Co-benefit premiums can enhance nature-based climate solutions
Jacob Hochard, James T. Erbaugh, Teevrat Garg, Nino Abashidze, Stefanie Simpson, Samuel Nonemaker, Lindsey Smart, Wai Yan Siu, Stuart Hamilton, Yuta J. Masuda
This article reviews how the study of social-ecological resilienceādefined as the capacity to persist, adapt, and transform with changeāhas evolved with and encountered the social sciences. Through a scoping review, a review of reviews, and a problematizing review, understandings of resilience are presented not as pre-given but rather as emergent through encounters, a space in which ideas and doings interact and entwine. The review identifies five encounters: ( a ) linked social-ecological dynamics encounter relational resilience; ( b ) coproduction for resilience encounters knowing with resilience; ( c ) power of resilience encounters reclaiming resilience from below; ( d ) transformation for the future encounters resilience in the unfolding present; and ( e ) scaling encounters patterning for resilience, situated in unique histories, cultures, and ecologies. These encounters highlight profound shifts in how the concept of resilience itself is changing, becoming more relational, political, and entangled with the world of which it is a part.
One Earth
GPT-4o mini: Non-social science research article
Leveraging thermal regimes and connectivity networks to promote evolutionary adaptation across coral reef seascapes
Javiera Olivares-Rojas, Liam Lachs, Mandy W.M. Cheung, Peter J. Mumby
This article summarizes the current state of the literature concerning rural economic development in the United States and offers forward-looking recommendations for researchers and practitioners. We review the history of policies and movements that have influenced the US rural economy, spanning an early emphasis on agricultural expansion to postāWorld War II industrial development to today's more encompassing community economic development programming. The article defines and profiles the current, diverse nature of rural America, detailing its places, people, industries, and assets. It also highlights emerging research topics, data challenges, and innovative methods being applied to rural development, such as systems thinking and participatory research. Learning from this history, we advocate for forward-looking approaches that integrate place-based and people-based policies that recognize the heterogeneity of rural America and strategically deepen urban-rural linkages.
Research-Driven Productivity Growth Redux: Are Ideas Really Getting Harder to Find?
Recent studies using semiendogenous growth models claim that the slowdown in US productivity growth reflects a widespread and systematic decline in productivity of researchersāin other words, ideas are getting harder to find. In this article we challenge the underlying conceptual model, the corresponding measure of research productivity, and the apparent implication that declining productivity of researchers is clearly responsible for the observed slowdown in productivity growth. We present a range of evidence including measures for the national economy, agriculture, and wheat breeding, all of which negates the notion that research productivity is fading fast.
npj Urban Sustainability
OpenAlex: Domain is not Social
Sciences
Cities that green themselves: urban environments offset vegetation loss from expansion
Zhengrong Liu, Shuqing Zhao, Shushi Peng, Wenping Yuan, Shuguang Liu