IF 5.1 2区环境科学与生态学

Ambio Pub Date : 2026-04-24 DOI: 10.1007/s13280-026-02389-9

Aida Bargués-Tobella, Per Knutsson, Göran Bostedt, Agneta Hörnell, Kristina Lindvall, Denis Mpairwe, Stephen Mureithi, Gert Nyberg, Ylva Nyberg, Philemon Ong'ao Ng'asike, Barbara Schumann, Alice Turinawe, Tor-Gunnar Vågen, Leigh Ann Winowiecki, Ewa Wredle, Ingrid Öborn

{"title":"Social-ecological transformations towards sustainability in drylands: A conceptual framework with examples from the Karamoja cluster in East Africa.","authors":"Aida Bargués-Tobella, Per Knutsson, Göran Bostedt, Agneta Hörnell, Kristina Lindvall, Denis Mpairwe, Stephen Mureithi, Gert Nyberg, Ylva Nyberg, Philemon Ong'ao Ng'asike, Barbara Schumann, Alice Turinawe, Tor-Gunnar Vågen, Leigh Ann Winowiecki, Ewa Wredle, Ingrid Öborn","doi":"10.1007/s13280-026-02389-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-026-02389-9","url":null,"abstract":"Drylands face urgent development challenges that are complex and interconnected, requiring holistic systems-based approaches. Here, we present a social-ecological systems framework to guide research, policy, and action across disciplines and sectors towards sustainability transformations in drylands for improved livelihoods and enhanced ecosystem, livestock, and human health. Our conceptual framework integrates three non-exclusive and complementary lenses of human-driven transformations: systemic, structural and enabling/grassroots change. Based on these three complementary lenses, along with three main phases of transformation and key associated actions, we briefly illustrate the framework's value through the case of the Karamoja cross-border region of East Africa. We show how the framework can be used as an entry point to identify and analyse key challenges and their interlinkages; envision desired social-ecological systems; and explore pathways towards sustainability. The framework provides actionable guidance to co-develop context-specific interventions that support sustainability transformations in drylands.","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":"147758948","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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Faith without action? Christian ecological conviction and the civic participation gap in Australia. 没有行动的信念？基督教生态信念与澳大利亚公民参与的差距。

IF 5.1 2区环境科学与生态学

Ambio Pub Date : 2026-04-21 DOI: 10.1007/s13280-026-02388-w

Timothy J Healy, Johannes M Luetz, Martin J Hodson

{"title":"Faith without action? Christian ecological conviction and the civic participation gap in Australia.","authors":"Timothy J Healy, Johannes M Luetz, Martin J Hodson","doi":"10.1007/s13280-026-02388-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-026-02388-w","url":null,"abstract":"Three-quarters of the world's population identify with a religion, suggesting that faith communities constitute a vast (yet under-mobilised) civic infrastructure for sustainability transitions. Christianity remains the world's largest religious tradition, making it consequential for analysing conviction-action dynamics. Using Australia as a case study, this research investigates why widely professed moral concern for the environment does not translate more readily into collective environmental action. Using Australia as a case study, our national sample survey (n = 1295), weighted to reflect the Australian population aged 18+, indicates a belief-action gap that is systematic rather than incidental, underpinned by barriers across micro-meso-macro levels. Our analysis identifies actionable strategies to help faith communities translate ecological conviction into effective civic engagement with policy-relevant sustainability outcomes. By clarifying pathways through which faith commitments can be mobilised into civic action, the article offers insights transferable beyond Australia and churches to other national and faith contexts, with implications for advancing SDGs 3, 6, 11, 12, 13, 16, and 17.","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2026-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147759141","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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Bridging biodiversity and regenerative development: Conceptual groundwork for life-affirming relationships. 弥合生物多样性和再生发展：肯定生命关系的概念基础。

IF 5.1 2区环境科学与生态学

Ambio Pub Date : 2026-04-21 DOI: 10.1007/s13280-026-02398-8

Anu Veijalainen, Matti Salo, Henna Rouhiainen, Juulia Räikkönen, Ilari E Sääksjärvi

