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Monitoring extinction risk and threats of the world’s fishes based on the Sampled Red List Index
Global biodiversitytargets require us to identify species at risk of extinction and quantify status and trends of biodiversity. The Red List Index...
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Actions to strengthen the contribution of small farms and small food businesses to food security in Europe
This study stems from a participatory foresight exercise conducted in nine Mediterranean, Baltic, Nordic and Eastern European regions, aiming to...
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A facilitation method to foster collective action in transitions toward sustainable agriculture—a case study
Supporting farmers in their change to more sustainable practices requires dealing with the singularity of their situations. Taking advantage of local...
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Exploring Futures in Landscape Agronomy: Methodological Issues and Prospects of Combining Scenarios and Spatially Explicit Models
This chapter describes the combinations of spatially explicit models and scenarios to explore futures of agricultural landscapes. Modeling...
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Is Ensuring the Sustainable Implementation of BGI Possible? System Thinking of Urban Rivers as Social-Ecological Systems
With the mounting pressure of urbanization, how innovative blue-green infrastructure (BGI) can restore the ecosystem services of urban rivers is a...
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Develo** achievable alternate futures for key challenges during the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development
The oceans face a range of complex challenges for which the impacts on society are highly uncertain but mostly negative. Tackling these challenges is...
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Southern spatial stories: interdisciplinary perceptions of shifting spatial awareness and values
ContextConsideration of historical maps for ecological research requires a bidirectional understanding of human-nature relationships. We investigated...
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Disentangling Ecosystem Necromass Dynamics for Biodiversity Conservation
Global environmental change has redistributed earth’s biomass and the inputs and dynamics of basal detrital resources in ecosystems, contributing to...
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Towards a better understanding of soil nutrient dynamics and P and K uptake
AimBalanced crop nutrition is key to improve nutrient use efficiency and reduce environmental impact of farming systems. We developed and tested a...
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Wie Wissenschaft mit der Zukunft umgeht
Mit den Entwicklungen der synthetischen Biologie und künstlichen Intelligenz wird in der Technosphäre verstärkt zielgerichtet in die menschliche...
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The Shape of Science
What sets researchers Researcher and scientists apart from the rest of society? Do you need to be a nerd or a kind of weirdo to become a scientist...
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Exploring farmers’ perspectives on agrobiodiversity management: future options for quinoa smallholder organizations in the Peruvian high Andes
The intensification of crop production is widely recognized to negatively affect the agrobiodiversity in smallholder systems. This trend can also be...
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Nature-Based Solutions for Resilient and Thriving Cities: Opportunities and Challenges for Planning Future Cities
This chapter explains the importance for nature-based solutions as resilience infrastructure of cities. It sets the scene for the challenges and...
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Planning for active management of future invasive pests affecting urban forests: the ecological and economic effects of varying Dutch elm disease management practices for street trees in Milwaukee, WI USA
The effects of Dutch elm disease (DED, Ophiostoma novi-ulmi ) on 106,738 American elm ( Ulmus americana L.) trees in Milwaukee WI, USA was contrasted...
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Oceans and society: feedbacks between ocean and human health
The concentration of human population along coastlines has far-reaching effects on ocean and societal health. The oceans provide benefits to humans...
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Key research challenges to supporting farm transitions to agroecology in advanced economies. A review
In response to the sustainability issues that agriculture faces in advanced economies, agroecology has gained increasing relevance in scientific,...
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Participatory Methodology for Designing an Agroecological Transition at Local Level
The purpose of the TATA-BOX project was to develop a toolbox to support local stakeholders in the design of an agroecological transition at local...
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Semiocide as Negation: Review of Michael Marder’s Dump Philosophy
This review admires Michael Marder’s inquiry as a parallel for which biosemiotics can find points of conceptual resonance, even as methodological...
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Deep aspirations: towards a sustainable offshore Blue Economy
AbstractThe ocean economy is experiencing rapid growth that will provide benefits but will also pose environmental and social risks. With limited...
