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Towards Transformative Climate Governance: Capacities and Constraints for Local Government in Aotearoa New Zealand

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT An emerging consensus calls for transformative climate governance. However, what instigates and sustains transformative pathways remains unclear. This study characterises the existence, quality and structural underpinnings of transformative governance capacities in local government climate change response in Aotearoa New Zealand, applying a ...
Gangadari K. Ranawaka, Anna L. Berka, Karen F. Hytten, Florentine D. van Noppen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

C:N:P stoichiometry in plant, soil and microbe in Sophora moorcroftiana shrubs across three sandy dune types in the middle reaches of the Yarlung Zangbo River

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2023
The alpine sandy dune ecosystem is highly vulnerable to global climate change. Ecological stoichiometry in plants and soils plays a crucial role in biogeochemical cycles, energy flow and functioning in ecosystems.
Ruizhen Dong, Shihai Yang, Xiaoli Wang, Lele Xie, Yushou Ma, Yanlong Wang, Litian Zhang, Min Zhang, Jinping Qin   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Recent advances in multifunctional soft robots: A materials–structures–systems co‐design perspective for synergistic integration

FlexMat, EarlyView.
Abstract Soft robots, engineered from highly compliant materials, offer superior adaptability and safety in unstructured environments compared to their rigid counterparts. Recent advancements, fueled by bio‐inspiration and material programmability, have led to the rapid co‐evolution of their core modules: actuation, sensing, protection, energy, and ...
Qiulei Liu, Zicao Peng, Chong Sun, Haitao Yang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Coal Mining as a Driver of Land Use and Land Cover Change and Degradation: A Case in Moatize City, Mozambique

Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Coal remains a major global energy source despite ongoing environmental controversies, particularly, regarding climate change and landscape transformation. This study investigates the spatiotemporal dynamics of land use and land cover (LULC) in the Moatize Coal Basin (MCB), Mozambique, between 1990 and 2024, with a specific focus on land ...
Ivan Latinho Naite, Basílio Fernandez Fernandez, Gilney Figueira Zebende   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Coastal protection and conservation on sandy beaches and dunes: context‐dependent tradeoffs in ecosystem service supply

Ecosphere, 2017
Managing multiple ecosystem services (ESs) across landscapes presents a central challenge for ecosystem‐based management, because services often exhibit spatiotemporal variation and weak associations with co‐occurring ESs.
Reuben G. Biel, Sally D. Hacker, Peter Ruggiero, Nicholas Cohn, Eric W. Seabloom   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Early successional microhabitats allow the persistence of endangered plants in coastal sand dunes. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2015
Many species are adapted to disturbance and occur within dynamic, mosaic landscapes that contain early and late successional microhabitats. Human modification of disturbance regimes alters the availability of microhabitats and may affect the viability of
Eleanor A Pardini, Kyle E Vickstrom, Tiffany M Knight   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Tracking environmental changes in restored Mediterranean dune slacks

Science of The Total Environment, 2019
Restoration is an ecological tool that aims to recover the prior conditions and functioning of a degraded habitat. Three restoration projects targeted a dune slack system in the Eastern Iberian Peninsula and created a mosaic of ponds restored over three different periods: 1998, 2003 and 2007, the latter coinciding with the start of our study ...
Olmo Rodríguez, Carla, Antón Pardo, María, Ortells Bañeres, Raquel, Armengol Díaz, Javier   +3 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Pedogenesis on the Sefton Coastal Dunes, NW England [PDF]

, 2010
A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the University of Wolverhampton for the degree of Doctor of PhilosophyThis work examines the use of pedo-properties to identify dune soil system responses to environmental change on the ...
Millington, Jennifer A.
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Drivers of human attitudes towards wolves Canis lupus in Kazakhstan

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Kazakhstan is recognized as a key stronghold for the grey wolf (Canis lupus). Nonetheless, the wolf status and the dynamics of human‐wolf coexistence in the region remain poorly understood. This study aims to fill that gap by exploring current attitudes towards wolves in Kazakhstan and identify the underlying drivers of these attitudes.
Alyona Koshkina, Svitlana Kudrenko, Andrés Ordiz, Saltanat Kamiyeva, Adam Devenish, Johannes Kamp   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dune System Restoration in Osório Municipality (Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil): Good Practices Based on Coastal Management Legislation [PDF]

, 2018
Dune Management Plans are useful tools to integrate coastal development, dune conservation and even dune restoration. The environmental legislation of Rio Grande do Sul (South of Brasil) establishes a Permanent Preservation Area of 60-m minimum width ...
Manzolli, Rogerio Portantiolo, Portz, Luana, Alcántara-Carrió, Javier   +2 more
core   +1 more source