AmbioPub Date : 2024-04-20DOI: 10.1007/s13280-024-02000-z
Niki Frantzeskaki, Steward T. A. Pickett, Erik Andersson
{"title":"Shifts in urban ecology: From science to social project","authors":"Niki Frantzeskaki, Steward T. A. Pickett, Erik Andersson","doi":"10.1007/s13280-024-02000-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13280-024-02000-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":"53 6","pages":"809 - 812"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2024-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140628619","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 : 2024-04-17DOI: 10.1007/s13280-024-02020-9
Paul Griesberger, Florian Kunz, Klaus Hackländer, Brady Mattsson
{"title":"Building a decision-support tool to inform sustainability approaches under complexity: Case study on managing wild ruminants","authors":"Paul Griesberger, Florian Kunz, Klaus Hackländer, Brady Mattsson","doi":"10.1007/s13280-024-02020-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13280-024-02020-9","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In wildlife management, differing perspectives among stakeholders generate conflicts about how to achieve disparate sustainability goals that include ecological, economic, and sociocultural dimensions. To mitigate such conflicts, decisions regarding wildlife management must be taken thoughtfully. To our knowledge, there exists no integrative modeling framework to inform these decisions, considering all dimensions of sustainability. We constructed a decision-support tool based on stakeholder workshops and a Bayesian decision network to inform management of wild ruminants in the federal state of Lower Austria. We use collaborative decision analysis to compare resource allocations while accounting for trade-offs among dimensions of sustainability. The tool is designed for application by non-technical users across diverse decision-making contexts with particular sets of wildlife management actions, objectives, and uncertainties. Our tool represents an important step toward developing and evaluating a transparent and replicable approach for mitigating wildlife-based conflicts in Europe and beyond.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":"53 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2024-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s13280-024-02020-9.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140628137","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 : 2024-04-13DOI: 10.1007/s13280-024-02012-9
Inkeri Markkula, Minna Turunen, Taru Rikkonen, Sirpa Rasmus, Veina Koski, Jeffrey M. Welker
{"title":"Climate change, cultural continuity and ecological grief: Insights from the Sámi Homeland","authors":"Inkeri Markkula, Minna Turunen, Taru Rikkonen, Sirpa Rasmus, Veina Koski, Jeffrey M. Welker","doi":"10.1007/s13280-024-02012-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13280-024-02012-9","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Arctic regions are warming significantly faster than other parts of the globe, leading to changes in snow, ice and weather conditions, ecosystems and local cultures. These changes have brought worry and concern and triggered feelings of loss among Arctic Indigenous Peoples and local communities. Recently, research has started to address emotional and social dimensions of climate change, framed through the concept of ecological grief. In this study, we examine sociocultural impacts of climate change and expressions of ecological grief among members of reindeer herding communities in the Sámi Homeland in Finland. Results indicate that ecological grief is felt in connection to major environmental concerns in the area: changes in winter weather and extreme weather events, Atlantic salmon decline and land use changes, which all have cultural and social consequences. Our results indicate that ecological grief is strongly associated with ecological losses, but also with political decisions regarding natural resource governance.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":"53 8","pages":"1203 - 1217"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2024-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s13280-024-02012-9.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140580735","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 : 2024-04-13DOI: 10.1007/s13280-023-01978-2
Emilie Cremin, Cai J. T. Ladd, Thorsten Balke, Sumana Banerjee, Ly H. Bui, Tuhin Ghosh, Andy Large, Hue Thi Van Le, Kien V. Nguyen, Lan X. Nguyen, Tanh T. N. Nguyen, Vinh Nguyen, Indrajit Pal, Sylvia Szabo, Ha Tran, Zita Sebesvari, Shah Alam Khan, Fabrice G. Renaud
{"title":"Causes and consequences of tipping points in river delta social–ecological systems","authors":"Emilie Cremin, Cai J. T. Ladd, Thorsten Balke, Sumana Banerjee, Ly H. Bui, Tuhin Ghosh, Andy Large, Hue Thi Van Le, Kien V. Nguyen, Lan X. Nguyen, Tanh T. N. Nguyen, Vinh Nguyen, Indrajit Pal, Sylvia Szabo, Ha Tran, Zita Sebesvari, Shah Alam Khan, Fabrice G. Renaud","doi":"10.1007/s13280-023-01978-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13280-023-01978-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The sustainability of social–ecological systems within river deltas globally is in question as rapid development and environmental change trigger “negative” or “positive” tipping points depending on actors’ perspectives, e.g. regime shift from abundant sediment deposition to sediment shortage, agricultural sustainability to agricultural collapse or shift from rural to urban land use. Using a systematic review of the literature, we show how cascading effects across anthropogenic, ecological, and geophysical processes have triggered numerous tipping points in the governance, hydrological, and land-use management of the world’s river deltas. Crossing tipping points had both positive and negative effects that generally enhanced economic development to the detriment of the environment. Assessment of deltas that featured prominently in the review revealed how outcomes of tipping points can inform the long-term trajectory of deltas towards sustainability or collapse. Management of key drivers at the delta scale can trigger positive tipping points to place social–ecological systems on a pathway towards sustainable development.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":"53 7","pages":"1015 - 1036"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2024-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s13280-023-01978-2.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140580964","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 : 2024-04-10DOI: 10.1007/s13280-024-02014-7
