AmbioPub Date : 2025-08-20DOI: 10.1007/s13280-025-02210-z
Jialin Zhang, Hanna Salomon, Martin Nicola Huber, Harald Bugmann, Julie Elisabet Dölker, Louis König, Jasmin Krähenbühl, Eva Lieberherr, Ivana Logar, Brian McArdell, Peter Molnar, Simone Quatrini, Veronika Schick, Fritz Schlunegger, Chantal Schmidt, Astrid Zabel, Sabine Hoffmann
{"title":"Developing a conceptual framework for interdisciplinary communication, collaboration, and integration: A structured approach.","authors":"Jialin Zhang, Hanna Salomon, Martin Nicola Huber, Harald Bugmann, Julie Elisabet Dölker, Louis König, Jasmin Krähenbühl, Eva Lieberherr, Ivana Logar, Brian McArdell, Peter Molnar, Simone Quatrini, Veronika Schick, Fritz Schlunegger, Chantal Schmidt, Astrid Zabel, Sabine Hoffmann","doi":"10.1007/s13280-025-02210-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-025-02210-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Interdisciplinary research is essential to address the complex environmental challenges faced by social-ecological systems (SES). However, it is often hindered by difficulties in integrating diverse knowledge and perspectives. Conceptual Frameworks (CFs) can act as boundary objects, facilitating integration in contexts with incomplete knowledge, nonlinearity, and divergent interests. Yet, guidance on developing CFs remains limited. To address this gap, we develop a structured approach and apply it within a research project focused on enhancing the resilience of Swiss Alpine ecosystems. Our approach includes three phases: (1) defining boundary concepts, (2) developing a CF as a boundary object, and (3) using the CF as a boundary object. The resulting CF supports communication, collaboration, and integration across disciplines, advancing SES research that addresses ecological resilience and sustainability. Our approach can be used by other interdisciplinary teams aiming to develop adaptable CFs that facilitate knowledge integration across disciplines.</p>","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144938191","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}
AmbioPub Date : 2025-08-14DOI: 10.1007/s13280-025-02222-9
Mallika Sardeshpande, Tafadzwanashe Mabhaudhi
{"title":"A systematic review of foraging as lifestyle, livelihood, and landscape management strategy.","authors":"Mallika Sardeshpande, Tafadzwanashe Mabhaudhi","doi":"10.1007/s13280-025-02222-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-025-02222-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This systematic review of 353 studies evaluates the knowledge on foraging by humans, situating it in the wider context of human ecology. We highlight the strengths and weaknesses, and the micro (individual) to macro (landscape) level implications of foraging, as concerns livelihoods and social-ecological systems. Descriptive statistics of ethnobotanical studies yielded 1410 genera foraged globally. Foraging can contribute to food and nutritional security, human health and wellbeing, adaptation to global environmental change, and good governance. Research priorities include establishing baselines for species suitability, nutritional quality and biophysical tolerance, social utility, innovation, and foraging impact. Policy recommendations include integrated spatial planning and supporting devolved local economies nested within larger governance and market frameworks to enhance human and natural capital and social cohesion. Actions to foster social-ecological resilience include improving access to forageable resources and spaces, sharing information on sustainable foraging, and landscape stewardship through sustainable foraging.</p>","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144854192","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}
AmbioPub Date : 2025-08-13DOI: 10.1007/s13280-025-02237-2
Stephanie Olsen, Ashlee Cunsolo, Jodi Lammiman, Sherilee L Harper
{"title":"The role of collective grieving in supporting wellbeing and capacity for climate action.","authors":"Stephanie Olsen, Ashlee Cunsolo, Jodi Lammiman, Sherilee L Harper","doi":"10.1007/s13280-025-02237-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-025-02237-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Ecological grief and anxiety are valid and potentially adaptive responses to climate change, but research on effective interventions for coping with these emotions remains limited. In this article, we focus on climate change-related grief and other difficult emotions. We investigated how group mourning practices for honoring climate-related loss influenced psychosocial wellbeing and capacity for climate action. Semi-structured, in-depth interviews were conducted with adults (n = 15) who had participated in a climate-mental health program in Alberta, Canada. Interviews were analyzed using reflexive thematic analysis. Results demonstrate that collectively honoring climate grief disrupted emotional repression, enabling participants to process their feelings. Sharing and witnessing vulnerable emotions with others was cathartic and helped participants cope with personal loss and stress. These practices enhanced interviewees' capacity for climate action. This study highlights how collectively honoring climate grief supports mental health and climate action.</p>","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144843987","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}
