The emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) and its progressively wider impact on many
sectors requires an assessment of its effect on the achievement of the Sustainable …

Novel energy production systems are needed that not only offer reductions in greenhouse
gas emissions but also cause fewer overall environmental impacts. How to identify and …

Extensive ecosystem restoration is increasingly seen as being central to conserving
biodiversity and stabilizing the climate of the Earth. Although ambitious national and global …

To meet the ambitious objectives of biodiversity and climate conventions, the international
community requires clarity on how these objectives can be operationalized spatially and …

International commitments for ecosystem restoration add up to one-quarter of the world's
arable land. Fulfilling them would ease global challenges such as climate change and …

Branch-and-bound approaches in integer programming require ordering portions of the
space to explore next, a problem known as node comparison. We propose a new siamese …

Environmental change is rapidly accelerating, and many species will need to adapt to
survive. Ensuring that protected areas cover populations across a broad range of …

Ambitious conservation efforts are needed to stop the global biodiversity crisis. In this study,
we estimate the minimum land area to secure important biodiversity areas, ecologically …

Plans for expanding protected area systems (prioritizations) need to fulfill conservation
objectives. They also need to account for other factors, such as economic feasibility and …

Land allocation has been an important issue in land use planning research studies. Land
allocation involves different multifunctional activities of maximizing environmental, economic …