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{"title":"Assessing sense of place and cultural ecosystem services in shallow Baltic Sea bays to inform coastal restoration.","authors":"Sieglind Wallner-Hahn, Linda Kumblad, Frida Tornberg, Åsa N Austin, Joakim P Hansen, Sofia A Wikström","doi":"10.1007/s13280-026-02500-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-026-02500-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study examines people-place relationships in shallow bays on the Swedish Baltic Sea coast prior to ecological restoration. Using surveys and in-depth interviews, combined with biophysical assessments, it characterizes nearby property owners' cultural ecosystem services (CES) and sense of place (SOP), examines if they are impacted by environmental degradation, and explores links between CES/SOP and restoration processes. Results show a rich diversity of CES and place meanings, grounded in environmental features and social relations, with nature-related experiences most prevalent. Emotional bonds highlight the cultural, relational, and personal significance of the bays. Measured degradation is recognized by residents and associated with a loss of CES and place meanings. Local conditions for restoration support appear favourable, alongside potential goal conflicts between ecological improvements and some recreational uses. The study underscores the importance of inclusive CES/SOP assessments to acknowledge heterogeneous values and trade-offs, supporting socially accepted and culturally relevant coastal restoration and conservation.</p>","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2026-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149356994","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":"Property regimes and the socio-ecological dynamics of bofedales (Andean Peatlands) in Northern Chile.","authors":"Manuel Prieto, Alan Jofré-Quispe, Oliver Meseguer-Ruiz, Roberto O Chávez, Mónica Meza Aliaga, Matías Pérez-Evens, Tom Perreault","doi":"10.1007/s13280-026-02498-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-026-02498-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Property regimes do more than allocate rights: they generate material effects visible in the landscape. We examine this in Tacora, an Aymara community in northern Chile, where 14 pastoral estancias, six formalized and eight under undivided heirship, emerged from a contested registration process initiated after 1885. Questioning the boundaries between society and environment, we combine legal-archival history, oral histories, and a 41-year Landsat NDVI record (1984-2025) paired with the SPEI drought index. Where tenure is secure, individually or collectively, bofedales show higher productivity and weaker coupling to drought, mediated by registered water rights, irrigation maintenance, and state funding; contested or non-formalized tenure shows the inverse. Tenure security thus emerges as a key institutional condition, not privatization itself, operating alongside broader drivers of Indigenous territorial life. The principle generalizes to continuous hydrosocial systems that cannot be physically fractioned: peatlands, irrigated pastures, valley wetlands, and canal networks.</p>","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2026-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149316927","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":"A systematic synthesis of institutional analysis in human-wildlife conflict research (2000-2025).","authors":"Kaushal Yadav, Christopher Serenari","doi":"10.1007/s13280-026-02506-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-026-02506-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Human-wildlife conflict challenges biodiversity, yet its institutional dimensions remain understudied. Following PRISMA guidelines, we systematically reviewed 58 records (2000-2025), mapping a shift from foundational state-centric models to contemporary power-focused research. Results highlight spatial mismatch between wildlife movement and rigid administrative boundaries. To address this spatial misfit, governance integrates formal laws with local customs to ensure management gains social legitimacy. Crucially, we identify animal agency as an independent catalyst driving management adaptation. The review presents a diagnostic tool showing that long-term coexistence depends on resolving structural power struggles and historical grievances through procedural fairness. Ultimately, we advance prioritization of power and the fostering of relational agency to achieve durable coexistence within shared landscapes.</p>","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2026-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149316925","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":"Aquaculture expansion, floodplain transformation, and coupled biodiversity-livelihood trade-offs in Bangladesh.","authors":"Md Saifullah Bin Aziz, Seikh Razibul Islam, Md Mehedi Alam, Mobin Hossain Shohan, Mohammad Mahfujul Haque","doi":"10.1007/s13280-026-02503-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-026-02503-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Aquaculture in Bangladesh's floodplains boosts livelihoods but endangers biodiversity. This study employs turtles as ecological indicators within a socio-ecological systems framework to quantify development-conservation trade-offs. Integrating local ecological knowledge (LEK) with socioeconomic surveys, we assessed three decades of change. LEK-based abundance indices suggested a 96.9% decline in turtle abundance alongside species loss. Concurrently, nominal household income increased markedly, while inflation-adjusted income increased by 42%, coinciding with aquaculture expansion. Exploratory analysis revealed strong inverse associations between aquaculture development and turtle biodiversity indicators. These patterns are consistent with a coupled socio-ecological dynamic in which economic gains coincided with biodiversity erosion. To reconcile food production with conservation, we propose integrated management strategies: habitat-sensitive aquaculture zoning, biodiversity-friendly pond designs, and community-based monitoring. These approaches offer transferable lessons for sustainable wetland governance in Bangladesh and for comparable tropical floodplain regions, highlighting the need to integrate local knowledge and biodiversity safeguards into national aquaculture and development policies.