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Reyers, B., J.L. Nel, P.J. O’Farrell, N. Sitas, D.C. Nel. 2015. Navigating complexity through knowledge coproduction: Mainstreaming ecosystem services into disaster risk reduction. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 112: 7362–7368.
Achieving the policy and practice shifts needed to secure ecosystem services is hampered by the inherent complexities of ecosystem services and their management. Methods for the participatory production and exchange of knowledge offer an avenue to navigate this complexity together with the beneficiaries and managers of ecosystem services. We develop and apply a knowledge coproduction approach based on social–ecological systems...
Pickering, K., R. Plummer, T. Shaw, G. Pickering. 2015. Assessing the adaptive capacity of the Ontario wine industry for climate change adaptation. International Journal of Wine Research 7: 13–27.
Background: Wine regions throughout the world are experiencing climate change characterized by the gradual alterations in growing seasons, temperature, precipitation, and the occurrences of extreme weather events that have significant consequences for quality wine production. Adapting to these new challenges depends largely on the present and future adaptive capacity of the grape growers, winemakers, and supporting institution...
Ulmanen, J., Å. Gerger Swartling, O. Wallgren. 2015. Climate adaptation in Swedish forestry: Exploring the debate and policy process, 1990-2012. Forests 6: 708–733.
This paper explores how climate change adaptation concerns were integrated into the Swedish forestry debate and policy process during the period of 1990–2012, and draws lessons on barriers and opportunities identified in this process. Using a framework focusing on “advocacy coalitions”, we analyze how the adaptation debate in the forestry sector evolved over the period; who the main advocates for and against adaptation were;...
Sun, A.Y., J. Chen, J. Donges. 2015. Global terrestrial water storage connectivity revealed using complex climate network analyses. Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics 22: 433–446
Terrestrial water storage (TWS) exerts a key control in global water, energy, and biogeochemical cycles. Although certain causal relationship exists between precipitation and TWS, the latter quantity also reflects impacts of anthropogenic activities. Thus, quantification of the spatial patterns of TWS will not only help to understand feedbacks between climate dynamics and the hydrologic cycle, but also provide new insights a...
Malinga, R., L.J. Gordon, G. Jewitt, R. Lindborg. 2015. Mapping ecosystem services across scales and continents: A review. Ecosystem Services 13: 57–63.
Tremendous progress in ecosystem service mapping across the world has moved the concept of ecosystem services forward towards an increasingly useful tool for policy and decision making. There is a pressing need to analyse the various spatial approaches used for the mapping studies. We reviewed ecosystem services mapping literature in respect to spatial scale, world distribution, and types of ecosystem services considered. We...
Lucas, R., A. Kuchenbuch, I. Fetzer, H. Harms, S. Kleinsteuber. 2015. Long-term monitoring reveals stable and remarkably similar microbial communities in parallel full-scale biogas reactors digesting energy crops. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 91(3) DOI: 10.1093/femsec/fiv004
Biogas is an important renewable energy carrier. It is a product of stepwise anaerobic degradation of organic materials by highly diverse microbial communities forming complex interlinking metabolic networks. Knowledge about the microbial background of long-term stable process performance in full-scale reactors is crucial for rationally improving the efficiency and reliability of biogas plants. To generate such knowledge, in...
Lidström, S., S. West, T. Katzschner, M.I. Pérez-Ramos, H. Twidle. 2015. Invasive narratives and the inverse of slow violence: Alien species in science and society. Environmental Humanities 7: 1-40.
Environmental narratives have become an increasingly important area of study in the environmental humanities. Rob Nixon has drawn attention to the difficulties of representing the complex processes of environmental change that inflict ‘slow violence’ on vulnerable human (and non-human) populations. Nixon argues that a lack of “arresting stories, images and symbols” reduces the visibility of gradual problems such as biodivers...
Li, C., H. Zheng, S. Li, X. Chen, J. Li, W. Zeng, Y. Liang, S. Polasky, M.W. Feldman, M. Ruckelshaus, Z. Ouyang, G.C. Daily. 2015. Impacts of conservation and human development policy across stakeholders and scales. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 112: 7396–7401.
Ideally, both ecosystem service and human development policies should improve human well-being through the conservation of ecosystems that provide valuable services. However, program costs and benefits to multiple stakeholders, and how they change through time, are rarely carefully analyzed. We examine one of China’s new ecosystem service protection and human development policies: the Relocation and Settlement Program of Sou...
Karlberg, L., K.K. Garg, J. Barron, S.P. Wani. 2015. Impacts of agricultural water interventions on farm income: An example from the Kothapally watershed, India. Agricultural Systems 136: 30–38
Agricultural water interventions (AWI), e.g. in-situ soil and water conservation strategies, irrigation, and damming of rivers to increase groundwater recharge, have been suggested as important strategies to improve yields in tropical agriculture. Although the biophysical implications of AWIs have been well investigated, the coupling between the biophysical changes and the economic implications thereof is less well understood....
Häyhä, T., P.P. Franzese, A. Paletto, B.D. Fath. 2015. Assessing, valuing, and mapping ecosystem services in Alpine forests. Ecosystem Services 14: 12–23
Forests support human economy and well-being with multiple ecosystem services. In this paper, the ecosystem services generated in a mountainous forest area in North Italy were assessed in biophysical and monetary units. GIS was used to analyze and visualize the distribution and provision of different services. The assessment of ecosystem services in biophysical units was an important step to investigate ecosystem functions a...
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