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Cabana D, Pinna S, Farina S, Grech D, Barbieri N, Guala I. Coastal cultural ecosystem services and adolescents' subjective well-being. AMBIO 2024; 53:1561-1573. [PMID: 38871926 PMCID: PMC11436554 DOI: 10.1007/s13280-024-02043-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2023] [Revised: 12/05/2023] [Accepted: 05/23/2024] [Indexed: 06/15/2024]
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Despite growing recognition of nature's impact on mental health, its specific effects on adolescents remain unclear. This gap hinders effective strategies for youth well-being in a world facing increasing environmental pressures. This study directly investigates the connections between coastal environments and subjective well-being in adolescents. We explore how interactions with coastal landscapes and associated cultural ecosystem services contribute to both personal and social dimensions of well-being in a sample of 202 adolescents (16 and 17 years old) from Sardinia, Italy. Our findings reveal a beneficial impact of coastal experiences, promoting positive affect, social integration, and physiological well-being. However, human pressures on these environments can lead to negative affect, while fostering a sense of social contribution. This research highlights the complex interplay between coastal environments, human impacts, and teenagers' well-being. Understanding these links empowers planners to craft coastal management strategies that balance adolescents' well-being with the long-term sustainability of coastal regions.
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- David Cabana
- IMC - International Marine Centre, Loc. Sa Mardini Torregrande, 09170, Oristano, Italy.
- Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS), Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, Fischertwiete 1, 20095, Hamburg, Germany.
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- IMC - International Marine Centre, Loc. Sa Mardini Torregrande, 09170, Oristano, Italy
- GREEN LEAF - Groupe de Recherche en Education à l'Environnement et à la Nature, Laboratory of Affective Ecology, Università della Valle d'Aosta, Strada Cappuccini 2a, 11100, Aosta, Italy
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- IMC - International Marine Centre, Loc. Sa Mardini Torregrande, 09170, Oristano, Italy
- Department of Integrative Marine Ecology, Genoa Marine Centre, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn - National Institute of Marine Biology, Ecology and Biotechnology, Villa del Principe, Piazza del Principe 4, 16126, Genoa, Italy
- National Research Council, Institute for the Study of Anthropic Impacts and Sustainability in the Marine Environment (CNR-IAS), Loc. Sa Mardini, 09170, Torre Grande, OR, Italy
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- IMC - International Marine Centre, Loc. Sa Mardini Torregrande, 09170, Oristano, Italy
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- IMC - International Marine Centre, Loc. Sa Mardini Torregrande, 09170, Oristano, Italy
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- IMC - International Marine Centre, Loc. Sa Mardini Torregrande, 09170, Oristano, Italy
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Shao J. Green industrial policy and green development of agriculture-Quasi-natural experiment based on the Yangtze River Economic Belt in China. PLoS One 2024; 19:e0308307. [PMID: 39292654 PMCID: PMC11410273 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0308307] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2024] [Accepted: 07/21/2024] [Indexed: 09/20/2024] Open
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Based on the panel data of 30 provinces, municipalities, and autonomous regions in China from 2012 to 2022, from the perspective of harmony between man and nature, this paper selects 20 indicators to measure the level of agricultural green development from five dimensions such as ecological conservation and resource conservation by entropy weight method. On this basis, taking the implementation of green industrial policy in the Yangtze River Economic Belt as a quasi-natural experiment, the policy effect of green industrial policy on agricultural green development was analyzed by using the difference-in-difference method. The study found that: (1) the green development of agriculture is basically increasing year by year in each province, but there are some differences in the green development of agriculture among provinces; (2) Compared with the non-implementation areas of policies, the green development of agriculture in the implementation areas of policies has been significantly improved, and has passed a series of robustness tests; (3) The mechanism analysis shows that the green industrial policy has a crowding-out effect on industrial development, but significantly enhances the ecological construction and protection, thus promoting the green development of agriculture; (4) Heterogeneity analysis shows that the policy has a significant positive incentive effect on the upper and lower reaches of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, and the incentive effect on the middle reaches is not significant; (5) The impact of technological level on agricultural green development shows a positive U-shaped relationship. The improvement of education and information development levels also effectively promotes the green development of agriculture. This paper provides important empirical evidence and factual references for further promoting the green development of agriculture and the improvement of green industrial policies.
