Corporations and financial institutions driving coastal conflicts involving Indigenous Peoples - Ambio

Socio-environmental conflicts associated with large-scale economic projects in Indigenous territories are well documented, but conflicts in coastal areas remain largely unexplored, despite the crucial...

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Urban spatial dynamic modeling in transition: Hybrid, human-centric, and scalable futures - Ambio

Urban spatial dynamic modeling (SDM) has long been used to anticipate land-use change, urban expansion, and infrastructure demand. Yet, despite increasing methodological sophistication, most applicati...

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Assessing social–ecological feedbacks in small-scale fisheries - Ambio

Assessment frameworks do not capture the complexity of the social–ecological dynamics of small-scale fisheries (SSF), which support millions of livelihoods yet face persistent sustainability challenge...

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Influence of management on susceptibility of Nordic boreal forests to damage by natural disturbances - Ambio

Natural disturbances are fundamental in shaping forest ecosystems, yet management decisions in production forests can aggravate or mitigate their impacts. Understanding the interplay between forest ad...

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Transformative potential of digital systems for promoting human-wildlife coexistence: A systematic literature review - Ambio

Digital technology plays an increasingly important role in wildlife management and conservation, by enhancing monitoring capabilities and reshaping human-wildlife interactions. However, the transforma...

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How do stakeholders map ecological connectivity? Discourse analysis of French planning instruments dedicated to biodiversity conservation - Ambio

Habitat networks in planning instruments are essential for preserving biodiversity and ensuring ecological connectivity. However, varying stakeholder interpretations influence how these networks are a...

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Interdisciplinary insights on climate-smart rewilding: Lessons from pioneering Dutch river transformations - Ambio

With climate and biodiversity crises intensifying, integrated solutions are urgently needed. Rewilding offers a promising approach to ecosystem restoration and climate adaptation. However, challenges ...

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Towards responsible water banking: An exploratory synthesis of Responsible Innovation and Value Sensitive Design for inclusive water management - Ambio

Water banking offers a transformative solution to freshwater scarcity, but stakeholder involvement is essential for success. Responsible Innovation (RI) and Value Sensitive Design (VSD) include stakeh...

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Revealed-behaviour models to map agri-environment contract feasibility for Finland’s semi-natural grasslands and wooded pastures - Ambio

Semi-natural grasslands and wooded pastures are biodiversity-rich, declining habitats whose conservation depends largely on voluntary management by farmers. Their management is supported through agri-...

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Interdisciplinary insights on climate-smart rewilding: Lessons from pioneering Dutch river transformations - Ambio

With climate and biodiversity crises intensifying, integrated solutions are urgently needed. Rewilding offers a promising approach to ecosystem restoration and climate adaptation. However, challenges ...

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Towards responsible water banking: An exploratory synthesis of Responsible Innovation and Value Sensitive Design for inclusive water management - Ambio

Water banking offers a transformative solution to freshwater scarcity, but stakeholder involvement is essential for success. Responsible Innovation (RI) and Value Sensitive Design (VSD) include stakeh...

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Revealed-behaviour models to map agri-environment contract feasibility for Finland’s semi-natural grasslands and wooded pastures - Ambio

Semi-natural grasslands and wooded pastures are biodiversity-rich, declining habitats whose conservation depends largely on voluntary management by farmers. Their management is supported through agri-...

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Reconnecting with food: The how and where of human-food resonance for sustainability - Ambio

In a world marked by disconnect and alienation, the need for relational approaches in science and society is clear. Despite attempts toward sustainable transformations, pressure on the world, humans, ...

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Highly resolved projections of climate and vegetation indicate major changes in northern Scandinavia: Implications for reindeer herding, tourism and nature conservation - Ambio

Through Arctic amplification, global climate change is projected to disproportionally affect high-latitude environments. Additionally, the geographical heterogeneity and complex terrain of mountains p...

