Pub Date : 2025-05-27DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2025.101542
Sofía Valeria Cortés-Calderón , María D. López-Rodríguez , Amanda Jiménez-Aceituno , Antonio J. Castro , María Mancilla-García
Net-Map, an interview-based network mapping tool, has been applied across various scientific fields and purposes since its inception to study networks of influence. In this article, we first review the general uses and limitations of Net-Map and then share experiential knowledge gained from using Net-Map to develop an action-oriented research process focused on envisioning pathways to sustainable futures in Spanish drylands. Drawing from the literature and reflecting on our experience, we identified four practical contributions of Net-Map that support our action-oriented research process, including: 1) creating socially inclusive participatory spaces that capture a diversity of influential capacities for promoting sustainability transformations, 2) understanding how to articulate transformative changes at multiple scales, 3) anticipating conflicts and managing power imbalances across scales, and 4) building shared agency and capabilities for fostering collective action, while respecting differences between participants’ perspectives. This paper argues how Net-Map can help overcome common barriers in action-oriented research.
{"title":"Contributions of Net-Map to sustainability action research","authors":"Sofía Valeria Cortés-Calderón , María D. López-Rodríguez , Amanda Jiménez-Aceituno , Antonio J. Castro , María Mancilla-García","doi":"10.1016/j.cosust.2025.101542","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cosust.2025.101542","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Net-Map, an interview-based network mapping tool, has been applied across various scientific fields and purposes since its inception to study networks of influence. In this article, we first review the general uses and limitations of Net-Map and then share experiential knowledge gained from using Net-Map to develop an action-oriented research process focused on envisioning pathways to sustainable futures in Spanish drylands. Drawing from the literature and reflecting on our experience, we identified four practical contributions of Net-Map that support our action-oriented research process, including: 1) creating socially inclusive participatory spaces that capture a diversity of influential capacities for promoting sustainability transformations, 2) understanding how to articulate transformative changes at multiple scales, 3) anticipating conflicts and managing power imbalances across scales, and 4) building shared agency and capabilities for fostering collective action, while respecting differences between participants’ perspectives. This paper argues how Net-Map can help overcome common barriers in action-oriented research.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":294,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"75 ","pages":"Article 101542"},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144147925","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-05-22DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2025.101539
Janne K Thomsen , Inger E Måren , Jarrod Cusens
Ecosystem services provide an integral lens to study nature and people, which is central to UNESCO’s Man and the Biosphere Programme. Our thematic review of studies applying the ecosystem services framework in Biosphere Reserves reveals a diversity of biophysical, monetary and sociocultural valuation approaches. Despite numerous studies that assess, value and map ecosystem services, few draw specific implications for Biosphere Reserve governance and management of ecosystem services. This hampers the implementation of knowledge-based action and constrains meaningful knowledge transfer within the World Network of Biosphere Reserves. Highlighting Biosphere Reserves’ potential as bridging organizations and the role of ecosystem services as a boundary object, we suggest that context-sensitive, transdisciplinary and process-oriented ecosystem service research is crucial for generating actionable knowledge. In addition, network-based guidance and facilitation are needed to ensure that ecosystem services research in Biosphere Reserves contributes to their core functions.
