global change
NEWBIE - New Entrant NetWork: Best New Entrant Business Award (Project)
Annual competitions will be held in each country to identify successful new approaches that show innovative new entrant business models. Applicants will be able to apply for the award (see below for eligibility) a short list will ... Read more
NEFERTITI: Networking European Farms to Enhance Cross Fertilisation and Innovation Uptake through Demonstration (2018-2021) (Project)
NEFERTITI will establish an EU-wide highly connected network of well-specified demonstration and pilot farms, which is designed to enhance thematic knowledge exchange, cross fertilisation among actors and efficient innovation upta ... Read more
NEWBIE - New Entrant netWork: Business models for Innovation, entrepreneurship and resilience in European agriculture (2018-2021) (Project)
The overall goal of the NEWBIE network is to enable new entrants to successfully establish sustainable farm businesses in Europe. ... Read more
Prospects for North East Scotland’s land-based industries outlined in report (News)
Is the land-based sector in North East Scotland resilient enough to face future challenges? This question, along with many others, is at the centre of a report commissioned by the North East Scotland Agricultural Advisory Group (N ... Read more
March 17, 2016
Global Research Alliance Modelling Platform unveiled on World Environment Day (News)
A free, open source modelling platform that seeks to become a vibrant network of agricultural greenhouse gas researchers, model developers and students has been launched on World Environment 2015. ... Read more
June 10, 2015
So really, what does ‘natural’ actually mean? (News)
We all think we have some idea of what ‘natural’ is, whether it’s the green meadows we pass by on the train or the fresh and colourful vegetables we pick out in the market. However, our countryside and the food w ... Read more
February 25, 2015
Mexico and UK in joint effort against plant diseases (News)
Plant diseases cost the world enough food to feed at least half a billion people, equivalent to 100 times the population of Scotland, every year. The interaction between plants, microbes and insects is a key battleground in the gl ... Read more
February 19, 2015
Decline in wheat yields likely due to changing climate (News)
Global wheat production can be expected to fall by 6% for each degree centigrade of temperature increase together with increased variability of yield across regions and seasons; that is the main finding of an international consort ... Read more
February 9, 2015
Books and Book Chapters (Research Page)
Water Ecosystem Services - A Global Perspective ... Read more
Slovenian researchers visit to discuss CropSustaIn progress (News)
Researchers from the Agricultural Institute of Slovenia (AIS) visited the James Hutton Institute as part of the CropSustaIn project, which looks into alternatives for sustainable crop production in Slovenia in the face of global c ... Read more
November 27, 2014
Soils@Hutton - Soil and food security (Research Page)
Soils & Sustainable production ... Read more
Soils@Hutton - Soil and Climate Change (Research Page)
Learn more about soils & climate change ... Read more
Scottish research helps tackle global and local agricultural challenges (News)
Researchers at the James Hutton Institute have endorsed and repeated the view of this week’s high-profile Development Dialogues conference in New York that work to ‘climate-proof’ agriculture lies at the core of ... Read more
September 26, 2014
East of Scotland field campaign 2014 (Research Page)
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The Atlantic Maritime Croplands – sustainability and environment (Research Page)
A case study on sustainable agriculture and the environment at the James Hutton Institute ... Read more
Vibrant Rural Communities workshop (Research Page)
A workshop was held at Birnam Arts and Conference Centre on 20 November 2013 to provide an update on research being conducted as part of the Vibrant Rural Communities theme of the Food, Land and People Strategic Research programme ... Read more
HUNTing for Sustainability (Project)
Project aim The overall goal of the project ‘Hunting for Sustainability’ was to assess the social, cultural, economic and ecological functions and impacts of hunting across a broad range of contexts in Europe and Afr ... Read more
Towards European Societal Sustainability (TESS) (Project)
The aim of TESS is to investigate the role of community-based transition initiatives in fostering a more low-carbon and sustainable Europe. TESS is a European Union project funded under the Seventh Framework Pr ... Read more
Foodscapes (Project)
Project aim Foodscapes aims to explore how arts intervention and cultural engagement can help address social and economic exclusion, food poverty, and sustainability. It has been funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Counci ... Read more
FarmPath – Farming Transitions: Pathways towards regional sustainability of agriculture in Europe (Project)
The overall goal of FarmPath is to identify and assess future transition pathways towards regional sustainability of agriculture in Europe, and the social and technological innovation needs required to initiate and progress along ... Read more
IPM, sustainability and climate change (Research Page)
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OrkCEmP: Exploring ideas about Community in Orkney (Research Page)
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Soils and climate change (Research Page)
The climate is changing in response to the increase in the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. While the burning of fossil fuels has made a major contribution to the levels of carbon dioxide, soils have been respo ... Read more
Community-based Management of Environmental challenges in Latin America (Research Page)
COMET-LA was a project coordinated by the University of Cordoba and funded under the European Commission Framework Programme 7. The acronym stands for “COmmunity-based Management of EnvironmenTal challenges in Latin America& ... Read more
Sand dune communities and climate change (Research Page)
Scotland’s sand dune vegetation has been assessed to investigate species distribution in relation to ecological variables. The response of the vegetation is modelled to assess if ecosystem processes and species distribution ... Read more
Current research interests
Past research
I have been involved in a number of international and inter- and transdisciplinary research projects, listed below (note that for older projects links are liable to get mothballed):
- The CAVES (Complexity, Agents, Volatility, Evidence and Scale) project (2005-2008) was funded by the European Commission's Sixth Framework Programme New and Emerging Science and Technology Pathfinder Initiative on Tackling Complexity in Science.
