Article
Agriculture, Multidisciplinary
Jose M. Aguilera
Summary: The term 'alimentation' has a holistic notion of the process of producing, procuring, preparing, sharing, indulging in, and digesting foods in Latin languages. It integrates human, technological, sociocultural, and environmental domains, providing a broader frame for understanding food and nutrition. Transdisciplinary research in alimentation interfaces various knowledge domains and involves key stakeholders, leading to inspiring collaborations and improved public policy.
JOURNAL OF THE SCIENCE OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURE
(2021)
Article
Engineering, Environmental
Cristina Quintas-Soriano, Dainee M. Gibson, Jodi S. Brandt, Maria D. Lopez-Rodriguez, Javier Cabello, Pedro A. Aguilera, Antonio J. Castro
Summary: This study utilized the ecosystem services framework to assess private lands in Idaho and identify future priority areas for conservation easements. By mapping the spatial delivery of conservation targets and exploring public awareness, the study found potential priority areas for conservation easements to guide land trust conservation efforts. Public lands were found to provide highest levels of conservation targets, with no difference seen in private areas and conservation easements in target provision.
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Rashieda Davids, Mathieu Rouget, Margaret Burger, Kirsten Mahood, Ntswaki Ditlhale, Rob Slotow
Summary: This study analyzed the outcomes of civic ecology interventions in Durban, South Africa, highlighting the use and values of ecosystem services, as well as the benefits of interventions such as improving natural habitats and enhancing ecosystem services, ultimately leading to social well-being.
Article
Biology
Sonja Knapp, Myla F. J. Aronson, Ela Carpenter, Adriana Herrera-Montes, Kirsten Jung, D. Johan Kotze, Frank A. La Sorte, Christopher A. Lepczyk, Ian MacGregor-Fors, J. Scott MacIvor, Marco Moretti, Charles H. Nilon, Max R. Piana, Christine C. Rega-Brodsky, Allyson Salisbury, Caragh G. Threlfall, Christopher Trisos, Nicholas S. G. Williams, Amy K. Hahs
Summary: Rapid urbanization and the global loss of biodiversity highlight the need for urban ecology research, covering factors driving biodiversity loss or gain, responses to technological change, biodiversity-ecosystem service relationships, etc. Collaboration across fields, overarching considerations, and posing inspiring questions are crucial for advancing urban biodiversity research.
Article
Ecology
Asef Darvishi, Maryam Yousefi, Naghmeh Mobarghaee Dinan, Per Angelstam
Summary: Evidence-based knowledge is crucial for place-based knowledge production and learning towards sustainable landscapes through stewardship and integrated spatial planning. The study in the Iranian Qazvin province showed significant trade-offs and synergies among landscape services, which are influenced by both natural and anthropogenic landscape patterns and processes.
Review
Environmental Studies
Zhifang Wang, Yuqing Jian, Zhibin Huang, Salman Qureshi, Kexin Cheng, Zhuhui Bai, Qingwen Zhang
Summary: This paper addresses the science-practice gap in Recreation Ecosystem Services (RES) by synthesizing empirical evidence from a literature review. It found that RES research has not effectively translated into decision-making and planning, but has potential applications in various aspects. The paper proposes a framework to bridge the gap and guide future research in RES studies.
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Tingling Li, Kangning Xiong, Shan Yang, Haiyan Liu, Yao Qin, Zhifu Wang
Summary: In recent years, the study of forest ecological assets (FEA) has become an important area of ecological research. This paper classifies and summarizes the main progress and achievements related to FEA, and proposes key scientific and technical problems to be solved.
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Boru Su, Moucheng Liu
Summary: This study summarizes the management approaches of trade-offs between ecosystem services and proposes a framework to improve the efficiency and fairness of this management. The results show that improving the supply of key ecosystem services and compensating for the inevitable loss on non-key ecosystem services can enhance the efficiency and fairness of trade-off management.
ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS
(2023)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Ellen M. Hoffmann, Nikolaus Schareika, Christoph Dittrich, Eva Schlecht, Daniela Sauer, Andreas Buerkert
Summary: Along with climate change, population growth, and overexploitation of natural resources, urbanisation is among the major global challenges of our time. It is a nexus where many of the world's grand challenges intersect, and thus key to sustainable development. The traditional understanding of urbanisation as a successive and unidirectional transformation from rural to urban is being questioned, as examples from around the globe show that rural and urban areas coexist and often merge. The concept of rurbanity provides an integrated theoretical framework that overcomes the rural-urban divide and can be applied to empirical research, offering a comprehensive understanding of the phenomenon.
