William M Adams
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3692614 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | William M Adams |
| NOMBRES | William M |
| APELLIDO | Adams |
| FIRMA | ADAMS W M |
| AFILIACIONES | United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7372-8455 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 38 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 274 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 36 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1991 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Nature-based Gaming
We thank the three contributors to this colloquy for their responses to our paper, ‘Race the Wild’ (Sandbrook et al. in press), and to the editors for the chance to engage with colleagues in this way. We remain fascinated (and sometimes startled) by the diverse and complex ways in which animals and other organic and inorganic entities are drawn into digital entanglements. The digitalisation of what is commonly referred to in Western countries as …
And the Evidence Was Irrefutable
Evidence‐based policy‐making increasingly shapes the practice of advisory bodies, including global environmental assessments (GEAs). Advocates point to the power of evidence (particularly, but not only scientific evidence) to improve policy‐making. Here we discuss how political considerations shaped evidence‐gathering and use within the World Commission on Dams (WCD), a GEA body which was active between 1998 and 2000. We use insights from semi‐st…
Race the Wild
Digital technologies are becoming increasingly important in human engagements with the natural world. It has been suggested that digital games could contribute to the work of biodiversity conservation organisations, mediating human understanding of, and responses to, living nature. In this paper, we explore the implications of enrolling non-human nature into conservation gaming projects, focusing on the example of gamifying animal movement data. …
Secondary School State Athletic Association Health and Safety Policy Development Processes
BACKGROUND: The National Federation of State High School Associations provides recommendations regarding health and safety policies; however, policy development is governed at the state level. Given interstate differences in governance, the primary purpose was to describe processes that State High School Athletic Associations (SHSAAs) utilize to develop a new policy. The secondary objective was to determine what methods associations use to implem…
The effect of heat mitigation strategies on thermoregulation and productivity during simulated occupational work in the heat in physically active young men
Our results suggest that during a simulated occupational shift in a laboratory setting, additional heat mitigation strategies ([COOL + VEST + H 2 O] and [COOL + H 2 O]) reduced physiological strain and improved box lifting performance to a greater degree than [SUN]. These differences may have been attributed to a larger core to skin temperature gradient or reduction in fatigue, thermal sensation, and RPE during [COOL + H 2 O] and [COOL + VEST + H…
Daily Fluid Intake Behaviors and Associated Health Effects Among Australian and United States Populations
Minimal data exist exploring intercontinental differences in fluid intake (FI) beliefs and behaviors and the impact on fluid intake practices (i.e., fluid intake volume, beverage type, and timing of fluid intake). Therefore, this study explored the impact that FI beliefs and behaviors had on FI practices among emerging adults living in the United States (USA) and Australia (AUS). A total of 489 individuals (74.5% female; USA, 79.4%; age, 25 ± 6 y…
Ghost species
Despite the widespread use of spectral metaphors, the spectral quality of debates about extinction is little remarked by researchers in conservation science. In this article, we ask the following question: does a sense of the spectral create the conditions for hopeful thoughts and actions about biodiversity? Does becoming 'haunted' by species loss accomplish anything? Our intervention is timely because the field of biodiversity conservation refle…
Elephants as actors in the political ecology of human–elephant conflict
This paper examines the agency of African elephants as important actors in the political ecology of human–elephant conflict, and in shaping the politics of land in post‐colonial Kenya. The paper is based on field research in Laikipia, northern Kenya. It considers the role of elephants, with their size, sagacity, hunger, mobility and complex interactions with people, as powerful actors in shared landscapes, and therefore in the politics surroundin…
Conservation from Above
Historically, the dominant model of conservation is one of the impositions of nature protection from above, by aristocratic landowners, by state agencies and increasingly by non-governmental organisations. While conservationists often talk about ‘community conservation’, top-down approaches still dominate. This chapter identifies five dimensions of contemporary top-down conservation—its global frame, its dependence on science, its corporate chara…
