Laura S. Epp, Sanne Boessenkool, Eva Bellemain, James Haile et al.
Metabarcoding approaches use total and typically degraded DNA from environmental samples to analyse biotic assemblages and can potentially be carried out for any kinds of organisms in an ecosystem. These analyses rely on specific markers, here called metabarcodes, which should be optimized for taxon...
Sven Bacher, Tim M. Blackburn, Franz Essl, Piero Genovesi et al.
Abstract Many alien taxa are known to cause socio‐economic impacts by affecting the different constituents of human well‐being (security; material and non‐material assets; health; social, spiritual and cultural relations; freedom of choice and action). Attempts to quantify socio‐economic impacts in ...
Jeffrey A. McNeely, Götz Schroth
Mohammed Nasir Uddin, Wolfgang Bokelmann, Jason Scott Entsminger
Offering a case study of coastal Bangladesh, this study examines the adaptation of agriculturalists to degrading environmental conditions likely to be caused or exacerbated under global climate change. It examines four central components: (1) the rate of self-reported adoption of adaptive mechanisms...
Koko Warner, Tamer Afifi
Up to present, research relating environmental change to human mobility has found out that environmental factors can play a role in migration without being conclusive. Further, in the context of climate change, scholarly literature on migration ranges across a host of climatic stressors and geograph...
Imran Ali Lakhiar, Haofang Yan, Chuan Zhang, Guoqing Wang et al.
Water is considered one of the vital natural resources and factors for performing short- and long-term agricultural practices on Earth. Meanwhile, globally, most of the available freshwater resources are utilized for irrigation purposes in agriculture. Currently, many world regions are facing extrem...
Lily M. van Eeden, Ann Eklund, Jennifer R. B. Miller, José Vicente López‐Bao et al.
Carnivore predation on livestock often leads people to retaliate. Persecution by humans has contributed strongly to global endangerment of carnivores. Preventing livestock losses would help to achieve three goals common to many human societies: preserve nature, protect animal welfare, and safeguard ...
Md. Monirul Islam, Susannah M. Sallu, Klaus Hubacek, Jouni Paavola
Globally, fisheries support livelihoods of over half a billion people who are exposed to multiple climatic stresses and shocks that affect their capacity to subsist. Yet, only limited research exists on the vulnerability of fishery-based livelihood systems to climate change. We assess the vulnerabil...
Jacek P. Siry, Frederick W. Cubbage, Miyan Rukunuddin Ahmed
Stefano Mammola, Pedro Cardoso, David C. Culver, Louis Deharveng et al.
Abstract In light of recent alarming trends in human population growth, climate change, and other environmental modifications, a “Warning to humanity” manifesto was published in BioScience in 2017. This call reiterated most of the ideas originally expressed by the Union of Concerned Scientists in 19...
Andreu Rico, Kriengkrai Satapornvanit, Mohammad Mahfujul Haque, Min Jiang et al.
Abstract Over the past few decades, Asian aquaculture production has intensified rapidly through the adoption of technological advances, and the use of a wide array of chemical and biological products to control sediment and water quality and to treat and prevent disease outbreaks. The use of chemic...
Lisa C. Smith, Timothy R. Frankenberger
David Benson, Animesh K. Gain, Josselin Rouillard
Nexus thinking, in the form of integrating water security with agriculture, energy and climate concerns, is normatively argued to help better transition societies towards greener economies and the wider goal of sustainable development. Yet several issues emerge from the current debate surrounding th...
Shardul Agrawala, Tomoko Ota, Ahsan Uddin Ahmed, Maarten van Aalst et al.
This document is an output from the OECD Development and Climate Change project, an activity jointly overseen by the EPOC Working Party on Global and Structural Policies (WPGSP), and the DAC Network on Environment and Development Co-operation (ENVIRONET). The overall objective of the project is to p...
Jon Hutton, Nigel Leader‐Williams
Discussions of sustainable use have become polarized. Welfarists oppose all use that involves killing animals. Among conservationists polarization arises in part from failure to distinguish between different ideas nestled under the umbrella term of ‘sustainable use’. These include direct use as an i...