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{"title":"Navigating Environmental Perceptions: Exploring the Impact of Political Orientation and Climate Change Beliefs on the Evaluation of the Local Environment.","authors":"Ruslan Gunko, Lauri Rapeli, Matias Scheinin, Jenny Wikström, Nina Tynkkynen","doi":"10.1007/s00267-025-02215-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-025-02215-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Amid the global climate change crisis, the societal importance of the environment is becoming increasingly clear. Discussions on climate change and its impacts occur across various levels, yet the effects remain unclear for many. In this study, we examined the role of political orientation (left/right ideology) in shaping perceptions of climate change and local nature among residents in two municipalities in southwestern Finland. Our findings reveal a strong link between political orientation and changes in how local nature is perceived, particularly at the community level. While political opinions have a less significant influence on perceptions at the individual and national levels, they play a substantial role within communities. This suggests that political orientation becomes more influential in shaping environmental views as evaluations shift to the community level, emphasizing the interaction between political preferences and perceptions of local nature.</p>","PeriodicalId":543,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Management","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144525872","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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":"Community-Based Landscape Intervention for Informal Waste Site Restoration Using Telajakan-Inspired Ecological Design in Urban Indonesia.","authors":"Indra Purnama, Anisa Mutamima, Karmila Sari, Wati Masrul","doi":"10.1007/s00267-025-02219-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-025-02219-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Unmanaged waste accumulation in urban areas poses significant environmental and social challenges, especially in rapidly urbanizing regions of Southeast Asia. This study evaluates the effectiveness of a community-based landscape intervention to restore an informal waste site in Pekanbaru, Indonesia, using a culturally adapted telajakan-inspired ecological design. The central research question addresses whether participatory restoration can foster behavioral change and sustain ecological function in low-resource urban settings. The intervention was implemented on a 50 m² site that had been used for illegal dumping for over a year. Involving 105 residents, the program combined awareness-raising workshops, waste removal, soil enhancement, and the planting of native and ornamental species-including Cymbopogon nardus, Manihot esculenta, and Rosa chinensis. Data were collected through pre- and post-surveys, photographic documentation, and field observations over a three-month period. Statistical analysis (paired t-test and Chi-square test) showed significant improvements in residents' environmental knowledge and participation (p < 0.001). During the observation period, all planted species survived and the site remained clean, with continued community-led maintenance through monthly clean-up events. The findings demonstrate that integrating traditional landscape practices with community-based interventions can lead to meaningful behavioral change and short-term ecological success. This case provides a replicable, culturally grounded framework for informal waste site restoration in under-resourced urban areas, with implications for participatory sustainability and environmental justice in the Global South.</p>","PeriodicalId":543,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Management","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144482742","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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":"Linking Forest Planning and Recreational Trail Design: A GIS Approach for Enhancing the Social Use of Forests.","authors":"Aitor Àvila Callau, Maitane Erdozain, Estela Inés Farías-Torbidoni, Sergio de-Miguel","doi":"10.1007/s00267-025-02199-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-025-02199-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Forests planned for social use are classified as such due to the cultural ecosystem services they offer. To fully benefit from these services, forest stands for social use must be easily accessible and interconnected, not just through forest roads but also through recreational trails, a key outdoor leisure infrastructure. However, forest planning and trail design are seldom integrated. This study addresses this issue by proposing a method to create connector routes between official trails and forest stands managed for social objectives (FSMSO), enhancing the socio-recreational use of forests. Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS), our approach analyses overlap between official trails and FSMSO, identifies direct routes with origin-destination matrices and assesses FSMSO accessibility. Route viability was then calculated, supporting decision-makers in assessing route homologation potential. In our study area (Catalonia, Spain), findings show that only 14% of the FSMSO overlap with official trails. Among those not overlapping, 75% are connected with official trails via the road network, while 25% are inaccessible. Of the accessible stands from official trails, 54% are more than 20 min away on foot, while 22% are within 20 min. Most created connectors (62%) have moderate viability, with 13% showing high viability for official homologation. Regarding forest types, riparian forests are the most common in FSMSO (15%) and the most connected to official trails (17%). Our methodology supports integrated forest planning and trail design, enhancing socio-recreational opportunities, while emphasising the need for regulations addressing risks and challenges linked to promoting the public use of forests.</p>","PeriodicalId":543,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Management","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144482743","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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":"Centring Water in Impact Assessment: Reconsidering Environmental and Cultural Flows in Development Decision-Making in Canada.","authors":"Nathanael T Bergbusch, Melanie Lo, André St-Hilaire, Robert B Gibson, Timothy D Jardine, Kelsey Leonard, Simon C Courtenay","doi":"10.1007/s00267-025-02194-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-025-02194-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Considering regional impacts on downstream communities and ecosystems is challenging in impact assessments. We suggest that environmental and cultural flows have the potential to be applied to protect water more comprehensively in assessment but are currently underutilized. Environmental and cultural flows refer to adequate water quantity and quality for the environment and Indigenous rights. Through interviews and a scoping review of legislation and assessments, we address how these concepts are and could be embedded within Canadian impact assessments. To date, environmental flows have been considered in assessments involving dams, oil and gas, and mining, and the focus has been on fish and habitat, rather than Indigenous rights and cumulative withdrawals. We propose Regional Readiness through water councils, change, and consensus (three Cs) to prepare watershed actors to protect environment and cultural flows in impact assessments. The three Cs are: (1) Advisory councils dedicated to creating regional objectives and rules for ecosystem and rights-based needs, (2) Assessing hydrologic and water quality change with regional data and relationships to water, and (3) Building consensus on the cultural and ecological significance and sensitivity of water bodies. Development of this framework follows examples from Canadian water-related assessments and initiatives: Wolastoq Ecological Limits of Hydrological Alteration, Athabasca Chipewyan and Mikisew Cree assessments, Yinka Dene Water Management Policy, Grand Council Treaty #3 Nibi Declaration, Slave Watershed Environmental Effects Program, and Strategic Assessment of Wood Buffalo National Park. These cases demonstrate how the inclusion of environmental and cultural flows processes in assessment could enable greater water protection.</p>","PeriodicalId":543,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Management","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144473553","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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":"Why We Disagree about the Climate Impact of Forestry - A Quantitative Analysis of Swedish Research.","authors":"Göran Englund, Jeannette Eggers, Bengt-Gunnar Jonsson, Maximilian Schulte, Torbjörn Skytt","doi":"10.1007/s00267-025-02208-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-025-02208-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Intensifying forest management or reducing harvest levels are proposed as alternative strategies for mitigating climate change. Today, scientific disagreement over which approach is more effective impedes the development and implementation of effective climate change mitigation policies. In this paper we review studies of the climate impact of Swedish forestry to clarify the conceptual and methodological differences that underly the disagreement. To examine how assumptions concerning crucial parameters contribute to differing conclusions, we simulated various management scenarios for Gävleborg County in central Sweden. We find that support for either side in the debate can be obtained by adjusting assumptions about substitution levels and the design of management interventions. Studies favoring intensified management over reduced harvesting assume relatively high substitution levels and implement intervention levels - such as increased fertilization or expanded stump harvest - which are considerably higher (2.4-17.7 times) than the levels recommended by the Swedish Forest Agency. Conversely, when using recommended intervention levels and substitution levels based on current usage of forest biomass, reduced harvest strategies show greater climate benefits than intensified management. These findings emphasize the need to focus the scientific discussion on i) the empirical evidence for various substitution levels and ii) the relevance of alternative management scenarios for the development of effective climate change mitigation policies.