{"title":"Pathways for Sustainable Economic Benefits and Green Economies in Light of the State of World Forests 2022","authors":"Deepu Sivadas","doi":"10.1007/s44177-022-00041-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s44177-022-00041-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100099,"journal":{"name":"Anthropocene Science","volume":"1 4","pages":"460 - 465"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50024345","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Three-Tier Approach as a Next-Gen Sustainable Solution for Mitigation of Urban Air Pollution","authors":"Chetan Keswani, Tatiana Minkina, Svetlana Sushkova, Saglara Mandzhieva","doi":"10.1007/s44177-022-00039-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s44177-022-00039-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100099,"journal":{"name":"Anthropocene Science","volume":"1 3","pages":"417 - 418"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50044389","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
James R. Sokolnicki, Annabel L. Woodhatch, Richard Stafford
{"title":"Assessing Environmentally Effective Post-COVID Green Recovery Plans for Reducing Social and Economic Inequality","authors":"James R. Sokolnicki, Annabel L. Woodhatch, Richard Stafford","doi":"10.1007/s44177-022-00037-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s44177-022-00037-x","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Given the current environmental crisis there have been multiple calls for a green recovery from COVID-19 which address environmental concerns and provide jobs in industries and communities economically damaged by the pandemic. Here, we holistically evaluate a range of recovery scenarios, evaluated on environmental and socio-economic equity metrics. Using a modified version of a Bayesian belief network, we show that economic stimuli across green sectors, including jobs in renewable energy, waste management, retrofitting of buildings, heat-pump installation and public transport can help economic growth, but will have limited environmental benefits. The inclusion of carbon taxes and ending fossil fuel subsidies, alongside investment in nature-based solutions and jobs in ecological conservation, can greatly increase the environmental gains as well as socio-economic equality. Additionally, jobs not associated with green industries, but with low carbon footprints, such as those in social care can further improve social equality with minimal negative environmental effects. However, in these latter scenarios involving taxation and ending fossil fuel subsidies, economic growth is reduced. We suggest a comprehensive green recovery and green new deal are needed, and we should reimagine economies, without the focus on economic growth.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100099,"journal":{"name":"Anthropocene Science","volume":"1 3","pages":"375 - 383"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s44177-022-00037-x.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50063101","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Bastianoni, F. M. Pulselli, L. Coscieme, N. Marchettini
{"title":"Instructions for a Sustainable Anthropocene","authors":"S. Bastianoni, F. M. Pulselli, L. Coscieme, N. Marchettini","doi":"10.1007/s44177-022-00036-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s44177-022-00036-y","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Is it possible to achieve a sustainable Anthropocene? Yes, if we adopt the correct key for understanding the mechanisms that connect the three dimensions of sustainability, the environmental, the social and the economic. The road to sustainability is made even harder than it was at the beginning of the sustainable development discourse by the fact that nowadays the three dimensions have problems that have time spans that tend to become equally urgent. This paper offers a vision of sustainability that underlines the cause-effect-feedback relationships among the dimensions and shows examples of the functioning of these linkages. This calls for a redefinition of priorities and for a different set of “rules of the house” (economy) to be fit for a world with almost 8 billion people and an endangered natural basis of survival.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100099,"journal":{"name":"Anthropocene Science","volume":"1 3","pages":"404 - 409"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50102894","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Advances in Ecosystem Services Valuation Studies in India: Learnings from a Systematic Review","authors":"Bhuvan Chopra, Y. S. C. Khuman, Shalini Dhyani","doi":"10.1007/s44177-022-00034-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s44177-022-00034-0","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Ecosystem services (ES) concept has gained global momentum as they hold immense importance for human well-being. On the other hand, direct and indirect drivers of biodiversity loss have led to deterioration of ecosystem health and their capacity to deliver ecosystem services. Worldwide, ES assessments have been increasingly used by administrators to formulate sustainable and environment centric policies. Similarly, there has been continuous expansion of ES related work in India to capture the material and non-material benefits derived from diverse ecosystems in the country. In the current paper, 105 research articles/reports have been reviewed to assess the growing trajectory of ES research and also to map their methodological approaches. The lacunae in the studies and literature have been critically examined. Analysis of the study shows that ES derived from forests have been captured widely while marine ecosystems have not received appropriate scholarly attention. Similarly, dearth of studies focusing on long- and short-term implications of climate change and other environmental challenges on the ES delivery was also evident. A strong need is felt to integrate interdisciplinary approaches for holistic ES assessment. Also, future ES assessments must assimilate traditional as well as indigenous knowledge systems within ES assessment framework to ensure formulation of tangible, sustainable policies.