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Risk blindness in local perspectives about the Alberta oil sands hinders Canada's decarbonization
(Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 2021-09-01)
Local perspectives can conflict with national and international climate targets. This study explores three stakeholder (community, provincial, and federal) perspectives on the Alberta oil sands as risks for a sustainability ...
Relational quality and uncertainty in common pool water management: an exploratory lab experiment
(Scientific Reports, 2021-12-01)
If there is one certainty for the sustainable management of water resources is that facing uncertainty is an unavoidable matter. A concern that, in addition to the best available scientific knowledge and models, requires ...
Memory order decomposition of symbolic sequences
(Physical Review E, 2021-07-01)
We introduce a general method for the study of memory in symbolic sequences based on higher-order Markov analysis. The Markov process that best represents a sequence is expressed as a mixture of matrices of minimal orders, ...
Distribution of responsibility for climate change within the milieu
(Philosophies, 2021-09-01)
This article approaches the challenges of the distribution of responsibility for climate change on a local level using the framework of the milieu. It suggests that the framework of the milieu, inspired by Japanese and ...
Opportunities for an African greenhouse gas observation system
(Regional Environmental Change, 2021-12-01)
Global population projections foresee the biggest increase to occur in Africa with most of the available uncultivated land to ensure food security remaining on the continent. Simultaneously, greenhouse gas emissions are ...
Guiding cities under increased droughts: The limits to sustainable urban futures
(Ecological Economics, 2021-11-01)
Climate change is likely to increase droughts. The vulnerability of cities to droughts is increasing worldwide. Policy responses from cities to droughts lack consideration of long-term climatic and socio-economic scenarios, ...
Genotyping-by-sequencing resolves relationships in Polygonaceae tribe Eriogoneae
(Taxon, 2021-08-01)
The resolution of cryptic diversity is essential for understanding the evolutionary diversification of lineages and establishing conservation priorities. We examine relationships in Eriogoneae (Polygonaceae), a diverse ...
Assessing whether artificial intelligence is an enabler or an inhibitor of sustainability at indicator level
(Transportation Engineering, 2021-06-01)
"Since the early phase of the artificial-intelligence (AI) era expectations towards AI are high, with experts believing that AI paves the way for managing and handling various global challenges. However, the significant ...
Estimating soil organic carbon changes in managed temperate moist grasslands with RothC
(PLoS ONE, 2021-08-01)
Temperate grassland soils store significant amounts of carbon (C). Estimating how much livestock grazing and manuring can influence grassland soil organic carbon (SOC) is key to improve greenhouse gas grassland budgets. ...
Quantitative Storytelling: Science, Narratives, and Uncertainty in Nexus Innovations
(Science Technology and Human Values, 2021-01-01)
Innovations are central instruments of sustainability policies. They project future visions onto technological solutions and enable win-win framings of complex sustainability issues. Yet, they also create new problems by ...