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July 2021 - July 2024
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Context
Human demands for ecosystem services (ES) have tremendously changed the landscape and led to degradation of ecosystems and associated services. The resolving of current eco-environmental problems calls for better understanding of the spatially-explicit ES interactions to guide targeted land-use policy-making.
Objectives
We propose a framewo...
The United Nations has adopted 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with 169 targets. International trade has substantial influences on global sustainability and human well-being. However, little is known about the impacts of international trade on progress towards achieving the SDG targets. Here we show that international trade positively affec...
The growing number, size, and frequency of coastal hypoxia increasingly threaten marine ecosystem health and essential ecosystem services for human well-being. It is therefore urgent to use continuous and consistent observation and develop advanced tools to characterize and track the spatial and temporal change of coastal hypoxia. Satellite imagery...
The global interest in moving towards a sustainable future has grown exponentially at all levels. The United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), adopted by world leaders in 2015, provide an integrated framework to track progress toward sustainability (UN, 2019). Textual data, such as public statements posted on websites, organization rep...
The world has become increasingly metacoupled through flows of materials, energy, people, capital, and information within and across systems. Transboundary flows, connecting adjacent and distant systems, are deemed the most critical indicators for measuring the intensity of interactions among coupled human-natural systems. To advance metacoupling f...
The transboundary impacts of regional war on global food trade remain underexplored, particularly regarding disruptions to production and trade networks. Here we address this gap by developing a rapid assessment framework that integrates remote sensing, policy monitoring, and network analysis to evaluate the effects of the Russia-Ukraine war on glo...
The bay area contains terrestrial forests and coastal mangroves with vital ecosystem functions, which provide essential ecosystem services such as carbon sequestration and biodiversity maintenance. Meanwhile, the bay area usually hosts intensive socioeconomic activities. High-intensity anthropogenic activities in the bay area have threatened the te...
Human economic activities drive the production and consumption of goods and services, contribute to the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, the extent of economic growth’s influence on the SDGs remains unclear. To fill this knowledge gap, here, we quantified the environmental effects of economic activiti...
Large‐scale photovoltaic (PV) plants are growing rapidly in drylands because of the rich solar radiation and vast unutilized land. The transformation of landscapes in dryland has threatened local fragile vegetation. Existing studies have investigated the issue by field observations and satellite data, yet the spatial differences in vegetation chang...
Green finance (GF) is recognized as a key driver of sustainable development. While existing studies have extensively discussed the relationship between GF and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), few have explored the coupling coordination relationship between GF and SDGs. In this paper, we use data from thirty Chinese provinces (municipalitie...
seesus is an open-source Python package that evaluates whether a textual expression aligns with the concept of sustainability as defined by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It labels a statement with the 17 SDGs as well as 169 specific targets and categorizes the statement into social, environmental, or economic sustainabili...
Accelerating efforts for the Sustainable Development Goals requires understanding their synergies and trade-offs at the national and sub-national levels, which will help identify the key hurdles and opportunities to prioritize them in an indivisible manner for a country. Here, we present the importance of the 17 goals through synergy and trade-off...
Terrestrial ecosystems can exhibit various behaviors in response to climate change and human activities. Nonlinear and abrupt shifts in ecosystems are particularly important as they indicate substantial modifications in ecosystem structure and function, posing a threat to the provision of ecosystem services. Here we distinguish between linear, curv...
Recent concurrent processes of vegetation greening and reduced resilience (the capacity to recover from disturbances) worldwide have brought many uncertainties into sustainable ecosystems in the future. However, little is known about the conditions and extent to which greening affects resilience changes. Here we assess both vegetation dynamics and...
Unraveling the complexity of the 17 interacting sustainable development goals (SDGs) is crucial for their achievement. Empirically revealing the dimensions of the SDGs helps generalize the dominant features of SDGs and better understand their drivers. Here, using a database of 166 countries’ progress toward achieving each individual SDG, we found t...
1. The social–ecological trap is an emerging concept that describes situations in which self- reinforcing social and ecological feedbacks maintain or push a social–ecological system towards an undesirable state and threaten the sustainability of human societies. Understanding a system's feedback loops and identifying the leading factors of such tra...
Rescuing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) from failing requires understanding their interactions networks, i.e., synergies and trade-offs, at national and especially sub-national levels, where SDGs were delivered. This understanding will help itendifying the key hurdles and opportunities to prioritize the 17 SDGs in a indivisible manner for a c...