SUSTAINABILITY SCIENCE
(2023)
Review
Environmental Sciences
Ricardo Castro-Diaz, Luisa E. Delgado, Alfonso Langle-Flores, Maria Perevochtchikova, Victor H. Marin
Summary: This article proposes integrating social participation and the narrative of social actors in the study of ecosystem services (ES). Analyzing ES literature in Latin America, the authors found a growing number of articles on social participation, but identified language and inter-countries collaboration as challenges.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Rashieda Davids, Mathieu Rouget, Margaret Burger, Kirsten Mahood, Ntswaki Ditlhale, Rob Slotow
Summary: This study uses an environmental impact assessment methodology to quantify the social-ecological outcomes of six civic interventions in Durban, South Africa. The interventions resulted in mainly positive outcomes, with the most significant impacts on socio-economic factors, followed by ecological and health outcomes. The research demonstrates the importance of investing in natural areas for both ecosystem improvements and local community benefits, and provides a tool for selecting optimal management interventions aligned with specific community challenges and policy requirements.
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Laura Jane Mccarthy, Alessio Russo
Summary: This research investigates the perceptions of UK citizens on the ecosystem services created using Nature-Based Solutions in urban green spaces. The study explores the impact of civic stewardship on these services and suggests integrating complex UGS into urban centers for accessibility and engagement. The results show a preference for multifunctional green spaces and indicate that stewardship programs increase community resilience.
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Sonya Agnew, Kathrin Kopke, Orla-Peach Power, Maria Del Camino Troya, Amy Dozier
Summary: This perspective discusses the importance of stakeholder engagement in climate change adaptation policy and coastal infrastructure development within the EU. It suggests that citizen science methodologies can adequately address existing barriers and support the implementation of ecoengineering solutions for artificial coastal structures.
FRONTIERS IN MARINE SCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Lan Zhang, Guowen Huang, Yongtao Li, Shitai Bao
Summary: This paper uses CiteSpace software to conduct keyword co-occurrence and cluster analysis on relevant literature in landsenses ecology, and summarizes the characteristics and trends of this discipline. The study finds that landsenses ecology draws on the Chinese philosophy of integrating 'heaven, earth and man', emphasizing the comprehensive analysis of various elements and incorporating multidimensional sensitivity to human perceptions. Its goal is to achieve a dynamic balance between human well-being and ecosystem services for sustainable development.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND WORLD ECOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Dengshuai Chen, Yuqi Pan, Xiaolong Jin, Haoyang Du, Manchun Li, Penghui Jiang
Summary: China's river basin ecosystems are facing serious environmental and structural fragmentation problems, with no complete ecological redlines specifically for watershed ecological conservation. This study focused on the Xiangjiang River Basin (XJRB) to propose a framework delineating the ecological redline area (ERA) on a watershed scale and highlighted policy recommendations. The ERA of the XJRB was estimated to be 36,057 km(2), accounting for 38% of the total watershed, with key ecological functional areas concentrated in the upper reaches. The sub-basin scale defined redline areas exhibited better connectivity and integrity compared to current national and administrative methods, providing important insights for redline delineation in other river basins.
ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS
(2021)
Article
Water Resources
Stefan Geyler, Heide Kerber, Alexandra Lux, Malte Hedrich, Jessica Beck, Kay Moeller, Gevitha Selvakumar, Michael Eller, Christina Tocha, Alexander Sonnenburg
URBAN WATER JOURNAL
(2018)
Article
Ecology
Joerg A. Priess, Jennifer Hauck, Roy Haines-Young, Rob Alkemade, Maryia Mandryk, Clara Veerkamp, Bela Gyorgyi, Rob Dunford, Pam Berry, Paula Harrison, Jan Dick, Hans Keune, Marcel Kok, Leena Kopperoinen, Tanya Lazarova, Joachim Maes, Gyoergy Pataki, Elena Preda, Christian Schleyer, Christoph Goerg, Angheluta Vadineanu, Grazia Zulian
ECOSYSTEM SERVICES
(2018)
Article
Ecology
Heli Saarikoski, Eeva Primmer, Sanna-Riikka Saarela, Paula Antunes, Reka Aszalos, Francesc Baro, Pam Berry, Gemma Garcia Blanko, Erik Gomez-Baggethun, Laurence Carvalho, Jan Dick, Robert Dunford, Mihail Hanzu, Paula A. Harrison, Zita Izakovicova, Miklos Kertesz, Leena Kopperoinen, Berit Kohler, Johannes Langemeyer, David Lapola, Camino Liquete, Sandra Luque, Peter Mederly, Jari Niemela, Ignacio Palomo, Guillermo Martinez Pastur, Pablo Luis Peri, Elena Preda, Joerg A. Priess, Rui Santos, Christian Schleyer, Francis Turkelboom, Angheluta Vadineanu, Wim Verheyden, Suvi Vikstrom, Juliette Young
