IF 5.7 2区环境科学与生态学

Ambio Pub Date : 2026-07-29 DOI: 10.1007/s13280-026-02425-8

Leticia Bulascoschi Cagnoni, Joannès Guillemot, Anneli Adler, Martin Weih, Carla Morsello, Christophe Orazio, Philippe Deuffic, Alexandra C Correia, David Lloberas Lafuente, Pedro H S Brancalion

{"title":"Stakeholders' perspectives on barriers and pathways toward the diversification of planted forests.","authors":"Leticia Bulascoschi Cagnoni, Joannès Guillemot, Anneli Adler, Martin Weih, Carla Morsello, Christophe Orazio, Philippe Deuffic, Alexandra C Correia, David Lloberas Lafuente, Pedro H S Brancalion","doi":"10.1007/s13280-026-02425-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-026-02425-8","url":null,"abstract":"Mixed planted forests (MPFs) are often considered more resilient to climate change and provide greater environmental benefits than monocultures. Yet, monocultures dominate tree plantation systems globally. Here, we examined the motivations, barriers, and opportunities that affect forest stakeholders' adoption of MPFs across four countries with strong yet distinct forest sectors: Brazil, France, Portugal, and Sweden. We conducted 81 semi-structured interviews with forest owners, company employees, and associations involved in forest management. We found that the primary motivation for adopting MPFs is to reduce vulnerability to climate change-related risks. However, the increased management complexity resulting from uneven growth rates among species is an important barrier. Economic constraints, including higher costs and undeveloped markets for alternative species, alongside governance challenges such as limited technical expertise and entrenched monoculture practices further hinder adoption. Possible pathways to diversification include capacity building, management strategies, and policy incentives, promoting more sustainable, climate-resilient, and future-proof forestry practices.","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2026-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148617849","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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Narrating plural democratic landscape transformation through a Needs-Care-Justice framework. 通过需求-关怀-正义的框架叙述多元民主景观的转型。

IF 5.7 2区环境科学与生态学

Ambio Pub Date : 2026-07-26 DOI: 10.1007/s13280-026-02448-1

Gonzalo Cortés-Capano, Anna Hausmann, Jacqueline Loos, Marcela Brugnach, Noelia Zafra-Calvo

{"title":"Narrating plural democratic landscape transformation through a Needs-Care-Justice framework.","authors":"Gonzalo Cortés-Capano, Anna Hausmann, Jacqueline Loos, Marcela Brugnach, Noelia Zafra-Calvo","doi":"10.1007/s13280-026-02448-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-026-02448-1","url":null,"abstract":"Landscapes are relational and contested arenas where systemic crises, competing values and power asymmetries shape contested visions of sustainability. Conventional policy and technical responses often overlook how narratives and power relations legitimise particular futures while marginalising others. In response, we present the Needs-Care-Justice framework, a reflexive, multidimensional approach designed to support different actors including researchers, educators, activists, land managers, policymakers and communities, to analyse how landscape narratives are produced, contested, and mobilised, to co-produce more plural and democratic pathways of transformation. The framework integrates three interconnected modes of engagement: (i) mapping and diagnosis; (ii) deliberative reflexivity; and (iii) transformative design; allowing flexible entry points across context and priorities. Using an illustrative fictional case, we show how the framework can surface hidden needs, expose assumptions about care and responsibilities, and highlight justice claims. The framework supports reflexive (re)narration attentive to plurality, positionality, conflict and democratic transformation pathways.","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2026-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148590061","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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Beyond instrumentalizing "good" and "bad" emotions: Towards a social, multi-affective, contextual approach to emotions in environmental communication. 超越“好”和“坏”情绪的工具化：在环境沟通中走向一种社会的、多情感的、情境化的情绪处理方法。

IF 5.7 2区环境科学与生态学

Ambio Pub Date : 2026-07-26 DOI: 10.1007/s13280-026-02444-5

Carin Graminius, Marlis C Wullenkord

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Bright spots in peatland conservation, rewetting, and restoration. 泥炭地保护、复湿和恢复的亮点。

IF 5.7 2区环境科学与生态学

Ambio Pub Date : 2026-07-26 DOI: 10.1007/s13280-026-02433-8

Renske J E Vroom, Michelle W E van Mulken, Gerald Jurasinski, Franziska Tanneberger, Hans Joosten, John Couwenberg, Ralph J M Temmink

