AmbioPub Date : 2024-06-08DOI: 10.1007/s13280-024-02019-2
Emmanuel Faure, Harold Levrel, Fabien Quétier
{"title":"Economics of rewilding","authors":"Emmanuel Faure, Harold Levrel, Fabien Quétier","doi":"10.1007/s13280-024-02019-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13280-024-02019-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Rewilding, a concept often defined as an open-ended approach to ecological restoration that aims to establish self-sustaining ecosystems, has gained much interest in recent conservation science and practice. The economic dimensions of rewilding remain understudied, despite repeated calls for research, and we find that synthetic or programmatic contributions to the scientific literature are still missing. Here, we mined Scopus and Web of Science databases through a systematic review, looking for “rewilding” with various economic terms in the peer-reviewed literature, in the English language. We then screened out a 257 references-rich corpus with 14 variables, including the position of rewilding regarding positive and negative economic effects in specific sectors, and geographical or ecological foci. Our corpus amounts to ca. 40% of recent rewilding literature, with a clear emphasis on European study sites and the economic consequences of rewilding initiatives. Rewilding studies often refer to positive economic impacts on tourism and hunting, e.g., through higher income and employment rates, although very few studies properly quantify these. Conversely, most authors find rewilding harms farming, which is threatened by abandonment and damages by wildlife, raising interest in potential EU subsidy regimes. We highlight the surprising paucity of rewilding literature truly focusing on economics and/or providing detailed quantification—with remarkable exceptions. While rewilding’s ecological relevance is no longer in question, demonstrating its economic benefits and sustainability will undoubtedly help scaling up. Thus, we advise rewilders to systematically measure and report investments and outcomes of rewilding initiatives, and to adopt common standards for cost and benefit assessments.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":"53 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2024-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141292984","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 : 2024-06-07DOI: 10.1007/s13280-024-02035-2
Giovanna Gini, Annah Piggott-McKellar, Hanne Wiegel, Friedrich Nikolaus Neu, Ann-Christine Link, Claudia Fry, Tammy Tabe, Olumuyiwa Adegun, Cheikh Tidiane Wade, Erica Rose Bower, Sarah Koeltzow, Rachel Harrington-Abrams, Carolien Jacobs, Kees van der Geest, Narjes Zivdar, Ryan Alaniz, Carolyne Cherop, David Durand-Delacre, Melanie Pill, Himanshu Shekhar, Olivia Yates, Md Abdul Awal Khan, Frank Kwesi Nansam-Aggrey, Lauren Grant, Danang Aditya Nizar, Kwame Nitri Owusu-Daaku, Alberto Preato, Oana Stefancu, Merewalesi Yee
{"title":"Navigating tensions in climate change-related planned relocation","authors":"Giovanna Gini, Annah Piggott-McKellar, Hanne Wiegel, Friedrich Nikolaus Neu, Ann-Christine Link, Claudia Fry, Tammy Tabe, Olumuyiwa Adegun, Cheikh Tidiane Wade, Erica Rose Bower, Sarah Koeltzow, Rachel Harrington-Abrams, Carolien Jacobs, Kees van der Geest, Narjes Zivdar, Ryan Alaniz, Carolyne Cherop, David Durand-Delacre, Melanie Pill, Himanshu Shekhar, Olivia Yates, Md Abdul Awal Khan, Frank Kwesi Nansam-Aggrey, Lauren Grant, Danang Aditya Nizar, Kwame Nitri Owusu-Daaku, Alberto Preato, Oana Stefancu, Merewalesi Yee","doi":"10.1007/s13280-024-02035-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13280-024-02035-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The planned relocation of communities away from areas of climate-related risk has emerged as a critical strategy to adapt to the impacts of climate change. Empirical examples from around the world show, however, that such relocations often lead to poor outcomes for affected communities. To address this challenge, and contribute to developing guidelines for just and sustainable relocation processes, this paper calls attention to three fundamental tensions in planned relocation processes: (1) conceptualizations of risk and habitability; (2) community consultation and ownership; and (3) siloed policy frameworks and funding mechanisms. Drawing on the collective experience of 29 researchers, policymakers and practitioners from around the world working on planned relocations in the context of a changing climate, we provide strategies for collectively and collaboratively acknowledging and navigating these tensions among actors at all levels, to foster more equitable and sustainable relocation processes and outcomes.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":"53 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2024-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11300726/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141282592","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 : 2024-06-04DOI: 10.1007/s13280-024-02036-1
Magnus Barmoen, Kim Magnus Bærum, Kristin E. Mathiesen
{"title":"Living with wolves: A worldwide systematic review of attitudes","authors":"Magnus Barmoen, Kim Magnus Bærum, Kristin E. Mathiesen","doi":"10.1007/s13280-024-02036-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13280-024-02036-1","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This systematic review of peer reviewed articles on attitudes towards gray wolves (<i>Canis lupus</i>), shows that attitudes are mainly measured either by <i>mean values</i> of attitudes or by <i>proportional differences</i> in attitudes. This may impact on how attitudes are perceived and interpreted across studies and areas. However, independent of method used, we found that people living in areas where wolves always have existed, are more negative towards wolves compared to people living in areas where there are no wolves, or where wolves have recovered after years of absence. People who express fear, or being directly affected by having wolves, such as farmers and hunters, report more negative attitudes compared to other groups of respondents. For wolf conservation we recommend politicians and management authorities to prepare local societies of the different consequences of living in wolf areas. We recommend using dialogues and conflict management methods to minimize the level of conflicts.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":"53 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2024-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11383909/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141236618","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 : 2024-06-01DOI: 10.1007/s13280-024-02037-0
