Human-Nature Interactions

Ieva Misiune is an assistant professor at the Institute of Geosciences, Department of Geography and Land management at Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania. She is a researcher with an expertise in urban ecosystem services and social-ecological systems. Her research interests relate to the demand of ecosystem services, people’s perceptions and their habits in the use of urban green spaces. Over the course of her studies and work, Ieva conducted a number of internships (Belgium, Netherlands, USA), participated in conferences and published scientific publications as well as participated in national and international research projects related to the analysis of the social-ecological systems. She is currently developing a postdoctoral project on the quality assessment of urban public green spaces and is involved in international project on citizen engagement in the planning and management of green infrastructure.Daniel Depellegrin is currently senior researcher at the Institute of Aquatic Ecology (Ocean and Human Health Chair) of the University of Girona (Spain) and former research fellow at the University of Exeter (Renewable Energy Group, United Kingdom). His line of research spins around marine socio-ecological studies, decision support science for Maritime Spatial Planning and Ocean Multi-Use. He is author of over thirty scientific publications in the field of decision support instruments for Maritime Spatial Planning, cumulative effect assessment, marine ecosystem services assessment and artificial intelligence based geospatial modelling. Daniel has worked in various international Project Clusters in the Baltic Sea, Mediterranean and Atlantic Sea Region, among others H2020, NATO – Science for Peace & Security Programme and ERDF-INTERREG.Lukas Egarter Vigl is a senior researcher at Institute for Alpine Environment at Eurac Research (Italy) and a lecturer in Environmental Geomatics at the University of Innsbruck (Austria). In his research Lukas explores why and how landscapes in mountains change in response to changes in management and climate, and what this means for human wellbeing and society at large. He answers these questions mainly using tools and concepts from ecology, geography, and agronomy, operating at multiple scales that range from the plot to the landscape level. Over the past 10 years, Lukas has been involved in a variety of international EU-funded projects at the human-nature interface, among other the AlpES-project (on Alpine Ecosystem Services mapping), the LUIGI-project (on Green Infrastructure and ecological connectivity) and the REBECKA-project (on climate change and land suitability). Currently, he is leading a research group that aims at better understanding the complex interactions between people and nature and at developing practical solutions to better manage our environment.

• Part I:Conceptualizing human-nature interactions.- Chapter 1. Conceptualizing human-nature interactions – an overview.- Chapter 2. Environmental Values and Nature’s Contributions to People: Towards methodological pluralism in evaluation of sustainable ecosystem services.- Chapter 3. Disentangling trade-offs between the state of coastal ecosystems with human well-being and activities as a strategy addressing sustainable tourism.- Chapter 4. From human-nature dualism towards more integration in socio-ecosystems studies.- Chapter 5. A network approach to Green Infrastructure: how to enhance ecosystem services provision?.- Chapter 6. Transformations of urban coastal nature(s): Meanings and paradoxes of Blue Urbanism and nature-based solutions for climate adaptation in Southeast Asia.- Part II: Mountain systems.- Chapter 7. Values of mountain landscapes: Insights about the Blue Mountains National Park, Australia from Twitter.- Chapter 8. Earth observations of human-nature interactions froma cultural ecosystem service perspective.- Chapter 9. Gendered Values, Roles, and Challenges for Sustainable Provision of Forest-based Ecosystem Services in Nepal.- Chapter 10. Environmental [in]equity: Accessibility to green spaces in a rapidly urbanizing mountain-city.- Chapter 11. Ecosystem services and sustainable development in the European Alps: spatial patterns and mountain-lowland relationships.- Chapter 12. Human-nature relationships for the Flathead Wild and Scenic River System: Analyzing diversity, synergies, and tensions in a mountainous region of Montana, USA.- Chapter 13. Resilience and sustainability of the Maloti-Drakensberg mountain system: a case study on the upper uThukela catchment.- Chapter 14. Invasive alien plants in the montane areas of South Africa: impacts and management options.- Part III: Urban systems.- Chapter 15. Ecosystem service flows across the rural-urban spectrum.- Chapter 16. A typology for green infrastructure planning to enhance multifunctionality incorporating peri-urban agricultural land.- Chapter 17. Urban green spaces in a post-apartheid city: challenges and opportunities for nature-based solutions.- Chapter 18. Green infrastructure and ecosystem services within spatial structure of city – examples from Poznań, Poland.- Chapter 19. Accessibility to and fragmentation of urban green infrastructure: importance for adaptation to climate change.- Chapter 20. Social Demand for Urban Wilderness in Purgatory.- Chapter 21. The Role of Allotment Gardens for Connecting Nature and People.- Chapter 22. Green spaces and their social functions: specific challenges in urban spaces of arrival.- Chapter 23. The link between urban green space planning tools and distributive, procedural and recognition justice.- Part IV: Coastal-marine systems.- Chapter 24. Can local knowledge of Small-scale fishers be used to monitor and assess changes in marine ecosystems in a European context?.- Chapter 25. Marine ecological democracy: participatory marineplanning in Indigenous marine areas in Chile.- Chapter 26. The Socio-Ecological Dimension of Ocean Multi-Use.- Chapter 27. Localizing the Sustainable Development Goals for marine and coastal management in Norway: A venture overdue.- Chapter 28. Coastal-Marine ecosystem accounting to support Integrated Coastal Zone Management.- Chapter 29. Exposure of coastal ecosystem services to natural hazards in the Bangladesh coast.- Chapter 30. Adaptations to climate variability in fisheries and aquaculture social-ecological systems in the Northern Humboldt Current Ecosystem: challenges and solutions.- Chapter 31. Socio-Ecological transformations in coastal wetlands: an approach from the south-central zone of Chile.- Chapter 32. A Nature-based Solution for coastal foredune restoration: The Case Study of Maghery, County Donegal, Ireland.