{"title":"Bright spots in peatland conservation, rewetting, and restoration.","authors":"Renske J E Vroom, Michelle W E van Mulken, Gerald Jurasinski, Franziska Tanneberger, Hans Joosten, John Couwenberg, Ralph J M Temmink","doi":"10.1007/s13280-026-02433-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-026-02433-8","url":null,"abstract":"Humans have relied on peatlands for millennia, but their exploitation through drainage-based agriculture, forestry, and peat extraction has led to their widespread degradation. Yet, peatlands play a crucial role in mitigating climate change, pollution, and biodiversity decline. To tackle these crises, humanity must, among other actions, conserve the remaining c. 431 million hectares of (near-) natural peatlands and rewet all c. 57 million hectares of degraded peatlands before 2050. This seemingly insurmountable challenge may elicit frustration, despair, and inaction. Here, we explore positive examples of peatland conservation, rewetting, and restoration to encourage and inspire peatland action worldwide. We highlight nine 'bright spots' in science, policy, society, conservation, rewetting, restoration, techniques, livelihoods, and markets. Common success factors include inter- and transdisciplinary collaboration, the creation of positive narratives, and solution-oriented approaches. We conclude that action toward sustainable peatland management holds significant potential, for which the bright spots provide clear guidance.","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2026-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148590099","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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Can agri-environmental schemes be designed to meet EU habitat restoration goals for semi-natural habitats? An interdisciplinary case study. 农业环境计划的设计是否能够满足欧盟对半自然栖息地的栖息地恢复目标？一个跨学科的案例研究。

IF 5.7 2区环境科学与生态学

Ambio Pub Date : 2026-07-26 DOI: 10.1007/s13280-026-02452-5

Maarit Jokinen, Hilja Kohonen

{"title":"Can agri-environmental schemes be designed to meet EU habitat restoration goals for semi-natural habitats? An interdisciplinary case study.","authors":"Maarit Jokinen, Hilja Kohonen","doi":"10.1007/s13280-026-02452-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-026-02452-5","url":null,"abstract":"Semi-natural grasslands and wooded pastures are biodiversity-rich but declining habitats that depend on continued management, mostly by farmers. In the EU, agri-environmental schemes (AESs) under the Common Agricultural Policy are key instruments for conserving these habitats. We examined how the design and implementation of the Finnish AES for semi-natural habitats align with EU restoration objectives and farmer decision-making and behaviour. To our knowledge, this is one of the first studies to combine farmer survey data on motives and knowledge with evaluations of management performance, site characteristics, and payment design. Results show that the scheme provides significant additionality, but habitat management remains unprofitable or a low economic priority for most farmers, and weaknesses in payment design, contract management, and enforcement constrain targeting and restoration outcomes. We conclude that achieving EU restoration targets will require increasing the relative economic importance of habitat management, redesigning payments, and improving contract management and enforcement.","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2026-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148590101","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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Governing environmental complexity: Exploring coherence across EU climate and biodiversity strategies. 治理环境复杂性：探索欧盟气候和生物多样性战略的一致性。

IF 5.7 2区环境科学与生态学

Ambio Pub Date : 2026-07-26 DOI: 10.1007/s13280-026-02449-0

Anna Berg Grimstad, Naghmeh Nasiritousi, Jayne Glass, Mikael Karlsson

{"title":"Governing environmental complexity: Exploring coherence across EU climate and biodiversity strategies.","authors":"Anna Berg Grimstad, Naghmeh Nasiritousi, Jayne Glass, Mikael Karlsson","doi":"10.1007/s13280-026-02449-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-026-02449-0","url":null,"abstract":"Climate change and biodiversity loss are intertwined challenges, yet governance responses are poorly coordinated. This incoherence risks policy inefficiency while reinforcing environmental degradation and social inequalities. This article introduces an analytical framework for analysing strategy coherence, defined as the extent to which a strategy is compatible with other strategies. Centring on the functions of strategies as governing tools, the framework dissects their premise, prescription, and politics. This enables identification of elements that generate synergies or conflicts and points of friction to address. We apply the framework to the EU's Climate Target Plan and Biodiversity Strategy to examine how they address interdependencies between climatic systems, ecological processes, and communities. The analysis shows that apparent goal synergies mask tensions rooted in divergent prescriptions and political priorities, with important implications for policymaking and practice. The article contributes to conceptual knowledge on strategy coherence and empirical knowledge on EU climate and biodiversity strategies.","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2026-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148590073","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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Amplifying voices: Fostering legitimacy, acceptability and participation in climate governance 放大声音：促进气候治理的合法性、可接受性和参与度。

