Personalised Ecologies
Personalised Ecology is a model for better understanding the interactions between individual people and their ecological surroundings. It can help us move beyond an objective view of the natural world and instead to examine and explore the nuances in how those interactions inform our experiences and relationship with nature.
The Green Futures Network is leading a collaborative process to explore how this framework can be applied in practice, for groups and organisations working on deeper engagement with the natural or non-human world.
Personalised Ecologies Huddle
This 7-month co-creation process will end in April 2027, with a showcase event to share the collaborative resources and ideas to use the framework in practice.
Personalised Ecologies research
The framework comes from the RENEW project (Renewing biodiversity through a people-in-nature approach). Its focus is on a ‘people-in-nature’ approach, reflecting the two-way, dynamic relations between people and nature and the need to develop a relational approach to renew our life-support systems.
Discover reports, case studies, resources and more on the project website.
The Personalised Ecology Index
The Personalised Ecology Index (PEI) is designed to measure the many ways a person directly interacts with nature through their senses, as a single score.
The PEI measures four dimensions of nature interaction: how often people visit nature (frequency), how long those visits last (duration), how varied the types of natural spaces visited are (diversity), and how much attention they pay to elements of nature (intensity).
Domesticating Rewilding
Why are so many rewilding projects in England avoiding ‘the R word,’ and what can it tell us about a unique form of English rewilding that is emerging?
This research illustration outlines why ‘Rewilding’ is such a polarising idea and a polarising word. For some it is threatening and alienating, for others it presents a hopeful narrative for the future of conservation and ecosystems.