Published in Integrated environmental assessment and management
Increasing demand for metals used in clean energy technologies, including electric vehicles, has led to an increased demand in certain metals such as Ni, Co, and Mn. This demand has in turn led to an expanding interest in deep-seabed mining (DSM) of polymetallic nodule deposits that contain these exact metals. The main concerns about DSM relate to ...
Os oceanos são reconhecidos pela capacidade de prover uma gama de serviços ecossistêmicos que de alguma forma promovem o bem-estar humano. A dinâmica da ação antrópica e do provimento de bens e serviços por parte dos ecossistemas se dá de forma complexa, demandando um aprofundamento do seu entendimento que permita a preservação do ambiente e a perp...
Published in Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
Climate change, population growth, and declining federal budgets are threatening the health of ecosystems, and the services they provide. Under these changing conditions, managing landscapes and resources assumes new and unprecedented challenges. Adaptive management has been identified as a natural resource management approach that allows practitio...
Published in Integrated environmental assessment and management
Despite the evolution over the last half century of regulatory programs and frameworks developed for the evaluation of safety and management of risks associated with chemicals and materials, new and emerging contaminant issues continue to be identified. These recurring issues suggest a need for review and reflection on current approaches and strate...
Published in Journal of environmental management
Adaptive management is a systematic approach for linking learning with implementation to facilitate ongoing improvement in natural resource management. The idea of learning from experience and adapting subsequent policies, strategies and actions, is intuitively appealing. However, application of adaptive management has been hindered by several obst...
Participatory plant breeding (PPB), where farmers and formal breeders collaborate in the breeding process, can be a form of agricultural niche innovation. In PPB, new varieties are commonly adopted by the farmers involved and shared through seed networks, but few are released and commercialized; thus, the variety remains a niche innovation, used wi...
Published in Annals of Forest Science
Abstract• Key messageThe shrub species richness in Spanish forests is mainly linked to climatic variables and the importance of the groups of variables scarcely differs among forest types. Forest surrounding the Mediterranean Basin exhibit the highest levels of shrub richness.• ContextShrub species account for a high proportion of the plant diversi...
Este capítulo pretende ressaltar a complementaridade dessas abordagens, reconhecendo como ações que promovem a adaptação não apenas as evidentes e mais tangíveis ações implantadas no campo, mas também os esforços de organização da informação, pesquisa, desenvolvimento e inovação, aumento da capacidade adaptativa e da resiliência e, consequentemente...
Chapter 2 of this compilation adopts an operationally focused approach, with various projects that propose implementing adaptation actions locally and directly in the field. These proposals include proposals to build physical structures and management and production techniques and different types of equipment, although they were not initially propo...
Published in Journal of environmental management
Collaborative nonregulatory programs can benefit the long-term sustainability of environmental resources. Such programs benefit from extensive planning and assessment relative to ecological systems as well as public participation. While many programs use adaptive management as a guiding programmatic framework, few programs successfully integrate so...