AmbioPub Date : 2025-08-09DOI: 10.1007/s13280-025-02230-9
Johannes M Luetz
{"title":"The epistemological implications of species extinction: An overview.","authors":"Johannes M Luetz","doi":"10.1007/s13280-025-02230-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-025-02230-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The epistemological implications of species extinction remain widely underexplored. This theoretical paper addresses this gap by examining the linkages between extinction and epistemology across three interconnected dimensions: science, community, and metaphysics. Highlighting the profound and irreversible losses of extinction, this article argues for conservation as a vital strategy to preserve knowledge, community, and existential meaning.</p>","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144803184","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}
AmbioPub Date : 2025-08-09DOI: 10.1007/s13280-025-02224-7
Evan L Salcido, Carena J van Riper, William P Stewart, Christopher M Raymond, Henry S Pollock
{"title":"Values of protected area landscapes shape the behaviors of subsistence users in Interior Alaska.","authors":"Evan L Salcido, Carena J van Riper, William P Stewart, Christopher M Raymond, Henry S Pollock","doi":"10.1007/s13280-025-02224-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-025-02224-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Diverse values expressed by people living around protected areas provide insight into shared reasons why agreements and tensions may exist yet are underrepresented in research with subsistence users. We administered a mixed-mode survey to residents living near Denali National Park and Preserve and Denali State Park in Interior Alaska, USA, to understand how values placed on landscapes by multiple interest groups could lead to actions benefitting the environment. We discovered four dominant groupings of specific values-centered on pristine nature, communal cohesion, relational fulfillment, and capacity growth-that signaled broad agreement on reasons why Denali landscapes are important. Results from a latent variable path model showed that these values worked in conjunction with previous experience to explain levels of environmental concern, and in turn, pro-environmental behavior. Communal cohesion, in particular, drove subsistence users' concerns and behaviors, whereas pristine nature was the basis for behavioral decision-making among non-subsistence users.</p>","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144803185","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}
AmbioPub Date : 2025-08-09DOI: 10.1007/s13280-025-02226-5
Wim de Haas, Judith Westerink
{"title":"Landscape governance as a matter of concern: A relational framework.","authors":"Wim de Haas, Judith Westerink","doi":"10.1007/s13280-025-02226-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-025-02226-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this article, we propose a relational social-ecological framework as alternative to functional views of nature, quantitative interpretations of value and bipolar conceptions of human-nature relationships. Instead, we conceptualise the complementary and reciprocal relations between nature, human behaviour and governance in a 'landscape governance' triangle in which: the relationship between nature and behaviour is conceptualised as signification and identity; the relationship between nature and governance as ordering and generation; and the relationship between governance and behaviour as authority and agency. From this relational conception, it implies that landscape governance is more a matter of concern than only a matter of fact, according to Bruno Latour's proposal. We see this as the basis for an ethics of care that gives meaning to a relational social-ecological approach without losing the urgency of countering biodiversity loss and climate change. We illustrate our landscape governance triangle with examples from The Netherlands.</p>","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144803181","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}
AmbioPub Date : 2025-08-09DOI: 10.1007/s13280-025-02215-8
Alison Hutchinson, Anthony R Zito, Philip J K McGowan
{"title":"Pathways for transforming biodiversity governance: An examination of the Global Biodiversity Framework's Considerations.","authors":"Alison Hutchinson, Anthony R Zito, Philip J K McGowan","doi":"10.1007/s13280-025-02215-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-025-02215-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>With less than five years remaining to meet global commitments outlined in the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF)-to stem biodiversity loss-systemic and radical changes in biodiversity governance and management are needed. Addressing these challenges requires a fundamental and transformative shift in the way nature is valued across political, economic, and social spheres. We suggest that the GBF's Considerations section provides a crucial foundation for this shift, but dedicated processes are needed to advance their more transformative elements. This paper untangles the norms and values underpinning the Considerations and discusses challenges and opportunities for integrating their most transformative aspects into biodiversity governance.</p>","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144803183","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}
