Marcus Collier
Biographic Data
| ID | 3588798 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marcus Collier |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marcus |
| FAMILY NAME | Collier |
| SIGNATURE | COLLIER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College Dublin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6853-9980 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 146 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 26 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Exploring multispecies co-design for social-ecological transformation
As urbanization intensifies, communities encounter increasing challenges in designing, planning, and managing urban green spaces. Co-design offers a just and participatory approach that can unite diverse interest-holders to identify challenges and devise transformative solutions to complex urban issues such as green space governance. However, while co-design is acknowledged for its potential to foster learning and systemic change, it largely rema…
Redefining co-design for social-ecological research and practice
Collaborative processes such as co-design are increasingly crucial in generating social-ecological research and practice. Fostering change within complex adaptive systems requires collaboratively working with real-world actors or stakeholders to resolve complicated issues. Co-design is a distinct and fundamental component of the co-paradigm, a collective term for co-design, co-production, and co-creation. However, scientific literature currently …
Urban novel ecosystems as affective landscapes
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11625-024-01539-w
Leverage points for improving urban biodiversity conservation in the Anthropocene
Environmental governance faces persistent challenges worldwide, with traditional conservation and restoration policies often proving ineffective against ongoing environmental degradation and biodiversity loss. This is driven largely by complex regulatory procedures and an outdated understanding of ecosystem dynamics and change which often fail to effectively engage stakeholders or acknowledge the emergence and value of disturbed or novel ecosyste…
Distribution of Nature-based Solutions in cities across Europe
Nature-based Solutions (NBS) is a conceptual framework that seeks to use properties of nature to co-produce ecosystem services to build climate change resilience and improve quality of life by mitigating the relationship between health inequality and socio-economic adversity. This study investigates how the distribution of these forms of urban nature relate to trends in demographic change and social and economic indicators that influence material…
Exploring urban novel ecosystems
Novel ecosystems are those that have been altered by human activities and have afterwards experienced abandonment or human disuse, allowing for a new assemblage of species to establish. In urban areas, these ecosystems, are commonly found in post-industrial sites, vacant lots, and other unmanaged spaces. The informality of these ecosystems, assumptions of their low ecological value, and associations with negative attributes continue to prevent re…
Embedding co-production of nature-based solutions in urban governance
This paper seeks to understand how co-production can become embedded as a collaborative governance practice by which city governments plan, deliver and steward nature-based solutions. To these ends, the paper analyses how policy officers manifest capacities for co-production in three European cities – Genk (Belgium), Glasgow (United Kingdom) and Poznań (Poland) – while experimenting with co-production to develop and scale nature-based solutions. …
Are field boundary hedgerows the earliest example of a nature-based solution
The arrival of the phrase nature-based solutions into the lexicon of academics, planners, managers and policy makers in recent years has sparked a heated debate as to the effectiveness of using nature as a viable solution for mitigating the impacts of anthropogenic environmental change. One of the difficulties of evaluating the potential efficacy and impact of nature-based solutions is that it is believed that there is little evidence by way of a…
Priority knowledge needs for implementing nature-based solutions in the Mediterranean islands
Mediterranean islands face significant environmental challenges due to their high population density, reliance on imports, and water scarcity, exacerbated by increasing risks from climate change. Nature-based solutions (NbS) could address these challenges sustainably and with multiple benefits, but their uptake in policy and planning is limited, and stakeholder perspectives are conspicuously lacking from current research. Here, we report the resu…
Identifying principles for the design of robust impact evaluation frameworks for nature-based solutions in cities
Examining the policy needs for implementing nature-based solutions in cities
Nature-Based Solutions for Urban Climate Change Adaptation
Nature-based solutions offer an exciting prospect for resilience building and advancing urban planning to address complex urban challenges simultaneously. In this article, we formulated through a coproduction process in workshops held during the first IPCC Cities and Climate Science Conference in Edmonton, Canada, in March 2018, a series of synthesis statements on the role, potential, and research gaps of nature-based solutions for climate adapta…
Managing natural resources
The emergence of green infrastructure as promoting the centralisation of a landscape perspective in spatial planning—the case of Ireland