Natxo García-López, Aida Bargués-Tobella, Rosa C. Goodman, Solange Uwingabire, Cecilia Sundberg, Christoffer Boman, Gert Nyberg
{"title":"An integrated agroforestry-bioenergy system for enhanced energy and food security in rural sub-Saharan Africa","authors":"Natxo García-López, Aida Bargués-Tobella, Rosa C. Goodman, Solange Uwingabire, Cecilia Sundberg, Christoffer Boman, Gert Nyberg","doi":"10.1007/s13280-024-02037-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13280-024-02037-0","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Most people in rural sub-Saharan Africa lack access to electricity and rely on traditional, inefficient, and polluting cooking solutions that have adverse impacts on both human health and the environment. Here, we propose a novel integrated agroforestry-bioenergy system that combines sustainable biomass production in sequential agroforestry systems with biomass-based cleaner cooking solutions and rural electricity production in small-scale combined heat and power plants and estimate the biophysical system outcomes. Despite conservative assumptions, we demonstrate that on-farm biomass production can cover the household’s fuelwood demand for cooking and still generate a surplus of woody biomass for electricity production via gasification. Agroforestry and biochar soil amendments should increase agricultural productivity and food security. In addition to enhanced energy security, the proposed system should also contribute to improving cooking conditions and health, enhancing soil fertility and food security, climate change mitigation, gender equality, and rural poverty reduction.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":"53 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11383902/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141185826","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 : 2024-06-01DOI: 10.1007/s13280-024-02026-3
Khalid Mehmood, Xuchun Qiu, Abdul Ghaffar, Muhammad Ajmal Khan
{"title":"Deciphering the future of electric vehicles amid emissions and adoption drivers","authors":"Khalid Mehmood, Xuchun Qiu, Abdul Ghaffar, Muhammad Ajmal Khan","doi":"10.1007/s13280-024-02026-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13280-024-02026-3","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Climate change and CO<sub>2</sub> emissions are critical challenges for the environment and humanity. There is extensive literature on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, in particular CO<sub>2</sub> emissions. However, comprehensive analyses focusing on electric vehicles (EVs) and their impact are lacking. This study fills this gap by conducting a bibliometric analysis of 1143 peer-reviewed studies from 1989 to 2023. We aimed to identify influential contributions, understand the field's structure, and reveal research gaps. Analysis included citation networks, research impact, authorship patterns, content, and publication trends. We utilized bibliometric techniques to identify the most dominant countries, institutions, authors, journals, articles, and thematic areas related to EVs and emissions. Additionally, we overviewed publications associated with key search terms. Guided by five research dimensions (EVs, emissions, adoption, policies, and infrastructures), we framed specific research questions. This research provides valuable insights for environmentalists, policymakers, regulators, and academic researchers, facilitating access to crucial data on EVs and emissions.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":"53 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141185830","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 : 2024-06-01DOI: 10.1007/s13280-024-02038-z
Gareth Rees, Ulf Büntgen
{"title":"Russian dilemma for global arctic science","authors":"Gareth Rees, Ulf Büntgen","doi":"10.1007/s13280-024-02038-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13280-024-02038-z","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Polar regions are critically implicated in our understanding of global climate change. This is particularly the case for the Arctic, where positive feedback loops and climate tipping points enhance complexity and urgency. Half of the Arctic and much of the world’s permafrost zone lie within Russian territory. Heightened geopolitical tensions, however, have severely damaged scientific collaboration between Russia and previously well established academic partners in western countries. Isolation is now causing increasingly large data gaps in arctic research that affect our ability to make accurate predictions of the impact of climate change on natural and societal systems at all scales from local to global. Here, we argue that options to resume both practical knowledge of collaborative working and flows of research data from Russia for global arctic science must continue to be asserted, despite an increasing tendency for the Arctic to become disconnected. Time is short, as preparations for the fifth International Polar Year begin to gather momentum. While sanctions remain in place, efforts to foster peer to peer connections and re-activate effective institutional cooperation are vital to address the grand challenges of global climate change.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":"53 8","pages":"1246 - 1250"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11182990/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141185833","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 : 2024-06-01DOI: 10.1007/s13280-024-02040-5
Carla Gonçalves, Paulo Pinho
