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Balancing tracks and trees: Assessing railroad impact on Brazilian biodiversity

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
The Brazilian West–East Integration Railway (FIOL) aims to boost the national economy by improving commodity transport; however, it crosses three of Brazil's most biodiverse and fragile regions: the Caatinga, Cerrado and Atlantic Forest. Using digitised plant records and land‐use analyses, our study reveals significant vegetation loss within the ...
Ana Luiza Silva Rocha, Anselmo Nogueira, Matheus Colli‐Silva, Juliana Gastaldello Rando   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

New views of some invariants associated with the Cartesian 2D velocity gradient tensor

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, EarlyView.
Vorticity and divergence of horizontal flow are fundamental quantities in meteorology; both are linear functions of the four elements of the 2D velocity gradient tensor and both are formally unchanged under coordinate rotation. We explore four quadratic functions of the elements that are geometrically invariant in this sense, finding some novel ...
I. Roulstone, S. A. Clough, A. A. White
wiley   +1 more source

Actuation Strategies for Underwater Jet‐Propelled Soft Robots

Journal of Field Robotics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This review article examines jet‐propulsion mechanisms in underwater soft robotic systems, focusing exclusively on physically fabricated and experimentally validated robots. Covering research published from 2013 to 2025, this study classifies and evaluates jet‐propulsion robots based on their actuation mechanisms.
Angel Kitone, Mohammed Anteet, Pawandeep S. Matharu, Yara Almubarak   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Scale dependence in remotely sensed biodiversity: Leveraging continental‐scale imaging spectroscopy from the National Ecological Observatory Network

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.
Imaging spectroscopy enables large‐scale biodiversity assessment, yet spectral diversity metrics are scale dependent. Across 15 NEON ecosystems, we find that spectral richness increases sub‐linearly from 3600 m2 to 4 km2, whereas spectral divergence shows weak or inconsistent scaling with area, underscoring the importance of scale‐aware interpretation ...
Meghan T. Hayden, Matthew W. Rossi, Laura E. Dee, Kyle Kovach, Cibele H. Amaral, Jacob Nesslage, Madeline Slimp, Rachel S. Meyer, E. Natasha Stavros   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reducing Trade‐Offs of Net Zero Carbon Transitions Through Entrepreneurship and Coordinated Innovation: A Spatially Disaggregated Analysis Across Countries and World Regions

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Transition processes towards a sustainable future benefit from historic perspectives, since feasible changes of socio‐technological conditions and processes depend on a holistic assessment of how actors are embedded in existing institutions, routines, and structures. Building on the Income–Population–Affluence–Technology equation and utilizing
Jessica Kluge, Marcus Wagner
wiley   +1 more source

Isolation, Insularity and Resilience: A Review of the Geophysical, Socioeconomic, and Environmental Vulnerabilities of Gran Canaria and Lesvos Islands for Policy Interventions to Global Change

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The dynamic nature of small islands being geographically isolated and their perceived connectedness with global networks complicates research attempts to draw general conclusions on whether insularity leads to marginalization or strengthens their resilience for sustainable development.
Toheeb Lekan Jolaosho, Mazen Marouani, Takwa Boughanmi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Parametric Hyperbolic Conservation Laws: A Unified Framework for Conservation, Entropy Stability, and Hyperbolicity

CoRR
arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2507 ...
Lizuo Liu, Lu Zhang 0075, Anne Gelb
openaire   +2 more sources

Drop by Drop: The Impact of Green Certifications on Attributed Improvement in Corporate Water Efficiency

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the impact of green certifications on attributed improvements in corporate water efficiency in Bangladesh, considering the moderating roles of regulatory pressure and consumer awareness. Data from 311 respondents were analyzed to test the hypotheses.
Pinki Debnath, Leon Jones Toney, Mohammed Salem, Ralf Wagner   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing National Sustainability Transitions in Europe: A Dynamic MCDA and Clustering‐Based Approach

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The study evaluates the sustainable development of 42 European countries using a multi‐criteria decision analysis (MCDA) approach, based on 29 indicators covering the economic, social, and environmental pillars. All three pillars are assessed both individually and in consolidated form to provide a comprehensive view of countries ...
Una Smailbegovic, Džana Kadric, Edin Kadric, Simon Glöser Chahoud   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bridging Global Sustainability Objectives With Corporate Reporting Standards: Sustainable Development Goals Meet European Sustainability Reporting Standards

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Given the complexity of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), aligning corporate sustainability with them can be challenging. Drawing on systems thinking, this study examines how the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) align with the SDGs and bridge macro‐level global goals with firm‐level metrics.
Chonlawan Thammaraksa, Caroline Aggestam Pontoppidan, Michael Zwicky Hauschild, Alexis Laurent   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source