One EarthPub Date : 2023-11-17DOI: 10.1016/j.oneear.2023.10.001
Nicholas H. Wolff, Piero Visconti, Heini Kujala, Luca Santini, Jelle P. Hilbers, Hugh P. Possingham, James R. Oakleaf, Christina M. Kennedy, Joseph Kiesecker, Joseph Fargione, Edward T. Game
{"title":"Prioritizing global land protection for population persistence can double the efficiency of habitat protection for reducing mammal extinction risk","authors":"Nicholas H. Wolff, Piero Visconti, Heini Kujala, Luca Santini, Jelle P. Hilbers, Hugh P. Possingham, James R. Oakleaf, Christina M. Kennedy, Joseph Kiesecker, Joseph Fargione, Edward T. Game","doi":"10.1016/j.oneear.2023.10.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2023.10.001","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Halting the alarming rate of species extinction, driven primarily by habitat destruction, motivated the international community to adopt the Global Biodiversity Framework (2022) and its targets aimed at reversing habitat and species loss. Because of urgency and resource constraints, a key challenge is meeting targets effectively and efficiently. Here we conduct a global prioritization linking 70,492 unique population maps and life history characteristics for 861 threatened terrestrial mammal species. Incorporating individual population data to identify priority areas for conservation nearly doubled the likely long-term persistence of species for the same amount of land compared with a typical approach based on species distributions alone. We map and rank global mammal persistence priority areas and assess how well the current protected area (PA) system captures these important regions. Our results offer a clearer, quantifiable link between conservation actions and global extinction risk than previously possible at a global scale.</p>","PeriodicalId":52366,"journal":{"name":"One Earth","volume":"12 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.2,"publicationDate":"2023-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138495357","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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}
One EarthPub Date : 2023-11-17DOI: 10.1016/j.oneear.2023.10.020
John Kaiser Calautit, Ling Xin Yong
{"title":"Fad or future? Navigating challenges and proposing holistic solutions in sustainable building design","authors":"John Kaiser Calautit, Ling Xin Yong","doi":"10.1016/j.oneear.2023.10.020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2023.10.020","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The importance of sustainable buildings is gaining significant traction in the current century due to the escalating challenges of climate change and rapid urbanization. In this commentary, we share our perspective on why sustainable buildings are more than just a passing fad but a concrete consideration for the future of mankind and our environment.</p>","PeriodicalId":52366,"journal":{"name":"One Earth","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.2,"publicationDate":"2023-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138495383","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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}
One EarthPub Date : 2023-11-16DOI: 10.1016/j.oneear.2023.10.013
Marius von Essen, Eric F. Lambin
{"title":"Modeling conditions for effective and equitable land use governance in tropical forest frontiers","authors":"Marius von Essen, Eric F. Lambin","doi":"10.1016/j.oneear.2023.10.013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2023.10.013","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Deforestation and degradation driven by unsustainable agricultural expansion remain pressing global challenges. Over the past two decades, a variety of governance efforts to reduce deforestation and degradation in the tropics have emerged. Assessing if and under which conditions interventions are effective and equitable, however, is challenging given their long implementation times and methodological limitations. Here, we use an agent-based model to assess effectiveness, equity, and transaction costs of four archetypal governance interventions (weak regulation to natural resource access, command and control, supply chain sustainability, and multi-stakeholder coalitions) under different environmental and social conditions. We find that all interventions are effective in reducing deforestation, albeit to varying degrees, and not all are equitable. Intervention performance varies significantly across conditions, and on average, multi-stakeholder coalitions provide the best balance between effectiveness and equity. Policymakers therefore need to consider the local context and potential effectiveness-equity trade-offs when designing interventions to reduce deforestation and degradation.</p>","PeriodicalId":52366,"journal":{"name":"One Earth","volume":"12 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.2,"publicationDate":"2023-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138495353","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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}
