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  • Clean water is a fundamental resource, yet the economic impacts of pollution, drinking water availability, and greenhouse gas emissions from freshwaters are unknown. Here the authors combine models with economic assessments and find trillions of dollars in savings by mitigating lake methane emissions.

    • John A. Downing
    • Stephen Polasky
    • Stephen C. Newbold
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 12, P: 1-6

  • Agriculture sustains a large and growing human population, but generates widespread impacts. This study assesses the health effects of air pollution caused by maize production. Reduced air quality leads to 4,300 premature deaths annually in the United States, akin to US$39 billion in damages, and climate change damages of US$4.9 billion.

    • Jason Hill
    • Andrew Goodkind
    • Julian Marshall
    Research
    Nature Sustainability
    Volume: 2, P: 397-403

  • A generalizable, functional-trait-based approach for quantifying the effects of disturbances to ecosystem services and economic outcomes, including under climate change, highlights the need for incorporating disturbances in ecosystem services assessments.

    • Laura E. Dee
    • Steve J. Miller
    • Peter B. Reich
    Research
    Nature Ecology & Evolution
    Volume: 9, P: 436-447

  • The Convention on Biological Diversity has pledged to reduce species-extinction threats around the globe by 2020. Analysis shows that this goal is achievable but requires a significant increase in the current rate of investment.

    • Stephen Polasky
    News & Views
    Nature
    Volume: 492, P: 193-194

  • This study shows that conserving approximately half of global land area through protection or sustainable management could provide 90% of ten of nature’s contributions to people and could meet representation targets for 26,709 species of mammals, birds, amphibians, and reptiles. This finding supports recent commitments to conserve at least 30% of global lands and waters by 2030.

    • Rachel A. Neugarten
    • Rebecca Chaplin-Kramer
    • Amanda D. Rodewald
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 15, P: 1-11

  • The patterns of how yield gaps change can suggest likely future outcomes for crop growth. This study conducts a spatial and temporal analysis of yield gaps for ten major crops from 1975 to 2010 and identifies regions where crops are experiencing ‘ceiling pressure’, signalling opportunities to improve future food security.

    • James S. Gerber
    • Deepak K. Ray
    • Lindsey Sloat
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Food
    Volume: 5, P: 125-135

  • Bringing together multiple models and databases on nature’s contributions to people, the authors map these contributions globally and determine the critical areas where their magnitude is the highest and where they provide the highest potential human benefit.

    • Rebecca Chaplin-Kramer
    • Rachel A. Neugarten
    • Reg A. Watson
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Ecology & Evolution
    Volume: 7, P: 51-61

  • Producing beef sustainably at a global level is a challenge given the multiple trade-offs between the economic and environmental objectives involved. This study presents an approach that helps to identify such trade-offs at the scale needed for the beef industry to become more sustainable.

    • Adam C. Castonguay
    • Stephen Polasky
    • Eve McDonald-Madden
    Research
    Nature Sustainability
    Volume: 6, P: 284-294

  • A dynamic optimization approach using plant species data from 458 forest ecoregions suggests a strategy for when and where to conserve forests globally over the next 50 years to maximize the conservation of plant biodiversity.

    • Ian H. Luby
    • Steve J. Miller
    • Stephen Polasky
    Research
    Nature
    Volume: 609, P: 89-93

  • Life cycle assessments are used by corporations to determine the sustainability of raw source materials. Here, Chaplin-Krameret al. develop an improved life cycle assessment approach incorporating spatial variation in land-use change, and apply this framework to a bioplastic case study.

    • Rebecca Chaplin-Kramer
    • Sarah Sim
    • Gretchen Daily
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 8, P: 1-8

  • This study develops a wide-ranging index to assess the many factors that contribute to the health and benefits of the oceans, and the scores for all costal nations are assessed.

    • Benjamin S. Halpern
    • Catherine Longo
    • Dirk Zeller
    Research
    Nature
    Volume: 488, P: 615-620

  • Stratospheric injection of sulphate aerosols has been advocated as an emergency geoengineering measure to tackle dangerous climate change, or as a stop-gap until atmospheric carbon dioxide levels are reduced. But it may not prove to be the game-changer that some imagine.

    • Scott Barrett
    • Timothy M. Lenton
    • Aart de Zeeuw
    Comments & Opinion
    Nature Climate Change
    Volume: 4, P: 527-529

  • A varied repertoire of responses helps manage fluctuations, as in markets. This Perspective argues that society needs to strengthen the diversity of options for responding to disruptions, exploring how this response diversity is expressed, how it can be built and lost, and what we can do to promote it.

    • Brian Walker
    • Anne-Sophie Crépin
    • Jeffrey R. Vincent
    Reviews
    Nature Sustainability
    Volume: 6, P: 621-629

  • Nielsen et al. argue for more involvement of behavioural scientists in addressing the challenge of globally increasing biodiversity loss, identifying important gaps in existing knowledge and outlining core components for a robust evidence base.

    • Kristian Steensen Nielsen
    • Theresa M. Marteau
    • Andrew Balmford
    Reviews
    Nature Human Behaviour
    Volume: 5, P: 550-556

  • To understand and address sustainability problems, a complex model of human behaviour is proposed, one that co-evolves with their context, as opposed to simpler models.

    • Caroline Schill
    • John M. Anderies
    • Maja Schlüter
    Reviews
    Nature Sustainability
    Volume: 2, P: 1075-1082

  • Transgressing planetary boundaries has generated global, ongoing and interconnected problems that represent a real challenge to policy makers. This Perspective sheds light on the complexities of designing policies that can keep human life within the biophysical limits of planet Earth.

    • Thomas Sterner
    • Edward B. Barbier
    • Amanda Robinson
    Reviews
    Nature Sustainability
    Volume: 2, P: 14-21