Simon Willcock
Biographic Data
| ID | 1853585 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Simon Willcock |
| GIVEN NAMES | Simon |
| FAMILY NAME | Willcock |
| SIGNATURE | WILLCOCK S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bangor University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9534-9114 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Mental health benefits of urban green space are shaped by green space attributes, visitor characteristics and the activities they undertake
Access to green spaces is limited in urban areas and has proven benefits for the mental health and well-being of residents. However, there remains a paucity of evidence as to how these benefits vary based on a) the attributes of visited sites, b) the characteristics of visitors, and c) the activities undertaken during each visit. To address these evidence gaps, we analysed 10,749 responses to the Adults’ People and Nature Survey (PaNS) for Englan…
Stakeholder perspectives on the use of patient-reported outcome measures in colorectal cancer survivorship care in general practice: Qualitative study using interviews
To explore perspectives of colorectal cancer (CRC) survivors and general practitioners (GPs) regarding the potential use of Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) in survivorship care. We conducted a qualitative study with semi-structured interviews with CRC survivors and GPs to explore their opinions on the potential utility, feasibility, and preferred method of PROMs utilization in their care/clinical practice. Thematic analysis was conducte…
Realities of using self-administered smartphone surveys to solve sustainability challenges
To fill data gaps in human-environment systems, especially in difficult-to-access locations, novel tools are needed to collect (near) real-time data from diverse populations across the globe. Here we discuss the practicalities, constraints, and lessons learnt from six field studies using high spatial and temporal smartphone surveys in six different countries. We suggest that high spatiotemporal, self-administered smartphone surveys will produce n…
Beyond proximity: A review and framework to further understanding of greenspace accessibility in the x‐minute city
Urban greenspaces are crucial for public health, climate resilience and community well‐being, yet there are inequalities in accessibility in cities across the world. The ‘x‐minute city’ framework has been proposed as a potential solution, proposing that essential services and amenities—including greenspace—should be accessible within a short commute from every residence. However, current approaches to measuring and implementing this framework oft…
Reconciling global tipping point theories: Insight from magnetic experiments
Driven by a combination of global warming and unsustainable resource management, global tipping elements represent existential threats to Earth’s systems and communities. However, the tipping point theory is still developing. Here, we reconcile alternative theories through a comparison of mathematical tipping point models and empirical experiments on micromagnet systems. We show how discontinuous change in spatially complex ecosystem models and m…
Using a multi‐lens framework for landscape decisions
Landscape decisions are multi‐faceted. Framing landscape decision‐making as a governance process that requires a collective approach can encourage key stakeholders to come together to co‐inform a discussion about their priorities and what constitutes good governance, leading to more holistic landscape decisions. In this paper, we recognise that a suite of complementary and multi‐dimensional approaches are in practice used to inform and evaluate l…
Earlier collapse of Anthropocene ecosystems driven by multiple faster and noisier drivers
A major concern for the world’s ecosystems is the possibility of collapse, where landscapes and the societies they support change abruptly. Accelerating stress levels, increasing frequencies of extreme events and strengthening intersystem connections suggest that conventional modelling approaches based on incremental changes in a single stress may provide poor estimates of the impact of climate and human activities on ecosystems. We conduct exper…
Mapping to explore the challenges and opportunities for reconciling artisanal gem mining and biodiversity conservation
Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) provides a vitally important livelihood for millions of people in many low- and middle-income countries. ASM can result in habitat clearance, increased hunting pressure, pollution, and sedimentation of waterways. Consequently, where mineral and biological wealth coincide, there are trade-offs. Here, we combine geological data with four datasets capturing conservation priorities, to evaluate where, and to wha…
Towards a better future for biodiversity and people: Modelling Nature Futures