Global drylands are experiencing booming development of centralized photovoltaics (PV), which aims to address the dual challenges posed by climate change and energy transformation. In dryland areas with large‐scale deployment of solar PV infrastructure, vegetation was reported to experience drastic changes. However, the long‐term dynamic changes an...
As total nitrogen (TN) and total phosphorus (TP) pollution is the main source of water pollution in the Huaihe River watershed in China, it is important to understand how TN and TP pollution affect the relationship between water supply and demand. Quantifying their impacts and describing the spatiotemporal distribution of this relationships are nec...
The United Nations (UN) has adopted the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), aiming to provide human welfare and conserve the planet, now and into the future. Two of the SDGs directly address biodiversity conservation and sustainable development – SDG 14 (life below water) and SDG 15 (life on land). Although the UN has issued annual reports on...
Increasing population size and economic dependence on the coastal zone, coupled with the growing need for residential, agricultural, industrial, commercial and green space infrastructure, are key drivers of land reclamation. Until now, there has been no comprehensive assessment of the global distribution of land use on reclaimed space at the coast....
The expansion of construction land due to urbanization is the most rapid land use change in contemporary human history and has always occupied high-quality cropland, posing a severe threat to cropland and food security, it's essential to clarify the impact of urbanization on cropland and food security. This study proposed a research framework based...
Solar energy is considered one of the key solutions to the growing demand for energy and to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Thanks to the relatively low cost of land use for solar energy and high power generation potential, a large number of photovoltaic (PV) power stations have been established in desert areas around the world. Despite the cont...
Complex sustainability issues in the Anthropocene, with rapid globalization and global environmental changes, are increasingly interlinked between not only nearby systems, but also distant systems. Tobler's first law of geography (TFL) states “near things are more related than distant things.” Evidence suggests that TFL is not infallible for sustai...
The ecosystem service (ES) cascade framework describes the process by which benefits from ecosystems are delivered to human society. In the recent decade, there has been a growing body of studies on ES mapping and assessment at multiple cascade levels. However, the terms and concepts used for characterizing ES cascade components differ widely acros...
In an increasingly interconnected world, supply and demand are largely spatially segregated while reconnected through distant commodity trade and ecosystem service flows. Many of these transboundary flows can generate both positive and negative impacts and lead to trade-offs in achieving different sustainability goals. However, these impacts are la...
The transformational potential of the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) lies in effective efforts to reconcile the conflicts and maximize the synergies among the interrelated SDGs. Previous research on the interrelationships among SDGs often focused on depicting the degree to which different goals reinforce or ham...
Many countries have set ambitious targets to achieve zero-carbon electricity systems by the Mid-21st Century. In their pathways, the renewable mix and the energy storage mix have been considered as two important facets. Current literature mostly focuses on how the storage mix is affected by the renewable mix, but few studied the inverse impact and...
Geography has historically enjoyed strong interactions with other disciplines in addressing major challenges related to social, economic, and environmental issues and in contributing overall to sustainability. More especially in the Anthropocene, issues such as climate change, biodiversity loss, terrorism, poverty, refugees, environmental hazards,...
The needs and capacities to achieve the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) differ across regions and nations, but little research has been done to investigate their similarities and differences. Here, we proposed using SDG bundles (i.e. groups of regions with similar performances on all individual SDGs) to classify regions when assessing SDG p...
Rapid urban expansion has profound impacts on global biodiversity through habitat conversion, degradation, fragmentation, and species extinction. However, how future urban expansion will affect global biodiversity needs to be better understood. We contribute to filling this knowledge gap by combining spatially explicit projections of urban expansio...
Many leading countries are boosting renewables, especially solar energy, as a major way to mitigate future energy crises and climate change. Particularly, in China, the number and scale of photovoltaic (PV) power stations have grown unprecedentedly in the last decade. There is an urgent need to monitor the PV power development in order to accuratel...
Understanding the complex interactions among the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is key to achieving all of the SDGs and ‘leaving no one behind’. However, research about dynamic changes of SDG interactions is limited, and how they change as sustainable development progresses remains elusive. Here, we used a correlational network approach and a...
Renewable energy is crucial to address climate change and achieve carbon neutrality. Within the existing technologies, photovoltaics is one of the most promising renewable energies. However, large-scale development of photovoltaics always needs a large amount of space, competing for land with other usages. Installing photovoltaics on water surfaces...
