario analysis method using ‘management intervention bundles’ as distinct scenarios to assess the perceived impact of changing management on woodland ecosystem services. We used three hyp…
Fresh meat
Hunting has a unique status as a sport and leisure activity alongside its practices having high stakes for society related to ecology, biosecurity, animal welfare and public safety. As such, hunting must increasingly legitimate itself before the public both in terms of ethically justifiable motivations for why to hunt and ethical standards for how to hunt. One way in which public acceptance has been sought in recent years has been to frontline 'w…
Mainstreaming biodiversity and nature’s contributions to people in Europe and Central Asia
Recent global and regional assessments of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) show that Nature’s Contributions to People (NCP) are under an alarming threat due to the continuing loss of biodiversity. These assessments call for increasing conservation efforts and a more sustainable use of biodiversity to enhance the chances of halting biodiversity loss and reversing current trends. One of th…
Who decides? The governance of rewilding in Scotland ‘between the cracks’
Rewilding is a conservation approach which seeks to restore natural processes and ecosystem functionality. However, it also has a strong social dimension, characterised by a recently increasing emphasis on the place of people in rewilding. The role of local communities and the need for public engagement have become a specific concern for many contemporary rewilding efforts. Research on the role of participation in rewilding is however lacking, wi…
Conservation in conversation
Concepts such as ecosystem services and nature's contributions to people are frameworks for articulating the value of nature and biodiversity conservation. Yet it remains difficult to argue for the conservation of species and habitats where they are inconspicuous or ‘non‐charismatic’. This paper investigates the perceptions of a woodland area in rural western Scotland, designated for its high conservation value and characterised by habitats, rare…
Communicating nature during lockdown – How conservation and outdoor organisations use social media to facilitate local nature experiences
Social media impact not only our communication and social interactions but also our relationships to the natural environment. Social media can increase understanding of our environment by offering information and sharing calls to action, while at the same time, they might present a glamourised, standardised picture of nature and distract from actual outdoor interactions. The COVID‐19 pandemic presents a unique opportunity to study the spaces crea…
Fight or Flight? Understanding Different Stakeholder Responses to Conservation Conflicts
Efforts to manage conservation conflicts are typically focused on reconciling disputes between opposing stakeholders over conservation objectives. However, this is an oversimplification of conflict dynamics, driven by the difficulties of understanding and addressing deeper-rooted issues. In this study, an ethnographic approach using a combination of informal discussions, participant observation, and in-depth interviews was used to examine local s…
A cup of tea? – The role of social relationships, networks and learning in land managers’ adaptations to policy change
Within international and, more specifically, European policy there is a shift towards managing land for multiple benefits and in the public interest. This necessitates greater collaboration between different actors, often with diverging management objectives, across a landscape. Here we present the findings of a qualitative study exploring the influence of social relationships, networks and associated power on land managers’ decision-making, coll…
Expanding arenas for learning hunting ethics, their grammars and dilemmas
Although hunting is declining in western countries, the number of people taking the hunting exam in Sweden are stable, and new demographic groups are becoming hunters. Through interviews done in Sweden with both new and experienced hunters, as well as focus groups with young hunters at agricultural colleges, we investigate how they navigate praxis and ethical frameworks taught in hunting. Using theories on moral learning, as well as Walzer's thic…
Is forest regeneration good for biodiversity? Exploring the social dimensions of an apparently ecological debate
Taming rewilding - from the ecological to the social
Information technology and the optimisation of experience – The role of mobile devices and social media in human-nature interactions
Information technologies have seeped their way into every aspect of our lives, mediating interactions between ourselves and our environments. They are becoming an important part of human-nature interactions, with smartphones, their apps and social media offering new ways to plan, navigate and share experiences. This article explores the changes that these mobile media technologies bring to human-nature interactions, focusing on the outdoor practi…
The Instagrammable outdoors – Investigating the sharing of nature experiences through visual social media
Despite the growing popularity of Instagram as a medium to portray nature and the outdoors, there remains limited research available exploring its influence on people's experiences in nature. We investigate Instagram as a three‐way negotiation between users, the platform's affordances and social norms associated with both Instagram use and outdoor experiences. Moving beyond polarized, conceptual debates situating social media affordances within d…
Critical, Engaged and Change-oriented Scholarship in Environmental Communication. Six Methodological Dilemmas to Think With
