Smaller human populations are neither a necessary nor sufficient condition for biodiversity conservation

Overpopulation is a major cause of biodiversity loss and smaller human populations are necessary to preserve what is left

(2022) Philip Cafaro et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Human-induced ecological cascades: Extinction, restoration, and rewilding in the Galápagos highlands

(2022) Mark B. Bush et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Environmental Malthusianism and demography

(2022) Emily Klancher Merchant   SOCIAL STUDIES OF SCIENCE

A response to Cafaro, Hansson & Götmark (2022): Shifting the narrative from overpopulation to overconsumption

(2022) Aalayna R. Green et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Reducing environmental impacts through socioeconomic transitions: critical review and prospects

(2022) Sai Liang et al.   Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering

The Land-Water-Food-Environment nexus in the context of China's soybean import

(2021) Dandan Ren et al.   ADVANCES IN WATER RESOURCES

Large-scale reptile extinctions following European colonization of the Guadeloupe Islands

(2021) Corentin Bochaton et al.   Science Advances

Mapping the deforestation footprint of nations reveals growing threat to tropical forests

(2021) Nguyen Tien Hoang et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Trends in national biodiversity footprints of land use

(2021) Eivind Lekve Bjelle et al.   ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS

Conservation of Earth’s biodiversity is embedded in Indigenous fire stewardship

(2021) Kira M. Hoffman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Massive soybean expansion in South America since 2000 and implications for conservation

(2021) Xiao-Peng Song et al.   Nature Sustainability

The land footprint of the global food trade: Perspectives from a case study of soybeans

(2021) Xiaoxuan Liu et al.   LAND USE POLICY

WTO must ban harmful fisheries subsidies

(2021) U. Rashid Sumaila et al.   SCIENCE

A horizon scan of global biological conservation issues for 2022

(2021) William J. Sutherland et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

The role of high-socioeconomic-status people in locking in or rapidly reducing energy-driven greenhouse gas emissions

(2021) Kristian S. Nielsen et al.   Nature Energy

China’s future food demand and its implications for trade and environment

(2021) Hao Zhao et al.   Nature Sustainability

Feed me! China, agriculture, ecologically unequal exchange, and forest loss in a cross‐national perspective

(2021) Samia Tasmim et al.   Environmental Policy and Governance

Importance of Indigenous Peoples’ lands for the conservation of Intact Forest Landscapes

(2020) John E Fa et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

The role of forest conversion, degradation, and disturbance in the carbon dynamics of Amazon indigenous territories and protected areas

(2020) Wayne S. Walker et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Telecoupled environmental impacts of current and alternative Western diets

(2020) Perrine C.S.J. Laroche et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

Spatially-explicit footprints of agricultural commodities: Mapping carbon emissions embodied in Brazil's soy exports

(2020) Neus Escobar et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

LC‐IMPACT: A regionalized life cycle damage assessment method  

(2020) Francesca Verones et al.   JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY

Working with indigenous, local and scientific knowledge in assessments of nature and nature’s linkages with people

(2020) Rosemary Hill et al.   Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Fertility, mortality, migration, and population scenarios for 195 countries and territories from 2017 to 2100: a forecasting analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study

(2020) Stein Emil Vollset et al.   LANCET

Thousands of reptile species threatened by under-regulated global trade

(2020) Benjamin M. Marshall et al.   Nature Communications

Using supply chain data to monitor zero deforestation commitments: an assessment of progress in the Brazilian soy sector

(2019) Erasmus K H J zu Ermgassen et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Environmental and social footprints of international trade

(2018) Thomas Wiedmann et al.   Nature Geoscience

Reducing food’s environmental impacts through producers and consumers

(2018) J. Poore et al.   SCIENCE

Comparing global land-use and biodiversity impacts of palm oil embodied in final product consumption

(2018) Johannes Többen et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Far from home: Distance patterns of global fishing fleets

(2018) David Tickler et al.   Science Advances

The controversy space on Quaternary megafaunal extinctions

(2017) J.A. Monjeau et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Island biogeography: Taking the long view of nature’s laboratories

(2017) Robert J. Whittaker et al.   SCIENCE

Economic viability and small-scale fisheries — A review

(2016) Anna Schuhbauer et al.   ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS

Towards more accurate and policy relevant footprint analyses: Tracing fine-scale socio-environmental impacts of production to consumption

(2015) Javier Godar et al.   ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS

Agroecology territories: places for sustainable agricultural and food systems and biodiversity conservation

(2015) A. Wezel et al.   Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems

Revisiting the Environmental and Socioeconomic Effects of Population Growth: a Fundamental but Fading Issue in Modern Scientific, Public, and Political Circles

(2014) Camilo Mora   ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY

Farmland abandonment: threat or opportunity for biodiversity conservation? A global review

(2014) Cibele Queiroz et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Food security and food self-sufficiency in China: from past to 2050

(2014) Bishwajit Ghose   Food and Energy Security

Agroecological practices for sustainable agriculture. A review

(2013) Alexander Wezel et al.   Agronomy for Sustainable Development

Tele-connecting local consumption to global land use

(2013) Yang Yu et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

Untangling the Environmentalist's Paradox: Why Is Human Well-being Increasing as Ecosystem Services Degrade?

(2010) Ciara Raudsepp-Hearne et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Food security and biodiversity: can we have both? An agroecological analysis

(2009) Michael Jahi Chappell et al.   AGRICULTURE AND HUMAN VALUES