- PolicyGrid (2006-2009) and PolicyGrid II (2009-2012) were collaborations with the University of Aberdeen funded by the Economic and Social Research Council through the National Centre for e-Social Science. This work also led to a short project called SwarmCloud with the aim of grid-enabling the FEARLUS model. (See also PolicyGrid and PolicyGrid II entry on ESRC's research catalogue.)
- The GILDED (Governance, Infrastructure, Lifestyle Dynamics and Energy Demand) project (2008-2012) was funded by the European Commission's Seventh Framework Programme.
- The LOCAW (Low Carbon at Work: Modelling Agents and Organisations to Achieve Transition to a Low Carbon Europe) project (2011-2013) was funded by the European Commission's Seventh Framework Programme.
- The MIRACLE (Mining Relationships Among Variables in Large Datasets from Complex Systems) project (2014-2015) was funded by Round 3 of the Digging into Data Challenge. The UK contribution was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council via Jisc.
- The GLAMURS (Green Lifestyles, Alternative Models and Up-scaling Regional Sustainability) project (2014-2016) was funded by the European Commission's Seventh Framework Programme.
Bibliography
- Gotts, N.M.; van Voorn, G.A.K.; Polhill, J.G.; de Jong, E.; Edmonds, B.; Hofstede, G.J.; Meyer, R., (In press) Modelling socio-ecological systems., Ecological Complexity.
- Polhill, J.G., (In press) Why the social simulation community should tackle prediction., Review of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation.
- Gonzalez-Redin, J.; Polhill, J.G., Dawson, T.P., Hill, R.; Gordon, I.J., (2018) It's not the 'what', but the 'how': Exploring the role of debt in natural resource (un)sustainability., PLoS ONE, 13, Article No. e0201141.
- Ge, J.; Polhill, G.J.; Craig, T.; Liu, N., (2018) From oil wealth to green growth: An empirical agent-based model of recession, migration and sustainable urban transition., Environmental Modelling and Software, 107, 119-140.
- Ge, J.; Polhill, J.G.; Craig, T.P., (2018) Too much of a good thing? Using a spatial agent-based model of transport to evaluate workplace sharing programs in Aberdeen., Journal of Transport Geography, 69, 83-97.
- Ge, J.; Sutherland, L.A.; Polhill, J.G.; Matthews, K.B.; Miller, D.G.; Wardell-Johnson, D., (2017) Exploring factors affecting on-farm renewable energy adoption in Scotland using large-scale microdata., Energy Policy, 107, 548-560.
- Garcia-Mira, R.; Dumitru, A.; Alonso-Betanzos, A.; Sánchez-Maroño, N.; Fontenla-Romero, O.; Craig, T.; Polhill, J.G, (2017) Testing scenarios to achieve workplace sustainability goals using backcasting and agent-based modeling., Environment and Behavior, 49, 1007-1037.
- Grimm, V.; Polhill, J.G.; Touza, J., (2017) Documenting social simulation models: The ODD protocol as a standard. (Revised), In: Edmonds, B. & Meyer, R. (eds.). Simulating Social Complexity: A Handbook. 2nd edition. Springer, Berlin, pp349-365.
- Polhill, J.G.; Salt, D., (2017) The importance of ontological structure: why validation by ‘fit-to-data’ is insufficient., In: Edmonds, B. & Meyer, R. (eds.) Simulating Social Complexity: A Handbook. 2nd edition. Springer, 141-172.
- Sanchez-Maronon, N.; Alonso-Betanzos, A.; Fontenla-Romero, O.; Polhill, J.G.; Craig, T., (2017) Empirically-deprived behavioural rules in agent-based models using decision trees learned from questionnaire data., In: Alonso-Betanzos, A., Sanchez-Marono, N., Fontenla-Romera, O., Polhill, J.G., Craig, T., Bajo, J. & Corchado, M. (eds.). Agent Based Modelling of Sustainable Behaviours. Springer, Switzerland, Chapter 3, pp53-76.
