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2026
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2023

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Social Sciences and Humanities

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95
Citations
68079
World Ranking
126
National Ranking
17

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95
Citations
68479
World Ranking
466
National Ranking
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Jules Pretty is affiliated with the University of Essex in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science, with notable contributions across 17 publications in each area. The scientist's work delves into several subfields, including General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Plant Science, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

Their research topics reflect a focus on practical and policy-related issues in agriculture and environmental health. These include Urban Green Space and Health, Agricultural Innovations and Practices, Agricultural Systems and Practices, Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development, Climate Change and Health Impacts, Conservation, Ecology, and Wildlife Education, as well as Agricultural Economics and Practices.

Some of their recent published papers include:

  • Towards redesign at scale through zero budget natural farming in Andhra Pradesh, India, 2020, International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability
  • Assessment of the growth in social groups for sustainable agriculture and land management, 2020, Global Sustainability
  • Response and resilience of Asian agrifood systems to COVID-19: An assessment across twenty-five countries and four regional farming and food systems, 2021, Agricultural Systems
  • Regular Doses of Nature: The Efficacy of Green Exercise Interventions for Mental Wellbeing, 2020, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • A horizon scan of global biological conservation issues for 2022, 2021, Trends in Ecology & Evolution

Jules Pretty frequently publishes in several academic journals including:

  • Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Sustainability
  • Sustainability Science

The scientist collaborates regularly with several other researchers, including:

  • Osamu Saitô
  • William J. Sutherland
  • Erica Fleishman
  • Kevin J. Gaston
  • Alice C. Hughes

Best Publications

  • Food Security: The Challenge of Feeding 9 Billion People

    H Charles J Godfray;John R Beddington;Ian R Crute;Lawrence Haddad

  • Participatory learning for sustainable agriculture

    Jules N. Pretty

  • Social Capital and the Environment

    Jules Pretty;Hugh Ward

  • Agricultural sustainability: concepts, principles and evidence

    Jules N Pretty

  • Social Capital and the Collective Management of Resources

    Jules Pretty

  • What is the Best Dose of Nature and Green Exercise for Improving Mental Health? A Multi-Study Analysis

    Jo Barton;Jules Pretty

  • Regenerating Agriculture: Policies and Practice for Sustainability and Self-Reliance

    Jules N. Pretty

  • Sustainable intensification in African agriculture

    Jules N Pretty;Camilla Toulmin;Stella Williams

  • The mental and physical health outcomes of green exercise.

    Jules Pretty;Jo Peacock;Martin Sellens;Murray Griffin

  • Sustainable Intensification : Increasing Productivity in African Food and Agricultural Systems

    Jules N. Pretty;Stella Williams;Camilla Toulmin

  • The spread of Conservation Agriculture: justification, sustainability and uptake

    Amir Kassam;Theodor Friedrich;Francis Shaxson;Jules Pretty

  • Sustainable intensification in agricultural systems

    Jules Pretty;Zareen Pervez Bharucha

  • Social Capital in Biodiversity Conservation and Management

    Jules Pretty;David Smith

  • Soil type is the primary determinant of the composition of the total and active bacterial communities in arable soils

    Martina S. Girvan;Juliet Bullimore;Jules N. Pretty;A. Mark Osborn

  • Resource-Conserving Agriculture Increases Yields in Developing Countries

    J.N. Pretty;A.D. Noble;D. Bossio;J. Dixon

  • Agri-Culture: Reconnecting People, Land and Nature

    Jules N. Pretty

  • An assessment of the total external costs of UK agriculture

    J.N. Pretty;C. Brett;D. Gee;R.E. Hine

  • Parks, people and professionals: putting 'participation' into protected area management.

    Michel Pimbert;Jules N. Pretty

  • Global assessment of agricultural system redesign for sustainable intensification

    Jules Pretty;Tim G. Benton;Zareen Pervez. Bharucha;Lynn V. Dicks

  • Horizon scan of global conservation issues for 2011

    William J. Sutherland;Rosalind Aveling;Thomas M. Brooks;Mick Clout

  • Reaping the Benefits: Science and the sustainable intensification of global agriculture

    Bill Davies;David Baulcombe;Ian Crute;Jim Dunwell

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew S. Ball
Andrew S. Ball RMIT University
William J. Sutherland
William J. Sutherland University of Cambridge
Deborah A. Bossio
Deborah A. Bossio The Nature Conservancy
Lynn V. Dicks
Lynn V. Dicks University of Cambridge
Mark Spalding
Mark Spalding University of Cambridge
James I.L. Morison
James I.L. Morison Forestry Commission England
Erica Fleishman
Erica Fleishman Oregon State University
Lloyd S. Peck
Lloyd S. Peck British Antarctic Survey
James W. Pearce-Higgins
James W. Pearce-Higgins British Trust for Ornithology
Norman Uphoff
Norman Uphoff Cornell University

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