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Characterising people–species–place relationships - Ambio

Place attachments are multifaceted, reflecting personal meaning, and lived experiences. People also develop strong connections with species that inhabit beloved places. Yet, where places and species a...

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Knowing with the river: Situated risks of riverine communities in the Peruvian Amazon - Ambio

Dominant approaches to drought and flood risk often marginalize the social and temporal dimensions of how communities experience environmental change. This study explores how three riverine communitie...

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Protecting earth from extraterrestrial contamination: The case for a lunar biocontainment facility - Ambio

The advancement of space exploration into an era of sample return missions from Mars, asteroids, and icy moons raises the potential for biological contamination either to or from Earth. We consider th...

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Cold-water fisheries in a warmer world: Increasing temperature redistributes angling effort and concentrates activity in cold-water refugia - Ambio

Climate change is reshaping human–ecosystem interactions. Cold-water fisheries are vulnerable, and anglers are adapting to a warming climate. Using a multi-decadal, multi-lake dataset, we show high ai...

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Wildfires of war in Ukraine: Implications for fire governance in a changing world - Ambio

War reshapes wildfire regimes both directly and indirectly, yet its impacts remain largely overlooked. Russia’s invasion into Ukraine has significantly increased wildfire activity, while displacement,...

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The changing landscape of Newfoundland fisheries after the cod collapse - Ambio

The history of Newfoundland, Canada, is told through the cod fishery that led to the development of thousands of outport settlements connected by boat and sea. The collapse of the Northern cod stock a...

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Systematic review of ecological and environmental citizen science in India - Ambio

Citizen science (CS) is increasingly used for research, environmental monitoring and policy input while enhancing participants’ skills and well-being. However, it remains unevenly distributed globally...

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Subjective energy poverty and attitudes on climate change mitigation measures: Empirical and ethical considerations - Ambio

Objective energy poverty—commonly defined using indicators such as the relationship between energy costs, income, and energy required for adequate living—has been widely studied, yet less is known abo...

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Can agri-environmental schemes be designed to meet EU habitat restoration goals for semi-natural habitats? An interdisciplinary case study - Ambio

Semi-natural grasslands and wooded pastures are biodiversity-rich but declining habitats that depend on continued management, mostly by farmers. In the EU, agri-environmental schemes (AESs) under the ...

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Beyond instrumentalizing “good” and “bad” emotions: Towards a social, multi-affective, contextual approach to emotions in environmental communication - Ambio

In this perspective, we argue for a social, multi-affective, contextual approach to emotions in environmental communication, departing from an observation that the field has often considered emotions ...

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Bright spots in peatland conservation, rewetting, and restoration - Ambio

Humans have relied on peatlands for millennia, but their exploitation through drainage-based agriculture, forestry, and peat extraction has led to their widespread degradation. Yet, peatlands play a c...

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Stakeholders’ perspectives on barriers and pathways toward the diversification of planted forests - Ambio

Mixed planted forests (MPFs) are often considered more resilient to climate change and provide greater environmental benefits than monocultures. Yet, monocultures dominate tree plantation systems glob...

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Narrating plural democratic landscape transformation through a Needs–Care–Justice framework - Ambio

Landscapes are relational and contested arenas where systemic crises, competing values and power asymmetries shape contested visions of sustainability. Conventional policy and technical responses ofte...

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Governing environmental complexity: Exploring coherence across EU climate and biodiversity strategies - Ambio

Climate change and biodiversity loss are intertwined challenges, yet governance responses are poorly coordinated. This incoherence risks policy inefficiency while reinforcing environmental degradation...

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Amplifying voices: Fostering legitimacy, acceptability and participation in climate governance - Ambio

While immediate emission cuts are more urgent than ever, we witness climate action being hampered by societal opposition and ethical complexities connected to questions of legitimacy, fairness and par...

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Using community-based crime scripting to elucidate pangolin scale trafficking - Ambio

Illegal wildlife trade is accelerating rates of biodiversity loss and undermining conservation. Crime scripting systematically details the crime commission process, informs prevention activities, and ...

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