Governing Europe's forests for multiple ecosystem services: Opportunities, challenges, and policy options

Forest Policy and Economics, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 145, P. 102849 - 102849

Published: Oct. 6, 2022

Europe's forest provide multiple ecosystem services for societies, ranging from provisioning (e.g. wood) and regulating climate mitigation biodiversity) to cultural recreation) services. In this paper, we assess the state prospects of provision in Europe, introducing new data European collaborative research projects SINCERE, NOBEL CLEARING HOUSE, combining it with findings literature. We identify six challenges (1 an insufficient alignment FES supply demand, 2 lacking policy integration, 3 ambiguous conflicting regulatory frameworks, 4 a lack precise information on demand provision, innovations align both, 5 increasing pressure adapt change, 6 striking diversity constraining level solutions) three opportunities increasingly heterogenous owner objectives potentially matching pluralistic societal demands, diversifying enterprises levering potential forests mitigate change). Subsequently, introduce four distinct but complimentary pathways better demand: 1 Better monitoring Enhanced Payments services, Bottom-up participation learning among innovators. conclude by emphasizing momentum that EU Green Deal unfolds future incentivise

Language: Английский

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Reworking the political in digital forests: The cosmopolitics of socio-technical worlds

Progress in Environmental Geography, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 1(1-4), P. 58 - 83

Published: Aug. 12, 2022

Forests are increasingly central to policies and initiatives address global environmental change. Digital technologies have become crucial components of these projects as the tools systems that would monitor manage forests for storing carbon, preserving biodiversity, providing ecosystem services. Historically, been instrumental in forming spaces conservation, extraction, inhabitation. build on previous techniques forest management, which shaped by colonial governance, expert science, economic growth. However, digital achieving can also extend, transform, disrupt sedimented practices. This article asks how convergence gives rise different socio-technical formations modalities “political forests.” Through an analysis five operations, including 1) observation, 2) datafication, 3) participation, 4) automation, 5) regulation transformation, we investigate co-constitution forests, technologies, subjects, social life creates distinct materializations politics–and cosmopolitics. By building expanding concept cosmopolitics, query political is designated through it might be reworked generate less extractive practices relations while contributing more just pluralistic worlds.

Language: Английский

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A comprehensive survey of research towards AI-enabled unmanned aerial systems in pre-, active-, and post-wildfire management

Information Fusion, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 108, P. 102369 - 102369

Published: March 22, 2024

Wildfires have emerged as one of the most destructive natural disasters worldwide, causing catastrophic losses. These losses underscored urgent need to improve public knowledge and advance existing techniques in wildfire management. Recently, use Artificial Intelligence (AI) wildfires, propelled by integration Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) deep learning models, has created an unprecedented momentum implement develop more effective Although survey papers explored learning-based approaches wildfire, drone disaster management, risk assessment, a comprehensive review emphasizing application AI-enabled UAV systems investigating role methods throughout overall workflow multi-stage including pre-fire (e.g., vision-based vegetation fuel measurement), active-fire fire growth modeling), post-fire tasks evacuation planning) is notably lacking. This synthesizes integrates state-of-the-science reviews research at nexus observations modeling, AI, UAVs - topics forefront advances elucidating AI performing monitoring actuation from pre-fire, through stage, To this aim, we provide extensive analysis remote sensing with particular focus on advancements, device specifications, sensor technologies relevant We also examine management approaches, monitoring, prevention strategies, well planning, damage operation strategies. Additionally, summarize wide range computer vision emphasis Machine Learning (ML), Reinforcement (RL), Deep (DL) algorithms for classification, segmentation, detection, tasks. Ultimately, underscore substantial advancement modeling cutting-edge UAV-based data, providing novel insights enhanced predictive capabilities understand dynamic behavior.

Language: Английский

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A Proposal for a Forest Digital Twin Framework and Its Perspectives

Forests, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 13(4), P. 498 - 498

Published: March 23, 2022

The increasing importance of forest ecosystems for human society and planetary health is widely recognized, the advancement data collection technologies enables new integrated ways monitoring. Therefore, target this paper to propose a framework design digital twin (FDT) that, by integrating different state variables at both tree levels, creates virtual copy forest. integration these sets could be used scientific purposes, reporting status forests, ultimately implementing sustainable management practices on basis use cases that specific implementation would underpin. Achieving such outcomes requires twinning single trees as core element FDT recording physical biotic near environment via real–virtual sockets. Following nested approach, twinned related physiological processes are then part broader entire realized capturing scale from sources remote sensing flux towers. Ultimately, unlock economic value ecosystem services, should implement distributed ledger-based blockchain smart contracts ensure highest transparency, reliability, thoroughness transactions sharpen risk with final goal improve capital flow towards management.

