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Environmental Studies
Alexandros Paraskevas, Mireia Guix
Summary: This article explores the limited attention given to creeping crises in crisis management and proposes how tourism organisations can address unprecedented creeping crises. It tests a creeping crisis response matrix by analyzing 108 earnings calls from 22 hotel groups covering the first 16 months of the pandemic. The study finds that some organizations are unable to detect creeping crises during the incubation periods or the later re-emergence, highlighting the advantage of early exposure in crisis response. The study also challenges the conventional wisdom that organizational responses to unknown crises are always reactive, showing that organizations deploy a mix of responses (reactive, adaptive, protective, and proactive) even in the early stages of a crisis. As the framing of the crisis improves, crisis responses shift from survival to full-on experimentation, to response by design, and then to response by protocol. The proposed matrix can serve as a response roadmap for navigating future, unknown, creeping crises.
TOURISM MANAGEMENT
(2023)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Adam C. Castonguay, Stephen Polasky, Matthew H. Holden, Mario Herrero, Daniel Mason-D'Croz, Cecile Godde, Jinfeng Chang, James Gerber, G. Bradd Witt, Edward T. Game, Brett A. Bryan, Brendan Wintle, Katie Lee, Payal Bal, Eve McDonald-Madden
Summary: Beef production is a complex global sustainability challenge that involves reducing poverty and hunger, as well as addressing climate change issues. Understanding the trade-offs between these goals on a global scale and at fine spatial resolution is crucial in achieving a globally sustainable beef industry.
NATURE SUSTAINABILITY
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Alan Cooper, Chris S. M. Turney, Jonathan Palmer, Alan Hogg, Matt McGlone, Janet Wilmshurst, Andrew M. Lorrey, Timothy J. Heaton, James M. Russell, Ken McCracken, Julien G. Anet, Eugene Rozanov, Marina Friedel, Ivo Suter, Thomas Peter, Raimund Muscheler, Florian Adolphi, Anthony Dosseto, J. Tyler Faith, Pavla Fenwick, Christopher J. Fogwill, Konrad Hughen, Mathew Lipson, Jiabo Liu, Norbert Nowaczyk, Eleanor Rainsley, Christopher Bronk Ramsey, Paolo Sebastianelli, Yassine Souilmi, Janelle Stevenson, Zoe Thomas, Raymond Tobler, Roland Zech
Summary: The study utilized ancient New Zealand kauri trees to investigate the impact of the Laschamps Excursion on atmospheric radiocarbon levels. Through radiocarbon dating and global chemistry-climate modeling, they found that geomagnetic field minima and Grand Solar Minima led to global climate shifts, causing environmental changes and extinction events.
Article
Environmental Studies
Walid Mensi, Xuan Vinh Vo, Sang Hoon Kang
Summary: This paper examines the volatility spillover effects between precious metals futures, Brent oil futures, and ASEAN stock markets, identifying that precious metals, crude oil, and the Vietnamese stock market are net receivers of spillovers regardless of market conditions, while Brent oil futures and Vietnamese stock markets become net contributors during bullish market conditions.
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Michele-Lee Moore, Lauren Hermanus, Scott Drimie, Loretta Rose, Mandisa Mbaligontsi, Hillary Musarurwa, Moses Ogutu, Khanyisa Oyowe, Per Olsson
Summary: COVID-19 not only posed direct threats to health and well-being, but also exacerbated existing social-ecological inequalities, leading to increased hunger and poverty. A study on change agents in six African countries examined their experiences and responses to COVID-19, revealing three main impacts: economic, hunger, and gender-based violence. The study also identified four uncertainties arising from policy responses, highlighting the need for further research on transformative change.
SUSTAINABILITY SCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Erik Joaquin Torres-Romero, Vincent Nijman, David Fernandez, Timothy M. Eppley
Summary: Anthropogenic pressures have severely impacted primate species richness globally and regionally, with factors such as croplands, road density, pasture lands, and human footprint having the most negative effects. However, protected areas and Indigenous Peoples' lands play a critical role in safeguarding primate species diversity.
GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY
(2023)
Editorial Material
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Alison Bentley
Summary: Russia's war has brought attention to the vulnerability of the global food supply, emphasizing the need for sustained investment to ensure food security in a changing climate.
