Article
Environmental Sciences
Dominik Braunschweiger, Karin Ingold
Summary: Climate change impacts vary across different geographical contexts and primarily affect local areas, leading to a demand for local solutions. The local level plays a crucial role in adapting to climate change, but many European countries have not fully integrated adaptation into their local policies. We conducted a study on 21 Alpine Swiss municipalities to understand the slow progress of local adaptation. We found that significant past extreme events and high perceived climate risk are important for local adaptation, with the latter being the most influential factor.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY
(2023)
News Item
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Katharine Sanderson
Summary: Governments and companies are pledging to reduce and offset carbon emissions, but the lack of robust strategies to accomplish their goals is evident.
News Item
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Jeff Tollefson
Summary: The average global temperature has increased by 1.2 degrees Celsius, which has led to significant climate extremes.
Article
Psychology, Clinical
Sarah Parry, Sofi Rose McCarthy, Jennie Clark
Summary: The study found that most participants believed they had the personal skills to cope with climate change reporting on social media. They stated that media coverage on climate increased 'climate change anxiety' but did not affect their overall mental health. A four-stage experiential process emerged from the content analysis, involving observing social media's reporting of climate change, feeling emotionally affected, critically evaluating the content, and feeling motivated to engage in climate change activism. Participants discussed experiences of digital media, rather than solely social media.
CHILD AND ADOLESCENT MENTAL HEALTH
(2022)
Book Review
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Alexandra Witze
Summary: The United States should pay attention to learn from its past mistakes in decarbonization.
Article
Communication
Chao Yu, Drew B. Margolin, Jennifer R. Fownes, Danielle L. Eiseman, Allison M. Chatrchyan, Shorna B. Allred
Summary: The study found that while Democrats generally tweet more often about climate change than Republicans, within each party, tweeting frequency is primarily influenced by the level of concern among constituents rather than objective risks. Additionally, federal politicians are more partisan, while state and local politicians tend to play more to the crowd.
SOCIAL MEDIA + SOCIETY
(2021)
Editorial Material
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Dana Cuff
Summary: By adopting a radical planning approach, suburbs in the United States can become affordable, livable, and environmentally friendly.
Article
Astronomy & Astrophysics
M. Lockwood
Summary: The study compares the IAGA-endorsed Polar Cap Indices (PCN and PCS) for the northern and southern hemispheres from 1998 to 2018. The effects of different magnetic coordinates of the two stations, Thule in Greenland and Vostok in Antarctica, are investigated. The results show that PCS consistently correlates slightly better with solar wind parameters than PCN, and the correlations are highest for the predicted magnetopause reconnection voltage.
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SPACE PHYSICS
(2023)
Article
Gerontology
Senjooti Roy, Liat Ayalon
Summary: This study explores the importance of intergenerational compassion in climate-related expressions leading to intergenerational solidarity. The results show that compassion flows in both directions, with younger generations expressing forgiveness, empathy, and understanding towards older generations, and older generations advocating, changing lifestyles, and transmitting knowledge and skills to younger generations. The focus varies between industrialized and developing countries, and cultural factors play a significant role in intergenerational perceptions.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Tom Logan, Allison Reilly
Summary: Estimations of the risk from sea-level rise primarily focus on property damage caused by flooding. However, considering the impact of isolation caused by road flooding, the risks associated with sea-level rise may be more extensive and occur earlier than expected.
NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
C. Mumenthaler, O. Renaud, R. Gava, T. Brosch
Summary: The study found a nonlinear relationship between short-term temperature volatility and climate change-related tweets, with a volatility effect observed from 2016 onwards, indicating a change in people's mental representations of climate change.
GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Liman Man Wai Li, Dongmei Mei, Wen-Qiao Li, Kenichi Ito
Summary: The research examined the impact of dialectical thinking on people's anticipation of climate change, finding that Chinese participants were more likely to anticipate a stable trend in climate change compared to North American participants who were more likely to anticipate an increasing trend. Study 2 provided supportive evidence for the causal relationship between dialectical beliefs and anticipation of climate change.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Cinzia Runchina, Fernanda Fauth, Juan Gonzalez-Martinez
Summary: This article explores the abilities, thoughts, and expectations of Italian students in classical high schools in facing the challenges of new educational changes. The study, conducted in a classical high school in Cagliari, Italy, utilized a mixed methods approach to gather data through a digital skills questionnaire, semi-structured interviews, and focus groups. The findings indicate that adolescents possess the necessary skills for transmedia learning but need to improve their collaboration skills. From a cognitive and affective standpoint, students exhibit positivity and enthusiasm towards the new possibilities of transmedia learning.
BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Kilian Kuhla, Sven Norman Willner, Christian Otto, Leonie Wenz, Anders Levermann
Summary: The increasing carbon emissions and rising temperatures are likely to have profound impacts on economies and societies. Heat stress can significantly reduce labor productivity and lead to economic disturbances that spread through the global supply network. Without additional adaptation measures, it is expected that output losses due to heat stress will increase by about 24% in the next 20 years, causing market responses such as rising prices and supply shortages, which will strongly reduce consumers' purchasing power globally. This will have varying effects on different countries, with some benefiting temporarily from higher selling prices while others suffer losses in their entire national economy.
Article
Oceanography
Andrew D. Short
Summary: This paper reviews the behavior and status of Australian beach systems, predicting their response to future climate change impacts. While the 2021 IPCC AR6 report suggests a general recession of most Australian beaches by 2100, field data and satellite mapping indicate that 78% of Australia's beaches have been stable in the past few decades. The paper emphasizes the importance of studying and predicting beach behavior at a local level and suggests a sediment compartment approach for accurate predictions.
OCEAN & COASTAL MANAGEMENT
(2022)
Article
Engineering, Environmental
Mariana Rodriguez Valencia, Iain Davidson-Hunt, Fikret Berkes
Article
Environmental Sciences
Eranga K. Galappaththi, James D. Ford, Elena M. Bennett, Fikret Berkes
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
(2019)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Anthony Charles, Laura Loucks, Fikret Berkes, Derek Armitage
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY
(2020)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Rosemary Hill, Cigdem Adem, Wilfred Alangui, Zsolt Molnar, Yildiz Aumeeruddy-Thomas, Peter Bridgewater, Maria Tengo, Randy Thaman, Constant Y. Adou Yao, Fikret Berkes, Joji Carino, Manuela Carneiro da Cunha, Mariteuw C. Diaw, Sandra Diaz, Viviana E. Figueroa, Judy Fisher, Preston Hardison, Kaoru Ichikawa, Peris Kariuki, Madhav Karki, Phil O. B. Lyver, Pernilla Malmer, Onel Masardule, Alfred A. Oteng Yeboah, Diego Pacheco, Tamar Pataridze, Edgar Perez, Michele-Marie Roue, Hassan Roba, Jennifer Rubis, Osamu Saito, Dayuan Xue
CURRENT OPINION IN ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
(2020)
Editorial Material
Engineering, Environmental
Madhav Gadgil, Fikret Berkes, Carl Folke
Article
Environmental Sciences
Eranga K. Galappaththi, James D. Ford, Elena M. Bennett, Fikret Berkes
Summary: The study compared the adaptation measures of Inuit and Coastal-Vedda communities to climate change, finding that two common adaptive strategies across the communities are diversification and adaptive co-management. Additionally, there are eight sources of resilience identified, and definitive characteristics for successful community adaptation include continuous learning, capacity-building, rootedness, collective action, and flexibility.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY
(2021)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Joyce Hsiu-yen Yeh, Su-chen Lin, Shu-chuan Lai, Ying-hao Huang, Chen Yi-fong, Yi-tze Lee, Fikret Berkes
Summary: The project investigates the process of renewing cultural heritage by strengthening the roots of indigenous cultural traditions of knowledge and practice, and explores how cultural heritage transforms into economic capital in the tourism economy of the community. Through six individual projects, it delves into the cultural heritagization of indigenous traditional knowledge.