While calls for critical, engaged and change-oriented scholarship in environmental communication (EC) abound, few articles discuss what this may practically entail. With this article, we aim to contribute to a discussion in EC about the methodological implications of such scholarship. Based on our combined experience in EC research and drawing from a variety of academic fields, we describe six methodological dilemmas that we encounter in our rese…
Between straitjacket and possibility
The Trouble with Community
The term community has proved to be remarkably resilient in rural policy-making, where it is used across a range of policy discourses. Policy narratives seldom acknowledge the multiple meanings associated with the term community; they therefore fail to make a distinction between community as it is experienced in everyday settings, and more formal community organising. However, policies and governance seeking to mobilise communities often rely on …
Fighting talk
Conflict is currently one of the greatest challenges facing wildlife conservation. Whilst conflicts may first appear to concern wildlife, they are often embedded within wider debates surrounding land use, land ownership, and the governance of natural resources. Disputes over the impacts or management of a species therefore become symbols for conflicts that are fundamentally between the divergent interests and values of the people involved. NGOs r…
Social representations of governance for change towards sustainability
There is a substantial body of literature on public understandings of large-scale ‘environmental’ phenomena such as climate change and resource degradation. At the same time, political science and economics analyse the governance arrangements to deal with such issues. These realms of research rarely meet: there has been little research into people’s understandings of the governance of environmental change. This study adds a psychological perspect…
New Technological Interventions in Conservation Conflicts
New technologies have increasingly featured in environmental conservation conflicts. We examined the deployment of imaging devices such as sonar equipment and cameras to survey the Fal estuary in Cornwall, UK. Due to heavy use of these waters, there have been several disputes coalescing around protected marine features, including the estuary's rare maerl beds. A comparison of two cases, scallop dredging and docks development, showed technical ins…
Natural resource governance in lower Omo, Ethiopia – negotiation processes instead of property rights and rules
Research on common-pool resources in the last 30 years has hinged on concepts such as rules and property rights for understanding how access and use of natural resources is managed by communities and other actors. However, a small body of literature on mobile pastoralism maintains that resource governance might not always be based on resource-related rules, but instead on negotiation and general norms of reciprocity. Situations conventionally lab…
Understanding People's Ideas on Natural Resource Management
Ongoing fragmentation between social groups on the appropriate targets and relevant actors for nature conservation signals the need for further advancements in theorizing about the human-nature interaction. Through a focus on the complexity of social thought and confrontations between social groups, the theory of social representations may provide a useful addition to conventional approaches. However, environmental issues have so far not been amo…
(De)legitimising hunting – Discourses over the morality of hunting in Europe and eastern Africa
Coproduction of ecosystem services as human–nature interactions—An analytical framework
A question of capacities? Community resilience and empowerment between assets, abilities and relationships
Imagining wildlife
By enabling the creation of networks of electronic sensors and human participants, new technologies have shaped the ways in which conservation-related organisations monitor wildlife. These networks enable the capture of data perceived as necessary to evidence conservation strategies and foster public support. We collected interview and archival data from UK-based conservation organisations with regard to their use of digital technologies for wild…
Developing an integrated conceptual framework to understand biodiversity conflicts
Deconstructing Community for Conservation
Many conservation policies advocate engagement with local people, but conservation practice has sometimes been criticised for a simplistic understanding of communities and social context. To counter this, this paper explores social structuring and its influences on conservation-related behaviours at the site of a conservation intervention near Pipar forest, within the Seti Khola valley, Nepal. Qualitative and quantitative data from questionnaires…
Discursive claims to knowledge
Understanding the Cognitive Basis for Human-Wildlife Relationships as a Key to Successful Protected-Area Management
Wildlife is a critical component of protected areas worldwide. It can serve not only as a primary attraction or an enjoyable part of the visitor experience but also as a source of conflict. Managing wildlife in this context requires a broadbased approach that can account for the myriad factors underlying conservation effectiveness, including the nature of people's relationships with wildlife. These relationships stem from the cognitive foundation…
Who decides? The governance of rewilding in Scotland ‘between the cracks’
Rewilding is a conservation approach which seeks to restore natural processes and ecosystem functionality. However, it also has a strong social dimension, characterised by a recently increasing emphasis on the place of people in rewilding. The role of local communities and the need for public engagement have become a specific concern for many contemporary rewilding efforts. Research on the role of participation in rewilding is however lacking, wi…