Language: Английский

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Remote sensing-based assessment of mangrove ecosystems in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries: a systematic review

Frontiers in Marine Science, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 10

Published: Nov. 20, 2023

Mangrove forests in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries are facing multiple threats from natural and anthropogenic-driven land use change stressors, contributing to altered ecosystem conditions. Remote sensing tools can be used monitor mangroves, measure mangrove forest-and-tree-level attributes vegetation indices at different spatial temporal scales that allow a detailed comprehensive understanding of these important ecosystems. Using systematic literature approach, we reviewed 58 remote sensing-based assessment articles published 2010 through 2022. The main objectives study were examine extent distribution cover, remotely sensed data sources assess forest/tree attributes. key importance mangroves specific region also examined. cover mainly estimated satellite images (75.2%), using NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index) derived Landsat (73.3%), IKONOS (15%), Sentinel (11.7%), WorldView (10%), QuickBird (8.3%), SPOT-5 (6.7%), MODIS (5%) others such as PlanetScope. Remotely aerial photographs/images LiDAR (Light Detection Ranging) UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles)/Drones (3.3%) least used. decreased Saudi Arabia, Oman, Bahrain, Kuwait between 1996 2020. However, increased appreciably Qatar remained relatively stable for United Arab Emirates (UAE) over same period, which was attributed government conservation initiatives toward expanding afforestation restoration direct seeding seedling planting. reported country-level results varied studies due lack standardized methodology, differences imagery resolution classification approaches There is need UAV-LiDAR ground truthing validate country-and-local-level data. Urban development-driven coastal reclamation pollution, climate change-driven temperature sea level rise, drought hypersalinity extreme evaporation serious Thus, encourage prioritization schemes support achievement related UN Sustainable Development Goals (13 action, 14 life below water, 15 on land) GCC countries.

Language: Английский

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Systematic review of machine learning methods applied to ecoacoustics and soundscape monitoring

Heliyon, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 9(10), P. e20275 - e20275

Published: Sept. 22, 2023

Soundscape ecology is a promising area that studies landscape patterns based on their acoustic composition. It focuses the distribution of biotic and abiotic sounds at different frequencies attribute relationship said with ecosystem health metrics indicators (e.g., species richness, biodiversity, vectors structural change, gradients vegetation cover, connectivity, temporal spatial characteristics). To conduct such studies, researchers analyze recordings from Acoustic Recording Units (ARUs). The increasing use ARUs capacity to record hours audio for months time have created need automatic processing methods reduce consumption, correlate variables implicit in recordings, extract features, characterize sound related attributes. Consequently, traditional machine learning been commonly used process data characteristics soundscapes, mainly presence–absence species. In addition, it has employed call segmentation, identification, source clustering. However, some authors highlight importance new approaches unsupervised deep improve results diversify assessed this paper, we present systematic review field ecoacoustics processing. includes recent trends, as semi-supervised methods. Moreover, maintains format found reviewed papers. First, describe papers analyzed, configuration, study sites where datasets were collected. Then, provide an ecological justification relates monitoring features. Subsequently, explain followed assess various show trend towards label-free can large volumes gathered years. Finally, discuss adopt approach other biological dimensions landscapes.

Language: Английский

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The relational shift in urban ecology: From place and structures to multiple modes of coproduction for positive urban futures

AMBIO, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 53(6), P. 845 - 870

Published: April 20, 2024

Abstract This perspective emerged from ongoing dialogue among ecologists initiated by a virtual workshop in 2021. A transdisciplinary group of researchers and practitioners conclude that urban ecology as science can better contribute to positive futures focusing on relationships, rather than prioritizing structures. Insights other relational disciplines, such political ecology, governance, design, conservation also contribute. Relationality is especially powerful given the need rapidly adapt changing social biophysical drivers global systems. These unprecedented dynamics are understood through lens traditional structural questions. We use three kinds coproduction—of social-ecological world, science, actionable knowledge—to identify key processes coproduction within places. Connectivity crucial ecology. Eight themes emerge joint explorations paper point toward action for improving life environment futures.

Language: Английский

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Finding a Neue Gemeinschaft in rural Indonesia: A discussion of forest community digital transformation

Forest Policy and Economics, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 148, P. 102913 - 102913

Published: Jan. 20, 2023

Language: Английский

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Keeping time with digital technologies: From real-time environments to forest futurisms

Environment and Planning D Society and Space, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 42(2), P. 254 - 274

Published: Feb. 16, 2024

Forests are zones of multiple temporalities. They keep time and constituted through time-keeping practices. Digital technologies environmental monitoring management increasingly organise forest This article considers how emerging techno-temporalities measure, pace, transform worlds while reproducing reconfiguring longer durations colonial capitalist technologies. We draw together scholarship on political forests, digital media temporalities, anti-colonial Indigenous thinking to analyse the politics that materialise shape what pasts, presents, futures senseable possible. In particular, we trace socio-technical production ‘real-time’ as a temporal register experiencing, knowing, governing environments. Analysing real-time deforestation alert system in Amazon, consider these temporalities valorise immediate, continuous data can be mobilised for understanding protecting simultaneously glossing over durational framings forests rely dispossession, extraction, enclosure. The second half turns futurisms artistic socio-political uses platforms rework By analysing sometimes contradictory suggest practices interventions challenge dominant timelines their inequities pluralistic redistributive configurations temporality, land, sovereignty.

Language: Английский

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Digitalizing forest landscape restoration: a social and political analysis of emerging technological practices

Environmental Politics, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 32(3), P. 485 - 510

Published: July 20, 2022

Digital technologies are increasingly influencing forest landscape restoration practices worldwide. We investigate how digital platforms specifically reconfigure practices, resources, and policy across scales. By analyzing platforms, we identify four drivers of technological developments, including: scientific expertise to optimize decisions; capacity building through networks; tree-planting markets operate supply chains; community participation foster co-creation. Our analysis shows developments transform by producing techniques, remaking networks, creating markets, reorganizing participation. These transformations often involve power imbalances regarding expertise, finance, politics the Global North South. However, distributed qualities systems can also create alternative ways undertaking actions. propose that for should not be understood as neutral tools but rather power-laden processes create, perpetuate, or counteract social environmental inequalities.

Language: Английский

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