The idea of decoupling “environmental bads” from “economic goods” has been proposed as
a path towards sustainability by organizations such as the OECD and UN. Scientific …

Improved understanding of human-nature interactions is crucial to conservation science and
practice, but collecting relevant data remains challenging. Recently, social media have …

Many global environmental agendas, including halting biodiversity loss, reversing land
degradation, and limiting climate change, depend upon retaining forests with high …

Since the late 1990s, remotely sensed night-time lights (NTL) satellite imagery has been
shown to correlate with socioeconomic parameters including urbanization, economic …

This study contributes to the literature by estimating the interaction effects of economic
growth and renewable energy consumption on carbon dioxide (CO 2) emissions with the …

The maintenance of biodiversity and the capacity of natural systems to provide goods and
services for people is affected on different levels by the intensity of human activities on …

Abrupt ecological shifts have become a pervasive feature of aquatic ecosystems with severe
socio-ecological consequences. Yet, it remains uncertain whether these shifts happened …

Methane emissions from boreal and arctic wetlands, lakes, and rivers are expected to
increase in response to warming and associated permafrost thaw. However, the lack of …

Humans have changed most of the terrestrial surface by changing land-use and land-cover.
The spatial distribution and extent of land-cover changes have been studied and mapped …

Abstract The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is the largest infrastructure development in
human history. Given its scale of influence and infrastructure undertakings, it is set to bring …