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Ecosystem service mismatches evidence inequalities in urban heat vulnerability
(Science of the Total Environment, 2024-04-20)
Exposure to heat poses a pressing challenge in cities, with uneven health and environmental impacts across the urban fabric. To assess disparities in heat vulnerability and its environmental justice implications, we model ...
Consumer Insights to Eco-Design a Hot Sauce: Understanding Household Use for Product Optimization through Focus Groups and a Home-Use-Test Study
(Foods, 2024-03-01)
Promoting sustainable choices requires making food with proper environmental performance readily available to consumers, but these products must be appealing to ensure market success. The aim of the present study was to ...
Century-long recovery of mycorrhizal interactions in European beech forests after mining
(Plant and Soil, 2024-01-01)
Background and aims: Ecological restoration strategies are emerging globally to counteract biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation. However, restored ecosystems may not reach undisturbed biodiversity and functionality. ...
Developing countries can adapt to climate change effectively using nature-based solutions
(Communications Earth and Environment, 2024-12-01)
Evidence on the effectiveness of climate change adaptation interventions in low- and middle-income countries has been rapidly growing in recent years, particularly in the agricultural and coastal sectors. Here we address ...
European patterns of local adaptation planning—a regional analysis
(Regional Environmental Change, 2024-06-01)
While European regions face a range of different climate hazards, little is known about how these differences affect local climate adaptation planning. We present an analytical framework for evaluating local climate ...
Meta-analysis reveals that the effects of precipitation change on soil and litter fauna in forests depend on body size
(Global Change Biology, 2024-05-01)
Anthropogenic climate change is altering precipitation regimes at a global scale. While precipitation changes have been linked to changes in the abundance and diversity of soil and litter invertebrate fauna in forests, ...
Is it just conservation? A typology of Indigenous peoples’ and local communities’ roles in conserving biodiversity
(One Earth, 2024-01-01)
As conservation initiatives expand in response to biodiversity loss, there remains limited understanding about what forms of governance and roles for different actors produce the best ecological outcomes. Indigenous peoples’ ...
Mapping the landscape of water and society research: Promising combinations of compatible and complementary disciplines
(Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, 2024-03-01)
Coupled human-water systems (CHWS) are diverse and have been studied across a wide variety of disciplines. Integrating multiple disciplinary perspectives on CHWS provides a comprehensive and actionable understanding of ...
Multi-level finance impacts on participation, inclusion, and equity: Bricolage and Fuzziness in NextGenerationEU-funded renaturing projects
(Environmental Science and Policy, 2024-06-01)
We analyze a multi-level ad-hoc emergency fund (MAEF) – the European NextGenerationEU program – as an opportunity to advance ambitious municipal climate action. Presently, MAEF follow a vertical complex governance structure, ...
Methodological choices for reflecting strong sustainability in composite indices
(Ecological Economics, 2024-07-01)
Composite indicators are widely used to represent sustainability or its underlying dimensions. Nonetheless, an alignment between the multiple choices made during their construction and the underlying conceptual framework ...