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TY - JOUR
AU - Durán, A.P.
AU - Kuiper, J.J.
AU - Aguiar, A.P.D.
AU - Cheung, W.W.L.
AU - Diaw, M.C.
AU - Halouani, G.
AU - Hashimoto, S.
AU - Gasalla, M.A.
AU - Peterson, G.D.
AU - Schoolenberg, M.A.
AU - Abbasov, R.
AU - Acosta, L.A.
AU - Armenteras, D.
AU - Davila, F.
AU - Denboba, M.A.
AU - Harrison, P.A.
AU - Harhash, K.A.
AU - Karlsson-Vinkhuyzen, S.
AU - Kim, H.J.
AU - Lundquist, C.J.
AU - Miller, B.W.
AU - Okayasu, S.
AU - Pichs-Madruga, R.
AU - Sathyapalan, J.
AU - Saysel, A.K.
AU - Yu, D.
AU - Pereira, L.M.
TI - Bringing the Nature Futures Framework to life: creating a set of illustrative narratives of nature futures
PY - 2023
T2 - Sustainability Science
DO - 10.1007/s11625-023-01316-1
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85157968404&doi=10.1007%2fs11625-023-01316-1&partnerID=40&md5=02677321598d31bc98028f5a36084e3e
AB - To halt further destruction of the biosphere, most people and societies around the globe need to transform their relationships with nature. The internationally agreed vision under the Convention of Biological Diversity—Living in harmony with nature—is that “By 2050, biodiversity is valued, conserved, restored and wisely used, maintaining ecosystem services, sustaining a healthy planet and delivering benefits essential for all people”. In this context, there are a variety of debates between alternative perspectives on how to achieve this vision. Yet, scenarios and models that are able to explore these debates in the context of “living in harmony with nature” have not been widely developed. To address this gap, the Nature Futures Framework has been developed to catalyse the development of new scenarios and models that embrace a plurality of perspectives on desirable futures for nature and people. In this paper, members of the IPBES task force on scenarios and models provide an example of how the Nature Futures Framework can be implemented for the development of illustrative narratives representing a diversity of desirable nature futures: information that can be used to assess and develop scenarios and models whilst acknowledging the underpinning value perspectives on nature. Here, the term illustrative reflects the multiple ways in which desired nature futures can be captured by these narratives. In addition, to explore the interdependence between narratives, and therefore their potential to be translated into scenarios and models, the six narratives developed here were assessed around three areas of the transformative change debate, specifically, (1) land sparing vs. land sharing, (2) Half Earth vs. Whole Earth conservation, and (3) green growth vs. post-growth economic development. The paper concludes with an assessment of how the Nature Futures Framework could be used to assist in developing and articulating transformative pathways towards desirable nature futures. © 2023, The Author(s).
KW - Biodiversity
KW - IPBES
KW - Nature values
KW - NCP
KW - Scenarios
KW - Transformation
LA - English
M3 - Article
DB - Scopus
N1 - Export Date: 03 July 2023; Cited By: 0
ER -
TY - JOUR
AU - Leino, H.
AU - Karppi, I.
AU - Jokinen, A.
TI - It’s all about the birds! Non-human actors’ situational power in creating conditions for human engagement
PY - 2017
T2 - Planning Theory
VL - 16
IS - 2
SP - 133
EP - 149
DO - 10.1177/1473095215617985
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85018776483&doi=10.1177%2f1473095215617985&partnerID=40&md5=9b1891b675e54bf3642bb52dc7693bf5
AB - In this article, we aim to understand how planning theory and practice should approach new urban entities and their transforming meanings. We argue that planning practice has difficulties in identifying and recognising developmental processes where the human attachment to the local environment gradually changes the identity and use of an area. Instead, these processes are interpreted as disruptions in the planned course of action. We illustrate our viewpoint with an empirical example from Finland. The case is about a significant spot of biodiversity in a completely man-made environment. The study serves as an example of how artefacts actively co-shape the events and environment around them and thus create a relationship between humans and their surroundings. Drawing on a science and technology studies-inspired perspective on the relationships between human and non-human actors, we stress the importance of artefacts, local setting and processual development in urban planning. © 2015, © The Author(s) 2015.
KW - artefact
KW - attachment
KW - non-human
KW - participation
KW - transformation
KW - urban nature
KW - Finland
KW - Aves
KW - artifact
KW - biodiversity
KW - development strategy
KW - environmental management
KW - nature-society relations
KW - participatory approach
KW - planning practice
KW - planning process
KW - planning theory
KW - science and technology
KW - urban area
KW - urban planning
LA - English
M3 - Article
DB - Scopus
N1 - Export Date: 03 July 2023; Cited By: 7
ER -
TY - JOUR
AU - Butler, C.D.
TI - Sounding the alarm: Health in the anthropocene
PY - 2016
T2 - International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
VL - 13
IS - 7
C7 - 665
DO - 10.3390/ijerph13070665
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84976631445&doi=10.3390%2fijerph13070665&partnerID=40&md5=ef6365457a5bb5b3e5aaa31dcc89bfeb
AB - There is growing scientific and public recognition that human actions, directly and indirectly, have profoundly changed the Earth system, in a still accelerating process, increasingly called the “Anthropocene”. Planetary transformation, including of the atmosphere, climate, ecosystems and biodiversity, has enormous implications for human health, many of which are deeply disturbing, especially in low-income settings. A few health consequences of the Anthropocene have been partially recognized, including within environmental epidemiology, but their long-term consequences remain poorly understood and greatly under-rated. For example Syria could be a “sentinel” population, giving a glimpse to a much wider dystopian future. Health-Earth is a research network, co-founded in 2014, which seeks, with other groups, to catalyse a powerful curative response by the wider health community. This paper builds on a symposium presented by Health-Earth members at the 2015 conference of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology. It reviews and synthesizes parts of the large literature relevant to the interaction between the changing Earth system and human health. It concludes that this topic should be prominent within future environmental epidemiology and public health. Created by our species, these challenges may be soluble, but solutions require far more understanding and resources than are currently being made available. © 2016 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
KW - Anthropocene
KW - Eco-social tipping points
KW - Future health
KW - Health inequalities
KW - Health-Earth
KW - Limits to growth
KW - Planetary boundaries
KW - Biodiversity
KW - Ecosystem
KW - Environmental Health
KW - Health Status
KW - Human Activities
KW - Humans
KW - Anthropocene
KW - environmental change
KW - epidemiology
KW - forecasting method
KW - public health
KW - catalysis
KW - human
KW - public health
KW - solubility
KW - species
KW - Syrian Arab Republic
KW - biodiversity
KW - ecosystem
KW - environmental health
KW - health status
KW - human activities
LA - English
M3 - Article
DB - Scopus
N1 - Export Date: 03 July 2023; Cited By: 33
ER -
TY - JOUR
AU - Salisu Barau, A.
AU - Stringer, L.C.
AU - Adamu, A.U.