AmbioPub Date : 2025-08-09DOI: 10.1007/s13280-025-02231-8
Vojtěch Kotecký, Vojtěch Kosour, Vojtěch Čemus, Rozálie Stejskalová, Petr Pavelčík
{"title":"Municipal governments' perspectives on forest ownership: Insights from Czechia.","authors":"Vojtěch Kotecký, Vojtěch Kosour, Vojtěch Čemus, Rozálie Stejskalová, Petr Pavelčík","doi":"10.1007/s13280-025-02231-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-025-02231-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Municipal ownership accounts for a large proportion of the forest area in some European countries. Research on local government forestry objectives has so far focused on green spaces in and near built-up areas, and on countries with relatively low shares (< 5%) of municipal forest land. We performed a nationwide quantitative survey of preferences of municipalities in Czechia, a country where they own a major share (17%) of forest land. Here we show that municipalities prioritise recreation and certain environmental objectives over income generation, even in non-urban contexts. However, local governments also emphasise continuity, potentially-albeit inadvertently-prolonging a pre-existing focus on timber production. We found surprisingly little variation in the importance given to recreation across various municipal characteristics.</p>","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144803182","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}
AmbioPub Date : 2025-07-31DOI: 10.1007/s13280-025-02217-6
María Vallejos, Ana Álvarez, Olivia Del Giorgio, Tobias Kuemmerle
{"title":"Impacts of agricultural expansion on the resource availability of forest-dependent Indigenous communities in the Dry Chaco.","authors":"María Vallejos, Ana Álvarez, Olivia Del Giorgio, Tobias Kuemmerle","doi":"10.1007/s13280-025-02217-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-025-02217-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Agricultural expansion into tropical and subtropical forests threatens forest-dependent communities by disrupting their access to vital resources. We explored these impacts for over 400 Indigenous communities in the Argentine Dry Chaco, a deforestation hotspot due to agricultural expansion. Using participatory mapping, we estimated resource collection footprints for plants and animals, and integrated these with deforestation data mapped from satellite images to show that by 2021, communities had lost on average 21% of their forests. An ecosystem services supply index revealed that 33% of communities saw 10-35% reductions in resource availability in 2001-2021. We also found substantial increase in access restrictions (42%), and communities had to travel over 10 km further to reach natural water sources. These findings highlight the severe consequences of agricultural expansion on Indigenous communities in the Chaco and likely many other dry forest regions, emphasizing the need for policies to prevent ecological marginalization of forest-dependent communities.</p>","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144751952","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}
AmbioPub Date : 2025-07-30DOI: 10.1007/s13280-025-02223-8
Herdiyanti Herdiyanti, Bagong Suyanto, Siti Mas'udah
{"title":"Social capital and ecological transformation in post-mining land restoration in Indonesia.","authors":"Herdiyanti Herdiyanti, Bagong Suyanto, Siti Mas'udah","doi":"10.1007/s13280-025-02223-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-025-02223-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Mining has significantly degraded environment in Indonesia's tin-producing regions such as Bangka Belitung. While restoration is vital for ecological and economic recovery, current efforts often overlook social capital in ensuring long-term sustainability. This study examines how bonding, bridging, and linking social capital contribute to post-mining land restoration, based on a qualitative case in Jelutung Village. Findings reveal that social networks strengthen community resilience, enable external collaboration, and support institutional engagement, accelerating the transition from mining to sustainable agriculture. A key outcome is approximately 8 hectares of degraded land were converted into productive rice fields through farmer group efforts and stakeholder partnerships. However, challenges remain, including land tenure insecurity, economic dependence on mining, and weak policy enforcement. This study highlights the need for to integrate social capital with technical restoration measures to achieve sustainable land rehabilitation. Policy recommendations include supporting community-led restoration, building cross-sector networks, and promoting governance. Future research examine similar cases to refine this model across diverse post-mining landscapes.</p>","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144751954","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}