Sophie Wynne‐jone
Biographic Data
| ID | 3938514 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sophie Wynne‐jone |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sophie |
| FAMILY NAME | Wynne‐jone |
| SIGNATURE | JONE S W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bangor University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2745-3803 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 186 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Exploring farmer sentiment and decision-making on circular agricultural practices adoption in Europe: Evidence from Italy, Norway and the UK
Transitioning towards more circular farming systems, which prioritise using renewable and recycled resources to reduce reliance on external inputs, offers potential to improve nutrient cycling, enhance farm profitability and mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. However, widespread adoption remains limited. To support the wider adoption of circular farming practices across diverse rural and agroecological settings, we examined how psychological, con…
Rewilding: An emotional nature
Rewilding is an emotional subject. It inspires passions and argument in spades. As a form of conservation, rewilding offers exciting possibilities to address ecological crises but it is also a threat for many people, leading to dispute and impasse. This paper explores the role emotions play both to inspire rewilding and in the ensuing conflicts. Informed by emotional geographies and feminist political ecology, the analysis attends to the socio‐cu…
It's ‘common-sense’ farming: Exploring farmers' decision-making and behaviours towards adopting circular agricultural practices
You don't have to perform for the trees”: The longer-term effects of nature-based interventions on wellbeing
The health and wellbeing benefits of engagement with the natural environment are well documented, but a lack of prospective research means that the sustainability of effects is unknown. Nature-based interventions (NBIs) seek to extend benefits to a wide, socially inclusive range of people. The primary aim of this study was to develop an improved understanding of one such initiative on personal wellbeing over time. The study involved adults recrui…
Social Return on Investment of Nature-Based Activities for Adults with Mental Wellbeing Challenges
Increased time spent in nature can enhance physical health and mental wellbeing. The UK Government's '25 Year Environment Plan' recommends extending the health benefits of contact with nature to a wider group of people, including those with mental health challenges. This study investigated whether nature-based interventions (NBIs) for people with mild mental health challenges could generate a positive social return on investment (SROI). Between M…
Rewilding—The farmers’ perspective. Perceptions and attitudinal support for rewilding among the English farming community
Rewilding is an increasingly common conservation approach, aiming to restore ecosystem processes and minimise human intervention. Rewilding has the potential to profoundly change landscapes and people–nature relations. These issues prompt an ongoing debate about how and if rewilding should be done. Farmers are key stakeholders in this debate; they stand to be both affected by and influence the trajectory of rewilding initiatives developing in the…
It's opened my eyes to what's out there”: How do nature-based interventions influence access to and perceptions of the natural environment
The health and wellbeing benefits of engagement with the natural environment are well documented. Nature-based interventions (NBIs) can widen access, but little is known about how they affect independent use and perception of greenspace. This mixed methods study examines the longer-term influence of one NBI on woodland visits. 120 adults took part in a longitudinal questionnaire survey, and 20 participated in focus groups. An increase in independ…
The politics of the rural and relational values: Contested discourses of rural change and landscape futures in west wales
Across Europe, rural landscapes and communities are changing, following local, national and global pressures. The future physical makeup of these landscapes, the species, landforms and land uses that are present, and the relationship between these landscapes and local communities, is uncertain. At the same time, rural politics has moved from debates about agricultural production to broader considerations of ways of life, and who and what is appro…
Importance of building bridging and linking social capital in adapting to changes in UK agricultural policy
Vulnerability of British farms to post-Brexit subsidy removal, and implications for intensification, extensification and land sparing
Are policies for decentralised forest governance designed to achieve full devolution? Evidence from Eastern Africa
Decentralised forest management approaches are ostensibly designed to increase community involvement in forest management, yet have had mixed success in practice. We present a comparative study across multiple countries in Eastern Africa of how far decentralised forest policies are designed to achieve devolution. We adopt the decentralisation framework developed by Agrawal and Ribot to explore whether, and how, devolution is specified in Tanzania…
Exploring perceptions of marine biosecurity interventions: Insights from the commercial marina sector
What is Rewilding, How Should it be Done, and Why? A Q-method Study of the Views Held by European Rewilding Advocates
