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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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Growing through transformation pains: integrating emotional holding and processing into competence frameworks for sustainability transformations 在转型的痛苦中成长：将情感持有和处理整合到可持续转型的能力框架中

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Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability Pub Date : 2025-03-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2025.101525

Fern Wickson , Lauren Lambert , Michael Bernstein

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Location, location, location: asset location data sources for nature-related financial risk analysis 位置、位置、位置：用于与自然相关的财务风险分析的资产位置数据源

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Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability Pub Date : 2025-03-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2025.101527

Christophe Christiaen, Philippa Lockwood, Alex Jackman, Ben Caldecott

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The paradox of climate resilience and elusive peace in the Lake Chad Basin: a case for an adaptive governance approach 乍得湖流域气候适应能力与难以捉摸的和平之间的矛盾：适应性治理方法的案例

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Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability Pub Date : 2025-03-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2025.101523

Lembe Tiky , Melvis Ndiloseh

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Productivity versus sustainability: paradigms of climate-resilient development in South Asian smallholder agriculture 生产力与可持续性：南亚小农农业气候适应型发展模式

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Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability Pub Date : 2025-03-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2025.101520

Gautam Prateek

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