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- Jingbo Shao
- Economic Institute, Guizhou University of Finance and Economics, Guiyang, China
- International Tourism Culture College, Guizhou Normal University, Guiyang, China
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Shao J, Zhang L, Cai C. Dynamic evolution and spatial spillover effect of agricultural green development on eight economic regions in China. Heliyon 2024; 10:e33188. [PMID: 39005913 PMCID: PMC11239686 DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e33188] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2023] [Revised: 05/08/2024] [Accepted: 06/16/2024] [Indexed: 07/16/2024] Open
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Promoting the green development of agriculture is of great significance to realize agricultural and rural modernization in China. Based on the existing research, this paper innovatively explores the dynamic and spatial effects of agricultural green development in the eight newly zoned regions of China's economy. Based on the panel data of 30 provinces in China from 2013 to 2022, this paper selects 20 indicators to measure the level of agricultural green development from five dimensions such as ecological protection, resource conservation, environment-friendly, green supply and economic growth by entropy weight method and uses non-parametric estimation method to analyze the dynamic evolution trend of agricultural green development in the whole country and its eight economic regions. Then, a spatial econometric model is constructed to further explore the influence mechanism and spatial spillover effect of each influencing factor on agricultural green development. The findings demonstrate that the level of agricultural green development in 30 provinces of China continuously improved during the study period, but the dynamic evolution trend characteristics in the whole country and its eight economic regions are not the same. Specifically, the development differences between the whole country, the northeast region, the eastern coast, the southern coast and the northwest region increased, while that between the northern coast, the Yellow River basin and the middle reaches of the Yangtze River first increased and then decreased, and that in the southwestern region gradually narrowed. There is a significant spatial spillover effect on agricultural green development and its influencing factors. Moreover, there is heterogeneity in the influence characteristics and spatial spillover effects of various influencing factors on agricultural green development among the eight economic regions. Therefore, it is proposed that eight economic regions in China should formulate differentiated development strategies, focus on educational and technological innovation etc., and further promote agricultural green development.
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- Jingbo Shao
- Economic Institute, Guizhou University of Finance and Economics, Guiyang, 550025, China
- International Tourism Culture College, Guizhou Normal University, Guiyang, 550025, China
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- Economic Institute, Guizhou University of Finance and Economics, Guiyang, 550025, China
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- Economic Institute, Guizhou University of Finance and Economics, Guiyang, 550025, China
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Gould RK, Demarest B, Ivakhiv A, Cheney N. Nature is resource, playground, and gift: What artificial intelligence reveals about human-Nature relationships. PLoS One 2024; 19:e0297294. [PMID: 38885213 PMCID: PMC11182501 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0297294] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2023] [Accepted: 01/02/2024] [Indexed: 06/20/2024] Open
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This paper demonstrates how artificial-intelligence language analysis can inform understanding of human-nature relationships and other social phenomena. We demonstrate three techniques by investigating relationships within the popular word2vec word embedding, which is trained on a sample from over 50,000 worldwide news sources. Our first technique investigates what theory-generated analogies are most similar to nature:people. The resource:user analogy is most similar, followed by the playground:child and gift:receiver analogies. Our second technique explores whether nature-related words are affiliated with words that denote race, class, or gender. Nature words tend slightly toward associations with femininity and wealth. Our third technique demonstrates how the relationship between nature and wellbeing compares to other concepts' relationships to wellbeing-e.g., spirituality-wellbeing, social relations-wellbeing. Nature is more semantically connected to wellbeing than money, social relations, and multiple other wellbeing correlates. Findings are consistent with previous social science and humanities research on human-nature relationships, but do not duplicate them exactly; our results thus offer insight into dominant trends and prevalence of associations. Our analysis also offers a model for using word embeddings to investigate a wide variety of topics.