In recent years, the profile of rewilding, a conservation approach emphasising reduced human interventions in ecosystems, restored ecosystem processes and autonomous nature, has increased. This has prompted critiques of how wildness, nature, and non-human co-existence with humans, are conceptualised within rewilding. Yet so far, there has been no detailed empirical exploration of the views held by rewilding advocates on what rewilding is, and how…
Rewilding – Departures in Conservation Policy and Practice? an Evaluation of Developments in Britain
Rewilding has been hailed as ‘radical’ and ‘agenda-setting’ in the challenge it poses to mainstream conservation. This paper questions whether that is still the case, or if rewilding is now being mainstreamed and with what consequences? Our analysis focuses upon developments in Britain, up until 2018, discussing what changes have become manifest and the barriers and restraints that have been observed. As such, we evaluate the extent to which rewi…
Feral Political Ecologies: The Biopolitics, Temporalities and Spatialities of Rewilding
In an era of escalating environmental change and degradation, rewilding has emerged as an\ninnovative, hopeful, and increasingly popular form of conservation capturing the imagination\nof both publics and professionals alike, but equally courting controversy (Lorimer 2015;\nJepson 2018; Pettorelli et al. 2018). Rewilding is aligned with restorative practices promoting\nlandscape fluidity, connectivity and non-equilibrium ecologies (Manning et al.…
Collaboration for Sustainable Intensification: The Underpinning Role of Social Sustainability
Sustainable Intensification (SI) has been popularised in recent years as an approach seeking to balance the potentially conflicting demands of enhancing agricultural outputs with reducing the negative impacts arising from the current food system. Proponents have argued that SI can benefit from collaboration between farmers, but understanding is limited by a lack of data on current collaborative practices. Questions have also been raised as to whe…
Rewilding forestry
Does Tanzanian participatory forest management policy achieve its governance objectives
Understanding farmer co-operation: Exploring practices of social relatedness and emergent affects
The more-than-economic dimensions of cooperation in food production
Beekeepers’ knowledges and participation in pollinator conservation policy
Flooding and media storms – controversies over farming and upland land-use in the UK
Practising participatory geographies: Potentials, Problems and Politics
Participatory approaches have become increasingly popular within geography in recent years, but some would argue that participatory working is both in vogue and in crisis. In this special section of A rea we have drawn together a series of papers to reflect on the complexities, tensions and difficulties that are caught up with the potentials and politics of participatory ways of working and thinking. In this introductory editorial we set out the …
Reading for difference’ with payments for ecosystem services in Wales
This paper critically engages with ongoing concerns surrounding the neoliberalization of nature, through a focus upon emerging environmental schemes in Wales, offering payments for ecosystem services. Here, neoliberal directives are clearly evident in the discourses of the Welsh Government and policy advisors, through the reframing of the environment as a source of saleable goods and services. However, it is argued that gaps can be found within t…
Connecting payments for ecosystem services and agri-environment regulation: An analysis of the Welsh Glastir Scheme
Practising participatory geographies: Potentials, Problems and Politics
Participatory approaches have become increasingly popular within geography in recent years, but some would argue that participatory working is both in vogue and in crisis. In this special section of A rea we have drawn together a series of papers to reflect on the complexities, tensions and difficulties that are caught up with the potentials and politics of participatory ways of working and thinking. In this introductory editorial we set out the …
Beekeepers’ knowledges and participation in pollinator conservation policy
Connecting payments for ecosystem services and agri-environment regulation: An analysis of the Welsh Glastir Scheme
Negotiating neoliberalism: Conservationists’ role in the development of payments for ecosystem services
Importance of building bridging and linking social capital in adapting to changes in UK agricultural policy
The more-than-economic dimensions of cooperation in food production
Understanding farmer co-operation: Exploring practices of social relatedness and emergent affects
The politics of the rural and relational values: Contested discourses of rural change and landscape futures in west wales
Across Europe, rural landscapes and communities are changing, following local, national and global pressures. The future physical makeup of these landscapes, the species, landforms and land uses that are present, and the relationship between these landscapes and local communities, is uncertain. At the same time, rural politics has moved from debates about agricultural production to broader considerations of ways of life, and who and what is appro…
Feral Political Ecologies: The Biopolitics, Temporalities and Spatialities of Rewilding