The ‘landscape’ approach to planning and design has long since advanced a social–ecological perspective that conceives ecosystems health and human well-being as mutually constitutive. However, conventional public sector organisational arrangements segregate and discretely administer development issues, thereby militating against the holistic viewpoint necessary to redress the entwined nature of complex planning issues. The emergence and continuin…
Urban transformation with Turas open innovations; opportunities for transitioning through transdisciplinarity
European university-community partnership-based research on urban sustainability and resilience
Renaturing cities using a regionally-focused biodiversity-led multifunctional benefits approach to urban green infrastructure
Operationalizing urban resilience through a framework for adaptive co-management and design
The emergent discourse on social-ecological resilience can be understood as a response to the rapid pace of change and severe challenges facing urban areas. This paper reports on one strand of research being carried out as part of the EU FP7 TURAS project (Transitioning to Urban Resilience and Sustainability) that aims to gain insight into the implications of social-ecological resilience thinking on urban planning practice and policy by presentin…
Novel ecosystems
Novel ecosystems are ecological assemblages that have emerged in the landscapes of the Anthropocene, where an ecological abiotic or biotic threshold has been passed and can no longer be restored to a previous state. In such landscapes, novelty is attributed to unanticipated rapid anthropogenic environmental change, and deliberate land use practices, and can be characterised by the arrival over time of differing species assemblages and extent. Whi…
Transitioning to resilience and sustainability in urban communities
Field Boundary Stone Walls as Exemplars of ‘Novel’ Ecosystems
In some parts of Europe, stone wall field boundaries pervade agricultural landscapes, yet despite their prominence there has been very little research into field boundary walls anywhere. However, these anthropogenic features within cultural landscapes may offer insight into current debates on 'novel' ecosystems because of their artifice, their longevity in the landscape particularly in remote or exposed regions, and their morphology. In a review …
Peatlands, their economic value and priorities for their future management – The example of Ireland
When the public good conflicts with an apparent preference for unsustainable behaviour
Focus group discourses in a mined landscape
Conflicting rationalities, knowledge and values in scarred landscapes
Transitioning to resilience and sustainability in urban communities
Identifying principles for the design of robust impact evaluation frameworks for nature-based solutions in cities
Renaturing cities using a regionally-focused biodiversity-led multifunctional benefits approach to urban green infrastructure
Conflicting rationalities, knowledge and values in scarred landscapes
Examining the policy needs for implementing nature-based solutions in cities
Operationalizing urban resilience through a framework for adaptive co-management and design
The emergent discourse on social-ecological resilience can be understood as a response to the rapid pace of change and severe challenges facing urban areas. This paper reports on one strand of research being carried out as part of the EU FP7 TURAS project (Transitioning to Urban Resilience and Sustainability) that aims to gain insight into the implications of social-ecological resilience thinking on urban planning practice and policy by presentin…
Managing natural resources
Industrially Harvested Peatlands and After-use Potential
Recent years have witnessed much debate on the turn towards community within landscape management and planning. This is particularly evident in the European Landscape Convention which asserts the legitimacy of local preferences and citizen involvement in policy processes. This paper explores a bottom-up perspective on people–place relationships in a changing landscape, through assessing the after-use potential of industrially mined peatlands in I…
Embedding co-production of nature-based solutions in urban governance
This paper seeks to understand how co-production can become embedded as a collaborative governance practice by which city governments plan, deliver and steward nature-based solutions. To these ends, the paper analyses how policy officers manifest capacities for co-production in three European cities – Genk (Belgium), Glasgow (United Kingdom) and Poznań (Poland) – while experimenting with co-production to develop and scale nature-based solutions. …
Priority knowledge needs for implementing nature-based solutions in the Mediterranean islands
Mediterranean islands face significant environmental challenges due to their high population density, reliance on imports, and water scarcity, exacerbated by increasing risks from climate change. Nature-based solutions (NbS) could address these challenges sustainably and with multiple benefits, but their uptake in policy and planning is limited, and stakeholder perspectives are conspicuously lacking from current research. Here, we report the resu…
Field Boundary Stone Walls as Exemplars of ‘Novel’ Ecosystems
In some parts of Europe, stone wall field boundaries pervade agricultural landscapes, yet despite their prominence there has been very little research into field boundary walls anywhere. However, these anthropogenic features within cultural landscapes may offer insight into current debates on 'novel' ecosystems because of their artifice, their longevity in the landscape particularly in remote or exposed regions, and their morphology. In a review …
