William J Sutherland

Biographic Data

ID278287
NAMEWilliam J Sutherland
GIVEN NAMESWilliam J
FAMILY NAMESutherland
SIGNATURESUTHERLAND W J
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Cambridge
ORCID0000-0002-6498-0437
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS35
TOTAL CITATIONS94
AUTHOR COUNT30
EDITOR COUNT5
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1910
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX5

  • Crediting non-author contributors in scientific publishing

    Open AccessCharles A Emogor, Mark A Burgman et al.ARTICLENature Human Behaviour2025References: 14

  • The Mangrove Restoration Tracker Tool: Meeting local practitioner needs and tracking progress toward global targets

    Open AccessYasmine Gatt, Yasmine M Gatt et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2024

    Restoration is a key component of global and national efforts to combat ecosystem degradation, reduce biodiversity loss, and adapt to climate change, and there is currently an impetus to scale up restoration efforts. However, our ability to track progress toward restoration targets is limited by the lack of consistent and standardized data on objectives, interventions, and outcomes. To address this, a collaboration of conservation practitioners a…

  • Foresight science in conservation: Tools, barriers, and mainstreaming opportunities

    Open AccessGabrielle Ednie, Tyreen Kapoor et al.ARTICLEAMBIO2023References: 79

  • Identifying opportunities to deliver effective and efficient outcomes from business-biodiversity action

    Open AccessThomas B White, Thomas White et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Science & Policy2022Cited by: 1References: 2

    Business-biodiversity action is increasingly seen as critical for delivering conservation goals, but such action needs to be effective. Using detailed semi-structured interviews with leading business-biodiversity professionals and consultants we aimed to understand the actions currently taken and why, how actions are decided upon, and current challenges that hinder effective, efficient action. The scale and type of action varied by sector, driven…

  • What Works in Conservation 2020

    Silviu O Silviu, William J Sutherland et al.BOOKWhat Works in Conservation 20202020

    "Does the creation of artificial reefs benefit subtidal benthic invertebrates? Is the use of organic farming instead of conventional farming beneficial to bat conservation? Does installing wildlife warning reflectors along roads benefit mammal conservation? Does the installation of exclusion and/or escape devices on fishing nets benefit marine and freshwater mammal conservation? What Works in Conservation has been created to provide practitioners…

  • Amphibian Conservation

    Open AccessRebecca K Smith, Helen Meredith et al.CHAPTERWhat Works in Conservation 20202020

    Create ponds (amphibians in general) Create ponds (frogs) Create ponds (natterjack toads) Create ponds (salamanders including newts) Create wetlands Deepen, de-silt or re-profile ponds Restore wetlands Create ponds (great crested newts) Create ponds (green toads) Create ponds (toads) Remove specific aquatic plants Restore ponds Remove tree canopy to reduce pond shading Add nutrients to new ponds as larvae food source Add specific plants to aquati…

  • Accumulating evidence using crowdsourcing and machine learning: A living bibliography about existential risk and global catastrophic risk

    Open AccessGorm E Shackelford, Luke Kemp et al.ARTICLEFutures2020Cited by: 3References: 15

    The study of existential risk — the risk of human extinction or the collapse of human civilization — has only recently emerged as an integrated field of research, and yet an overwhelming volume of relevant research has already been published. To provide an evidence base for policy and risk analysis, this research should be systematically reviewed. In a systematic review, one of many time-consuming tasks is to read the titles and abstracts of rese…

  • What works in conservation: 2019

    Nancy Ockenden, Open Book Publishers et al.BOOKWhat works in conservation2019

    "Do wind turbine modifications reduce bat fatalities? Does adding topsoil increase the abundance of heathland plants? Are interventions to reduce road impacts on amphibians effective? Do herbicides control invasive parrot's feather? What Works in Conservation has been created to provide practitioners with answers to these and many other questions about practical conservation. This book provides an assessment of the effectiveness of 1389 conservat…

  • Amphibian Conservation

    Open AccessRebecca K Smith, Helen Meredith et al.CHAPTERWhat works in conservation2019

  • Quantifying cultural ecosystem services: Disentangling the effects of management from landscape features

    Open AccessEleanor R Tew, Benno I Simmons et al.ARTICLEPeople and Nature2019

    Cultural ecosystem services are undeniably important, yet are typically neglected in land management decisions due to a suite of intractable challenges: they are highly complex, localised, and inextricably associated with landscape features. However, to incorporate the ecosystem services framework into land management, decision‐makers need the tools to disentangle the effects of land use from other factors. This is a major challenge for ecosystem…

  • Biodiversity’s contributions to sustainable development

    Open AccessMałgorzata Blicharska, R Smithers et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2019Cited by: 8References: 18

  • Integrated farm management for sustainable agriculture: Lessons for knowledge exchange and policy

    Open AccessDavid Christian Rose, William J Sutherland et al.ARTICLELand Use Policy2019Cited by: 8References: 29

    As a response to the environmentally and socially destructive practices of post-war mechanization and intensification, the concept of sustainable agriculture has become prominent in research, policy, and practice. Sustainable agriculture aims to balance the economic, environmental, and social aspects of farming, creating a resilient farming system in the long-term. Over the last few decades, various concepts have been used in research and policy …