{"title":"Applying the ecosystem services framework in UNESCO’s World Network of Biosphere Reserves: lessons learned and ways forward","authors":"Janne K Thomsen , Inger E Måren , Jarrod Cusens","doi":"10.1016/j.cosust.2025.101539","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cosust.2025.101539","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Ecosystem services provide an integral lens to study nature and people, which is central to UNESCO’s Man and the Biosphere Programme. Our thematic review of studies applying the ecosystem services framework in Biosphere Reserves reveals a diversity of biophysical, monetary and sociocultural valuation approaches. Despite numerous studies that assess, value and map ecosystem services, few draw specific implications for Biosphere Reserve governance and management of ecosystem services. This hampers the implementation of knowledge-based action and constrains meaningful knowledge transfer within the World Network of Biosphere Reserves. Highlighting Biosphere Reserves’ potential as bridging organizations and the role of ecosystem services as a boundary object, we suggest that context-sensitive, transdisciplinary and process-oriented ecosystem service research is crucial for generating actionable knowledge. In addition, network-based guidance and facilitation are needed to ensure that ecosystem services research in Biosphere Reserves contributes to their core functions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":294,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"75 ","pages":"Article 101539"},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144107809","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-05-08DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2025.101537
Rachel Carmenta , Mairon G. Bastos Lima , Shofwan A.B. Choiruzzad , Neil Dawson , Natalia Estrada-Carmona , Christina Hicks , Giorgos Kallis , Eric Nana , Evan Killick , Alexander Lees , Adria Martin , Unai Pascual , Nathalie Pettorelli , James Reed , Esther Turnhout , Bhaskar Vira , Julie G. Zaehringer , Jos Barlow
This paper reflects on the continued persistence of the idea in conservation research and practice that poverty drives biodiversity loss (the poverty-biodiversity loss association [PBLA]). We draw on evidence to show how the PBLA has proven resistant to counter-evidence and is particularly visible at local-level implementation, and is often implicit in conservation strategies. We untangle three underlying reasons that help to explain why the PBLA has persisted under a verisimilitude (seeming truth) that can leave it hiding in plain sight. In doing so, we offer conservation science and practice the means to recognise and thereby remedy this thinking where it exists, and in so doing, advance conservation towards its aims of equitable and effective delivery. We outline how the Connected Conservation model may be better equipped to challenge the disproportionate role of wealth in biodiversity decline whilst empowering biodiversity stewards and their plural knowledge, values and governance systems.
{"title":"Unveiling pervasive assumptions: moving beyond the poverty-biodiversity loss association in conservation","authors":"Rachel Carmenta , Mairon G. Bastos Lima , Shofwan A.B. Choiruzzad , Neil Dawson , Natalia Estrada-Carmona , Christina Hicks , Giorgos Kallis , Eric Nana , Evan Killick , Alexander Lees , Adria Martin , Unai Pascual , Nathalie Pettorelli , James Reed , Esther Turnhout , Bhaskar Vira , Julie G. Zaehringer , Jos Barlow","doi":"10.1016/j.cosust.2025.101537","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cosust.2025.101537","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper reflects on the continued persistence of the idea in conservation research and practice that poverty drives biodiversity loss (the poverty-biodiversity loss association [PBLA]). We draw on evidence to show how the PBLA has proven resistant to counter-evidence and is particularly visible at local-level implementation, and is often implicit in conservation strategies. We untangle three underlying reasons that help to explain why the PBLA has persisted under a verisimilitude (seeming truth) that can leave it hiding in plain sight. In doing so, we offer conservation science and practice the means to recognise and thereby remedy this thinking where it exists, and in so doing, advance conservation towards its aims of equitable and effective delivery. We outline how the Connected Conservation model may be better equipped to challenge the disproportionate role of wealth in biodiversity decline whilst empowering biodiversity stewards and their plural knowledge, values and governance systems.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":294,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"74 ","pages":"Article 101537"},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143916836","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-05-05DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2025.101536
Katja Malmborg , Jacqueline Hamilton , Carolin Seiferth
With increasing land-use pressures on landscapes, it is critical to improve their governance while being inclusive of those living there. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage sites and Biosphere Reserves play a crucial role in protecting both social and ecological values in designated landscapes, making them interesting sites for action-oriented research. The designation and maintenance of these protected areas can form and reshape the place-based identities and senses of belonging held by local actors and consequently enable or restrain the process of mobilizing action for sustainability. In this review, we build on recent literature and our own experiences of research in UNESCO sites to propose place-based identities and senses of belonging as potential deep leverage points that may be acted on to achieve transformative action-oriented research for sustainability while also reflecting on our own positionality before and throughout the research process.