- Ge, J.; Polhill, J.G., (2017) Preliminary results from an agent-based model of the daily commute in Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire, UK., In: Jager, W., Verbrugge R., Flache A., de Roo G., Hoogduin L. & Hemelrijk C. (eds.) Advances in Social Simulation 2015. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing 528. Springer, Cham., pp129-142.
- Polhill, J.G.; Gotts, N.M., (2017) How precise are the specifications of a psychological theory? Comparing implementations of Lindenberg and Steg's Goal-Framing Theory of everyday pro-environmental behaviour., In: Jager, W., Verbrugge R., Flache A., de Roo G., Hoogduin L. & Hemelrijk C. (eds.) Advances in Social Simulation 2015. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing 528. Springer, Cham., 341-354.
- Polhill, J.G.; Milazzo, L.; Dawson, T.; Gimona, A.; Parker, D., (2017) Lessons learned replicating the analysis of outputs from a social simulation of biodiversity incentivisation., In: Jager, W., Verbrugge R., Flache A., de Roo G., Hoogduin L. & Hemelrijk C. (eds.) Advances in Social Simulation 2015. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing 528. Springer, Cham., 355-365.
- Ge, J.; Polhill, J.G., (2016) Exploring the combined effect of factors influencing commuting patterns and CO2 emissions in Aberdeen using an agent-based model., Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 19, Article No. 11.
- Polhill, J.G.; Filatova, T.; Schlüter, M.; Voinov, A., (2016) Preface to the thematic issue on modelling systemic change in coupled socio-environmental systems., Environmental Modelling and Software, 75, 317.
- Polhill, J.G.; Filatova, T.; Schluter, M.; Voinov, A., (2016) Modelling systemic change in coupled socio-environmental systems., Environmental Modelling and Software, 75, 318-332.
- Filatova, T.; Polhill, J.G.; van Ewijk, S., (2016) Regime shifts in coupled socio-environmental systems: review of modelling challenges and approaches., Environmental Modelling and Software, 75, 333-347.
- Salt, D.; Polhill, J.G.; Craig, T., (2016) Deliverable 2.2: Report on the ontology generation and data and knowledge integration., Green Lifestyles Alternative Models and Up-scaling Regional Sustainability / GLAMURS EU SSH.2013.2.1-1 Grant Agreement No. 613420.
- Salt, D.; Polhill, J.G.; Craig, T., (2016) Deliverable 2., Report for Glamurs Ontology Project.
- Polhill, J.G.; Craig, T.; Ge, J.; Lorenzo-Arribas, A., (2016) Out-of-range wattage in CurrentCost energy monitor readings., Short Report to CurrentCost.
- Gimona, A.; Poggio, L.; Polhill, J.G.; Castellazzi, M., (2015) Habitat networks and food security: promoting species range shift under climate change depends on life history and the dynamics of land use choices., Landscape Ecology, 30, 771-789.
- Sanchez-Maronon, N.; Alonso-Betanzos, A.; Fontenla-Romero, O.; Polhill, J.G.; Craig, T., (2015) Designing decision trees for representing sustainable behaviours in agents., In: Bajo, J., Hernandez, J.Z., Mathieu, P., Campbell, A., FernandezCaballero, A., Moreno, M.N., Julian, V., AlonsoBetanzos, A., JimenezLopez, M.D. & Botti, V. (eds.). Trends in Practical Applications of Agents, Multi-Agent Systems and Sustainability: The PAAMS Collection, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Sustainability, Springer, Berlin, Volume 372, 169-176.
- Craig, T.; Polhill, J.G.; Dent, I.; Galan-Diaz, C.; Heslop, S., (2014) The North East Scotland Energy Monitoring Project: Exploring relationships between household occupants and energy usage., Energy and Buildings, 75, 493-503.
- Muller, B.; Balbi, S.; Buchmann, C.M.; de Sousa, L.; Dressler, G.; Groeneveld, J.; Klassert, C.J.; Bao Le, Q.; Millington, J.D.A.; Nolzen, H.; Parker, D.C.; Polhill, J.G.; Schluter, M.; Schulze, J.; Schwarz, N.; Sun, Z.; Tailandier, P.; Weise, H., (2014) Standardized and transparent model descriptions for agent-based models - current status and prospects., Environmental Modelling and Software, 55, 156-163.
- Gotts, N.M.; Polhill, J.G.; Craig, T.; Galan-Diaz, C., (2014) Combining diverse data sources for CEDSS, an agent-based model of domestic energy demand., Structure and Dynamics: eJournal of Anthropological and Related Sciences, 7(1).
