The Pace of Human-Induced Change in Large Rivers: Stresses, Resilience, and Vulnerability to Extreme Events [0.03%]
人为因素导致的大河变化速度：极端事件下的压力、恢复力及脆弱性
Jim Best,Stephen E Darby
Jim Best
The world's great rivers are threatened by a range of anthropogenic stresses-of which climate change is just one-that decrease resilience and increase vulnerability to extreme events. Future governance must recognize both the rate of change...
The US Response to COVID-19 and Climate Change Endangers the Country and the World [0.03%]
美国应对新冠疫情和气候变化的举措危及国家和世界
Dale Jamieson,Jennifer Jacquet
Dale Jamieson
Climate change and pandemics require cooperative, integrated responses that in turn require planning, coordination, and the mobilization of expertise. US failures in these domains have compromised the world's ability to cope with both probl...
The Perfect Storm: How to Prepare against Climate Risk and Disaster Shocks in the Time of COVID-19 [0.03%]
新冠肺炎疫情期间应对气候风险和灾害冲击的完美风暴：如何做好准备
Olivier Mahul,Benedikt Signer
Olivier Mahul
As governments tackle the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) recovery, broader institutional reforms should build shock-responsive systems for the future. The time is now to boost financial preparedness to climate risks and disasters. ...
Sarah R Lowe,Ethan J Raker,Meghan L Zacher
Sarah R Lowe
Exposure to disasters has a range of adverse mental-health consequences. This Commentary argues that to understand variation in post-disaster mental health, we must look beyond the disaster itself to other sources of vulnerability throughou...
Katie Moon
Katie Moon
Mental models, which include our assumptions about how the world works, influence how we experience extreme events, such as the Australian bushfires. In turn, they can be altered by those experiences. Understanding (changes to) our mental m...
The Chaos after the Storm [0.03%]
风雨之后的混乱
In a world increasingly vulnerable to extremes-be they related to resource scarcity, economic shocks, social disturbances, or other issues-a greater emphasis is being placed on our resilience and ability to recover. This Voices asks: what, ...
Shocks to the System [0.03%]
冲击下的系统
One Earth editorial team
One Earth editorial team
Sonja Dümpelmann
Sonja Dümpelmann
Trees have been integral to cities for centuries. Their tangible and intangible benefits for human and environmental systems are particularly evident in times of crisis. As cities grow and adapt to climate change, historical, scientific, an...
In the search for ways to address sustainability challenges, there is growing interest in nature-based solutions. Among these are calls to plant a trillion trees globally, which has been met with mixed responses. In this Voices, we ask rese...
Michele Acuto
Michele Acuto
The COVID-19 crisis has changed the face of many of our cities and questioned how we should manage urban life in the wake of a pandemic. This Commentary points to the need to learn urban governance lessons and to the potential value of urba...