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A Generic Approach to Creating a National Soil Security Strategy

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Soil is a living and non‐renewable resource that underpins our very existence. It produces our food, filters our water, stores vast amounts of carbon, cycles essential nutrients, and sustains the rich tapestry of biodiversity on which our planet depends.
Alex McBratney, Pasquale Borrelli, Sandra J. Evangelista, Julia Feeth, Damien Field, Nicolas Francos, Irene Heuser, Anilkumar Hunakunti, Daniel Irving, Thilini Jayasekara, Bruce Lascelles, Fatima Maria de Souza Moreira, Budiman Minasny, Cristine L. S. Morgan, Wartini Ng, Julio C. Pachón Maldonado, Mercedes Román Dobarco, Amin Sharififar, Quentin Styc, Mara Thiene, David Watt, Jae E. Yang   +21 more
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Preferences of Local People for the Use of Peatlands: the Case of the Richest Peatland Region in Finland

Ecology and Society, 2013
We analyze the potential for socioeconomically sustainable peatland use by investigating conflicting interests, revealing trade-offs that people are willing to accept, and studying whether opinions are dependent on socioeconomic and demographic factors ...
Anne Tolvanen, Artti Juutinen, Rauli Svento   +2 more
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Exploring Carbon Emissions in Peatland Restoration

Eos, 2022
Rewetting bogs can increase methane emissions in the short term, but ultimately the approach helps restore peatlands and create larger carbon sinks.
openaire   +1 more source

Secure Enough? Sufficiency and Security in the New Geological and Geopolitical Reality

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article advances sufficiency theorizing by examining its relationship with security in the contemporary geopolitical context. It engages three contextually situated discourses: sustainable development, ecological civilization, and degrowth, to explore how concerns over ecological limits intersect with emerging geopolitical and security ...
Pasi Heikkurinen, Kiira Parikka, Herman Stål, Teemu Vaarakallio   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Behavioral response of moose Alces alces to summer heat stress

Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
Minnesota moose are heat‐stressed during summers, which is adversely impacting their survival. We used both movement and activity data to explore the behavioral responses of Minnesota moose experiencing heat stress, termed ‘hot moose events' or HMEs, to understand how both ambient temperature and available habitat contribute to the ability of these ...
Michelle Carstensen, Amanda M. McGraw, Andrew N. Tri, Deahn M. Donner   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Peatland restoration in Norway – evaluation of ongoing monitoring and identification of plant indicators of restoration success [PDF]

Norway launched a national action plan on wetland restoration in 2016. So far, 90% of the restoration effort has been on peatland restoration, with about 140 mires restored so far.
Lunde, Linn Marie Foldnes, Fandrem, Marte, Jokerud, Mari, Lyngstad, Anders, Mehlhoop, Anne Catriona, Kyrkjeeide, Magni Olsen   +5 more
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Transformation of the Agrarian Landscape and Hope in the Central Kalimantan Peatlands

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo, agrarian state programs and corporate strategies seek to transform indigenous Ngaju Dayak into sedentary farmers. Focusing on the notion of transformation, the paper traces whether and how rural people can engage in struggles against structural injustices.
Anu Lounela
wiley   +1 more source

Codesigning synergies among ecological, social, and economic benefits with landscape‐scale agri‐environmental schemes

Conservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Global farmland biodiversity is declining rapidly, threatening both natural ecosystems and agricultural production. Although agri‐environmental schemes incentivize farmers to adopt environmentally friendly measures, the spatial mismatch between their local implementation and the landscape‐scale habitat requirements of farmland species has been
Annika L. Hass, Isabelle Arimond, Stefan Schüler, Tobias Plieninger, Sebastian Lakner, Catrin Westphal   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Linking EU habitat and species protection through favourable reference areas: Evidence from threatened saproxylic beetles

Insect Conservation and Diversity, EarlyView.
Threatened saproxylic beetles occurred significantly more often within EU forest habitats and in landscapes with high habitat density. Achieving Favourable Reference Areas substantially increased habitat availability and improved the projected conservation status of threatened saproxylic beetles.
Jānis Ozols, Guntis Brūmelis, Dmitry Telnov, Sandra Ikauniece   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Why is tropical peatland conservation so challenging? Findings from a livelihood assessment in Sumatra, Indonesia [PDF]

Mires and Peat
In recent years, widespread peatland degradation has occurred in Indonesia as a result of both natural events and human activities. Although there is a strong push for restoration from national and international stakeholders, at the local level, farmers ...
Shokhrukh-Mirzo Jalilov, Sri Lestari, Bondan Winarno, Tri Wira Yuwati, Niken Sakuntaladewi , Daniel S. Mendham   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source