Showing papers in "Environmental Science & Policy in 2018"

TL;DR: The Scientific Conceptual Framework for Land Degradation Neutrality (SDFN) as mentioned in this paper was developed to provide a scientific approach to planning, implementing and monitoring land degradation neutrality, which aims to maintain or enhance land-based natural capital and its associated ecosystem services.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors reviewed the challenges faced by China in addressing urban pluvial flooding and managing urban stormwater, with a particular focus on a policy initiative termed sponge cities.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a framework of assessing and reducing uncertainty and propose measures that could improve uncertainty communication, e.g. relying on ensembles and multi-model probabilistic approaches rather than projecting ranges of values.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors review the geodiversity concept and make the links with well-established concepts and strategies, namely the ones related with natural capital and ecosystem services, to demonstrate that the UN SDG can only be achieved if the elements and processes of geod diversity are definitely considered in the global agenda.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the convergence of the per capita ecological footprint by employing the annual data for the case of the European Union countries, spanning the period 1961 to 2013.

TL;DR: In this article, the integration of such unique and specific indigenous knowledge systems into other evidence bases of knowledge, could be one of the best ways to the more effective and sustainable implementation of climate change adaptation strategies among target indigenous communities.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyse the interaction between two social goals (related to SDG1 Poverty and SDG10 Inequality) and three environmental goals and find that pursuing social goals is associated with higher environmental impacts.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined 147 Local Adaptation Strategies (LAS) in Europe and identified the main barriers and triggers for climate change vulnerability, including insufficient resources, capacity, political commitment and uncertainty.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors apply a co-production approach to develop a set of Urban Water Security Indicators which aim to meet these criteria, and the approach was piloted in two cities, Singapore and Hong Kong.

TL;DR: A systematic analysis of 124 articles, books, and book chapters published between 2010-2015 using a standardized coding framework to examine trends and patterns in place-based water security research, and an analysis of the treatment of governance as a subset of this body of research to reveal how water governance is framed and understood.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors summarize past examples of the use of science to document the effectiveness of policy in air quality management, highlighting the urgency to apply these lessons to address current critical environmental issues such as emissions of greenhouse gases.

TL;DR: The Global Flood Partnership (GFP) as discussed by the authors is a global network of scientists, users, private and public organizations active in global flood risk management, which uses satellite remote sensing as well as numerical hydrological and weather predictions to detect and monitor severe flood events.

TL;DR: In this paper, an assessment and planning approach, designed to address uncertainty and change (the Dynamic Adaptive Policy Pathways (DAPP) planning approach), has been integrated into national guidance for coastal hazard and climate change decision making in New Zealand.

TL;DR: Coastal vulnerability is a spatial concept that identifies people and places that are susceptible to disturbances resulting from coastal hazards as mentioned in this paper, and it has been an evolving idea over the past hundred years.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compare production-based versus consumption-based emissions, and for the first time analyze reasons for the differences, and find no evidence for carbon leakage from developed to developing countries.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the hydrological behavior due to urbanization under current and future climate scenarios of high summer and high winter rainfall for 20 sub-catchments of the Schijn River, located in the Flanders region near Antwerp, Belgium.

TL;DR: Based on literature review and stakeholders consultation, a detailed conservation strategy for the coastal and marine environment of Bangladesh was formulated in this paper, where the strategy of nine interrelated sectors, their objectives and the action plan towards achieving these objectives were outlined.

TL;DR: In this article, an indicator-based Resilience Capacity Index (RCI) aimed at a better understanding of the factors influencing resilience capacity of the most hazard-prone rural households in Bangladesh, as a case study in a developing country.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors constructed an analytical framework from the dimensions of policy type and policy targets of two stages of environmental innovation, and selected 231 environmental policies issued by the Chinese government as well as various ministries and commissions from 1987 to 2016 to promote environmental innovation as the research sample.

TL;DR: In this paper, a framework that conceptualizes various governance capacities, i.e., regulatory, adaptive, and integrative capacity, in terms of the coproduction of knowledge, values, and social order, is presented.

TL;DR: In this article, a review of studies that measured the environmental impacts of agricultural practices in surface waters of hydrologically diverse meso-scale catchments (1-100 km2) were reviewed.

TL;DR: In this article, the main challenges to sustainable agroforestry in Europe were identified through 42 participatory workshops with 665 local stakeholders, and solutions to each challenge were scanned and classified into either direct solutions (28) to address climate change or indirect solutions (32) that improve the sustainability of agro-forestry.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focused on concrete case studies from six major cities across the central, western, and eastern regions of the African continent (Douala, Lagos City, Dar-es-Salaam, Accra, Addis Ababa and Mombasa).

TL;DR: The Minamata Convention on Mercury is influencing the development of artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) in sub-Saharan Africa as mentioned in this paper, and the importance of which, thus far, has been largely-overlooked.

TL;DR: In this paper, an analysis of currently existing EU policies with specific focus on implemented food-energy-water (FEW-) nexus has been conducted with an inductive research approach to derive a FEW nexus specific coding system for the computer assisted, semi-quantitative and qualitative analysis of the documents.

TL;DR: This paper uses a semi-quantitative method based on cognitive mapping to demonstrate how new knowledge emerges when combining knowledge from diverse agents, and illustrates how the emergence of new knowledge can be sustained by combining scientific and policy expertise.

TL;DR: In this paper, the trade-offs between biodiversity, production and ecosystem services are analyzed for an intensively-used area in the Netherlands, and a combination of both on-farm and off-farm measures are used to allocate priority areas in the landscape.

TL;DR: In this paper, a proof of concept for a combined robust decision making (RDM) and dynamic adaptive policy pathways (DAPP) approach in coastal flood risk management is provided.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe how the UN 2030 Agenda has been implemented within the policy context of Montenegro's National Strategy for Sustainable Development (NSSD 2030), and focus on the identification of the NSSD 2020 monitoring and reporting framework.

TL;DR: A holistic understanding of the complex interactions between humans, wildlife, and habitats is essential for the design of sustainable wildlife policies as mentioned in this paper, and this challenging task requires innovative a new approach.