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100099,"journal":{"name":"Anthropocene Science","volume":"1 3","pages":"342 - 357"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50102560","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ecology for Sustainable Development in the Anthropocene","authors":"Purushothaman Chirakkuzhyil Abhilash","doi":"10.1007/s44177-022-00035-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s44177-022-00035-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100099,"journal":{"name":"Anthropocene Science","volume":"1 3","pages":"339 - 341"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50043659","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Inside the Anthropo-Populo-Consumo-Capitalocene","authors":"Joachim H. Spangenberg","doi":"10.1007/s44177-022-00031-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s44177-022-00031-3","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Twenty years ago, Paul Crutzen suggested declaring the present a new geological era and naming it the Anthropocene. While this suggestion is still disputed, we argue that the current state of the Earth system is deviating so dynamically from the status quo of the Holocene, that acknowledging a new era has begun is very plausible. However, that leaves open the question if ‘Anthropocene’ is an appropriate name, since the logic behind it differs from the standard chronostratigraphic terminology. As far as the term is intended to highlight the direct and/or indirect drivers causing the emergence of a new geological era, it could have been baptised as initially ‘Populocene’ and now ‘Consumocene’ as first population growth and now growing consumption per capita are the decisive drivers, with the technology providing efficiency gains insufficient to compensate for the impacts of consumption growth. However, behind the prevailing consumption and production patterns and their complex dynamics, capitalism has been identified as the higher-level driver. Some authors argue that the capitalist system depends on permanent economic growth and that the crisis of planetary health can not be overcome without first overcoming capitalism. We argue that this view is based on oversimplifications of economic theory, and that by capping resource consumption by political means, it is possible to steer the economy and society back into the environmental space provided by the planetary boundaries. On the consumption side, this requires a turn to sufficiency-based consumption, facilitated through sufficiency policies protecting and offering access to public goods. However, the impact on the economic system would be profound: not the end of capitalism, but the end of capitalism as we know it.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100099,"journal":{"name":"Anthropocene Science","volume":"1 3","pages":"358 - 374"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50017503","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The COVID-19 Pandemic has Derailed the Progress of Sustainable Development Goals","authors":"Priya Priyadarshini","doi":"10.1007/s44177-022-00032-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s44177-022-00032-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100099,"journal":{"name":"Anthropocene Science","volume":"1 3","pages":"410 - 412"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49997437","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Estefânia Vangelie Ramos Campos, Anderson do Espirito Santo Pereira, Jhones Luiz de Oliveira, Gabriela Patricia Unigarro Villarreal, Leonardo Fernandes Fraceto
{"title":"Nature-Based Nanocarrier System: An Eco-friendly Alternative for Improving Crop Resilience to Climate Changes","authors":"Estefânia Vangelie Ramos Campos, Anderson do Espirito Santo Pereira, Jhones Luiz de Oliveira, Gabriela Patricia Unigarro Villarreal, Leonardo Fernandes Fraceto","doi":"10.1007/s44177-022-00029-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s44177-022-00029-x","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Climate changes expose crops to frequent harsh environmental conditions, thereby decreasing food production. During the last few decades, several efforts have been made to generate stress-tolerant and climate-resilient crops and increase yield to meet the food demands of the increasing global population. Therefore, a nano-based approach is a promising tool for the sustainable development of agriculture and has many advantages over conventional approaches and products. In addition to their use as carrier systems for bioactive molecules, some nanoparticles have intrinsic properties that can increase plant growth and stress tolerance. This article focuses on the potential use of a nano-based approach to increase crop resilience against climate change and improve productivity for sustainable agriculture development. In addition, the challenges of reproducing laboratory results in the field are discussed.\u0000</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100099,"journal":{"name":"Anthropocene Science","volume":"1 3","pages":"396 - 403"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50050838","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}