One EarthPub Date : 2023-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.oneear.2023.10.010
Julie Bremner, Flavie Vial, Anthony Fooks, Wendy Higman, Justin Avant, Grant Stentiford
{"title":"Operationalizing “One Health” for food systems","authors":"Julie Bremner, Flavie Vial, Anthony Fooks, Wendy Higman, Justin Avant, Grant Stentiford","doi":"10.1016/j.oneear.2023.10.010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2023.10.010","url":null,"abstract":"Controlling hazards in food systems is essential for reducing losses, averting hunger, and facilitating trade, benefiting society by protecting biodiversity and reducing climate impacts. A “One Health” approach to food system design (“One Food”) can help control hazards but requires an evidence toolbox and cross-sector policy to drive positive change. Controlling hazards in food systems is essential for reducing losses, averting hunger, and facilitating trade, benefiting society by protecting biodiversity and reducing climate impacts. A “One Health” approach to food system design (“One Food”) can help control hazards but requires an evidence toolbox and cross-sector policy to drive positive change.","PeriodicalId":52366,"journal":{"name":"One Earth","volume":"17 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135565739","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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}
One EarthPub Date : 2023-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.oneear.2023.10.007
Lanhui Wang, Joris P.G.M. Cromsigt, Robert Buitenwerf, Erick J. Lundgren, Wang Li, Elisabeth S. Bakker, Jens-Christian Svenning
{"title":"Tree cover and its heterogeneity in natural ecosystems is linked to large herbivore biomass globally","authors":"Lanhui Wang, Joris P.G.M. Cromsigt, Robert Buitenwerf, Erick J. Lundgren, Wang Li, Elisabeth S. Bakker, Jens-Christian Svenning","doi":"10.1016/j.oneear.2023.10.007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2023.10.007","url":null,"abstract":"Addressing intertwined crises of climate change and biodiversity loss is a pressing global challenge, with trees playing pivotal roles in promoting carbon sequestration and habitat diversity. However, there is a distinct knowledge gap concerning the global drivers shaping tree cover and its heterogeneity, particularly the roles and relative importance of large herbivores and fire compared to climatic and topo-edaphic conditions. Here, we deploy satellite observations of strictly protected areas worldwide to reveal that in regions where vegetation may be in disequilibrium with climate, high biomass of large herbivores, especially browsers, is inversely related to tree cover but positively associated with its spatial heterogeneity. Conversely, fire reduces both tree cover and heterogeneity. These results suggest that top-down megafauna effects on landscape-scale vegetation openness and heterogeneity manifest worldwide. Our finding supports the need to consider megafauna, particularly large herbivores, in ecosystem effects on climate change mitigation and conservation and restoration efforts through trophic rewilding.","PeriodicalId":52366,"journal":{"name":"One Earth","volume":"109 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135325723","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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}
One EarthPub Date : 2023-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.oneear.2023.10.022
Melanie Bergmann, Hans Peter H. Arp, Bethanie Carney Almroth, Win Cowger, Marcus Eriksen, Tridibesh Dey, Sedat Gündoğdu, Rebecca R. Helm, Anja Krieger, Kristian Syberg, Mine B. Tekman, Richard C. Thompson, Patricia Villarrubia-Gómez, Anish Kumar Warrier, Trisia Farrelly
{"title":"Moving from symptom management to upstream plastics prevention: The fallacy of plastic cleanup technology","authors":"Melanie Bergmann, Hans Peter H. Arp, Bethanie Carney Almroth, Win Cowger, Marcus Eriksen, Tridibesh Dey, Sedat Gündoğdu, Rebecca R. Helm, Anja Krieger, Kristian Syberg, Mine B. Tekman, Richard C. Thompson, Patricia Villarrubia-Gómez, Anish Kumar Warrier, Trisia Farrelly","doi":"10.1016/j.oneear.2023.10.022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2023.10.022","url":null,"abstract":"Plastic removal technologies can temporarily mitigate plastic accumulation at local scales, but evidence-based criteria are needed in policies to ensure that they are feasible and that ecological benefits outweigh the costs. To reduce plastic pollution efficiently and economically, policy should prioritize regulating and reducing upstream production rather than downstream pollution