IF 5.8 2区环境科学与生态学

Ambio Pub Date : 2025-03-14 DOI: 10.1007/s13280-025-02137-5

Marcelo Henrique Schmitz, Žiga Malek, Edivando Vitor do Couto, Eduardo Gentil, Ana Lúcia Paz Cardozo, Yara Moretto, Natália Stefanini da Silveira, Angelo Antonio Agostinho

{"title":"Unsustainable land use trajectories in the Tocantins/Araguaia basin: Insights from future scenario modeling.","authors":"Marcelo Henrique Schmitz, Žiga Malek, Edivando Vitor do Couto, Eduardo Gentil, Ana Lúcia Paz Cardozo, Yara Moretto, Natália Stefanini da Silveira, Angelo Antonio Agostinho","doi":"10.1007/s13280-025-02137-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-025-02137-5","url":null,"abstract":"Effective watershed management is essential for biodiversity conservation and mitigating environmental impacts like deforestation and ecosystem disruptions, especially in the context of climate change. The Tocantins/Araguaia Basin (TOAR), Brazil's second-largest watershed, faces significant challenges due to unsustainable land use practices. To address this, we modeled future land use and cover changes (2015-2045) using the CLUE model under three scenarios: Business-as-usual (BAUS), Conservation-based (CONS), and Production-based (PROD). Key drivers included soil type, average temperature, and yearly precipitation. Projections indicate persistent deforestation and habitat fragmentation, particularly under PROD, while CONS still projects notable losses in forests, savannas, and grasslands. These results highlight the urgent need for proactive conservation measures, stricter environmental regulations, and sustainable land use planning to protect TOAR's ecosystems and biodiversity. Addressing these issues is critical for preserving this vulnerable and understudied region amidst growing environmental pressures.","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143630127","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}

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Boxes of rain: A systematic review on the classes and frameworks of ecosystem disservices.

IF 5.8 2区环境科学与生态学

Ambio Pub Date : 2025-03-13 DOI: 10.1007/s13280-025-02157-1

Carl Cyrus Anderson, Andreas Metzemacher, Blal Adem Esmail

{"title":"Boxes of rain: A systematic review on the classes and frameworks of ecosystem disservices.","authors":"Carl Cyrus Anderson, Andreas Metzemacher, Blal Adem Esmail","doi":"10.1007/s13280-025-02157-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-025-02157-1","url":null,"abstract":"Despite the numerous benefits we derive from ecosystems as ecosystem services (ES), negative impacts on human health and well-being also occur as ecosystem disservices (ED). To study ED, researchers box them into classes and create conceptual frameworks to support their identification, assessment, and communication. It is unclear what classes and frameworks now exist for ED, their relative uptake in the literature, and their potential application across socio-ecological contexts. We conduct a systematic literature review of ED classification systems and frameworks to take stock and synthesize this growing but scattered body of research. We find strong uptake of several influential articles but persisting inconsistency of classifications and oversimplification of ED processes within frameworks. Aggregating existing classifications and frameworks, we draw on lessons learned to propose the Composite Ecosystem Disservices (CED) framework. We call for increased ED research, greater comparability and replicability allowing for transdisciplinarity, and conceptual underpinnings that recognize social-ecological interconnections.","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143623009","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}

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Enhancing the transformative potential of sustainability innovations: An application of the values-rules-knowledge framework.

IF 5.8 2区环境科学与生态学

Ambio Pub Date : 2025-03-13 DOI: 10.1007/s13280-025-02148-2

Caroline Hélène Dabard, Carsten Mann, Berta Martín-López

{"title":"Enhancing the transformative potential of sustainability innovations: An application of the values-rules-knowledge framework.","authors":"Caroline Hélène Dabard, Carsten Mann, Berta Martín-López","doi":"10.1007/s13280-025-02148-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-025-02148-2","url":null,"abstract":"To respond to global sustainability challenges with transformative solutions, there is a need to pinpoint the necessary and sufficient conditions that enhance the transformative potential of sustainability innovations. To this end, we examined 129 sustainability innovations in two European Biosphere Reserves, and analysed (1) their transformative potential, assessed based on a leverage points perspective, and (2) their supportive conditions (i.e. decision contexts, or constellations of values, rules and knowledge). Specifically, we used social network analyses to characterise different rules, or governance arrangements in the two Biosphere Reserves. By comparing the decision contexts of transformative and incremental innovations, we provide empirical evidence that plural values, coproduction and networks that are diverse, collaborative and influential, enable transformative innovations. Shallow leverage points seem insufficient but necessary to operationalise transformative change. Future research should explore the co-evolution of decision contexts and transformative potential, to better understand how to shift incremental to transformative innovations.","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143623012","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}

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From nature experience to pro-conservation action: How generational amnesia and declining nature-relatedness shape behaviour intentions of adolescents and adults.

