Review
Development Studies
Md Sarwar Hossain, Sayantani M. Basak, Md Nurul Amin, Carl C. Anderson, Emilie Cremin, Fabrice G. Renaud
Summary: This article discusses the importance of social and ecological systems adaptation to climate change, identifies key research gaps and challenges, and suggests future research directions. It also emphasizes the opportunity to integrate climate change adaptation into development planning.
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
(2023)
Article
Ecology
Benjamin L. H. Jones, Leanne C. Cullen-Unsworth, Maricela De la Torre-Castro, Lina M. Nordlund, Richard K. F. Unsworth, Johan S. Eklof
Summary: This study investigates the unintended consequences of sustainable development initiatives in tropical coastal environments using tropical seagrass meadows as a model social-ecological system. The study shows that such initiatives can have major unintended effects, which, if not assessed and addressed, can undermine the goals of sustainable development. The study emphasizes the need to consider both positive and negative effects as well as potential uncertainties when planning development interventions.
ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Tasi-Jung Jiang, Pankaj Kumar, Herlin Chien, Osamu Saito
Summary: This paper investigates water resource management in Pinglin District, Taiwan through key informant interviews and hydrological modeling. The study reveals challenges of water scarcity and deterioration in water quality in the region. The results suggest that the PES scheme can play a positive role in integrated water resource management.
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Anita Lazurko, Vanessa Schweizer, Derek Armitage
Summary: Climate change is causing more frequent and severe extreme events in river basins worldwide. The complexities of social-ecological systems make it challenging to build resilience to these impacts, as they involve social-ecological interactions, cross-scale feedbacks, and diverse actor interests. This study used a transdisciplinary scenario modeling process to explore the future of a river basin under climate change, considering the interactions between resilience-building efforts and the complex, cross-scale social-ecological system. The results highlight the potential of the cross-impact balances (CIB) method in generating insights about the trajectory of social-ecological systems.
SUSTAINABILITY SCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Environmental Studies
Veronica Farreras, Pablo F. Salvador
Summary: Participatory Guarantee Systems (PGS) can contribute to the integration of agri-food systems into their Social-Ecological Systems (SES), promoting agricultural multifunctionality and diversification. This supports rural development, employment, family agriculture, food sovereignty, and food security. The biophysical, social, and economic conditions influencing the establishment of PGS through collective action have been under-studied. Applying Elinor Ostrom's SES framework helps to identify the conditions for effective and sustainable PGS.
Article
Environmental Studies
Taiana Homobono, Maria Helena Guimaraes, Catarina Esgalhado, Livia Madureira
Summary: Water governance in the Mediterranean context is a major challenge, and any efforts towards sustainability require a holistic understanding of the challenges and interactions among actors involved. This study examines water governance in the farming sector of three municipalities in southern Portugal using the social-ecological systems (SES) framework. The study identifies the lack of integrated strategies for development and communication among actors as key factors affecting water governance.
Article
Ecology
Mifuyu Ogawa, Masashi Soga, Takehito Yoshida
Summary: The study found a positive relationship between the participation of diverse actors and usage of traditional and local knowledge with the actions and effects of LBSAPs, which were also influenced by various social and ecological factors.
ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY
(2021)
Article
Pediatrics
Xiaoqin Zhu, Daniel T. L. Shek, Lu Yu
Summary: The study found that positive parental factors and school interpersonal relationship factors have significant positive effects on children's character attributes, while negative parenting indicator psychological control did not serve as a negative predictor of adolescents' character attributes.
FRONTIERS IN PEDIATRICS
(2022)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Cristina Quintas-Soriano, Jodi Brandt, Colden V. Baxter, Elena M. Bennett, Juan Miguel Requena-Mullor, Antonio J. Castro
Summary: This paper introduces a conceptual framework for characterizing trajectories of coupling and de-coupling in social-ecological river systems. By analyzing two conceptual scenarios and linking them to empirical case examples, key concepts for understanding social-ecological system trajectories are defined. Additionally, a quantitative approach for evaluating the level of social-ecological coupling and de-coupling trajectories in other contexts is proposed.
SUSTAINABILITY SCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Pu Niu, Yulong Jiang, Yongfang Yang, Li Wang
Summary: This study examines the vulnerability of the farmland social-ecological system in Sanmenxia City, China, using a unique perspective to trace its evolution. The results indicate a decreasing trend in vulnerability over a 17-year period, with uneven spatial distribution. Factors such as population growth, urbanization, farmland use intensity, and policy implementation have contributed to the reduction of natural risk impact on the farmland system.
