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Probabilistic Environmental Risk Assessment for Linear Alkyl Benzene Sulfonate (LAS) in Japan Reduces Assessment Uncertainty

Journal of Water and Environment Technology, 2020
The environmental risk of the anionic surfactant, linear alkylbenzene sulfonate (LAS), in Japanese surface waters is presented using a probabilistic exposure and effects assessment.
Sachiko Shiode, Kathleen McDonough, Scott E. Belanger, Greg J. Carr   +3 more
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Individual Nest Site Preferences Do Not Explain Upslope Population Shifts of a Secondary Cavity-Nesting Species

Animals, 2021
Geographic ranges of plants and animals are shifting due to environmental change. While some species are shifting towards the poles and upslope in elevation, the processes leading to these patterns are not well known.
Elisa J. Abeyta, Andrew W. Bartlow, Charles D. Hathcock, Jeanne M. Fair   +3 more
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Conceptualising sustainability through environmental stewardship and virtuous cycles—a new empirically-grounded model

Sustainability Science, 2021
Humans depend on earth’s ecosystems and in the Anthropocene, ecosystems are increasingly impacted by human activities. Sustainability—the long-term integrity of social–ecological systems—depends on effective environmental stewardship, yet current ...
J. Turnbull, G. F. Clark, E. Johnston
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What do we know about the impacts of the Marine Stewardship Council seafood ecolabelling program? A systematic map protocol

Environmental Evidence, 2018
Background Voluntary sustainability standards and eco-labels are market-based mechanisms used to encourage producers and consumers toward environmental sustainability.
Ashleigh Arton, Anthony Leiman, Gillian Petrokofsky, Hilde Toonen, Francis Neat, Catherine S. Longo   +5 more
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Learning for Stewardship in the Anthropocene: A Study with Young Adolescents in the Wet Tropics

eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 2015
Enhancing student capacity to act for sustainability is recognised as an important strategy for reversing current patterns of environmental degradation.
Marcia Thorne
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Green as the gospel : the power of stewardship messages to improve climate change attitudes [PDF]

, 2019
Three studies (N = 1,389) investigate how attitudes toward the environment and climate change may be informed by stewardship beliefs (care for the Earth as a sacred religious duty) or dominion beliefs (God-given dominance over nature).
Preston, Jesse, Shin, Faith
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The impact of place-based education on middle school students’ environmental literacy and stewardship

Cogent Education, 2023
This article centers on the use of place-based education (PBE), an internationally known and employed pedagogy. This yearlong, mixed-methods study centers on a grant-funded program aimed at supporting secondary teachers’ implementation of environmental ...
E. Hamilton, Lisa Marckini-Polk
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"Like the plains people losing the buffalo": perceptions of climate change impacts, fisheries management, and adaptation actions by Indigenous peoples in coastal British Columbia, Canada

Ecology and Society, 2020
Rapidly developing and complex climate change impacts have profound implications for coastal communities, demanding adaptation actions for both social and ecological systems.
Charlotte K. Whitney, Alejandro Frid, Barry K. Edgar, Jennifer Walkus, Peter Siwallace, Iris L. Siwallace, Natalie C. Ban   +6 more
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Temporal Changes in Delaware Waters Using Long-Term (1967–2019) Water Temperature Data

Data, 2021
The present article provides long-term (1967–2019) water temperature data collected from Delaware water quality monitoring sites. In Delaware, there are approximately 140 water quality monitoring sites in Piedmont, Delaware Bay, Chesapeake Bay, and ...
Bhanu Paudel, Lori M. Brown
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Investigating preferences for the local delivery of agri-environment benefits [PDF]

, 2014
Since 2005, Environmental Stewardship (ES) has been the principal agri-environment scheme for England and is the key instrument for the delivery of increased environmental benefits from agricultural landscapes.
Achtnicht, Adamowicz, Arriaza, Bateman, Brouwer, Campbell, Davey, Drake, Dramstad, Espinosa-Goded, Ewald, Field, González, Haile, Hanley, Hausman, Hodge, Hunziker, Hynes, Johns, Kallas, Lokocz, McFadden, McFadden, Morey, Pruckner, Purcell, Quillérou, Ruto, Sayadi, Willis, Willis   +31 more
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