AmbioPub Date : 2024-11-26DOI: 10.1007/s13280-024-02094-5
Mallika Sardeshpande, Charlie Shackleton
{"title":"Spatial synergies for urban foraging: A South African example.","authors":"Mallika Sardeshpande, Charlie Shackleton","doi":"10.1007/s13280-024-02094-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-024-02094-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Urban foraging for wild plant and animal products is increasingly recognised for its multiple benefits for people and nature stewardship. Planning for foraging in urban greenspace is one way that foraging can be made more accessible, beneficial, and equitable. Here, we explore how foraging could be recognised and provided for in urban municipalities in eastern South Africa. We synthesise forager and land manager interviews, policy analysis, and iterative discussions to develop four land use configurations under which foraging could be planned for. Design principles for community-based natural resource management are used to assess the feasibility of each configuration. We identify stakeholders who would be involved in governing each configuration, and how urban foraging can co-produce desirable outcomes for their priorities. We list locally-specific actions to enable collaborative greenspace governance through urban foraging. We suggest some generally applicable design considerations and implications for each of the four configurations.</p>","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142714828","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 : 2024-11-23DOI: 10.1007/s13280-024-02091-8
Carl Lehto, Anders Sirén, Marcus Hedblom, Peter Fredman
{"title":"A conceptual framework of indicators for the suitability of forests for outdoor recreation","authors":"Carl Lehto, Anders Sirén, Marcus Hedblom, Peter Fredman","doi":"10.1007/s13280-024-02091-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13280-024-02091-8","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Forests’ ability to provide opportunities for recreation is an important ecosystem service. This has prompted attempts to create indicators to assess forests' suitability for recreation, although hitherto with limited success. This study introduces a novel framework for indicators of potential and realised recreational values of forests, with a primary focus on Sweden and Fennoscandia. We divided forest attributes into intrinsic qualities (i.e. the structure and composition of the forest), extrinsic qualities (i.e. the location of the forest in relation to other components of the landscape), and facilitation qualities (i.e. the presence of recreational infrastructure). Using Fennoscandia as a case study, we performed a literature review to find specific indicators of recreational values, as well as evaluate the current availability of spatial data suitable to map the forest qualities on a national scale. The most important intrinsic quality we identified was tree size/age, whereas for extrinsic quality it was proximity to water. Systematic monitoring of recreational use is essential to estimate realised recreational values. The conceptual framework proved to be a valuable tool for identifying potential indicators, and applying it in other regions is likely to yield useful outcomes.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":"54 2","pages":"184 - 197"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s13280-024-02091-8.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142694980","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AmbioPub Date : 2024-11-23DOI: 10.1007/s13280-024-02102-8
Diana Dushkova, Anastasia Konstantinova, Victor Matasov, Dara Gaeva, Elvira Dovletyarova, Mina Taherkhani
{"title":"Urban ecosystem services research in Russia: Systematic review on the state of the art.","authors":"Diana Dushkova, Anastasia Konstantinova, Victor Matasov, Dara Gaeva, Elvira Dovletyarova, Mina Taherkhani","doi":"10.1007/s13280-024-02102-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-024-02102-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Research on urban ecosystem services (ES) covers many regions globally, yet significant gaps remain in several areas, including Russia. Furthermore, the number of publications on Russian ES is still very low, and most of them focus on ES assessment on the national level which results in an incomplete understanding of ES provision in Russian cities. To fill this gap, 197 publications on urban ES have been systematically reviewed. Those mostly included research on urban ES in Russia as well as in other cities of the world that represented case studies within international collaborations of Russian scientists with other partners. The paper presents the main aspects of the ES concept adoption and operationalizing in the Russian scientific discourse, by providing an overview of the current research on the relationships between humans and urban ecosystems. Spatially, the majority of studies focused on large cities; herewith field surveys, statistical analysis, expert evaluations, and mapping were often used as the main research methods. Four key challenge areas have been revealed: anthropogenic pressure on soils and vegetation, urban green spaces (UGS) and their quantity and quality for ES provision, the value of ES assessment for urban planning, and payments for ES. To address these challenges, future research should focus on the role of urban ES for city resilience and sustainability, ecosystem disservices, rural-urban interactions, broader testing and validation of ES mapping and assessment as well as better integration of ES in economic, regulatory and compensation mechanisms.</p>","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142694983","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 : 2024-11-21DOI: 10.1007/s13280-024-02095-4
Elena Ridolfi, Mara Lucantonio, Giuliano Di Baldassarre, Benedetta Moccia, Francesco Napolitano, Fabio Russo