Katherine M. Magoulick, Vanessa Hull, Jianguo Liu
{"title":"Mammal recovery inside and outside terrestrial protected areas","authors":"Katherine M. Magoulick, Vanessa Hull, Jianguo Liu","doi":"10.1007/s13280-024-02014-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13280-024-02014-7","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Protected areas are a key component of global conservation, and the world is aiming to increase protected areas to cover 30% of land and water through the 30 × 30 Initiative under the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework. However, factors affecting their success or failure in regard to promoting mammal population recovery are not well studied, particularly using quantitative approaches comparing across diverse taxa, biomes, and countries. To better understand how protected areas contribute to mammalian recovery, we conducted an analysis of 2706 mammal populations both inside and outside of protected areas worldwide. We calculated the annual percent change of mammal populations within and outside of terrestrial protected areas and examined the relationship between the percent change and a suite of human and natural characteristics including biome, region, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) protected area category, IUCN Red List classification, and taxonomic order. Our results show that overall mammal populations inside and outside of protected areas are relatively stable. It appears that Threatened mammals are doing better inside of protected areas than outside, whereas the opposite is true for species of least concern and Near Threatened species. We also found significant population increases in protected areas classified as category III and significant population decreases in protected and unprotected areas throughout Oceania. Our results demonstrate that terrestrial protected areas can be an important approach for mammalian recovery and conservation.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":"53 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2024-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s13280-024-02014-7.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140580738","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 : 2024-04-10DOI: 10.1007/s13280-024-02002-x
Linda Berrio-Giraldo, Clara Villegas-Palacio, Santiago Arango-Aramburo, Lina Berrouet
{"title":"Trajectories of socio-ecological systems: A case study in the tropical Andes","authors":"Linda Berrio-Giraldo, Clara Villegas-Palacio, Santiago Arango-Aramburo, Lina Berrouet","doi":"10.1007/s13280-024-02002-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13280-024-02002-x","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Scenario and policy assessments in socioeconomic and environmental studies face significant challenges in socio-ecological systems (SES). There are a limited number of studies that have looked at the impact of different scenarios within integrated approaches, and many have used a static approach with a single driver of change. The present work analyzes the SES dynamics for a strategic basin in the Colombian Andes when implementing and analyzing scenarios and policies related to land cover and land use change using a system dynamics simulation model. The model includes natural, ecosystem services, sociocultural, and economic components. Scenarios and policy options are analyzed both individually and jointly to identify synergies or trade-off effects between the different SES components. The results showed the different trajectories of the socio-ecological system according to the cases studied, and its impact on different variables in the analyzed components. Some counterintuitive effects were also identified, such as the importance of intrinsic motivations in decision-making processes, and determinants in land management and policy design.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":"53 12","pages":"1737 - 1751"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2024-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s13280-024-02002-x.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140580740","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 : 2024-04-09DOI: 10.1007/s13280-024-02013-8
Forrest Stagner, Jive Mulundano
{"title":"Toward a critical theory of social–ecological resilience: Maize and cattle in Southern Province, Zambia","authors":"Forrest Stagner, Jive Mulundano","doi":"10.1007/s13280-024-02013-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13280-024-02013-8","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Climate change threatens the lives and livelihoods of smallholder farmers throughout the global South. In order to address the challenges these farmers face, researchers and practitioners need reasonable theoretical models of how humans and the environment interact within social–ecological systems (SES). Social–ecological resilience theory has proved to be a popular model for understanding human environment relationships within SES; however, the theory lacks a sophisticated understanding of power, relying instead on outdated functionalist sociological approaches. We reconstruct social–ecological resilience theory through a case study of smallholder climate change adaptation in Southern Province, Zambia. Farmers in the region focus on cattle and maize production. Though the changing environment would seem to favor different crops and livestock, institutional (power) dynamics determine whether or not individuals have the capacity (or desire) to adapt. Our critical reconstruction provides researchers and practitioners with an improved social–ecological lens for understanding the causes and consequences of vulnerability and adaptation.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":"53 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2024-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140580975","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 : 2024-04-09DOI: 10.1007/s13280-023-01974-6