Peatlands, their economic value and priorities for their future management – The example of Ireland
When the public good conflicts with an apparent preference for unsustainable behaviour
Distribution of Nature-based Solutions in cities across Europe
Nature-based Solutions (NBS) is a conceptual framework that seeks to use properties of nature to co-produce ecosystem services to build climate change resilience and improve quality of life by mitigating the relationship between health inequality and socio-economic adversity. This study investigates how the distribution of these forms of urban nature relate to trends in demographic change and social and economic indicators that influence material…
Exploring urban novel ecosystems
Novel ecosystems are those that have been altered by human activities and have afterwards experienced abandonment or human disuse, allowing for a new assemblage of species to establish. In urban areas, these ecosystems, are commonly found in post-industrial sites, vacant lots, and other unmanaged spaces. The informality of these ecosystems, assumptions of their low ecological value, and associations with negative attributes continue to prevent re…
Are field boundary hedgerows the earliest example of a nature-based solution
The arrival of the phrase nature-based solutions into the lexicon of academics, planners, managers and policy makers in recent years has sparked a heated debate as to the effectiveness of using nature as a viable solution for mitigating the impacts of anthropogenic environmental change. One of the difficulties of evaluating the potential efficacy and impact of nature-based solutions is that it is believed that there is little evidence by way of a…
The emergence of green infrastructure as promoting the centralisation of a landscape perspective in spatial planning—the case of Ireland
The ‘landscape’ approach to planning and design has long since advanced a social–ecological perspective that conceives ecosystems health and human well-being as mutually constitutive. However, conventional public sector organisational arrangements segregate and discretely administer development issues, thereby militating against the holistic viewpoint necessary to redress the entwined nature of complex planning issues. The emergence and continuin…
Urban novel ecosystems as affective landscapes
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11625-024-01539-w
Urban transformation with Turas open innovations; opportunities for transitioning through transdisciplinarity
Novel ecosystems
Novel ecosystems are ecological assemblages that have emerged in the landscapes of the Anthropocene, where an ecological abiotic or biotic threshold has been passed and can no longer be restored to a previous state. In such landscapes, novelty is attributed to unanticipated rapid anthropogenic environmental change, and deliberate land use practices, and can be characterised by the arrival over time of differing species assemblages and extent. Whi…
Industrially Harvested Peatlands and After-use Potential
Recent years have witnessed much debate on the turn towards community within landscape management and planning. This is particularly evident in the European Landscape Convention which asserts the legitimacy of local preferences and citizen involvement in policy processes. This paper explores a bottom-up perspective on people–place relationships in a changing landscape, through assessing the after-use potential of industrially mined peatlands in I…
Conflicting rationalities, knowledge and values in scarred landscapes
Focus group discourses in a mined landscape
When the public good conflicts with an apparent preference for unsustainable behaviour
Peatlands, their economic value and priorities for their future management – The example of Ireland
Transitioning to resilience and sustainability in urban communities
Field Boundary Stone Walls as Exemplars of ‘Novel’ Ecosystems
In some parts of Europe, stone wall field boundaries pervade agricultural landscapes, yet despite their prominence there has been very little research into field boundary walls anywhere. However, these anthropogenic features within cultural landscapes may offer insight into current debates on 'novel' ecosystems because of their artifice, their longevity in the landscape particularly in remote or exposed regions, and their morphology. In a review …
Urban transformation with Turas open innovations; opportunities for transitioning through transdisciplinarity
European university-community partnership-based research on urban sustainability and resilience
Renaturing cities using a regionally-focused biodiversity-led multifunctional benefits approach to urban green infrastructure
Operationalizing urban resilience through a framework for adaptive co-management and design
The emergent discourse on social-ecological resilience can be understood as a response to the rapid pace of change and severe challenges facing urban areas. This paper reports on one strand of research being carried out as part of the EU FP7 TURAS project (Transitioning to Urban Resilience and Sustainability) that aims to gain insight into the implications of social-ecological resilience thinking on urban planning practice and policy by presentin…
Novel ecosystems