{"title":"Publisher Correction: The interplay between the urban development of Rome (Italy) and the Tiber River floods: A review of two millennia of socio-hydrological history","authors":"Elena Ridolfi, Mara Lucantonio, Giuliano Di Baldassarre, Benedetta Moccia, Francesco Napolitano, Fabio Russo","doi":"10.1007/s13280-024-02095-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13280-024-02095-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":"54 2","pages":"211 - 211"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s13280-024-02095-4.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142680091","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AmbioPub Date : 2024-11-19DOI: 10.1007/s13280-024-02103-7
Kjell Larsson, Ulrica Carlson, Erik Stålnacke
{"title":"Recurrent discharges of non-petroleum substances from chemical tankers in Swedish marine Natura 2000 sites are against the aims of EU Directives.","authors":"Kjell Larsson, Ulrica Carlson, Erik Stålnacke","doi":"10.1007/s13280-024-02103-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-024-02103-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The transport of non-petroleum substances such as vegetable oils, other bio-based oils and their refined products by chemical tankers is increasing worldwide. The majority of the non-petroleum substances carried by chemical tankers will have detrimental effects on the marine environment if accidentally spilled or discharged during tank washing procedures. Swedish Coast Guard aircrafts detected 233 discharges of floating non-petroleum substances in the Swedish territorial sea and Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) between 2020 and 2023. The majority of the discharges, 84%, were detected in the EEZ. About 14% of the discharges were detected within protected marine Natura 2000 sites. Together, the detected discharges covered 1071 km<sup>2</sup> of sea surface. Discharges in marine Natura 2000 sites covered 228 km<sup>2</sup>. We conclude that the regulations in the IMO MARPOL Annex II convention are not strict enough to meet the objectives of EU nature legislation regarding protection of sensitive seas areas.</p>","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142674835","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 : 2024-11-16DOI: 10.1007/s13280-024-02086-5
O. Care, Julie G. Zaehringer, Michael J. Bernstein, Mollie Chapman, Cecilie Friis, Sonia Graham, L. Jamila Haider, Mónica Hernández-Morcillo, Harry Hoffmann, Maria Lee Kernecker, Hannah Pitt, Verena Seufert
{"title":"Reaping what we sow: Centering values in food systems transformations research","authors":"O. Care, Julie G. Zaehringer, Michael J. Bernstein, Mollie Chapman, Cecilie Friis, Sonia Graham, L. Jamila Haider, Mónica Hernández-Morcillo, Harry Hoffmann, Maria Lee Kernecker, Hannah Pitt, Verena Seufert","doi":"10.1007/s13280-024-02086-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13280-024-02086-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In many transdisciplinary research settings, a lack of attention to the values underpinning project aims can inhibit stakeholder engagement and ultimately slow or undermine project outcomes. As a research collective (The Careoperative), we have developed a set of four shared values through a facilitated visioning process, as central to the way we work together: care, reflexivity, inclusivity, and collectivity. In this paper, we explore the implications of a values-centered approach to collaboration in food system transformation research. The paper presents two cases that illustrate how researchers might approach centering values in practice. Where much research on food system transformation focuses on values of food system stakeholders, we contribute insights into the values of researchers in such transdisciplinary endeavors. Specifically, we argue that researchers working on sustainability transformations need to be better prepared to engage in such reflections and aspire to embody values aligned with the transformations they seek to research.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":"54 2","pages":"226 - 238"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s13280-024-02086-5.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142643436","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AmbioPub Date : 2024-11-10DOI: 10.1007/s13280-024-02087-4
Driss Ezzine-de-Blas, Tanya Hayes, Esteve Corbera, V. Sophie Avila-Foucat
{"title":"Looking back to shape the future: Trajectories and resilience of social–ecological systems in the Global South","authors":"Driss Ezzine-de-Blas, Tanya Hayes, Esteve Corbera, V. Sophie Avila-Foucat","doi":"10.1007/s13280-024-02087-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13280-024-02087-4","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In complex Social-Ecological Systems (SES), the interplay between ecological and social components shapes trajectories that impact human well-being and ecosystem services. While SES dynamics have been studied in static conditions, there has been less attention to how said systems respond to shocks and stressors over time and space. This special issue presents a collection of articles that use diverse methodologies—ranging from system dynamics modeling to participatory approaches—to analyze past SES changes and discuss future scenarios. Case studies from regions including Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Honduras, Chile, Ethiopia and Mongolia illustrate key variables influencing social–ecological transitions and provide insights into potential policy strategies to support sustainable SES. The studies underscore the need for multi-scalar approaches to SES research that explicitly theorize and empirically assess trajectories across space and time.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":"53 12","pages":"1715 - 1721"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142611669","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 : 2024-11-07DOI: 10.1007/s13280-024-02085-6
Ignacio Palomo, Alberto González-García, Paul J. Ferraro, Roldan Muradian, Unai Pascual, Manuel Arboledas, James M. Bullock, Enora Bruley, Erik Gómez-Baggethun, Sandra Lavorel