{"title":"Leveraging place-based identities and senses of belonging to mobilize for action-oriented research in UNESCO sites","authors":"Katja Malmborg , Jacqueline Hamilton , Carolin Seiferth","doi":"10.1016/j.cosust.2025.101536","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cosust.2025.101536","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>With increasing land-use pressures on landscapes, it is critical to improve their governance while being inclusive of those living there. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage sites and Biosphere Reserves play a crucial role in protecting both social and ecological values in designated landscapes, making them interesting sites for action-oriented research. The designation and maintenance of these protected areas can form and reshape the place-based identities and senses of belonging held by local actors and consequently enable or restrain the process of mobilizing action for sustainability. In this review, we build on recent literature and our own experiences of research in UNESCO sites to propose place-based identities and senses of belonging as potential deep leverage points that may be acted on to achieve transformative action-oriented research for sustainability while also reflecting on our own positionality before and throughout the research process.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":294,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"74 ","pages":"Article 101536"},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143903831","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-05-02DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2025.101538
Christoph Nedopil , Tianshu Sun
Debt-for-nature swaps (DNS) have re-emerged as vital tools to address the dual challenges of sovereign debt crises and environmental degradation, gaining renewed attention post-COVID-19. Originating in the 1980s, these financial instruments now encompass broader mechanisms, including innovative participation by nontraditional creditors like China and bondholders. This review synthesizes evolving DNS scholarship into four thematic areas: structural analysis, effectiveness evaluation, political economy considerations, and scalability potential. While current studies largely focus on exploratory concepts, the article advocates for empirical research to understand DNS’s practical outcomes, barriers, and socioeconomic impacts. Multidisciplinary approaches are emphasized to explore DNS’s capacity to simultaneously enhance debt relief, conservation, and development outcomes, aligning with global sustainability goals. Future research should prioritize empirical evaluations, deeper creditor–debtor analyses, and scalable frameworks to optimize DNS as a tool for sustainable development.
{"title":"Current perspectives on debt-for-nature swaps: moving from exploratory to empirical research","authors":"Christoph Nedopil , Tianshu Sun","doi":"10.1016/j.cosust.2025.101538","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cosust.2025.101538","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Debt-for-nature swaps (DNS) have re-emerged as vital tools to address the dual challenges of sovereign debt crises and environmental degradation, gaining renewed attention post-COVID-19. Originating in the 1980s, these financial instruments now encompass broader mechanisms, including innovative participation by nontraditional creditors like China and bondholders. This review synthesizes evolving DNS scholarship into four thematic areas: structural analysis, effectiveness evaluation, political economy considerations, and scalability potential. While current studies largely focus on exploratory concepts, the article advocates for empirical research to understand DNS’s practical outcomes, barriers, and socioeconomic impacts. Multidisciplinary approaches are emphasized to explore DNS’s capacity to simultaneously enhance debt relief, conservation, and development outcomes, aligning with global sustainability goals. Future research should prioritize empirical evaluations, deeper creditor–debtor analyses, and scalable frameworks to optimize DNS as a tool for sustainable development.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":294,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"74 ","pages":"Article 101538"},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143898645","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-04-01DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2025.101526
André Pinto da Silva , Nielja Knecht , Romain Thomas , Romi Lotcheris , Beatrice Crona , Juan Carlos Rocha
Financial investments will be affected by ecological regime shifts through the loss of natural resources underpinning the dependencies of most economic sectors. We suggest one possible pathway to link industry and products to the likelihood of ecological regime shifts. The challenges and opportunities are discussed at each step, including datasets, methods, and metrics. To this end, we identify recent large-scale, state-of-the-art literature that can link land-based company activities to regime shifts. The estimation of investment exposure to regime shifts is possible, but higher resolution in company trade data, as well as spatially explicit datasets of commodity production, is needed to improve estimations. This will require a coordinated effort from the scientific community, businesses, and the policy sector.
