IF 5.1 2区环境科学与生态学

Ambio Pub Date : 2026-04-29 DOI: 10.1007/s13280-026-02377-z

Teea Kortetmäki, Gonzalo Cortés Capano

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A reflexive artificial intelligence governance for transformative change in sustainability. 可持续性变革的反身性人工智能治理。

IF 5.1 2区环境科学与生态学

Ambio Pub Date : 2026-04-29 DOI: 10.1007/s13280-026-02405-y

Anna Hausmann, Tuuli Toivonen, Gonzalo Cortés-Capano

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People-nature relations and community perception on conservation: Case of Kisandji Village near Upemba National Park, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). 人与自然的关系和社区对保护的看法：以刚果民主共和国乌彭巴国家公园附近的Kisandji村为例。

IF 5.1 2区环境科学与生态学

Ambio Pub Date : 2026-04-29 DOI: 10.1007/s13280-026-02410-1

Alimata Sidibe, Wai Phyoe Maung, Maria Brockhaus, Pacifique Kiwele Mutambala, David Nkulu Mwenze, Clément Kalombo Kabalika, Augustin Kalumba Mwanke, Laurent Kabala Kazadi, Esther Changwa, Grace Y Wong

{"title":"People-nature relations and community perception on conservation: Case of Kisandji Village near Upemba National Park, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).","authors":"Alimata Sidibe, Wai Phyoe Maung, Maria Brockhaus, Pacifique Kiwele Mutambala, David Nkulu Mwenze, Clément Kalombo Kabalika, Augustin Kalumba Mwanke, Laurent Kabala Kazadi, Esther Changwa, Grace Y Wong","doi":"10.1007/s13280-026-02410-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-026-02410-1","url":null,"abstract":"In the context of accelerating environmental degradation, human-nature relationships have gained renewed attention. In and around protected areas, these relationships are marked by contestation, war and conflict. This study explores the relationships between residents of Kisandji Village, near Upemba National Park (UNP) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the natural resources they depend on. Using mixed participatory methods, we examined resource use and perceptions of conservation versus livelihoods. Residents emphasized provisioning services as essential to daily needs, identity and security. This dependence, alongside institutional and historical constraints and threats of extractive activities, has shaped a feeling of exclusion and precarity. While some view UNP as limiting their livelihoods, others support conservation when it includes participatory management and acknowledges local needs. The findings highlight that the need for inclusive conservation strategies that align ecological goals with community priorities is even more crucial when other drivers of extractive activities threaten.","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2026-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147758290","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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Public-pastoralist perception gaps in valuing pastoralism: Implications for its sustainability. 公众牧民在评价畜牧业方面的认知差距：对其可持续性的影响。

IF 5.1 2区环境科学与生态学

Ambio Pub Date : 2026-04-29 DOI: 10.1007/s13280-026-02401-2

F Javier Pérez-Barbería

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Ecological amnesia: Why societies repeatedly forget environmental lessons. 生态健忘症：为什么社会一再忘记环境教训。

IF 5.1 2区环境科学与生态学

Ambio Pub Date : 2026-04-28 DOI: 10.1007/s13280-026-02413-y

Gayatri Mishra

{"title":"Ecological amnesia: Why societies repeatedly forget environmental lessons.","authors":"Gayatri Mishra","doi":"10.1007/s13280-026-02413-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-026-02413-y","url":null,"abstract":"Societies around the world continue to face familiar ecological crises, including, deforestation, fisheries collapse, droughts. Yet the lessons these events offer are rarely carried forward across generations. This perspective introduces ecological amnesia to explain why environmental learning fades and why many conservation gains remain short-lived. Ecological amnesia emerges when ecological, institutional, and cultural memory systems weaken, leaving societies less able to read early warning signs, recognise slow-moving risks, or maintain protective measures once immediate pressures subside. The problem is reinforced by temporal mismatches: ecological recovery unfolds slowly, while political cycles, economic incentives, and public attention move far more quickly. Drawing on examples from forests, water systems, coral reefs, and fisheries, the perspective examines how misleading signals of recovery and shifting ecological baselines obscure functional fragility and reduce momentum for sustained action. It also highlights how ecological memory can be strengthened through long-term monitoring, continuity of environmental data, indigenous and local knowledge, and governance arrangements retaining lessons beyond short-term cycles. Recognising ecological amnesia as a source of vulnerability provides a explanation for the repeated nature of environmental crises and points towards forms of governance better suited to sustaining resilience as climate pressures intensify.","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2026-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147759131","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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Cultivating change: Addressing shifts in knowledge and skills required for landscape-scale nature recovery. 培育变化：解决景观尺度自然恢复所需的知识和技能的转变。

IF 5.1 2区环境科学与生态学

Ambio Pub Date : 2026-04-26 DOI: 10.1007/s13280-026-02404-z

Joshua Davis

{"title":"Cultivating change: Addressing shifts in knowledge and skills required for landscape-scale nature recovery.","authors":"Joshua Davis","doi":"10.1007/s13280-026-02404-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-026-02404-z","url":null,"abstract":"Delivering landscape-scale nature recovery depends on the effective acquisition and development of skills across agricultural, environmental, and governance contexts. This study draws on 25 semi-structured interviews with farmers, land managers, and intermediary organisations (delivery partners, bridging organisations, extension/advisory services) across England to examine how skills are acquired and developed in practice. Informed by taskscapes literature and structured around a novel five-domain analytical framework-systems thinking, lifelong and life-wide learning, collaborative partnerships, agri-environmental entrepreneurship, and technical expertise-findings highlight the centrality of collaborative, entrepreneurial, and technical capacities. They also reveal core tensions and misalignments: between (1) policy ambition and institutional capacity; (2) fragmentation of learning pathways caught between standardisation and flexibility; and (3) entrepreneurial initiative within compliance-oriented governance structures. The research underscores the need for tailored skill frameworks spanning formal, informal, and non-formal learning pathways to support adaptive knowledge exchange and the practical delivery of landscape-scale nature recovery.","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2026-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147759139","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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General trends in research using impact evaluation methods on the effectiveness of terrestrial protected areas in reducing biodiversity loss. 利用影响评价方法研究陆地保护区减少生物多样性丧失有效性的总体趋势。

