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{"title":"Navigating social–ecological changes: A mixed-method analysis of extensive livestock systems in southern Patagonian forests, Argentina","authors":"Paula Rodríguez,&nbsp;Felipe Benra,&nbsp;Joern Fischer,&nbsp;Silvina Romano,&nbsp;Rosina Soler","doi":"10.1007/s13280-024-02029-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13280-024-02029-0","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Sustainable livestock management plays a crucial role in food production, climate change mitigation, and cultural preservation. Our study aimed to identify and analyse the diversity of social–ecological conditions that characterize extensive livestock systems in southern Patagonia. We integrated data collected from interviews and secondary sources and analysed data using hierarchical cluster analysis and non-metric multidimensional scaling to identify distinct ranching types. A qualitative analysis of key informant interviews identified key social–ecological changes for each type. The results emphasize the impact of administration, production, and biophysical factors on shaping different livestock ranching schemes. Further, we identified three significant social–ecological changes driving the dynamics of these systems, including shifts from (1) sheep to cattle ranching, (2) domestic to feral cattle ranching, and (3) landowners to tenant land managers. These findings have implications for policymakers seeking to develop strategies tailored to diverse realities, ensuring the sustainability of livestock systems in Tierra del Fuego.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":"53 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2024-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140848236","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}

{"title":"Sustainable coffee: A review of the diverse initiatives and governance dimensions of global coffee supply chains","authors":"Dale R. Wright,&nbsp;Sarah A. Bekessy,&nbsp;Pia E. Lentini,&nbsp;Georgia E. Garrard,&nbsp;Ascelin Gordon,&nbsp;Amanda D. Rodewald,&nbsp;Ruth E. Bennett,&nbsp;Matthew J. Selinske","doi":"10.1007/s13280-024-02003-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13280-024-02003-w","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>With a global footprint of 10 million hectares across 12.5 million farms, coffee is among the world’s most traded commodities. The coffee industry has launched a variety of initiatives designed to reduce coffee’s contribution to climate change and biodiversity loss and enhance the socio-economic conditions of coffee producers. We systematically reviewed the literature on the sustainability and governance of coffee production and developed a typology of eleven sustainability initiatives. Our review shows that coffee sustainability research has focused primarily on the economic outcomes of certification schemes. The typology expands our knowledge of novel sustainability initiatives being led by coffee farming communities themselves, allowing for an improved consideration of power dynamics in sustainability governance. Sustainability initiatives governed by local actors can improve sustainability outcomes by empowering local decision makers to assess direct risks and benefits of sustainable practices to the local environment, economy, and culture.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":"53 7","pages":"984 - 1001"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2024-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11101400/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140849760","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}

{"title":"When enough is enough: Introducing sufficiency corridors to put techno-economism in its place","authors":"Richard Bärnthaler","doi":"10.1007/s13280-024-02027-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13280-024-02027-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Today's ecological crises are entwined with inequality dynamics, yet prevailing techno-economic approaches in climate research and policy fall short in addressing the ecological crisis as distributional crisis. Recognising the limitations of techno-economism, focused on markets (price adjustments) and technology (efficiency gains), this contribution introduces sufficiency corridors as a concept, research field, and policy approach. Sufficiency corridors represent the space between a floor of meeting needs and a ceiling of ungeneralisable excess, i.e. within the sufficiency corridor everyone has enough (to satisfy needs) while no one has too much (to endanger planetary boundaries and need satisfaction). Establishing such corridors entails a process over time that continuously narrows the gap between floors and ceilings, lifting the former and pushing down the latter by strengthening forms of consumption and production that contribute to need satisfaction while shrinking those that do not. The article discusses the profound implications of this approach for how societal reality is reproduced and/or changed, highlighting the need for decisions that eliminate options between and within sectors and in the realms of consumption and production. After addressing questions of decision-making and the potential to realise corridors, the contribution concludes that the growing scientific consensus to <i>complement</i> techno-economic approaches with sufficiency measures remains inadequate. Instead, the possibility of a transformation by design hinges on embedding techno-economism within and subordinating it to a sufficiency framework.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":"53 7","pages":"960 - 969"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2024-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s13280-024-02027-2.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140803936","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}