In an era of escalating environmental change and degradation, rewilding has emerged as an\ninnovative, hopeful, and increasingly popular form of conservation capturing the imagination\nof both publics and professionals alike, but equally courting controversy (Lorimer 2015;\nJepson 2018; Pettorelli et al. 2018). Rewilding is aligned with restorative practices promoting\nlandscape fluidity, connectivity and non-equilibrium ecologies (Manning et al.…
Carbon blinkers and policy blindness: The difficulties of ‘Growing Our Woodland in Wales’
Does Tanzanian participatory forest management policy achieve its governance objectives
Rewilding: An emotional nature
Rewilding is an emotional subject. It inspires passions and argument in spades. As a form of conservation, rewilding offers exciting possibilities to address ecological crises but it is also a threat for many people, leading to dispute and impasse. This paper explores the role emotions play both to inspire rewilding and in the ensuing conflicts. Informed by emotional geographies and feminist political ecology, the analysis attends to the socio‐cu…
Collaboration for Sustainable Intensification: The Underpinning Role of Social Sustainability
Sustainable Intensification (SI) has been popularised in recent years as an approach seeking to balance the potentially conflicting demands of enhancing agricultural outputs with reducing the negative impacts arising from the current food system. Proponents have argued that SI can benefit from collaboration between farmers, but understanding is limited by a lack of data on current collaborative practices. Questions have also been raised as to whe…
It's ‘common-sense’ farming: Exploring farmers' decision-making and behaviours towards adopting circular agricultural practices
Rewilding forestry
Reading for difference’ with payments for ecosystem services in Wales
This paper critically engages with ongoing concerns surrounding the neoliberalization of nature, through a focus upon emerging environmental schemes in Wales, offering payments for ecosystem services. Here, neoliberal directives are clearly evident in the discourses of the Welsh Government and policy advisors, through the reframing of the environment as a source of saleable goods and services. However, it is argued that gaps can be found within t…
Vulnerability of British farms to post-Brexit subsidy removal, and implications for intensification, extensification and land sparing
Flooding and media storms – controversies over farming and upland land-use in the UK
Negotiating neoliberalism: Conservationists’ role in the development of payments for ecosystem services
Connecting payments for ecosystem services and agri-environment regulation: An analysis of the Welsh Glastir Scheme
Carbon blinkers and policy blindness: The difficulties of ‘Growing Our Woodland in Wales’
Reading for difference’ with payments for ecosystem services in Wales
This paper critically engages with ongoing concerns surrounding the neoliberalization of nature, through a focus upon emerging environmental schemes in Wales, offering payments for ecosystem services. Here, neoliberal directives are clearly evident in the discourses of the Welsh Government and policy advisors, through the reframing of the environment as a source of saleable goods and services. However, it is argued that gaps can be found within t…
Practising participatory geographies: Potentials, Problems and Politics
Participatory approaches have become increasingly popular within geography in recent years, but some would argue that participatory working is both in vogue and in crisis. In this special section of A rea we have drawn together a series of papers to reflect on the complexities, tensions and difficulties that are caught up with the potentials and politics of participatory ways of working and thinking. In this introductory editorial we set out the …
Beekeepers’ knowledges and participation in pollinator conservation policy
Flooding and media storms – controversies over farming and upland land-use in the UK
Understanding farmer co-operation: Exploring practices of social relatedness and emergent affects
The more-than-economic dimensions of cooperation in food production
Rewilding forestry
Does Tanzanian participatory forest management policy achieve its governance objectives
Are policies for decentralised forest governance designed to achieve full devolution? Evidence from Eastern Africa
Decentralised forest management approaches are ostensibly designed to increase community involvement in forest management, yet have had mixed success in practice. We present a comparative study across multiple countries in Eastern Africa of how far decentralised forest policies are designed to achieve devolution. We adopt the decentralisation framework developed by Agrawal and Ribot to explore whether, and how, devolution is specified in Tanzania…
Exploring perceptions of marine biosecurity interventions: Insights from the commercial marina sector
What is Rewilding, How Should it be Done, and Why? A Q-method Study of the Views Held by European Rewilding Advocates
In recent years, the profile of rewilding, a conservation approach emphasising reduced human interventions in ecosystems, restored ecosystem processes and autonomous nature, has increased. This has prompted critiques of how wildness, nature, and non-human co-existence with humans, are conceptualised within rewilding. Yet so far, there has been no detailed empirical exploration of the views held by rewilding advocates on what rewilding is, and how…