{"title":"Business-as-usual trends will largely miss 2030 global conservation targets","authors":"Ignacio Palomo, Alberto González-García, Paul J. Ferraro, Roldan Muradian, Unai Pascual, Manuel Arboledas, James M. Bullock, Enora Bruley, Erik Gómez-Baggethun, Sandra Lavorel","doi":"10.1007/s13280-024-02085-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13280-024-02085-6","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>To address climate change and global biodiversity loss, the world must hit three important international conservation targets by 2030: protect 30% of terrestrial and marine areas, halt and reverse forest loss, and restore 350 Mha of degraded and deforested landscapes. Here, we (1) provide estimates of the gaps between these globally agreed targets and business-as-usual trends; (2) identify examples of rapid past trend-shifts towards achieving the targets; and (3) link these past trend-shifts to different levers. Our results suggest that under a business-as-usual scenario, the world will fail to achieve all three targets. However, trend-shifts that rapidly “bend the curve” have happened in the past and these should therefore be fostered. These trend-shifts are linked to transformative change levers that include environmental governance, economic factors, values, and knowledge. Further research on trend-shifts, as well as bold action on underlying levers, is urgently needed to meet 2030 global conservation targets.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":"54 2","pages":"212 - 224"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s13280-024-02085-6.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142602395","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AmbioPub Date : 2024-11-06DOI: 10.1007/s13280-024-02053-0
Alejandra Pedraza-Gama, María Perevochtchikova, J. Mauricio Galeana-Pizaña
{"title":"Social–ecological system trajectories of peri-urban watersheds based on a spatial analysis of vulnerability components: A case study in Mexico City, 1999–2039","authors":"Alejandra Pedraza-Gama, María Perevochtchikova, J. Mauricio Galeana-Pizaña","doi":"10.1007/s13280-024-02053-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13280-024-02053-0","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Urban periphery watersheds play a crucial role in providing diverse ecosystem services, especially hydrological services (HES), for society at different temporal and spatial scales; moreover, local populations directly influence ecosystem functionality through their decisions and actions. The interactions between social and ecological factors create social–ecological systems (SESs), whose trajectories continuously change in response to internal factors such as land use cover change (LUCC) and external factors such as climate change (CC). This situation influences the vulnerability of SESs in terms of exposure, sensitivity and adaptation capacity. In this study, the social–ecological vulnerability (SEV) of the periphery of Mexico City was investigated based on the Collaborative Protocol for Ecosystem Services Assessment and Social–ecological Vulnerability Mapping (ECOSER) and a quantitative method approach. For this purpose, spatial analysis was performed using the ecological and social spatial data for LUCC tendencies calculated for 1999–2019 and projected for short-term CC scenarios and using LUCC calculated for 2039 in trend-based (TREND) and restrictive (REST) scenarios. The results reveal that increases in the SEV in 2039 will be related to important decreases in the HES; furthermore, the REST scenario suggests decreases in the SEV due to decreases in the HES, assuming that environmental public policy instruments will be preserved in this region. The present work aims to contribute to decision-making for HES preservation at local and regional scales and to help develop adaptation strategies under LUCC and CC scenarios.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":"53 12","pages":"1830 - 1846"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142589307","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 : 2024-11-06DOI: 10.1007/s13280-024-02089-2
Andrzej Bobiec, Ian D. Rotherham, Simay Kırca, Zsolt Molnár, Mauro Agnoletti
{"title":"Towards biocultural realism: Connecting conservation with historical ecology and common sense. A European perspective","authors":"Andrzej Bobiec, Ian D. Rotherham, Simay Kırca, Zsolt Molnár, Mauro Agnoletti","doi":"10.1007/s13280-024-02089-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13280-024-02089-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In this perspective, we present and discuss four major causes of the worldwide nature conservation failure: 1) ideologies based on nature–culture dualism, 2) the bias prioritising forests in conservation, 3) the illusory objectiveness of selected biological indicators, and 4) the mismanagement of rural agricultural landscapes. All of these relate to ignorance of historical ecology and neglect of the role past plays in shaping landscapes and fostering biodiversity. These led to a false anthropology focussed on the broader human economy (including agriculture) as the absolute culprit of biodiversity loss. It is believed, therefore, that biodiversity preservation depends on conservation policies and actions providing protection against human activities, such as farming. In this way, nature conservation has been detached from the rich experiences of long and fruitful coexistence of people with other elements of nature. The bio-cultural legacy includes biodiversity-rich rural landscapes, whose habitats are often either neglected or wrongly interpreted as “remnants of natural ecosystems”. Consequently, conservation efforts are frequently ineffective or worse still, counter-effective. In the face of policies favouring subsidised intensive agribusiness at the cost of destroying smallholder family farming, even expensive conservation projects are usually nothing more than a “fig leaf” to cover failure. We advocate re-focussing of conservation planning to put more emphasis on landscapes’ historical ecology responsible for their bio-cultural diversity. It implies the need for new principles in policies necessary to secure the economic and cultural sovereignty of local socio-ecological systems responsible for the world’s bio-cultural diversity.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":"54 3","pages":"505 - 519"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11780031/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142589229","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}