IF 5.8 2区环境科学与生态学

Ambio Pub Date : 2025-03-06 DOI: 10.1007/s13280-025-02135-7

Tanja M Straka, Carolin Glahe, Ulrike Dietrich, Miriam Bui, Ingo Kowarik

{"title":"From nature experience to pro-conservation action: How generational amnesia and declining nature-relatedness shape behaviour intentions of adolescents and adults.","authors":"Tanja M Straka, Carolin Glahe, Ulrike Dietrich, Miriam Bui, Ingo Kowarik","doi":"10.1007/s13280-025-02135-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-025-02135-7","url":null,"abstract":"Addressing the global biodiversity crisis requires conservation engagement across generations. However, generational amnesia and extinction of experience probably threaten this effort, reflecting declines in nature knowledge, experience and engagement among younger generations. We examined urban green area visit frequency, nature-relatedness, identification skills and familiarity with species (plants, birds and butterflies) and pro-conservation behaviour intentions in adolescents (15-17 years, mean = 15.97), young adults (18-29 years, mean = 23.72) and older adults (> 30 years, mean = 40.54) in Germany. With a path analysis, we explored relationships between concepts across all age groups. Although all age groups visited green areas similarly, identification skills, nature-relatedness and intentions declined progressively from older to younger groups. Nature-relatedness predicted intentions and identification skills predicted nature-relatedness across all groups. Our findings support the importance of fostering nature-relatedness and species knowledge through age-sensitive access to urban green areas with opportunities to connect with and learn about nature.","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143565565","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}

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Diverse experiences, diverse adaptations: A multidimensional look at climate change responses.

IF 5.8 2区环境科学与生态学

Ambio Pub Date : 2025-03-01 DOI: 10.1007/s13280-025-02152-6

Felipe Chávez-Bustamante, Cristian A Rojas

{"title":"Diverse experiences, diverse adaptations: A multidimensional look at climate change responses.","authors":"Felipe Chávez-Bustamante, Cristian A Rojas","doi":"10.1007/s13280-025-02152-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-025-02152-6","url":null,"abstract":"Human behavioral adaptation to climate change has gained increasing attention from multiple disciplines; behavioral literature, for instance, has studied people's responses to climate change when physically experiencing a specific climate event. Our research builds on that literature and incorporates a multidimensional approach to experiences and adaptation: rather than studying one physical manifestation and a particular response, we test whether different climate events relate to different forms of adaptation. Based on a national environmental survey, we employ Bayesian regression modeling to comprehend whether adaptation actions (changes in clothing, diet, occupation, house infrastructure, and water and energy consumption) relate to various reported experiences (droughts, floods, rains, heatwaves, forest fires, problems in food supply, biodiversity loss, and rise in sea level). Our results highlight the heterogeneous nature of behavioral responses to perceived climate change events: not all climate change manifestations relate to adaptation actions, thereby providing a multidimensional view of the action-experience relation.","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143536304","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}

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Eco-pilgrimages: Linking humans, heritage, and hydrology 生态朝圣之旅：将人类、遗产和水文联系起来。

IF 5.8 2区环境科学与生态学

Ambio Pub Date : 2025-02-28 DOI: 10.1007/s13280-025-02145-5

Veronica Strang, Johannes M. Luetz

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The costs of subsidies and externalities of economic activities driving nature decline.