TI - Environmental ethics and future oriented transformation to sustainability in Sub-Saharan Africa
PY - 2016
T2 - Journal of Cleaner Production
VL - 135
SP - 1539
EP - 1547
DO - 10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.03.053
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84964691005&doi=10.1016%2fj.jclepro.2016.03.053&partnerID=40&md5=1c590c2facf34186647a5fa3754c6310
AB - The current study underscores the importance of environmental ethics as a vehicle for engaging society, businesses, and policy-makers towards mainstreaming transformation to sustainability. This reflects an innovative trend towards using narratives in social and management sciences, which needs to be replicated by other disciplines, organisations, agencies, and social groupings. In this paper, focus is on identifying storylines, phrases, myths, and local and indigenous knowledge systems of ethical and ecological significance. Using examples from written and unwritten narratives of Hausa – one of the widely spoken languages in sub-Saharan Africa, this study shines light on some key narratives relevant to present day critical environmental issues such as management of agricultural landscapes, municipal waste, ecosystem services, integrated natural resource management, and biodiversity loss. Environmental ethics drawn from the narratives provide an integrated platform where formal and informal institutions of sustainability can be strengthened, supporting transformation towards sustainability through enhancing ecological consciousness, skills, and attitudes. © 2016 Elsevier Ltd
KW - Ecocriticism
KW - Human dimensions
KW - Institutions
KW - Knowledge
KW - Narratives
KW - Biodiversity
KW - Ecology
KW - Ecosystems
KW - Management science
KW - Natural resources management
KW - Philosophical aspects
KW - Societies and institutions
KW - Waste management
KW - Agricultural landscapes
KW - Ecocriticism
KW - Environmental issues
KW - Human dimensions
KW - Knowledge
KW - Narratives
KW - Natural resource management
KW - Oriented transformation
KW - Sustainable development
LA - English
M3 - Article
DB - Scopus
N1 - Export Date: 03 July 2023; Cited By: 21
ER -
TY - JOUR
AU - Tregidga, H.
AU - Laine, M.
TI - On crisis and emergency: Is it time to rethink long-term environmental accounting?
PY - 2022
T2 - Critical Perspectives on Accounting
VL - 82
C7 - 102311
DO - 10.1016/j.cpa.2021.102311
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85105064439&doi=10.1016%2fj.cpa.2021.102311&partnerID=40&md5=62a3539ad107dd5d81836a965c68d821
AB - The environment is in crisis. Climate science and biodiversity loss indicators, for example, illustrate the extent of environmental degradation and the concerns with the sustainability of Earth, or perhaps more specifically, the ability of Earth to sustain (human) life. There is also an increasing recognition of the environmental crisis as urgent, as an emergency, yet whether we are acting sufficiently to the environmental crisis is still up for debate. These debates have become more evident in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, creating a context within which to consider what it means to respond to a crisis and how the environment might feature in any post-COVID recovery. In this essay, we first outline and reflect on crisis, urgency and (in)action through a consideration of the environmental crisis and the COVID-19 crisis before moving to our main focus – the implications for environmental accounting. Specifically, we suggest that the construction of environmental accounting as accounting for the long-term, an attempt to contrast it with and overcome the problems with short-term conventional accounting, potentially contributes to the construction of the environment as lacking urgency and potentially enables its marginalisation. We argue that in order to make the most of accounting's potential as a constitutive force, capable of participating in transforming preferences, decisions and behaviour in organisations and societies, environmental accounting needs to be about the short-term. We contribute to the ongoing discussions on how accounting needs to change if it is to recognise the urgent nature of the environmental crisis. © 2021 The Authors
KW - Crisis
KW - Environmental accounting
KW - Time
KW - Urgency
LA - English
M3 - Article
DB - Scopus
N1 - Export Date: 03 July 2023; Cited By: 14
ER -
TY - JOUR
AU - Liang, Q.Q.
AU - Li, M.
AU - Liu, R.J.
AU - Guo, S.X.
TI - Function and functioning mechanisms of mycorrhizal fungi under global changes
PY - 2014
T2 - Shengtai Xuebao
VL - 34
IS - 21
SP - 6039
EP - 6048
DO - 10.5846/stxb201301300191
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84911466512&doi=10.5846%2fstxb201301300191&partnerID=40&md5=12ccf61848aad6965247fcbf4ba33399
AB - Global changes with regards to climate, environment, economy and society may cause serious problems and in the meantime also challenges for terrestrial ecosystems. Example global changes include greenhouse effects, ozone depletion, acid deposition, drought and waterlogging frequency, higher and lower temperature duration, soil acidity and degradation, soil polluted with heavy metals, sharp decline of forest area and species diversity etc. It is well documented that biogeography environments and climates play key roles in species distribution, while global changes affect the distribution and utilization of species resources. As the most intimate partner to plants, mycorrhizal fungi are also seriously influenced. Mycorrhizal fungi which colonize plant roots and form symbiosis with host plants, occupy irreplaceable niche. Mycorrhizal associations specifically arbuscular mycorrhiza (AM), ectomycorrhiza (ECM), ectoendomycorrhiza (EEM), ericoid mycorrhizas (ERM), and/or orchid mycorrhizas (OM), interact with other organisms living both in soil and on the ground, incorporate nutrient transforming, absorption, circulation and utilization. They play vital roles in maintaining atmospheric compositions, adjusting terrestrial ecosystems, increasing biodiversities, stabilizing sustainable productivities as well as sustainable development of human society. Thus, exploration of the function and functioning mechanisms of mycorrhizal fungi under global changes is a complete new subject, especially, the study on biological mechanisms to global changes is of realistic value and profound scientific significance. This paper introduces the impact of global changes on mycorrhizal fungi, particularly the influence of greenhouse effects, CO2 level increasing, ozone depletion, acid with nitrogen and sulfur deposition, drought and waterlogging, exotic plant invasion, and human activities on mycorrhizal fungus development and functions. We summarized the possible functions of mycorrhizal fungi under global changes through direct and indirect pathways, such as rehabilitating and stabilizing the damaged, degraded and fragile ecosystems, deceasing CO2 concentration in the atmosphere, increasing carbon sink, enhancing substance conversion, circulation and utilization, resisting to plant pathogens and pest insects, conferring biological stresses, and playing some roles in exotic plant invasion and succession. The authors also reviewed the functioning mechanisms of mycorrhizal fungi under global changes. It was suggested that mycorrhizal fungi may synergistically function with the other organisms, strengthening their own and host plant physiological and ecological characteristics, enlarging hyphae net, and secreting and inducing beneficial substances. Therefore the position, role, function and mechanisms of mycorrhizal fungi under global changes, especially the evolution characters of mycorrhizal fungi and mycorrhizas, the role and functions of mycorrhizal fungi under global changes and possible mechanisms of responses of mycorrhizal fungi to the global changes, should be paid more attention to. This knowledge may be helpful for better understanding of the comprehensive responses of terrestrial ecosystems to global changes, and for providing basis for further investigation on this topics and possible pathways to control agricultural pests. © 2014, Science Press. All rights reserved.
KW - Arbuscular mycorrhiza
KW - Ectomycorrhiza
KW - Global changes
KW - Mycorrhiza
KW - Mycorrhizal fungi
KW - Fungi
KW - biogeography
KW - biological invasion
KW - carbon dioxide
KW - concentration (composition)
KW - fungus
KW - geographical distribution
KW - global change
KW - host plant
KW - mycorrhiza
KW - pest species
KW - species diversity
KW - sustainable development
KW - symbiosis
KW - terrestrial ecosystem
LA - Chinese
M3 - Article
DB - Scopus
N1 - Export Date: 03 July 2023; Cited By: 1
ER -
TY - JOUR
AU - Johnson, C.N.
AU - Balmford, A.
AU - Brook, B.W.
AU - Buettel, J.C.
AU - Galetti, M.
AU - Guangchun, L.
AU - Wilmshurst, J.M.