- Edwards, P.; Pignotti, E.; Mellish, C.; Eckhardt, A.; Ponnamperuma, K.; Bouttaz, T.; Philip, L.; Pangbourne, K.; Polhill, J.G.; Gotts, N.M., (2014) Lessons learnt from the deployment of a semantic virtual research environment., Journal of Web Semantics, 27-28, 70-77.
- Polhill, J.G. Gimona, A.; Gotts, N.M., (2013) Nonlinearities in biodiversity incentive schemes: A study using an integrated agent-based and metacommunity model., Environmental Modelling and Software, 45, 74-91.
- Grimm, V.; Polhill, J.G.; Touza, J., (2013) Documenting social simulation models: the ODD protocol as a standard., In: Edmonds, B. & Meyer, R. (eds.). Simulating Social Complexity: A Handbook. Springer, Berlin, Part II, pp117-133.
- Pignotti, E.; Edwards, P.; Gotts, N.M.; Polhill, J.G., (2011) Enhancing workflow with a semantic description of scientific intent., Journal of Web Semantics, 9, 222-244.
- Gimona, A.; Polhill, J.G., (2011) Exploring robustness of biodiversity policy with a coupled metacommunity and agent-based model., Journal of Land Use Science, 6, 175-193.
- Polhill, J.G.; Craig, T.; Alonso-Betanzos, A.; Sanchez-Marono, N.; Fontenla-Romero, O.; Dumitru, A.; Garcia-Mira, R.; Bonnes, M.; Bonaiuto, M.; Carrus, G.; Marricchiolo, F.; Fornara, F.; Ilin, C.; Steg, L.; Ruepert, A.; Keizer, K., (2017) Interactions matter. Modelling everyday pro-environmental norm transmission and diffusion in workplace networks., In: Alonso-Betanzos, A., Sánchez-Maroño, N., Fontenla-Romero, O., Polhill, J.G., Craig, T., Bajo, J. & Corchado, J.M. (eds.) Agent-Based Modeling of Sustainable Behaviors. Cham, Switzerland, Springer, pp27-52.
- Jin, X.B.; Robinson, K.; Lee, A.; Polhill. J.G.; Pritchard, C.; Parker, D.C., (2017) A prototype cloud-based reproducible data analysis and visualization platform for outputs of agent-based models., Environmental Modelling and Software, 96, 172-180.
- Gotts, N.M.; Polhill, J. G., (2017) Experiments with a model of domestic energy demand., Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 20, Article No. 11.
- Lee, J.-S.; Filatova, T.; Ligmann-Zielinska, A.; Hassani-Mahmooei, B.; Stonedahl, F.; Lorscheid, I.; Voinov, A.; Polhill, J.G.; Sun, Z.; Parker, D.C., (2015) The complexities of agent-based modeling output analysis., Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 18, Article No. 4.
- Sanchez-Marono, N.; Alonso-Betanzos, A.; Fontenla-Romero, O.; Brinquis-Nunez, C.; Polhill, J.G.; Craig, T.; Dumitru, A.; Garcia-Mira, R., (2015) An agent-based model for simulating environmental behavior in an educational organization., Neural Processing Letters, 42, 89-118.
- Polhill, J.G., (2015) Extracting OWL ontologies from agent-based models: a netlogo extension., Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 18, Article No. 15.
Current research interests
Kerry's main ongoing research projects
- Exploring narratives underpinning European policies and how these affect outcomes of environmental management, within the project MAGIC 'Moving Towards Adaptive Governance in Complexity: Informing Nexus Security', running 2016-2020 and funded by EU H2020.
- Leading a multi-partner collaboration "Monitoring and Evaluation for Ecosystem Management (MEEM) - Comparing theory and practice across Europe" to assess the extent to which adaptive management is supported by the monitoring driven by key European policies. This runs 2017-2018 and is funded as a 'High Impact Action' funded by ALTER-Net, Europe's ecosystem research network.
- Identifying how interacting policy instruments shape consideration of tradeoffs in natural resource management, and will later explore opportunities to use new instruments such as Payments for Ecosystem Services. This is funded by the Scottish Government RESAS Strategic Research Programme 2016-2021.
- Managing a package of work on 'Effective Water Management', and within this leading work to identify lessons in Integrating delivery of water policy goals from international examples. This is funded by the Scottish Government RESAS Strategic Research Programme 2016-2021.
Her research is motivated by the following research questions:
- When might it make sense to adopt new concepts and instruments for environmental management? How can we best understand the challenges and consequences of implementing such new concepts, especially those (such as the 'Ecosystem Approach') that encourage a systemic approach to connect multiple issues?
- How are different knowledges produced and used in collaboration and decision-making for environmental management? If and how do concepts (such as ecosystem services) or tools (such as scenario-planning) influence processes of knowledge co-production, including in science-policy interfaces?
- How can we better enable stakeholder participation in environmental management, including Community-Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) in developing countries? What are the multiple social and environmental consequences of doing so?
