Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability最新文献

What functions for city networks in local climate governance? Conceptualising cross-site interactions as learning, moulding and steering 城市网络在地方气候治理中的作用是什么？将跨站点的交互概念化为学习、塑造和指导

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Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability Pub Date : 2025-05-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2025.101540

Jesse Schrage , Subina Shrestha

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What do we (not) know about biodiversity finance governance? 我们对生物多样性金融治理了解（不了解）什么？

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Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability Pub Date : 2025-05-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2025.101541

Jesper Svensson, Julia Mao, Nils Droste

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Contributions of Net-Map to sustainability action research Net-Map对可持续发展行动研究的贡献

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Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability Pub Date : 2025-05-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2025.101542

Sofía Valeria Cortés-Calderón , María D. López-Rodríguez , Amanda Jiménez-Aceituno , Antonio J. Castro , María Mancilla-García

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Applying the ecosystem services framework in UNESCO’s World Network of Biosphere Reserves: lessons learned and ways forward 在教科文组织世界生物圈保护区网络中应用生态系统服务框架：经验教训和前进方向

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Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability Pub Date : 2025-05-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2025.101539

Janne K Thomsen , Inger E Måren , Jarrod Cusens

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Unveiling pervasive assumptions: moving beyond the poverty-biodiversity loss association in conservation 揭示普遍存在的假设：在保护中超越贫困-生物多样性丧失的关联

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Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability Pub Date : 2025-05-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2025.101537

Rachel Carmenta , Mairon G. Bastos Lima , Shofwan A.B. Choiruzzad , Neil Dawson , Natalia Estrada-Carmona , Christina Hicks , Giorgos Kallis , Eric Nana , Evan Killick , Alexander Lees , Adria Martin , Unai Pascual , Nathalie Pettorelli , James Reed , Esther Turnhout , Bhaskar Vira , Julie G. Zaehringer , Jos Barlow

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Leveraging place-based identities and senses of belonging to mobilize for action-oriented research in UNESCO sites 利用基于地点的身份和归属感，动员在教科文组织遗址开展面向行动的研究

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Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability Pub Date : 2025-05-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2025.101536

Katja Malmborg , Jacqueline Hamilton , Carolin Seiferth

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Current perspectives on debt-for-nature swaps: moving from exploratory to empirical research 当前关于债务换自然的观点：从探索性研究转向实证研究

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Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability Pub Date : 2025-05-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2025.101538

Christoph Nedopil , Tianshu Sun

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Challenges and opportunities when assessing exposure of financial investments to ecosystem regime shifts 评估金融投资对生态系统机制变化的影响时面临的挑战和机遇

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Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability Pub Date : 2025-04-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2025.101526

André Pinto da Silva , Nielja Knecht , Romain Thomas , Romi Lotcheris , Beatrice Crona , Juan Carlos Rocha

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Public finance allocation does not reflect biodiversity priorities 公共财政分配不能反映生物多样性的优先次序

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Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability Pub Date : 2025-03-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2025.101524

Odirilwe Selomane , Michelle Fourie , Sally Archibald , Laura Pereira , Nadia Sitas , Kim Zoeller

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Sustainable finance, biodiversity, and greenwashing: how contested values, metrics, and causation facilitate information distortion, information omission, and information pollution 可持续金融、生物多样性和洗绿：有争议的价值观、指标和因果关系如何促进信息扭曲、信息遗漏和信息污染

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Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability Pub Date : 2025-03-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2025.101522

Job de Grefte, Boudewijn de Bruin

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