TI - Biodiversity losses and conservation responses in the Anthropocene
PY - 2017
T2 - Science
VL - 356
IS - 6335
SP - 270
EP - 275
DO - 10.1126/science.aam9317
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85018542450&doi=10.1126%2fscience.aam9317&partnerID=40&md5=7589236a08d80a7096808e9bee479b00
AB - Biodiversity is essential to human well-being, but people have been reducing biodiversity throughout human history. Loss of species and degradation of ecosystems are likely to further accelerate in the coming years. Our understanding of this crisis is now clear, and world leaders have pledged to avert it. Nonetheless, global goals to reduce the rate of biodiversity loss have mostly not been achieved. However, many examples of conservation success show that losses can be halted and even reversed. Building on these lessons to turn the tide of biodiversity loss will require bold and innovative action to transform historical relationships between human populations and nature.
KW - Animals
KW - Biodiversity
KW - Climate Change
KW - Conservation of Natural Resources
KW - Extinction, Biological
KW - Human Activities
KW - Humans
KW - Population
KW - Anthropocene
KW - biodiversity
KW - conservation management
KW - environmental degradation
KW - global change
KW - historical ecology
KW - historical record
KW - nature-society relations
KW - biodiversity
KW - climate change
KW - conservation biology
KW - ecosystem
KW - endangered species
KW - human
KW - nonhuman
KW - priority journal
KW - Review
KW - species extinction
KW - animal
KW - environmental protection
KW - human activities
KW - population
LA - English
M3 - Review
DB - Scopus
N1 - Export Date: 03 July 2023; Cited By: 471
ER -
TY - JOUR
AU - Renaud, F.G.
AU - Syvitski, J.P.M.
AU - Sebesvari, Z.
AU - Werners, S.E.
AU - Kremer, H.
AU - Kuenzer, C.
AU - Ramesh, R.
AU - Jeuken, A.
AU - Friedrich, J.
TI - Tipping from the Holocene to the Anthropocene: How threatened are major world deltas?
PY - 2013
T2 - Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
VL - 5
IS - 6
SP - 644
EP - 654
DO - 10.1016/j.cosust.2013.11.007
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84890167874&doi=10.1016%2fj.cosust.2013.11.007&partnerID=40&md5=fe87b20c65fec1f465b15ddcc25d858e
AB - Coastal deltas are landforms that typically offer a wide variety of benefits to society including highly fertile soils for agricultural development, freshwater resources, and rich biodiversity. For these reasons, many deltas are densely populated, are important economic hubs, and have been transformed by human interventions such as agricultural intensification, modification of water and sediment fluxes, as well as urbanization and industrialization. Additionally, deltas are increasingly affected by the consequences of climate change including sea level rise, and by other natural hazards such as cyclones and storm surges. Five examples of major deltas (Rhine-Meuse, Ganges, Indus, Mekong, and Danube) illustrate the force of human interventions in shaping and transforming deltas and in inducing shifts between four different social-ecological system (SES) states: Holocene, modified Holocene, Anthropocene and 'collapsed'. The three Asian deltas are rapidly changing but whereas SES in the Ganges and Indus deltas are in danger of tipping into a 'collapsed' state, SES in the Mekong delta, which is at the crossroads of various development pathways, could increase in resilience in the future. The Rhine-Meuse and Danube delta examples show that highly managed states may allow, under specific conditions, for interventions leading to increasingly resilient systems. However, little is known about the long-term effects of rapid human interventions in deltas. It is therefore critical to increase the knowledge-base related to SES dynamics and to better characterize social tipping points or turning points in order to avoid unacceptable changes. © 2013 Fabrice G Renaud.
KW - Danube Delta
KW - Ganges Delta
KW - Indus Delta
KW - Mekong Delta
KW - Netherlands
KW - Pakistan
KW - Rhine-Meuse Delta
KW - Sind
KW - Viet Nam
KW - agricultural development
KW - agricultural intensification
KW - anthropogenic effect
KW - biodiversity
KW - delta
KW - environmental economics
KW - Holocene
KW - human activity
KW - industrialization
KW - natural hazard
KW - sustainability
KW - sustainable development
KW - urbanization
LA - English
M3 - Review
DB - Scopus
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TY - JOUR
AU - Näyhä, A.
TI - Transition in the Finnish forest-based sector: Company perspectives on the bioeconomy, circular economy and sustainability
PY - 2019
T2 - Journal of Cleaner Production
VL - 209
SP - 1294
EP - 1306
DO - 10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.10.260
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85057147703&doi=10.1016%2fj.jclepro.2018.10.260&partnerID=40&md5=dc0fd7c74de1395252a3cf28746b78bd
AB - The forest-based sector is affected by many profound structural changes and the increasing complexity of the business environment due to, for example, the mature markets of many core products and the aims for bio and circular economies and more sustainable societies. In response to the changing business environment, forest-based sector firms need to restructure their business models and develop new products and services. From the Finnish perspective, new forest-based businesses are crucial in the transition to successful and sustainable bio and circular economies. Views on the concepts of bioeconomy, circular economy and sustainability vary according to which parties are involved. Developing new forest-based sector businesses requires that different actors have knowledge of how each understands these concepts because this creates a basis for commonly accepted goals. This study aims to shed light on how forest-based sector companies understand the concepts of bioeconomy and circular and their linkages to sustainability when transforming their businesses. Semi-structured thematic interviews were conducted with 18 company executives and managers from 17 forest-based sector firms and companies from interfacing sectors, all of which have operations in Finland. The results indicate that there are various understandings of the studied concepts and that they are strongly interlinked. The participating firms often saw themselves as forerunners of circular bioeconomy, highlighting the core role of sustainability and reliance on “reasonable use of wood” and far-reaching, in-depth Finnish expertise in the field. Bioeconomy was usually seen as a response to climate challenge by bio-based, renewable material. The key dichotomy was whether bioeconomy should include traditional, bulk forest-based products or should it be dedicated to new, innovative, higher value-added products only. Another challenge was how to target and guarantee the availability of wood-based biomass for different purposes. Circular economy was characterized by resource efficiency, closed loops, recycling and collaboration. The challenges here was leaning too much on old practices whereas more emphasis should be put on inventing innovative collaborations and products. The sustainability discussion was focused on raw material sustainability and on the importance of Finnish forests as carbon sequesters and the sustainable volumes of wood-biomass utilized, whereas biodiversity went largely unnoticed. © 2018 Elsevier Ltd
KW - Bioeconomy
KW - Circular economy
KW - Finnish views
KW - Forest-based sector
KW - Sustainability
KW - Transition
KW - Biodiversity
KW - Forestry
KW - Bioeconomy
KW - Circular economy
KW - Finnish
KW - Forest-based sector
KW - Transition
KW - Sustainable development
LA - English
M3 - Review
DB - Scopus
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TY - JOUR
AU - Sarmiento, F.O.
TI - The lapwing in andean ethnoecology: Proxy for landscape transformation
PY - 2010
T2 - Geographical Review
VL - 100
IS - 2
SP - 229
EP - 245
DO - 10.1111/j.1931-0846.2010.00024.x
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-77952915644&doi=10.1111%2fj.1931-0846.2010.00024.x&partnerID=40&md5=ddd9d897712f598856ae4fc92253d213
AB - The Andean lapwing (. Vanellus resplendens Tschudi) prompts rethinking of ethnoecology in neotropical cloud forests and páramos and challenges notions about conservation in mountain protected areas. Using archaeological, historical, and current evidence, I argue that the role of humans in shaping viable high-mountain bird populations is an important factor in the conservation priorities of tropandean landscapes, particularly in the mountains. The presence of the Andean lapwing demonstrates the intricate linkages between culture and nature in the Andean region. I highlight a paradox of conservation, using the Andean lapwing as the avian indicator of global environmental change as an example of the contest between landscape change, biodiversity, and ethnoecological insights. Landscape stewardship, conservation easements, and cultural landscapes are options for inclusion in the repertoire of scenarios for the survival of healthy avifaunal assemblages in high-mountain environments that have evolved in synchrony with humans, such as in páramos, cultural landscapes worth protecting in the tropical Andes. © 2010 by the American Geographical Society of New York.