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- Rachelle K. Gould
- Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, United States of America
- Gund Institute for the Environment, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, United States of America
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- Gund Institute for the Environment, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, United States of America
- Department of Computer Science, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, United States of America
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- Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, United States of America
- Gund Institute for the Environment, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, United States of America
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- Gund Institute for the Environment, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, United States of America
- Department of Computer Science, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, United States of America
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Gaglio M, Lanzoni M, Muresan AN, Schirpke U, Castaldelli G. Quantifying intangible values of wetlands as instrument for conservation in the Po delta park (Italy). JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT 2024; 360:121227. [PMID: 38788409 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2024.121227] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2024] [Revised: 05/14/2024] [Accepted: 05/21/2024] [Indexed: 05/26/2024]
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Wetlands possess intangible values that are usually overlooked in decision-making processes. Based on questionnaire surveys, this work aims to quantify both the non-use and cultural values provided by the different wetlands of the Po Delta Park (Northern Italy), selected as ideal case study, using willingness to pay (WTP) for wetland conservation and travel cost methods, respectively. Their relationships with socio-economic variables and respondents' preferences for current and future use were also analysed. The 61.39% of participants were willing to pay a mean amount of 95.8 € (±40). The average travel cost was 38.68 € (±6.24), with higher values observed for environmental experts than for other citizens. Wetlands differ significantly in travel costs, current and future use, but not in WTP. Poisson regressions showed that non-use and cultural values were significantly dependent on personal information, preference variables and travel distance. Intangible dimensions, such as bequest and existence values, showed higher valuations/rates than option and direct use values. The results highlight that perceptions of the intrinsic value of nature are influenced by demographic characteristics, distance from the area and desired future uses. Non-use values seem abstract and generalised to the whole area, regardless of the ecological characteristics of the wetland, even though a significant relation to wetland uses was observed. In contrast, cultural values are tied to specific wetlands, as indication of the importance of historical relationships between people and nature. Such findings underline that the different dimensions of intrinsic value of nature may act at different scales and help decision-makers to incorporate such values into environmental accounting.
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- Mattias Gaglio
- Department of Environmental and Prevention Sciences, University of Ferrara, via L.Borsari 42, 44121, Ferrara, Italy
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- Department of Environmental and Prevention Sciences, University of Ferrara, via L.Borsari 42, 44121, Ferrara, Italy.
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- Research Institute on Terrestrial Ecosystems (IRET-URT Lecce), National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Campus Ecotekne, S.P. via Monteroni km 1.2, 73100, Lecce, Italy
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- Department of Geography, LMU Munich, Luisenstraße 37, 80333, Munich, Germany; Institute for Alpine Environment, Eurac Research, Viale Druso 1, 39100, Bozen/Bolzano, Italy
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- Department of Environmental and Prevention Sciences, University of Ferrara, via L.Borsari 42, 44121, Ferrara, Italy
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Kalinauskas M, Shuhani Y, Pinto LV, Inácio M, Pereira P. Mapping ecosystem services in protected areas. A systematic review. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2024; 912:169248. [PMID: 38101645 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.169248] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2023] [Revised: 12/07/2023] [Accepted: 12/07/2023] [Indexed: 12/17/2023]
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Protected areas (PAs) supply ecosystem services (ES) essential for human wellbeing. Mapping is a critical exercise that allows an understanding of the spatial distribution of the different ES in PAs. This work aims to conduct a systematic literature review on mapping ES in PAs. In order to carry out this systematic review, the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses method was applied. The results showed an increase in the number of works between 2012 and 2023, and they were especially conducted in Europe and Asia and less in North America, South America, and Oceania. Most studies were developed in terrestrial areas, and the International Union for Conservation of Nature classified them into types II and IV. Most of the works followed the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment classification and were mainly focused on the supply dimension. Regulating and maintenance and cultural ES were the most mapped dimensions in PAs. The most frequent provisioning ES mapped in PAs were Animals reared for nutritional purposes and Cultivated terrestrial plants grown for nutritional purposes. In regulating and maintenance, Maintaining nursery populations and habitats and Regulation of the chemical composition of the atmosphere and oceans were the most analysed. For cultural ES, Characteristics of living systems that enable activities promoting health, recuperation, or enjoyment through active or immersive interactions and Characteristics of living systems that enable aesthetic experiences were the most mapped ES in PAs. Most works followed a quantitative approach, although the number of qualitative studies is high. Finally, most of the works needed to be validated, which may hamper the credibility of mapping ES in PAs. Overall, this systematic review contributed to a global picture of studies distribution, the areas where they are needed, and the most popular dimensions and sections as the methodologies were applied.
