Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability最新文献

{"title":"Global biodiversity assessments need to consider mixed multifunctional land-use systems","authors":"Rob Alkemade ,&nbsp;Lenny GJ van Bussel ,&nbsp;Susana López Rodríguez ,&nbsp;Aafke M Schipper","doi":"10.1016/j.cosust.2022.101174","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2022.101174","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Global scenario-based modelling efforts to support biodiversity policies typically consider agriculture only as a pressure factor. Current scenarios typically include the expansion of protected areas combined with higher agricultural productivity (as in land sparing) for reducing biodiversity loss. We argue in favour of a broader perspective on farming practices in scenario-based biodiversity modelling and, specifically, for scenario studies to include mixed multifunctional systems, applicable in land-sharing approaches. The increasing availability of monitoring data and modelling capacity opens up opportunities for more comprehensive quantification of the intricate network of relationships between agricultural land management, biodiversity and ecosystem services and, thus, enables a more balanced evaluation of the benefits and trade-offs of land sparing and land sharing and their intermediates.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":294,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"56 ","pages":"Article 101174"},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"1874755","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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":"Embodied rationality: a framework of human action in water infrastructure governance","authors":"Marisa K Manheim,&nbsp;Christy Spackman","doi":"10.1016/j.cosust.2022.101170","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2022.101170","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Critics assert that prevailing assumptions of human behavior limit pathways for infrastructure adaptations. Embodied rationality offers scholars and practitioners an alternative framework that characterizes rational decisions as those producing adaptive outcomes for human–nature systems. By emphasizing the body’s role in perception, embodied rationality provides a bridge between relational and individualistic conceptions of human–nature. It also facilitates theorizing infrastructures as inherently co-constructed. Practices based on embodied rationality can increase knowledge pluralism in planning and help infrastructure managers avoid costly mistakes. Water managers activate embodied rationality when offering tastings to engage consumers in deliberations about the direct potable reuse of wastewater. Embodied rationality, therefore, offers a timely framework of particular relevance to the governance of contested sustainability transitions.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":294,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"56 ","pages":"Article 101170"},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"1894768","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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":"Nature’s disvalues: what are they and why do they matter?","authors":"Bosco Lliso ,&nbsp;Dominic Lenzi ,&nbsp;Barbara Muraca ,&nbsp;Kai MA Chan ,&nbsp;Unai Pascual","doi":"10.1016/j.cosust.2022.101173","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2022.101173","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span>This paper expands the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) values framing about nature and its contributions to people by exploring the notion of ‘disvalues’, which pertains to aspects of nature that reduce well being (</span><em>instrumental disvalues</em>), relationships that are detrimental to a dignified and flourishing life (<em>relational disvalues</em>), or the perception of badness in an absolute sense, regardless of the impact on people (<em>intrinsic disvalues</em><span>). Shedding light on how people express disvalues helps to better capture their preferences and subjective perspectives, as well as account for the socioenvironmental positions from which they speak. Considering the full spectrum of disvalues opens up new ways to better identify social–ecological trade-offs, a necessary step for seeking solutions and finding common ground on sustainability and justice.</span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":294,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"56 ","pages":"Article 101173"},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"1874754","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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":"Beyond the ‘urban’ and the ‘rural’: conceptualizing a new generation of infrastructure systems to enable rural–urban sustainability","authors":"Victor H Gutierrez-Velez ,&nbsp;Melissa R Gilbert ,&nbsp;Dirk Kinsey ,&nbsp;Jocelyn E Behm","doi":"10.1016/j.cosust.2022.101177","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2022.101177","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Advancing global sustainability requires an understanding of ways in which rural–urban processes interact to produce sustainability outcomes. Rural–urban relationships are mostly studied through an urban focus and with urbanization as a main driver of sustainability outcomes. We review three broadly adopted perspectives on urban–rural relationships from an urbanization perspective. Then, we shift the conceptualization of rural–urban relationships away from ‘the urban’ to illustrate ways in which ‘rural’ processes, practices, and places drive rural–urban sustainability. We argue for a research agenda that analyzes ‘the rural’ and ‘the urban’ as mutually constituted. Such an understanding can inspire a new generation of infrastructure that integrates nature as essential for urban sustainability, supports diverse livelihoods and lifestyles, and helps to bridge rural–urban divides.