Jamie is an environmental geographer whose research examines the production of environmental knowledge, and how this knowledge comes to shape the world around us. He focuses on powerful understandings of Nature and their consequences for human and nonhuman life across different spatial scales. Past projects have examined human relations with a range of organisms – from elephants to hookworms – and policy domains – including conservation, health, and agriculture. He combines concepts and approaches from more-than-human geography with those from science studies, using ethnographic, participatory, and historical methods. His research has been funded by the ESRC, The British Academy and the Wellcome and Leverhulme Trusts, amongst other sources.
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Is messy the new beautiful? Why debates about what nature recovery looks like matter
Current aspirations for nature recovery to address biodiversity loss and climate change involve changing what landscapes look like What is considered neat or messy impacts on action and policy changes Nature recovery activities are highly politicised and resisted Publicised movements for messier gardens and environments can help shift public opinion to accepting less orderly environments […]
Rewilding the City… A new discourse on urban rewilding.
Noting a dearth of research on urban rewilding, researchers at the Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery proffer an agenda for future geographical research into this emerging mode of urban nature conservation.
Farmer cluster brings future vision of the Cotswolds under nature recovery to life with professional illustrator
To achieve nature recovery at scale, we must first imagine it. Picturing the future is a crucial step toward enabling change. In collaboration with the North East Cotswolds Farmer Cluster, researchers from the Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery conducted a workshop to discuss and deliberate visions for the future of the Cotswolds. The North East […]
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Society
Encompassing the governance and socio-cultural dimensions of nature recovery.
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Participatory governance of nature recovery and Nature-based Solutions.
Co-designing knowledge, evidence, and practitioner guidance for engagement processes that enhance the delivery of benefits for people, nature, and climate
The landscape aesthetics of nature recovery
How do perceptions of what the landscape ought to look like enable and constrain nature recovery in the UK?
Youth-led Nature Recovery
What are the barriers and opportunities for young peoples' ability to lead and act on nature recovery in the UK, and how can their participation be supported?
Rewilding The City
Investigating urban rewilding initiatives, from top-down governance schemes to local community-based practices.
Social ecological mapping for nature recovery
Developing social ecological maps for land use planning, investment and inclusive decision-making.
The knowledge politics of measuring forests
What are the social, ecological and economic effects of measuring and valuing forests in Scottish nature recovery?
Institutional innovations for nature recovery
A power-sensitive and multi-level analysis of institutions involved in pursuing landscape scale nature recovery and their intersection with questions of equity and justice in the UK and Ghana.
Governing sustainable finance for effective and equitable nature recovery
Developing a typology of financing models for nature recovery and assessing how different modalities of finance shape dynamics of equity, collaboration and conflict in nature recovery.
Database of Scottish nature recovery projects
We will build a database of all nature recovery projects and organisations in Scotland.
Bunloit and Beldorney
Exploring the ecological and social dimensions of nature recovery.
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Is messy the new beautiful? Why debates about what nature recovery looks like matter
Current aspirations for nature recovery to address biodiversity loss and climate change will involve changing what landscapes look like, which can create challenging aesthetic experiences for members of the public. In this study, we interrogate the role of aesthetics in shaping visions of nature recovery, focussing on the construction and contestation of ‘mess’ and ‘messiness’ […]
Just nature recovery: A framework for centring multispecies and multi-dimensional justice in land management
Highlights Justice considerations can be overlooked in the planning and delivery of nature recovery projects. Multispecies justice and multi-dimensional justice offer alternative framings of justice and how it can be achieved. Integrating MSJ and MDJ approaches can inform nuanced analyses of nature recovery projects. We consider the different justice concerns in a range of examples […]
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Related Landscapes
Oxfordshire
With its active network of nature recovery groups, Oxfordshire presents a unique opportunity to test and showcase a portfolio of different ecosystem restoration strategies, to become a model county for nature recovery. Our work in this landscape aims to build a community of practice between the University and local practitioners, and will also form a […]
Scottish Highlands
Scotland is renowned for its distinctive and diverse range of landscapes, which are a significant part of the country’s natural and cultural heritage. The environment has been shaped by interconnected human and natural processes over thousands of years and includes built heritage, ancient woodlands, wildlife and native species, art and literature, folklore, language and traditions […]
