Pub Date : 2024-04-19DOI: 10.1016/j.oneear.2024.03.011
Dhruba Naug
Insects, being ectotherms, are particularly prone to the effects of a warming temperatures. Behavioral responses, which allow animals to rapidly cope with changing environmental conditions, represent some of the most immediately observed effects and best documented responses to climate change. However, such behavioral responses are rarely considered through the lens of Tinbergen’s different levels of inquiry, which remains a bedrock principle in the study of animal behavior. This approach, by carefully distinguishing adaptive, evolutionary, developmental, and mechanistic perspectives, allows an important distinction between proximate (how?) and ultimate (why?) answers to questions about behavior. In this primer, we explain the utility of these different levels of inquiry and how they can enhance our understanding of behavioral responses to climate change.
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Pub Date : 2024-04-19DOI: 10.1016/j.oneear.2024.04.001
The One Earth editorial team
{"title":"Navigating change: Understanding insect movement in a warming world","authors":"The One Earth editorial team","doi":"10.1016/j.oneear.2024.04.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2024.04.001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52366,"journal":{"name":"One Earth","volume":"239 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140636296","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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 : 2024-04-19DOI: 10.1016/j.oneear.2024.03.010
Evelyn Mühlhofer, David N. Bresch, Elco E. Koks
Society is dependent on critical infrastructure that provides basic services such as healthcare, mobility, communications, and power. Severe weather can damage these vital infrastructure assets, disrupting services. Such disruptions can further escalate due to system interdependencies. Although research increasingly evaluates physical risks to infrastructure assets, knowledge on service disruption risks from natural hazard-induced failure cascades across networked infrastructure systems remains limited. Here, we couple an open-source risk model with a complex network-based infrastructure module to simulate spatially explicit service disruptions from 700 historic floods and tropical cyclones in 30 countries. We find that failure cascades account for 64–89% of service disruptions, which also spread beyond the hazard footprint in nearly 3 out of 4 events. Disruption-affected population surpasses estimates of physically affected by up to ten-fold. We demonstrate that knowledge of the effect of infrastructure network designs, population distribution, wealth, and hazard characteristics can help prioritize systemic adaptation strategies over asset-focused ones.
{"title":"Infrastructure failure cascades quintuple risk of storm and flood-induced service disruptions across the globe","authors":"Evelyn Mühlhofer, David N. Bresch, Elco E. Koks","doi":"10.1016/j.oneear.2024.03.010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2024.03.010","url":null,"abstract":"Society is dependent on critical infrastructure that provides basic services such as healthcare, mobility, communications, and power. Severe weather can damage these vital infrastructure assets, disrupting services. Such disruptions can further escalate due to system interdependencies. Although research increasingly evaluates physical risks to infrastructure assets, knowledge on service disruption risks from natural hazard-induced failure cascades across networked infrastructure systems remains limited. Here, we couple an open-source risk model with a complex network-based infrastructure module to simulate spatially explicit service disruptions from 700 historic floods and tropical cyclones in 30 countries. We find that failure cascades account for 64–89% of service disruptions, which also spread beyond the hazard footprint in nearly 3 out of 4 events. Disruption-affected population surpasses estimates of physically affected by up to ten-fold. We demonstrate that knowledge of the effect of infrastructure network designs, population distribution, wealth, and hazard characteristics can help prioritize systemic adaptation strategies over asset-focused ones.","PeriodicalId":52366,"journal":{"name":"One Earth","volume":"115 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140636469","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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 : 2024-04-04DOI: 10.1016/j.oneear.2024.03.002
Yves Zinngrebe, Jurij Berger, Christian Bunn, María R. Felipe-Lucia, Nina Graßnick, Thomas Kastner, Guy Pe’er, Christian Schleyer, Sebastian Lakner
Global agri-food systems couple sustainability challenges in producing countries to consumption behavior and regulations in destination markets. We assume that trade relations can be prioritized according to (1) the relevance (share of imports) and (2) leverage (share of domestic production for destination market). This study analyzes the relevance and leverage of the EU’s crop imports in monetary values, footprints, and deforestation. Our results identify high relevance and leverage values in trade relations with specific partner countries, particularly palm oil and rubber specialists in East Asia and soy-producing MERCOSUR countries. High leverage values in imports from African-Caribbean-Pacific small sugar specialists and other small countries highlight the EU’s potential to establish sustainability criteria. We suggest that the EU revises incoherent foreign and domestic policies and proactively engages with trading partners to include sustainability safeguards in the whole value chain with particular focus on trade relations with high relevance and leverage values.
