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https://read.qxmd.com/read/38521875/malin-falkenmark-water-pioneer-who-coined-the-notion-of-water-crowding-and-coloured-the-water-cycle
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EDITORIAL
Johan Rockström, Lan Wang-Erlandsson, Carl Folke, Dieter Gerten, Line J Gordon, Patrick W Keys
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
March 23, 2024: Ambio
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38499740/sustainable-aquatic-resource-management-and-inland-fisheries-in-tropical-asia-interdisciplinary-and-transdisciplinary-approaches
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Fritz Schiemer, Upali S Amarasinghe, David Simon, Jacobus Vijverberg
The intensive utilization of tropical inland water bodies for multiple and sometimes competing activities underlines the necessity for their integrated and holistic co-management. This paper presents our synthesis on lake and reservoir fisheries in South and Southeast Asia as social-ecological systems, based on a synopsis of our research findings from a previous EU-funded research programme in Sri Lanka, Thailand and the Philippines (FISHSTRAT project). The paper attempts to merge our results with recent developments in research, policy and practice...
March 18, 2024: Ambio
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38499739/walking-as-a-method-for-epistemic-justice-in-sustainability
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Hamil Pearsall, Joseph Pierce, Lindsay K Campbell
We argue that walking as a method provides an integrative approach to advance epistemic justice in sustainability research. The theory and practice of walking as a method has grown quickly within the social sciences and arts but remains underrepresented in sustainability research, where walking is typically an object of study (e.g., urban walkability). We argue that walking should be valued as an important mode of knowledge production that simultaneously widens sustainability knowledge, integrates diverse knowledge systems, and supports transdisciplinary sustainability solutions...
March 18, 2024: Ambio
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38489013/improving-strategic-planning-for-nature-panacea-or-pandora-s-box-for-the-built-and-natural-environment
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Alister Scott, Matthew Kirby
This paper assesses how strategic planning for nature can be improved for England's built and natural environment using mainstreaming and landscape-scale concepts. Whilst both concepts feature in academic literature, there has been limited attention on their role as catalytic agents for strategic planning. Addressing this gap, evidence is used from two stakeholder workshops involving 62 senior policy experts managing a range of operational and hypothetical strategic spatial planning challenges. The results reveal a significantly weakened strategic planning arena characterised by policy disintegration, short termism and uncertainty...
March 15, 2024: Ambio
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38468119/the-decision-maker-s-lament-if-i-only-had-some-science
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Gustavo A Bisbal
Environmental decision makers lament instances in which the lack of actionable science limits confident decision-making. Their reaction when the needed scientific information is of poor quality, uninformative, unintelligible, or altogether absent is often to criticize scientists, their work, or science in general. The considerations offered here encourage decision makers to explore alternative approaches to alleviate their disappointment. Ironically, many researchers lament the lack of support for the science they wish to deliver and accuse decision makers of failing to realize the value of the scientific studies they propose...
March 11, 2024: Ambio
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38459233/wildfires-as-legacies-of-agropastoral-abandonment-gendered-litter-raking-and-managed-burning-as-historic-fire-prevention-practices-in-the-monte-pisano-of-italy
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Andrew S Mathews, Fabio Malfatti
Agropastoral practices that historically reduced the flammability of Mediterranean landscapes are poorly understood due to state prohibitions and lack of scientific interest. Oral histories, analysis of agronomical writings, transect walks, and ethnographic study of fire managers and community members in the Monte Pisano of Italy, find legacies of traditional agropastoral practices in present-day landscapes. Forest leaf litter raking, largely carried out by women, combined with fire wood cutting and burning to greatly reduce fire risk...
March 8, 2024: Ambio
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38441861/the-practice-of-historical-ecology-what-when-where-how-and-what-for
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REVIEW
Aarón Moisés Santana-Cordero, Péter Szabó, Matthias Bürgi, Chelsey Geralda Armstrong
In recent decades, there has been a growing number of studies exploring the historical dimensions of the interconnectedness of human societies and the environment. A core approach in this field is historical ecology. We analyzed 544 historical-ecological papers to assess patterns and trends in the field. We found a high degree of interdisciplinarity with a focus on local case studies, of periods of fewer than 500 years, analyzing archival sources through quantitative approaches. The proportion of papers containing management recommendations has increased over time...
March 5, 2024: Ambio
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38430368/-in-the-end-the-story-of-climate-change-was-one-of-hope-and-redemption-chatgpt-s-narrative-on-global-warming
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Bernd Sommer, Sarah von Querfurth
AI chatbots such as ChatGPT help people produce texts. According to media reporting, these texts are also used for educational purposes. Thus, AI influences people's knowledge and perception of current issues. This paper examines the narrative of ChatGPT's stories on climate change. Our explorative analysis reveals that ChatGPT's stories on climate change show a relatively uniform structure and similar content. Generally, the narrative is in line with scientific knowledge on climate change; the stories convey no significant misinformation...