Kerry's expertise includes the following skills for carrying out, managing and communicating research:
- Qualitative research methods e.g. semi-structured interviews, participant observation, Rapid Rural Appraisal, qualitative thematic analysis using both inductive and deductive approaches.
- Quantitative research methods e.g. design, deployment and quantiative analysis of paper and online surveys for primary data collection, design and deplyment of systematic reviews and meta-analyses to identify and analyse secondary data
- Extensive experience in leading design and facilitation of workshops for knowledge exchange and/or research data collection.
- Skilled in engaging and communicating with varied audiences using varied methods, from short written briefings, longer reports and academic papers, through to videos, oral presentations and blog posts.
- Expertise in research project management, line management, student supervision, and research ethics.
Kerry currently co-supervises 2 PhD students: Sam Poskitt, who is exploring the potential of scenario-planning to support learning for sustainable development, with Dr Andrew Ainslie at the University of Reading; and Kirsty Holstead, who is building understanding of community water governance, with Dr Shona Russell at the University of St Andrews.
Kerry is a trustee of the Orskov Foundation, a charitable foundation that supports students and communities to develop sustainable land use to support livelihoods in lower-income countries. She is also a research associate of CECHR, the Centre for Environmental Change and Human Resilience at Dundee. Within the Institute, Kerry is leader of the 'Society Institutions and Governance' sub-group of SEGS, and she also curates the SEGS blog.
Past research
Exploring institutional constraints to adopting more systemic and/or participatory approaches to environmental management:
- She led a project Exploring barriers to implementing natural flood management in Scotland, to understand how the challenges experienced may relate to the literature on multi-level governance, funded by the RESAS 2011-2016 strategic research programme.
- Past work analysing the first round of River Basin Management Planning for implementation of the Water Framework Directive in Scotland, as part of team lead by Kirsty Blackstock in the RESAS 2006-2011 strategic research programme.
- She identified personal, societal and institutional factors that can facilitate or act as barriers to improving water quality,and also explored how how to take into account scenarios of future change environmental, social and policy change for FP7-project REFRESH.
- She jointly led research with Kirsty Blackstock to understand the potential and challanges of implementing the Ecosystem Approach, funded by the Scottish Government RESAS Strategic Research Programme 2011-2016. Click here to visit the webpage of the Ecosystem Approach Review. This work also relates to the ideas of exploring the challenges multi-level governance as noted above, and of communication as noted below.
Analysing processes of knowledge co-production relating to environmental management:
- Kerry co-led WP2 for the FP7 project ‘SPIRAL’ (Science Policy Interfaces for Research Action and Learning, for biodiversity) Visit the Project website to find out more about this project, and see the EPC paper and Biodiversity and Conservation paper in the list below for academic outputs she led on.
- Kerry helped design the ESPPI:CREW project, which aims to monitor and evaluate science-policy and practice links for the Scottish Centre of Expertise in Waters, which has been operating since 2011. She was also involved in CATCH II – which aimed to try to better connect policy, practitioners working in and for integrated catchment management.
Understanding and tackling the challenges faced by conservation initiatives in the 'Global South':
- COMET-LA was a EU FP7 project on the Community-based Management of Environmental Challenges in Latin America, that ran 2012-2015. Kerry was part of a small team exploring if and how scenario-planning can assist communities in Latin America to identify and develop sustainable community-based management for their natural resources in the face of climate change and increased competition for the use of natural resources. Visit our short animated youtube video on scenario-planning for more information about what this concept can offer.
- Since December 2012 Kerry has supported work in Malawi to support villages and district-level planning for integrated natural resource management. She has provided expertise to two projects lead by VSO. The first project called "Water Futures: Towards Equitable Resource Strategies" aimed to improve the resilience of Malawian water management, whilst from late 2014 the second project 'MAJI' focuses on how to take account of climate change. Kerry, together with Julia Martin-Ortega, provides expertise on community engagement on topics of ecosystem services and for co-constructing scenarios of future change.
- Kerry’s past PhD work at Imperial College London (2006-2009) focused on understanding social factors linked to success in community-based conservation projects, involving fieldwork in Nepal and Kalmykia, Russia, as well as a systematic review of the factors affecting ‘success’ in developing-country community-based conservation projects. The thesis can be downloaded from the Imperial College Conservation Science website.
Prior to working at the James Hutton Institute Kerry's PhD research, carried out at Imperial College London, examined how the combination of individual views, culture and local institutions could significantly influence the outcomes of community-based conservation in developing countries. In addition to policy-relevant work with NGOs, her prior academic experience included social research into attitudes towards nature resources in Trinidad, as part of an MSc from Imperial College. Her first degree is a MA in Natural Sciences, from Cambridge University.