FRONTIERS IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Patrick Meyfroidt, Ariane de Bremond, Casey M. Ryan, Emma Archer, Richard Aspinall, Abha Chhabra, Gilberto Camara, Esteve Corbera, Ruth DeFries, Sandra Diaz, Jinwei Dong, Erle C. Ellis, Karl-Heinz Erb, Janet A. Fisher, Rachael D. Garrett, Nancy E. Golubiewski, H. Ricardo Grau, J. Morgan Grove, Helmut Haberl, Andreas Heinimann, Patrick Hostert, Esteban G. Jobbagy, Suzi Kerr, Tobias Kuemmerle, Eric F. Lambin, Sandra Lavorel, Sharachandra Lele, Ole Mertz, Peter Messerli, Graciela Metternicht, Darla K. Munroe, Harini Nagendra, Jonas Ostergaard Nielsen, Dennis S. Ojima, Dawn Cassandra Parker, Unai Pascual, John R. Porter, Navin Ramankutty, Anette Reenberg, Rinku Roy Chowdhury, Karen C. Seto, Verena Seufert, Hideaki Shibata, Allison Thomson, Billie L. Turner Ii, Jotaro Urabe, Tom Veldkamp, Peter H. Verburg, Gete Zeleke, Erasmus K. H. J. zu Ermgassen
Summary: The paper synthesizes 10 important truths in land use, which help explain the challenges of achieving sustainability in land use and point toward solutions. These facts have important implications for guiding scientists, policymakers, and practitioners in meeting sustainability challenges in land use.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Takuro Uehara, Ryo Sakurai, Takeshi Hidaka
Summary: People's support and involvement are crucial for the sustainable use and conservation of social-ecological systems (SESs). Integrating people's values into management decisions is essential, especially the role of relational values, which are associated with human-nature relationships. This study explores how relational values impact people's support and involvement in SES management, and finds that cultivating relational values can promote pro-SES behavior and gain people's support.
FRONTIERS IN MARINE SCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Sara Perl Egendorf, Peter Groffman, Zhongqi Cheng, Michael Menser, Jan Mun, Howard Mielke
Summary: This article proposes a novel multiscale systems science approach for systemic environmental issues, involving understanding the problem, identifying interventions, and applying experiments to study their effectiveness. Using soil lead exposure as an example, the framework is illustrated and the flexibility of applying this method to contamination issues in other regions and other pressing environmental issues of our time is emphasized.
ELEMENTA-SCIENCE OF THE ANTHROPOCENE
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Meghan L. Mussehl, Avril C. Horne, J. Angus Webb, N. LeRoy Poff
Summary: This paper describes how the adaptive management of environmental flows allows for stakeholder engagement and the incorporation of diverse perspectives. The paper presents a holistic framework that includes stakeholder participation and outlines the steps, roles, and tools for successful engagement. It emphasizes the importance of shifting the focus from deliverables to people-oriented outcomes, such as continuous learning and relationship-building.
FRONTIERS IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Ecology
Xiangyu Luo, Peng Jiang, Jingyi Yang, Jing Jin, Jun Yang
Summary: Incorporating the concept of ecosystem services into urban planning and management practices helps improve urban ecosystem management, but the progress is slow due to political and technical barriers. By developing an urban ecosystem service model based on the social-ecological model framework and simulating the impacts of different policy scenarios, we can guide urban planning and management to enhance urban ecosystem services.
ECOSYSTEM SERVICES
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Elena Raffetti, Giuliano Di Baldassarre
Summary: This article investigates the costs and benefits of school closures and discusses their impact on the physical and mental well-being of students and society. The authors emphasize the importance of considering both short-term infection control and long-term consequences when deciding on school closures.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Ming Li, Yukuan Wang, Congshan Tian, Liang Emlyn Yang, Md Sarwar Hossain
Summary: This study developed a household typology for two selected counties in southwest China using multivariate analysis techniques and the classification tree method, identifying five distinct household types associated with specific cropland use behaviors. The decision-making behaviors of these households were verified with bounded rationality theory, and the quantitative classification criteria obtained in this study were clear and easily identifiable and usable by ABMs.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Sayantani M. Basak, Md. Sarwar Hossain, Declan T. O'Mahony, Henryk Okarma, El zbieta Widera, Izabela A. Wierzbowska
Summary: Europe is experiencing dynamic land use changes that are leading to an expansion of urban habitat and an increase in human-wildlife conflict. This study conducted a questionnaire survey in Krakow, Poland, in 2010 and 2020 to assess people's attitudes towards urban wildlife and changes in perceptions over a decade. The results showed increased encounters with certain urban wildlife and a significant increase in personal anxiety, property intrusion, and crop destruction as the most frequent responses to conflicts. Respondents preferred nonlethal methods to manage the conflicts.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2022)
Article
Water Resources
Md Nasif Ahsan, Fatema Khatun, Md Sariful Islam, Md Sarwar Hossain, Benzir Huq Mou, Pankaj Kumar
