Amanda T. Lombard, Jai Clifford-Holmes, Victoria Goodall, Bernadette Snow, Hannah Truter, Patrick Vrancken, Peter J. S. Jones, Kevern Cochrane, Wesley Flannery, Christina Hicks, Lena Gipperth, Edward H. Allison, Daniela Diz, Kimberley Peters, Bolanle Erinosho, Phillip Levin, Paul Holthus, María Nube Szephegyi, Adnan Awad, Harrison Golo, Elisa Morgera
{"title":"Principles for transformative ocean governance","authors":"Amanda T. Lombard, Jai Clifford-Holmes, Victoria Goodall, Bernadette Snow, Hannah Truter, Patrick Vrancken, Peter J. S. Jones, Kevern Cochrane, Wesley Flannery, Christina Hicks, Lena Gipperth, Edward H. Allison, Daniela Diz, Kimberley Peters, Bolanle Erinosho, Phillip Levin, Paul Holthus, María Nube Szephegyi, Adnan Awad, Harrison Golo, Elisa Morgera","doi":"10.1038/s41893-023-01210-9","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41893-023-01210-9","url":null,"abstract":"With a focus on oceans, we collaborated across ecological, social and legal disciplines to respond to the United Nations call for transformation in the ‘2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development’. We developed a set of 13 principles that strategically and critically connect transformative ocean research to transformative ocean governance (complementing the UN Decade for Ocean Science). We used a rigorous, iterative and transparent consensus-building approach to define the principles, which can interact in supporting, neutral or sometimes conflicting ways. We recommend that the principles could be applied as a comprehensive set and discuss how to learn from their interactions, particularly those that reveal hidden tensions. The principles can bring and keep together partnerships for innovative ocean action. This action must respond to the many calls to reform current ocean-use practices which are based on economic growth models that have perpetuated inequities and fuelled conflict and environmental decline. The UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development recognizes the need to transform governance for the world to develop sustainably. Using a mixed method approach, this study presents 13 principles for transformative ocean governance that can help turn ocean-use practices into more sustainable ones.","PeriodicalId":19056,"journal":{"name":"Nature Sustainability","volume":"6 12","pages":"1587-1599"},"PeriodicalIF":27.6,"publicationDate":"2023-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-023-01210-9.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41297330","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nicole D. Miranda, Jesus Lizana, Sarah N. Sparrow, Miriam Zachau-Walker, Peter A. G. Watson, David C. H. Wallom, Radhika Khosla, Malcolm McCulloch
{"title":"Author Correction: Change in cooling degree days with global mean temperature rise increasing from 1.5 °C to 2.0 °C","authors":"Nicole D. Miranda, Jesus Lizana, Sarah N. Sparrow, Miriam Zachau-Walker, Peter A. G. Watson, David C. H. Wallom, Radhika Khosla, Malcolm McCulloch","doi":"10.1038/s41893-023-01207-4","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41893-023-01207-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19056,"journal":{"name":"Nature Sustainability","volume":"6 12","pages":"1716-1716"},"PeriodicalIF":27.6,"publicationDate":"2023-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-023-01207-4.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41562138","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Preventing lead release from perovskites","authors":"Robert L. Z. Hoye","doi":"10.1038/s41893-023-01180-y","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41893-023-01180-y","url":null,"abstract":"Lead-halide perovskites could revolutionize the provision of low-cost solar energy but are limited by their neurotoxic lead content, which can readily dissolve in water. A supramolecular complex has now been developed to suppress lead release.","PeriodicalId":19056,"journal":{"name":"Nature Sustainability","volume":"6 11","pages":"1297-1299"},"PeriodicalIF":27.6,"publicationDate":"2023-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41904038","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Resilience of reefs to overfishing","authors":"Boris Worm, Laurenne Schiller","doi":"10.1038/s41893-023-01144-2","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41893-023-01144-2","url":null,"abstract":"Many coral reefs suffer from the effects of overfishing, which threatens biodiversity and erodes human livelihoods. A study now reveals where fished reefs boost their total productivity, providing a means of resilience.","PeriodicalId":19056,"journal":{"name":"Nature Sustainability","volume":"6 10","pages":"1149-1150"},"PeriodicalIF":27.6,"publicationDate":"2023-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41359679","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alison G. Fritz, Thomas J. Tarka, Meagan S. Mauter
{"title":"Assessing the economic viability of unconventional rare earth element feedstocks","authors":"Alison G. Fritz, Thomas J. Tarka, Meagan S. Mauter","doi":"10.1038/s41893-023-01145-1","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41893-023-01145-1","url":null,"abstract":"Sourcing rare earth elements (REEs) from unconventional feedstocks has substantial environmental and societal–economic benefits, but its economic viability remains unclear. Here we propose a framework for assessing the economic viability of unconventional REE feedstocks. We first develop a database of capital and operating expenses for REE recovery and establish consistent process unit costs for common stages in the conventional supply chain. We then use market prices to develop well-defined methods for determining diverse product values. Finally, we report the effects of economies of scale and feedstock purity on capital and operating costs. These tools can reduce uncertainty in the assessment of the economic viability of producing REEs from unconventional feedstocks, determine the value of innovative pathways for REE production from diverse sources and inform research priorities across a wide range of REE product development stages, contributing to a sustainable REE supply. Sourcing rare earth elements (REEs) from unconventional feedstocks has substantial environmental and societal–economic benefits. Here the authors develop tools to evaluate the economic viability of unconventional REE feedstocks to facilitate the implementation of a sustainable REE supply.","PeriodicalId":19056,"journal":{"name":"Nature Sustainability","volume":"6 9","pages":"1103-1112"},"PeriodicalIF":27.6,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41604491","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The multiple impacts of war","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s41893-023-01146-0","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41893-023-01146-0","url":null,"abstract":"As armed conflicts claim dreadful death tolls and destroy nature, they jeopardize humanity’s future. If safe and peaceful societies are the priorities of governments, more needs to happen to achieve them.","PeriodicalId":19056,"journal":{"name":"Nature Sustainability","volume":"6 5","pages":"479-480"},"PeriodicalIF":27.6,"publicationDate":"2023-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-023-01146-0.