Richard Stafford
Biographic Data
| ID | 126567 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Stafford |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Stafford |
| SIGNATURE | STAFFORD R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bournemouth University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1964-5787 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Belief Network Assessment of Fire Management in East African Savannas Under Socioeconomic and Climate Change
Fire regimes across East Africa's savanna conservation landscapes increasingly reflect interconnected ecological and biocultural breakdown, reinforcing systemic vulnerabilities. Yet colonially inherited fire suppression and exclusionary tenure arrangements continue to overlook the ecological value of pyrodiversity and the stewardship roles of Indigenous and local actors. This study presents a novel probabilistic systems model for evaluating seven…
Can Coral Reef Restoration Programmes Facilitate Changes in Environmental Attitudes? A Case Study on a Rural Fisher Community in North Bali, Indonesia
There is currently limited research assessing the ecological potential of coral restoration programmes of habitat enhancement and restoration of benthic and mobile populations for influencing the attitudes (and subsequent behaviours) of the communities where they are based. Our qualitative study investigated the impact of a coral reef restoration programmes on local environmental attitudes in a rural fishing community in north Bali, Indonesia. We…
Diversifying environmental volunteers by engaging with online communities
Environmental volunteering can benefit participants and nature through improving physical and mental well‐being while encouraging environmental stewardship. To enhance achievement of these outcomes, conservation organizations need to reach different groups of people to increase participation in environmental volunteering. This paper explores what engages communities searching online for environmental volunteering. We conducted a literature review…
Assessing past water availability using phytoliths from the C4 plant Sorghum bicolor
Evaluating optimal solutions to environmental breakdown
Sustainability
The concept of sustainable fishing is well ingrained in marine conservation and marine governance. However, I argue that the concept is deeply flawed; ecologically, socially and economically. Sustainability is strongly related, both historically and currently, to maximum long-term economic exploitation of a system. Counter-intuitively, in fisheries, achieving this economic exploitation often relies on government subsidies. While many fish populat…
Changing cultures, changing environments
Identifying ancient water availability through phytolith analysis
Water management was critical to the development of complex societies but such systems are often difficult, if not impossible, to recognise in the archaeological record, particularly in prehistoric communities when water management began. This is because early irrigation systems are likely to have been ephemeral and as such would no longer be visible in the archaeological record. We conducted a three year crop growing experiment in Jordan to test…
Identifying ancient water availability through phytolith analysis
Water management was critical to the development of complex societies but such systems are often difficult, if not impossible, to recognise in the archaeological record, particularly in prehistoric communities when water management began. This is because early irrigation systems are likely to have been ephemeral and as such would no longer be visible in the archaeological record. We conducted a three year crop growing experiment in Jordan to test…
Evaluating optimal solutions to environmental breakdown
Assessing past water availability using phytoliths from the C4 plant Sorghum bicolor
Identifying ancient water availability through phytolith analysis
Water management was critical to the development of complex societies but such systems are often difficult, if not impossible, to recognise in the archaeological record, particularly in prehistoric communities when water management began. This is because early irrigation systems are likely to have been ephemeral and as such would no longer be visible in the archaeological record. We conducted a three year crop growing experiment in Jordan to test…
Changing cultures, changing environments
Sustainability
The concept of sustainable fishing is well ingrained in marine conservation and marine governance. However, I argue that the concept is deeply flawed; ecologically, socially and economically. Sustainability is strongly related, both historically and currently, to maximum long-term economic exploitation of a system. Counter-intuitively, in fisheries, achieving this economic exploitation often relies on government subsidies. While many fish populat…
Assessing past water availability using phytoliths from the C4 plant Sorghum bicolor
Evaluating optimal solutions to environmental breakdown
Diversifying environmental volunteers by engaging with online communities
Environmental volunteering can benefit participants and nature through improving physical and mental well‐being while encouraging environmental stewardship. To enhance achievement of these outcomes, conservation organizations need to reach different groups of people to increase participation in environmental volunteering. This paper explores what engages communities searching online for environmental volunteering. We conducted a literature review…
Can Coral Reef Restoration Programmes Facilitate Changes in Environmental Attitudes? A Case Study on a Rural Fisher Community in North Bali, Indonesia
There is currently limited research assessing the ecological potential of coral restoration programmes of habitat enhancement and restoration of benthic and mobile populations for influencing the attitudes (and subsequent behaviours) of the communities where they are based. Our qualitative study investigated the impact of a coral reef restoration programmes on local environmental attitudes in a rural fishing community in north Bali, Indonesia. We…
Belief Network Assessment of Fire Management in East African Savannas Under Socioeconomic and Climate Change
Fire regimes across East Africa's savanna conservation landscapes increasingly reflect interconnected ecological and biocultural breakdown, reinforcing systemic vulnerabilities. Yet colonially inherited fire suppression and exclusionary tenure arrangements continue to overlook the ecological value of pyrodiversity and the stewardship roles of Indigenous and local actors. This study presents a novel probabilistic systems model for evaluating seven…
Ecology (7 works) · Geography (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Environmental resource management (4 works) · Environmental Science (4 works) · Biology (3 works) · Environmental planning (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Agriculture (2 works) · Agronomy (2 works)