Ameliorating pressures on the ecological condition of the wider landscape outside of protected areas is a key focus of conservation initiatives in the developed world. In highly urbanized nations, domestic gardens can play a significant role in maintaining biodiversity and facilitating human-wildlife interactions, which benefit personal and societal health and well-being. The extent to which sociodemographic and socioeconomic factors are associated with engagement in wildlife gardening activities remain largely unresolved. Using two household-level survey datasets gathered from across Britain, we determine whether and how the socioeconomic background of a household influences participation in food provision for wild birds, the most popular and widespread form of human-wildlife interaction. A majority of households feed birds (64% across rural and urban areas in England, and 53 % within five British study cities). House type, household size and the age of the head of the household were all important predictors of bird feeding, whereas gross annual household income, the occupation of the head of the household, and whether the house is owned or rented were not. In both surveys, the prevalence of bird feeding rose as house type became more detached and as the age of the head of the household increased. A clear, consistent pattern between households of varying size was less evident. When regularity of food provision was examined in the study cities, just 29 % of households provided food at least once a week. The proportion of households regularly feeding birds was positively related to the age of the head of the household, but declined with gross

People around the world are looking to marine ecosystems to provide additional benefits to society. As they consider expand-ing current uses and investing in new ones, new management approaches are needed that will sustain the delivery of the diverse benefits that people want and need. An ecosystem services framework provides metrics for assessing the quan-tity, quality, and value of benefits obtained from different portfolios of uses. Such a framework has been developed for assessments on land, and is now being developed for application to marine ecosystems. Here, we present marine Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Tradeoffs (InVEST), a new tool to assess (i.e., map, model, and value) multiple ser-

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The Guidance Manual is an output of the "TEEB National

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Note: This Keywords Manual is one of the outcomes of an ‘Additional Cultural Values Work’ assignment conducted by Peter Coates (with the assistance of Marianna Dudley, who wrote the first draft) as part of the UK National Ecosystem Assessment follow-on phase (UK NEAFO). In addition to providing the arts and humanities (AH) sector with a general introduction to the world of Ecosystem Services (ES) and to the notion of Cultural Ecosystem Services (CES) in particular, we also hope that seasoned ES researchers will see it as an opportunity to reexamine familiar concepts and reconsider meanings that may appear self-

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Economic growth-driven development has resulted in the degradation and loss of ecosystem services on a global scale. One of the more widely recognized approaches to addressing this issue is based on the idea of valuing ecosystems in terms of the economic benefits they provide for humans. This ‘ecosystem services approach ’ is being adopted by researchers, governments and organizations around the world. The concept of ecosystem services cannot, however, robustly account for the ‘public ’ nature of ecosystem functioning. This represents a serious gap in the knowledge required for the sustainable use of nature’s ‘gifts’ by growing human populations. This thesis argues that ecosystem services are only one aspect of ‘ecological infrastructure’, which also includes landscape elements, ecosystems and most importantly, the connectivity among and within these components. It then locates the ecosystem services approach within a broader and deeper conceptual framework for ecologically sustainable development that is based on the concept of ‘investing in ecological infrastructure’. Case study methodology, constituted by an historical analysis and a series of focus group interviews, was employed to

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