KW - Andes Mountains
KW - Ecuador
KW - Ethnoecology
KW - Landscape transformation
KW - Páramo
KW - Tropics
KW - Vanellus resplendens
KW - Andes
KW - Ecuador
KW - Aves
KW - Vanellus resplendens
KW - avifauna
KW - biodiversity
KW - landscape change
KW - landscape ecology
KW - nature conservation
KW - protected area
KW - tropical region
KW - wader
LA - English
M3 - Article
DB - Scopus
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TY - JOUR
AU - Dickey, A.
AU - Kosovac, A.
AU - Fastenrath, S.
AU - Acuto, M.
AU - Gleeson, B.
TI - Fragmentation and urban knowledge: An analysis of urban knowledge exchange institutions
PY - 2022
T2 - Cities
VL - 131
C7 - 103917
DO - 10.1016/j.cities.2022.103917
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85135780819&doi=10.1016%2fj.cities.2022.103917&partnerID=40&md5=0325f1f68fc3bf7af9fd3e7bc8ba581b
AB - Silo-ed thinking, fragmented knowledge systems and short-termism remain key challenges in transforming urban systems and policy making towards more sustainable and resilient cities. Innovative strategies and actions which seek to drive agendas of change are often stuck in established and inflexible planning or policy structures. Complex issues such as climate change, biodiversity loss or socio-economic disparities require the attention of a variety of stakeholders from public, private and academic sectors and civil society. To meet this challenge, some cities have recognised that new knowledge networks and forms of collaboration are needed to meet this challenge. Urban knowledge exchanges are increasingly discussed and practiced as boundary-spanning platforms to bridging knowledge gaps and catalyse innovative forms of cross-sectoral communication, cooperative learning and action. To understand this new form of intermediation, this paper systematically analyses 26 international examples of urban knowledge exchanges. By comparing their organisational structures and approaches of knowledge sharing and translation, the analysis shows that there are several differing models globally that are adopted to respond to the challenge of knowledge fragmentation. The identified key features include: inclusive knowledge co-production, openness of interaction around a boundary object, ongoing monitoring and evaluation and the sustained investment of time in the institution. © 2022 The Authors
KW - Boundary-spanning organisation
KW - Interdisciplinary
KW - Knowledge systems
KW - Urban governance
KW - civil society
KW - governance approach
KW - institutional framework
KW - urban development
KW - urban planning
KW - urban policy
KW - urban politics
LA - English
M3 - Article
DB - Scopus
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ER -
TY - CHAP
AU - Zari, M.P.
TI - Biomimetic materials for addressing climate change
PY - 2019
T2 - Handbook of Ecomaterials
VL - 5
SP - 3169
EP - 3191
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-68255-6_134
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85063776433&doi=10.1007%2f978-3-319-68255-6_134&partnerID=40&md5=04c42dc97f342293a3fd04eb4709eaca
AB - Climate change is already occurring globally and will continue to in the future, resulting in significant negative impacts on society and ecosystems in general. Given that climate change is largely caused by humans, and in part by the built environments they create, a logical response may be to consider how buildings can address the drivers of climate change while simultaneously adapting to it. The built environment must move towards being able to sequester carbon and transform greenhouse gases in order to mitigate the causes of climate change where possible. This is alongside more traditional responses to climate change such as improving energy efficiency, reducing the use of fossil fuels to build and maintain urban environments, and designing cities to become more adaptable to future change. This chapter explores how the rapidly expanding field of biomimicry, where living organisms and traits of ecosystems are emulated in design, could make contributions to the evolution of built environments that are able to both sequester and transform carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases by careful selection and use of specific materials. A number of examples of different biomimetic materials that are able to improve energy efficiencies, generate renewable energy, or sequester carbon are discussed, along with an ecosystem biomimetic method for materials selection based on understanding and mimicking ecosystem services (i.e., what ecosystems actually do). © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019. All Rights Reserved.
KW - Biodiversity
KW - Biomimetic materials
KW - Biomimetic processes
KW - Carbon dioxide
KW - Ecosystems
KW - Energy efficiency
KW - Fossil fuels
KW - Greenhouse gases
KW - Biomimetic method
KW - Built environment
KW - Ecosystem services
KW - Living organisms
KW - Materials selection
KW - Renewable energies
KW - Specific materials
KW - Urban environments
KW - Climate change
LA - English
M3 - Book chapter
DB - Scopus
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TY - JOUR
AU - Capus, C.
AU - Pailhas, Y.
AU - Brown, K.
AU - Lane, D.M.
AU - Moore, P.W.
AU - Houser, D.
TI - Bio-inspired wideband sonar signals based on observations of the bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus)
PY - 2007
T2 - Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
VL - 121
IS - 1
SP - 594
EP - 604
DO - 10.1121/1.2382344
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-33846188976&doi=10.1121%2f1.2382344&partnerID=40&md5=73328e39eb3bd534ebab78619b2fc49d
AB - This paper uses advanced time-frequency signal analysis techniques to generate new models for bio-inspired sonar signals. The inspiration comes from the analysis of bottlenose dolphin clicks. These pulses are very short duration, between 50 and 80 μs, but for certain examples we can delineate a double down-chirp structure using fractional Fourier methods. The majority of clicks have energy distributed between two main frequency bands with the higher frequencies delayed in time by 5-20 μs. Signal syntheses using a multiple chirp model based on these observations are able to reproduce much of the spectral variation seen in earlier studies on natural dolphin echolocation pulses. Six synthetic signals are generated and used to drive the dolphin based sonar (DBS) developed through the Biosonar Program office at the SPAWAR Systems Center, San Diego, CA. Analyses of the detailed echo structure for these pulses ensonifying two solid copper spherical targets indicate differences in discriminatory potential between the signals. It is suggested that target discrimination could be improved through the transmission of a signal packet in which the chirp structure is varied between pulses. Evidence that dolphins may use such a strategy themselves comes from observations of variations in the transmissions of dolphins carrying out target detection and identification tasks. © 2007 Acoustical Society of America.
KW - Acoustics
KW - Animals
KW - Bottle-Nosed Dolphin
KW - Echolocation
KW - Fourier Analysis
KW - Models, Biological
KW - Fourier transforms
KW - Natural frequencies
KW - Signal processing
KW - Sonar
KW - Spectrum analysis
KW - amplifier
KW - article
KW - bottlenose dolphin
KW - controlled study
KW - echolocation
KW - Fourier analysis
KW - low frequency noise
KW - nonhuman
KW - priority journal
KW - signal transduction
KW - Bio inspired sonar signals
KW - Dolphin based sonar (DBS)
KW - Frequency bands
KW - Signal syntheses
KW - Biodiversity
LA - English
M3 - Article
DB - Scopus
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TY - JOUR
AU - Cerda, R.
AU - Avelino, J.
