Ambio - A Journal of Environment and Society

High-integrity forest carbon credits: Assessing equity and governance deficits in Colombia’s voluntary carbon market - Ambio Voluntary carbon markets (VCMs) are crucial yet complex mechanisms for forest conservation, particularly in highly biodiverse regions. This study investigates the rapid expansion of carbon forestry pr...

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High-integrity forest carbon credits: Assessing equity and governance deficits in Colombia’s voluntary carbon market

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Freshwater biodiversity in a rapidly changing Arctic: An expert horizon scan of key research questions - Ambio Arctic freshwater biodiversity is rapidly changing due to climate warming, resource extraction, infrastructure development, and landscape transformation. To improve understanding, predict future respo...

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Freshwater biodiversity in a rapidly changing Arctic: An expert horizon scan of key research questions

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Adapting the social practice of beekeeping to a changing climate - Ambio Beekeeping offers a lens to study climate change, linking ecological dynamics with cultural practices, technologies, and livelihoods. While ecological impacts on bees and pollination are well studied,...

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Adapting the social practice of beekeeping to a changing climate

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Improving wetland management through First Nations’ knowledge and a spatial visualisation tool - Ambio As wetlands continue to decline, there is an urgent need to improve their management by following the guidelines of international programs. The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands requires assessing baselin...

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Improving wetland management through First Nations’ knowledge and a spatial visualisation tool

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Political ideology as a predictor of conservation attitudes: Mechanisms and implications - Ambio Political ideology is increasingly shaping public attitudes toward environmental conservation; however, empirical research linking political beliefs and biodiversity conservation remains limited. This...

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Political ideology as a predictor of conservation attitudes: Mechanisms and implications

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Enablers and obstacles for implementing rewilding pathways in socio-ecological systems: Insights from the Oder Delta - Ambio Rewilding gained attention as a transformative approach to restoring biodiversity and ecosystem functions in Europe’s multifunctional landscapes. Yet, its implementation in socio-ecological systems (S...

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Enablers and obstacles for implementing rewilding pathways in socio-ecological systems: Insights from the Oder Delta

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Community biocultural mapping reveals historical occupation and enables defense of African rainforests - Ambio Global conservation maps often overlook community lands, impacting decision-making and reducing local agency. We focus on the high-profile and regionally important case of Massaha’s ancestral territor...

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Community biocultural mapping reveals historical occupation and enables defense of African rainforests

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Assessing human–nature connection: A systematic review and a new Wetland Wanderer Tool for auditing nature connection in wetland environments - Ambio Wetlands are critical ecosystems that sustain biodiversity and support human wellbeing, yet limited public awareness of their values constrains conservation and restoration efforts. Drawing on human–n...

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Assessing human–nature connection: A systematic review and a new Wetland Wanderer Tool for auditing nature connection in wetland environments

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Evaluating sustainability scenarios in coastal zones of Small Island Developing States (SIDS): A case study of the Dominican Republic - Ambio Assessing sustainability in coastal zones, especially in Small Island Developing States (SIDS) like the Dominican Republic, requires a multidimensional approach due to ecological fragility and social ...

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Evaluating sustainability scenarios in coastal zones of Small Island Developing States (SIDS): A case study of the Dominican Republic

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Can river laws deliver ecological outcomes? Evaluating the Yangtze River protection law through a stakeholder lens - Ambio Sustainable river governance increasingly relies on legal frameworks that integrate ecological indicators with coordinated governance mechanisms. This study examines the Yangtze River Protection Law (...

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Can river laws deliver ecological outcomes? Evaluating the Yangtze River protection law through a stakeholder lens

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Grounded in human well-being: Towards fostering system resilience in human–wildlife coexistence - Ambio Global conservation efforts are often constrained by limited understanding of the social processes that shape human–wildlife interactions and broader social–ecological systems. We examined local conce...

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Grounded in human well-being: Towards fostering system resilience in human–wildlife coexistence

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Signatures and legacies of Indigenous soil stewardship in L $$ \underline{{\textbf{a}}} $$ a ̲ xyuubm Ts’msyen: Nutrient-rich dark earths in Northwestern Canada - Ambio Across diverse global contexts, Indigenous stewardship practices have transformed forested landscapes into dynamic and productive foodsheds, demonstrating that sustainable forest management is not a m...

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Signatures and legacies of Indigenous soil stewardship in Lxyuubm Ts’msyen: Nutrient-rich dark earths in Northwestern Canada

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Balancing risk and reward: Toward resilient human–primate coexistence in a rapidly changing environment in Sulawesi, Indonesia - Ambio This study explores human–moor macaque (Macaca maura) coexistence in Sulawesi, Indonesia, using resilience thinking to assess temporal patterns of coadaptation amidst stressors such as provisioning an...

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Balancing risk and reward: Toward resilient human–primate coexistence in a rapidly changing environment in Sulawesi, Indonesia

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Unlocking the potential of other effective area-based conservation measures (OECMs) for achieving conservation targets: A global scoping review - Ambio Other Effective Area-based Conservation Measures (OECMs), introduced by the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), refer to areas outside formal protected-area networks that deliver effective and e...

