Cities, planetary boundaries, and degrowth

The Lancet Planetary Health, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 8(4), P. e234 - e241

Published: April 1, 2024

Cities are the main hubs of human activity and engines economic growth. In pursuit such growth, cities transgressing their local environmental boundaries. Ongoing urbanisation increasingly contributes to pressure on planetary boundaries negatively affects health. a telecoupled world, externalise impacts by shifting production many other functions away from At same time, urban inhabitants people who follow lifestyles but live outside disconnected nature. This Viewpoint highlights role degrowth in keeping an planet within suggests areas for further research policy. Degrowth calls meaningfully connecting with ensuring everyone receives fair share ecological capacity. lower use existing resources, political power asymmetries, moves beyond pricing interventions. addresses three key aspects that connect boundaries: reducing consumption, nature, including nature (to more substantial extent) design what is used consumed cities. A radical transformation necessary stay safe operating space humanity.

Language: Английский

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Advancing green space equity via policy change: A scoping review and research agenda

Environmental Science & Policy, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 157, P. 103765 - 103765

Published: April 25, 2024

Language: Английский

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Birdwatching linked to increased psychological well-being on college campuses: A pilot-scale experimental study

Journal of Environmental Psychology, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 96, P. 102306 - 102306

Published: April 20, 2024

Language: Английский

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Temporal patterns in Malaysian rainforest soundscapes demonstrated using acoustic indices and deep embeddings trained on time-of-day estimation

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 157(1), P. 1 - 16

Published: Jan. 1, 2025

Rapid urban development impacts the integrity of tropical ecosystems on broad spatiotemporal scales. However, sustained long-term monitoring poses significant challenges, particularly in regions. In this context, ecoacoustics emerges as a promising approach to address gap. Yet, harnessing insights from extensive acoustic datasets presents its own set such time and expertise needed label species information recordings. Here, study an investigating soundscapes: use deep neural network trained time-of-day estimation. This research endeavors (1) provide qualitative analysis temporal variation (daily monthly) soundscape using conventional ecoacoustic indices embeddings, (2) compare predictive power both methods for estimation, (3) performance supervised classification unsupervised clustering specific recording site, habitat type, season. The study's findings reveal that proposed embeddings exhibit overall comparable performance. article concludes by discussing potential avenues further refinement method, which will contribute understanding across space.

Language: Английский

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Green sanctuaries: residential green and garden space and the natural environment mitigate mental disorders risk of diabetic patients

BMC Medicine, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 23(1)

Published: Jan. 21, 2025

Abstract Background The co-occurrence of diabetes and mental disorders is an exceedingly common comorbidity with poor prognosis. We aim to investigate the impact green space, garden natural environment on risk among population living diabetes. Methods performed a longitudinal analysis based 39,397 participants from UK Biobank. Residential space modeled land use data Land Cover Map were assigned residential address for each participant. Cox proportional hazards model was used analyze associations between nature exposures Casual mediation quantify indirect effect air pollution. Results During mean follow-up 7.55 years, 4513 incident cases identified, including 2952 depressive 1209 anxiety disorders. Participants at 300 m buffer in second third tertiles had 7% (HR = 0.93, 95%CI: 0.86–0.99) 12% 0.88, 0.82–0.94) lower risks compared those first tertile, respectively. incidence patients will decrease by 13% when exposed tertile buffer. individually prevented 6.65% 10.18% incidents patients. statistically decreased 1000 0.84, 95% CI: 0.78–0.90). Protective effects three against also observed. Air pollution, particularly nitrogen dioxide, oxides, fine particulate matter, significantly contributed disorders, mediating 48.3%, 29.2%, 62.4% associations, Conclusions could mitigate patients, pollution playing vital mediator. This highlights potential local governments enhance sustainability such interventions, grounded public health urban planning, through strategic planning initiatives. Graphical

Language: Английский

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The Value of Stingless Bee Bioproducts for Human Health and Conservation: A Systematic Review

Diversity, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 17(3), P. 191 - 191

Published: March 7, 2025

In this systematic review, we look to the long-established medical relationship between humans and stingless bees support notion that health conservation research needs differently at examples of human biodiversity. Through PRISMA statement, synthesized 1128 Web Science references 2000 2024 regarding clinical or experimental therapeutic applications bee bioproducts (honey propolis) for health. We aligned trend with 2023’s leading morbidities in Mexico people’s perceptions healing experiences using bioproducts. found honey propolis 28 species can aid treating 8 out 19 most prevalent diseases Mexico, primarily cancer, type-2 diabetes, obesity, COVID-19. Although there is limited evidence from studies Americas, people actively contribute as stewards biodiversity by recognizing appreciating benefits these offer. conclude traditional meliponiculture systems safeguard knowledge be used improve socio-ecosystem This significant strengthening locally based healthcare while fostering collaborative tropical landscape conservation.

Language: Английский

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A framework for large-scale analyses of ecosystem health and its driving factors in complex underlying basins

Ecological Indicators, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 173, P. 113424 - 113424

Published: April 1, 2025

Language: Английский

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Microbiomes as Modulators of Human and Planetary Health: A Relational and Cross‐Scale Perspective

Global Change Biology, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 31(4)

Published: April 1, 2025

ABSTRACT The various human microbiomes play critical roles in maintaining health and well‐being, they are continuously shaped by a complex web of internal external factors. Research on environmental is generally discrete within disciplinary areas such as medicine, microbiology, molecular ecology, etc. This paper presents perspective based scoping review the literature, aiming to explore how these interconnected shape well‐being and, turn, planetary health. We working from cellular mechanisms population outcomes, role intrinsic extrinsic factors influencing microbiomes. argue that global trends homogenization diets, environments, medical practices driving shifts microbial diversity, with far‐reaching implications for well Disruptions feedback at individual, community, ecosystem levels often exacerbated biodiversity loss change. underscore need holistic public interventions account microbiome stewardship across scales. By examining connections, we aim highlight importance systems‐level understanding

Language: Английский

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Urban forest visitors’ perceptions of biodiversity and its effects on their well-being

Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 50, P. 100886 - 100886

Published: April 8, 2025

Language: Английский

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Aktiviteter med hest for kvinner i norske fengsel

Tidsskrift for psykisk helsearbeid, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 22(1-2), P. 72 - 87

Published: April 11, 2025

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