Bibliography
- Martin-Ortega, J.; Waylen, K.A., (In press) PES what a mess? An analysis of the position of environmental professionals in the conceptual debate on Payments for Ecosystem Services., Ecological Economics.
- Waylen, K.A.; Martin Ortega, J., (2018) Surveying views on Payments for Ecosystem Services: implications for environmental management and research., Ecosystem Services, 29, 23-30.
- Blackstock, K.L.; Juarez-Bourke, A.; Maxwell, J.; Tindale, S.; Waylen, K.A., (2018) Aligning policy instruments for biodiversity, soil and water., Report for James Hutton Institute Project Webpage, 24pp.
- Nesshöver, C.; Assmuth, T.; Irvine, K.N.; Rusch, G.M.; Waylen, K.A.; Delbaere, B.; Haase, D.; Jones-Walters, L.; Keune, H.; Kovacs, E.; Krauze, K.; Külvik, M.; Rey, F.; van Dijk, J.; Vandewalle, M.; Vistad, O. I.; Wilkinson, M.E.; Wittmer, H., (2017) The science, policy and practice of nature-based solutions: an interdisciplinary perspective., Science of the Total Environment, 579, 1215-1227.
- Matthews, K.B.; Blackstock, K.L.; Rivington, M.; Waylen, K.A.; Miller, D.G.; Wardell-Johnson, D.; Kovacic, Z.; Renner, A.; Ripa, M.; Giampietro, M., (2017) Delivering more than the "Sum of the Parts": using quantitative storytelling to address the challenges of conducting science for policy in the EU land, water and energy nexus., 22nd International Congress on Modelling and Simulation (MODSIM2017), Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, 3-8 December 2017, 7pp.
- Blackstock, K.L.; Novo, P.; Waylen, K.A.; Maxwell, J.; Juarez-Bourke, A., (2017) Coordinating policy instruments that influence soil, water, and biodiversity in Scotland: rationales, needs and challenges., Report from an ESCom (Ecosystem Service Community) Workshop, Edinburgh, 23 May 2017. Published as a Social, Economic and Geographical Sciences Group (SEGS) Blog on the James Hutton Institute server, 16 November 2017.
- Blackstock, K.L.; Van Hulst, F.; MacLeod, C.J.A.; Waylen, K.A., (2017) Monitoring and Evaluation for Ecosystem Management (MEEM) - Comparing theory and documented practice across Europe., Technical Report for Project, November 2017, 96pp.
- Turnpenny, J.; Russel, D.; Waylen, K.A.; Blackstock, K.L., (2016) Embedding the value of the natural environment in decision-making-overcoming barriers and encouraging enablers., Briefing Note to Invited Seminar by Mary Christie, Scottish Natural Heritage.
- Addy, S.; Cooksley, S.; Dodd, N.; Waylen, K.A.; Byg, A.; Holstead, K., (2016) River restoration and biodiversity: nature-based solutions for restoring the rivers of the UK and Republic of Ireland., Published Jointly by IUCN, NCUK and CREW, 64pp. CRW2014/10. ISBN: 978-0-902701-16-8
- Holstead, K.L.; Colley, K.; Waylen, K.A., (2016) Tackling the barriers to implementing natural flood management: summary report., Summary Report presented at Workshop Meeting, Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation, 11 February 2016.
- Young, J.; Waylen, K.A.; van den Hove, S.; Watt, A., (2016) Knowledge brokerage for sustainable development., In: Martinuzzi, A. & Sedlacko, M. (eds.). Knowledge Brokerage for Sustainable Development. Innovative Tools for Increasing Research Impact and Evidence-Based Policy-Making. Greenleaf Publishing, Saltaire, UK, pp275-290.
- Blackstock, K.L.; Waylen, K.A., (2016) Delivering ecosystem services at a national scale: institutions and governance., In: Brooker, R., Hester, A. & Pakeman, R. (eds.). Ecosystem Services. The James Hutton Institute, Craigiebuckler, Aberdeen, pp18-19.
- Waylen, K.A.; Blackstock, K.L., (2016) Concepts: 'Eco' terminology., In: Brooker, R., Hester, A. & Pakeman, R. (eds.). Ecosystem Services. The James Hutton Institute, Craigiebuckler, Aberdeen, pp4-5.
- Waylen, K.A.; Gearey, B.R.; Blackstock, K.L., (2016) Peatlands and cultural ecosystem services., In: Bonn, A., Allott, T., Evans, M., Joosten, H. & Stoneman, R. (eds.). Peatland Restoration for Ecosystem Services. Ecological Reviews Series, British Ecological Society, Cambridge University Press, Chapter 7, pp114-128.