AU - Harvey, C.A.
AU - Gary, C.
AU - Tixier, P.
AU - Allinne, C.
TI - Coffee agroforestry systems capable of reducing disease-induced yield and economic losses while providing multiple ecosystem services
PY - 2020
T2 - Crop Protection
VL - 134
C7 - 105149
DO - 10.1016/j.cropro.2020.105149
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85083188609&doi=10.1016%2fj.cropro.2020.105149&partnerID=40&md5=d6c2961dd8748d2d6b3841a7b65bb1d0
AB - Crop losses caused by pests and diseases decrease the incomes and threaten the livelihoods of thousands of families worldwide. A good example of the magnitude of these impacts are the massive crop losses experienced by coffee farmers in Central America due to coffee leaf rust. Coffee farmers need agroecosystems that are capable of regulating the negative impacts of pests and diseases while providing other ecosystem services on which their households and society depend. In this study, we aimed to identify the most promising coffee agroforestry systems for regulating diseases and ensuring the provision of other ecosystem services. During two years, in a research network of 61 coffee plots under a wide variety of shade and management conditions in Turrialba, Costa Rica, we quantified primary and secondary coffee losses (yield and economic losses) and indicators of three other ecosystem services: provisioning of agroforestry products (bananas, plantains, other fruits, and timber), maintenance of soil fertility and carbon sequestration. We then performed an analysis of the relationships between losses and ecosystem service indicators. Based on the results of relationships and on three criteria, we identified the coffee agroforestry systems that had the lowest losses due to diseases and that provided desirable levels of agroforestry products, soil fertility and carbon sequestration. We found multiple significant relationships between losses and ecosystem services (including both tradeoffs and synergies) which allowed us to derive recommendations for better management strategies to reduce yield losses. We identified six coffee agroforestry systems (CAFs) as the most promising ones for reducing losses while simultaneously providing other ecosystem services. One of these CAFs was a simple agroforestry system (dominated by service trees), three were medium diversified CAFs and two were highly diversified CAFs (systems including service trees, timber trees, fruit trees and musaceas). The six CAFS differed in their cropping practices and farmer profitability objectives. The six CAFs offer several options for the design of new coffee plantations or for the transformation of existing plantations. Several of this promising CAFs use little fungicides, which is an indicator that the reduction of chemical inputs could be possible. Our results suggest that the regulation of diseases and associated losses in agroforestry systems should be based on, and take advantage of, the positive effects of plant biodiversity, adequate shade cover, good soil fertility, and minimal use of fungicides. © 2020 Elsevier Ltd
KW - Carbon sequestration
KW - Design
KW - Primary losses
KW - Secondary losses
KW - Soil fertility
KW - Trade-offs
KW - Cartago
KW - Costa Rica
KW - Turrialba
KW - agroforestry
KW - coffee
KW - cropping practice
KW - disease control
KW - ecosystem service
KW - soil fertility
LA - English
M3 - Article
DB - Scopus
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TY - CHAP
AU - Barahona-Segovia, R.M.
AU - Nuñez-Hidalgo, I.
AU - González-Césped, C.
AU - Rojas-Osorio, J.A.S.
TI - Beyond the past and Present: Identifying Current Trends of Conflicts with Biodiversity, Biological Conservation and Ecosystem Functions for the Chile of the Future
PY - 2019
T2 - Chile Environmental History, Perspectives and Challenges
SP - 33
EP - 97
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85077837363&partnerID=40&md5=1daf478788ab13ebee2e3d2a0f2a9ebd
AB - Biodiversity is a heritage for the human being. The biotic components and the interactions between them offer different resources and ecosystem services such as fiber, food, wood, pest and disease control, pollination, economic income and artistic inspiration, among many others. Chile is a biogeographic island whose biota has a high percentage of endemism due to their physical barriers that have modulated its biodiversity. However, since the decade of the 70s, the country underwent a serious transformation of the natural landscapes due to the neoliberal economic policies which have been perpetuated over time, especially in the center-south of Chile. Threats such as the development of the forest industry, agriculture and avocado plantations, mining and livestock have been important drivers in these transformations. Currently, the greatest biodiversity is mainly found in the hotspot of central Chile. However, this is an area with a high contrast. On the one hand, it is where most human impacts occur, and on the other hand, it is where the major concentration of endemic and threatened species, and potential ecosystem functions are concentrated. These have not been adequately managed and evaluated. Some reasons lie on the high degree of centralism present in the country, for example, most centers of study and monitoring of biodiversity are geographically centralized, limiting the geographical scope of their investigation. Other reasons lie on the high economic cost necessary to develop conservation plans; historical care for the environment has been relegated to the background. In addition, most national protected areas are unequally distributed, and are geographically isolated to areas with low population density. Given this scenario, our chapter is focused on showing biodiversity patterns and ecosystem functions, and where, the risk of human activities has a greater impact on the Chilean biota. In addition, based on these patterns and processes, some gaps have been identified to be addressed and considered in the design of conservation strategies in the future. A total of seven drivers were identified in the near future and they should be considered as threats to biodiversity in Chile. Thus, a holistic way to address them in order to protect our natural heritage is proposed. These drivers are: (1) the crisis of the taxonomy, it is financing, and its transdisciplinarity; (2) land use planning and site planning for production, urbanization and conservation; (3) slaughter areas and their environmental and social effects; (4) the re-nationalization of water as a fundamental right; (5) the establishment of education programs on biodiversity; (6) the re-connection with nature by society and (7) the management of plastic waste in the future. © 2019 by Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
KW - Antrophic pressure
KW - Biological conservation
KW - Ecosystems
KW - Sustainable development
KW - Territorial planning
LA - English
M3 - Book chapter
DB - Scopus
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TY - JOUR
AU - Hanlon, P.
AU - Carlisle, S.
AU - Hannah, M.
AU - Lyon, A.
AU - Reilly, D.
TI - A perspective on the future public health practitioner
PY - 2012
T2 - Perspectives in Public Health
VL - 132
IS - 5
SP - 235
EP - 239
DO - 10.1177/1757913911412217
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84866628841&doi=10.1177%2f1757913911412217&partnerID=40&md5=5d9cfc7ab19eceb8dfd6a63352c426cb
AB - In the centuries following the Enlightenment, scientific and technological developments gave 'modern people' an unprecedented ability to understand, predict and control the natural world. This has brought health and social benefits unimaginable to our ancestors and sets us apart from all previous generations. Yet there is a wide-ranging body of evidence that suggests that modernity is now in decline, largely because its methods and mindset are increasingly recognized as unsustainable. Problems are manifest in the emergence of new public health epidemics such as obesity and addictive behaviours, the loss of well-being and increase in anxiety and depression in affluent society, and the persistence of ever-widening health and social inequalities at national and global levels. Still larger problems now confront us, such as climate change, peak oil and the loss of biodiversity, all of which are linked to the 'modern' way of life. We are potentially faced with the collapse of certain aspects of modern society: we are certainly faced with the prospect of inevitable change. While the broad public health community has an important role to play in developing workable solutions to such daunting problems, we argue that some profound changes will be needed in order for us to cope successfully. No blueprints for dealing with change exist, which means that we will need to learn our way into the future. In this paper we take a perspective on the role and nature of the future practitioner in public health and health promotion. We argue that future practitioners will need to develop new ways of thinking, being and doing; new perspectives and new forms of understanding the world. We believe our discipline-and people generally-to be capable of such development, as insights from multiple sources tell us that human nature is malleable, not fixed. We use this analysis to trace, as examples, the imagined lives of five women living in different eras over the course of history in a Western society, and the emergence of different mindsets or worldviews, as the social, economic and cultural context changes. Post-modern analysts might insist that we have no basis for making value judgements between such different worldviews. In this paper, however, we argue that future practitioners should be empathetic to different views and willing to move beyond them, as necessary. We will need to learn and develop in ways that are compatible with our intrinsic needs as human beings and the needs of our ecosystem. We conclude by suggesting just some of the supportive processes of change needed in mapping out a more sustainable future for the public health community. © Royal Society for Public Health 2012.
