Abstract By 2030, an additional 1.2 billion people are forecast in urban areas globally. We
review the scientific literature (n= 922 studies) to assess direct and indirect impacts of urban …

Protected area (PA) performance is thought to depend on effective conservation
management and favourable socio-economic context. However, increasing evidence of …

Flagship species are commonly used as conservation tools, but to be effective, local public
support is crucial. A country's national animal symbol is often selected for holding cultural …

Multiple environmental factors are known to shape species distributions at the global scale,
including climate and topography, but understanding current extents of occurrence and …

How far are we from predicting the occurrence of zoonotic diseases? In this paper we have
made use of both socioecological and ecological variables to predict Chagas disease …

Historically, human interactions with other animals have been marked by an attitudinal
affinity–aversion polarization, depending on the animal involved and its local utilitarian …

Background One of the classic approaches in environmental economics is the
environmental Kuznets curve, which predicts that when a national economy grows from low …

The ongoing ecological crisis has motivated systematic studies on biodiversity loss, mostly
pointing to economic and human population pressure as root causes of natural habitat …

Aim Agriculture is a key threat to biodiversity; however, its relationship with biodiversity
patterns is understudied. Here, we evaluate how the extent, intensity and history of …

Abstract The Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) list the objectives and targets that
should be addressed to solve the global issues regarding sustainable development. They …