Comprehensive wealth [0.03%]
综合财富
Measuring the full set of society's assets is critical to the design of policies for a sustainable future. Keywords: ...
Emerging human infectious diseases and the links to global food production [0.03%]
新兴的人类传染病与全球食品生产的关系
Jason R Rohr,Christopher B Barrett,David J Civitello et al.
Jason R Rohr et al.
Infectious diseases are emerging globally at an unprecedented rate while global food demand is projected to increase sharply by 2100. Here, we synthesize the pathways by which projected agricultural expansion and intensification will influe...
Edward T Game,Heather Tallis,Lydia Olander et al.
Edward T Game et al.
Evidence-based approaches to sustainability challenges must draw on knowledge from the environment, development and health communities. To be practicable, this requires an approach to evidence that is broader and less hierarchical than the ...
Alexa Varah,Kwadjo Ahodo,Shaun R Coutts et al.
Alexa Varah et al.
Pesticides have underpinned significant improvements in global food security, albeit with associated environmental costs. Currently, the yield benefits of pesticides are threatened as overuse has led to wide-scale evolution of resistance. Y...
Stuart L Pimm,Ian Donohue,José M Montoya et al.
Stuart L Pimm et al.
"Sustainability", "resilience", and other terms group under the heading of "stability." Their ubiquity speaks to a vital need to characterise changes in complex social and environmental systems. In a bewildering array of terms, practical me...
Erin N Mayfield,Jared L Cohon,Nicholas Z Muller et al.
Erin N Mayfield et al.
Natural gas has become the largest fuel source for electricity generation in the United States and accounts for a third of energy production and consumption. However, the environmental and socioeconomic impacts across the supply chain and o...
The Role of Movement Restrictions in Limiting the Economic Impact of Livestock Infections [0.03%]
关于限制牲畜疾病经济影响的运动管制的作用研究
M J Tildesley,S Brand,E Brooks Pollock et al.
M J Tildesley et al.
Movements are essential for the economic success of the livestock industry. These movements however bring the risk of long-range spread of infection, potentially bringing infection to previously disease-free areas where subsequent localised...
Eduardo Moreno-Jiménez,César Plaza,Hugo Saiz et al.
Eduardo Moreno-Jiménez et al.
Drylands cover more than 40% of terrestrial surface, and their global extent and socio-ecological importance will increase in the future due to the forecasted increases in aridity driven by climate change. Despite the essential role of meta...
China and India lead in greening of the world through land-use management [0.03%]
中国和印度通过土地利用管理引领世界绿化趋势
Chi Chen,Taejin Park,Xuhui Wang et al.
Chi Chen et al.
Satellite data show increasing leaf area of vegetation due to direct (human land-use management) and indirect factors (climate change, CO2 fertilization, nitrogen deposition, recovery from natural disturbances, etc.). Among these, climate c...
Andrew Balmford,Tatsuya Amano,Harriet Bartlett et al.
Andrew Balmford et al.
How we manage farming and food systems to meet rising demand is pivotal to the future of biodiversity. Extensive field data suggest impacts on wild populations would be greatly reduced through boosting yields on existing farmland so as to s...