Off-stage ecosystem service burdens
The connected nature of social-ecological systems has never been more apparent than in today's globalized world. The ecosystem service framework and associated ecosystem assessments aim to better inform the science-policy response to sustainability challenges. Such assessments, however, often overlook distant, diffuse and delayed impacts that are critical for global sustainability. Ecosystem-services science must better recognise the off-stage im…
Cutting nature to fit
In this paper, by drawing on primary empirical data obtained through 62 interviews in seven case studies we seek to offer a Marxist historical-geographical analysis of biodiversity offsetting policy in England, and its emergence in the context of the global economic crisis, and government aspirations for large-scale urban development projects. By paying attention to the interplay between offsetting, urbanization and the neoliberal reconstruction …
Fencing elephants
Conservation is a fundamentally spatial pursuit. Human–elephant conflict (HEC), in particular crop-raiding, is a significant and complex conservation problem wherever elephants and people occupy the same space. Conservationists and wildlife managers build electrified fences as a technical solution to this problem. Fences provide a spatial means of controlling human–elephant interactions by creating a place for elephants and a place for cultivatio…
Biodiversity and Green Infrastructure in Europe
Creating restoration landscapes
Adams, W. M., I. D. Hodge, N. A. Macgregor, and L. Sandbrook. 2016. Creating restoration landscapes: partnerships in large-scale conservation in the UK. Ecology and Society 21(3):1.http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-08498-210301
The politics of negotiation and implementation
Kovacs, E. K., C. Kumar, C. Agarwal, W. M. Adams, R. A. Hope, and B. Vira. 2016. The politics of negotiation and implementation: a reciprocal water access agreement in the Himalayan foothills, India. Ecology and Society 21(2):37.http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-08462-210237
The challenges of integrating biodiversity and ecosystem services monitoring and evaluation at a landscape-scale wetland restoration project in the UK
Hughes, F. M. R., W. M. Adams, S. H. M. Butchart, R. H. Field, K. S.-H. Peh, and S. Warrington. 2016. The challenges of integrating biodiversity and ecosystem services monitoring and evaluation at a landscape-scale wetland restoration project in the UK. Ecology and Society 21(3):10.http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-08616-210310
Neoliberal Capitalism and Conservation in the Post‐crisis Era
“Green‐grabbing”, in which environmental arguments support expropriation of land and resources, is a recognized element in neoliberal conservation. However, capitalism's strategic interest in promoting the neoliberalization of conservation is accompanied by attempts to exploit hitherto protected natures without any pretence at “greenness”. In this paper we explore the dialectics between “green” and “un‐green” grabbing as neoliberal strategies in …
Digital technology and the conservation of nature
Digital technology is changing nature conservation in increasingly profound ways. We describe this impact and its significance through the concept of 'digital conservation', which we found to comprise five pivotal dimensions: data on nature, data on people, data integration and analysis, communication and experience, and participatory governance. Examining digital innovation in nature conservation and addressing how its development, implementatio…
Green grabbing and the dynamics of local-level engagement with neoliberalization in Tanzania's wildlife management areas
This paper analyzes the politics and struggles ongoing within wildlife management areas (WMAs) in Tanzania to discuss the dynamics of neoliberalization of the wildlife sector. We discuss neoliberalization as a new political-economic context within which the ongoing politics of natural resource management are played out, and focus on green grabbing as an expression of these politics. We discuss how local-level actors are engaged in these processes…
George L. Mosse, l'Italia e gli storici
Understanding and managing conservation conflicts
New spaces for nature
Biodiversity conservation is a fundamentally spatial practice. For more than a century, conservation's leading strategy has been the establishment of protected areas. Governance by the state has been central to conservation's claim to territory. In the UK , the established approach to biodiversity conservation concentrated on spatial strategies of territorialisation to secure particular outcomes in relatively small pieces of land, set aside as pr…
How far are biodiversity loss and climate change similar as policy issues
Neoliberalisation, rural land trusts and institutional blending
Decolonizing Nature
British imperialism was almost unparalleled in its historical and geographical reach, leaving a legacy of entrenched social transformation in nations and cultures in every part of the globe. Colonial annexation and government were based on an all-encompassing system that integrated and controlled political, economic, social and ethnic relations, and required a similar annexation and control of natural resources and nature itself. Colonial ideolog…