</p>","PeriodicalId":543,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Management","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144473555","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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":"Developing Nature-based Solutions in the Alps: an Ex-situ Experiment to Select Willows for Subalpine Soil and Water Bioengineering Structures.","authors":"Juliette Rousset, Sarah Menoli, Adeline François, Stéphanie Gaucherand, André Evette","doi":"10.1007/s00267-025-02211-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-025-02211-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Streambank erosion control and management are experiencing a significant paradigm shift, particularly in mountainous regions. There is an increasing demand for Nature-based Solutions such as soil and water bioengineering techniques (SWBE) with living plant material to protect both human assets and biodiversity from streambank erosion. The success of these techniques is highly dependent on vegetation growth and requires solid knowledge of the local species used. However, our knowledge of appropriate subalpine species is still limited, thus hindering the advancement of effective SWBE in these environments. To address this gap, we established an ex-situ experiment to study the biotechnical traits of subalpine species that contribute to streambank protection. Four species were cultivated in a growth chamber for four months: Salix caesia Vill., Salix foetida Schleich. ex DC. and Salix hastata Vill., restricted to the subalpine belt, and Salix purpurea L., a ubiquitous species. We then assessed both aerial and root traits (number, length and biomass) to evaluate the species' potential for use in erosion control. The survival rate was excellent - up to 96%. S. hastata had high belowground biomass, promising for substrate stabilization, while S. purpurea produced numerous long shoots appropriate for surface protection. The two other willow species provided intermediate benefits, but their presence could promote biodiversity in SWBE structures. Our study reveals promising potential for the use of these species in high-elevation SWBE. Their morphological differences suggest that the four species should be used in accordance with specific streambank contexts.</p>","PeriodicalId":543,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Management","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144473554","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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":"GIS, Remote Sensing and Machine Learning: Data Integration to Support the Management of Coastal Island Ecosystems.","authors":"David J Lieske, Stephanie Avery-Gomm, Patrick Champagne, Leah Fulton","doi":"10.1007/s00267-025-02202-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00267-025-02202-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Islands are important components of many coastal areas around the world; however, by virtue of their geographical isolation, the state of these ecosystems is often poorly known. To address the knowledge gap for the province of Nova Scotia, Canada, geographic information systems (GIS), remote sensing (RS), and machine learning (ML) were used to examine the status of nearly 4000 islands. We classified islands topographically and determined, based on 1 m resolution LiDAR, that approximately 70% are <2 m average elevation and highly vulnerable to partial or complete flooding under near-term regimes of sea level rise and storm surge potential. Vegetation cover was strongly related to topographic class, with higher, more steeply-sided islands having more tree cover and less sand, rock, and wetland. Climatic changes were most pronounced in the form of sea surface temperature (SST) warming, with August changes (+0.063 °C yr^-1) being 6.3× higher than the global mean background rate, particularly affecting the Gulf of St. Lawrence subregion. Human activity, in the form of marine traffic, is a pervasive stress. To integrate all these factors, a random forest ML model was trained using tree mortality from forest inventory records as the environmental response, and the predictions were used to define a region-wide Ecosystem Stress Index (ESI). These findings demonstrate the kinds of insights geospatial data and ML can provide, and offer tools for improving our understanding of coastal island vulnerability.</p>","PeriodicalId":543,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Management","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144339705","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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":"Assessing Pandemic Impacts to Collaborative Management in Parks and Protected Areas.","authors":"Allie McCreary, Erin Seekamp, Michael B Edwards","doi":"10.1007/s00267-025-02207-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00267-025-02207-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Partnerships are key in helping public land management agencies complete mission-critical conservation work and maintain agency relevancy through community engagement. While there had been a growing trend toward collaboration for many public agencies, the COVID-19 pandemic challenged the ability of volunteers and other groups to work with land management personnel. This study examined public agency personnel's reported work accomplishments with partners and perceptions of partnerships before (2019), during (2020), and the year after (2021) the pandemic. Results indicate that partnership engagement on conservation-related tasks declined during the pandemic. While the volume of work somewhat recovered in 2021, there remained impacts to the types of partners personnel worked with and to personnel's perceptions of institutional emphasis on partnerships. Implications for public agencies and their partners include increased emphasis on finding partnership 'champions' within the agency and umbrella organizations outside of the agency to facilitate partnership arrangements.