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41329856","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evaluating marine areas in Fiji","authors":"Natasha Pauli, Julian Clifton, Carmen Elrick-Barr","doi":"10.1038/s41893-023-01136-2","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41893-023-01136-2","url":null,"abstract":"Involving locals in marine conservation and management has been promoted to improve livelihoods and marine life. A study shows how community-based initiatives can be designed appropriately to generate desired social, economic and ecological outcomes.","PeriodicalId":19056,"journal":{"name":"Nature Sustainability","volume":"6 8","pages":"879-880"},"PeriodicalIF":27.6,"publicationDate":"2023-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41310581","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"National-level evaluation of a community-based marine management initiative","authors":"Tanya O’Garra, Sangeeta Mangubhai, Arundhati Jagadish, Margaret Tabunakawai-Vakalalabure, Alifereti Tawake, Hugh Govan, Morena Mills","doi":"10.1038/s41893-023-01123-7","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41893-023-01123-7","url":null,"abstract":"Community-based approaches to conservation and natural resource management are considered essential to meeting global conservation targets. Despite widespread adoption, there is little understanding about successful and unsuccessful community-based practices because of the challenges of designing robust evaluations to estimate impacts and analyse the underlying mechanisms to impact. Here we present findings from a national scale evaluation of the ‘locally managed marine areas’ network in Fiji, a marine community-based management initiative. Using data from 146 villages selected using matching methods, we show that engagement in the Fijian locally managed marine areas network leads to improvements in all mechanisms hypothesized to generate conservation outcomes (participation, knowledge, management and financial support). Yet these mechanisms translate to few social outcomes and have no effect on the perceived ecological health of a village’s fishing grounds. Our findings show that practitioners may need to carefully evaluate and adapt the mechanisms that they expect will generate impact from community-based projects to improve outcomes for people and the rest of nature. Understanding how community-based initiatives work is crucial for effective environmental management, but causal evaluations of these efforts are rare. This study presents a national-scale evaluation of a locally managed network of marine areas in Fiji and examines whether the expected mechanisms deliver conservation outcomes.","PeriodicalId":19056,"journal":{"name":"Nature Sustainability","volume":"6 8","pages":"908-918"},"PeriodicalIF":27.6,"publicationDate":"2023-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41647191","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Johan Rockström, Albert V. Norström, Nathanial Matthews, Reinette (Oonsie) Biggs, Carl Folke, Ameil Harikishun, Saleemul Huq, Nisha Krishnan, Lila Warszawski, Deon Nel
{"title":"Shaping a resilient future in response to COVID-19","authors":"Johan Rockström, Albert V. Norström, Nathanial Matthews, Reinette (Oonsie) Biggs, Carl Folke, Ameil Harikishun, Saleemul Huq, Nisha Krishnan, Lila Warszawski, Deon Nel","doi":"10.1038/s41893-023-01105-9","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41893-023-01105-9","url":null,"abstract":"Science today defines resilience as the capacity to live and develop with change and uncertainty, which is well beyond just the ability to ‘bounce back’ to the status quo. It involves the capacity to absorb shocks, avoid tipping points, navigate surprise and keep options alive, and the ability to innovate and transform in the face of crises and traps. Five attributes underlie this capacity: diversity, redundancy, connectivity, inclusivity and equity, and adaptive learning. There is a mismatch between the talk of resilience recovery after COVID-19 and the latest science, which calls for major efforts to align resilience thinking with sustainable development action. The concept of resilience, once meaning the ability to ‘bounce back’ to the status quo, now refers to the capacity to live and develop with change. A mismatch between the latest science of resilience and the talk of resilience recovery after COVID-19 requires resilience thinking to be aligned with sustainable development.","PeriodicalId":19056,"journal":{"name":"Nature Sustainability","volume":"6 8","pages":"897-907"},"PeriodicalIF":27.6,"publicationDate":"2023-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-023-01105-9.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41987372","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Political strategies for climate and environmental solutions","authors":"Jonas Meckling, Valerie J. Karplus","doi":"10.1038/s41893-023-01109-5","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41893-023-01109-5","url":null,"abstract":"Many of the barriers to progress in addressing environmental problems, such as climate change, are political. We argue that politics should not be seen only as a constraint but be recognized as a target of intervention to advance environmental solutions. We use the example of climate change to illustrate how insight into politics can help policymakers craft strategies to address three gaps: the ambition gap, the implementation gap and the international action gap. Focusing on politically effective choices that are feasible today and have the potential to ease political barriers to future policy action can broaden the solution space. Many of the barriers to progress in addressing environmental problems, such as climate change, are political. This Review illustrates how insight into politics can help policymakers craft strategies to address the ambition gap, the implementation gap and the international action gap.","PeriodicalId":19056,"journal":{"name":"Nature Sustainability","volume":"6 7","pages":"742-751"},"PeriodicalIF":27.6,"publicationDate":"2023-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41421489","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}