{"title":"A manifesto for coastal landscape governance: Reframing the relationship between coastal and landscape governance","authors":"Carla Gonçalves, Paulo Pinho","doi":"10.1007/s13280-024-02040-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13280-024-02040-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>There is an urgent demand for substantial reforms in the governance of coastal regions. Recent research advocates for a transformative shift in European coastal governance system towards a landscape governance approach. This perspective, informed by a narrative literature review on coastal and landscape governance, explores the potential value of coastal landscape governance, drawing on the Council of Europe Landscape Convention. Our results, presented in the form of a manifesto, underscore the need to move beyond political administrative boundaries and address all coastal landscapes as socio-ecological systems. It emphasises the necessity for the State to recognise them as a public and common good, establishing a specific governance arena with dedicated actors and institutions. The manifesto also advocates for landscape justice through knowledge co production, urging transformative change and landscape based regional design to envision alternative futures. Additionally, it calls for regionalising coastal landscape governance and invites scholars from other transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives to contribute to this research agenda.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":"53 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11383885/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141185823","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 : 2024-05-25DOI: 10.1007/s13280-024-02017-4
Pauline Smith, Janet Mann, Abigail Marsh
{"title":"Empathy for wildlife: The importance of the individual","authors":"Pauline Smith, Janet Mann, Abigail Marsh","doi":"10.1007/s13280-024-02017-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13280-024-02017-4","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Because climate change and the biodiversity crisis are driven by human actions, determining psychological mechanisms underpinning support for environmental action is an urgent priority. Here, we experimentally tested for mechanisms promoting conservation-related motivation and behavior toward a flagship species, wild Tamanend's bottlenose dolphins. Following evidence that empathy increases prosocial motivations and behavior, and that the ability to identify individual humans promotes empathy, we tested whether this relationship applied to the ability to identify individual dolphins. Participants identified dolphins from their dorsal fins at above chance levels, and better individuation correlated with higher empathy for dolphins and higher willingness to pledge environmental behaviors. Pairing a narrative with an image of an injured dolphin leads to higher donations relative to a narrative alone. Our novel finding that the ability to individually identify dolphins relates to empathy and conservation-related behavior suggests pathways for strengthening environmental attitudes and behavior.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":"53 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2024-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11300747/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141097176","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 : 2024-05-25DOI: 10.1007/s13280-024-02030-7
Kathleen Uyttewaal, Cathelijne R. Stoof, Guillem Canaleta, Maria Cifre-Sabater, E. R. (Lisa) Langer, Fulco Ludwig, Carolien Kroeze, Pepa Moran, Isabeau Ottolini, Núria Prat-Guitart
{"title":"Uplifting local ecological knowledge as part of adaptation pathways to wildfire risk reduction: A case study in Montseny, Catalonia (Spain)","authors":"Kathleen Uyttewaal, Cathelijne R. Stoof, Guillem Canaleta, Maria Cifre-Sabater, E. R. (Lisa) Langer, Fulco Ludwig, Carolien Kroeze, Pepa Moran, Isabeau Ottolini, Núria Prat-Guitart","doi":"10.1007/s13280-024-02030-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13280-024-02030-7","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Living with wildfires in an era of climate change requires adaptation and weaving together many forms of knowledge. Empirical evidence of knowledge co-production in wildfire management is lacking in Mediterranean European areas. We explored how local ecological knowledge can be leveraged to reduce wildfire risk through an adaptation pathways process in the Montseny massif and wider Tordera River watershed of Catalonia, Spain: an area stewarded through forestry and agriculture, tourism, nature conservation, and fire management. We combined different methods (e.g., a timeline and Three Horizons framework) throughout three workshops with agents of change to co-create adaptation pathways to reduce wildfire risk, integrating a historical perspective of the landscape while envisioning desirable futures. Our results showed that local ecological knowledge and other soft adaptation strategies contribute to innovative sustainable development initiatives that can also mitigate wildfire risk. The adaptation pathways approach holds much potential to inform local policies and support wildfire-based community initiatives in diverse contexts.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":"53 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2024-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11383912/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141097190","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 : 2024-05-25DOI: 10.1007/s13280-024-02015-6
Freya Olsson, Eleanor B Mackay, Bryan M Spears, Philip Barker, Ian D Jones
{"title":"Interacting impacts of hydrological changes and air temperature warming on lake temperatures highlight the potential for adaptive management.","authors":"Freya Olsson, Eleanor B Mackay, Bryan M Spears, Philip Barker, Ian D Jones","doi":"10.1007/s13280-024-02015-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-024-02015-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Globally, climate warming is increasing air temperatures and changing river flows, but few studies have explicitly considered the consequences for lake temperatures of these dual effects, or the potential to manage lake inflows to mitigate climate warming impacts. Using a one-dimensional model, we tested the sensitivity of lake temperatures to the separate and interacting effects of changes in air temperature and inflow on a small, short-residence time (annual average ≈ 20 days), temperate lake. Reducing inflow by 70% increased summer lake surface temperatures 1.0-1.2 °C and water column stability by 11-19%, equivalent to the effect of 1.2 °C air temperature warming. Conversely, similar increases in inflow could result in lake summer cooling, sufficient to mitigate 0.75 °C air temperature rise, increasing to more than 1.1 °C if inflow temperature does not rise. We discuss how altering lake inflow volume and temperature could be added to the suite of adaptation measures for lakes.</p>","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2024-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141097182","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}