March 2, 2024: Ambio
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38416298/historical-perspectives-on-forestry-science-and-monocultures-ideas-of-rationality-in-sweden-during-the-early-twentieth-century
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jimmy Jönsson
This study aims to broaden our historical knowledge about ideas of rationalism and monocultures in forestry science and rational forest management. Empirically, it focuses on the writings of Swedish forestry scientist Henrik Hesselman, active in the early twentieth century. The texts were analyzed using the method of historical contextualization. The study indicates that monocultures historically have been subjected to debates richer than what previous research gives credit for. Besides a rationalist technology, monocultures have been conceptualized as an example of non-rational forestry failing to deliver sustainable yields...
February 28, 2024: Ambio
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38402492/long-term-changes-in-herbivore-community-and-vegetation-impact-of-wild-and-domestic-herbivores-across-iceland
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Mathilde Defourneaux, Isabel C Barrio, Noémie Boulanger-Lapointe, James D M Speed
Changes in wild and domestic herbivore populations significantly impact extensive grazing systems, particularly in low productive environments, where increasing wild herbivore populations are perceived as a threat to farming. To assess the magnitude of these changes in Iceland, we compiled time series on herbivore populations from 1986 to 2020 and estimated changes in species densities, metabolic biomass, and consumption of plant biomass in improved lands and unimproved rangelands. We compared estimates of consumption rates to past and present net primary production...
February 25, 2024: Ambio
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38402491/upsetting-offsetting-nathan-the-wise-s-ring-parable-and-three-reasons-why-not-to-adopt-the-carbon-offsetting-logic-to-biodiversity
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Ludovico Giacomo Conti, Peter Seele
The climate crisis and the alarming loss of biodiversity require urgent action. One of the most popular tools to tackle these crises is offsetting, an accounting logic through which environmental damages can be compensated elsewhere with environmental benefits. Developed to help address the climate crisis, the carbon offsetting logic has also been transposed to address biodiversity loss. Biodiversity offsets permit the compensation of residual environmental damages through equivalent gains undertaken elsewhere...
February 25, 2024: Ambio
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38402490/from-climate-perceptions-to-actions-a-case-study-on-coffee-farms-in-ethiopia
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Xenia Gomm, Biruk Ayalew, Kristoffer Hylander, Francesco Zignol, Lowe Börjeson, Ayco J M Tack
Increasing temperatures and shifting precipitation patterns have major consequences for smallholder farmers, especially in the Global South. Our study examined spatial patterns and climatic drivers of farmers' perceptions of climate change, and how these perceptions translated into adaptation actions. We interviewed 56 farmers in southwestern Ethiopia and analyzed ERA5-Land reanalysis climate data from 1971 to 2020. The majority of farmers perceived the recorded temperature increase as well as a decrease and shift in the timing of rainfall...
February 25, 2024: Ambio
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38366297/aligning-agri-environmental-climate-public-good-supply-and-desire-in-a-sustainable-dutch-agricultural-sector
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Atoesa S Farokhi, Kina S Harmanny, Catharina J E Schulp
European agricultural policies increasingly incorporate mechanisms for delivery of public goods. Sustainable public good delivery requires alignment between societal demand and landscape supply. However, the variation of demands or desires regarding future public good delivery among society is hardly known. We inventoried the desires for public goods across Dutch society, and projections of agricultural supply. A multi-method approach was used to find agreement levels between desired and expected change in good delivery...
February 16, 2024: Ambio
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38366296/ecological-barriers-an-approach-to-ecological-conservation-and-restoration-in-china
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REVIEW
Xiaoxue Wang, Xiaofeng Wang, Xinrong Zhang, Jitao Zhou, Zixu Jia, Jiahao Ma, Wenjie Yao, You Tu, Zechong Sun, Yuhan Wei
The Chinese government has pursued comprehensive ecological conservation and restoration by establishing an ecological barrier system. However, the majority of international research tends to focus on the connectivity between habitats, overlooking the functions that ecological barriers play in ecological conservation and restoration. The existing literature lacks a systematic exploration of the theory and practice of ecological barriers. This study employed the literature analysis tool CiteSpace to present the theoretical and developmental trends in ecological barriers from various perspectives, including research fields, historical evolution, research hotspots, and major research nations...
February 16, 2024: Ambio
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38360970/collaboration-and-engagement-with-decision-makers-are-needed-to-reduce-evidence-complacency-in-wildlife-management
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Andrew N Kadykalo, C Scott Findlay, Matthew Spencer, Chris L Callaghan, Steven J Cooke, Nathan Young
There exists an extensive, diverse, and robust evidence base to support complex decisions that address the planetary biodiversity crisis. However, it is generally not sought or used by environmental decision-makers, who instead draw on intuition, experience, or opinion to inform important decisions. Thus, there is a need to examine evidence exchange processes in wildlife management to understand the multiple inputs to decisions. Here, we adopt a novel approach, fuzzy cognitive mapping (FCM), to examine perceptions of individuals from Indigenous and Western governments on the reliability of evidence which may influence freshwater fisheries management decisions in British Columbia, Canada...