Novel ecosystems are ecological assemblages that have emerged in the landscapes of the Anthropocene, where an ecological abiotic or biotic threshold has been passed and can no longer be restored to a previous state. In such landscapes, novelty is attributed to unanticipated rapid anthropogenic environmental change, and deliberate land use practices, and can be characterised by the arrival over time of differing species assemblages and extent. Whi…
The emergence of green infrastructure as promoting the centralisation of a landscape perspective in spatial planning—the case of Ireland
The ‘landscape’ approach to planning and design has long since advanced a social–ecological perspective that conceives ecosystems health and human well-being as mutually constitutive. However, conventional public sector organisational arrangements segregate and discretely administer development issues, thereby militating against the holistic viewpoint necessary to redress the entwined nature of complex planning issues. The emergence and continuin…
Managing natural resources
Nature-Based Solutions for Urban Climate Change Adaptation
Nature-based solutions offer an exciting prospect for resilience building and advancing urban planning to address complex urban challenges simultaneously. In this article, we formulated through a coproduction process in workshops held during the first IPCC Cities and Climate Science Conference in Edmonton, Canada, in March 2018, a series of synthesis statements on the role, potential, and research gaps of nature-based solutions for climate adapta…
Priority knowledge needs for implementing nature-based solutions in the Mediterranean islands
Mediterranean islands face significant environmental challenges due to their high population density, reliance on imports, and water scarcity, exacerbated by increasing risks from climate change. Nature-based solutions (NbS) could address these challenges sustainably and with multiple benefits, but their uptake in policy and planning is limited, and stakeholder perspectives are conspicuously lacking from current research. Here, we report the resu…
Identifying principles for the design of robust impact evaluation frameworks for nature-based solutions in cities
Examining the policy needs for implementing nature-based solutions in cities
Are field boundary hedgerows the earliest example of a nature-based solution
The arrival of the phrase nature-based solutions into the lexicon of academics, planners, managers and policy makers in recent years has sparked a heated debate as to the effectiveness of using nature as a viable solution for mitigating the impacts of anthropogenic environmental change. One of the difficulties of evaluating the potential efficacy and impact of nature-based solutions is that it is believed that there is little evidence by way of a…
Embedding co-production of nature-based solutions in urban governance
This paper seeks to understand how co-production can become embedded as a collaborative governance practice by which city governments plan, deliver and steward nature-based solutions. To these ends, the paper analyses how policy officers manifest capacities for co-production in three European cities – Genk (Belgium), Glasgow (United Kingdom) and Poznań (Poland) – while experimenting with co-production to develop and scale nature-based solutions. …
Urban novel ecosystems as affective landscapes
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11625-024-01539-w
Leverage points for improving urban biodiversity conservation in the Anthropocene
Environmental governance faces persistent challenges worldwide, with traditional conservation and restoration policies often proving ineffective against ongoing environmental degradation and biodiversity loss. This is driven largely by complex regulatory procedures and an outdated understanding of ecosystem dynamics and change which often fail to effectively engage stakeholders or acknowledge the emergence and value of disturbed or novel ecosyste…
Distribution of Nature-based Solutions in cities across Europe
Nature-based Solutions (NBS) is a conceptual framework that seeks to use properties of nature to co-produce ecosystem services to build climate change resilience and improve quality of life by mitigating the relationship between health inequality and socio-economic adversity. This study investigates how the distribution of these forms of urban nature relate to trends in demographic change and social and economic indicators that influence material…
Exploring urban novel ecosystems
Novel ecosystems are those that have been altered by human activities and have afterwards experienced abandonment or human disuse, allowing for a new assemblage of species to establish. In urban areas, these ecosystems, are commonly found in post-industrial sites, vacant lots, and other unmanaged spaces. The informality of these ecosystems, assumptions of their low ecological value, and associations with negative attributes continue to prevent re…
Redefining co-design for social-ecological research and practice
Collaborative processes such as co-design are increasingly crucial in generating social-ecological research and practice. Fostering change within complex adaptive systems requires collaboratively working with real-world actors or stakeholders to resolve complicated issues. Co-design is a distinct and fundamental component of the co-paradigm, a collective term for co-design, co-production, and co-creation. However, scientific literature currently …
Environmental resource management (20 works) · Environmental planning (17 works) · Geography (17 works) · Land Use and Ecosystem Services (17 works) · Economics (15 works) · Environmental Science (13 works) · Political science (13 works) · Business (12 works) · Computer Science (12 works) · Ecology (11 works)