KW - cultural change
KW - decline of modernity
KW - public health and health promotion practitioners
KW - sustainability
KW - transformational change
KW - Cultural Evolution
KW - Female
KW - Forecasting
KW - Health Promotion
KW - Humans
KW - Public Health
KW - World Health
KW - empathy
KW - health care need
KW - health care personnel
KW - health personnel attitude
KW - health promotion
KW - human
KW - integration
KW - medical practice
KW - review
LA - English
M3 - Review
DB - Scopus
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TY - JOUR
AU - Heckenberger, M.J.
AU - Russell, J.C.
AU - Toney, J.R.
AU - Schmidt, M.J.
TI - The legacy of cultural landscapes in the Brazilian Amazon: Implications for biodiversity
PY - 2007
T2 - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
VL - 362
IS - 1478
SP - 197
EP - 208
DO - 10.1098/rstb.2006.1979
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-33847723424&doi=10.1098%2frstb.2006.1979&partnerID=40&md5=938b1c46aaab6081d2a95d207a20ba14
AB - For centuries Amazonia has held the Western scientific and popular imagination as a primordial forest, only minimally impacted by small, simple and dispersed groups that inhabit the region. Studies in historical ecology refute this view. Rather than pristine tropical forest, some areas are better viewed as constructed or 'domesticated' landscapes, dramatically altered by indigenous groups in the past. This paper reviews recent archaeological research in several areas along the Amazon River with evidence of large pre-European (ca 400-500 calendar years before the present) occupations and large-scale transformations of forest and wetland environments. Research from the southern margins of closed tropical forest, in the headwaters of the Xingu River, are highlighted as an example of constructed nature in the Amazon. In all cases, human influences dramatically altered the distribution, frequency and configurations of biological communities and ecological settings. Findings of historical change and cultural variability, including diverse small to medium-sized complex societies, have clear implications for questions of conservation and sustainability and, specifically, what constitutes 'hotspots' of bio-historical diversity in the Amazon region. © 2007 The Royal Society.
KW - Amazonia
KW - Archaeology
KW - Bio-cultural diversity
KW - Historical ecology
KW - Indigenous peoples
KW - Archaeology
KW - Biodiversity
KW - Brazil
KW - Cultural Characteristics
KW - Cultural Evolution
KW - History, Medieval
KW - Humans
KW - Rivers
KW - Amazon River
KW - Brazil
KW - South America
KW - Xingu River
KW - anthropogenic effect
KW - archaeology
KW - biodiversity
KW - cultural landscape
KW - habitat loss
KW - historical ecology
KW - indigenous population
KW - settlement history
KW - archeology
KW - biodiversity
KW - Brazil
KW - cultural anthropology
KW - cultural factor
KW - history
KW - human
KW - review
KW - river
LA - English
M3 - Review
DB - Scopus
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TY - BOOK
AU - Schwarz-Herion, O.
AU - Omran, A.
TI - Strategies towards the new sustainability paradigm: Managing the great transition to sustainable global democracy
PY - 2015
T2 - Strategies Towards the New Sustainability Paradigm: Managing the Great Transition to Sustainable Global Democracy
SP - 1
EP - 197
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-14699-7
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84943809888&doi=10.1007%2f978-3-319-14699-7&partnerID=40&md5=683e07fa24cc8296af2c0a3c61fd5c2f
AB - On a historical global turning point, this book offers a thorough exploration of the New Sustainability Paradigm, originally developed by the Global Scenario Group (GSG) of the Stockholm Environmental Institute (SEI) as a starting point for analyzing real-life transitions and transformations. 11 contributors from 5 continents present detailed analyses of economic and political transitions in Western and Eastern Europe, the USA, the Middle East, and in Asia, discussing the role of different players in the implementation of the New Sustainability Paradigm. Part I offers an overview of the six scenarios developed by the GSG and a short discussion of significant papers published by the Great Transition Initiative (GTI) of the Tellus Institute. Next come examples of dramatic historical and current transitions in Western Europe, the USA, Eastern Europe, the Middle East (Arabian Spring), and Asia, as well as an analysis of the potential of humankind to manage a great transition to the new sustainability paradigm. Subsequent chapters highlight the role of culture and education and review the role of different players for the implementation of the new sustainability paradigm. The focus of Part II is on the ecological pillar of Sustainability. The discussion includes urgent ecological problems including climate engineering, eco-criminality, bioterrorism, biodiversity protection, water, energy, and food security. Part III deals with needed innovations in sustainable waste management and sustainable city architecture, especially big cities in developing and threshold countries, where a significant part of the world population is concentrated. The fourth and final section offers an analysis of insights developed throughout the book, and outlines recommendations for the implementation of the New Sustainability Paradigm by civil society, grass-root movements, scholars, politically neutral NGOs, sincere media players, and by open-minded and enlightened politicians to manage and steer the Great Transition towards sustainable global democracy. © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015.
KW - Biodiversity
KW - Ecology
KW - Food supply
KW - Waste management
KW - Biodiversity protection
KW - Current transitions
KW - Ecological problem
KW - Global democracy
KW - Global scenarios
KW - Sustainable cities
KW - Sustainable waste management
KW - World population
KW - Sustainable development
LA - English
M3 - Book
DB - Scopus
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TY - JOUR
AU - Drohan, P.J.
AU - Farnham, T.J.
TI - Protecting life's foundation: A proposal for recognizing rare and threatened soils
PY - 2006
T2 - Soil Science Society of America Journal
VL - 70
IS - 6
SP - 2086
EP - 2096
DO - 10.2136/sssaj2005.0274
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-33751118750&doi=10.2136%2fsssaj2005.0274&partnerID=40&md5=aadc37e9e9648cf97648b1644087d468
AB - Worldwide pressure on soil resources and the recognition by many international organizations, scientists, and universities of the importance of soils to humans and the natural world lias recently led to further exploration of soils and their rarity. Using the example of species protection from wildlife conservation, we define a rare soil as one of limited ureal extent and a threatened soil as one of greater areal extent undergoing a transformation that alters the soil's characteristics and function and makes it less able to carry out that characteristic or function (e.g., growing food or supporting a native plant community). We propose a process to recognize natural rare and/or threatened soils based on five categories that could be used to describe the values associated with these soils: (1) economic; (2) ecosystem; (3) scientific; (4) historic/cultural; and (5) rarity. We propose not a legally binding designation, but a program modeled on several successful wildlife-oriented conservation awareness and education programs. We aim to create a non-politically mired system that draws attention to rare and threatened soils and their role in supporting people and ecosystems while lending support to the soils' study and management. Land-use planners might find this system valuable in helping to identify ecologically important areas. Conservation organizations might find the scientifically based assessments of soil value useful in defining their designations of important conservation areas. The publicity generated by designating rare and threatened soils might help U.S. citizens and politicians appreciate the importance of soils in so many aspects of our lives. © Soil Science Society of America.