Neoliberalisation, rural land trusts and institutional blending
New spaces for nature
Biodiversity conservation is a fundamentally spatial practice. For more than a century, conservation's leading strategy has been the establishment of protected areas. Governance by the state has been central to conservation's claim to territory. In the UK , the established approach to biodiversity conservation concentrated on spatial strategies of territorialisation to secure particular outcomes in relatively small pieces of land, set aside as pr…
Cutting nature to fit
In this paper, by drawing on primary empirical data obtained through 62 interviews in seven case studies we seek to offer a Marxist historical-geographical analysis of biodiversity offsetting policy in England, and its emergence in the context of the global economic crisis, and government aspirations for large-scale urban development projects. By paying attention to the interplay between offsetting, urbanization and the neoliberal reconstruction …
Neoliberal Capitalism and Conservation in the Post‐crisis Era
“Green‐grabbing”, in which environmental arguments support expropriation of land and resources, is a recognized element in neoliberal conservation. However, capitalism's strategic interest in promoting the neoliberalization of conservation is accompanied by attempts to exploit hitherto protected natures without any pretence at “greenness”. In this paper we explore the dialectics between “green” and “un‐green” grabbing as neoliberal strategies in …
Digital technology and the conservation of nature
Digital technology is changing nature conservation in increasingly profound ways. We describe this impact and its significance through the concept of 'digital conservation', which we found to comprise five pivotal dimensions: data on nature, data on people, data integration and analysis, communication and experience, and participatory governance. Examining digital innovation in nature conservation and addressing how its development, implementatio…
Ghost species
Despite the widespread use of spectral metaphors, the spectral quality of debates about extinction is little remarked by researchers in conservation science. In this article, we ask the following question: does a sense of the spectral create the conditions for hopeful thoughts and actions about biodiversity? Does becoming 'haunted' by species loss accomplish anything? Our intervention is timely because the field of biodiversity conservation refle…
Elephants as actors in the political ecology of human–elephant conflict
This paper examines the agency of African elephants as important actors in the political ecology of human–elephant conflict, and in shaping the politics of land in post‐colonial Kenya. The paper is based on field research in Laikipia, northern Kenya. It considers the role of elephants, with their size, sagacity, hunger, mobility and complex interactions with people, as powerful actors in shared landscapes, and therefore in the politics surroundin…
Green grabbing and the dynamics of local-level engagement with neoliberalization in Tanzania's wildlife management areas
This paper analyzes the politics and struggles ongoing within wildlife management areas (WMAs) in Tanzania to discuss the dynamics of neoliberalization of the wildlife sector. We discuss neoliberalization as a new political-economic context within which the ongoing politics of natural resource management are played out, and focus on green grabbing as an expression of these politics. We discuss how local-level actors are engaged in these processes…
Indigenous Irrigation, Agriculture and Development, Marakwet, Kenya
The existence of small-scale informal farmer-managed irrigation systems in sub-Saharan Africa is now widely recognized, and there is interest in the potential for development intervention to enhance their output. If such interventions are not to have adverse impacts, they need to be based on thorough research, but there are as yet few studies of the extent of these systems and the agriculture they sustain. This paper reviews knowledge of one such…
Large Scale Irrigation in Northern Nigeria
Large-scale irrigation (LSI) has been an important feature of agricultural development investment in sub-Saharan Africa, yet LSI projects have a poor performance record. Enthusiasm for an investment in LSI was particularly strong in northern Nigeria in the 1970s and 1980s and a number of areas were developed for irrigated smallholder production by Federal River Basin Development Authorities in Sokoto, Kano and Bomo States. However, there have bee…
Fencing elephants
Conservation is a fundamentally spatial pursuit. Human–elephant conflict (HEC), in particular crop-raiding, is a significant and complex conservation problem wherever elephants and people occupy the same space. Conservationists and wildlife managers build electrified fences as a technical solution to this problem. Fences provide a spatial means of controlling human–elephant interactions by creating a place for elephants and a place for cultivatio…