- Sarkki, S.; Tinch, R.; Niemelä, J.; Heink, U.; Waylen, K.A.; Timaeus, J.; Young, J.C.; Watt, A.D.; Neßhöver, C.; van den Hove, S., (2015) Adding ‘iterativity’ to the credibility, relevance, legitimacy: A novel scheme to highlight dynamic aspects of science-policy interfaces., Environmental Science and Policy, 54, 505-512.
- Waylen, K.A.; Blackstock, K.L.; Kyle, C., (2015) Putting the Ecosystem Approach into practice - what can it do for you?, Report of a Natural Capital Initiative (NCI) Dialogue Session, Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation, 28 September 2015.
- McLean, L.; Beevers, L.; Waylen, K.A.; Wright, G.; Wilkinson, M., (2015) Learning from community led flood risk management., CREW Report CD2014-12.
- Waylen, K.A.; Howard, B.; Kyle, C.; Martin-Ortega, J., (2015) Applying payments for ecosystem services., Report of a Workshop, Edinburgh, 24 February 2015.
- Morris, S.; MacLeod, K.; Prager, K.; Currie, M.; Holmes, B.; Waylen, K.A., (2015) Theory and practice of interdisciplinary team based research for understanding socio-ecological systems: review of literature., Report on internal website, March 2014.
- Waylen, K.A.; Martin-Ortega, J., (2015) Report on Scenario-Planning for use by the MAJI project, March 2015., The James Hutton Institute, Aberdeen.
- Waylen, K.A.; Martin-Ortega, J.; Blackstock, K.L.; Brown, I., (2015) Locally-adapted scenario building: evaluation of methods., Deliverable 1.3 of the COMET-LA project.
- Martin-Ortega, J.; Waylen, K.A.; Martin-del-Molino, J.P.; Blackstock, K.L.; Brown, I., (2015) Synthesised scenarios: Summary and comparison of the scenario building processes and outcomes in the three case studies., Participatory Report on Synthesised Scenarios on EU Comet website.
- Young, J.C.; Waylen, K.A.; Sarkki, S.; Albon, S.; Bainbridge, I.; Balian, E.; Edwards, D.; Davidson, J.; Fairley, R.; Margerison, C.; McCracken, D.; Owen, R.; Quine, C.P.; Stewart-Roper, C.; Thompson, D.; Tinch, R.; Van Den Hove, S.; Watt. A., (2014) Improving the science-policy dialogue to meet the challenges of biodiversity conservation: having a conversation rather than talking at one-another., Biodiversity and Conservation, 23, 387-404.
- Waylen, K.A.; Young, J., (2014) Expectations and experiences of diverse forms of knowledge use: the case of the UK National Ecosystem Assessment., Environment and Planning C, 32, 229-246.
- Waylen, K.A.; Blackstock, K.L.; Irvine, R.J., (2014) Starting points for evaluating implementation of the "Ecosystem Approach"., Public Report available from The James Hutton Institute website.
- Thomson, K.; Kerle, S.; Waylen, K.A.; Martin Ortega, J., (2014) Water-based Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) schemes in Scotland., Report produced from a project "Evaluating PES (Payment for Ecosystem Services) Theory in Practice" within WP 1.3 and 1.2 of the Ecosystem Services Theme within the RESAS Strategic Research Programme 2011-2016.
- Brooks, J.S.; Waylen, K.A.; Borgerhoff Mulder, M., (2013) Assessing community-based conservation projects: a systematic review and multilevel analysis of attitudinal, behavioral, ecological, and economic outcomes., Environmental Evidence, 2, 2.
- Waylen, K.A.; Blackstock, K.L.; Holstead, K.L., (2013) Exploring experiences of the ecosystem approach., Project Report
- Waylen, K.A.: Martin-Ortega, J., (2013) Report on knowledge exchange workshops on an ecosystem services approach for community natural resources management in Malawi., Report for WATERS: Towards Equitable Resource Management Strategies in Malawi.
- Waylen, K.A.; Blackstock, K.L.; Young, J.; Watt, A.; van den Hove, S., (2013) Reflections on recent experience with the Water Framework Directive., SPIRAL Policy Brief.
- Waylen, K.A.; Holstead, K.L.; Colley, K.; Hopkins, J., (2018) Challenges to enabling and implementing Natural Flood Management in Scotland., Journal of Flood Risk Management, 11, S1078-S1089.
- Waylen, K.A.; Blackstock, K.L., (2017) Monitoring for adaptive management or modernity: Lessons from recent initiatives for holistic environmental management., Environmental Policy and Governance, 27, 311-324.
- Brown, I.; Martin-Ortega, J.; Waylen, K.A.; Blackstock, K.L., (2016) Participatory scenario planning for developing innovation in community adaptation responses: three contrasting examples from Latin America., Regional Environmental Change, 16, 1685-1700.
