Research ABSTRACT Along with environmental factors, agricultural activity is one of the main drivers of change in riparian landscapes of arid regions. Some agricultural practices are considered more sustainability-oriented than others. Despite this, their use is not widespread and their effect on the provision of ecosystem services is not clearly established. Thus, we propose an
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7 February 2023
Community-engaged participatory climate research with the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe
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Research, part of a special feature on Collaborative Management, Environmental Caretaking, and Sustainable Livelihoods ABSTRACT Climate change’s threat to the identity, culture, economy, and livelihoods of the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe (PLPT) can be better understood through community-engaged participatory methods. Our research team of Indigenous and non-Indigenous scientists formed a tribal-university partnership with the PLPT
7 February 2023
Moderate Liberals push back against party move to oppose safeguard mechanism reform
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Paul Fletcher and Simon Birmingham said to be concerned about consequences of opposing Labor’s plan to facilitate below-baseline crediting Liberal moderates Paul Fletcher and Simon Birmingham pushed back against a decision to oppose the Albanese government’s planned overhaul of the safeguard mechanism during shadow cabinet deliberations over the past fortnight. Labor is pursuing reforms to
7 February 2023
Bhutan’s Civil Servants are Building a Digital Government System — Here’s How
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Credit: United Nations By Amy Shelver and Ian RichardsGENEVA, Switzerland, Feb 7 2023 (IPS) New UNCTAD software does to digital government what IKEA did to furniture, allowing Bhutan’s government employees to create their own user-friendly services for citizens online. Tedious government procedures aren’t just a pain for users, they’re a bore for the civil servants
7 February 2023
Video: Roraima in Search of Safe and Sustainable Energy Autonomy
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By Mario OsavaBOA VISTA, Brazil, Feb 6 2023 (IPS) Roraima, the northernmost state of Brazil, on the border with Guyana and Venezuela, is undergoing an energy transition that points to the dilemmas and possible solutions for a safe and sustainable supply of electricity in the Amazon rainforest. As the only state outside the national grid
7 February 2023
Insulate Britain protester faces prison over contempt of court conviction
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David Nixon defied judge’s instruction not to cite climate crisis as motivation for causing public nuisance A supporter of the Insulate Britain climate protest campaign faces a prison sentence after he was convicted for contempt of court for telling a jury his actions were motivated by the climate crisis. David Nixon was one of four
5 February 2023
Labor urged to halve $8bn a year in fuel tax credits for trucks and heavy vehicles
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Reforming the scheme would shrink the budget deficit and help Australia hit net zero emissions by 2050, the Grattan Institute says Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast The Albanese government has been urged to halve the $8bn a
3 February 2023
Scale, evidence, and community participation matter: lessons in effective and legitimate adaptive governance from decision making for Menindee Lakes in Australia’s Murray-Darling Basin
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Research, part of a special feature on Deeper Water: Exploring Barriers and Opportunities for the Emergence of Adaptive Water Governance ABSTRACT Rivers and their interdependent human communities form social-ecologically complex systems that reflect basin scale functionally but are often governed by spatially mismatched governance systems. Accounting for this complexity requires flexible adaptive governance systems supported
3 February 2023
Global Leaders Urge Participation in High-Level Financing Conference to Fund Education for 222 Million Crisis-Impacted Children
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Yasmine Sherif, the Director of Education Cannot Wait, sees the ECW High-Level Financing Conference as crucial to turning the agreements from the Transforming Education Summit into action. Credit: ECW By Joyce ChimbiNAIROBI, Feb 3 2023 (IPS) The world is in the throng of a monumental, damaging, and unprecedented global education crisis. Wars, protracted conflict, extreme
2 February 2023
Corrigendum to “Utilization potential of alien plants in nature-based tourism sites: A case study on Agave americana (century plant) in the Ogasawara Islands” [Ecological Economics 195 (2022) 107362]
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Publication date: April 2023 Source: Ecological Economics, Volume 206 Author(s): Mizuki Onozuka, Takeshi Osawa