{"title":"Prioritizing partners and products for the sustainability of the EU’s agri-food trade","authors":"Yves Zinngrebe, Jurij Berger, Christian Bunn, María R. Felipe-Lucia, Nina Graßnick, Thomas Kastner, Guy Pe’er, Christian Schleyer, Sebastian Lakner","doi":"10.1016/j.oneear.2024.03.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2024.03.002","url":null,"abstract":"Global agri-food systems couple sustainability challenges in producing countries to consumption behavior and regulations in destination markets. We assume that trade relations can be prioritized according to (1) the relevance (share of imports) and (2) leverage (share of domestic production for destination market). This study analyzes the relevance and leverage of the EU’s crop imports in monetary values, footprints, and deforestation. Our results identify high relevance and leverage values in trade relations with specific partner countries, particularly palm oil and rubber specialists in East Asia and soy-producing MERCOSUR countries. High leverage values in imports from African-Caribbean-Pacific small sugar specialists and other small countries highlight the EU’s potential to establish sustainability criteria. We suggest that the EU revises incoherent foreign and domestic policies and proactively engages with trading partners to include sustainability safeguards in the whole value chain with particular focus on trade relations with high relevance and leverage values.","PeriodicalId":52366,"journal":{"name":"One Earth","volume":"68 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140560992","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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 : 2024-03-15DOI: 10.1016/j.oneear.2024.02.004
Tabea K. Lissner, Tessa Möller, Martina Angela Caretta, Aditi Mukherji
Adaptation is central to address climate impacts. At present, we have a limited understanding of the effectiveness of adaptation to reduce risks in a warming world, because adaptation remains insufficiently addressed in climate impact projections. Where projections exist, these are assessed mostly in case study settings. The importance of water is apparent within the field of climate adaptation, with the majority of documented and projected adaptation related to water. Based on a meta-review of projections of adaptation, we assess the ability of different modeled water-related adaptation options to reduce climate risk at 1.5°C, 2°C, 3°C, and 4°C of warming and show that the effectiveness of the assessed options decreases with increasing warming across all world regions and options. Although adaptation benefits can be achieved for many regions, increasing maladaptive outcomes are projected at higher levels of warming. Our analysis highlights the urgent need to limit global warming by drastically reducing emissions to avoid catastrophic impacts.
{"title":"Effectiveness of water-related adaptation decreases with increasing warming","authors":"Tabea K. Lissner, Tessa Möller, Martina Angela Caretta, Aditi Mukherji","doi":"10.1016/j.oneear.2024.02.004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2024.02.004","url":null,"abstract":"Adaptation is central to address climate impacts. At present, we have a limited understanding of the effectiveness of adaptation to reduce risks in a warming world, because adaptation remains insufficiently addressed in climate impact projections. Where projections exist, these are assessed mostly in case study settings. The importance of water is apparent within the field of climate adaptation, with the majority of documented and projected adaptation related to water. Based on a meta-review of projections of adaptation, we assess the ability of different modeled water-related adaptation options to reduce climate risk at 1.5°C, 2°C, 3°C, and 4°C of warming and show that the effectiveness of the assessed options decreases with increasing warming across all world regions and options. Although adaptation benefits can be achieved for many regions, increasing maladaptive outcomes are projected at higher levels of warming. Our analysis highlights the urgent need to limit global warming by drastically reducing emissions to avoid catastrophic impacts.","PeriodicalId":52366,"journal":{"name":"One Earth","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.2,"publicationDate":"2024-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140200873","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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 : 2024-03-15DOI: 10.1016/j.oneear.2024.02.015
Caroline Scruggs, Show Pau Loke, Yongli Wager, Bing-Jie Ni, Kelly Thornber, Joseph Falkinham, Kyle Bibby, Ana Rita Lado Ribeiro, Junhu Zhou, John X.J. Zhang
{"title":"Novel contaminants, novel solutions","authors":"Caroline Scruggs, Show Pau Loke, Yongli Wager, Bing-Jie Ni, Kelly Thornber, Joseph Falkinham, Kyle Bibby, Ana Rita Lado Ribeiro, Junhu Zhou, John X.J. Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.oneear.2024.02.015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2024.02.015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52366,"journal":{"name":"One Earth","volume":"58 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.2,"publicationDate":"2024-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140201164","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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 : 2024-03-15DOI: 10.1016/j.oneear.2024.02.016
