Publications by authors named "Rick Stafford"
Eco-engineering of coastal infrastructure aims to address the insufficient intertidal habitat provided by coastal development and flood defence. There are numerous ways to enhance coastal infrastructure with habitat features, but a common method involves retrofitting artificial rockpools. Often these are 'bolt-on' units that are fixed to existing coastal infrastructure but there is a paucity of literature on how to optimise their arrangement for biodiversity.
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- The offshore Multi-use Setting (MUS) aims to combine marine industrial activities like wind farms and aquaculture to optimize space and resources while addressing global policy priorities.
- A study using expert predictions assessed the potential social and environmental impacts of co-locating seaweed aquaculture with a wind farm, revealing both risks, such as species mortality and stakeholder conflict, and benefits, like improved habitat functionality.
- The findings highlight the complexity and uncertainty in managing MUS, suggesting the need for further integrated assessments and alternative strategies to minimize trade-offs and risks in such ventures.
: Environmental volunteering can increase well-being, but environmental volunteer well-being has rarely been compared to participant well-being associated with other types of volunteering or nature-based activities. This paper aims to use a multidimensional approach to well-being to explore the immediately experienced and later remembered well-being of environmental volunteers and to compare this to the increased well-being of participants in other types of nature-based activities and volunteering. Furthermore, it aims to compare volunteer managers' perceptions of their volunteers' well-being with the self-reported well-being of the volunteers.
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