Publications

Heng Ma, Gangfeng Zhang, Weihang Liu, Bo Su, Ning Zhan, Yonggui Ma, Weidong Ma, Shuo Chen, Peijun Shi. 2024. Prevention capacity significantly reduced the livestock exposure to snow hazards across the Qinghai Plateau. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2024.104714

Livestock snow disaster is one of the most serious natural disasters in pastoral areas during cold seasons, leading to substantial livestock losses over the past few decades. Accurate assessment of livestock exposure is crucial for reducing the risk of livestock snow disaster, while much less is known about the livestock exposure due to the lack of available gridded livestock density data with long time series. In this study, ...

Can Zhang, Bo Su, Michael Beckmann, Martin Volk. 2024. Emergy-based evaluation of ecosystem services: Progress and perspectives. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2023.114201

This review investigates the potential of the emergy analysis (EMA) as a new perspective and approach to the worldwide used ecosystem services (ESs) framework to quantify and analyse the potential benefits people obtain from ecosystems. Based on bibliometric analysis method, the study systematically investigates the latest developments and issues of application of EMA in ESs in conjunction with thematic analysis. The analysis ...

Honghong Li, Raf E. V. Jansen, Charis Sijuwade, Biljana Macura, Matteo Giusti, Peter Søgaard Jørgensen. 2024. What evidence exists regarding the impact of biodiversity on human health and well-being? A systematic map protocol. Environmental Evidence. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13750-024-00335-4

Global biodiversity is rapidly declining, yet we still do not fully understand the relationships between biodiversity and human health and well-being. As debated, the loss of biodiversity or reduced contact with natural biodiversity may lead to more public health problems, such as an increase in chronic disease. There is a growing body of research that investigates how multiple forms of biodiversity are associated with an incr...

Graham Hyde, Brian D. Fath, Hannah Zoller. 2024. Measuring system resilience through a comparison of information- and flow-based network analyses. Scientific Reports. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-66654-1

Quantifying the properties of complex, self-organizing systems is increasingly important for understanding the development and state of modern systems. Case studies have recommended sustainability frameworks predominately in literature, but little emphasis has been placed on methodological evaluation. Data availability is often an obstacle that constrains conventional flow-based network analysis, but a novel information-based ...

Areti Balkoni, Wolfgang zu Castell, Karen H. Wiltshire, Maarten Boersma, Hannah Zoller. 2024. Adaptive cycles of a phyto-zooplankton community under human pressure. EGU. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-16349

Human activities, such as global warming and nutrient pollution, are posing significant threats to the ecological interactions and biodiversity in aquatic environments. The German Bight, a highly dynamic coastal region of the North Sea, has been subject to considerable warming and nutrient fluctuations over recent decades. These changes have had profound impacts on the plankton communities in this area, leading to a swift reor...

Oskar Nyberg, Andreas Novotny, Ashraf S. Sbaay, Ahmed M. Nasr-Allah, Diaa A.R. Al-Kenawy, Cristiano M. Rossignoli, Patrik J.G. Henriksson. 2024. Poultry manure fertilization of Egyptian aquaculture ponds brings more cons than pros. Aquaculture. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquaculture.2024.741040

Aquaculture is a crucial sector for Egyptian food production, providing a cheap source of animal protein while securing income and employment for a substantial part Egypt's population. Nile tilapia ( Oreochromis niloticus ) is the most commonly produced fish, usually farmed in earthen ponds around the Northern Delta Lakes. A common practice among farms is to fertilize ponds with chicken manure (CM) in order to increase nutrie...

Louis Delannoy, Matthieu Auzanneau, Baptiste Andrieu, Olivier Vidal, Pierre-Yves Longaretti, Emmanuel Prados, David J. Murphy, Roger W. Bentley, Michael Carbajales-Dale, Marco Raugei, Mikael Höök, Victor Court, Carey W. King, Florian Fizaine, Pierre Jacques, Matthew Kuperus Heun, Andrew Jackson, Charles Guay-Boutet, Emmanuel Aramendia, Jianliang Wang, Hugo Le Boulzec, Charles A.S. Hall. 2024. Emerging consensus on net energy paves the way for improved integrated assessment modeling. Energy & Environmental Science. https://doi.org/10.1039/D3EE00772C

Extracting, processing, and delivering energy requires energy itself, which reduces the net energy available to society and yields considerable socioeconomic implications. Yet, most mitigation pathways and transition models overlook net energy feedbacks, specifically related to the decline in the quality of fossil fuel deposits, as well as energy requirements of the energy transition. Here, we summarize our position across 8 k...

Emmy Wassénius, Beatrice Crona, Sasha Quahe. 2024. Essential environmental impact variables: A means for transparent corporate sustainability reporting aligned with planetary boundaries. One Earth. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2024.01.014

Despite numerous pledges to the contrary, corporate activities are inflicting environmental harm and are pushing the Earth system toward and beyond planetary boundaries. Several sustainability accounting frameworks exist, designed to track corporate environmental impacts through corporate reporting, and there is currently a push toward standardization of these. However, most sustainability accounting frameworks still fail to f...

Nisansala Abeysinghe, Christopher J. O'Bryan, Jonathan Rhodes, Eve McDonald-Madden, Angela M. Guerrero. 2024. Diversity in invasive species management networks. Journal of Environmental Management. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2024.121424

Effective management of invasive species requires collaboration across a range of stakeholders. These stakeholders exhibit diverse attributes such as organisation types, operational scale, objectives, and roles within projects. Identifying the diverse attributes of stakeholders is beneficial for increasing collaboration success while minimising potential conflicts among multiple stakeholders when managing invasive species acro...

Andreas Nicolaidis Lindqvist, Shane Carnohan, Rickard Fornell, Linda Tufvesson, Thomas Prade, Andreas Lindhe, Karin Sjöstrand. 2024. Dynamic marginal cost curves to support water resources management. Journal of Environmental Management. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2024.122004

Marginal cost curves (MCCs) are popular decision-support tools for assessing and ranking the cost-effectiveness of different options in environmental policy and management. However, conventional MCC approaches have been criticized for lack of transparency and disregard for complexity; not accounting for interaction effects between measures; ignoring ancillary benefits and costs; and not considering intertemporal dynamics. In t...