cleanup. Plastic removal technologies can temporarily mitigate plastic accumulation at local scales, but evidence-based criteria are needed in policies to ensure that they are feasible and that ecological benefits outweigh the costs. To reduce plastic pollution efficiently and economically, policy should prioritize regulating and reducing upstream production rather than downstream pollution cleanup. Plastic pollution accumulates in all environments, from the highest mountains to the deepest oceans.1Tekman M.B. Walther B.A. Peter C. Gutow L. Bergmann M. Impacts of Plastic Pollution in the Oceans on Marine Species, Biodiversity and Ecosystems.2022https://zenodo.org/record/5898684#.YjRGUzUxl6XGoogle Scholar Production is projected to triple by 2060, with plastic pollution increasing correspondingly under business-as-usual scenarios.1Tekman M.B. Walther B.A. Peter C. Gutow L. Bergmann M. Impacts of Plastic Pollution in the Oceans on Marine Species, Biodiversity and Ecosystems.2022https://zenodo.org/record/5898684#.YjRGUzUxl6XGoogle Scholar Plastics and other chemical pollutants are already outside the safe operating space for humanity, threatening critical Earth system processes related to climate and biodiversity, causing adverse impacts on human health, organisms, ecosystems, and biogeochemical cycles.2Persson L. Carney Almroth B.M. Collins C.D. Cornell S. de Wit C.A. Diamond M.L. Fantke P. Hassellöv M. MacLeod M. Ryberg M.W. et al.Outside the Safe Operating Space of the Planetary Boundary for Novel Entities.Environ. Sci. Technol. 2022; 56: 1510-1521https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.1c04158Crossref PubMed Scopus (340) Google Scholar In response, the UN Environment Assembly adopted a resolution (UNEP/EA.5/Res.14) to develop a Plastics Treaty by 2024. As the treaty negotiations progress, stakeholders debate how to prioritize different solutions including the prevention, reduction, management, and removal of plastics. From a scientific perspective, measures to reduce the production and consumption of virgin plastics are key to minimizing global pollution efficiently and economically,3Lau W.W.Y. Shiran Y. Bailey R.M. Cook E. Stuchtey M.R. Koskella J. Velis C.A. Godfrey L. Boucher J. Murphy M.B. et al.Evaluating scenarios toward zero plastic pollution.Science. 2020; 369: 1455-1461https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aba9475Crossref PubMed Google Scholar yet scenario studies show that even if all available measures are implemented, the growth in plastics production will be too high to prevent further pollution entirely.3Lau W.W.Y. Shiran Y. Bailey R.M. Cook E. Stuchtey M.R. Koskella ","PeriodicalId":52366,"journal":{"name":"One Earth","volume":"14 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135564349","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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":"China’s forestation on marginal land was less efficient in carbon sequestration compared with non-marginal land","authors":"Zhen Yu, Yanli Dong, Chaoqun Lu, Evgenios Agathokleous, Lei Zhang, Shirong Liu, Guoyi Zhou","doi":"10.1016/j.oneear.2023.11.006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2023.11.006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52366,"journal":{"name":"One Earth","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.2,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139291705","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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}
One EarthPub Date : 2023-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.oneear.2023.11.003
Mathieu Pruvot, Sokha Chea, V. Hul, Samat In, Vuthy Buor, Jill-Léa Ramassamy, Caroline Fillieux, Seng Sek, R. Sor, Sela Ros, Sithun Nuon, Sovannary San, Yaren Ty, Marany Chao, S. Sours, Sreyleap Torng, Unthyda Choeurn, Udam Hun, Sophorn Ton, Samnang Y, Sonara Phon, Lina Kuy, Amanda E Fine, P. Dussart, V. Duong, Paul F. Horwood, Sarah H. Olson
{"title":"Small mammals at the edge of deforestation in Cambodia: Transient community dynamics and potential pathways to pathogen emergence","authors":"Mathieu Pruvot, Sokha Chea, V. Hul, Samat In, Vuthy Buor, Jill-Léa Ramassamy, Caroline Fillieux, Seng Sek, R. Sor, Sela Ros, Sithun Nuon, Sovannary San, Yaren Ty, Marany Chao, S. Sours, Sreyleap Torng, Unthyda Choeurn, Udam Hun, Sophorn Ton, Samnang Y, Sonara Phon, Lina Kuy, Amanda E Fine, P. Dussart, V. Duong, Paul F. Horwood, Sarah H. Olson","doi":"10.1016/j.oneear.2023.11.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2023.11.003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52366,"journal":{"name":"One Earth","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.2,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139292728","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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}