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Unlocking the potential of other effective area-based conservation measures (OECMs) for achieving conservation targets: A global scoping review

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Crafoord Prize Laureate showed that many factors affect the climate Veerabhadran Ramanathan has laid the foundation for our understanding of how small particles and gases that accumulate in the atmosphere contribute to climate change. This knowledge is vitally importa...

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has announced the award of the Crafoord Prize in Geosciences to Veerabhadran Ramanathan
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Relying on wildlife management: How compensation programs can build trust and perceived control to sustain coexistence with brown bears in Poland - Ambio The recovery of large carnivore populations in Europe often leads to conflicts with the primary sector. Compensation for livestock and agricultural losses is a common mitigation tool, but its impact o...

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Relying on wildlife management: How compensation programs can build trust and perceived control to sustain coexistence with brown bears in Poland

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Why forests can mitigate floods of all sizes: Evaluating the scientific basis for forest-based flood mitigation - Ambio Rising flood frequencies and magnitudes are causing the loss of lives, infrastructure damage, and economic disruption, making effective flood management imperative. Nature-based solutions are increasi...

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Why forests can mitigate floods of all sizes: Evaluating the scientific basis for forest-based flood mitigation

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Conceptualising and mapping polarisation trends in land systems - Ambio Polarisation is a key process in land systems, describing land-change trajectories within a region that simultaneously move in opposite directions, such as co-occurring agricultural intensification an...

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Conceptualising and mapping polarisation trends in land systems

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Bridging production and protection: Legislative and technical feasibility of continuous cover forestry around freshwater in Sweden - Ambio Forests are essential to the global green transition, but intensified management may undermine environmental goals. Continuous cover forestry (CCF) offers an alternative, balancing timber production a...

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Bridging production and protection: Legislative and technical feasibility of continuous cover forestry around freshwater in Sweden

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Connecting with nature: The missing link between a satisfied life and a healthy life? - Ambio Nature connection is an important leverage point for human wellbeing and planetary health. In this paper, we examine the varying relationships between nature connection and wellbeing measures through ...

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Connecting with nature: The missing link between a satisfied life and a healthy life?

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Beyond the landscape: Social-behavioral factors as the true coexistence parameters in the Chilean carnivore–livestock conflict - Ambio We share land with carnivores throughout the world, but coexistence is not assured. Using a social-ecological systems approach and employing the coexistence parameter concept, we tested whether enviro...

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Beyond the landscape: Social-behavioral factors as the true coexistence parameters in the Chilean carnivore–livestock conflict

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How do members of the public feel about novel ecosystem interventions? A longitudinal study of emotional responses to restoration and adaptation in the Great Barrier Reef

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Decarbonising homes and the in-between: Intersections of visible and latent climate-wise housing and mobility

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Agroecology in Zimbabwe: A country-level review with regional lessons for Southern African Development Community (SADC)

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Catalysing transformational change through compound nature connectedness interventions - Ambio Political, economic and technological interventions are struggling to address the polycrisis at the necessary scale and pace. Increasing nature connectedness can make a critical contribution: there is...

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Catalysing transformational change through compound nature connectedness interventions

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Regenerating the food system: A proposed vision and guiding principles for regenerative, inclusive food systems (RIFS) - Ambio The aim of this perspective is to further the discussion on regenerating our food system, by describing our future food system (FS) vision to be a regenerative, inclusive food system (RIFS) and provid...

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Regenerating the food system: A proposed vision and guiding principles for regenerative, inclusive food systems (RIFS)

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Between threat, disturbance and opportunity: Local actors’ views on coexistence with Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) in the French Vosges and Jura mountains - Ambio This paper examines how coexistence with the Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) has been conceived and experienced differently over time by local actors based on ethnographic data in two sites in France: the V...

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Between threat, disturbance and opportunity: Local actors’ views on coexistence with Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) in the French Vosges and Jura mountains

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The EU Nature Restoration Regulation offers new opportunities for resilient forests and sustainable forestry - Ambio This paper examines the EU Nature Restoration Regulation (NRR) as a novel framework aimed at promoting biodiversity, ecosystem services, sustainable forestry practices and resilient ecosystems. We hig...

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The EU Nature Restoration Regulation offers new opportunities for resilient forests and sustainable forestry

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Compounding social-ecological crises drive spatial mobility and land abandonment in Morocco’s High Atlas - Ambio Drought and water insecurity are escalating crises that shape dryland farmers’ mobility and land abandonment decisions. In this study, we appraised the causes of such decisions through 75 qualitative ...

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Compounding social-ecological crises drive spatial mobility and land abandonment in Morocco’s High Atlas

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Community-centered approaches to aquaculture in small-scale fisheries - Ambio Aquaculture is the fastest-growing seafood production system globally, offering economic and social opportunities for small-scale fishing communities. Yet, it is often introduced through top-down, tec...

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Community-centered approaches to aquaculture in small-scale fisheries

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