Biodiversity and Green Infrastructure in Europe
Decolonizing Nature
British imperialism was almost unparalleled in its historical and geographical reach, leaving a legacy of entrenched social transformation in nations and cultures in every part of the globe. Colonial annexation and government were based on an all-encompassing system that integrated and controlled political, economic, social and ethnic relations, and required a similar annexation and control of natural resources and nature itself. Colonial ideolog…
Conservatives and Champions
We discuss two contrasting discourses of environmental management for the management of rivers and floodplain environments in the United Kingdom. Through the 1990s a long-established flood defence discourse gave way to a new discourse of river and floodplain restoration. We draw on qualitative interviews with river managers to set out these discourses, and consider the engagement between them. We consider particularly the way in which flood defen…
The politics of negotiation and implementation
Kovacs, E. K., C. Kumar, C. Agarwal, W. M. Adams, R. A. Hope, and B. Vira. 2016. The politics of negotiation and implementation: a reciprocal water access agreement in the Himalayan foothills, India. Ecology and Society 21(2):37.http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-08462-210237
Creating restoration landscapes
Adams, W. M., I. D. Hodge, N. A. Macgregor, and L. Sandbrook. 2016. Creating restoration landscapes: partnerships in large-scale conservation in the UK. Ecology and Society 21(3):1.http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-08498-210301
The challenges of integrating biodiversity and ecosystem services monitoring and evaluation at a landscape-scale wetland restoration project in the UK
Hughes, F. M. R., W. M. Adams, S. H. M. Butchart, R. H. Field, K. S.-H. Peh, and S. Warrington. 2016. The challenges of integrating biodiversity and ecosystem services monitoring and evaluation at a landscape-scale wetland restoration project in the UK. Ecology and Society 21(3):10.http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-08616-210310
Decolonizing Nature
Decolonizing Nature explores the influence of the colonial legacy on contemporary conservation, and on ideas about the relationships between people, polities and nature in countries and cultures that were once part of the British Empire. It locates the historical development of the theory and practice of conservation - at both the periphery and the centre - firmly within the context of this legacy, and considers its significance today. It highlig…
Large Scale Irrigation in Northern Nigeria
Large-scale irrigation (LSI) has been an important feature of agricultural development investment in sub-Saharan Africa, yet LSI projects have a poor performance record. Enthusiasm for an investment in LSI was particularly strong in northern Nigeria in the 1970s and 1980s and a number of areas were developed for irrigated smallholder production by Federal River Basin Development Authorities in Sokoto, Kano and Bomo States. However, there have bee…
Space, Time and Sustainability in the Hadejia‐Jama'are Wetlands and the Komodugu Yobe Basin, Nigeria
Debates about sustainability still take insufficient account of the significance of space and time. In this paper, their significance is demonstrated empirically through an account of the complex environmental and socio‐economic impacts of dam construction on flood‐plain wetlands in the Hadejia‐Jama'are river basin in Nigeria. Socio‐economic data from a rapid rural appraisal exercise and household questionnaire survey (data on patterns of product…
Water scarcity, property regimes and irrigation management in Sonjo, Tanzania
This article explores the dynamics of property rights in irrigation water in Sonjo, Tanzania. It analyses an unsuccessful attempt by the ruling political group to change the institutional arrangements of water control, to serve better their private goals. This example shows that not all internal institutional innovations in the field of utilising natural resources lead to increased efficiency of the system from the point of view of the whole comm…
Indigenous Irrigation, Agriculture and Development, Marakwet, Kenya
The existence of small-scale informal farmer-managed irrigation systems in sub-Saharan Africa is now widely recognized, and there is interest in the potential for development intervention to enhance their output. If such interventions are not to have adverse impacts, they need to be based on thorough research, but there are as yet few studies of the extent of these systems and the agriculture they sustain. This paper reviews knowledge of one such…
Managing Tragedies
Conflicts over the management of common pool resources are not simply material. They also depend on the perceptions of the protagonists. Policy to improve management often assumes that problems are self-evident, but in fact careful and transparent consideration of the ways different stakeholders understand management problems is essential to effective dialogue.