{"title":"Challenges and opportunities when assessing exposure of financial investments to ecosystem regime shifts","authors":"André Pinto da Silva , Nielja Knecht , Romain Thomas , Romi Lotcheris , Beatrice Crona , Juan Carlos Rocha","doi":"10.1016/j.cosust.2025.101526","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cosust.2025.101526","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Financial investments will be affected by ecological regime shifts through the loss of natural resources underpinning the dependencies of most economic sectors. We suggest one possible pathway to link industry and products to the likelihood of ecological regime shifts. The challenges and opportunities are discussed at each step, including datasets, methods, and metrics. To this end, we identify recent large-scale, state-of-the-art literature that can link land-based company activities to regime shifts. The estimation of investment exposure to regime shifts is possible, but higher resolution in company trade data, as well as spatially explicit datasets of commodity production, is needed to improve estimations. This will require a coordinated effort from the scientific community, businesses, and the policy sector.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":294,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"74 ","pages":"Article 101526"},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143747688","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-03-31DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2025.101524
Odirilwe Selomane , Michelle Fourie , Sally Archibald , Laura Pereira , Nadia Sitas , Kim Zoeller
Closing the biodiversity finance gap requires increasing funding for nature-positive activities and making nature-negative activities less viable. This would reduce the need for expenditure on conservation and protection from the outset, especially for restoration efforts after the fact. Current financial flows to nature-positive activities are undermined by the considerably larger amount of funds flowing to nature-eroding activities. We used publicly available datasets to assess the allocation of public funds between nature-positive and nature-negative sectors, looking at both within-country and beyond-border spending. On average, high-income countries have the lowest gap between nature-negative and nature-positive expenditure, with lower middle- and low-income countries having the widest gap. However, high-income countries performed just as poorly when sending funds overseas as aid. The implication here is that prioritising sustainability only up to the national level will likely have a net negative outcome for global sustainability.
{"title":"Public finance allocation does not reflect biodiversity priorities","authors":"Odirilwe Selomane , Michelle Fourie , Sally Archibald , Laura Pereira , Nadia Sitas , Kim Zoeller","doi":"10.1016/j.cosust.2025.101524","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cosust.2025.101524","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Closing the biodiversity finance gap requires increasing funding for nature-positive activities and making nature-negative activities less viable. This would reduce the need for expenditure on conservation and protection from the outset, especially for restoration efforts after the fact. Current financial flows to nature-positive activities are undermined by the considerably larger amount of funds flowing to nature-eroding activities. We used publicly available datasets to assess the allocation of public funds between nature-positive and nature-negative sectors, looking at both within-country and beyond-border spending. On average, high-income countries have the lowest gap between nature-negative and nature-positive expenditure, with lower middle- and low-income countries having the widest gap. However, high-income countries performed just as poorly when sending funds overseas as aid. The implication here is that prioritising sustainability only up to the national level will likely have a net negative outcome for global sustainability.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":294,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"74 ","pages":"Article 101524"},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143739312","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-03-24DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2025.101522
Job de Grefte, Boudewijn de Bruin
Biodiversity finance aims to support ecosystem and habitat preservation but faces significant challenges of greenwashing. This article critically examines the specific difficulties in addressing greenwashing within biodiversity finance. Through a critical interpretative review of recent theoretical and empirical studies, the article shows how the contested value of biodiversity, its diverse measurement methodologies, and the debated causal impacts of biodiversity finance create opportunities for greenwashing. These challenges are not general issues of sustainable finance but are tied to the specific aspects of biodiversity finance. The article highlights the need for tailor-made policy and regulatory frameworks to effectively mitigate greenwashing in biodiversity finance. Pinpointing the specific avenues through which greenwashing can occur, this critical interpretative review contributes to the literature by presenting a conceptual foundational framework for addressing greenwashing risks in biodiversity finance.
