One EarthPub Date : 2024-06-01DOI: 10.1016/j.oneear.2024.05.009
V. Barbarossa, Rafael J.P. Schmitt
{"title":"Strategic restoration-development mitigates tradeoffs between hydropower and fish habitat fragmentation in the Mekong","authors":"V. Barbarossa, Rafael J.P. Schmitt","doi":"10.1016/j.oneear.2024.05.009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2024.05.009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52366,"journal":{"name":"One Earth","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":16.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141392590","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 : 2024-05-30DOI: 10.1016/j.oneear.2024.05.002
Wang Li, Wen-Yong Guo, Maya Pasgaard, Zheng Niu, Li Wang, Fang Chen, Yuchu Qin, Hailang Qiao, Jens-Christian Svenning
{"title":"Unmanaged naturally regenerating forests approach intact forest canopy structure but are susceptible to climate and human stress","authors":"Wang Li, Wen-Yong Guo, Maya Pasgaard, Zheng Niu, Li Wang, Fang Chen, Yuchu Qin, Hailang Qiao, Jens-Christian Svenning","doi":"10.1016/j.oneear.2024.05.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2024.05.002","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Maintaining newly re-established forests is an important policy and challenge for ecosystem restoration and climate-change mitigation. However, a global assessment of canopy structure in regenerating forests under different management and whether they are developing toward that of intact forests is lacking, impeding the understanding of their roles in carbon cycling and biodiversity recovery. Here we present the first near-global assessment of regenerating forest canopy structure at a 1-km resolution and its progress toward attaining intact forest characteristics. We show that canopy structure in unmanaged naturally regenerating forests more closely resemble intact forests than managed naturally regenerating forests and planted forests, but they are more susceptible to climate and human stress. Meanwhile, managed naturally regenerating forests experience substantial re-clearance. Our findings underscore the high ecological recovery potential of naturally regenerating forests and call for urgent action to enhance socio-ecological conditions for their persistence, unlocking their potential in sustainable development.</p>","PeriodicalId":52366,"journal":{"name":"One Earth","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":16.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141193559","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 : 2024-05-22DOI: 10.1016/j.oneear.2024.04.021
Yanjie Xu, Veronika N. Laine, Katarina Meramo, Andrea Santangeli, Anbu Poosakkannu, Kati M. Suominen, Simon Gaultier, Verena Keller, Lluís Brotons, Arto T. Pulliainen, Thomas M. Lilley, Aleksi Lehikoinen
{"title":"Slow-lived birds and bats carry higher pathogen loads","authors":"Yanjie Xu, Veronika N. Laine, Katarina Meramo, Andrea Santangeli, Anbu Poosakkannu, Kati M. Suominen, Simon Gaultier, Verena Keller, Lluís Brotons, Arto T. Pulliainen, Thomas M. Lilley, Aleksi Lehikoinen","doi":"10.1016/j.oneear.2024.04.021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2024.04.021","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Wildlife and zoonotic diseases are increasingly impacting human society, the food chain, and wildlife; therefore, proactive mitigation tools for predicting large-scale risk of the relevant pathogens are urgently needed. Birds and bats are large-scale disease reservoirs and transmitters. However, holistic understanding for which bird and bat species act as reservoirs for pathogens remains understudied. Here, we test the extent to which the features related to the mobile species and local climate identify reservoir hosts for the 18 most-sampled pathogens across Europe. Species with slower pace of life (i.e., larger bodied and longer lived), sedentary species, and forest species had high pathogen prevalence. Temperature was the most important predictor for pathogen prevalence, but its effects varied in different directions. Overall, host species traits and climatic gradients robustly predicted pathogen prevalence, especially for non-vector-transmitted pathogens. We offer a data-driven basis for developing targeted interventions to mitigate impacts of zoonotic diseases, particularly in the face of climate change.</p>","PeriodicalId":52366,"journal":{"name":"One Earth","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":16.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141149711","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 : 2024-05-11DOI: 10.1016/j.oneear.2024.05.001
Neil M. Dawson, Brendan Coolsaet, Aditi Bhardwaj, Francesca Booker, David Brown, Bosco Lliso, Jacqueline Loos, Adrian Martin, Malena Oliva, Unai Pascual, Pasang Sherpa, Thomas Worsdell
{"title":"Is it just conservation? A typology of Indigenous peoples’ and local communities’ roles in conserving biodiversity","authors":"Neil M. Dawson, Brendan Coolsaet, Aditi Bhardwaj, Francesca Booker, David Brown, Bosco Lliso, Jacqueline Loos, Adrian Martin, Malena Oliva, Unai Pascual, Pasang Sherpa, Thomas Worsdell","doi":"10.1016/j.oneear.2024.05.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2024.05.001","url":null,"abstract":"<p>As conservation initiatives expand in response to biodiversity loss, there remains limited understanding about what forms of governance and roles for different actors produce the best ecological outcomes. Indigenous peoples’ and local communities’ (IPs’ and LCs’) roles extend beyond participation to more equitable governance based on relative control and recognition of their values and institutions, but the relationship with conservation outcomes remains unclear. We review 648 empirical studies to develop a typology of IP and LC roles in governance and, for a subsample of 170, analyze relationships with reported ecological outcomes. The findings reveal that more equitable governance, based on equal partnership or primary control for IPs and LCs, are associated with significantly more positive ecological outcomes. This carries important implications, including for actions toward the Global Biodiversity Framework targets, suggesting a need to elevate the role of IPs and LCs to conservation leaders while respecting their rights and customary institutions.</p>","PeriodicalId":52366,"journal":{"name":"One Earth","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":16.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140932988","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 : 2024-05-06DOI: 10.1016/j.oneear.2024.04.005