Rewilding – Departures in Conservation Policy and Practice? an Evaluation of Developments in Britain
Rewilding has been hailed as ‘radical’ and ‘agenda-setting’ in the challenge it poses to mainstream conservation. This paper questions whether that is still the case, or if rewilding is now being mainstreamed and with what consequences? Our analysis focuses upon developments in Britain, up until 2018, discussing what changes have become manifest and the barriers and restraints that have been observed. As such, we evaluate the extent to which rewi…
Feral Political Ecologies: The Biopolitics, Temporalities and Spatialities of Rewilding
In an era of escalating environmental change and degradation, rewilding has emerged as an\ninnovative, hopeful, and increasingly popular form of conservation capturing the imagination\nof both publics and professionals alike, but equally courting controversy (Lorimer 2015;\nJepson 2018; Pettorelli et al. 2018). Rewilding is aligned with restorative practices promoting\nlandscape fluidity, connectivity and non-equilibrium ecologies (Manning et al.…
Collaboration for Sustainable Intensification: The Underpinning Role of Social Sustainability
Sustainable Intensification (SI) has been popularised in recent years as an approach seeking to balance the potentially conflicting demands of enhancing agricultural outputs with reducing the negative impacts arising from the current food system. Proponents have argued that SI can benefit from collaboration between farmers, but understanding is limited by a lack of data on current collaborative practices. Questions have also been raised as to whe…
Importance of building bridging and linking social capital in adapting to changes in UK agricultural policy
Vulnerability of British farms to post-Brexit subsidy removal, and implications for intensification, extensification and land sparing
Rewilding—The farmers’ perspective. Perceptions and attitudinal support for rewilding among the English farming community
Rewilding is an increasingly common conservation approach, aiming to restore ecosystem processes and minimise human intervention. Rewilding has the potential to profoundly change landscapes and people–nature relations. These issues prompt an ongoing debate about how and if rewilding should be done. Farmers are key stakeholders in this debate; they stand to be both affected by and influence the trajectory of rewilding initiatives developing in the…
It's opened my eyes to what's out there”: How do nature-based interventions influence access to and perceptions of the natural environment
The health and wellbeing benefits of engagement with the natural environment are well documented. Nature-based interventions (NBIs) can widen access, but little is known about how they affect independent use and perception of greenspace. This mixed methods study examines the longer-term influence of one NBI on woodland visits. 120 adults took part in a longitudinal questionnaire survey, and 20 participated in focus groups. An increase in independ…
The politics of the rural and relational values: Contested discourses of rural change and landscape futures in west wales
Across Europe, rural landscapes and communities are changing, following local, national and global pressures. The future physical makeup of these landscapes, the species, landforms and land uses that are present, and the relationship between these landscapes and local communities, is uncertain. At the same time, rural politics has moved from debates about agricultural production to broader considerations of ways of life, and who and what is appro…
You don't have to perform for the trees”: The longer-term effects of nature-based interventions on wellbeing
The health and wellbeing benefits of engagement with the natural environment are well documented, but a lack of prospective research means that the sustainability of effects is unknown. Nature-based interventions (NBIs) seek to extend benefits to a wide, socially inclusive range of people. The primary aim of this study was to develop an improved understanding of one such initiative on personal wellbeing over time. The study involved adults recrui…
Social Return on Investment of Nature-Based Activities for Adults with Mental Wellbeing Challenges
Increased time spent in nature can enhance physical health and mental wellbeing. The UK Government's '25 Year Environment Plan' recommends extending the health benefits of contact with nature to a wider group of people, including those with mental health challenges. This study investigated whether nature-based interventions (NBIs) for people with mild mental health challenges could generate a positive social return on investment (SROI). Between M…
Rewilding: An emotional nature
Rewilding is an emotional subject. It inspires passions and argument in spades. As a form of conservation, rewilding offers exciting possibilities to address ecological crises but it is also a threat for many people, leading to dispute and impasse. This paper explores the role emotions play both to inspire rewilding and in the ensuing conflicts. Informed by emotional geographies and feminist political ecology, the analysis attends to the socio‐cu…
Political science (18 works) · Economics (15 works) · Geography (15 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Business (13 works) · Environmental resource management (10 works) · Agriculture (8 works) · Ecology (8 works) · Environmental planning (8 works) · Politics (8 works)