The Nature Futures Framework (NFF) is a heuristic tool for co-creating positive futures for nature and people. It seeks to open up a diversity of futures through mainly three value perspectives on nature – Nature for Nature, Nature for Society, and Nature as Culture. This paper describes how the NFF can be applied in modelling to support decision-making. First, we describe key considerations for the NFF in developing qualitative and quantitative …
Older adults’ attitudes and motivations towards learning about personal dementia risk and their willingness to make changes to improve their health in primary care settings
Objective This study assessed older adults' preferences, attitudes, and motivations to understand and change their individual risk for developing dementia via screening in primary care settings
On track to achieve no net loss of forest at Madagascar’s biggest mine
Meeting the UN Sustainable Development Goals requires reconciling development with biodiversity conservation. Governments and lenders increasingly call for major industrial developments to offset unavoidable biodiversity loss but there are few robust evaluations of whether offset interventions ensure no net loss of biodiversity. We focus on the biodiversity offsets associated with the high-profile Ambatovy mine in Madagascar and evaluate their ef…
Understanding rural–urban transitions in the Global South through peri-urban turbulence
Remote Sensing Methods for the Biophysical Characterization of Protected Areas Globally: Challenges and Opportunities
Protected areas (PAs) are a key strategy to reverse global biodiversity declines, but they are under increasing pressure from anthropogenic activities and concomitant effects. Thus, the heterogeneous landscapes within PAs, containing a number of different habitats and ecosystem types, are in various degrees of disturbance. Characterizing habitats and ecosystems within the global protected area network requires large-scale monitoring over long tim…
Nature provides valuable sanitation services
Much previous research shows that safe disposal of human waste has a positive impact on human wellbeing, while preventing the degradation of ecosystems. However, to date, the role that ecosystems themselves play in treating human waste has been largely neglected. We conceptualize the role nature plays in treating human waste—acting as a pipeline and/or treatment plant. We estimate that nature is treating ~41.7 million tons of human waste per year…
Asynchronous carbon sink saturation in African and Amazonian tropical forests
Hunters and hunting across indigenous and colonist communities at the forest-agriculture interface: An ethnozoological study from the Peruvian Amazon
BACKGROUND: Wildlife has been traditionally used by forest communities as a source of protein, and the Peruvian Amazon is no exception. The articulation of colonist and indigenous communities to urban centers and markets results in changes in livelihood strategies and impacts on wildlife populations. To address the threat of overhunting and forest conversion, we provide a generalized characterization of colonist and indigenous communities and the…
Factors influencing social and health outcomes after motor vehicle crash injury: An inception cohort study protocol
Australia New Zealand Clinical trial registry identification number--ACTRN12613000889752. Available at: ANZCTR Registered FISH Study
Integrated Natural Resource Management in the Highlands of Eastern Africa: From Concept to Practice
Laura German, Jeremias Mowo, Tilahun Amede, and Kenneth Masuki. Abingdon, United Kingdom: EarthScan, 2012. xxix + 306 pp. £ 65.00, US$ 105.00. ISBN 987-1-84971-424-2. Integrated Natural Resource Management in the Highlands of Eastern Africa: From Concept to Practice
Redd herrings or Redd menace: Response to Beymer-Farris and Bassett
Towards a better future for biodiversity and people: Modelling Nature Futures
The Nature Futures Framework (NFF) is a heuristic tool for co-creating positive futures for nature and people. It seeks to open up a diversity of futures through mainly three value perspectives on nature – Nature for Nature, Nature for Society, and Nature as Culture. This paper describes how the NFF can be applied in modelling to support decision-making. First, we describe key considerations for the NFF in developing qualitative and quantitative …
Understanding rural–urban transitions in the Global South through peri-urban turbulence
Redd herrings or Redd menace: Response to Beymer-Farris and Bassett
Hunters and hunting across indigenous and colonist communities at the forest-agriculture interface: An ethnozoological study from the Peruvian Amazon
BACKGROUND: Wildlife has been traditionally used by forest communities as a source of protein, and the Peruvian Amazon is no exception. The articulation of colonist and indigenous communities to urban centers and markets results in changes in livelihood strategies and impacts on wildlife populations. To address the threat of overhunting and forest conversion, we provide a generalized characterization of colonist and indigenous communities and the…
Earlier collapse of Anthropocene ecosystems driven by multiple faster and noisier drivers