Summary: This study examines the determinants and impacts of adaptation strategies to household-level water stress in the southwestern coastal area of Bangladesh. The results reveal six commonly-practiced adaptation strategies and suggest that adopting these strategies can significantly reduce household water stress.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Daniel Nohrstedt, Jacob Hileman, Maurizio Mazzoleni, Giuliano Di Baldassarre, Charles F. Parker
Summary: The influence of disasters on adaptation actions in cities is a subject of debate. The existing knowledge base mainly consists of individual or small-scale case studies, lacking a global overview of evidence on disaster impacts and adaptation. This study uses regression analysis to examine the effects of disaster frequency and severity on four types of adaptation actions in 549 cities. The results suggest that in countries with greater adaptive capacity, economic losses increase the level of adaptation actions targeting recently experienced disaster types, as well as actions to enhance general disaster preparedness. The frequency of disasters reduces actions targeting hazard types other than those that recently occurred, while human losses have minimal effects. Comparisons between cities with different levels of adaptive capacity reveal a wealth effect, as more affluent countries incur higher economic damages from disasters but also have greater governance capacity, leading to both incentives and opportunities for adaptation measures. Although the overall impact of disaster frequency and severity on adaptation actions is limited, the results are sensitive to the types of disaster impacts, adaptation actions, and adaptive capacities considered.
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Emily Mutea, Md Sarwar Hossain, Ali Ahmed, Chinwe Ifejika Speranza
Summary: This study assessed the association between shocks, socio-economic factors, and household food security across Kenya. The findings showed that the food security status in Kenya is not satisfactory, with large disparities across the country. Demographics and socio-economic aspects positively influence food security, while social and economic shocks negatively impact it. Achieving the Zero Hunger goal by 2030 will likely remain challenging for Kenya, and efforts to reduce inequality are crucial. The findings can provide useful insights for policy formulation and implementation towards the Zero Hunger goal in Kenya.
ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS
(2022)
Editorial Material
Water Resources
Britta Hoellermann, Sally Rangecroft, Melanie Rohse, Eddie W. Banks, Rosie Day, Giuliano Di Baldassarre, Theresa Frommen, Yasunori Hayashi, Karen Lebek, Elena Mondino, Maria Rusca, Marthe Wens, Anne F. Van Loon
Summary: This reply explores two main aspects: the integration of data from the social and natural sciences, and the importance of transdisciplinary research. The authors agree and highlight the time-intensive learning, reflection, and participation processes for researchers, practitioners, and participants.
HYDROLOGICAL SCIENCES JOURNAL
(2022)
Editorial Material
Water Resources
David J. Yu, Melissa Haeffner, Hanseok Jeong, Saket Pande, Juliane Dame, Giuliano Di Baldassarre, Glenda Garcia-Santos, Leon Hermans, Rachata Muneepeerakul, Fernando Nardi, Matthew R. Sanderson, Fuqiang Tian, Yongping Wei, Josepha Wessels, Murugesu Sivapalan
Summary: Socio-hydrology has expanded the knowledge of the hydrological community by incorporating ideas and approaches from other scientific disciplines, particularly social sciences. However, there is still much to explore in terms of capturing human agency and combining different methods and disciplinary views from both hydrological and social sciences. This paper, based on the Special Issue Advancing Socio-hydrology published in this journal from 2019 to 2022, highlights the importance of understanding the multi-level nature of human decision making and applying an interdisciplinary multi-method approach to enhance the understanding of coupled human-water systems.
HYDROLOGICAL SCIENCES JOURNAL
(2022)
Article
Agronomy
Md Nurul Amin, Lisa Lobry de Bruyn, Andrew Lawson, Brian Wilson, Md Sarwar Hossain
Summary: This study investigated soil carbon management practices in two farming cohorts, with low and moderate soil fertility, in a rotational grazing regime in Australia. Farmers in both cohorts were determined to continue their grazing regime due to multifaceted benefits and whole-farm sustainability. The focus was on agri-environmental benefits of soil carbon management practices rather than solely increasing soil carbon. Farmers in low-fertility farms also emphasized mental health and landscape esthetics as outcomes of soil carbon management.
AGRONOMY FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Maria Rusca, Elisa Savelli, Giuliano Di Baldassarre, Adriano Biza, Gabriele Messori
Summary: Climate change-related drought risks are intensifying in urban areas, particularly in vulnerable contexts. However, the understanding of how social power, agency, and economic visions influence societal responses to droughts is limited. This study builds a scenario of the potential impacts of an unprecedented drought in Maputo, a city in Southern Africa with uneven development and vulnerability. The findings highlight the potential for future droughts to exacerbate urban inequalities, create public health crises, and hinder progress in water access. Climate policies need to address these inequalities and develop equitable measures for water distribution and conservation to ensure sustainable and inclusive adaptation to future droughts.
NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE
(2023)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Elisa Savelli, Maurizio Mazzoleni, Giuliano Di Baldassarre, Hannah Cloke, Maria Rusca
Summary: In the past 20 years, over 80 metropolitan cities worldwide have faced severe water shortages due to droughts and unsustainable water use. Future projections are even more alarming, with urban water crises expected to worsen and disproportionately affect socially, economically, and politically disadvantaged populations. This study demonstrates the role of social inequalities in these crises, highlighting the implications of water overconsumption by privileged social groups and individuals.
NATURE SUSTAINABILITY
(2023)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Sara Lindersson, Elena Raffetti, Maria Rusca, Luigia Brandimarte, Johanna Mard, Giuliano Di Baldassarre
Summary: A global analysis of income inequality and flood disasters shows that unequal countries have higher flood fatalities. Economic inequality is rising globally, which significantly affects social vulnerability to natural hazards.
NATURE SUSTAINABILITY
(2023)
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Heidi Kreibich, Kai Schroeter, Giuliano Di Baldassarre, Anne F. Van Loon, Maurizio Mazzoleni, Guta Wakbulcho Abeshu, Svetlana Agafonova, Amir AghaKouchak, Hafzullah Aksoy, Camila Alvarez-Garreton, Blanca Aznar, Laila Balkhi, Marlies H. Barendrecht, Sylvain Biancamaria, Liduin Bos-Burgering, Chris Bradley, Yus Budiyono, Wouter Buytaert, Lucinda Capewell, Hayley Carlson, Yonca Cavus, Anais Couasnon, Gemma Coxon, Ioannis Daliakopoulos, Marleen C. de Ruiter, Claire Delus, Mathilde Erfurt, Giuseppe Esposito, Didier Francois, Frederic Frappart, Jim Freer, Natalia Frolova, Animesh K. Gain, Manolis Grillakis, Jordi Oriol Grima, Diego A. Guzman, Laurie S. Huning, Monica Ionita, Maxim Kharlamov, Dao Nguyen Khoi, Natalie Kieboom, Maria Kireeva, Aristeidis Koutroulis, Waldo Lavado-Casimiro, Hong-Yi Li, Maria Carmen LLasat, David Macdonald, Johanna Mard, Hannah Mathew-Richards, Andrew McKenzie, Alfonso Mejia, Eduardo Mario Mendiondo, Marjolein Mens, Shifteh Mobini, Guilherme Samprogna Mohor, Viorica Nagavciuc, Thanh Ngo-Duc, Huynh Thi Thao Nguyen, Pham Thi Thao Nhi, Olga Petrucci, Nguyen Hong Quan, Pere Quintana-Segui, Saman Razavi, Elena Ridolfi, Jannik Riegel, Md Shibly Sadik, Nivedita Sairam, Elisa Savelli, Alexey Sazonov, Sanjib Sharma, Johanna Soerensen, Felipe Augusto Arguello Souza, Kerstin Stahl, Max Steinhausen, Michael Stoelzle, Wiwiana Szalinska, Qiuhong Tang, Fuqiang Tian, Tamara Tokarczyk, Carolina Tovar, Thi Van Thu Tran, Marjolein H. J. van Huijgevoort, Michelle T. H. van Vliet, Sergiy Vorogushyn, Thorsten Wagener, Yueling Wang, Doris E. Wendt, Elliot Wickham, Long Yang, Mauricio Zambrano-Bigiarini, Philip J. Ward
Summary: As the impacts of hydrological extremes increase, understanding the drivers of changes in risk and impacts is crucial for effective flood and drought risk management. However, there is currently a lack of comprehensive data on the processes and interactions leading to flood and drought impacts. This benchmark dataset provides unique socio-hydrological data on paired flood and drought events, covering a wide range of conditions. It enables comparative analyses and context-specific assessments, and can be used for exploring causal links and developing socio-hydrological models.
EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE DATA
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Bin Li, Yi Zheng, Giuliano Di Baldassarre, Peng Xu, Saket Pande, Murugesu Sivapalan
Summary: This study explores the groundwater vulnerability of Beijing and investigates the impact of human response on the groundwater-population-economy system. The results show that rapid economic development and larger precipitation may lead to short-term recovery of groundwater table but contribute to more severe depletion in the long run. Strengthening policymakers' views on groundwater depletion and improving labor force input can effectively reduce groundwater vulnerability.
WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH
(2023)