The One Earth editorial team
{"title":"Clean water for life","authors":"The One Earth editorial team","doi":"10.1016/j.oneear.2024.02.016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2024.02.016","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52366,"journal":{"name":"One Earth","volume":"156 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.2,"publicationDate":"2024-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140201146","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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 : 2024-03-15DOI: 10.1016/j.oneear.2024.02.008
Leon P. Barron, Alexandra K. Richardson, Wendy Hein
{"title":"Chemical pollution in water: Scalable and intersectional opportunities for the analytical and social sciences","authors":"Leon P. Barron, Alexandra K. Richardson, Wendy Hein","doi":"10.1016/j.oneear.2024.02.008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2024.02.008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52366,"journal":{"name":"One Earth","volume":"103 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.2,"publicationDate":"2024-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140200916","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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 : 2024-03-15DOI: 10.1016/j.oneear.2024.02.009
Marleen Simone Schutter, Andrés Cisneros-Montemayor, Michelle Voyer, Edward Hugh Allison, Calvin Domarchuk-White, Dominique Benzaken, Essam Yassin Mohammed
The blue economy provides a sustainability framework for ocean governance, but it is unclear whether narratives are matched by binding financial commitments and disbursements. Amid attention being paid to “funding gaps” in the Sustainable Development Goals, a lack of transparency in financial flows means that the blue economy concept risks being co-opted to facilitate further exploitation of ocean spaces and resources without contributing to environmental sustainability or social equity. Here, we analyze blue-economy-labeled money flows disbursed between 2017 and 2021 to identify sources and recipients and potential social equity impacts on the ground. Financing is predominantly disbursed to Europe and Central Asia and skewed toward business development and renewable energy. Our analysis reveals widespread occurrence of “red flags” for social equity outcomes. Although constrained to money flows that actively employ blue economy language, our findings show disconnects between finance and narratives of equity, inclusion, and sustainability. We offer a baseline for critical examination of blue finance flows in delivering equity and environmental sustainability.
{"title":"Mapping flows of blue economy finance: ambitious narratives, opaque actions, and social equity risks","authors":"Marleen Simone Schutter, Andrés Cisneros-Montemayor, Michelle Voyer, Edward Hugh Allison, Calvin Domarchuk-White, Dominique Benzaken, Essam Yassin Mohammed","doi":"10.1016/j.oneear.2024.02.009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2024.02.009","url":null,"abstract":"The blue economy provides a sustainability framework for ocean governance, but it is unclear whether narratives are matched by binding financial commitments and disbursements. Amid attention being paid to “funding gaps” in the Sustainable Development Goals, a lack of transparency in financial flows means that the blue economy concept risks being co-opted to facilitate further exploitation of ocean spaces and resources without contributing to environmental sustainability or social equity. Here, we analyze blue-economy-labeled money flows disbursed between 2017 and 2021 to identify sources and recipients and potential social equity impacts on the ground. Financing is predominantly disbursed to Europe and Central Asia and skewed toward business development and renewable energy. Our analysis reveals widespread occurrence of “red flags” for social equity outcomes. Although constrained to money flows that actively employ blue economy language, our findings show disconnects between finance and narratives of equity, inclusion, and sustainability. We offer a baseline for critical examination of blue finance flows in delivering equity and environmental sustainability.","PeriodicalId":52366,"journal":{"name":"One Earth","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.2,"publicationDate":"2024-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140201033","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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 : 2024-03-15DOI: 10.1016/j.oneear.2024.02.011
Akanksha K. Menon
{"title":"Distributed desalination using renewable energy: A paradigm shift toward affordable and sustainable clean water","authors":"Akanksha K. Menon","doi":"10.1016/j.oneear.2024.02.011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2024.02.011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52366,"journal":{"name":"One Earth","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.2,"publicationDate":"2024-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140201152","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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}