Biodiversity Conservation and the Eradication of Poverty
It is widely accepted that biodiversity loss and poverty are linked problems and that conservation and poverty reduction should be tackled together. However, success with integrated strategies is elusive. There is sharp debate about the social impacts of conservation programs and the success of community-based approaches to conservation. Clear conceptual frameworks are needed if policies in these two areas are to be combined. We review the links …
Decolonizing Nature
Decolonizing Nature explores the influence of the colonial legacy on contemporary conservation, and on ideas about the relationships between people, polities and nature in countries and cultures that were once part of the British Empire. It locates the historical development of the theory and practice of conservation - at both the periphery and the centre - firmly within the context of this legacy, and considers its significance today. It highlig…
Conservatives and Champions
We discuss two contrasting discourses of environmental management for the management of rivers and floodplain environments in the United Kingdom. Through the 1990s a long-established flood defence discourse gave way to a new discourse of river and floodplain restoration. We draw on qualitative interviews with river managers to set out these discourses, and consider the engagement between them. We consider particularly the way in which flood defen…
Recreational Hunting, Conservation and Rural Livelihoods
Payment for Ecosystem Services and the Challenge of Saving Nature
In a seminal and underappreciated book, Green Imperialism, Grove (1995) explains the rise of a global environmental consciousness as a result of European colonial expansion. Grove details how, by the mid-seventeenth century, “... a coherent and relatively organized awareness of the ecological impact of the demands of emergent capitalism and colonial rule started to develop, to grow into a fully fledged understanding of the limited nature of the e…
Recreational Hunting, Conservation and Rural Livelihoods
Biodiversity Conservation
Biodiversity Convention In October 2010, the Convention on Biological Diversity will meet to assess the current condition of global biodiversity and to propose and agree on priorities for its future conservation. In this context, Rands et al. (p. 1298 ; see the News Focus section ; see the cover) review recent patterns of biodiversity conservation, highlighting successes, as well as current and future threats. They argue that biodiversity should …
Acknowledging Conservation Trade‐Offs and Embracing Complexity
There is a growing recognition that conservation often entails trade‐offs. A focus on trade‐offs can open the way to more complete consideration of the variety of positive and negative effects associated with conservation initiatives. In analyzing and working through conservation trade‐offs, however, it is important to embrace the complexities inherent in the social context of conservation. In particular, it is important to recognize that the con…
How far are biodiversity loss and climate change similar as policy issues
Neoliberalisation, rural land trusts and institutional blending
Decolonizing Nature
British imperialism was almost unparalleled in its historical and geographical reach, leaving a legacy of entrenched social transformation in nations and cultures in every part of the globe. Colonial annexation and government were based on an all-encompassing system that integrated and controlled political, economic, social and ethnic relations, and required a similar annexation and control of natural resources and nature itself. Colonial ideolog…
Understanding and managing conservation conflicts
New spaces for nature
Biodiversity conservation is a fundamentally spatial practice. For more than a century, conservation's leading strategy has been the establishment of protected areas. Governance by the state has been central to conservation's claim to territory. In the UK , the established approach to biodiversity conservation concentrated on spatial strategies of territorialisation to secure particular outcomes in relatively small pieces of land, set aside as pr…
George L. Mosse, l'Italia e gli storici
Neoliberal Capitalism and Conservation in the Post‐crisis Era
“Green‐grabbing”, in which environmental arguments support expropriation of land and resources, is a recognized element in neoliberal conservation. However, capitalism's strategic interest in promoting the neoliberalization of conservation is accompanied by attempts to exploit hitherto protected natures without any pretence at “greenness”. In this paper we explore the dialectics between “green” and “un‐green” grabbing as neoliberal strategies in …
Digital technology and the conservation of nature
Digital technology is changing nature conservation in increasingly profound ways. We describe this impact and its significance through the concept of 'digital conservation', which we found to comprise five pivotal dimensions: data on nature, data on people, data integration and analysis, communication and experience, and participatory governance. Examining digital innovation in nature conservation and addressing how its development, implementatio…
Green grabbing and the dynamics of local-level engagement with neoliberalization in Tanzania's wildlife management areas
This paper analyzes the politics and struggles ongoing within wildlife management areas (WMAs) in Tanzania to discuss the dynamics of neoliberalization of the wildlife sector. We discuss neoliberalization as a new political-economic context within which the ongoing politics of natural resource management are played out, and focus on green grabbing as an expression of these politics. We discuss how local-level actors are engaged in these processes…
Fencing elephants
Conservation is a fundamentally spatial pursuit. Human–elephant conflict (HEC), in particular crop-raiding, is a significant and complex conservation problem wherever elephants and people occupy the same space. Conservationists and wildlife managers build electrified fences as a technical solution to this problem. Fences provide a spatial means of controlling human–elephant interactions by creating a place for elephants and a place for cultivatio…
Biodiversity and Green Infrastructure in Europe
Creating restoration landscapes
Adams, W. M., I. D. Hodge, N. A. Macgregor, and L. Sandbrook. 2016. Creating restoration landscapes: partnerships in large-scale conservation in the UK. Ecology and Society 21(3):1.http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-08498-210301
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