Showing papers in "Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability in 2020"

TL;DR: The authors reviewed the literature on the political and power dimensions of co-production and showed how depoliticization dynamics in coproduction reinforce rather than mitigate existing unequal power relations and how they prevent wider societal transformation from taking place.

TL;DR: A brief overview of different conceptualisations of transformation, and a set of practical principles for effective research and action towards sustainability are outlined in this paper. But these approaches are not mutually exclusive.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors bring literatures on knowledge co-production together with Indigenous knowledge, research, and environmental governance to explain why coproduction scholars must move away from seeking to better integrate and integrate Indigenous knowledges into western science and make way for Indigenous research leadership.

TL;DR: In 2017, the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) adopted an ILK Approach including procedures for assessments of nature and nature's linkages with people; a participatory mechanism; and institutional arrangements for including indigenous peoples and local communities.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a new approach in which researchers and knowledge-users meaningfully interact to co-create knowledge that is actionable in decision-making, and recognize the diversity of forms of engaged research.

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TL;DR: A distinct formulation of Indigenous environmental justice (IEJ) is required in order to address the challenges of the ecological crisis as well the various forms of violence and injustices experienced specifically by Indigenous peoples as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of recent examples of co-produced research alongside current theorization on the topic is presented, focusing on the area of climate change adaptation, and the authors argue that understanding and reconciling the transformative potential of science-practice collaborations within the context of the incremental progress achieved through its current practice will catalyze a more integrated and actionable scholarship and practice.

TL;DR: It is argued that greater acknowledgement and professionalization of boundary spanning will improve the use of science in practice and knowledge to action and help build greater support while capturing key challenges in the field.

TL;DR: A review of insect pollinator conservation policies found that despite scientific calls and public outcry to develop policies that addresses declines, governments have not delivered such legislation, nor have they met basic monitoring needs recommended by experts as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: The authors summarizes key findings from a series of systematic reviews and comprehensive efforts to collate evidence and expert opinions on circular solutions for recovery and reuse of nutrients and carbon from different waste streams in the agriculture and wastewater sectors.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assess theoretical and methodological challenges facing positivist institutional analysis, focusing on natural resource governance according to Ostrom's social-ecological systems (SES) framework, and suggest several promising avenues for advancing institutional analysis through the study of relationships between institutional structure, process, function, context, and outcomes.

TL;DR: This review identifies opportunities for science funding program management to bolster the generation of actionable science through different approaches to solicitation design, review processes, implementation support, and evaluation.

TL;DR: This work distinguishes three different logics of decision-making and discusses their implications for knowledge use, including the logic of consequentiality, rooted in theories of rational choice, in which environmental knowledge is used because of its utilitarian value.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provided estimates of terrestrial denitrification and R N 2 O by reviewing existing literature and compiling a N budget for the global land surface, and they concluded that upscaling of R N O can provide spatial estimates of the terrestrial N 2 emissions when data from acetylene inhibition methods are excluded.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the state of the art on the contribution of multifunctional and connected green infrastructure (GI) systems to urban resilience from multiple dimensions: (1) policy that promotes the adoption of GI, (2) performance assessment of GI impacts on water infrastructure systems resilience, (3) connectivity evaluation of human and wildlife movement through GI, and (4) social cohesion as a result of GI efforts.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore fundamental challenges, including issues of participation and equity, economic valuation, scalar mismatches, the integration of natural and built infrastructure, and governance.

TL;DR: This paper identified core dimensions in the notion of sustainability as it is conceptualized among Indigenous peoples, including context-based relationality, community-based governance, education, language, quality of life and health, and communal recognition of certain nonhumans as life-givers.

TL;DR: Technological solutions will still need to be complemented with traditional observer-based methods for the foreseeable future until the tools become cheap enough and easy enough for widespread use (especially in biodiversity-rich countries).

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a relationship between yield gaps and soil N$ 2 O emissions, and used it to scale maize production across sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) to assess increases in soil emissions when closing maize yield gaps by increased fertilizer use.

TL;DR: This paper reviewed psychological processes that underlie climate change denial, and survey promising directions for fostering support for solutions, drawing largely on studies conducted in the United States, whose population is exceptionally high on climate denial and disengagement.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors review and synthesize N2O mitigation practices with an emphasis on how they can be aligned to reduce the occurrence of hot spots (HS) and transient hot moments (HM) of Nitrous Oxide emissions.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the innovation space in agriculture is migrating from an emphasis in technology, aiming to achieve economic goals related to productivity, to an emphasis on the relationship humankind-nature, aiming for a greater balance between social, economic and environmental goals.

TL;DR: Key characteristics of successful DSTs that enhance decision quality are identified through a review of the literature, and some ways that the ecosystem of decision support activities used to develop Louisiana’s Coastal Master Plan embody these characteristics are considered.

TL;DR: This article identifies diverse rationales to call for anticipatory governance of solar geoengineering, in light of a climate crisis, and illustrates why some proposals differ so significantly, while also showing that similar-sounding proposals may emanate from quite distinct rationales and thus advance different ends, depending upon how they are designed in practice.

TL;DR: The Global N2O Database was created to serve as a repository for these datasets as well as become a resource for publicly available data and analytical advances as discussed by the authors, which can be used to assess mitigation solutions.

TL;DR: In this article, a review examines methods quantifying both N2 and N2O emissions, based on inhibitors, helium/O2 atmosphere exchange, and isotopes, and suggest quality parameters for measuring denitrification from controlled environments to the field scale.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the solutions that are put forward to expand capital accumulation and on the narratives that allow to recast and legitimate actors and processes in industrial agriculture.

TL;DR: This paper reviewed the history and development of social-ecological system scholarship, including longstanding concerns regarding the weak inclusion of temporal dynamics, and highlighted the contributions of three novel advances, namely the combined IAD-SES framework, the institutional grammar tool, and the power in polycentric governance approach.