ECOSYSTEM SERVICES
(2018)
Article
Ecology
Irene Bouwma, Christian Schleyer, Eeva Primmer, Klara Johanna Winkler, Pam Berry, Juliette Young, Esther Carmen, Jana Spulerova, Peter Bezak, Elena Preda, Angheluta Vadineanu
ECOSYSTEM SERVICES
(2018)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Lisa Pettibone, Birgit Blaettel-Mink, Balint Balazs, Antonietta Di Giulio, Claudia Goebel, Katja Heubach, Diana Hummel, Johannes Iundershausen, Alexandra Lux, Thomas Potthast, Katrin Vohiand, Carina Wyborn
GAIA-ECOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES FOR SCIENCE AND SOCIETY
(2018)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Jennifer Hauck, Christian Schleyer, Joerg A. Priess, Clara J. Veerkamp, Rob Dunford, Rob Alkemade, Pam Berry, Eeva Primmer, Marcel Kok, Juliette Young, Roy Haines-Young, Jan Dick, Paula A. Harrison, Gyoergyi Bela, Angheluta Vadineanu, Christoph Goerg
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY
(2019)
Editorial Material
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Guy Pe'er, Yves Zinngrebe, Francisco Moreira, Clelia Sirami, Stefan Schindler, Robert Mueller, Vasileios Bontzorlos, Dagmar Clough, Peter Bezak, Aletta Bonn, Bernd Hansjurgens, Angela Lomba, Stefan Mockel, Gioele Passoni, Christian Schleyer, Jenny Schmidt, Sebastian Lakner
Article
Environmental Sciences
Alexandra Lux, Martina Schaefer, Matthias Bergmann, Thomas Jahn, Oskar Marg, Emilia Nagy, Anna-Christin Ransiek, Lena Theiler
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY
(2019)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Emilia Nagy, Anna Ransiek, Martina Schaefer, Alexandra Lux, Matthias Bergmann, Thomas Jahn, Oskar Marg, Lena Theiler
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY
(2020)
Editorial Material
Environmental Sciences
Martina Schaefer, Alexandra Lux, Matthias Bergmann
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY
(2020)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Thomas Jahn, Diana Hummel, Lukas Drees, Stefan Liehr, Alexandra Lux, Marion Mehring, Immanuel Stiess, Carolin Voelker, Martina Winker, Martin Zimmermann
GAIA-ECOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES FOR SCIENCE AND SOCIETY
(2020)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Gerlind U. C. Lehmann, Nikita Bakanov, Martin Behnisch, Sarah J. Bourlat, Carsten A. Bruehl, Lisa Eichler, Thomas Fickel, Matthias F. Geiger, Birgit Gemeinholzer, Thomas Hoerren, Sebastian Koethe, Alexandra Lux, Gotthard Meinel, Roland Muehlethaler, Hanna Poglitsch, Livia Schaeffler, Ulrich Schlechtriemen, Florian D. Schneider, Ralf Schulte, Martin Sorg, Maximilian Sprenger, Stephanie J. Swenson, Wiltrud Terlau, Angela Turck, Vera M. A. Zizka
Summary: The DINA project investigates insect communities in 21 nature reserves in Germany using methods such as DNA metabarcoding to unravel factors causing insect decline. Through stakeholder engagement and scientific results, the project aims to support the development of policy recommendations to improve conservation strategies.
BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION
(2021)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Soren Koepke, Sisira S. Withanachchi, Ruwan Pathiranage, Chandana R. Withanachchi, Deepika U. Gamage, Thushantha S. Nissanka, Chinthana C. Warapitiya, Banu M. Nissanka, Nirangani N. Ranasinghe, Chathurika D. Senarathna, Christian Schleyer, Andreas Thiel
Summary: Human-elephant conflict in Sri Lanka is a severe and much-debated issue, resulting in a high number of casualties on both sides. The causes of HEC include historical factors, poaching, habitat loss, crop-raiding behavior, and changing agricultural production systems. Research suggests that more focus should be placed on understanding the socio-economic and cultural factors underlying rural populations' vulnerability in HEC.
Article
Ecology
Martin Hitziger, Maurizio Aragrande, John A. Berezowski, Massimo Canali, Victor Del Rio Vilas, Sabine Hoffmann, Gilberto Igrejas, Hans Keune, Alexandra Lux, Mieghan Bruce, Markus A. Palenberg, Christian Poh, Miroslav Radeski, Ina Richter, Carmenza Robledo Abad, Robert H. Salerno, Sara Savic, Janina Schirmer, Barbara R. Vogler, Simon R. Ruegg
ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY
(2019)
Article
Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
Allan Watt, Gill Ainsworth, Estelle Balian, George Cojocaru, Marianne Darbi, Lynn Dicks, Hilde Eggermont, Eeva Furman, Lise Goudeseune, Pierre Huybrecht, Eszter Kelemen, Florian Koch, Zoi Konstantinou, Barbara Livoreil, Karla Locher, Alexandra Lux, Marion Mehring, Carsten Nesshoever, Riikka Paloniemi, Heti Saarikoski, Isabel Sousa Pinto, Marie Vandewalle, Riku Varjopuro, Liisa Varumo, Heidi Wittmer, Juliette Young