Achieving social and environmental justice: a call to integrate the human and the more-than-human in spatial decision making

Globally, the fastest growing land cover type is urban -a rate of buildout that is contributing significantly to the 'nature emergency' (1).The social and economic consequences are serious: species extinctions and habitat degradation mean the loss of critical ecosystem functions that are needed to sustain human society (2).The UK is now one of the most nature-depleted countries on earth, ranking in the bottom 10% globally on the Biodiversity Intactness Index.