</p>","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2026-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149316926","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":"Alternative pathways for recognizing effective governance of Indigenous territories are critical to achieve global biodiversity targets: Lessons from Asian spiritual landscapes.","authors":"Alessandra Manzini, Alexander M Greene, Suwichan Phatthanaphraiwan, David M Hecht, Lily Zeng, Navaporn Sunanlikanon, Alison Ormsby, Prasert Trakansuphakon, M K S Pasha, Bas Verschuuren, Marco J Haenssgen, Shonil A Bhagwat","doi":"10.1007/s13280-026-02483-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-026-02483-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Global conservation policy and state governance remain grounded in resource-oriented, secular frameworks. These can conflict with Indigenous peoples' and local communities' (IPLCs) relational ontologies, in which landscape elements are sentient beings, ancestral territories, and abodes of 'more-than-human' entities. Drawing on a symposium on spiritual landscapes in Asia, we identify three barriers to community-led conservation: (1) land insecurity from state enclosure; (2) restrictive IPLC definitions; and (3) non-binding international agreements that fail to secure recognition of customary institutions and territorial rights. Case studies from Thailand, Myanmar, Nepal, Bhutan, and China demonstrate how bureaucratic requirements can undermine customary laws and governance. Alternative pathways for recognizing other effective area-based conservation measures (OECMs) under the Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) should recognise spiritual values, customary law, and adaptive institutions as integral to resilient biocultural landscapes. We argue that this shift can advance epistemic justice while providing a more equitable pathway towards achieving GBF Target 3.</p>","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2026-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149293786","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":"The \"ranger blindspot\": Global policy and implementation gaps.","authors":"Hannah L Timmins, Jonathan Churcher, Rohit Singh, Sue Stolton, Krishna Prasad Acharya, S P Yadav, Mike Appleton, Nigel Dudley, Mike Hoffman, Alice Péretié, Valerie Hickey, Nik Sekhran, Mariano Castro, Madhu Rao, Jamie McCallum, Chris Galliers, James Slade","doi":"10.1007/s13280-026-02496-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-026-02496-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Achieving conservation targets like protecting and conserving 30% of the planet by 2030 (\"30 x 30\") depend fundamentally on ground-level implementation capacity, in particular rangers. We audited 45 global macro-governance documents and 21 National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs), establishing the first empirical baseline of ranger workforce visibility. The analysis reveals a profound blindspot: macro-frameworks exhibit a near-invisible Ranger (or equivalent) term density of 0.46 matches per 10 000 words, drastically lower than Area (32.15) and Finance terms (37.88). While domestic NBSAPs marginally improve visibility (0.82), they remain a fraction of Finance (56.10) and Area (26.85). Qualitative analyses show that only two macro-documents and fewer than half the NBSAPs formally integrate rangers into policy and forward planning. By decoupling capital and area from labour, environmental governance risks proliferating unmanaged paper parks. We recommend government and NGO policy negotiators urgently eliminate this gap by codifying ranger targets and standardising labour within policy, planning and reporting.</p>","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2026-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149293811","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 mining on Sámi lands: Risks for Indigenous rights.","authors":"Rasmus Kløcker Larsen, Johanna Westeson, Carl Österlin, Annette Löf","doi":"10.1007/s13280-026-02499-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-026-02499-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper contributes to just transition debates, providing novel evidence about how emerging critical mineral governance plays out vis-à-vis state obligations to protect Sámi rights. Focus is on the designation of strategic extraction projects under the European Union's Critical Raw Materials Act and the role of negotiated agreements between Sámi herding communities and mining companies. Using Swedish state-owned mining company LKAB's proposed Per Geijer project on traditional Sámi lands as case study, we conduct a legal analysis drawing on Indigenous rights, specifically the state duty to seek and obtain free, prior and informed consent. Findings demonstrate inherent flaws in the strategic project mechanism and corporate breaches of international standards-with the agreement between LKAB and the herding community serving to contain criticism and distract from continued power imbalances. We argue that strategic mining projects perpetuate a colonial state-industry nexus with an urgent need to incorporate rigorous human rights safeguards.