IF 5.7 2区环境科学与生态学

Ambio Pub Date : 2026-07-23 DOI: 10.1007/s13280-026-02436-5

Paula Schönach, Tuula Honkonen, Merja Koskela, Helena Siipi

{"title":"Amplifying voices: Fostering legitimacy, acceptability and participation in climate governance","authors":"Paula Schönach, Tuula Honkonen, Merja Koskela, Helena Siipi","doi":"10.1007/s13280-026-02436-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13280-026-02436-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div>While immediate emission cuts are more urgent than ever, we witness climate action being hampered by societal opposition and ethical complexities connected to questions of legitimacy, fairness and participation. Securing support for climate action is needed at all levels of decision-making, ranging from institutionalized, democratic processes to households and individuals, their lifestyles and consumption choices. This Special Section advances our understanding of the acceptability and legitimacy of climate policy processes. Its seven articles examine the diverse factors and mechanisms that influence acceptability throughout policy actions and measures. The collection addresses public acceptability, perceived justice, and inclusive participation across policy levels utilizing various perspectives and methods. Empirical findings are anchored in key mitigation sectors, including transportation and mobility, and housing. While the cases predominantly draw on Finland, their insights are broadly relevant and transferable, as Finland shares many climate policy challenges with other regions.</div>","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":"55 9","pages":"2027 - 2035"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2026-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148576669","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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Using community-based crime scripting to elucidate pangolin scale trafficking. 使用基于社区的犯罪脚本来阐明穿山甲规模的贩运。

IF 5.7 2区环境科学与生态学

Ambio Pub Date : 2026-07-15 DOI: 10.1007/s13280-026-02437-4

Bienvenu M Takem Mbi, Anne Stéphanie Kobla, Roméo Tene, Matthew H Shirley, Meredith L Gore

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Balancing biodiversity and economics: Using robust Pareto-optimisation to quantify ecological-economic trade-offs in German mixed beech forests. 平衡生物多样性和经济：使用稳健的帕累托优化来量化德国混合山毛榉林的生态经济权衡。

IF 5.7 2区环境科学与生态学

Ambio Pub Date : 2026-07-15 DOI: 10.1007/s13280-026-02441-8

Julia Klenke, Volker von Groß, Jasper M Fuchs, Larissa R Topanotti, Benjamin Wildermuth, Carmen Alicia Rivera Pérez, Jing-Zhong Lu, Likulunga Emmanuel Likulunga, Thomas Knoke, Carola Paul

{"title":"Balancing biodiversity and economics: Using robust Pareto-optimisation to quantify ecological-economic trade-offs in German mixed beech forests.","authors":"Julia Klenke, Volker von Groß, Jasper M Fuchs, Larissa R Topanotti, Benjamin Wildermuth, Carmen Alicia Rivera Pérez, Jing-Zhong Lu, Likulunga Emmanuel Likulunga, Thomas Knoke, Carola Paul","doi":"10.1007/s13280-026-02441-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13280-026-02441-8","url":null,"abstract":"Biodiversity loss threatens forest ecosystem stability and functioning, while measures to enhance biodiversity trade-off with economic performance. Native tree-species mixtures are promoted to support associated taxa but usually underperform economically compared to non-native species, both in pure and admixed stands. Quantifying ecological-economic trade-offs remains challenging due to uncertainties in economic and biodiversity indicators. Using empirical data on economic (land rent/annuity) and biodiversity indicators (species richness) of five forest taxa from Central German forests, we applied multicriteria optimisation to forest stand-type compositions. We assess the compositional shift of pure (beech, spruce, Douglas-fir) and mixed stand types (beech-spruce, beech-Douglas-fir) under increasing biodiversity targets, accounting for uncertain indicator provision. Stand-type portfolios became more diversified with increasing biodiversity targets. Biodiversity-economic trade-offs were efficiently reduced by incorporating Douglas-fir (in pure and mixed stands) into the portfolio. However, enhancing biodiversity created economic loss, underscoring the need for financial compensation schemes.","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2026-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148443589","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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Institutional readiness for payments for ecosystem services: Stakeholder perspectives from Sri Lanka. 为生态系统服务付费的制度准备：来自斯里兰卡的利益相关者观点。

IF 5.7 2区环境科学与生态学

Ambio Pub Date : 2026-07-11 DOI: 10.1007/s13280-026-02432-9

Shanali M Fernando, Karl-Heinz Feger, Lulu Zhang, Edeltraud Guenther

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