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- Marius Kalinauskas
- Environmental Management Laboratory, Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius, Lithuania
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- Environmental Management Laboratory, Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius, Lithuania
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- Environmental Management Laboratory, Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius, Lithuania; Research Centre for Natural Resources, Environment and Society (CERNAS), Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra, Coimbra Agrarian Technical School, Coimbra, Portugal
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- Environmental Management Laboratory, Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius, Lithuania
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- Environmental Management Laboratory, Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius, Lithuania.
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Cardenas-Iniguez C, Schachner JN, Ip KI, Schertz KE, Gonzalez MR, Abad S, Herting MM. Building towards an adolescent neural urbanome: Expanding environmental measures using linked external data (LED) in the ABCD study. Dev Cogn Neurosci 2024; 65:101338. [PMID: 38195369 PMCID: PMC10837718 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcn.2023.101338] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2023] [Revised: 12/20/2023] [Accepted: 12/31/2023] [Indexed: 01/11/2024] Open
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Many recent studies have demonstrated that environmental contexts, both social and physical, have an important impact on child and adolescent neural and behavioral development. The adoption of geospatial methods, such as in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study, has facilitated the exploration of many environmental contexts surrounding participants' residential locations without creating additional burdens for research participants (i.e., youth and families) in neuroscience studies. However, as the number of linked databases increases, developing a framework that considers the various domains related to child and adolescent environments external to their home becomes crucial. Such a framework needs to identify structural contextual factors that may yield inequalities in children's built and natural environments; these differences may, in turn, result in downstream negative effects on children from historically minoritized groups. In this paper, we develop such a framework - which we describe as the "adolescent neural urbanome" - and use it to categorize newly geocoded information incorporated into the ABCD Study by the Linked External Data (LED) Environment & Policy Working Group. We also highlight important relationships between the linked measures and describe possible applications of the Adolescent Neural Urbanome. Finally, we provide a number of recommendations and considerations regarding the responsible use and communication of these data, highlighting the potential harm to historically minoritized groups through their misuse.
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- Carlos Cardenas-Iniguez
- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
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- Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota, MN, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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- Department of Radiology, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Himes A, Muraca B, Anderson CB, Athayde S, Beery T, Cantú-Fernández M, González-Jiménez D, Gould RK, Hejnowicz AP, Kenter J, Lenzi D, Murali R, Pascual U, Raymond C, Ring A, Russo K, Samakov A, Stålhammar S, Thorén H, Zent E. Why nature matters: A systematic review of intrinsic, instrumental, and relational values. Bioscience 2024; 74:25-43. [PMID: 38313563 PMCID: PMC10831222 DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biad109] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2023] [Revised: 11/03/2023] [Accepted: 11/27/2023] [Indexed: 02/06/2024] Open
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In this article, we present results from a literature review of intrinsic, instrumental, and relational values of nature conducted for the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, as part of the Methodological Assessment of the Diverse Values and Valuations of Nature. We identify the most frequently recurring meanings in the heterogeneous use of different value types and their association with worldviews and other key concepts. From frequent uses, we determine a core meaning for each value type, which is sufficiently inclusive to serve as an umbrella over different understandings in the literature and specific enough to help highlight its difference from the other types of values. Finally, we discuss convergences, overlapping areas, and fuzzy boundaries between different value types to facilitate dialogue, reduce misunderstandings, and improve the methods for valuation of nature's contributions to people, including ecosystem services, to inform policy and direct future research.
