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  • To make green investments pay off, policymakers must learn from past mistakes and stop subsidizing polluters, urges Edward B. Barbier.

    • Edward B. Barbier
    Comments & Opinion
    Nature
    Volume: 565, P: 6

  • Economic indicators that omit the depletion and degradation of natural resources and ecosystems are misleading, warns Edward B. Barbier.

    • Edward B. Barbier
    Comments & Opinion
    Nature
    Volume: 515, P: 32-33

  • Funding is a major stumbling block for environmental initiatives, says Edward Barbier. Taxing financial transactions or trade in arms, tobacco and fuel might help.

    • Edward Barbier
    Comments & Opinion
    Nature
    Volume: 483, P: 30

  • Ten years after the devastation of the US Gulf coast, Edward B. Barbier calls for coastal protection plans like that adopted by Louisiana for the world's most vulnerable nations.

    • Edward B. Barbier
    Comments & Opinion
    Nature
    Volume: 524, P: 285-287

  • Edward B. Barbier and colleagues call for governance and funds for deep-sea reserves and the restoration of ecosystems damaged by commercial interests.

    • Edward B. Barbier
    • David Moreno-Mateos
    • Cindy L. Van Dover
    Comments & Opinion
    Nature
    Volume: 505, P: 475-477

  • China and South Korea have invested heavily in environmental stimulus projects. Other G20 countries need to deliver on their sustainability promises to save both the planet and the economy, says Edward Barbier.

    • Edward Barbier
    Comments & Opinion
    Nature
    Volume: 464, P: 832-833

  • Inventory data from more than 1 million trees across African, Amazonian and Southeast Asian tropical forests suggests that, despite their high diversity, just 1,053 species, representing a consistent ~2.2% of tropical tree species in each region, constitute half of Earth’s 800 billion tropical trees.

    • Declan L. M. Cooper
    • Simon L. Lewis
    • Stanford Zent
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature
    Volume: 625, P: 728-734

  • Recovery of damaged ecosystems can vary in time and extent. Here, Moreno-Mateos and colleagues perform a meta-analysis to describe and quantify what they call recovery debt, an interim reduction in biodiversity, populations, and biogeochemical function of ecosystems during the recovery process.

    • David Moreno-Mateos
    • Edward B. Barbier
    • José M. Rey Benayas
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 8, P: 1-6

  • A levy on fossil fuels can support and restore ecosystems that help to stem climate change.

    • Edward B. Barbier
    • Ricardo Lozano
    • Sebastian Troëng
    Comments & Opinion
    Nature
    Volume: 578, P: 213-216

  • The aboveground carbon stock of a montane African forest network is comparable to that of a lowland African forest network and two-thirds higher than default values for these montane forests.

    • Aida Cuni-Sanchez
    • Martin J. P. Sullivan
    • Etienne Zibera
    Research
    Nature
    Volume: 596, P: 536-542

  • The interaction between land degradation and the livelihoods of the poor is complex and conditioned by important economic, social and environmental factors. These factors are also in part responsible for the limited success of economic growth policies to reduce poverty.

    • Edward B. Barbier
    • Jacob P. Hochard
    Reviews
    Nature Sustainability
    Volume: 1, P: 623-631

  • Current mangrove planting schemes aimed at reversing global losses are prioritising short-term increases in area over long-term establishment. Without sound, evidence-based restoration policies, this approach could accelerate the demise of mangrove forests and the ecosystem services they provide.

    • Shing Yip Lee
    • Stu Hamilton
    • Roy R. Lewis III
    Comments & Opinion
    Nature Ecology & Evolution
    Volume: 3, P: 870-872

  • Analyses of the recovery of marine populations, habitats and ecosystems following past conservation interventions indicate that substantial recovery of the abundance, structure and function of marine life could be achieved by 2050 if major pressures, including climate change, are mitigated.

    • Carlos M. Duarte
    • Susana Agusti
    • Boris Worm
    Reviews
    Nature
    Volume: 580, P: 39-51

  • Sea-level rise research between 1990 and 2021 expanded 36-fold with a relative reduction in pure science and an increase in topics related to impacts, risks, and adaptation, according to a bibliographic meta-analysis of 15,000 research articles.

    • Danial Khojasteh
    • Milad Haghani
    • William Glamore
    ResearchOpen Access
    Communications Earth & Environment
    Volume: 4, P: 1-11

  • 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