Artificial intelligence, systemic risks, and sustainability

A global horizon scan of the future impacts of robotics and autonomous systems on urban ecosystems

(2021) Mark A. Goddard et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Higher yields and more biodiversity on smaller farms

(2021) Vincent Ricciardi et al.   Nature Sustainability

Farm robots: ecological utopia or dystopia?

(2021) Thomas Daum   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

The role of artificial intelligence in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals

(2020) Ricardo Vinuesa et al.   Nature Communications

Participatory Sensing and Digital Twin City: Updating Virtual City Models for Enhanced Risk-Informed Decision-Making

(2020) Youngjib Ham et al.   JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT IN ENGINEERING

The erosion of relational values resulting from landscape simplification

(2020) Maraja Riechers et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

The future(s) of digital agriculture and sustainable food systems: An analysis of high-level policy documents

(2020) Alana Lajoie-O'Malley et al.   Ecosystem Services

Drivers of declining CO2 emissions in 18 developed economies

(2019) Corinne Le Quéré et al.   Nature Climate Change

Deep learning and process understanding for data-driven Earth system science

(2019) Markus Reichstein et al.   NATURE

Machine behaviour

(2019) Iyad Rahwan et al.   NATURE

Precision Farming at the Nexus of Agricultural Production and the Environment

(2019) Robert Finger et al.   Annual Review of Resource Economics

Why is biodiversity data-deficiency an ongoing conservation dilemma in Africa?

(2019) Ahmed A.H. Siddig   JOURNAL FOR NATURE CONSERVATION

Anatomy and resilience of the global production ecosystem

(2019) M. Nyström et al.   NATURE

Why deep-learning AIs are so easy to fool

(2019) Douglas Heaven   NATURE

Dissecting racial bias in an algorithm used to manage the health of populations

(2019) Ziad Obermeyer et al.   SCIENCE

Estimation of energy consumption in machine learning

(2019) Eva García-Martín et al.   JOURNAL OF PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING

A scalable scheme to implement data-driven agriculture for small-scale farmers

(2019) Daniel Jiménez et al.   Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment

Alternative discourses around the governance of food security: A case study from Ethiopia

(2019) Tolera Senbeto Jiren et al.   Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment

Use of machine learning to investigate illegal wildlife trade on social media

(2018) Enrico Di Minin et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Middle-range theories of land system change

(2018) P. Meyfroidt et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

Don’t forget people in the use of big data for development

(2018) Joshua Blumenstock   NATURE

Deep learning to represent subgrid processes in climate models

(2018) Stephan Rasp et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Interdependent Infrastructure as Linked Social, Ecological, and Technological Systems (SETSs) to Address Lock‐in and Enhance Resilience

(2018) Samuel A. Markolf et al.   Earths Future

The case for technology investments in the environment

(2017) Lucas N. Joppa   NATURE

Sociotechnical transitions for deep decarbonization

(2017) Frank W. Geels et al.   SCIENCE

Designing Autonomy: Opportunities for New Wildness in the Anthropocene

(2017) Bradley Cantrell et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

‘New Wilderness’ Requires Algorithmic Transparency: A Response to Cantrell et al.

(2017) Victor Galaz et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Advancing understanding of the complex nature of urban systems

(2016) Timon McPhearson et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Social-ecological resilience and biosphere-based sustainability science

(2016) Carl Folke et al.   ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY

From Observation to Information: Data-Driven Understanding of on Farm Yield Variation

(2016) Daniel Jiménez et al.   PLoS One

Fighting poverty with data

(2016) J. E. Blumenstock   SCIENCE

Filling in biodiversity threat gaps

(2016) L. N. Joppa et al.   SCIENCE

Regime Shifts in the Anthropocene: Drivers, Risks, and Resilience

(2015) Juan Carlos Rocha et al.   PLoS One

Sustainability transformations: a resilience perspective

(2014) Per Olsson et al.   ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY

Applying resilience thinking to production ecosystems

(2014) L. Rist et al.   Ecosphere

Globally networked risks and how to respond

(2013) Dirk Helbing   NATURE

Tipping Toward Sustainability: Emerging Pathways of Transformation

(2011) Frances Westley et al.   AMBIO

Regime shifts in ecological systems can occur with no warning

(2010) Alan Hastings et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Social–ecological memory in urban gardens—Retaining the capacity for management of ecosystem services

(2010) Stephan Barthel et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

Novel ecosystems: implications for conservation and restoration

(2009) Richard J. Hobbs et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Integrating Ecology and Economics in the Study of Ecosystem Services: Some Lessons Learned

(2009) Stephen Polasky et al.   Annual Review of Resource Economics