{"title":"Bridging biodiversity and regenerative development: Conceptual groundwork for life-affirming relationships.","authors":"Anu Veijalainen, Matti Salo, Henna Rouhiainen, Juulia Räikkönen, Ilari E Sääksjärvi","doi":"10.1007/s13280-026-02398-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-026-02398-8","url":null,"abstract":"The global decline of biodiversity demands transformative change that realigns human activity with planetary processes. Regenerative development may facilitate systemic transformation but remains underexamined in relation to biodiversity. We explore the relationship between biodiversity and place regeneration, conceptually aligning biodiversity enhancement and regenerative development. This requires adopting a refocused concept of biodiversity as a dynamic, relational attribute of life that engenders biocultural diversity. Similarly, regenerative development promotes co-evolving, life-affirming relationships within and between human and natural systems. Regenerative design may catalyse regenerative development capacity in communities by engaging participants in regenerative dynamics, potentially increasing biodiversity. However, the intentional incorporation of actions explicitly aimed at enhancing biodiversity remains necessary. Challenges persist due to entrenched anthropocentric worldviews and the difficulty of including human expressions within biodiversity. The refocused biodiversity concept offers a feasible leverage point for fostering transformative change within the narrowing timeframes to halt biodiversity decline.","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2026-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147759150","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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Two decades of coastal pressure: Assessing the effectiveness of priority conservation areas in Brazil's Atlantic Forest. 二十年的沿海压力：评估巴西大西洋森林优先保护区的有效性。

IF 5.1 2区环境科学与生态学

Ambio Pub Date : 2026-04-19 DOI: 10.1007/s13280-026-02403-0

Agatha Simeão, Wendy Nunes Garcia, José Antonio Domingues Teixeira-Junior, David Valença Dantas, Eduardo Gentil, Marcelo Henrique Schmitz

{"title":"Two decades of coastal pressure: Assessing the effectiveness of priority conservation areas in Brazil's Atlantic Forest.","authors":"Agatha Simeão, Wendy Nunes Garcia, José Antonio Domingues Teixeira-Junior, David Valença Dantas, Eduardo Gentil, Marcelo Henrique Schmitz","doi":"10.1007/s13280-026-02403-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-026-02403-0","url":null,"abstract":"Systematic conservation planning is widely used to guide biodiversity policy, yet evidence that spatial priority setting translates into effective land-use outcomes remains limited. In Brazil, a national initiative established priority areas for conservation, sustainable use, and benefit sharing in 2004 to orient conservation investments. Two decades later, their influence on land-use trajectories remains uncertain. We assessed land-use and land-cover dynamics from 2004 to 2024 within high, very high, and extremely high priority areas in coastal municipalities of the Atlantic Forest biome. Using MapBiomas data, we quantified net and gross changes across five land-use classes and compared patterns among priority levels. Urban expansion occurred across all categories, while extremely high priority areas experienced net losses of natural vegetation and the highest land-cover turnover. These findings show that prioritization alone has limited capacity to constrain land-use pressures in dynamic coastal landscapes and requires integration with enforceable governance frameworks and territorial planning.","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2026-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147721345","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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Adapting in polycrisis: Ensuring access to land as a polysolution for Arctic reindeer herding. 在多重危机中适应：确保获得土地作为北极驯鹿放牧的多重解决方案。

IF 5.1 2区环境科学与生态学

Ambio Pub Date : 2026-04-19 DOI: 10.1007/s13280-026-02379-x

Simo Sarkki, Sirpa Rasmus, Antti-Juhani Pekkarinen, Mikko Jokinen, Ilona Mettiäinen, Tuuli Parviainen, Laura Post, Taru Rikkonen, Jaana Sorvali, Tuulia Väärälä, J Otto Habeck, Jussi T Eronen