Taming rewilding - from the ecological to the social
Microscope and spectacle
Wildlife conservation-related organisations increasingly employ new visual technologies in their science communication and public engagement efforts. Here, we examine the use of such technologies for wildlife conservation campaigns. We obtained empirical data from four UK-based organisations through semi-structured interviews and participant observation. Visual technologies were used to provide the knowledge and generate the emotional responses p…
The Instagrammable outdoors – Investigating the sharing of nature experiences through visual social media
Despite the growing popularity of Instagram as a medium to portray nature and the outdoors, there remains limited research available exploring its influence on people's experiences in nature. We investigate Instagram as a three‐way negotiation between users, the platform's affordances and social norms associated with both Instagram use and outdoor experiences. Moving beyond polarized, conceptual debates situating social media affordances within d…
Community-led initiatives' everyday politics for sustainability - Conflicting rationalities and aspirations for change
Community-based initiatives are widely seen to play an essential role in a societal move towards a low carbon, sustainable future. As part of this, there is often an assumption that such initiatives share expectations (i.e. a guiding vision) of large-scale change and that their activities contribute to this change. Here, we ask to what extent this assumption reflects members' own perspectives on and interpretations of the aims and ambitions of th…
Energy use, climate change and folk psychology
Fighting talk
Conflict is currently one of the greatest challenges facing wildlife conservation. Whilst conflicts may first appear to concern wildlife, they are often embedded within wider debates surrounding land use, land ownership, and the governance of natural resources. Disputes over the impacts or management of a species therefore become symbols for conflicts that are fundamentally between the divergent interests and values of the people involved. NGOs r…
On the role of women in bushmeat hunting – Insights from Tanzania and Ethiopia
Common stories of reintroduction
Conflicts between Biodiversity Conservation and Human Activities in the Central and Eastern European Countries
Conflicts between the conservation of biodiversity and other human activities have been and continue to be of increasing concern in the European Union, often having important political, economic, and environmental repercussions. These conflicts have been addressed in the European Union by using a wide array of top down and bottom up tools, with varying degrees of success. A new challenge is now facing Europe with the integration of 10 new countri…
Information technology and the optimisation of experience – The role of mobile devices and social media in human-nature interactions
Information technologies have seeped their way into every aspect of our lives, mediating interactions between ourselves and our environments. They are becoming an important part of human-nature interactions, with smartphones, their apps and social media offering new ways to plan, navigate and share experiences. This article explores the changes that these mobile media technologies bring to human-nature interactions, focusing on the outdoor practi…
Expanding arenas for learning hunting ethics, their grammars and dilemmas
Although hunting is declining in western countries, the number of people taking the hunting exam in Sweden are stable, and new demographic groups are becoming hunters. Through interviews done in Sweden with both new and experienced hunters, as well as focus groups with young hunters at agricultural colleges, we investigate how they navigate praxis and ethical frameworks taught in hunting. Using theories on moral learning, as well as Walzer's thic…
Is forest regeneration good for biodiversity? Exploring the social dimensions of an apparently ecological debate
The Trouble with Community
The term community has proved to be remarkably resilient in rural policy-making, where it is used across a range of policy discourses. Policy narratives seldom acknowledge the multiple meanings associated with the term community; they therefore fail to make a distinction between community as it is experienced in everyday settings, and more formal community organising. However, policies and governance seeking to mobilise communities often rely on …
On the Interplay of Actors in the Co-Management of Natural Resources – A Dynamic Perspective
Framing the landscape
Attitudes and knowledge relevant to family planning among New Orleans Negro women
Attitudes and knowledge relevant to family planning among New Orleans Negro women. J D Beasley, C L Harter, and A FischerCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.56.11.1847 Published Online: August 29, 2011
Zur Einschätzung von Waldfunktionen durch Vertreter öffentlichen Waldeigentums
Die Aktivitäten sozialgeographischer Gruppen bilden einen wichtigen Themenbereich forstgeographischer Forschung. Ein Teilaspekt dazu sind Untersuchungen zum Grundeigentum. In der Schweiz gelangen die Waldbesitzer, verglichen mit dem Forstdienst und den Waldbenützern, eher selten zu Wort. Im Rahmen einer thematisch weiter gefaßten Studie wurde in der Umgebung von Luzern und im Oberwallis nach der Bedeutung des öffentlichen Waldes aus der Sicht der…
Supplementary Statement on Health Care for Homeless People
Health care for the homeless
After Serrano Ethics, Theology and the Law of Blasphemy