KW - Biodiversity
KW - Education
KW - Land use
KW - Plants (botany)
KW - Societies and institutions
KW - Soil surveys
KW - Biodiversity
KW - Education
KW - Land use
KW - Plants (botany)
KW - Societies and institutions
KW - land use planning
KW - nature-society relations
KW - soil analysis
KW - soil conservation
KW - soil degradation
KW - soil property
KW - International organizations
KW - Species protection
KW - Wildlife conservation
KW - Soil surveys
LA - English
M3 - Article
DB - Scopus
N1 - Export Date: 03 July 2023; Cited By: 17
ER -
TY - JOUR
AU - Xiao, S.
AU - Fügener, T.
AU - Wende, W.
AU - Yan, W.
AU - Chen, H.
AU - Syrbe, R.
AU - Xue, B.
TI - The dynamics of vegetation and implications for ecosystem services in the context of urbanisation: An example from Huangyan-Taizhou, China
PY - 2022
T2 - Ecological Engineering
VL - 179
C7 - 106614
DO - 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2022.106614
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85126901022&doi=10.1016%2fj.ecoleng.2022.106614&partnerID=40&md5=e86451517584fb54598419c21cd3ba2c
AB - Urban sprawl and associated land use changes have been referred as primary drivers of environmental change. Yet it is unclear in detail how land use changes impact vegetative structures or ecosystem services and what the specific drivers of change are, especially in urban-rural interfaces in medium-sized Chinese cities. Our future contribution is intended to highlight the importance of urban-rural interfaces for sustainable land use and the development of ecosystem services. To this end, we mapped the dynamics of land cover and the condition of vegetation as well as ecosystem services based on remote sensing data for the period of 1992–2020, to quantify these changes in Huangyan district, Taizhou, China. The results show a dramatic increase in urban area over the 28-year timeframe, i.e. 265% growth in Huangyan district. This rise was particularly evident in the period of 2015–2020. The huge expansion in urban area came at the cost of arable land. To compensate the resulting loss of farmland, large-scale natural ecosystems such as forests, grasslands and wetlands were continuously transformed into arable (as well as urbanized) land. Despite the dramatic reduction in green space as a result of urbanisation, we found a slight increase in the overall mean NDVI value for Huangyan, mainly due to the improved condition and density of remaining forest area in the western countryside. Further, we evaluated the provision of ecosystem services (ESS) by adapting an existing assessment methodology elaborated by Burkhard et al. (2012). The results show that ESS supply continually fell in Huangyan since 1992, reflecting a reduction of green space. The highest ecosystem capacity is seen in recreation and biodiversity due to the large proportion of forested area. Our findings serve as an important basis for further investigations in the region of Huangyan by framing the general issue of green space dynamics and highlighting specific developments of ecosystem distribution and change as well as ESS supply. © 2022 The Authors
KW - China
KW - Ecosystem services
KW - NDVI
KW - Remote sensing
KW - Urban sprawl
KW - Vegetation structure
KW - China
KW - Huangyan
KW - Taizhou
KW - Zhejiang
KW - Biodiversity
KW - Dynamics
KW - Ecosystems
KW - Forestry
KW - Land use
KW - Rural areas
KW - Space optics
KW - Urban growth
KW - Vegetation
KW - China
KW - Ecosystem services
KW - Green spaces
KW - Landuse change
KW - NDVI
KW - Remote-sensing
KW - Taizhou
KW - Urban sprawl
KW - Urban/rural interfaces
KW - Vegetation structure
KW - biodiversity
KW - ecosystem service
KW - land use change
KW - NDVI
KW - remote sensing
KW - urban society
KW - urban sprawl
KW - urbanization
KW - vegetation dynamics
KW - Remote sensing
LA - English
M3 - Article
DB - Scopus
N1 - Export Date: 03 July 2023; Cited By: 4
ER -
TY - JOUR
AU - Zvoleff, A.
AU - An, L.
TI - Analyzing human-landscape interactions: Tools that integrate
PY - 2014
T2 - Environmental Management
VL - 53
IS - 1
SP - 94
EP - 111
DO - 10.1007/s00267-012-0009-1
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84891884068&doi=10.1007%2fs00267-012-0009-1&partnerID=40&md5=891a20dfd1cfcea82dc1b3bf85b7f5dc
AB - Humans have transformed much of Earth's land surface, giving rise to loss of biodiversity, climate change, and a host of other environmental issues that are affecting human and biophysical systems in unexpected ways. To confront these problems, environmental managers must consider human and landscape systems in integrated ways. This means making use of data obtained from a broad range of methods (e.g., sensors, surveys), while taking into account new findings from the social and biophysical science literatures. New integrative methods (including data fusion, simulation modeling, and participatory approaches) have emerged in recent years to address these challenges, and to allow analysts to provide information that links qualitative and quantitative elements for policymakers. This paper brings attention to these emergent tools while providing an overview of the tools currently in use for analysis of human-landscape interactions. Analysts are now faced with a staggering array of approaches in the human-landscape literature - in an attempt to bring increased clarity to the field, we identify the relative strengths of each tool, and provide guidance to analysts on the areas to which each tool is best applied. We discuss four broad categories of tools: statistical methods (including survival analysis, multi-level modeling, and Bayesian approaches), GIS and spatial analysis methods, simulation approaches (including cellular automata, agent-based modeling, and participatory modeling), and mixed-method techniques (such as alternative futures modeling and integrated assessment). For each tool, we offer an example from the literature of its application in human-landscape research. Among these tools, participatory approaches are gaining prominence for analysts to make the broadest possible array of information available to researchers, environmental managers, and policymakers. Further development of new approaches of data fusion and integration across sites or disciplines pose an important challenge for future work in integrating human and landscape components. © 2013 Springer Science+Business Media New York.
KW - Coupled human-natural system
KW - Human-environment dynamics
KW - Modeling
KW - Simulation
KW - Spatial analysis
KW - Climate Change
KW - Conservation of Natural Resources
KW - Earth (Planet)
KW - Ecosystem
KW - Human Activities
KW - Humans
KW - Models, Theoretical
KW - Regression Analysis
KW - Bayesian networks
KW - Biodiversity
KW - Cellular automata
KW - Climate change
KW - Computer simulation
KW - Data fusion
KW - Environmental management
KW - Management
KW - Models
KW - Coupled human-natural systems
KW - Environmental managers
KW - Human-environment dynamics
KW - Integrated assessment
KW - Participatory approach
KW - Participatory modeling
KW - Simulation
KW - Spatial analysis
KW - climate change
KW - climate effect
KW - GIS
KW - nature-society relations
KW - participatory approach
KW - policy making
KW - quantitative analysis
KW - spatial analysis
KW - article
KW - Bayesian learning
KW - biophysics
KW - controlled study
KW - data processing
KW - environmental management
KW - geographic information system
KW - human
KW - landscape ecology
KW - manager
KW - multilevel analysis
KW - sensor
KW - simulation
KW - sociology
KW - spatial analysis
KW - statistical analysis
KW - survival
KW - Tools
LA - English
M3 - Article
DB - Scopus
N1 - Export Date: 03 July 2023; Cited By: 28
ER -
TY - JOUR
AU - He, M.
AU - Xiong, L.
AU - Ding, Y.
AU - Yang, W.