{"title":"Adapting in polycrisis: Ensuring access to land as a polysolution for Arctic reindeer herding.","authors":"Simo Sarkki, Sirpa Rasmus, Antti-Juhani Pekkarinen, Mikko Jokinen, Ilona Mettiäinen, Tuuli Parviainen, Laura Post, Taru Rikkonen, Jaana Sorvali, Tuulia Väärälä, J Otto Habeck, Jussi T Eronen","doi":"10.1007/s13280-026-02379-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-026-02379-x","url":null,"abstract":"Current global socio-environmental changes challenge human societies and give rise to new adaptation needs also for Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLCs). Based on participatory workshops with Sámi and Finn reindeer herders we examined adaptation challenges for reindeer herding in a situation characterized by complex, intertwined and unpredictable risks framed as polycrisis. We found that increasing the possibilities of reindeer herders to influence the land-use governance to ensure their access to land can help them to cope with several challenges linked to green transition, geopolitics, inequality, and climate change simultaneously. Access to land thus functions as a practical \"polysolution\". Furthermore, based on inductive analysis of the workshop discussions, we identified five criteria to understand polysolutions: depth, width, pace, proactiveness, and collaboration. These criteria can also help to identify solutions for other IPLCs and their nature-based livelihoods facing similar unpredictable and complex challenges that necessitate adaptation in polycrisis.","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2026-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147721355","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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Agroecological transition in Madrid's extensive livestock systems: How expert-perceived NCPs guide transformation pathways. 马德里广泛的牲畜系统中的农业生态转型：专家感知的ncp如何指导转型途径。

IF 5.1 2区环境科学与生态学

Ambio Pub Date : 2026-04-18 DOI: 10.1007/s13280-026-02361-7

Beatriz Vizuete, Marina García-Llorente, Amanda Jiménez-Aceituno, Megan Meacham, Francisco M Azcárate, Violeta Hevia, Inés Gutiérrez-Briceño, Elisa Oteros-Rozas

{"title":"Agroecological transition in Madrid's extensive livestock systems: How expert-perceived NCPs guide transformation pathways.","authors":"Beatriz Vizuete, Marina García-Llorente, Amanda Jiménez-Aceituno, Megan Meacham, Francisco M Azcárate, Violeta Hevia, Inés Gutiérrez-Briceño, Elisa Oteros-Rozas","doi":"10.1007/s13280-026-02361-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-026-02361-7","url":null,"abstract":"In the Mediterranean region, the industrialization of livestock systems, driven by the replacement of extensive pasture-based systems with intensive input-dependent models, has triggered environmental degradation and socio-cultural changes. The transition of livestock systems toward agroecological practices can reduce external dependencies, enhance ecosystem contributions and strengthen socioecological resilience. This study analyzes experts' perceptions of Nature's Contributions to People (NCPs) provided by two extensive livestock models (conventional and agroecological) and nine agroecological practices in Madrid. Experts on extensive livestock farming with different profiles (N = 65) were surveyed to assess 14 NCPs. Cluster analysis identified four bundles of practices based on their functional similarities. Results showed that the agroecological model provides more NCPs within all domains, particularly regulating and non-material NCPs. We conclude that certain agroecological practices, such as active grazing management and production diversification, are pivotal in fostering systemic change by linking farm-scale interventions with broader agri-food transformations.","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2026-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147715506","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 bathing standards to lived waterscapes: Why we need to rethink inland blue space quality. 从洗浴标准到生活水景：为什么我们需要重新思考内陆蓝色空间的质量。

IF 5.1 2区环境科学与生态学

Ambio Pub Date : 2026-04-13 DOI: 10.1007/s13280-026-02393-z

David M Oliver, Tony Robertson, Anna Wilson, Paul Hibbard, Jen Dickie, Nick Hanley

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Conflicts hinder research into animal movements. 冲突阻碍了对动物运动的研究。

