R Fish
Biographic Data
| ID | 25292 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R Fish |
| GIVEN NAMES | R |
| FAMILY NAME | Fish |
| SIGNATURE | FISH R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kent |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7198-0403 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 205 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
What is ‘relational thinking’, and how does it manifest in research?
People and Nature is a ‘journal of relational thinking’. This editorial explores what relational thinking can mean and how it might be operationalized in the context of humans and the environment. Relational thinking may seem intuitive because it recognizes the world's inherent interconnectedness. However, the question of how to operationalize relational thinking in social‐ecological research is rich and multifaceted. This is because doing resear…
Growing trees on farms: Navigating the goals and values of farmers
Agricultural landscapes represent critical contexts for advancing policy objectives related to tree cover expansion. This paper explores how farmers' values influence their willingness or ability to grow trees on farms. Research is based on 49 interviews and two focus groups with farmers in England and draws on two social science research traditions to devise an analytical framework based on four value orientations—instrumental, relational, expre…
The multiple values of nature show the lack of a coherent theory of value—In any context
Pathways to sustainability require a broader and fuller representation of the multiple values of nature in policy and practice. In this People and Nature special feature entitled ‘The Multiple Values of Nature’, researchers interpreted all three key words differently: multiple, values and nature. The articles also engaged variously with concepts, theory, practice and data. In the face of this diversity, some see a burgeoning field and others see …
Farmer identities and perceptions of public good provision
Agricultural policy discourse highlights the role of farmers as providers of public goods to justify agri-environmental measures. England’s post-Brexit agricultural policy reform, with its originally stated aim of ‘public money for public goods’, presented an opportunity to assess how farmers respond to this idea. Informed by social psychological accounts of how farmer management reflects their identities, our thematic analysis of qualitative int…
Stated preferences for the colours, smells, and sounds of biodiversity
Forest creation and restoration are embedded in global policy. Both result in landscape changes that have far-reaching socioeconomic consequences. However, there is limited evidence on public preferences for the biodiversity these forests contain. Here we used a choice experiment to explore the British public’s willingness to pay (WTP) for different forest biodiversity attributes. We began with a multiple-step deliberative participatory process. …
The value of listening and listening for values in conservation
Listening is a pervasive and significant act of conservation research and praxis, mattering greatly for the realisation of conservation agendas, not least its ambitions to be outward looking and inclusive in approach. Yet, the value and role of listening has been barely explored in a sustained and reflexive way. This paper is a preliminary schematic of what it might mean to attend to the act of listening, set within the context of a larger field …
Human well-being responses to species’ traits
People rely on well-functioning ecosystems to provide critical services that underpin human health and well-being. Consequently, biodiversity loss has profound negative implications for humanity. Human–biodiversity interactions can deliver individual-level well-being gains, equating to substantial healthcare cost savings when scaled up across populations. However, critical questions remain about which species and/or traits (for example, colours, …
Nature, smells, and human wellbeing
The link between nature and human wellbeing is well established. However, few studies go beyond considering the visual and auditory underpinnings of this relationship, even though engaging with nature is a multisensory experience. While research linking smell to wellbeing exists, it focuses predominantly on smells as a source of nuisance/offence. Smells clearly have a prominent influence, but a significant knowledge gap remains in the nexus of na…
People and nature: The emerging signature of a relational journal
It is now 3 years since People and Nature was launched as the British Ecological Society's journal of relational thinking. Since that formative and auspicious moment, the Journal has published over 160 papers exploring critical linkages between, and assemblages of, these highly interdependent, if not co-constructed, worlds of 'people' and 'nature'. We wrote in the opening editorial of the motivation and opportunity for conducting broadly defined …
Exploring shared public perspectives on biodiversity attributes
Researchers, practitioners and policymakers have widely documented the multifarious ways that nature influences human well‐being. However, we still have only a limited understanding of how the public interact with, respond to and talk about attributes of biodiversity. We used image‐based Q methodology to explore the shared and contrasting perspectives people hold for biodiversity. This approach is a powerful way of allowing people to articulate w…
IEEE Transactions on Education publication information
IEEE Transactions on Education publication information
IEEE Transactions on Education publication information
IEEE Transactions on Education publication information
Reconnecting society with its ecological roots
More than sweat equity: Young people as volunteers in conservation work
People and Nature —A journal of relational thinking
The vital importance of nature to people, and of people to the future of that nature, is self-evident. The understanding of those linkages is, nonetheless, being critically transformed and enriched by research that transcends the barriers between ecology and other traditional disciplines. Such studies are not new, but the dramatic growth in their number and influence is, and reflects the growing need for such work in rapidly changing times and ci…
Conceptualising cultural ecosystem services: A novel framework for research and critical engagement