TI - Innovative Development and Utilization of Agricultural Cultural Heritage Enabled by Digital Technologies
ST - 数字技术赋能农业文化遗产开发与利用对策研究
PY - 2023
T2 - Journal of Library and Information Science in Agriculture
VL - 35
IS - 3
SP - 71
EP - 80
DO - 10.13998/j.cnki.issn1002-1248.22-0822
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85161959580&doi=10.13998%2fj.cnki.issn1002-1248.22-0822&partnerID=40&md5=ac6cd09301f289a9c2d0b4931a37da6a
AB - [Purpose/Significance] The agricultural cultural heritage embodies the traditional farming wisdom, unique natural scenery and rich biodiversity formed through hundreds and thousands of years of inheritance. The study of digital technology-enabled development and utilization of agricultural cultural heritage is conducive to fully exploring the modern value of agricultural cultural heritage, strengthening the integrated interaction with the key work of rural revitalization, such as the development of modern agriculture, the construction of beautiful countryside, the construction of ecological civilization, and the entrepreneurship and innovation of farmers. On top of that, it is beneficial to the sustainable development of agricultural cultural heritage and is related to the successful implementation of the rural revitalization strategy. [Method/Process] By using the methods of literature analysis, case study and field survey, the current status and problems of agricultural cultural heritage are comprehensively reviewed. There are some problems, such as insufficient application of innovation in agricultural cultural heritage areas and inadequate value exploration. In this regard, the article puts forward several measures for the development and utilization of agricultural cultural heritage resources enabled by digital technologies after the analysis of digital management of agricultural cultural heritage resources, including building public brands in agricultural cultural heritage areas to form industrial clusters. This article takes "Anhua Black Tea" as an example to analyze the brand digital marketing mechanism and takes Li Ziqi's short videos as another example to analyze how to attract e-commerce traffic and realize traffic in the new media era and build a local brand with local characteristics with the help of "Internet plus Agriculture." It provides ideas and solutions for the development and utilization of digital technology-enabled agricultural cultural heritage. [Results/Conclusions] With the transformation of social economy, the traditional production mode of agricultural cultural heritage can no longer meet the needs of modern society. In order to make agricultural cultural heritage continue to "live", it is necessary to explore its multiple values, enable the modernization transformation of agricultural cultural heritage with the help of digital technology, realize its living state inheritance, improve the comprehensive benefits of agricultural cultural heritage and maintain sustainable development. The study explores the digital development, open communication, new scene construction and innovative utilization of agricultural cultural heritage, which can be realized through the Internet and digital technologies. Agricultural cultural heritage has many characteristics, such as brand differentiation, brand subdivision, and precise description of natural scenery, high-quality agricultural products and cultural connotation of agricultural cultural heritage. With the help of new media marketing, the ecological advantages and industrial value of agricultural cultural heritage system are explored to maximize the value of resources. A limitation of this study is that there still lacks quantitative analysis. Future research will use structural equation model and other tools to analyze the factors that affect the conversion rate of agricultural account traffic from multiple aspects such as video content, audience and platforms. © 2022 Institute of Cultural Heritage of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova. All rights reserved.
KW - agricultural cultural heritage
KW - digital technology
KW - new media
KW - platform economy
KW - traffic
LA - Chinese
M3 - Article
DB - Scopus
N1 - Export Date: 03 July 2023; Cited By: 0
ER -
TY - CONF
AU - Wisniewski, J.-P.
AU - Frangne, N.
AU - Massonneau, A.
AU - Dumas, C.
TI - Between myth and reality: Genetically modified maize, an example of a sizeable scientific controversy
PY - 2002
T2 - Biochimie
VL - 84
IS - 11
SP - 1095
EP - 1103
DO - 10.1016/S0300-9084(02)00014-7
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-0036881648&doi=10.1016%2fS0300-9084%2802%2900014-7&partnerID=40&md5=280fd0d591b3a15b453f90b56d827b96
AB - Maize is a major crop plant with essential agronomical interests and a model plant for genetic studies. With the development of plant genetic engineering technology, many transgenic strains of this monocotyledonous plant have been produced over the past decade. In particular, field-cultivated insect-resistant Bt-maize hybrids are at the centre of an intense debate between scientists and organizations recalcitrant to genetically modified organisms (GMOs). This debate, which addresses both safety and ethical aspects, has raised questions about the impact of genetically modified (GM) crops on the biodiversity of traditional landraces and on the environment. Here, we review some of the key points of maize genetic history as well as the methods used to stably transform this cereal. We describe the genetically engineered Bt-maizes available for field cultivation and we investigate the controversial reports on their impacts on non-target insects such as the monarch butterfly and on the flow of transgenes into Mexican maize landraces. © 2002 Éditions scientifiques et médicales Elsevier SAS and Société française de biochimie et biologie moléculaire. All rights reserved.
KW - Genetically modified (GM)
KW - Maize
KW - Plant transformation
KW - Scientific controversy
KW - Animals
KW - Butterflies
KW - Genetic Engineering
KW - Organisms, Genetically Modified
KW - Plants, Genetically Modified
KW - Transformation, Genetic
KW - Zea mays
KW - Danaus plexippus
KW - Hexapoda
KW - Insecta
KW - Zea mays
KW - plant DNA
KW - butterfly
KW - cereal
KW - conference paper
KW - DNA modification
KW - gene flow
KW - genetic engineering
KW - genetic organization
KW - genetic strain
KW - genetic transformation
KW - genome
KW - insect resistance
KW - landrace
KW - maize
KW - molecular evolution
KW - mutant
KW - nonhuman
KW - plant evolution
KW - plant genetics
KW - plant insect interaction
KW - Rhizobium
KW - strain improvement
KW - tillage
KW - transgene
KW - transgenic plant
LA - English
M3 - Conference paper
DB - Scopus
N1 - Export Date: 03 July 2023; Cited By: 34
ER -
TY - JOUR
AU - Morganti, P.
AU - Chen, H.-D.
TI - From the circular economy to a green economy. Note 1. Chitin Nanofibrils as natural by-products to manage the human and environment ecosystems
PY - 2015
T2 - Journal of Applied Cosmetology
VL - 33
IS - 3-4
SP - 101
EP - 113
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84992093895&partnerID=40&md5=17c4a2aaff2e68899e7d39a6fe5b42cc
AB - The transition to a high level of human development has created a negative ecological footprint, putting a disproportionate burden on the environment. Thus the necessity for increasing the resource efficiency, minimizing both harmful greenhouse gas emissions and waste material, to transform the actual circular economy to a green economy with waste near to zero. The transition to a green economy could reduce the risks of global climate changes and ameliorate the energy security, because of its capacity to use in a better way both natural resources and waste materials. The annual cost in natural capital degradation, in fact, is estimated at US$ 7.3 trillion, almost six time the cost of greening the economy, while ∼2 billion tons of wasted food is produced on the planet together with 50 million tons of electrical waste. Therefore, the necessity to change our way of living is a must of our society. Among the use of industrial by-products, a major use of raw materials, as chitin nanofibrils obtained from crustaceans waste, will certainly contribute to accelerate the passage from a circular economy to a green economy, safeguarding the planet biodiversity also. Data and examples of this use will be reported.
KW - Biocomposites
KW - Chitin Nanofibrils
KW - Circular Economy
KW - Environment
KW - EU economic pillars
KW - Green Economy
KW - Plastic pollution
KW - Waste
KW - chitin
KW - nanofiber
KW - plastic
KW - Article
KW - biodiversity
KW - carbon footprint
KW - crystallization
KW - economic aspect
KW - economic development
KW - ecosystem