IF 5.1 2区环境科学与生态学

Ambio Pub Date : 2026-04-13 DOI: 10.1007/s13280-026-02395-x

Víctor Martín-Vélez, Joan Navarro, Isabel Afán, Tomas Montalvo, Andy J Green

{"title":"Conflicts hinder research into animal movements.","authors":"Víctor Martín-Vélez, Joan Navarro, Isabel Afán, Tomas Montalvo, Andy J Green","doi":"10.1007/s13280-026-02395-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-026-02395-x","url":null,"abstract":"Satellite tracking has revolutionized our understanding of animal migration, yet its reliability increasingly depends on the geopolitical stability of the regions frequented by wildlife. Here, we show that military-induced interference with global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) during ongoing conflicts in Eastern Europe has severely compromised the accuracy of global positioning systems (GPS)-based tracking data for black-headed gulls (Chroicocephalus ridibundus). In 2024-2025, GPS trajectories revealed erratic, low-quality, and geographically implausible positions coinciding with known zones of electronic warfare. These inaccuracies hinder efforts to locate breeding colonies, identify key stopover habitats, and assess disease transmission risks posed by migratory birds, particularly for zoonoses such as highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1. Our findings illustrate how modern conflicts now extend their impact into ecological research infrastructures, calling for systematic correction methods and international coordination to safeguard the robustness of movement ecology studies and One Health models in a geopolitically unstable world.","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2026-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147669256","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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Assessing scaling strategies for nature-based solutions: An indicator-based analysis of policy documents in the Canary Islands. 评估基于自然的解决方案的规模战略：加那利群岛政策文件的基于指标的分析。

IF 5.1 2区环境科学与生态学

Ambio Pub Date : 2026-04-12 DOI: 10.1007/s13280-026-02360-8

M Susana Orta-Ortiz, Davide Geneletti

{"title":"Assessing scaling strategies for nature-based solutions: An indicator-based analysis of policy documents in the Canary Islands.","authors":"M Susana Orta-Ortiz, Davide Geneletti","doi":"10.1007/s13280-026-02360-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-026-02360-8","url":null,"abstract":"As nature-based solutions (NBS) gain momentum in global and EU agendas for climate, biodiversity, and societal challenges, a key question is how to scale them beyond isolated interventions. This study examines three complementary scaling strategies: scaling-out (spatial expansion), scaling-up (institutional adoption), and scaling-deep (cultural integration), within the Canary Islands' multi-level governance system. We conducted a qualitative content analysis of 23 policy documents, identifying 445 NBS proposals across four intervention types and 14 ecosystem-based sub-types. These proposals were assessed using 11 quantitative indicators that measure spatial distribution, governance and sectoral integration, and decision-makers' values. Findings show uneven progress across strategies. Scaling out is the most advanced. Scaling up is constrained by limited actor diversity and weak collaborations, although municipal actors show bottom-up potential. Scaling deep is least developed, with multifunctional design rare and isolated. Collaborative proposals address a few goals, limiting multifunctionality. We conclude with practical and research directions to strengthen interconnections among scaling strategies.","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2026-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147661966","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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Eight recommendations for advancing blue Nature-based Solutions. 推进基于自然的蓝色解决方案的八项建议。

IF 5.1 2区环境科学与生态学

Ambio Pub Date : 2026-04-04 DOI: 10.1007/s13280-026-02380-4

Bethan C O'Leary, Catarina Fonseca, Gema Casal, Cindy C Cornet, Fabiola Espinoza Córdova, Elisa Furlan, Julie P Hawkins, Silvia de Juan, Torsten Krause, Géraldine Pérez, Rémy Simide, Ewan Trégarot, Callum M Roberts

{"title":"Eight recommendations for advancing blue Nature-based Solutions.","authors":"Bethan C O'Leary, Catarina Fonseca, Gema Casal, Cindy C Cornet, Fabiola Espinoza Córdova, Elisa Furlan, Julie P Hawkins, Silvia de Juan, Torsten Krause, Géraldine Pérez, Rémy Simide, Ewan Trégarot, Callum M Roberts","doi":"10.1007/s13280-026-02380-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-026-02380-4","url":null,"abstract":"Crises narratives surrounding the societal challenges of biodiversity loss, climate change, and human health and well-being dominate current debates in global environmental politics. These challenges are deeply interconnected and require transformative and integrated change. Marine and coastal Nature-based Solutions (blue NbS) are an opportunity to minimise harmful human impacts on these ecosystems while providing co-benefits to people and nature. However, uptake of the approach is currently slow despite the urgency of addressing global challenges. For blue NbS to become a key tool for environmental management, integrated social-ecological advice on action for practitioners is required, alongside guidance for new research. Here, we present eight recommendations to help advance further research, development, and implementation of effective blue NbS. Recommendations are broadly grouped into three themes: (1) objectives, (2) function, and (3) mechanisms. Through these, we aim to encourage dialogue into strategic blue NbS implementation and research that supports solution-focussed narratives.","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2026-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147618193","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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