Beyond despair: Leveraging ecosystem restoration for psychosocial resilience

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 122(2)

Published: Jan. 2, 2025

Ecosystem restoration has historically been viewed as an ecological endeavor, but possesses significant, yet largely untapped, potential a catalyst for personal and social transformation. We highlight the opportunity to enhance community resilience by increasing agency collective action countering pervasive perception that we are powerless witnesses environmental decline. In this perspective, take “bright spots” approach successful examples of ecosystem have helped nurture sense place, foster optimism, cultivate stronger more diverse networks. These three individual- community-level capacities lead increased psychosocial resilience, which is key component resilience. Our aim spark discussion research better understand how can transform from technical endeavor practice process through human–nature relationships infused with deliberate meaning human well-being improved. With current calls upscale technologize meet sustainable development goals, cannot lose sight value community-engaged strategy great benefits.

Language: Английский

Facilitating Dam Removal Decisions With Multiple Objectives

River Research and Applications, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Oct. 1, 2024

ABSTRACT Proactive and transparent decision‐making about the long‐term management of dams, including rehabilitation, retrofit, removal, is critical for successfully managing this aging infrastructure presents an opportunity to weigh many services disservices dams provide. Existing tools support dam removal decisions often constrain decision processes by considering only a limited set user objectives. We identified 18 objectives in literature found that most 41 decision‐support we evaluated included two or three Common previous removals like reducing safety hazard expanding recreational opportunities were few tools. To facilitate with diverse objectives, created new web application, which supports literature. The application guides users select appropriate choose metrics methods evaluate alternatives, identify additional alternatives relative selected demonstrate as resource community practice case study Athens, Georgia, USA. More broadly, propose process outlined here model aligning other types river decisions. Given contribution declining biodiversity, intensifying climate, development needs, failing align multiple can represent consequential, missed opportunities.

Language: Английский

Sustainable development in the human environment: Current and future challenges

Ecohydrology & Hydrobiology, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 24(3), P. 543 - 546

Published: May 28, 2024

Language: Английский