The construction of culture as a class of ecosystem service presents a significant test of the holistic ambitions of an ecosystems approach to decision making. In this paper we explore the theoretical challenges arising from efforts to understand ecosystems as objects of cultural concern and consider the operational complexities associated with understanding how, and with what consequences, knowledge about cultural ecosystem services are created,…
Subjective well-being indicators for large-scale assessment of cultural ecosystem services
The substantial importance of cultural benefits as a source of human well-being is increasingly recognised in society-environment interactions. The integration of cultural ecosystem services (CES) into the ecosystem services framework remains a challenge due to the difficulties associated with defining, articulating and measuring CES. We operationalise a novel framework developed by the UK National Ecosystem Assessment that identifies CES as the …
Molecular tools for bathing water assessment in Europe: Balancing social science research with a rapidly developing environmental science evidence-base
The use of molecular tools, principally qPCR, versus traditional culture-based methods for quantifying microbial parameters (e.g., Fecal Indicator Organisms) in bathing waters generates considerable ongoing debate at the science-policy interface. Advances in science have allowed the development and application of molecular biological methods for rapid (~2 h) quantification of microbial pollution in bathing and recreational waters. In contrast, cu…
What are shared and social values of ecosystems
Sustainable intensification and ecosystem services: New directions in agricultural governance
A license to produce? Farmer interpretations of the new food security agenda
Catchments, sub-catchments and private spaces: Scale and process in managing microbial pollution from source to sea
Farming Livelihoods and Landscapes: Tensions in Rural Development and Environmental Regulation
European rural development scholars have been preoccupied with how to understand the pace and scope of rural landscape change, as increasingly liberalized market economic policies and stringent environmental mandates shape contemporary landscapes and livelihoods. Recent efforts to document and theorize the new practices occurring in rural landscapes have produced two competing explanatory frameworks of rural change, one of which asserts a paradig…
What are shared and social values of ecosystems
Putting together ruralities: Towards a symbolic analysis of rurality in the British mass media
Conserving English Landscapes: Land Managers and Agri-Environmental Policy
There is increasing public policy interest in the management of rural landscapes for conservation, both in terms of natural and cultural heritage. Agri-environmental policies are an important part of an emerging vision for a sustainable countryside, with increasing support for the existing Environmentally Sensitive Area (ESA) and Countryside Stewardship (CS) schemes. This paper provides insight into the nature of land-manager attitudes towards th…
A license to produce? Farmer interpretations of the new food security agenda
Sustainable farmland management as political and cultural discourse
Human well-being responses to species’ traits
People rely on well-functioning ecosystems to provide critical services that underpin human health and well-being. Consequently, biodiversity loss has profound negative implications for humanity. Human–biodiversity interactions can deliver individual-level well-being gains, equating to substantial healthcare cost savings when scaled up across populations. However, critical questions remain about which species and/or traits (for example, colours, …
Nature, smells, and human wellbeing
The link between nature and human wellbeing is well established. However, few studies go beyond considering the visual and auditory underpinnings of this relationship, even though engaging with nature is a multisensory experience. While research linking smell to wellbeing exists, it focuses predominantly on smells as a source of nuisance/offence. Smells clearly have a prominent influence, but a significant knowledge gap remains in the nexus of na…
Catchments, sub-catchments and private spaces: Scale and process in managing microbial pollution from source to sea
Sustainable intensification and ecosystem services: New directions in agricultural governance
Unruly pathogens: Eliciting values for environmental risk in the context of heterogeneous expert knowledge
Stated preferences for the colours, smells, and sounds of biodiversity
Forest creation and restoration are embedded in global policy. Both result in landscape changes that have far-reaching socioeconomic consequences. However, there is limited evidence on public preferences for the biodiversity these forests contain. Here we used a choice experiment to explore the British public’s willingness to pay (WTP) for different forest biodiversity attributes. We began with a multiple-step deliberative participatory process. …
People and nature: The emerging signature of a relational journal
It is now 3 years since People and Nature was launched as the British Ecological Society's journal of relational thinking. Since that formative and auspicious moment, the Journal has published over 160 papers exploring critical linkages between, and assemblages of, these highly interdependent, if not co-constructed, worlds of 'people' and 'nature'. We wrote in the opening editorial of the motivation and opportunity for conducting broadly defined …
Reconnecting society with its ecological roots
Task Requirements and Media Choice in Collaborative Writing
Modalities such as face-to-face meetings permit rich communication, which involves both expressiveness and interactivity. Modalities such as text annotation or electronic mail, however, limit both. Contingency theory, as applied to collaborative writing, says that as the equivocality of the writing task increases, communication modalities that support rich communication are more likely to be used. In addition, it says that if these modalities are…
Putting together ruralities: Towards a symbolic analysis of rurality in the British mass media
Conserving English Landscapes: Land Managers and Agri-Environmental Policy
There is increasing public policy interest in the management of rural landscapes for conservation, both in terms of natural and cultural heritage. Agri-environmental policies are an important part of an emerging vision for a sustainable countryside, with increasing support for the existing Environmentally Sensitive Area (ESA) and Countryside Stewardship (CS) schemes. This paper provides insight into the nature of land-manager attitudes towards th…