Editorial Material
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Fikret Berkes, Huei-Min Tsai, Mucahid Mustafa Bayrak, Yih-Ren Lin
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Brenda Parlee, Henry Huntington, Fikret Berkes, Trevor Lantz, Leon Andrew, Joseph Tsannie, Cleo Reece, Corinne Porter, Vera Nicholson, Sharon Peter, Deb Simmons, Herman Michell, Melody Lepine, Bruce Maclean, Kevin Ahkimnachie, Lauren J. King, Art Napoleon, Joella Hogan, Jen Lam, Kristin Hynes, J. D. Storr, Sarah Lord, Mike Low, Jeanette Lockhart, Diane Giroux, Mike Tollis, Lana Lowe, Elaine Maloney, Tracy Howlett
Summary: This study examines the contribution of monitoring methods based on Indigenous knowledge to our understanding of large watersheds, highlighting the importance and effectiveness of participatory monitoring approaches. The results suggest that combining core indicators used across the basin with other indicators meaningful at the local level can more effectively monitor ecosystem changes. The findings challenge the notion that Indigenous-led community-based monitoring efforts are unable to offer insights about large-scale systems.
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Raul P. Lejano, C. Emdad Haque, Fikret Berkes
Summary: Despite progress in disaster risk reduction, efforts to enhance risk awareness and influence behavioral change are still insufficient. To successfully reduce disaster risk, a reorientation based on Indigenous and local knowledge, social learning, and narrative ways of knowing is necessary. An integrative framework that combines these areas of research can lead to new practices in disaster risk reduction.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DISASTER RISK REDUCTION
(2021)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Prateep Kumar Nayak, Fikret Berkes
Summary: Commons are dynamic and can undergo processes of commonisation or decommonisation. Commonisation refers to the conversion of a resource into a joint-use regime under commons institutions and collective action, while decommonisation refers to the loss of essential characteristics of commons.
Review
Environmental Sciences
Eranga K. Galappaththi, Marianne Falardeau, Les N. Harris, Juan C. Rocha, Jean-Sebastien Moore, Fikret Berkes
Summary: Arctic small-scale fisheries play a crucial role in the livelihoods, cultures, economy, and food security of Indigenous communities. However, resilience is rarely considered as a specific goal in Arctic fisheries management. This study presents a conceptual framework for implementing adaptive co-management that aims to build resilience within fishery social-ecological systems. The framework includes steps such as dialogue, participatory research, resilience-building actions, collaborative monitoring, and joint process evaluation.
ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS
(2022)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Kawika B. Winter, Mehana Blaich Vaughan, Natalie Kurashima, Christian Giardina, Kalani Quiocho, Kevin Chang, Malia Akutagawa, Kamanamaikalani Beamer, Fikret Berkes
Summary: The paper highlights the increasing assertion of 'Indigenous agency' by Indigenous peoples and local communities, particularly in Hawaii, in collaborating with government institutions and other partners to steward ancestral Places. It emphasizes the importance of recognizing different forms of Indigenous agency and actively engaging in meaningful power sharing to streamline pathways to productive collaborative partnerships. The partnerships are seen as crucial in achieving conservation and sustainability goals, transforming scientific fields, and addressing broader historical legacies of environmental and social injustice.
PACIFIC CONSERVATION BIOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Debora Peterson, Natalia Hanazaki, Fikret Berkes
CONSERVATION & SOCIETY
(2020)
Article
Ecology
Kawika B. Winter, Noa Kekuewa Lincoln, Fikret Berkes, Rosanna A. Alegado, Natalie Kurashima, Kiana L. Frank, Pua'ala Pascua, Yoshimi M. Rii, Frederick Reppun, Ingrid S. S. Knapp, Will C. McClatchey, Tamara Ticktin, Celia Smith, Erik C. Franklin, Kirsten Oleson, Melissa R. Price, Margaret A. McManus, Megan J. Donahue, Kuulei S. Rodgers, Brian W. Bowen, Craig E. Nelson, Bill Thomas, Jo-Ann Leong, Elizabeth M. P. Madin, Malia Ana J. Rivera, Kim A. Falinski, Leah L. Bremer, Jonathan L. Deenik, Sam M. Gon, Brian Neilson, Ryan Okano, Anthony Olegario, Ben Nyberg, A. Hiilei Kawelo, Kelii Kotubetey, J. Kanekoa Kukea-Shultz, Robert J. Toonen
ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY
(2020)