  • What Works in Conservation 2018

    Open AccessWilliam J Sutherland, Lynn V Dicks et al.BOOKWhat Works in Conservation 20182018

  • Amphibian Conservation

    Open AccessRebecca K Smith, Helen Meredith et al.CHAPTERWhat Works in Conservation 20182018

    What are the best means of reducing illegal hunting of primates? Does changing the type of livestock benefit heathland vegetation? Does removing the upper layer of peat enhance peatland restoration? Is flame treatment effective for dealing with invasive floating pennywort? What Works in Conservation has been created to provide practitioners with answers to these and many other questions about practical conservation. This book provides an assessme…

  • Cross-discipline evidence principles for sustainability policy

    Open AccessEdward T Game, Heather Tallis et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2018Cited by: 5References: 6

  • Evidence-Based Synopsis of Interventions, a New Tool in Primate Conservation and Research

    Open AccessSilviu O Petrovan, Jessica Junker et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2018Cited by: 1References: 5

  • Classifying global catastrophic risks

    Open AccessShahar Avin, Bonnie C Wintle et al.ARTICLEFutures2018Cited by: 23References: 10

    We present a novel classification framework for severe global catastrophic risk scenarios. Extending beyond existing work that identifies individual risk scenarios, we propose analysing global catastrophic risks along three dimensions: the critical systems affected, global spread mechanisms, and prevention and mitigation failures. The classification highlights areas of convergence between risk scenarios, which supports prioritisation of particula…

  • Exploring the spatialities of technological and user re-scripting: The case of decision support tools in UK agriculture

    Open AccessDavid Christian Rose, Carol Morris et al.ARTICLEGeoforum2018Cited by: 16References: 9

    The use of decision support tools on-farm may help to deliver evidence-based guidance to farmers, helping to improve productivity and prevent environmental degradation. While much research has sought to increase the uptake of decision support tools in practice, largely by identifying desirable characteristics of system design, rather little work has used a spatial lens to investigate how they are actually used. Using Latour’s notion of ‘the scrip…

  • Policy windows for the environment: Tips for improving the uptake of scientific knowledge

    Open AccessDavid Christian Rose, Nibedita Mukherjee et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Science & Policy2017Cited by: 22References: 12

    Scientific knowledge is considered to be an important factor (alongside others) in environmental policy-making. However, the opportunity for environmentalists to influence policy can often occur within short, discrete time windows. Therefore, a piece of research may have a negligible or transformative policy influence depending on when it is presented. These ‘policy windows’ are sometimes predictable, such as those dealing with conventions or leg…

  • Languages Are Still a Major Barrier to Global Science

    Open AccessTetsuya Amano, Juan P González-Varo et al.ARTICLEPLOS Biology2016

    While it is recognized that language can pose a barrier to the transfer of scientific knowledge, the convergence on English as the global language of science may suggest that this problem has been resolved. However, our survey searching Google Scholar in 16 languages revealed that 35.6% of 75,513 scientific documents on biodiversity conservation published in 2014 were not in English. Ignoring such non-English knowledge can cause biases in our und…

  • Research priorities for managing the impacts and dependencies of business upon food, energy, water and the environment

    Open AccessJonathan Green, Gemma Cranston et al.ARTICLESustainability Science2016Cited by: 2References: 6

    Delivering access to sufficient food, energy and water resources to ensure human wellbeing is a major concern for governments worldwide. However, it is crucial to account for the 'nexus' of interactions between these natural resources and the consequent implications for human wellbeing. The private sector has a critical role in driving positive change towards more sustainable nexus management and could reap considerable benefits from collaboratio…

  • Managing Habitats for Conservation

    William J Sutherland, David A HillBOOKManaging Habitats for Conservation2015

  • The role of agri‐environment schemes in conservation and environmental management

    Open AccessPéter Batáry, Lynn V Dicks et al.ARTICLEConservation Biology2015

    Over half of the European landscape is under agricultural management and has been for millennia. Many species and ecosystems of conservation concern in Europe depend on agricultural management and are showing ongoing declines. Agri‐environment schemes (AES) are designed partly to address this. They are a major source of nature conservation funding within the European Union (EU) and the highest conservation expenditure in Europe. We reviewed the s…

  • EU agricultural reform fails on biodiversity

    Open AccessGuy Pe’er, Lynn V Dicks et al.ARTICLEScience2014

    Extra steps by Member States are needed to protect farmed and grassland ecosystems

  • Solution Scanning as a Key Policy Tool: Identifying Management Interventions to Help Maintain and Enhance Regulating Ecosystem Services

    Open AccessWilliam J Sutherland, Toby Gardner et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2014Cited by: 1

    Sutherland, W. J., T. Gardner, T. L. Bogich, R. B. Bradbury, B. Clothier, M. Jonsson, V. Kapos, S. N. Lane, I. Möller, M. Schroeder, M. Spalding, T. Spencer, P. C. L. White, and L. V. Dicks. 2014. Solution scanning as a key policy tool: identifying management interventions to help maintain and enhance regulating ecosystem services. Ecology and Society 19(2): 3. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-06082-190203