A major concern for the world’s ecosystems is the possibility of collapse, where landscapes and the societies they support change abruptly. Accelerating stress levels, increasing frequencies of extreme events and strengthening intersystem connections suggest that conventional modelling approaches based on incremental changes in a single stress may provide poor estimates of the impact of climate and human activities on ecosystems. We conduct exper…
Mapping to explore the challenges and opportunities for reconciling artisanal gem mining and biodiversity conservation
Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) provides a vitally important livelihood for millions of people in many low- and middle-income countries. ASM can result in habitat clearance, increased hunting pressure, pollution, and sedimentation of waterways. Consequently, where mineral and biological wealth coincide, there are trade-offs. Here, we combine geological data with four datasets capturing conservation priorities, to evaluate where, and to wha…
On track to achieve no net loss of forest at Madagascar’s biggest mine
Meeting the UN Sustainable Development Goals requires reconciling development with biodiversity conservation. Governments and lenders increasingly call for major industrial developments to offset unavoidable biodiversity loss but there are few robust evaluations of whether offset interventions ensure no net loss of biodiversity. We focus on the biodiversity offsets associated with the high-profile Ambatovy mine in Madagascar and evaluate their ef…
Integrated Natural Resource Management in the Highlands of Eastern Africa: From Concept to Practice
Laura German, Jeremias Mowo, Tilahun Amede, and Kenneth Masuki. Abingdon, United Kingdom: EarthScan, 2012. xxix + 306 pp. £ 65.00, US$ 105.00. ISBN 987-1-84971-424-2. Integrated Natural Resource Management in the Highlands of Eastern Africa: From Concept to Practice
Redd herrings or Redd menace: Response to Beymer-Farris and Bassett
Factors influencing social and health outcomes after motor vehicle crash injury: An inception cohort study protocol
Australia New Zealand Clinical trial registry identification number--ACTRN12613000889752. Available at: ANZCTR Registered FISH Study
Hunters and hunting across indigenous and colonist communities at the forest-agriculture interface: An ethnozoological study from the Peruvian Amazon
BACKGROUND: Wildlife has been traditionally used by forest communities as a source of protein, and the Peruvian Amazon is no exception. The articulation of colonist and indigenous communities to urban centers and markets results in changes in livelihood strategies and impacts on wildlife populations. To address the threat of overhunting and forest conversion, we provide a generalized characterization of colonist and indigenous communities and the…
Asynchronous carbon sink saturation in African and Amazonian tropical forests
Remote Sensing Methods for the Biophysical Characterization of Protected Areas Globally: Challenges and Opportunities
Protected areas (PAs) are a key strategy to reverse global biodiversity declines, but they are under increasing pressure from anthropogenic activities and concomitant effects. Thus, the heterogeneous landscapes within PAs, containing a number of different habitats and ecosystem types, are in various degrees of disturbance. Characterizing habitats and ecosystems within the global protected area network requires large-scale monitoring over long tim…
Nature provides valuable sanitation services
Much previous research shows that safe disposal of human waste has a positive impact on human wellbeing, while preventing the degradation of ecosystems. However, to date, the role that ecosystems themselves play in treating human waste has been largely neglected. We conceptualize the role nature plays in treating human waste—acting as a pipeline and/or treatment plant. We estimate that nature is treating ~41.7 million tons of human waste per year…
On track to achieve no net loss of forest at Madagascar’s biggest mine
Meeting the UN Sustainable Development Goals requires reconciling development with biodiversity conservation. Governments and lenders increasingly call for major industrial developments to offset unavoidable biodiversity loss but there are few robust evaluations of whether offset interventions ensure no net loss of biodiversity. We focus on the biodiversity offsets associated with the high-profile Ambatovy mine in Madagascar and evaluate their ef…
Understanding rural–urban transitions in the Global South through peri-urban turbulence
Using a multi‐lens framework for landscape decisions
Landscape decisions are multi‐faceted. Framing landscape decision‐making as a governance process that requires a collective approach can encourage key stakeholders to come together to co‐inform a discussion about their priorities and what constitutes good governance, leading to more holistic landscape decisions. In this paper, we recognise that a suite of complementary and multi‐dimensional approaches are in practice used to inform and evaluate l…
Earlier collapse of Anthropocene ecosystems driven by multiple faster and noisier drivers