Introduction Rapid increases in the trade of global red and processed meat impede international efforts toward sustainable diets by increasing meat consumption. However, little research has examined cross-country variations in diet-related non-communicable diseases (NCDs) because of meat trade. We aimed to examine the impact of red and processed me...
ContextHuman beings face a growing supply–demand risk in ecosystem services (SDRES) due to anthropogenic environmental change and human activity. It is urgent to construct an integrated framework that can identify where and the extent to which SDRES threatens human wellbeing.Objectives
This study attempts to construct a framework to characterize SD...
The booming development of large-scale infrastructure projects (LSIPs) facilitated by China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has drawn global concern regarding the scale, pace, and potential impact. Studies have largely focused on the geopolitical impact (i.e., politics and international relations) but less is known about social and environmental i...
A Correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03479-2.
Irrigated agriculture has important implications for achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. However, there is a lack of systematic and quantitative analyses of its impacts on food–energy–water–CO2 nexus. Here we studied impacts of irrigated agriculture on food–energy–water–CO2 nexus across food sending systems (the North China...
Climate change can have critical impacts on ecosystem services (ESs) and their inter-relationships, especially for water-related services. However, there has been little work done on characterizing the current and future changes in these services and their inter-relationships under a changing climate. Based on the revised universal soil loss equati...
Spatial mismatch often occurs between high-supply and high-demand regions of ecosystem services (ES), as human dwellings and workplaces are usually distant from natural ecosystems. In this regard, studies have increasingly focused on ecosystem service flows (ESF) from ecosystems to humans. However, current mapping methods for ESF are rarely able to...
To address global challenges1–4, 193 countries have committed to the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)5. Quantifying progress towards achieving the SDGs is essential to track global efforts towards sustainable development and guide policy development and implementation. However, systematic methods for assessing spatio-temporal...
Water provision (WP) is an important service of the terrestrial ecosystem, which contributes to water availability for consumptive use and in situ water supply, sustains the production or flows of multiple ecosystem services (ES). Spatially explicit mapping of WP is critical for incorporating the ES concept into the decision-making processes of lan...
Across the globe, many regions import virtual resources to support their development. Although many researchers have studied transfers of a single virtual resource, interactions across two types of virtual resource transfer networks-energy and water, for example-have rarely been explored simultaneously. To address these knowledge gaps, we construct...
In an increasingly interconnected world, human-environment interactions involving flows of people, organisms, goods, information, and energy are expanding in magnitude and extent, often over long distances. As a universal paradigm for examining these interactions, the telecoupling framework (published in 2013) has been broadly implemented across th...
摘要:
生态系统服务热冷点的识别及其空间格局特征研究对生态保护规划有着重要的意义。目前有关生态系统服务热冷点的识别多采用直接分类法，缺乏对空间关系特征的综合研究。以延河流域为例，综合集成多源数据来模拟4种生态系统服务（土壤保持、植被碳固定、产水、洪水调节）的热点与冷点时空格局变化特征。主要结论为：①2001-2012年，延河流域土壤保持服务在流域下游高于上游，中游地区增长较快。植被碳固定服务和洪水调节服务在流域南部地区较强，且在中下游呈上升趋势。产水服务呈现"南北低、中间高"的分布格局，在流域上游呈下降趋势，在中下游呈上升趋势。②生态系统服务热点主要分布在延河中下游南部地区，冷点主要分布在延河上游地区。延河中下游南部地区4种生态系统服务均较强。生态系统服务保护效率最高的是延河上游。③延河流域...
The world is connected through multiple flows of material, but a comprehensive assessment of their temporal dynamics and interactions is rare. To address this knowledge gap, we assessed the evolution and interactions of global flows of virtual water, energy, land, CO2, nitrogen as well as financial capital embodied in international trade from 1995...
Telecoupled flows of people, organisms, goods, information, and energy are expanding across the globe. Causes are integral components of the telecoupling framework, yet the rigor with which they have been identified and evaluated to date is unknown. We address this knowledge gap by systematically reviewing causal attribution in the telecoupling lit...
Extreme rainstorm and the subsequent flood increasingly threaten the security of human society and ecological environment with aggravation of global climate change and anthropogenic activity in recent years. Therefore, the research on flood mitigation service (FMS) of ecosystem should be paid more attention to mitigate the risk. In this paper, we a...