February 15, 2024: Ambio
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38355875/incorporating-uncertainty-in-indigenous-sea-country-monitoring-with-bayesian-statistics-towards-more-informed-decision-making
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Katherine Cure, Diego R Barneche, Martial Depczynski, Rebecca Fisher, David J Warne, James McGree, Jim Underwood, Frank Weisenberger, Elizabeth Evans-Illidge, Brendan Ford, Daniel Oades, Azton Howard, Phillip McCarthy, Damon Pyke, Zac Edgar, Rodney Maher, Trevor Sampi, Kevin Dougal, Bardi Jawi Traditional Owners
Partnerships in marine monitoring combining Traditional Ecological Knowledge and western science are developing globally to improve our understanding of temporal changes in ecological communities that better inform coastal management practices. A fuller communication between scientists and Indigenous partners about the limitations of monitoring results to identify change is essential to the impact of monitoring datasets on decision-making. Here we present a 5-year co-developed case study from a fish monitoring partnership in northwest Australia showing how uncertainty estimated by Bayesian models can be incorporated into monitoring management indicators...
February 14, 2024: Ambio
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38353913/light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel-innovative-opportunities-for-saving-tropical-biodiversity
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Denis Vasiliev, Richard Hazlett, Katie Lois Hutchinson, Lennart Bornmalm
The expansion of roads into wilderness areas and biodiversity hotspots in the Global South seems inevitable and is predicted to bring about significant biodiversity loss. Even so, existing widespread strategies aiming to mitigate the direct and indirect impacts of roads on the environment have been of limited effectiveness. These tactics, including construction of fencing, wildlife crossings on paved roads, and establishment of protected areas along the roads, are unlikely to be sufficient for protecting diverse species assemblages from roadkill, habitat fragmentation, and anthropogenic activity in tropics...
February 14, 2024: Ambio
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38324122/a-bridge-over-sustainable-water-politicians-perceptions-about-the-preconditions-for-collective-action
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Anna Bendz, Patrik Öhberg
Sustainable water resource management is a core interest for all societies. As water systems are often common resources, the management of water systems requires coordinated action among actors along the water. For flowing water, a complication for coordination is upstream-downstream relations where what happens upstream affects downstream, but not the other way around. In this study we present results from a survey experiment with politicians in Sweden, focusing on whether and to what extent their willingness to cooperate is affected by their placement upstream or downstream along a fictive water system...
February 7, 2024: Ambio
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38324121/preferences-for-woodland-activities-and-forest-features-as-predictors-of-well-being-after-forest-visits-evidence-from-a-nationally-representative-survey-in-slovakia
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jozef Výbošťok, Magdaléna Pichlerová, Kiki Ekiawan Lamatungga, Dhanalakshmi Tamatam, Dilek Önkal, Daniel Halaj, Viliam Pichler
The link between subjective well-being (SWB) and forest visits is increasingly driving the development and preservation of restorative forest environments in numerous countries. However, there is limited knowledge regarding the effect of people's preferences for forest patterns and activities on this connection. Here we investigated whether associations exist between the preferences for certain forest features and activities, and the SWB increase and stress reduction in response to forest visits. A nationwide digital survey was administered to a representative sample of the Slovak population...
February 7, 2024: Ambio
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38324120/pathways-from-research-to-sustainable-development-insights-from-ten-research-projects-in-sustainability-and-resilience
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Anna Scaini, Joseph Mulligan, Håkan Berg, Albert Brangarí, Vera Bukachi, Sebastian Carenzo, Da Chau Thi, Colin Courtney-Mustaphi, Anneli Ekblom, Hanne Fjelde, Mathias Fridahl, Anders Hansson, Lettice Hicks, Mattias Höjer, Benard Juma, Jaan-Henrik Kain, Rebecca W Kariuki, Soben Kim, Paul Lane, Ainara Leizeaga, Regina Lindborg, John Livsey, Steve W Lyon, Rob Marchant, Jennifer R McConville, Linus Munishi, David Nilsson, Luke Olang, Stefan Olin, Lennart Olsson, Peter Msumali Rogers, Johannes Rousk, Hans Sandén, Nophea Sasaki, Anna Shoemaker, Benjamin Smith, Lan Thai Huynh Phuong, Ana Varela Varela, Manjunatha Venkatappa, Giulia Vico, Nina Von Uexkull, Christine Wamsler, Menale Wondie, Patrick Zapata, María José Zapata Campos, Stefano Manzoni, Anna Tompsett
Drawing on collective experience from ten collaborative research projects focused on the Global South, we identify three major challenges that impede the translation of research on sustainability and resilience into better-informed choices by individuals and policy-makers that in turn can support transformation to a sustainable future. The three challenges comprise: (i) converting knowledge produced during research projects into successful knowledge application; (ii) scaling up knowledge in time when research projects are short-term and potential impacts are long-term; and (iii) scaling up knowledge across space, from local research sites to larger-scale or even global impact...
February 7, 2024: Ambio
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