{"title":"Sustainable finance, biodiversity, and greenwashing: how contested values, metrics, and causation facilitate information distortion, information omission, and information pollution","authors":"Job de Grefte, Boudewijn de Bruin","doi":"10.1016/j.cosust.2025.101522","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cosust.2025.101522","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Biodiversity finance aims to support ecosystem and habitat preservation but faces significant challenges of greenwashing. This article critically examines the specific difficulties in addressing greenwashing within biodiversity finance. Through a critical interpretative review of recent theoretical and empirical studies, the article shows how the contested value of biodiversity, its diverse measurement methodologies, and the debated causal impacts of biodiversity finance create opportunities for greenwashing. These challenges are not general issues of sustainable finance but are tied to the specific aspects of biodiversity finance. The article highlights the need for tailor-made policy and regulatory frameworks to effectively mitigate greenwashing in biodiversity finance. Pinpointing the specific avenues through which greenwashing can occur, this critical interpretative review contributes to the literature by presenting a conceptual foundational framework for addressing greenwashing risks in biodiversity finance.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":294,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"74 ","pages":"Article 101522"},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143684080","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-03-22DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2025.101525
Fern Wickson , Lauren Lambert , Michael Bernstein
Current frameworks for sustainability competences give insufficient attention to competencies for holding and processing difficult emotions such as ecological grief and eco-anxiety. This is despite emotional distress caused by environmental crises becoming a rapidly growing field of investigation and the ability to cope with such emotions an increasingly apparent need within sustainability research, education, and practice communities. To effectively support the radical sustainability transformations required to avert (or adapt to) socioecological collapse, it is crucial that competences linked to emotional recognition, holding, processing, and integration be included in future frameworks. A synthesis framework of sustainability competences with a proposal for how to incorporate these additional emotional competences is presented, together with emphasis on how developing and implementing practices for cultivating such competences represents a significant growth edge for sustainability programmes, particularly within higher education.
{"title":"Growing through transformation pains: integrating emotional holding and processing into competence frameworks for sustainability transformations","authors":"Fern Wickson , Lauren Lambert , Michael Bernstein","doi":"10.1016/j.cosust.2025.101525","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cosust.2025.101525","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Current frameworks for sustainability competences give insufficient attention to competencies for holding and processing difficult emotions such as ecological grief and eco-anxiety. This is despite emotional distress caused by environmental crises becoming a rapidly growing field of investigation and the ability to cope with such emotions an increasingly apparent need within sustainability research, education, and practice communities. To effectively support the radical sustainability transformations required to avert (or adapt to) socioecological collapse, it is crucial that competences linked to emotional recognition, holding, processing, and integration be included in future frameworks. A synthesis framework of sustainability competences with a proposal for how to incorporate these additional emotional competences is presented, together with emphasis on how developing and implementing practices for cultivating such competences represents a significant growth edge for sustainability programmes, particularly within higher education.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":294,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"74 ","pages":"Article 101525"},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143684079","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-03-21DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2025.101527
Christophe Christiaen, Philippa Lockwood, Alex Jackman, Ben Caldecott
Nature, the services it provides and the threats it is exposed to are inherently location-specific. Therefore, financial institutions will need to apply geospatial analysis to accurately assess nature-related financial risks. As a minimum, this requires knowing where a counterparty’s operations or supply chains are located. Asset location information is often cited by financial institutions as a major data gap for nature-related analysis. While granular supply chain data is notoriously hard to collect, location information about companies’ direct operational assets is available for various industries. We review different sources of asset location data, analyse their availability per industry and provide recommendations to reduce the location data barrier and address the ‘lack of data’ excuse to delay nature action.
{"title":"Location, location, location: asset location data sources for nature-related financial risk analysis","authors":"Christophe Christiaen, Philippa Lockwood, Alex Jackman, Ben Caldecott","doi":"10.1016/j.cosust.2025.101527","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cosust.2025.101527","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Nature, the services it provides and the threats it is exposed to are inherently location-specific. Therefore, financial institutions will need to apply geospatial analysis to accurately assess nature-related financial risks. As a minimum, this requires knowing where a counterparty’s operations or supply chains are located. Asset location information is often cited by financial institutions as a major data gap for nature-related analysis. While granular supply chain data is notoriously hard to collect, location information about companies’ direct operational assets is available for various industries. We review different sources of asset location data, analyse their availability per industry and provide recommendations to reduce the location data barrier and address the ‘lack of data’ excuse to delay nature action.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":294,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"74 ","pages":"Article 101527"},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143684078","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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