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Journal / article | 2017
Gascard, J-C., A-S Crépin, M. Karcher, O.R. Young. 2017. Facets of Arctic change. Ambio 46(3): 339-340.
This special issue highlights results from the project Arctic Climate Change Economy and Society (ACCESS, 2011–2015) supported within the Ocean of Tomorrow call of the European Union’s 7th framework programme. Focusing on the marine Arctic, ACCESS investigated climate impacts on marine transportation, seafood production, and the extraction of hydrocarbons up to 2050. The project dedicated particular attention to environmental ...
Garcia, M.M. 2017. Negotiating in the absence of trust: exploring the interactions between officials and residents in a waste management project in Copacabana, Bolivia. Local Environment 22(6): 667-681.
This study investigates the effects of the absence of trust in shaping relationships between officers and managers in Copacabana, Bolivia, particularly regarding the construction of a sanitary landfill for the city. The article builds on an abductive thematic analysis of observation and interview data. The data suggest that prior negative experiences and the absence of shared values are common arguments used by the residents t...
Galaz, V., J. Tallberg, A. Boin, C. Ituarte-Lima, E. Hey, P. Olsson, F. Westley. 2017. Global governance dimensions of globally networked risks: the state of the art in social science research. Risk Hazards and Crisis in Public Policy 8(1): 4-27.
Global risks are now increasingly being perceived as networked, and likely to result in large‐scale, propagating failures and crises that transgress national boundaries and societal sectors. These so called “globally networked risks” pose fundamental challenges to global governance institutions. A growing literature explores the nature of these globally networked or “systemic” risks. While this research has taught us much abou...
Galaz, V., A.M. Mouazen. 2017. 'New Wilderness' requires algorithmic transparency: a Response to Cantrell et al. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 32(9): 628-629.
Can rapid advances in robotics, increasingly sophisticated algorithms, and exponential increases in data availability help us create and maintain wild places? In their recent Opinion article, Cantrell and colleagues explore the ‘potential for fully automated systems to create and sustain new forms of wild places without ongoing direct human intervention’. They also elaborate how these systems could contribute to new ways of au...
Gaffney, O., W. Steffen. 2017 The Anthropocene equation. The Anthropocene Review 4(1): 53-61.
The dominant external forces influencing the rate of change of the Earth System have been astronomical and geophysical during the planet’s 4.5-billion-year existence. In the last six decades, anthropogenic forcings have driven exceptionally rapid rates of change in the Earth System. This new regime can be represented by an ‘Anthropocene equation’, where other forcings tend to zero, and the rate of change under human influence ...
Fujiwara, N., K. Kirchen, J.F. Donges, R.V. Donner. 2017. A perturbation-theoretic approach to Lagrangian flow networks. Chaos 27(3): 35813.
Complex network approaches have been successfully applied for studying transport processes in complex systems ranging from road, railway, or airline infrastructures over industrial manufacturing to fluid dynamics. Here, we utilize a generic framework for describing the dynamics of geophysical flows such as ocean currents or atmospheric wind fields in terms of Lagrangian flow networks. In this approach, information on the passi...
Figueres, C., H.J. Schellnhuber, G. Whiteman, J. Rockström, A. Hobley, S. Rahmstorf. 2017. Three years to safeguard our climate. Nature 546: 593-595.
In the past three years, global emissions of carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels have levelled after rising for decades. This is a sign that policies and investments in climate mitigation are starting to pay off. The United States, China and other nations are replacing coal with natural gas and boosting renewable energy sources. There is almost unanimous international agreement that the risks of abandoning the plan...
Donges, J., W. Lucht, F. Müller-Hansen, W. Steffen. 2017. The technosphere in Earth System analysis: a coevolutionary perspective. The Anthropocene Review 4(1): 23-33.
Earth system analysis is the study of the joint dynamics of biogeophysical, social and technological processes on our planet. To advance our understanding of possible future development pathways and identify management options for navigating to safe operating spaces while avoiding undesirable domains, computer models of the Earth system are developed and applied. These models hardly represent dynamical properties of technologi...
Donges, J., W. Barfuss. 2017. From math to metaphors and back again: social-ecological resilience from a multi-agent-environment perspective. Gaia-Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society 26: 182-190
Science and policy stand to benefit from reconnecting the many notions of social-ecological resilience to their roots in complexity sciences.We propose several ways of moving towards operationalization through the classification of modern concepts of resilience based on a multi-agent-environment perspective. Social-ecological resilience underlies popular sustainability concepts that have been influential in formulating the Uni...
d’Amour, C.B., F. Reitsma, G. Baiocchi, S. Barthel, B. Guneralp, K-H. Erb, H. Haberl, F. Creutzig, K.C. Seto. 2017. Future urban land expansion and implications for global croplands. Proceedings of The National Academy of Sciences, USA 114(34): 8939-8944.
Urban expansion often occurs on croplands. However, there is little scientific understanding of how global patterns of future urban expansion will affect the world’s cultivated areas. Here, we combine spatially explicit projections of urban expansion with datasets on global croplands and crop yields. Our results show that urban expansion will result in a 1.8–2.4% loss of global croplands by 2030, with substantial regional disp...
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