Rachel Carson Prize shortlist: People and Nature award for Early Career Researchers 2023

The Rachel Carson Prize is awarded by the British Ecological Society each year for the best paper in People and Nature written by an early career author at the start of their research career. Today, we are pleased to present the shortlisted papers for this year’s award, based on the previous (5th) volume of the journal.

In alphabetical order, this year’s shortlisted candidates are:

Graden Z.L. Froese	Fluid hunter motivation in Central Africa: Effects on behaviour, bushmeat and income
Sifan Hu	Applying a co-design approach with key stakeholders to design interventions to reduce illegal wildlife consumption
Tatiana Marquina	‘Hey, tree. You are my friend’: Assessing multiple values of nature through letters to trees
Julia Neidig	Pluralizing environmental values for urban planning: How to uncover the diversity of imaginaries about socio-natures from Vitoria-Gasteiz (Basque Country, Spain)
Mark Tadaki	Transforming freshwater politics through metaphors: Struggles over ecosystem health, legal personhood, and invasive species in Aotearoa New Zealand
Jingjing Zhao	Understanding indigenous people’s traditional Chinese medicinal plants harvesting preferences to guide sustainable management

The winner will be selected in the coming weeks, so please monitor the BES social media and website for future announcements.