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- Austin Himes
- Department of Forestry, Forest and Wildlife Research Center, Mississippi State University, Starkville, Mississippi, United States
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- Department of Philosophy, Environmental Studies Program, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, United States
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- Instituto de Ciencias Polares, Ambiente y Recursos Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Tierra del Fuego and, Centro Austral de Investigaciones Cientificas, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina
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- Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies, Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, United States
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- School of Natural Science, Sustainable Multifunctional Landscapes, Kristianstad University, Kristianstad, Sweden
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- Instituto de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas y Sustentabilidad, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico
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- Instituto de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas y Sustentabilidad, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de Mexico, also Ceiba Centro de Formación y Desarrollo, Oaxaca, Mexico
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- Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, United States
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- Global Change Institute, School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
- School of Engineering, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
- Department of Environment and Geography, University of York, York, England, United Kingdom
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- Aberystwyth Business School, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, Wales, United Kingdom
- Ecologos Research Ltd, Aberystwyth
- Department of Environment and Geography, University of York, York, England, United Kingdom
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- Department of Philosophy, University of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands
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- Geography Department, Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Snow Leopard Trust, Seattle, Washington, United States
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- Terrestrial Ecosystems Research Line, Basque Centre for Climate Change, Leioa, and with the Ikerbasque Basque Foundation for Science, Bilbao, Spain, Centre for Development and Environment, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science
- Ecosystems and Environment Research Program, Department of Economics and Management, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Philosophy, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, United States
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- intertribal nonprofit organization Se'Si'Le, Eugene, Oregon, United States
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- Hydro Nation International Centre, Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom
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- Department of Landscape Architecture, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Lab Ecología Humana, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, Caracas, Distrito Capital, Venezuela
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Guo H, Chen F, Tang Y, Ding Y, Chen M, Zhou W, Zhu M, Gao S, Yang R, Zheng W, Fang C, Lin H, Roders AP, Cigna F, Tapete D, Xu B. Progress toward the sustainable development of world cultural heritage sites facing land-cover changes. Innovation (N Y) 2023; 4:100496. [PMID: 37663934 PMCID: PMC10472305 DOI: 10.1016/j.xinn.2023.100496] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2023] [Accepted: 08/08/2023] [Indexed: 09/05/2023] Open
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The quantification of the extent and dynamics of land-use changes is a key metric employed to assess the progress toward several Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that form part of the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda. In terms of anthropogenic factors threatening the conservation of heritage properties, such a metric aids in the assessment of achievements toward heritage sustainability solving the problem of insufficient data availability. Therefore, in this study, 589 cultural World Heritage List (WHL) properties from 115 countries were analyzed, encompassing globally distributed and statistically significant samples of "monuments and groups of buildings" (73.2%), "sites" (19.3%), and "cultural landscapes" (7.5%). Land-cover changes in the WHL properties between 2015 and 2020 were automatically extracted from big data collections of high-resolution satellite imagery accessed via Google Earth Engine using intelligent remote sensing classification. Sustainability indexes (SIs) were estimated for the protection zones of each property, and the results were employed, for the first time, to assess the progress of each country toward SDG Target 11.4. Despite the apparent advances in SIs (10.4%), most countries either exhibited steady (20.0%) or declining (69.6%) SIs due to limited cultural investigations and enhanced negative anthropogenic disturbances. This study confirms that land-cover changes are among serious threats for heritage conservation, with heritage in some countries wherein the need to address this threat is most crucial, and the proposed spatiotemporal monitoring approach is recommended.