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":294,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"56 ","pages":"Article 101177"},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"1552069","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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":"Downscaling doughnut economics for sustainability governance","authors":"Rachel A Turner,&nbsp;Jane Wills","doi":"10.1016/j.cosust.2022.101180","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2022.101180","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The concept of ‘doughnut economics’ is attracting growing attention from policy-makers and has the potential to unify stakeholders around a holistic vision of sustainable development. The ‘safe and just’ space within the doughnut is framed at a global scale, based on human needs that represent a foundation for social wellbeing, and planetary boundaries reflecting biophysical limits. However, the geographical division of political power between and within nations means that its ability to stimulate change will depend upon its application at national and subnational scales. This paper examines the challenges facing local institutions in downscaling doughnut economics for planning, decision-making and leadership; draws on wider literature from previous efforts to localise sustainability governance to help illuminate these challenges; and outlines a future research agenda to support local governance for a safe and just space.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":294,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"56 ","pages":"Article 101180"},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"2618073","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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":"Prospects for implementing the SDGs","authors":"Peter M Haas ,&nbsp;Nicholas Ivanovskis","doi":"10.1016/j.cosust.2022.101176","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2022.101176","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This piece looks at the prospects for implementing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals<span> (SDGs). It analyzes the social infrastructure — the political and institutional processes — by which more effective governance is possible. It appraises the role of different international organizations in delivering each SDG on its own, as well as the potential for capturing the interlinkages between them. It finds a mismatch between the International Organizations (IOs) responsible for coordinating the SDGs and their resource capabilities. It concludes with suggestions for reassigning responsibility to IOs with greater capabilities at promoting SDG attainment, and for linking SDGs.</span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":294,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"56 ","pages":"Article 101176"},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"1874756","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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":"Balancing efficiency and resilience objectives in pursuit of sustainable infrastructure transformations","authors":"Samuel A Markolf ,&nbsp;Alysha Helmrich ,&nbsp;Yeowon Kim ,&nbsp;Ryan Hoff ,&nbsp;Mikhail Chester","doi":"10.1016/j.cosust.2022.101181","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2022.101181","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Efficiency (i.e. optimized use of resources) and resilience principles (i.e. redundancy, diversity, etc.) are often at odds with one another. Despite being particularly acute within infrastructure systems, this tension appears to be under-explored. However, recent advances in ecological and social sciences provide some novel insights into navigating efficiency–resilience trade-offs. Overall, efficiency and resilience are both vital for a system’s longevity and striking a dynamic balance between the two appears to be crucial. Striking this balance in infrastructure systems can be catalyzed by the treatment of resilience as a public good, as well as incorporating exploratory models and stakeholder coproduction in the design and implementation process. Ultimately, the dynamic balance between efficiency and resilience can play a central role in our infrastructure’s ability to successfully operate in environments that increasingly fluctuate between stable and unstable conditions.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":294,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"56 ","pages":"Article 101181"},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"3336180","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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":"Strategic planning of hydropower development: balancing benefits and socioenvironmental costs","authors":"Rafael M Almeida ,&nbsp;Rafael JP Schmitt ,&nbsp;Andrea Castelletti ,&nbsp;Alexander S Flecker ,&nbsp;Julien J Harou ,&nbsp;Sebastian A Heilpern ,&nbsp;Noah Kittner ,&nbsp;G Mathias Kondolf ,&nbsp;Jeff J Opperman ,&nbsp;Qinru Shi ,&nbsp;Carla P Gomes ,&nbsp;Peter B McIntyre","doi":"10.1016/j.cosust.2022.101175","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2022.101175","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Hydropower continues to expand globally as the power sector transitions away from carbon-intensive fossil fuels. New dam sites vary widely in the magnitude of their adverse effects on natural ecosystems and human livelihoods. Here, we discuss how strategic planning of hydropower expansion can assist decision makers<span> in comparing the benefits of building dams against their socioenvironmental impacts. Advances in data availability and computational analysis now enable accounting for an increasing array of social and environmental metrics at ever-larger spatial scales<span>. In turn, expanding the spatial scale of planning yields more options in the quest to improve both economic and socioenvironmental outcomes. There remains a pressing need to incorporate climate change into hydropower planning. Ultimately, these innovations in evaluating prospective dam sites should be integrated into strategic planning of the entire energy system to ensure that social and environmental disruption of river systems is minimized.