Pub Date : 2025-01-31DOI: 10.1007/s13280-024-02111-7
Elisie Kåresdotter, Georgia Destouni, Richard B. Lammers, Marko Keskinen, Haozhi Pan, Zahra Kalantari
Climate change is known to worsen conflicts, but its combination with other factors affecting water-related conflicts remains less explored. Using a scoping review, this study examined research in the climate–water–conflict nexus. Using semi-automatic text mining approaches, key research gaps and differences in conflict factors and themes across different regions and conflict types were analyzed. Studies focused on Asia and Africa, with few exploring other regions. Governance and livelihoods emerged as significant factors in water-related conflict responses worldwide, with differences across regions. For instance, farmer–herder conflicts were common in Africa, while agriculture was more related to governance and water management in Asia. Research priorities forward should diversify the range of water-related conflict subjects and regions and give special focus to regions vulnerable to hydroclimatic change. More focus on cooperation and non-violent conflicts is also vital for understanding and being able to project and mitigate future water-related conflict responses to climate change.
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Pub Date : 2025-01-28DOI: 10.1007/s13280-024-02105-5
Fiona E Newman Thacker, Kathleen Uyttewaal, Tomás Quiñones, Rik Leemans, Bethany Hannah, Cathelijne R Stoof
With climate change causing more extreme weather events globally, climate scientists have argued that societies have three options: mitigation, adaptation or suffering. In recent years, devastating wildfires have caused significant suffering, yet the extent of this suffering has not been defined. To encapsulate this suffering, we determined impacts and effects of extreme wildfires through two systematic literature reviews. Six common themes of wildfire suffering emerged: environmental, social, physical, mental, cultural and resource suffering. These themes varied in scale: from local to regional; from individuals to communities; and from ecosystems to landscapes. We then applied these themes in the Las Maquinas (Chile) and Fort McMurray (Canada) wildfires. This highlighted several adaptation strategies that can reduce suffering, however our exploration indicates these strategies must address social and ecological factors. This analysis concludes that suffering from wildfires is diverse and widespread, and that significant engagement with adaptation strategies is needed if this is going to decrease.
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Pub Date : 2025-01-27DOI: 10.1007/s13280-024-02098-1
Kaisa Kristiina Vainio, Tuomo Takala, Juul Limpens, Karoliina Lummaa, Aino Korrensalo, Aleksi Räsänen, Eeva-Stiina Tuittila
Trees offer multiple benefits, including impacts on physical and mental health. In this interdisciplinary study, we explored the relationships humans develop with specific favourite trees based on our survey data (n = 158) collected in the Netherlands. Here, we examined action possibilities (affordances) provided by trees, including immaterial actions, such as memorisation or the enjoyment of beauty. We implemented the affordance theory with mixed-method analysis. We identified three distinct types of human-arboreal relationships offering a different variety of action possibilities: nostalgic relationships, nurturing relationships, and empowering relationships. We assume that when humans form relationships with trees, the essence of trees is not their characteristics, but the possibilities for action. We recommend that urban green spaces would support interactions between humans and trees. By strengthening our connectedness with nature, it is possible to promote both human well-being and to strengthen environmentally responsible values and behaviours.
{"title":"Green companions: Affordances of human-tree relationships.","authors":"Kaisa Kristiina Vainio, Tuomo Takala, Juul Limpens, Karoliina Lummaa, Aino Korrensalo, Aleksi Räsänen, Eeva-Stiina Tuittila","doi":"10.1007/s13280-024-02098-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-024-02098-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Trees offer multiple benefits, including impacts on physical and mental health. In this interdisciplinary study, we explored the relationships humans develop with specific favourite trees based on our survey data (n = 158) collected in the Netherlands. Here, we examined action possibilities (affordances) provided by trees, including immaterial actions, such as memorisation or the enjoyment of beauty. We implemented the affordance theory with mixed-method analysis. We identified three distinct types of human-arboreal relationships offering a different variety of action possibilities: nostalgic relationships, nurturing relationships, and empowering relationships. We assume that when humans form relationships with trees, the essence of trees is not their characteristics, but the possibilities for action. We recommend that urban green spaces would support interactions between humans and trees. By strengthening our connectedness with nature, it is possible to promote both human well-being and to strengthen environmentally responsible values and behaviours.</p>","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143051317","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 : 2025-01-25DOI: 10.1007/s13280-025-02130-y
Jens Nilsson, Annica Sandström
{"title":"Publisher Correction: How advocacy coalitions in Sweden explain the policy gap between Swedish and EU eel fishery policies.","authors":"Jens Nilsson, Annica Sandström","doi":"10.1007/s13280-025-02130-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-025-02130-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143035847","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 : 2025-01-25DOI: 10.1007/s13280-024-02093-6
Máret J. Heatta, Vera Helene Hausner, Tove Aagnes Utsi
Indigenous and local knowledge (ILK) is increasingly used along with scientific knowledge (SK) to understand climate change. The multi evidence base (MEB) offers ways of combining knowledge systems together. Nonetheless, there is little guidance on how to use MEB approaches in research. Our aim is to systematically evaluate empirical cases using MEB approaches in Arctic climate change research; and explore ILK inclusion in research stages. The mapping followed the ROSES protocol, which provides a checklist of details to be included in the review. The literature search identified 1483 records referring to MEB approaches. We identified seven papers applying the cross-fertilization and nine applying the coproduction approach to combine ILK with SK. The theory of change framework was used to evaluate participation, revealing a distinct difference between the approaches in participant involvement in the research stages. Regardless of MEB approach, the output and outcome of the cases were less clear.
