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Book chapter | 2016
Lindgren, E., T. Elmqvist. 2016. Ecosystem services and human health. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Environmental Science.doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780199389414.013.86.
Ecosystem services refer to benefits for human societies and well-being obtained from ecosystems. Research on health effects of ecosystem services have until recently mostly focused on beneficial effects on physical and mental health from spending time in nature or having access to urban green space. However, nearly all of the different ecosystem services may have impacts on health, either directly or indirectly. Ecosystem ser...
Sinclair, P., S. Barthel, C. Isendahl. 2016. Beyond rhetoric: Towards a framework for an applied historical ecology of urban planning. In C. Isendahl, D. Stump (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Historical Ecology and Applied Archaeology. Oxford Handbooks Online. doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199672691.013.34 pp. 1 – 12.
Historical ecological approaches to settlement aggregation and complexity reject modernist and post-modernist reliance on linear neo-evolutionary categorization of cities in relation to earlier farming communities. Instead, urban centres and multi-urban systems are viewed as components of complex heterarchically and hierarchically organized landscapes. Resilience theory has been applied in several archaeological efforts to cha...
Journal / article | 2016
Häyhä, T., Lucas, P.L., van Vuuren, D.P., Cornell, S.E. and Hoff, H. 2016. From Planetary Boundaries to national fair shares of the global safe operating space—How can the scales be bridged?. Global Environmental Change 40: 60-72.
The planetary boundaries framework proposes quantitative global limits to the anthropogenic perturbation of crucial Earth system processes, and thus marks out a planetary safe operating space for human activities. Yet, decisions regarding resource use and emissions are mostly made at less aggregated scales, by national and sub-national governments, businesses, and other local actors. To operationalize the planetary boundaries ...
Falkenmark, M. 2016. Water and human livelihood resilience: a regional-to-global outlook, International Journal of Water Resources Development, DOI: 10.1080/07900627.2016.1190320
This article addresses the need to profoundly expand the way we think about freshwater. Stressing water’s role as the bloodstream of the biosphere, the article highlights water’s functions in sustaining life on the planet (control, state and moisture feedback functions), the role of water partitioning changes in inducing non-linear change at multiple scales, and humanity’s influence on a social-ecological system’s capacity to ...
Enqvist, J., M. Tengö, W.J. Boonstra. 2016.Against the current: Rewiring rigidity trapdynamics in urban water governance throughcivic engagement. Sustainability Science 11:919 – 933.
This paper investigates how the agency of local residents can affect persistent and unsustainable practices in urban water supply governance. Using a case study from Bangalore, India, we analyze a social–ecological trap which developed after a shift to external water provision paired with rapid urbanization. The reluctance of forsaking initial investments in infrastructure and competence, and the subsequent loss of the local n...
Rockström, J., Schellnhuber, H.J., Hoskins, B., Ramanathan, V., Schlosser, P., Brasseur, G.P., Gaffney, O., Nobre, C., Meinshausen, M., Rogerlj, J. and Lucht, W. 2016. The world's biggest gamble. Earth's Future, Volume 4, Issue 10 October 2016 PP. 465–470
The scale of the decarbonisation challenge to meet the Paris Agreement is underplayed in the public arena. It will require precipitous emissions reductions within 40 years and a new carbon sink on the scale of the ocean sink. Even then, the world is extremely likely to overshoot. A catastrophic failure of policy, for example, waiting another decade for transformative policy and full commitments to fossil-free economies, will h...
Troell, M., Ziegler, F., Henriksson, P. 2016. Is fish a fish - adding fish to the global food sustainability transformation. Science 16 Sep 2016: Vol. 353, Issue 6305, pp. 1202-1204 DOI: 10.1126/science.aah4765
The Perspective on food sustainability (T. Garnett, 16 September, 353/6305) gives valuable insights related to links between dietary choices, environmental impacts and health. Substituting meat with fish could, as stated, only result in a transfer of impacts. If, however, fish is caught sustainably, respecting biological limits and using smart fishing methods, capture fisheries can produce low-impact food without requiring lan...
M. Kretschmer, D. Coumou, J.F. Donges, J. Runge. 2016. Using causal effect networks to analyze different Arctic drivers of mid-latitude winter circulation, Journal of Climate 29, 4069-4081
In recent years, the Northern Hemisphere midlatitudes have suffered from severe winters like the extreme 2012/13 winter in the eastern United States. These cold spells were linked to a meandering upper-tropospheric jet stream pattern and a negative Arctic Oscillation index (AO). However, the nature of the drivers behind these circulation patterns remains controversial. Various studies have proposed different mechanisms related...
J.F. Donges, C.-F. Schleussner, J.F. Siegmund, and R.V. Donner. 2016. Event coincidence analysis for quantifying statistical interrelationships between event time series: on the role of flood events as triggers of epidemic outbreaks, European Physical Journal Special Topics, 225(3), 471-487, DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2015-50233-y
Studying event time series is a powerful approach for analyzing the dynamics of complex dynamical systems in many fields of science. In this paper, we describe the method of event coincidence analysis to provide a framework for quantifying the strength, directionality and time lag of statistical interrelationships between event series. Event coincidence analysis allows to formulate and test null hypotheses on the origin of the...
M. Wiedermann, J.F. Donges, J. Kurths and R.V. Donner. 2016. Spatial network surrogates for disentangling complex system structure from spatial embedding of nodes, Physical Review E 93(4), 042308
Networks with nodes embedded in a metric space have gained increasing interest in recent years. The effects of spatial embedding on the networks' structural characteristics, however, are rarely taken into account when studying their macroscopic properties. Here, we propose a hierarchy of null models to generate random surrogates from a given spatially embedded network that can preserve certain global and local statistics assoc...
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