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Publication date: June 2022 Source: Ecological Economics, Volume 196 Author(s): Hindertje Hoarau-Heemstra, Carol Kline

Repairs could top $1bn and mayors say roads and bridges shouldn’t just be rebuilt but ‘rebuilt to withstand future disasters’ What you can do to help flood-affected communities Get our free news app; get our morning email briefing Commuters across New South Wales and Queensland are dodging gaping potholes and avoiding cracked roads after flooding

BlackRock ‘trying to have their cake and eat it’, says Greenpeace, as freedom of information requests reveal pressure on major banks Emails have revealed the high-wire act performed by major banks and the world’s biggest asset manager, BlackRock, as they privately soothe oil industry concerns about their public support for greener investment. In his annual

The wood of the pau-brasil tree (Paubrasilia echinata Lam., formerly Caesalpinia echinata Lam.) is used worldwide as raw material for the construction of high-quality bows for string instruments. Alternative tree species are rarely accepted by professional musicians, or by bow and violin makers. Historical overexploitation of this endemic species in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest biome

Global heating ‘amplifies risks all the way through the supply chain, from farm to warehouse to supermarket shelves’ Sign up for the Rural Network email newsletter Join the Rural Network group on Facebook to be part of the community Empty supermarket shelves will become a more frequent sight for Australians as the climate crisis heightens

In social-ecological systems (SES), where social and ecological processes are intertwined, phenomena are usually complex and involve multiple interdependent causes. Figuring out causal relationships is thus challenging but needed to better understand and then affect or manage such systems. One important and widely used tool to identify and communicate causal relationships is visualization. Here, we