</span></span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":294,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"56 ","pages":"Article 101175"},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"3336179","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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":"Walnut <i>N</i>-Acetylserotonin Methyltransferase Gene Family Genome-Wide Identification and Diverse Functions Characterization During Flower Bud Development.","authors":"Kai Ma, Ruiqiang Xu, Yu Zhao, Liqun Han, Yuhui Xu, Lili Li, Juan Wang, Ning Li","doi":"10.3389/fpls.2022.861043","DOIUrl":"10.3389/fpls.2022.861043","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Melatonin widely mediates multiple developmental dynamics in plants as a vital growth stimulator, stress protector, and developmental regulator. <i>N</i>-acetylserotonin methyltransferase (ASMT) is the key enzyme that catalyzes the final step of melatonin biosynthesis in plants and plays an essential role in the plant melatonin regulatory network. Studies of ASMT have contributed to understanding the mechanism of melatonin biosynthesis in plants. However, <i>AMST</i> gene is currently uncharacterized in most plants. In this study, we characterized the <i>JrASMT</i> gene family using bioinformatics in a melatonin-rich plant, walnut. Phylogenetic, gene structure, conserved motifs, promoter elements, interacting proteins and miRNA analyses were also performed. The expansion and differentiation of the ASMT family occurred before the onset of the plant terrestrialization. <i>ASMT</i> genes were more differentiated in dicotyledonous plants. Forty-six <i>ASMT</i> genes were distributed in clusters on 10 chromosomes of walnut. Four <i>JrASMT</i> genes had homologous relationships both within walnut and between species. <i>Cis</i>-regulatory elements showed that <i>JrASMT</i> was mainly induced by light and hormones, and targeted cleavage of miRNA172 and miR399 may be an important pathway to suppress <i>JrASMT</i> expression. Transcriptome data showed that 13 <i>JrASMT</i> were differentially expressed at different periods of walnut bud development. WGCNA showed that <i>JrASMT1/10/13/23</i> were coexpressed with genes regulating cell fate and epigenetic modifications during early physiological differentiation of walnut female flower buds. <i>JrASMT12/28/37/40</i> were highly expressed during morphological differentiation of flower buds, associated with altered stress capacity of walnut flower buds, and predicted to be involved in the regulatory network of abscisic acid, salicylic acid, and cytokinin in walnut. The qRT-PCR validated the results of differential expression analysis and further provided three <i>JrASMT</i> genes with different expression profiles in walnut flower bud development. Our study explored the evolutionary relationships of the plant <i>ASMT</i> gene family and the functional characteristics of walnut <i>JrASMT</i>. It provides a valuable perspective for further understanding the complex melatonin mechanisms in plant developmental regulation.</p>","PeriodicalId":294,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"17 ","pages":"861043"},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2022-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9051526/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41275617","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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":"The impacts of climate change and urbanization on food retailers in urban sub-Saharan Africa","authors":"Jordan Blekking ,&nbsp;Stacey Giroux ,&nbsp;Kurt Waldman ,&nbsp;Jane Battersby ,&nbsp;Cascade Tuholske ,&nbsp;Scott M Robeson ,&nbsp;Gilbert Siame","doi":"10.1016/j.cosust.2022.101169","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2022.101169","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span>Food system transformations that are driven by climate change and urbanization have important implications for the food retail landscape of urban sub-Saharan Africa. Urban populations in sub-Saharan Africa are growing rapidly, climate change shocks are increasingly common, and the spatial footprints of cities are expanding, all of which challenge food systems to meet the needs of urban consumers. As supply chains increase in complexity and length, urban food retailers are increasingly vulnerable to more variable and extreme events associated with climate change. Urban food systems are also changing in response to urbanization through a variety of linkages, such as rising incomes, changing diet preferences, and the growth of the supermarket </span>industry. Considering the roles and diversity of food retailers within urban food systems is a critical step to understanding and addressing the specific pathways through which urbanization and climate change will impact food system sustainability across rapidly growing African cities.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":294,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"55 ","pages":"Article 101169"},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"2348813","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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}