Jules Pretty, 2024

Good story can lead to tipping points and phase transitions, where transformations can be as sudden as those we experience in life.

Story says this: go through the door. For in story, everything is at stake.

Jules Pretty. 2024. University of Essex CPPE Paper 2024:4

Detailing 64 major impacts of the Essex Climate Action Commission since publication of its main report in 2021. These are in the areas of nature and green infrastructure, energy, waste, buildings and planning, water, transport, community engagement, and transition to a just & greener economy.

Jules Pretty. 2022. University of Essex. CPPE Paper 2022: 1

A CPPE paper setting out the critical benefits of public and policy engagement,  a new typology of PE, and detailing more than 20 cases of success and failure.

Anna Zhu, Changzheng Yuan, Jules Pretty, John Ji

Brain Behav. 2022;12:e2670

Plant-based diets confer health benefits, especially on the prevention of
non-communicable diseases. We assessed
the associations between plant-based dietary patterns & cognitive function among Chinese older adults.

Jules Pretty & Jo Barton. 2020. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 17, 7769.

An analysis of the impacts of nature-based intervention programmes, and how keeping people healthy saves money for public services and health systems.

Pretty J and 29 authors. 2020. Global Sustainability, 3, E23.

An audit of the continuing emergence of social capital for landscape and ecosystem recovery in the form of 8 million groups involving 240 million people.

Zareen Pervez Bharucha, Sol Bermejo Mitjans & Jules Pretty

International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability DOI: 10.1080/14735903.2019.1694465

Andhra Pradesh has set an aim of rolling out Natural Farming to all 6 million of the state’s farmers through a state-led programme of training and extension. This paper shows significant increases in yields with NF

Zareen Pervez Bharucha (+35 authors) & Jules Pretty

International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability https://doi.org/10.1080/14735903.2020.1830530

The 100 top questions for a collective programme for new cross- & multi-disciplinary research
on sustainable intensification in the Indian rainfed drylands

Jules Pretty. 2020. Agriculture and Human Values, 37:629–630

Transitions to more sustainable and regenerative agricultural systems often go through three stages: efficiency, substitution, and redesign.

William Sutherland, Erica Fleishman, Mick Clout, David Gibbons, Fiona Lickorish,
Lloyd Peck, Jules Pretty, Mark Spalding, and Nancy Ockendon

Trends in Ecology & Evolution 34, 139-153

A review the first annual horizon scan of global conservation issues, conducted 10 years before, and the success of the predictions

Jules Pretty. 2018. Science 362, eaav0294

A summary of the expansion of redesigned sustainable systems of agriculture, with a particular focus on reducing pesticide use and negative impacts.

Jules Pretty and 14 authors. 2018. Nature Sustainability 1, 441-446

A global assessment of the uptake of sustainable intensification at scale (more than 10,000 hectares or 10,000 farmers), showing that sustainable and regenerative methods are being used by 29% of the world’s farmers on 9% of agricultural area.

Pretty J, Barton J, Bharucha Z, Bragg R, Pencheon D, Wood C and Depledge M. 2015. International Journal of Environmental Health Research 11, 1-26

How greener and pro-social economies create health benefits, and how GDP misses health and environmental costs.

Jules Pretty. 2013. Environmental and Resource Economics 55(4), 475-499

The impact of consumption on the state of the planet, and how divergent solutions will help the emergence of greener economies.

Jules Pretty. 2011. Environmental Conservation 38 (2): 127–139

How different disciplines can work together to address recovery of both cultural and natural capital in lived systems.

Jo Barton & Jules Pretty. 2010. Environmental Science & Technology 2010, 44, 3947-55

Building on half a decade of research into the health benefits of nature, the first use in the published literature of the term “a dose of nature.”

Godfray C, Beddington J, Crute I, Haddad L, Lawrence D, Muir J, Pretty J, Robinson S, Thomas S and Toulmin C. 2010. Science 327, 812-818

The highly-cited paper from the UK Government’s Foresight project on The Future of Food and Farming, and setting out how 9 billion people can be fed at low environmental cost.

Jules Pretty. 2008. Phil Trans of the Royal Society of London B 363 (1491), 447-466

The principles, concepts and evidence for the benefits of sustainability of agriculture.

Colin Samson & Jules Pretty. 2006. Food Policy 31, 528-553

The indigenous Innu people of Labrador have recently undergone huge and enforced cultural transitions. This paper analyses the benefits of wild foods and living on the land.

Jules Pretty, Jo Barton (Peacock), Martin Sellens and Murray Griffin

International Journal of Environmental Health Research 2005, 15(5): 319 – 337

First ever study of the synergistic health benefits in adopting physical activities whilst being directly exposed to nature (‘green exercise’)

Jules Pretty, Tim Lang, James Morison, Andrew Ball. 2005. Food Policy 30(1), 1-20

An economic analysis of the externalities of agricultural systems (building on the 2000 paper in Agricultural Systems) and the added environmental costs of food miles.

Jules Pretty. 2003. Science 302, 1912-1915

A brief summary of the importance of social capital and its agreed norms and rules to the management of the commons.

Jules Pretty & Hugh Ward. 2001. World Development 29 (2), 209-227

Social capital comprises relations of trust, reciprocity, obligations and shared institutions, and is a critical pre-requisite to landscape scale improvements to nature.

Jules Pretty. 1995. World Development 23 (8), 1247-1263

Drawing in ten years’ of experience of participatory methods, this paper set out an early typology of participation.