In the latest academic apologia for the antics of bad boy photographer Andres Serrano, Damien Casey attempts to portray him as not only a great liberal artist, but as a great Christian theologian too. One suspects Serrano is laughing up his sleeve at the ease with which such 'postmodern' thinking can be grafted on to the support of his iconoclasm. Casey rehearses some of the standard liberal excuses -- though with no fresh argument -- and then se…
Understanding mental constructs of biodiversity
Analysing decision behaviour in stated preference surveys
Conflicts between Biodiversity Conservation and Human Activities in the Central and Eastern European Countries
Conflicts between the conservation of biodiversity and other human activities have been and continue to be of increasing concern in the European Union, often having important political, economic, and environmental repercussions. These conflicts have been addressed in the European Union by using a wide array of top down and bottom up tools, with varying degrees of success. A new challenge is now facing Europe with the integration of 10 new countri…
Framing the landscape
Developing an integrated conceptual framework to understand biodiversity conflicts
Effect of Local Cultural Context on the Success of Community‐Based Conservation Interventions
Conservation interventions require evaluation to understand what factors predict success or failure. To date, there has been little systematic investigation of the effect of social and cultural context on conservation success, although a large body of literature argues it is important. We investigated whether local cultural context, particularly local institutions and the efforts of interventions to engage with this culture significantly influenc…
Insurance, prevention or just wait and see? Public preferences for water management strategies in the context of climate change
Willingness to pay, attitudes and fundamental values — On the cognitive context of public preferences for diversity in agricultural landscapes
How people familiarize themselves with complex ecological concepts—anchoring of social representations of invasive non‐native species
New terms and frameworks are constantly being incorporated into scientific and public discourses on the management of natural resources and the environment. The idea of invasive non‐native plant and animal species, i.e. of species that enter a new range and spread prolifically, is currently becoming part of the public discourse in Scotland. This constitutes a valuable opportunity to study how people engage with new scientific concepts. We analyse…
Understanding the Cognitive Basis for Human-Wildlife Relationships as a Key to Successful Protected-Area Management
Wildlife is a critical component of protected areas worldwide. It can serve not only as a primary attraction or an enjoyable part of the visitor experience but also as a source of conflict. Managing wildlife in this context requires a broadbased approach that can account for the myriad factors underlying conservation effectiveness, including the nature of people's relationships with wildlife. These relationships stem from the cognitive foundation…
On the Role of Ideas of Human Nature in Shaping Attitudes Towards Environmental Governance
One model fits all? — On the moderating role of emotional engagement and confusion in the elicitation of preferences for climate change adaptation policies
Energy use, climate change and folk psychology
Interactions Between a Collectivist Culture and Buddhist Teachings Influence Environmental Concerns and Behaviors in the Republic of Kalmykia, Russia
In the Buddhist Republic of Kalmykia, Russia, which has recently experienced dramatic and complex social changes, environmental problems include declines in wildlife, desertification, and poor water quality and availability. Qualitative analysis of semistructured interviews showed that responsibility for tackling these environmental problems was attributed to authorities. This was linked to a culture of collectivism fostered in Soviet times, whic…
On the role of women in bushmeat hunting – Insights from Tanzania and Ethiopia
Common stories of reintroduction
The Promise of Wilderness Between Paradise and Hell
‘Wilderness’ is often seen as a (biophysical) ideal state in contemporary debates on ecological restoration. We ask what is left of relationships with ‘wilderness’ in present-day Western societies by drawing on a case study of the Hoge Veluwe National Park, the Netherlands. A brief history of wilderness interpretations is constructed as a backdrop to the analysis of the Veluwean land use history. Herein, wilderness aspects are conceptualised as ‘…
Understanding People's Ideas on Natural Resource Management
Ongoing fragmentation between social groups on the appropriate targets and relevant actors for nature conservation signals the need for further advancements in theorizing about the human-nature interaction. Through a focus on the complexity of social thought and confrontations between social groups, the theory of social representations may provide a useful addition to conventional approaches. However, environmental issues have so far not been amo…
(De)legitimising hunting – Discourses over the morality of hunting in Europe and eastern Africa
Deconstructing Community for Conservation
Many conservation policies advocate engagement with local people, but conservation practice has sometimes been criticised for a simplistic understanding of communities and social context. To counter this, this paper explores social structuring and its influences on conservation-related behaviours at the site of a conservation intervention near Pipar forest, within the Seti Khola valley, Nepal. Qualitative and quantitative data from questionnaires…
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