</p>","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2026-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149293797","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":"Ambitious goals for global mangrove conservation and restoration.","authors":"Mark D Spalding, Steven W J Canty, Christopher J Brown, Fernanda Achete, Gabin Agblonon, Khalid Hamid Ahmed Mohammed, Syed Ali Mohamed, Nessrine Alzahlawi, Virni B Arifanti, Sreejith Kalpuzha Ashtamoorthy, Apri Susanto Astra, William E N Austin, Salomão O Bandeira, Daniel T I Bayley, Mark A Beeston, Ignace Beguin Billecocq, Sophie L P Benbow, Jewel N Beneby, Nimai Bera, Anete Berzina-Rodrigo, Punyasloke Bhadury, Rebeca Biancardi Aleu, Nadia Desiree Bood, Wilder J Borrero Avellaneda, Pete Bunting, Annadel S Cabanban, Miguel Cañedo-Argüelles, Gustavo A Castellanos-Galindo, Benjamin Christ, Alvise Dabalà, Craig Dahlgren, Ajanta Dey, Mauricio Diazgranados, Maria C Diazgranados, Cheryl L Doughty, Clare Duncan, Valentine Ebua, Melanie M Esch, Lola Fatoyinbo, Andrés Fraiz-Toma, Daniel A Friess, Samir Raj Gandhi, Dixon T Gevaña, Anwesha Ghosh, Ajay Raghunath Govale, K Anggi Hapsari, R Taufan Harisam, Jorge A Herrera-Silveira, Amandine Hersant, Lammert Hilarides, Jennifer F Howard, Muhammad Ilman, Rashema T Ingraham, Loureene A Jones, Vinaya Kozhapalli, Emily C Landis, Marice Leal, Miao Li, Kate E Longley-Wood, Catherine E Lovelock, George W Maina, Orion S McCarthy, Laura A Michie, Nicolas Moity, Julio Montes de Oca, José F Moreira-Ramírez, Hannah K Morrissette, Brad Oberle, Samuel Appiah Ofori, Francis A Okalo, Maria Josella M Pangilinan, Shrutika Parihar, Jaime Polania, Fernanda T Ramírez-Aguilera, Juan J Robalino, Kristina L Rodriguez, Stefanie M Rog, Farhah N Rosli, Christopher Roy, Mohammad Rozaimi, Nirupama Saini, Severino Iii G Salmo, Jude Ikenna Samuelson, Behara Satyanarayana, Dharmendra G Shah, Nirmal Shah, Christine C Shepard, Christopher Sheridan, Krista D Sherman, Frida Sidik, Michael Sievers, Jennifer Simonjan, Stefanie Simpson, Heather A Stewart, Luis Suárez, Jennifer Tabola, Nathan Thomas, Jessica Paula Rose Thorn, Susanna Tol, Mohammad Main Uddin, Alexandra A E Valla, Pieter van Eijk, Anuradha Venkatraman, Jaramar Villarreal-Rosas, Jessica Lauren Williams, Dominic C J Wodehouse, Linda Wong, Martin Zimmer, Thomas A Worthington","doi":"10.1007/s13280-026-02481-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-026-02481-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Generic global conservation targets lack the ambition required for certain habitats of critical value for biodiversity and human well-being. Developing more challenging targets for such habitats may offer a solution. Mangrove forests provide an example: any and all future loss will have negative repercussions, while many impacts could be reversed through extensive restoration. The Global Mangrove Alliance, an international grouping of 100 civil society and academic partners, has set goals to halt anthropogenic losses, accelerate restoration and greatly enhance protection by 2030. Using global-scale data, we estimate that achieving these goals will avoid losses of some 1500 km²; restore some 4000 km²; and secure an additional 36 000 km² of mangroves under effective and equitable protection. Multiple benefits will follow, and we present values for carbon storage gains and avoided losses. Global datasets can guide broad approaches, while quantifying the challenges and benefits provides inspiration and impetus for change.</p>","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2026-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149284589","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":"Building environmental engagement: Can bridging social-ecological and learning systems theories be a lever for change?","authors":"Marijke Hecht, Joe E Heimlich, Casey T Ortbahn, Nicole M Ardoin","doi":"10.1007/s13280-026-02510-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-026-02510-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Pressing sustainability issues are rooted in human and earth systems interactions that are difficult to address because of their complex, dynamic, and unpredictable nature. Addressing these social-ecological challenges requires systems-level change, which relies on both direct improvements to natural systems and indirect drivers of change, such as educational levers. We aim to provoke more transdisciplinary work between environmental scientists and educators by bringing together key constructs from social-ecological and learning systems theories. Writing from the perspective of educators and social scientists, our objectives are to encourage ecologists and other environmental scientists to (1) recognize that learning systems are essential elements of social-ecological ecosystems and (2) embrace their role as keystones within these learning systems, uniquely positioned to drive interest in the environment and support transformative learning. We suggest potential areas of intersection between social-ecological and learning systems, seeking leverage points for transformative change toward more sustainable communities.</p>","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2026-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149260315","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":"Unequal barriers to Nature's Contributions to People impact quality of life.","authors":"Margot Neyret, Sandra Lavorel, Bruno Locatelli, Berta Martín-López","doi":"10.1007/s13280-026-02482-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-026-02482-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>While nature contributes to multiple dimensions of human quality of life, access to nature and its benefits is unequally distributed. We surveyed residents of a French metropolitan area to address three questions: (i) What are the most common barriers to accessing various Nature's Contributions to People (NCP)? (ii) How do these barriers vary across socio-demographic groups? (iii) How do they relate to nature connectedness and impact quality of life? Most frequent barriers, i.e. low availability or quality of green spaces, lack of time, and crowding, differed across NCP categories. Individuals with lower income, limited physical mobility, living in urban areas, and women reported more barriers. More numerous barriers reduced NCP satisfaction, with repercussions on quality of life. In contrast, nature connectedness directly increased quality of life. Our finding that barriers accumulate for disadvantaged groups, reinforcing social inequities, calls for policies addressing multiple dimensions of access to promote equitable relationships with nature.</p>","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2026-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149259994","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}