How has the COVID-19 pandemic influenced how people engage with and value environmental systems (including nature, wildlife, and farming and food supply)? What opportunities does this present to lock-in positive behaviour change and secure environmental objectives in the longer term?
Background
The research areas identified in this document rely on a wide range of research tools and approaches, spanning disciplines across the sciences and social sciences. This section is not an exhaustive list of the tools and approaches of interest to Defra. It identifies some areas of particular relevance and change, which will be important in addressing the challenges faced by Defra and represented throughout this document.
Societies demand resource from the environment and shape that environment. The social science of human-nature interactions is of fundamental importance to Defra.
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Related UKRI funded projects
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Nature Engagement and Wellbeing Pre-, During and Post Covid-19: Supporting the UK (Green) Recovery
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Funded by: COVID
Why might this be relevant?
The project aims to understand changes in nature engagement and wellbeing during and after lockdown, which directly addresses the question about how the COVID-19 pandemic has influenced people's engagement with and value of environmental systems.
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Evidence for nature based solutions (NBSGap)
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Funded by: NERC
Why might this be relevant?
The project focuses on nature-based solutions and their benefits and disbenefits across policy domains, which partially addresses the question about opportunities to secure environmental objectives in the longer term.
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Reframing Global Environmental Change: fostering interdisciplinary approaches to socioecological transformation through insights from Wales.
As societies grapple with issues such as climate change and species loss, and following a widespread loss of faith in the notion of "sustainable development", reframing debates about what constitutes a sustaina...
Funded by: ESRC
Why might this be relevant?
The project explores interdisciplinary approaches to socioecological transformation and the role of emotion, imagination, and creativity, which is not directly relevant to the question about the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on people's engagement with and value of environmental systems.