The research on the interactions among multiple ecosystem services (ES) is a hotspot. Most of the previous studies focused on the qualitative description of ES interactions, however, there have been relatively few studies on spatially explicit and quantitative assessment of ES interactions. In this paper, we mapped the ecosystem service of soil con...
The aim of this study is to understand the change rules and tendencies of extreme climate events of Hanjiang River Basin located in hot and humid mountain region and to provide a scientific basis for the reduction of meteorological disasters prevention.Based on daily data for temperature and precipitation from China meteorological data service shar...
Based on the seismic data (Mw≥6.9) in Peru, the signal intensity of the earthquakes tendency is analyzed and judged by the methods of commensurability information according to the theory of commensurability. The butterfly structure diagram, commensurability structure system and epicenter migration approach are employed to prove the reliability of t...
Spatial-explicitly mapping of the hotspots and coldspots is a vital link in the priority setting for ecosystem services (ES) conservation. However, few research identified and tested the compactness and efficiency of their ES hotspots and coldspots, which may weaken the effectiveness of ecological conservation. In this study, based on the RUSLE mod...
The trend judgment theory of major natural disaster could be a new starting point to improve the scientific system of disaster forecast,prediction,assessment,and propelled the innovation of risk management research. This article systematically introduced the previous development of research on the spatiotemporal symmetry of natural disaster. The th...
Natural disasters,especially earthquakes,characterized as sudden,disastrous and difficult to predict.Therefore,to have an accurate judgement on the tendency of this disasters is of great theoretical and practical significance. Based on the seismic data( M_w≥6. 8) in San Andreas Fault area,the signal intensity of strong earthquakes tendency was anal...
Based on the FAO Penman-Monteith equation and the meteorological dataset in farming-pastroral ecotone
of northern China during 1961 to 2013，ET0 and its sensitivity coefficients to meteorological factors were studied by using trend analysis and spatial interpolation methods．The results showed that the mean annual ET0 was 839-1097mm and decreased sli...
Precipitation heterogeneity has a nontrivial influence on human life. Many studies have analyzed precipitation heterogeneity but none have proposed a systematic graded index for its evaluation, and therefore, its true characteristics have not been expressed. After comparisons of various methods, the precipitation concentration degree (PCD) method w...
The values of SPEI( Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index),PCD( Precipitation-Concentration Degree),and PCP( Precipitation-Concentration Period) were calculated separately based on the metrological dataset derived from China Meteorological Data Sharing Service System. The dryness / wetness characters,precipitation heterogeneity and th...
Along with the intensifying global warming,drought disasters become increasingly serious,which has restricted the sustainable development of the economy and society. In this paper,based on the meteorological data of 30 meteorological stations from 1960 to 2014 in Haihe Basin,China,a comprehensive meteorological drought index was calculated and modi...
利用北方农牧交错带46个气象站1961-2013年气象资料，采用Penman-Monteith公式法计算该地区参考作物蒸散量(ET0)、ET0对气象因子的敏感性系数、气象因子对ET0的贡献率，并通过趋势分析、GIS空间插值方法对这些指标的时空变化进行分析。结果表明：（1）北方农牧交错带年ET0平均值在839～1097mm，近53a来以0.21mma-1的速率减小。（2）空间分布上，ET0总体呈现“一高二低”的分布格局：陕北高原为高值区，大兴安岭北部高纬地区、青东农区及陇中片区为两大低值中心区。且陕北高原、陇中及青东农区61%的站点ET0平均以0.85mma-1（P＜0.05）的趋势递增，而吉林西部、科尔沁沙地、辽西地区则呈明显减小趋势。（3）气象因子对ET0的贡献受ET0对气象因子的敏感...
Ecosystem services (ES) are the important links between natural ecosystems and human well-being, which draw the attention from many countries and organizations around the world. Traditionally conservationists have focused on conserving biodiversity, mainly through habitat protection, evaluation of endemic or endangered species distribution, and ass...
Based on the surface temperature data of the 86 stations in East China during 1961 to 2013, the author analyzed the variation of accumulated temperature steadily above 10℃ and discussed the characteristics of climatic zones during 1961 to 2013 by using trend analysis, Kriging spatial interpolation method, Mann-kendall mutation test and Pearson corr...
Abstract: As agricultural land circulation was becoming more frequent, requirements for land circulation information as well as the supervision and approval procedure of government departments were also becoming high. Efficient and smooth circulation is a crucial factor in improving the efficiency of agricultural land use and household income. To a...