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- Huadong Guo
- International Research Center of Big Data for Sustainable Development Goals, Beijing 100094, China
- International Centre on Space Technologies for Natural and Cultural Heritage Under the Auspices of UNESCO, Beijing 100094, China
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- International Research Center of Big Data for Sustainable Development Goals, Beijing 100094, China
- Key Laboratory of Digital Earth Science, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100094, China
- International Centre on Space Technologies for Natural and Cultural Heritage Under the Auspices of UNESCO, Beijing 100094, China
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- International Research Center of Big Data for Sustainable Development Goals, Beijing 100094, China
- Key Laboratory of Digital Earth Science, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100094, China
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- Cooperative Innovation Center for Digitalization of Cultural Heritage in Traditional Villages and Towns, Hengyang Normal University, Hengyang 421010, China
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- School of Geography, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, China
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- International Research Center of Big Data for Sustainable Development Goals, Beijing 100094, China
- Key Laboratory of Digital Earth Science, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100094, China
- International Centre on Space Technologies for Natural and Cultural Heritage Under the Auspices of UNESCO, Beijing 100094, China
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- International Research Center of Big Data for Sustainable Development Goals, Beijing 100094, China
- Key Laboratory of Digital Earth Science, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100094, China
- International Centre on Space Technologies for Natural and Cultural Heritage Under the Auspices of UNESCO, Beijing 100094, China
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- Key Laboratory of Digital Earth Science, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100094, China
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- International Research Center of Big Data for Sustainable Development Goals, Beijing 100094, China
- Key Laboratory of Digital Earth Science, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100094, China
- International Centre on Space Technologies for Natural and Cultural Heritage Under the Auspices of UNESCO, Beijing 100094, China
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- Cooperative Innovation Center for Digitalization of Cultural Heritage in Traditional Villages and Towns, Hengyang Normal University, Hengyang 421010, China
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- Key Laboratory of Poyang Lake Wetland and Watershed Research, Ministry of Education & School of Geography and Environment, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang 330022, China
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- Key Laboratory of Poyang Lake Wetland and Watershed Research, Ministry of Education & School of Geography and Environment, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang 330022, China
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- Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology, 2600 AA Delft, the Netherlands
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- Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (ISAC), National Research Council (CNR), Via del Fosso del Cavaliere 100, 00133 Rome, Italy
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- Italian Space Agency (ASI), Via del Politecnico snc, 00133 Rome, Italy
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- Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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Walls FN, McGarvey DJ. A systems-level model of direct and indirect links between environmental health, socioeconomic factors, and human mortality. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2023; 874:162486. [PMID: 36858240 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.162486] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2022] [Revised: 02/22/2023] [Accepted: 02/22/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Major efforts are being made to better understand how human health and ecosystem health are influenced by climate and other environmental factors. However, studies that simultaneously address human and ecosystem health within a systems-level framework that accounts for both direct and indirect effects are rare. Using path analysis and a large database of environmental and socioeconomic variables, we create a systems-level model of direct and indirect effects on human and ecosystem health in counties throughout the conterminous United States. As indicators of human and ecosystem health, we use age-adjusted mortality rate and an index of biological integrity in streams and rivers, respectively. We show that: (i) geology and climate set boundary conditions for all other variables in the model; (ii) hydrology and land cover have predictable but distinct effects on human and ecosystem health; and (iii) forest cover is a key link between the environment and the socioeconomic variables that directly influence human health.
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- Felisha N Walls
- Integrative Life Sciences Doctoral Program, Virginia Commonwealth University, 1000 West Cary Street, Richmond, VA 23284, USA.
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- Center for Environmental Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University, 1000 West Cary Street, Richmond, VA 23284, USA.
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Beery T, Stahl Olafsson A, Gentin S, Maurer M, Stålhammar S, Albert C, Bieling C, Buijs A, Fagerholm N, Garcia‐Martin M, Plieninger T, M. Raymond C. Disconnection from nature: Expanding our understanding of human–nature relations. PEOPLE AND NATURE 2023. [DOI: 10.1002/pan3.10451] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/25/2023] Open
Affiliation(s)
- Thomas Beery
- Faculty of Natural Sciences, Sustainable Multifunctional Landscapes, Kristianstad University Kristianstad Sweden
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- Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management University of Copenhagen Frederiksberg Denmark
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- Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management University of Copenhagen Frederiksberg Denmark
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- Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management University of Copenhagen Frederiksberg Denmark
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- Department of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Lomma Sweden
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- Societal Transition and Agriculture University of Hohenheim Stuttgart Germany
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- Wageningen Universiteit, FNP Wageningen The Netherlands
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- Department of Geography and Geology University of Turku Turku Finland
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- Swiss Federal Institute for Forest Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Land Change Science Unit Zürich Switzerland
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- Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development Georg‐August‐Universität Göttingen Gottingen Germany
- Faculty of Organic Agricultural Sciences University Kassel Kassel Germany
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- Helsinki Institute for Sustainability Science University of Helsinki Helsinki Finland
- Ecosystems and Environment Research Program, Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences University of Helsinki Helsinki Finland
- Department of Economics and Management, Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry University of Helsinki Helsinki Finland
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