Benjamin DiNapoli, Matthew Jull
{"title":"Evaluating plans for sustainable development in Arctic cities","authors":"Benjamin DiNapoli, Matthew Jull","doi":"10.1007/s13280-023-01974-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13280-023-01974-6","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Cities located in the Arctic often have extreme geographic and environmental contexts and unique sociopolitical and economic trajectories that, when combined with amplified effects of climate change in the region, impact future sustainable development. Well-recognized and standardized sustainable development indicator (SDI) frameworks such as ISO 37120 or UN-Habitat City Prosperity Index are often used to compare data across cities globally using comprehensive sets of indicators. While such indexes help characterize progress toward development and guide short- and long-term decision-making, they often lack relevance to specific contexts or characterize future visions of urban growth. To evaluate the extent of these deficiencies and to provide a comparative analysis of approaches to sustainable urban growth in the Arctic, this paper analyzes city planning documents for five northern cities - Anchorage (USA), Utqiagvik (USA), Reyjavik (ISL), Iqaluit, (CAN), Whitehorse, (CAN) - for goals, targets, and indicators and compare these to thematic areas and indicators defined by ISO 37120:2018 Sustainable Cities and Communities. The results confirm that although international SDI frameworks may be useful for comparative analysis of cities across diverse regions, they exclude important local factors that influence goal-oriented urban sustainability planning strategies employed in the Arctic region.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":"53 8","pages":"1109 - 1123"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2024-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s13280-023-01974-6.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140580971","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 : 2024-04-08DOI: 10.1007/s13280-024-02009-4
Jasmine R. Lee, Justine D. Shaw, Yan Ropert-Coudert, Aleks Terauds, Steven L. Chown
{"title":"Conservation features of the terrestrial Antarctic Peninsula","authors":"Jasmine R. Lee, Justine D. Shaw, Yan Ropert-Coudert, Aleks Terauds, Steven L. Chown","doi":"10.1007/s13280-024-02009-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13280-024-02009-4","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Conserving landscapes used by multiple stakeholder groups requires understanding of what each stakeholder values. Here we employed a semi-structured, participatory approach to identify features of value in the terrestrial Antarctic Peninsula related to biodiversity, science and tourism. Stakeholders identified 115 features, ranging from Adélie penguin colonies to sites suitable for snowshoeing tourists. We split the features into seven broad categories: science, tourism, historic, biodiversity, geographic, habitat, and intrinsic features, finding that the biodiversity category contained the most features of any one category, while science stakeholders identified the most features of any stakeholder group. Stakeholders have overlapping interests in some features, particularly for seals and seabirds, indicating that thoughtful consideration of their inclusion in future management is required. Acknowledging the importance of tourism and other social features in Antarctica and ensuring their integration into conservation planning and assessment will increase the likelihood of implementing successful environmental management strategies into the future.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":"53 7","pages":"1037 - 1049"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2024-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s13280-024-02009-4.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140581095","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 : 2024-04-05DOI: 10.1007/s13280-024-02006-7
Elena Cantarello, Jette Bredahl Jacobsen, Francisco Lloret, Marcus Lindner
{"title":"Shaping and enhancing resilient forests for a resilient society","authors":"Elena Cantarello, Jette Bredahl Jacobsen, Francisco Lloret, Marcus Lindner","doi":"10.1007/s13280-024-02006-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13280-024-02006-7","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The world is currently facing uncertainty caused by environmental, social, and economic changes and by political shocks. Fostering social-ecological resilience by enhancing forests’ ability to provide a range of ecosystem services, including carbon sequestration, habitat provision, and sustainable livelihoods, is key to addressing such uncertainty. However, policy makers and managers currently lack a clear understanding of how to operationalise the shaping of resilience through the combined challenges of climate change, the biodiversity crisis, and changes in societal demand. Based on a scientific literature review, we identified a set of actions related to ecosystem services, biodiversity conservation, and disturbance and pressure impacts that forest managers and policy makers should attend to enhance the resilience of European forest systems. We conclude that the resilience shaping of forests should (1) adopt an operational approach, which is currently lacking, (2) identify and address existing and future trade-offs while reinforcing win–wins and (3) attend to local particularities through an adaptive management approach.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":"53 8","pages":"1095 - 1108"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2024-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s13280-024-02006-7.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140580867","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}