Sustainable farmland management as political and cultural discourse
Unruly pathogens: Eliciting values for environmental risk in the context of heterogeneous expert knowledge
Catchments, sub-catchments and private spaces: Scale and process in managing microbial pollution from source to sea
Farming Livelihoods and Landscapes: Tensions in Rural Development and Environmental Regulation
European rural development scholars have been preoccupied with how to understand the pace and scope of rural landscape change, as increasingly liberalized market economic policies and stringent environmental mandates shape contemporary landscapes and livelihoods. Recent efforts to document and theorize the new practices occurring in rural landscapes have produced two competing explanatory frameworks of rural change, one of which asserts a paradig…
A license to produce? Farmer interpretations of the new food security agenda
Sustainable intensification and ecosystem services: New directions in agricultural governance
What are shared and social values of ecosystems
Conceptualising cultural ecosystem services: A novel framework for research and critical engagement
The construction of culture as a class of ecosystem service presents a significant test of the holistic ambitions of an ecosystems approach to decision making. In this paper we explore the theoretical challenges arising from efforts to understand ecosystems as objects of cultural concern and consider the operational complexities associated with understanding how, and with what consequences, knowledge about cultural ecosystem services are created,…
Subjective well-being indicators for large-scale assessment of cultural ecosystem services
The substantial importance of cultural benefits as a source of human well-being is increasingly recognised in society-environment interactions. The integration of cultural ecosystem services (CES) into the ecosystem services framework remains a challenge due to the difficulties associated with defining, articulating and measuring CES. We operationalise a novel framework developed by the UK National Ecosystem Assessment that identifies CES as the …
Molecular tools for bathing water assessment in Europe: Balancing social science research with a rapidly developing environmental science evidence-base
The use of molecular tools, principally qPCR, versus traditional culture-based methods for quantifying microbial parameters (e.g., Fecal Indicator Organisms) in bathing waters generates considerable ongoing debate at the science-policy interface. Advances in science have allowed the development and application of molecular biological methods for rapid (~2 h) quantification of microbial pollution in bathing and recreational waters. In contrast, cu…
People and Nature —A journal of relational thinking
The vital importance of nature to people, and of people to the future of that nature, is self-evident. The understanding of those linkages is, nonetheless, being critically transformed and enriched by research that transcends the barriers between ecology and other traditional disciplines. Such studies are not new, but the dramatic growth in their number and influence is, and reflects the growing need for such work in rapidly changing times and ci…
IEEE Transactions on Education publication information
IEEE Transactions on Education publication information
IEEE Transactions on Education publication information
IEEE Transactions on Education publication information
Reconnecting society with its ecological roots
More than sweat equity: Young people as volunteers in conservation work
Exploring shared public perspectives on biodiversity attributes
Researchers, practitioners and policymakers have widely documented the multifarious ways that nature influences human well‐being. However, we still have only a limited understanding of how the public interact with, respond to and talk about attributes of biodiversity. We used image‐based Q methodology to explore the shared and contrasting perspectives people hold for biodiversity. This approach is a powerful way of allowing people to articulate w…
People and nature: The emerging signature of a relational journal
It is now 3 years since People and Nature was launched as the British Ecological Society's journal of relational thinking. Since that formative and auspicious moment, the Journal has published over 160 papers exploring critical linkages between, and assemblages of, these highly interdependent, if not co-constructed, worlds of 'people' and 'nature'. We wrote in the opening editorial of the motivation and opportunity for conducting broadly defined …
The value of listening and listening for values in conservation
Listening is a pervasive and significant act of conservation research and praxis, mattering greatly for the realisation of conservation agendas, not least its ambitions to be outward looking and inclusive in approach. Yet, the value and role of listening has been barely explored in a sustained and reflexive way. This paper is a preliminary schematic of what it might mean to attend to the act of listening, set within the context of a larger field …
Human well-being responses to species’ traits
People rely on well-functioning ecosystems to provide critical services that underpin human health and well-being. Consequently, biodiversity loss has profound negative implications for humanity. Human–biodiversity interactions can deliver individual-level well-being gains, equating to substantial healthcare cost savings when scaled up across populations. However, critical questions remain about which species and/or traits (for example, colours, …
Nature, smells, and human wellbeing
The link between nature and human wellbeing is well established. However, few studies go beyond considering the visual and auditory underpinnings of this relationship, even though engaging with nature is a multisensory experience. While research linking smell to wellbeing exists, it focuses predominantly on smells as a source of nuisance/offence. Smells clearly have a prominent influence, but a significant knowledge gap remains in the nexus of na…
Geography (13 works) · Political science (13 works) · Ecology (11 works) · Business (10 works) · Environmental resource management (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Economics (9 works) · Ecosystem services (7 works) · Environmental planning (7 works)