Big Data in Earth system science and progress towards a digital twin

X Li, M Feng, Y Ran, Y Su, F Liu, C Huang… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2023 - nature.com
The concept of a digital twin of Earth envisages the convergence of Big Earth Data with
physics-based models in an interactive computational framework that enables monitoring …

The ecological and evolutionary consequences of systemic racism in urban environments

CJ Schell, K Dyson, TL Fuentes, S Des Roches… - Science, 2020 - science.org
BACKGROUND Human activity and decisions drive all life in cities. Worldwide, cities are
characterized by extensive anthropogenic transformation of the landscape, modification of …

An early warning signal for grassland degradation on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

Q Zhu, H Chen, C Peng, J Liu, S Piao, JS He… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Intense grazing may lead to grassland degradation on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, but it is
difficult to predict where this will occur and to quantify it. Based on a process-based …

[HTML][HTML] The role of technological innovation in environmental pollution, energy consumption and sustainable economic growth: Evidence from South Asian …

N Mughal, A Arif, V Jain, S Chupradit, MS Shabbir… - Energy Strategy …, 2022 - Elsevier
This study examines the causal relationship among technological innovation (TI),
environment pollution (EP), energy consumption (EC) and sustainable economic growth …

[BOK][B] The Routledge handbook of research methods for social-ecological systems

R Biggs, A De Vos, R Preiser, H Clements… - 2021 - library.oapen.org
The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods for Social-Ecological Systems provides a
synthetic guide to the range of methods that can be employed in social-ecological systems …

Assessing coupling interactions in a safe and just operating space for regional sustainability

D Han, D Yu, J Qiu - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Human activities affect the Earth System with an unprecedented magnitude, causing
undesirable irreversible degradation. The United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals …

Does globalization matter for environmental degradation? Nexus among energy consumption, economic growth, and carbon dioxide emission

J Wen, N Mughal, J Zhao, MS Shabbir, G Niedbała… - Energy policy, 2021 - Elsevier
This study scrutinizes the impact of globalization, non-renewable energy consumption, and
economic growth on CO 2 emission for selected South Asian economies during 1985–2018 …

Challenges in modeling and predicting floods and droughts: A review

MI Brunner, L Slater, LM Tallaksen… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Predictions of floods, droughts, and fast drought‐flood transitions are required at different
time scales to develop management strategies targeted at minimizing negative societal and …

Map** the forest disturbance regimes of Europe

C Senf, R Seidl - Nature Sustainability, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract Changes in forest disturbances can have strong impacts on forests, yet we lack
consistent data on Europe's forest disturbance regimes and their changes over time. Here …

A relational turn for sustainability science? Relational thinking, leverage points and transformations

S West, LJ Haider, S Stålhammar… - Ecosystems and …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
In sustainability science, revising the paradigms that separate humans from nature is
considered a powerful 'leverage point'in pursuit of transformations. The coupled social …