IF 5.8 2区环境科学与生态学

Ambio Pub Date : 2025-02-28 DOI: 10.1007/s13280-025-02147-3

Victoria Reyes-García, Sebastian Villasante, Karina Benessaiah, Ram Pandit, Arun Agrawal, Joachim Claudet, Lucas A Garibaldi, Mulako Kabisa, Laura Pereira, Yves Zinngrebe

{"title":"The costs of subsidies and externalities of economic activities driving nature decline.","authors":"Victoria Reyes-García, Sebastian Villasante, Karina Benessaiah, Ram Pandit, Arun Agrawal, Joachim Claudet, Lucas A Garibaldi, Mulako Kabisa, Laura Pereira, Yves Zinngrebe","doi":"10.1007/s13280-025-02147-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-025-02147-3","url":null,"abstract":"Economic sectors that drive nature decline are heavily subsidized and produce large environmental externalities. Calls are increasing to reform or eliminate subsidies and internalize the environmental costs of these sectors. We compile data on subsidies and externalities across six sectors driving biodiversity loss-agriculture, fossil fuels, forestry, infrastructure, fisheries and aquaculture, and mining. The most updated estimates suggest that subsidies to these sectors total between US$1.7 and US$3.2 trillion annually, while environmental externalities range between US$10.5 and US$22.6 trillion annually. Moreover, data gaps suggest that these figures underestimate the global magnitude of subsidies and externalities. We discuss the need and opportunities of building a baseline to account for the costs of subsidies and externalities of economic activities driving nature decline. A better understanding of the complexity, size, design, and effects of subsidies and externalities of such economic sectors could facilitate and expedite discussions to strengthen multilateral rules for their reform.","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143522330","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}

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Farmer perceptions of the vulnerabilities of traditional livestock farming systems under global change.

IF 5.8 2区环境科学与生态学

Ambio Pub Date : 2025-02-26 DOI: 10.1007/s13280-025-02150-8

Zebensui Morales-Reyes, Jomar M Barbosa, José A Sánchez-Zapata, Irene Pérez-Ibarra

{"title":"Farmer perceptions of the vulnerabilities of traditional livestock farming systems under global change.","authors":"Zebensui Morales-Reyes, Jomar M Barbosa, José A Sánchez-Zapata, Irene Pérez-Ibarra","doi":"10.1007/s13280-025-02150-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-025-02150-8","url":null,"abstract":"The continuity of traditional extensive livestock farming is being challenged by rapid socioeconomic and environmental changes, threatening livelihoods and ecosystem services critical to food security and sustainability. We conducted a large-scale assessment involving 255 livestock farmers across six extensive livestock farming systems in Spain to understand their perceptions of vulnerabilities. Using the Coupled Infrastructure Systems framework, we identified 24 different vulnerabilities, mainly caused by external socioeconomic and biophysical disturbances, such as resource costs, low profitability of livestock products, climate variability, and conflicts with wildlife. The main factors explaining these vulnerabilities were primary productivity, farm location, presence of large predators, and climatic conditions. The findings highlight the complex interplay of these factors and provide important insights for the maintenance of extensive livestock farming systems in Europe. This information is crucial for informing policy decisions aimed at supporting these farming systems and ensuring their contribution to food security, sustainability and biodiversity conservation.","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143514151","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}

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Seven ways to prevent biomism.

IF 5.8 2区环境科学与生态学

Ambio Pub Date : 2025-02-25 DOI: 10.1007/s13280-025-02155-3

Fernando A O Silveira

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Green infrastructure has weak conceptual links with efficient biodiversity conservation.

IF 5.8 2区环境科学与生态学

Ambio Pub Date : 2025-02-22 DOI: 10.1007/s13280-025-02149-1

Johan Ekroos, Maria von Post, Anna S Persson, Martin Stjernman, Ola Olsson

{"title":"Green infrastructure has weak conceptual links with efficient biodiversity conservation.","authors":"Johan Ekroos, Maria von Post, Anna S Persson, Martin Stjernman, Ola Olsson","doi":"10.1007/s13280-025-02149-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-025-02149-1","url":null,"abstract":"To reverse biodiversity loss, creating resilient ecological networks has been promoted in policy and practice. However, we argue that emphasising networks within policy without clear conservation prioritisations may direct focus away from ecological processes important for population persistence. We studied the rationale for resilient ecological networks represented in a policy context, by reviewing research related to biodiversity within the concept of green infrastructure in European policy. We compared this outcome with underlying empirical evidence for effects of landscape properties on ecological processes relevant to population persistence. We show that interventions within green infrastructure research partly diverge from evidence of efficient conservation derived from empirical studies, likely linked to an insufficient acknowledgement of ecological processes determining long-term conservation of populations in GI policy and research. We discuss possible implications for biodiversity conservation and argue for upcoming policies to better integrate scientific evidence and underlying ecological processes to improve biodiversity outcomes.","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143476070","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}

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