</p>","PeriodicalId":543,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Management","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144332256","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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":"Upcycling Terminalia catappa Leaf Waste as Phytotherapy for Red Hybrid Tilapia: Protective Effects and Mechanisms against Hypersaline Ecosystems.","authors":"Xu Wang, Norhidayah Mohd Taufek, Norhafiza Mohd Arshad, Jianan Lu","doi":"10.1007/s00267-025-02201-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-025-02201-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Terminalia catappa leaf (TCL) is a long-undervalued derivative of the Terminalia catappa tree that commonly been regarded as natural and agricultural waste. This study novelly investigates the use of TCL as phytotherapy in aquatic ecosystem for its protective effects against hypersaline water and discusses the underlying mechanisms by using red hybrid tilapia (Oreochromis mossambicus × O. niloticus). An 8-week experiment was conducted to evaluate growth performance, lysozyme activity, neurotoxicity, and antioxidant defense in fish exposed to TCL at a sub-lethal concentration (1/10^th LC₅₀, LC₅₀ = 1.21 g/L). Red hybrid tilapias were randomly assigned to 4 groups: T1, control group; T2, TCL group; T3, saltwater group; T4, saltwater + TCL group. The growth parameters and organosomatic index were evaluated to assess the impact of TCL on the growth performance. The lysozyme levels in serum, body mucus, brain, and liver were determined to evaluate the innate immune response. Neurotoxicity was assessed by measuring acetylcholine (ACh) and acetylcholinesterase (AChE) in the brain and liver to understand the contribution of TCL in alleviating salinity stress. Oxidative defense was evaluated by measuring the activities of catalase (CAT), glutathione (GSH), glutathione reductase (GR), total antioxidant capacity (T-AOC), and superoxide dismutase (SOD) in the brain and liver. Additionally, malondialdehyde (MDA) was measured as an indicator of oxidative stress. Results show that TCL improves growth performance, enhances immune responses, and alleviates oxidative stress, neurotoxicity, and inflammation under both normal and high salinity conditions. Antioxidant activities (SOD, CAT, GSH, GR, T-AOC) increased, while MDA decreased with TCL supplementation. These findings highlight the upcycling potential of TCL (0.121 g/L) in promoting aquatic ecosystem resilience, with broad implications for improving aquaculture in saline-alkaline regions, particularly in tropical and subtropical zones.</p>","PeriodicalId":543,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Management","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144324002","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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":"Using Wildlife-Vehicle Collision Records to Inform Wildlife Corridor Planning.","authors":"Amy Villamagna, Eric Laflamme, Hyun Joong Kim, Rebecca Martin","doi":"10.1007/s00267-025-02214-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-025-02214-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Wildlife-vehicle collisions (WVCs) impose serious and increasing environmental, economic, and societal costs worldwide. Examining temporal and spatial patterns in WVCs is a critical piece of the wildlife connectivity puzzle that can help reduce the frequency and severity of collisions for humans and wildlife. We analyzed WVC records in New Hampshire (USA) between 2002 and 2019 to visualize spatiotemporal patterns, evaluate statistical predictors of WVCs, and to identify priority areas for mitigation efforts. More than 27,000 WVCs were reported between 2002 and 2019 throughout the entire state, averaging approximately 1500 WVCs per year. WVCs occurred on roads of all functional classes; notably, 33% occurred on \"local\" roads and at least 62% on roads with posted speeds greater than 40 mph. We calculated road-level metrics, including total WVCs and WVC density (i.e., WVCs per mile) over predefined, multiyear period and compared these metrics over space and time. Positive relationships were observed between WVCs and local road density, which corresponds to population centers within the state; however, only temporal factors were of practical significance in explaining WVC frequency. To inform statewide mitigation measures, we ranked roads based on WVCs per mile and total WVCs and identified the top 5% road for each during the most recent time periods.</p>","PeriodicalId":543,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Management","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144315687","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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}