Chris Young

A healthy natural environment is the foundation of a sustainable future with prospering communities. In the UK and elsewhere, pioneering projects are exploring new ways of managing land and sea environments and the benefits people derive from them.A new network has been sponsored by Defra with the aim of sharing experience from projects taking an ecosystems approach.

As Spring approaches it is always good to have a bit of a clear-out. After much debate ialeUK has decided to put on a Spring sale and make available back issues of conference proceedings at a knock-down price...

Tables of contents from the latest three editions (January-March 2012)

There is free access to Landscape Ecology until 31st December 2011. For more details see the journal website.

A new Future Brief focussing on the complex relationship between biodiversity and human health has been published and is free to download.

As a follow-up to the conference Landscape Juice has recently published a short article on 'What is landscape ecology?' as a result of an electronic Q&A with committee member Dr Chris Young.

This year the ialeUK conference took place from 6th September 2011 at the Telford Campus of the University of Wolverhampton and was on the theme of landscape ecology and ecosystem services.

Welcome to the ialeUK Autumn newsletter and in particular welcome to all those colleagues who recently joined us for the conference.

Contents for the Journal Landscape Ecology for October, November and December 2011

The Grasslands Trust recently launched our first in depth report into the state of England's grasslands. Nature's Tapestry examines the reasons why our wildlife-rich grasslands are so significant and need to be valued; not just for biodiversity and the broader environment, but also for their cultural, social and historical importance.