Design of a Transactional Environmental Support System

Kenward, Robert E.; Casey, N; Walls, Sean S.; Dick, Jan; Smith, R. I.; Turner, Sarah L.; Watt, Allan D.; Papathanasiou, Jason; Andreopoulou, Zacharoula; Arampatzis, Stratos; Papadopoulou, Olympia; Bethlenfalvy, G. von; Carvalho, Carolina; Morgado, Rui; Sharp, Robin; Tederko, Zenon; Szemethy, László; Galló, Judit; Székely, Dóra; Piirimäe, Kristjan; Ivask, Mari; Aruvee, Eve; Navodaru, I.; Avcioglu, Basak; Gem, Engin; Ewald, Julie A.; Sotherton, N. W.; Newton, Adrian C.; Hodder, Kathy H.

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“…Other initiatives are facilitated at regional level, focusing on smallscale social innovations (e.g. transactional environmental support system see Kenward et al 2013), food sustainability (e.g. TRANSMANGO see Hebinck et al 2018), and local and regional transitions for a sustainable, low-carbon future (PATHWAYS 1 ), including many funded at the European level through the Horizon 2020 scheme.…”

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Grounding global environmental assessments through bottom-up futures based on local practices and perspectives

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Future scenarios and pathways of potential development trajectories are powerful tools to assist with decision-making to address many sustainability challenges. Such scenarios play a major role in global environmental assessments (GEAs). Currently, however, scenarios in GEAs are mostly developed at the global level by experts and researchers, and locally imagined, bottom-up scenarios do not play a role in such assessments. In this paper, we argue that addressing future sustainability challenges for achieving more equitable development in GEAs requires a more explicit role for bottom-up inspired futures. To this end, this paper employs an innovative global assessment framework for exploring alternative futures that are grounded in local realities and existing practical actions, and that can be appropriately scaled to the required decision-making level. This framework was applied in the context of the UN’s Global Environment Outlook 6, a major example of a GEA. We developed novel methods for synthesizing insights from a wide range of local practices and perspectives into global futures. We collected information from crowdsourcing platforms, outcomes of participatory workshops in different regions of the world, and an assessment of reported regional outlooks. We analysed these according to a framework also used by an integrated assessment model in the same GEA. We conclude that bottom-up approaches to identify and assess transformative solutions that envision future pathways towards greater sustainability significantly strengthen current GEA scenario-development approaches. They provide decision makers with required actionable information based on tangible synergistic solutions that have been tested on the ground. This work has revealed that there are significant opportunities for the integration of bottom-up knowledge and insights into GEAs, to make such assessments more salient and valuable to decision makers.

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Grounding global environmental assessments through bottom-up futures based on local practices and perspectives

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Anticipation of common buzzard population patterns in the changing UK landscape

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Harmonious coexistence between humans, other animals and ecosystem services they support is a complex issue, typically impacted by landscape change, which affects animal distribution and abundance. In the last 30 years, afforestation on grasslands across Great Britain has been increasing, motivated by socio-economic reasons and climate change mitigation. Beyond expected benefits, an obvious question is what are the consequences for wider biodiversity of this scale of landscape change. Here, we explore the impact of such change on the expanding population of common buzzards Buteo buteo , a raptor with a history of human-induced setbacks. Using Resource-Area-Dependence Analysis (RADA), with which we estimated individuals' resource needs using 10-day radio-tracking sessions and the 1990s Land Cover Map of GB, and agent-based modelling, we predict that buzzards in our study area in lowland UK had fully recovered (to 2.2 ind km −2 ) by 1995. We also anticipate that the conversion of 30%, 60% and 90% of economically viable meadow into woodland would reduce buzzard abundance nonlinearly by 15%, 38% and 74%, respectively. The same approach used here could allow for cost-effective anticipation of other animals' population patterns in changing landscapes, thus helping to harmonize economy, landscape change and biodiversity.

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Design of a Transactional Environmental Support System

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Grounding global environmental assessments through bottom-up futures based on local practices and perspectives

Grounding global environmental assessments through bottom-up futures based on local practices and perspectives

Anticipation of common buzzard population patterns in the changing UK landscape

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