- Tinch, R.; Balian, E.; Young, J.C.; van den Hove, S.; Watt, A.; Carss, D.; Ezzine de Blas, D.; Geamana, N.A.; Keune, H.; Nesshöver, C.; Niemelã, J.; Sarkki, S.; Thibon, M.; Timaeus, J.; Vadineanu, A.; Van Muylem, K.; Waylen, K.A.; Wittmer, H., (2016) Science-policy interfaces for biodiversity: dynamic learning environments for successful impact., Biodiversity and Conservation, 27, 1679-1702.
- Waylen, K.A., (2015) Boundary organisations to connect conservation science, policy and practice., ICCB-ECCB 2015: 27th International Congress for Conservation Biology and 4th European Congress for Conservation Biology, Montpellier, France, 2-6 August 2015. Invited contributor to round table discussion.
- Waylen, K.A.; Dunlop, M., (2015) Tools, approaches and pathways to reframing conservation for future change. Conveners of round table discussion., ICCB-ECCB 2015: 27th International Congress for Conservation Biology and 4th European Congress for Conservation Biology, Montpellier, France, 2-6 August 2015. Conveners of round table discussion.
- Waylen, K.A.; Martin-Ortega, J.; Blackstock, K.L.; Brown, I.; Uribe, B.E.A.; Hernández, S.B.; Bertoni, M.B.; Bustos, M.L.; Bayer, A.X.C.; Semerena, R.I.E.; Quijano, M.A.F.; Ferrelli, F.; Fidalgo, G.L.; López, I.H.; Cisneros, M.A.H.; London, S.; Maya Vélez, D.L.; Ocampo-Díaz, N.; Ortiz-Guerrero, C.E.; Pascale, J.C.; Perillo, G.M.E.; Piccolo, M.C.; Pinzón Martínez, L.N.; Rojas, M.L.; Scordo, F.; Vitale, V.; Zilio, M.I., (2015) Can scenario-planning support community based natural resource management? Experiences from three countries in Latin America., Ecology and Society, 20, Article No. 28.
- Oteros-Rozas, E.; Martín-López, B.; Daw, T. M.; Bohensky, E.; Butler, J.; Hill, R.; Martin-Ortega, J.; Quinlan, A.; Ravera, F.; Ruiz-Mallén, I.; Thyresson, M.; Mistry, J.; Palomo, I.; Peterson, G.; Plieninger, T.; Waylen, K.A.; Beach, D.; Bohnet, I. C.; Hamann, M.; Hanspach, J.; Hubacek, K.; Lavorel, S.; Vilardy, S., (2015) Participatory scenario-planning in place-based social-ecological research: insights and experiences from 23 case studies., Ecology and Society, 20, Article No.34.
- Waylen, K.A.; Blackstock, K.L.; Holstead, K.L., (2015) How does legacy create sticking points for environmental management? Insights from challenges to implementation of the ecosystem approach., Ecology and Society, 20, Article No. 21.
- Waylen, K.A.; Blackstock, K.L.; Marshall, K.; Dunglinson, J., (2015) Participation-prescription tension in natural resource management: the case of diffuse pollution in Scottish water management., Environmental Policy and Governance, 25, 111-124.
- Waylen, K.A.; Martin-Ortega, J.; Brown, I.; Blackstock, K.L., (2014) Scenario planning and futures thinking: a useful tool for community-based management of trade-offs?, Resilience Alliance Conference 2014: Resilience and Development, Mobilising for Transformation, Montpellier, 4-8 May 2014.
- Waylen, K.A.; Hastings, E.; Banks, E.; Holstead, K.L.; Irvine, R.J.; Blackstock, K.L., (2014) The need to disentangle key concepts from Ecosystem Approach jargon., Conservation Biology, 28, 1215-1224.
- Blackstock, K.L.; Waylen, K.A.; Marshall, K.M.; Dunglinson, J., (2014) Hybridity of representation: insights from river basin management planning in Scotland., Environment and Planning C: Government and Society, 32, 549-566.
- Waylen, K.A.; Fischer, A.; McGowan, P.J.K.; Milner-Gulland, E.J., (2013) Deconstructing community for conservation: why simple assumptions are not sufficient., Human Ecology, 41, 575-585.
- Waylen, K.A.; Fischer, A.; McGowan, P.J.K.; Milner-Gulland, E.J., (2012) Interactions between a collectivist culture and Buddhist teachings influence environmental concerns and behaviors, in the Republic of Kalmykia, Russia., Society and Natural Resources, 25, 1118-1133.
- Waylen, K.A., (2006) Botanic gardens: more than just a pretty place., Oryx, 40, 259-260.
- Waylen, K.A., (2006) Botanic gardens: using biodiversity to improve human well-being., Botanic Gardens Conservation International, Richmond, UK. ISBN 1905164084