A major concern for the world’s ecosystems is the possibility of collapse, where landscapes and the societies they support change abruptly. Accelerating stress levels, increasing frequencies of extreme events and strengthening intersystem connections suggest that conventional modelling approaches based on incremental changes in a single stress may provide poor estimates of the impact of climate and human activities on ecosystems. We conduct exper…
Mapping to explore the challenges and opportunities for reconciling artisanal gem mining and biodiversity conservation
Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) provides a vitally important livelihood for millions of people in many low- and middle-income countries. ASM can result in habitat clearance, increased hunting pressure, pollution, and sedimentation of waterways. Consequently, where mineral and biological wealth coincide, there are trade-offs. Here, we combine geological data with four datasets capturing conservation priorities, to evaluate where, and to wha…
Towards a better future for biodiversity and people: Modelling Nature Futures
The Nature Futures Framework (NFF) is a heuristic tool for co-creating positive futures for nature and people. It seeks to open up a diversity of futures through mainly three value perspectives on nature – Nature for Nature, Nature for Society, and Nature as Culture. This paper describes how the NFF can be applied in modelling to support decision-making. First, we describe key considerations for the NFF in developing qualitative and quantitative …
Older adults’ attitudes and motivations towards learning about personal dementia risk and their willingness to make changes to improve their health in primary care settings
Objective This study assessed older adults' preferences, attitudes, and motivations to understand and change their individual risk for developing dementia via screening in primary care settings
Realities of using self-administered smartphone surveys to solve sustainability challenges
To fill data gaps in human-environment systems, especially in difficult-to-access locations, novel tools are needed to collect (near) real-time data from diverse populations across the globe. Here we discuss the practicalities, constraints, and lessons learnt from six field studies using high spatial and temporal smartphone surveys in six different countries. We suggest that high spatiotemporal, self-administered smartphone surveys will produce n…
Beyond proximity: A review and framework to further understanding of greenspace accessibility in the x‐minute city
Urban greenspaces are crucial for public health, climate resilience and community well‐being, yet there are inequalities in accessibility in cities across the world. The ‘x‐minute city’ framework has been proposed as a potential solution, proposing that essential services and amenities—including greenspace—should be accessible within a short commute from every residence. However, current approaches to measuring and implementing this framework oft…
Reconciling global tipping point theories: Insight from magnetic experiments
Driven by a combination of global warming and unsustainable resource management, global tipping elements represent existential threats to Earth’s systems and communities. However, the tipping point theory is still developing. Here, we reconcile alternative theories through a comparison of mathematical tipping point models and empirical experiments on micromagnet systems. We show how discontinuous change in spatially complex ecosystem models and m…
Mental health benefits of urban green space are shaped by green space attributes, visitor characteristics and the activities they undertake
Access to green spaces is limited in urban areas and has proven benefits for the mental health and well-being of residents. However, there remains a paucity of evidence as to how these benefits vary based on a) the attributes of visited sites, b) the characteristics of visitors, and c) the activities undertaken during each visit. To address these evidence gaps, we analysed 10,749 responses to the Adults’ People and Nature Survey (PaNS) for Englan…
Stakeholder perspectives on the use of patient-reported outcome measures in colorectal cancer survivorship care in general practice: Qualitative study using interviews
To explore perspectives of colorectal cancer (CRC) survivors and general practitioners (GPs) regarding the potential use of Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) in survivorship care. We conducted a qualitative study with semi-structured interviews with CRC survivors and GPs to explore their opinions on the potential utility, feasibility, and preferred method of PROMs utilization in their care/clinical practice. Thematic analysis was conducte…
Geography (9 works) · Ecology (8 works) · Engineering (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Environmental resource management (7 works) · Environmental Science (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Land Use and Ecosystem Services (6 works) · Biology (5 works) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (5 works)