{"title":"A dam or a polder? Stakeholders’ dispute over the “right” flood-protection measure in the Czech Republic","authors":"Ivan Andráško,&nbsp;Barbora Duží,&nbsp;Stanislav Martinát","doi":"10.1007/s13280-024-02022-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13280-024-02022-7","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study focuses on the Skalička Waterwork (SWW), a largely debated and media-covered water-related/flood-protection project in the Czech Republic. Relying primarily on stakeholder interviews, we traced back and reconstructed the project’s development, including its key tipping points reflecting the changing societal preferences for particular measures, yet also the involvement of individual actors/stakeholders, and their differing views. The case eventually crystallized into the “dam versus polder” dispute; concerned by the repercussions for the local landscape, a joint initiative of NGOs, local activists, and politicians not only opposed the dam variant proposed by the state river basin administration but also succeeded in pushing through the alternative scheme of side dry polder. While in many ways specific (e.g. not entailing local resistance), the case exemplifies recent shifts (and respective struggles) within flood risk management, including the increasing importance attributed to complex, catchment-wide perspectives, joint local and scientific knowledge, participatory decision-making processes, or implementation of nature-based and hybrid solutions.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":"53 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2024-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s13280-024-02022-7.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140804185","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}

{"title":"The social–ecological ladder of restoration ambition","authors":"Marina Frietsch,&nbsp;Manuel Pacheco-Romero,&nbsp;Vicky M. Temperton,&nbsp;Beth A. Kaplin,&nbsp;Joern Fischer","doi":"10.1007/s13280-024-02021-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13280-024-02021-8","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Expanding in both scope and scale, ecosystem restoration needs to embrace complex social–ecological dynamics. To help scientists and practitioners navigate ever new demands on restoration, we propose the “social–ecological ladder of restoration ambition” as a conceptual model to approach dynamically shifting social and ecological restoration goals. The model focuses on three dynamic aspects of restoration, namely degrading processes, restoration goals and remedial actions. As these three change through time, new reinforcing and balancing feedback mechanisms characterize the restoration process. We illustrate our model through case studies in which restoration has become increasingly ambitious through time, namely forest landscape restoration in Rwanda and grassland restoration in Germany. The ladder of restoration ambition offers a new way of applying social–ecological systems thinking to ecosystem restoration. Additionally, it raises awareness of social–ecological trade-offs, power imbalances and conflicting goals in restoration projects, thereby laying an important foundation for finding more practicable and fairer solutions.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":"53 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2024-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s13280-024-02021-8.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140670721","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}

{"title":"Exploring the performance of protected areas in alleviating future human pressure","authors":"Qiqi Liu,&nbsp;Xiaolan Tang,&nbsp;Tian Hang,&nbsp;Yunfei Wu,&nbsp;Yuanyuan Liu,&nbsp;Tianrui Song,&nbsp;Youngkeun Song","doi":"10.1007/s13280-024-02023-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13280-024-02023-6","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Protected areas (PAs) are effective in mitigating human pressures, yet their future pressure alleviating effects remain unclear. In this study, we employed the ConvLSTM model to forecast the future human footprint and analyzed human pressure trends using Theil–Sen median and Mann–Kendall tests. We further evaluated the mitigating effects of PAs within their buffer zones (1–10 km) and the contributions of different IUCN categories of PAs to mitigating human pressure using linear regression models. The results indicate that by 2035, the average human pressure value is expected to increase by 11%, with trends exhibiting a polarized pattern. Furthermore, PAs also effectively mitigate human pressure within their 1 km buffer zones. Different categories of PAs vary in their effectiveness in mitigating human pressure, and stricter conservation areas are not always the most effective. This study can offer insights for evaluating the effectiveness of PAs in reducing human pressure and advocate for their targeted management in urban areas.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":"53 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2024-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140671179","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}

{"title":"From the question how to act in a sustainable manner, back to the question why we act unsustainably","authors":"Else Ragni Yttredal,&nbsp;Jörg Löffler,&nbsp;Kenneth M. Tschorn","doi":"10.1007/s13280-024-02024-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13280-024-02024-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":"53 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2024-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s13280-024-02024-5.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140669106","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}

