Highlights•Systems approach can guide smart cities to reconnect with urban sustainability.•A
smart initiative is smarter if it connects across all SET subsystems.•Social processes benefit …

Chapter 1: Introducing biological invasions and the IPBES thematic assessment of invasive
alien species and their control of the Thematic Assessment Report on Invasive Alien …

This work intends to lay the foundations for a theoretical framework of citizen science
combining social and organizational implications with the support of information …

Biodiversity conservation is fundamentally linked to human values, attitudes, and
behaviours. Nature connectedness, the strength of a person's relationship with nature, is an …

Cigarette butts (CB) and cigarette butt fibers (CBF) are highly abundant and frequent
residues on beach sand. Also, they are hazardous waste due to their significant toxicity and …

The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the potential of using data from long-term citizen
science projects to answer questions about the impacts of unexpected events on …

Background Biodiversity is being lost rapidly and its conservation is thus one of the most
urgent tasks today. For biodiversity conservation to be successful, the public needs to gain …

The geographic redistributions of species due to a rapidly changing climate are poised to
perturb ecological communities and significantly impact ecosystems and human livelihoods …

Protected areas are central in strategies to conserve biodiversity. Effective area-based
conservation relies on biodiversity data, but the current biodiversity knowledge base is …

In this paper, we focus on different roles in citizen science projects, and their respective
relationships. We propose a tripartite model that recognises not only citizens and scientists …