Article
Environmental Sciences
James P. W. Robinson, Angus Garrett, Juan Carlos Paredes Esclapez, Eva Maire, Robert W. R. Parker, Nicholas A. J. Graham
Summary: Seafood is expected to be a key source of low-emissions nutritious food, but there are variations in nutrients and carbon footprints among species and production methods. Atlantic mackerel is the most available and has the lowest carbon footprint among wild-caught seafood in the UK market, but there are trade-offs between price, sustainability, and nutritional value. The current seafood system in the UK is not optimized to produce large amounts of nutritious, low-emissions seafood. Promoting the consumption of affordable species like mackerel could improve nutrient intake in the UK population at a low environmental cost.
ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS
(2022)
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Emma C. Hughes, David P. Edwards, Gavin H. Thomas
Summary: Biodiversity is under threat from global extinction, leading to a reduction in ecological trait diversity, evolutionary history, and ecosystem functioning and services. This study examines the impact of species losses on morphological and phylogenetic diversity in the global avian class and finds evidence of morphological homogenization but not phylogenetic homogenization. The loss of morphological diversity is expected to occur at a higher rate than predicted by species loss alone.
Article
Environmental Studies
Donglei Yu, Xiong Wenhui, Muhammad Khalid Anser, Abdelmohsen A. Nassani, Muhammad Imran, Khalid Zaman, Mohamed Haffar
Summary: The study investigates the relationship between mineral resource prices, renewable energy consumption, scientific advancement, mineral resource trading, production, and resource extraction demand in the top 10 resource-rich economies from 1995 to 2020. The findings indicate that resource pricing initially has a negative impact on demand, but becomes favorable in the long term. The study also reveals that the use of renewable energy sources increases the demand for mineral resources. This implies that renewable energy technology initially raises mineral resource demand, but reduces it in the long run.
Article
Economics
Richard C. K. Burdekin, Ran Tao
Summary: Gold displayed strong hedging value during the global financial crisis, but did not consistently exhibit this property in 2020. The market recovered quickly from the March 2020 lows, leading to less scope for hedging against losses in 2020.
ECONOMIC MODELLING
(2021)
Editorial Material
Multidisciplinary Sciences
John Hawks
Summary: Cooper et al. suggest that a weakening geomagnetic field prior to the Laschamps Excursion explains megafaunal extinctions and human cultural changes 42,000 years ago, but their specific claims are deemed false due to misinterpretation of data and cited works on extinctions and human cultural changes.
Editorial Material
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Andrea Picin, Stefano Benazzi, Ruth Blasco, Mateja Hajdinjak, Kristofer M. Helgen, Jean-Jacques Hublin, Jordi Rosell, Pontus Skoglund, Chris Stringer, Sahra Talamo
Summary: Cooper et al. suggest that the Laschamps geomagnetic inversion around 42,000 years ago led to global climatic shifts and major behavioral changes in prehistoric groups, but other scientific studies indicate that this proposition lacks evidence from current archaeological, paleoanthropological, and genetic records.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Tong Li, Ranjay K. Singh, Lizhen Cui, Zhihong Xu, Hongdou Liu, Francesco Fava, Shalander Kumar, Xiufang Song, Li Tang, Yanfen Wang, Yanbin Hao, Xiaoyong Cui
Summary: Sustainable livelihoods (SL) have become an important area of research in global environmental change, aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In this study, scientometric analysis was conducted to examine research patterns and frontier areas in SL research. The results revealed an exponential increase in SL research since 1991, with the Consortium of International Agricultural Research Center (CGIAR) contributing the most research documents and citations. The identified research areas included livelihoods, conservation, food security, management, climate change, and ecosystem services, and the frontier areas included mass tourism, solar home systems, artisanal and small-scale mining, forest quality, marine-protected areas, agricultural sustainability, sustainable rangeland management, and indigenous knowledge.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Engineering, Environmental
Xiaoqi Sun, Qing Shi, Xiaoqing Hao
Summary: Cobalt is recognized as a strategic mineral, but its geographically concentrated supply raises concerns. Understanding the impact of epicenter economies and crisis propagation is important for policy makers.
RESOURCES CONSERVATION AND RECYCLING
(2022)