{"title":"Dynamic livelihoods, gender and poverty in marine protected areas: Case study from Zanzibar, Tanzania","authors":"Felicity Pike,&nbsp;Lars Lindström,&nbsp;Josefin Ekstedt,&nbsp;Narriman S. Jiddawi,&nbsp;Maricela de la Torre-Castro","doi":"10.1007/s13280-024-02010-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13280-024-02010-x","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Livelihood initiatives are common within marine protected areas (MPAs) aiming for poverty alleviation or higher income opportunities. However, results can be mixed in reality, as well as change over time. Furthermore, <i>who</i> benefits is a key consideration, as results can vary based on inequalities, including gender. Here, the monetary outcomes of different livelihood strategies were investigated across three MPA regions in Zanzibar, Tanzania. Using a quantitative approach, the results show that livelihoods have shifted in a six-year period, with livelihood strategies differing in poverty incidence and income. Livelihood initiatives, namely seaweed farming and tourism, did not provide significantly higher monetary returns compared to long-standing livelihoods, such as fisheries. Seaweed farming showed income stability but a high poverty incidence predominantly within women-headed households. During the study period, men primarily remained in fisheries, whilst women shifted to small-scale businesses and fisheries, largely exiting seaweed farming. This underscores a need for adaptive, gender sensitive management within fast changing coastal contexts.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":"53 8","pages":"1218 - 1233"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2024-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s13280-024-02010-x.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140635678","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}

{"title":"A transformative shift in urban ecology toward a more active and relevant future for the field and for cities","authors":"Niki Frantzeskaki,&nbsp;Daniel L. Childers,&nbsp;Steward Pickett,&nbsp;Fushcia-Ann Hoover,&nbsp;Pippin Anderson,&nbsp;Aliyu Barau,&nbsp;Joshua Ginsberg,&nbsp;Morgan Grove,&nbsp;Marleen Lodder,&nbsp;Ariel E. Lugo,&nbsp;Timon McPhearson,&nbsp;Tischa A. Muñoz-Erickson,&nbsp;Mien Quartier,&nbsp;Selina Schepers,&nbsp;Ayyoob Sharifi,&nbsp;Katrien van de Sijpe","doi":"10.1007/s13280-024-01992-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13280-024-01992-y","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper builds on the expansion of urban ecology from a biologically based discipline—ecology <i>in</i> the city—to an increasingly interdisciplinary field—ecology <i>of</i> the city—to a transdisciplinary, knowledge to action endeavor—an ecology <i>for</i> and <i>with</i> the city. We build on this “prepositional journey” by proposing a transformative shift in urban ecology, and we present a framework for how the field may continue this shift. We conceptualize that urban ecology is in a state of flux, and that this shift is needed to transform urban ecology into a more engaged and action based field, and one that includes a diversity of actors willing to participate in the future of their cities. In this transformative shift, these actors will engage, collaborate, and participate in a continuous spiral of knowledge → action → knowledge spiral and back to knowledge loop, with the goal of co producing sustainable and resilient solutions to myriad urban challenges. Our framework for this transformative shift includes three pathways: (1) a repeating knowledge → action → knowledge spiral of ideas, information, and solutions produced by a diverse community of agents of urban change working together in an “urban sandbox”; (2) incorporation of a social–ecological–technological systems framework in this spiral and expanding the spiral temporally to include the “deep future,” where future scenarios are based on a visioning of seemingly unimaginable or plausible future states of cities that are sustainable and resilient; and (3) the expansion of the spiral in space, to include rural areas and places that are not yet cities. The three interrelated pathways that define the transformative shift demonstrate the power of an urban ecology that has moved beyond urban systems science and into a realm where collaborations among diverse knowledges and voices are working together to understand cities and what is urban while producing sustainable solutions to contemporary challenges and envisioning futures of socially, ecologically, and technologically resilient cities. We present case study examples of each of the three pathways that make up this transformative shift in urban ecology and discuss both limitations and opportunities for future research and action with this transdisciplinary broadening of the field.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":"53 6","pages":"871 - 889"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2024-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s13280-024-01992-y.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140628430","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}

{"title":"From urban ecology to urban enquiry: How to build cumulative and context-sensitive understandings","authors":"Erik Andersson,&nbsp;Timon McPhearson,&nbsp;Steward T. A. Pickett","doi":"10.1007/s13280-023-01959-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13280-023-01959-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper positions urban ecology as increasingly conversant with multiple perspectives and methods for understanding the functions and qualities of diverse cities and urban situations. Despite progress in the field, we need clear pathways for positioning, connecting and synthesising specific knowledge and to make it speak to more systemic questions about cities and the life within them. These pathways need to be able to make use of diverse sources of information to better account for the diverse relations between people, other species and the ecological, social, cultural, economic, technical and increasingly digital structures that they are embedded in. Grounded in a description of the systemic knowledge needed, we propose five complementary and often connected approaches for building cumulative systemic understandings, and a framework for connecting and combining different methods and evidence. The approaches and the framework help position urban ecology and other fields of study as entry points to further advance interdisciplinary synthesis and open up new fields of research.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":"53 6","pages":"813 - 825"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2024-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s13280-023-01959-5.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140627982","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}