IF 5.1 2区环境科学与生态学

Ambio Pub Date : 2026-04-26 DOI: 10.1007/s13280-026-02400-3

Oscar Andrés Martínez, Oscar Melo, Gwendolyn Peyre

{"title":"General trends in research using impact evaluation methods on the effectiveness of terrestrial protected areas in reducing biodiversity loss.","authors":"Oscar Andrés Martínez, Oscar Melo, Gwendolyn Peyre","doi":"10.1007/s13280-026-02400-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-026-02400-3","url":null,"abstract":"Protected areas (PAs) are primary biodiversity conservation instruments under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). Despite a substantial body of research assessing their causal impact, a comprehensive global synthesis remains lacking. This study examines trends in PA effectiveness on biodiversity loss using impact evaluation studies published between 2000 and 2023. From 129 identified studies, matching emerged as the predominant method, with deforestation and forest cover as the most frequently assessed outcomes. Notably, none of the reviewed studies incorporated CBD-approved biodiversity indicators, such as the Red List Index, and only one applied the Biodiversity Intactness Index (BII) established by the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. These findings underscore the need for future research to integrate standardized biodiversity metrics as outcome variables. Methodological advancements in impact evaluation are equally essential to strengthen conservation policy assessments and support evidence-based decision-making within international biodiversity agreements.","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2026-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147758261","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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Media attitudes toward wolves reflect recolonization phases, livestock predation peaks, and electoral cycles. 媒体对狼的态度反映了重新定居阶段、牲畜捕食高峰和选举周期。

IF 5.1 2区环境科学与生态学

Ambio Pub Date : 2026-04-26 DOI: 10.1007/s13280-026-02408-9

Davide Ravaglia, Guillaume Chapron, Francesca Marucco

{"title":"Media attitudes toward wolves reflect recolonization phases, livestock predation peaks, and electoral cycles.","authors":"Davide Ravaglia, Guillaume Chapron, Francesca Marucco","doi":"10.1007/s13280-026-02408-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-026-02408-9","url":null,"abstract":"The ongoing recolonization of Europe by wolves (Canis lupus) has generated substantial societal attention reflected in media narratives, where attitudes vary in their framing of conservation success and human-wildlife conflict. We examined factors influencing media attitudes toward wolves by analyzing over 4000 online news articles from the Italian Alpine regions across a decade, employing both human and neural network classifications. Bayesian modeling identified clear spatial and temporal patterns: negative media sentiment prevailed in recently recolonized areas, whereas positive attitudes emerged in regions with established wolf populations and at the national level. Negative sentiment correlated strongly with seasonal peaks in predation on livestock and proximity to regional, national, and European elections. We revealed how spatial recolonization dynamics, human-wildlife conflicts, and electoral cycles collectively shape media framing of a recolonizing controversial carnivore. These findings inform conservation strategies that address human-wildlife conflict dynamics while acknowledging the politicized dimension surrounding the species.","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2026-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147758307","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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Indigenous and local knowledge inclusion in forest fauna research: A systematic review in the tropics. 森林动物群研究中土著和地方知识的纳入：热带地区的系统回顾。

IF 5.1 2区环境科学与生态学

Ambio Pub Date : 2026-04-24 DOI: 10.1007/s13280-026-02378-y

Carlos Alberto Hernández-Vélez, Guy Jackson, Torsten Krause

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Rivers in transition: Local perceptions of a Swedish dam removal. 转型中的河流：当地人对瑞典大坝拆除的看法。

IF 5.1 2区环境科学与生态学

Ambio Pub Date : 2026-04-24 DOI: 10.1007/s13280-026-02396-w

Emma Gudmundson, Sanna Stålhammar, Henrik Thorén, John J Piccolo, Johannes Persson, P Anders Nilsson, Gary Brierley, Anna Scaini

{"title":"Rivers in transition: Local perceptions of a Swedish dam removal.","authors":"Emma Gudmundson, Sanna Stålhammar, Henrik Thorén, John J Piccolo, Johannes Persson, P Anders Nilsson, Gary Brierley, Anna Scaini","doi":"10.1007/s13280-026-02396-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-026-02396-w","url":null,"abstract":"Effective and locally supported river restoration requires attention to the social dimensions of rivers. This paper examines local perceptions of hydropower and restoration in the river Rönne å, an early case under Sweden's National Plan for Modern Environmental Conditions for Hydropower. A mixed-methods approach, including a questionnaire and qualitative interviews, explores how inhabitants relate to their river and view the removal of three low-production dams, offering one of the most detailed assessments of stakeholder values in a Swedish hydropower river. The findings reveal important tensions between energy production and ecological restoration: While hydropower retains cultural legitimacy, support declines when ecological costs outweigh energy benefits. The river holds strong recreational, cultural, and symbolic meanings, embedding dam removals in broader sociocultural contexts rather than solely technical or ecological. These findings highlight the importance of participatory efforts and governance that align ecological goals with the diverse ways people relate to rivers.","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2026-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147758916","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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