Xuesong Zhang, Ge Kong, Yuan Jiang, Linling Zhou, Kejie Wang, Xin Zhang, Guanya Ji, Lujia Han
{"title":"Innovative carbon nanotubes-bridging strategy valorizes plastic waste into high-quality H2-rich syngas while suppressing CO2 emissions","authors":"Xuesong Zhang, Ge Kong, Yuan Jiang, Linling Zhou, Kejie Wang, Xin Zhang, Guanya Ji, Lujia Han","doi":"10.1016/j.oneear.2024.04.005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2024.04.005","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Plastic waste disposal is mounting, with consequences for both environmental and human wellbeing. Addressing the plastic waste challenge through chemically upcycling waste to other products is gaining momentum but can have trade-offs. For example, the conversion of plastic waste into hydrogen rich gas can be achieved via catalytic steam, but this process can release large quantities of CO<sub>2</sub> (∼12 kg CO<sub>2</sub> per 1 kg H<sub>2</sub> production). High-performance bifunctional catalysts, such as carbon nanotubes (CNTs), offer a potential solution, but suppressing CO<sub>2</sub> emissions without compromising H<sub>2</sub>-rich gas yield remains challenging. Here, we synthesize a new CNTs-bridging nanocomposite by integrating Ni nanoparticles with HY zeolite. Employing this bifunctional CNTs-bridging nanocomposite in the catalytic steam reforming of polyethylene can achieve high-quality H<sub>2</sub> yields of up to 2,340 mL/g<sub>plastic</sub> and a 77% reduction in CO<sub>2</sub> emissions (1.68 g CO<sub>2</sub> per 1 g H<sub>2</sub> production). This work introduces an innovative CNTs-bridging strategy to valorize plastic waste into high-quality H<sub>2</sub>-rich syngas while suppressing CO<sub>2</sub> emissions.</p>","PeriodicalId":52366,"journal":{"name":"One Earth","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":16.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140886195","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 : 2024-05-03DOI: 10.1016/j.oneear.2024.04.004
Madeline Judge, Thijs Bouman, Linda Steg, Jan Willem Bolderdijk
{"title":"Accelerating social tipping points in sustainable behaviors: Insights from a dynamic model of moralized social change","authors":"Madeline Judge, Thijs Bouman, Linda Steg, Jan Willem Bolderdijk","doi":"10.1016/j.oneear.2024.04.004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2024.04.004","url":null,"abstract":"<p>To address the climate crisis, it is important to accelerate social tipping points in the adoption of sustainable behaviors. Social tipping points describe the process whereby small changes trigger self-perpetuating feedback loops and produce a fundamental transformation in the social system. The current literature does not adequately address how the moralized nature of sustainable behaviors could lead to unique tipping trajectories. In this Perspective, we propose a dynamic model of moralized social change that provides insights on how novel sustainable behaviors spread over society and how to speed up this process. Although moralization may initially generate social friction that delays tipping points, it can accelerate change at later stages by increasing social pressure on laggards. By implementing early system-level changes, policymakers can help reduce the initial inertia created by moralization and accelerate social tipping points. We discuss how our model can inform the decisions of activists, policymakers, professionals, and researchers.</p>","PeriodicalId":52366,"journal":{"name":"One Earth","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":16.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140828463","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 : 2024-05-01DOI: 10.1016/j.oneear.2024.04.017
Jin-Hua Mou, Zi-Hao Qin, Season Si Chen, Shao-Yuan Leu, Daniel C.W. Tsang, Jason Chun-Ho Lam, Jun Zhao, Zhiguo Yuan, Chunbao Xu, Carol Sze Ki Lin
{"title":"Key techno-economic barriers in the valorization of organic solid wastes for chemical production","authors":"Jin-Hua Mou, Zi-Hao Qin, Season Si Chen, Shao-Yuan Leu, Daniel C.W. Tsang, Jason Chun-Ho Lam, Jun Zhao, Zhiguo Yuan, Chunbao Xu, Carol Sze Ki Lin","doi":"10.1016/j.oneear.2024.04.017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2024.04.017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52366,"journal":{"name":"One Earth","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":16.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141053283","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 : 2024-05-01DOI: 10.1016/j.oneear.2024.04.007
Jin Xuan
{"title":"Q&A with Prof. Jin Xuan: Catalyzing a circular chemical economy","authors":"Jin Xuan","doi":"10.1016/j.oneear.2024.04.007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2024.04.007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52366,"journal":{"name":"One Earth","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":16.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141037023","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}