{"title":"The use of multiple evidence base methods to enrich climate change research and knowledge in the Arctic","authors":"Máret J. Heatta, Vera Helene Hausner, Tove Aagnes Utsi","doi":"10.1007/s13280-024-02093-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13280-024-02093-6","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Indigenous and local knowledge (ILK) is increasingly used along with scientific knowledge (SK) to understand climate change. The multi evidence base (MEB) offers ways of combining knowledge systems together. Nonetheless, there is little guidance on how to use MEB approaches in research. Our aim is to systematically evaluate empirical cases using MEB approaches in Arctic climate change research; and explore ILK inclusion in research stages. The mapping followed the ROSES protocol, which provides a checklist of details to be included in the review. The literature search identified 1483 records referring to MEB approaches. We identified seven papers applying the cross-fertilization and nine applying the coproduction approach to combine ILK with SK. The theory of change framework was used to evaluate participation, revealing a distinct difference between the approaches in participant involvement in the research stages. Regardless of MEB approach, the output and outcome of the cases were less clear.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":"54 4","pages":"603 - 617"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s13280-024-02093-6.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143035848","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 : 2025-01-22DOI: 10.1007/s13280-024-02127-z
Astrid Zabel, Lydia Afriyie-Kraft, Marie Louise Avana-Tientcheu, Amare Bantider, Thomas Breu, Elisabeth Bürgi Bonanomi, Sandra Eckert, Yovita Ivanova, Javier G. Montoya-Zumaeta, Irene Musselli, Christoph Oberlack, Isabelle Providoli, Jimena Solar, Gabi Sonderegger, Gete Zeleke
Three months before the planned implementation of the European Union Regulation on Deforestation-free products, the European Commission proposed to postpone the implementation by twelve months. The announcement raised the temperature in the debate on this regulation. We put forward suggestions, based on scientific knowledge as well as current EUDR research and implementation projects, on how the 12-month phasing-in period could be used wisely to promote sustainability transitions in deforestation-risk value chains.
{"title":"Time for change: Recommendations for action during the proposed EUDR postponement","authors":"Astrid Zabel, Lydia Afriyie-Kraft, Marie Louise Avana-Tientcheu, Amare Bantider, Thomas Breu, Elisabeth Bürgi Bonanomi, Sandra Eckert, Yovita Ivanova, Javier G. Montoya-Zumaeta, Irene Musselli, Christoph Oberlack, Isabelle Providoli, Jimena Solar, Gabi Sonderegger, Gete Zeleke","doi":"10.1007/s13280-024-02127-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13280-024-02127-z","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Three months before the planned implementation of the European Union Regulation on Deforestation-free products, the European Commission proposed to postpone the implementation by twelve months. The announcement raised the temperature in the debate on this regulation. We put forward suggestions, based on scientific knowledge as well as current EUDR research and implementation projects, on how the 12-month phasing-in period could be used wisely to promote sustainability transitions in deforestation-risk value chains.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":"54 4","pages":"740 - 744"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s13280-024-02127-z.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142998149","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 : 2025-01-22DOI: 10.1007/s13280-024-02121-5
Michael R Frogley, Alex Chepstow-Lusty, Graham Thiele, Constantino Aucca Chutas
The Inca and their immediate predecessors provide an exceptional model of how to create high-altitude functional environments that sustainably feed people with a diversity of crops, whilst mitigating erosion, protecting forestry and maintaining soil fertility without the need for large-scale burning. A comparison is provided here of landscape practices and impacts prior to and after the Inca, derived from a unique 4200-year sedimentary record recovered from Laguna Marcacocha, a small, environmentally sensitive lake located at the heart of the Inca Empire. By examining ten selected proxies of environmental change, a rare window is opened on the past, helping to reveal how resilient watershed management and sustainable, climate-smart agriculture were achieved. We contend that, in the face of modern environmental uncertainty, a second climate-smart agricultural revolution is necessary, but one that accounts for the significant social capital of highland communities whilst still leaning heavily on native crops, trees and livestock.
{"title":"Trees, terraces and llamas: Resilient watershed management and sustainable agriculture the Inca way.","authors":"Michael R Frogley, Alex Chepstow-Lusty, Graham Thiele, Constantino Aucca Chutas","doi":"10.1007/s13280-024-02121-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-024-02121-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Inca and their immediate predecessors provide an exceptional model of how to create high-altitude functional environments that sustainably feed people with a diversity of crops, whilst mitigating erosion, protecting forestry and maintaining soil fertility without the need for large-scale burning. A comparison is provided here of landscape practices and impacts prior to and after the Inca, derived from a unique 4200-year sedimentary record recovered from Laguna Marcacocha, a small, environmentally sensitive lake located at the heart of the Inca Empire. By examining ten selected proxies of environmental change, a rare window is opened on the past, helping to reveal how resilient watershed management and sustainable, climate-smart agriculture were achieved. We contend that, in the face of modern environmental uncertainty, a second climate-smart agricultural revolution is necessary, but one that accounts for the significant social capital of highland communities whilst still leaning heavily on native crops, trees and livestock.</p>","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143021696","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 : 2025-01-13DOI: 10.1007/s13280-024-02125-1
Karsten Rinke, Chenxi Mi, Madeline R. Magee, Cayelan C. Carey
{"title":"Increasing exposure to global climate change and hopes for the era of climate adaptation: An aquatic perspective","authors":"Karsten Rinke, Chenxi Mi, Madeline R. Magee, Cayelan C. Carey","doi":"10.1007/s13280-024-02125-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13280-024-02125-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":"54 3","pages":"379 - 384"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11780008/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142969114","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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