Nature sustainability – July 2020
Volume 3 Issue 7, July 2020
Converging carbon footprints
Household carbon footprints reflect resource use and income level. Mi and colleagues find footprints for Chinese households generally converge with economic growth but convergence is highest in wealthy coastal regions.
See Mi et al.
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Editorial
Editorial | 15 July 2020
A needed balance
Governments need to act now to halt rising inequalities or they will fail to deliver on the promise of a better future for all.
Correspondence
- Antoni Margalida
- & José A. Donázar
Correspondence | 27 April 2020
Fake news and vultures
Comment & Opinion
- Carla Guerriero
- Andy Haines
- & Marco Pagano
Comment | 08 June 2020
Health and sustainability in post-pandemic economic policies
Governments are deciding on measures to help economies recover from the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, but, as in previous crises, a narrow focus on fighting the recession could have adverse effects on the environment and health. We suggest that health and sustainability should be at the heart of the economic response.
Collection:
News & Views
- Nico Keilman
News & Views | 13 April 2020
Modelling education and climate change
Various scenarios for greenhouse gas emissions indicate possible futures for climate change. Are they probable?
Reviews
- Holly Jean Buck
- Laura Jane Martin
- & Shuchi Talati
- Catarina Frazão Santos
- Tundi Agardy
- & Rui Rosa
Perspective | 23 March 2020
Evaluating the efficacy and equity of environmental stopgap measures
Environmental policy often delays addressing problems. This Perspective defines such ‘stopgap measures’, considers examples, and applies to solar geoengineering a new framework for assessing stopgaps.
Review Article | 04 May 2020
Integrating climate change in ocean planning
A review of marine spatial planning literature identifies links with climate change and gaps in the practical integration of both concepts.
Research
- Andrew B. Martinez
- R. Pielke Jr
- D. Collins
- & J. Weinkle
- Brian C. O’Neill
- Leiwen Jiang
- & Xiaolin Ren
- Zhifu Mi
- Jiali Zheng
- & Yi-Ming Wei
- Maryia Markhvida
- Brian Walsh
- & Jack Baker
- Lu Liu
- Evan Lopez
- & Qilin Li
- Jitendra N. Tiwari
- Ngoc Kim Dang
- & Kwang S. Kim
- Xiaoping Liu
- Yinghuai Huang
- & Zhenzhong Zeng
Matters Arising | 08 June 2020
Improving normalized hurricane damages
Matters Arising | 08 June 2020
Reply to: Improving normalized hurricane damages
Article | 13 April 2020
The effect of education on determinants of climate change risks
The effect of education on climate change risks is integral to the relation between climate and development, but difficult to quantify. This article finds potential increases in emissions as well as HDI values due to improved educational attainment in developing countries.
Article | 30 March 2020
Economic development and converging household carbon footprints in China
Carbon use often tracks economic development. This study finds the top 5% of Chinese households by income have 17% of the nation’s carbon ‘footprint’ in 2012 but that such inequality declined with China’s economic growth.
Article | 30 March 2020
Quantification of disaster impacts through household well-being losses
Natural disaster risk assessments neglect impacts on households’ well-being. A model to quantify disaster impacts more equitably shows that, in a hypothetical earthquake in the San Francisco Bay Area, poorer households suffer 19% of the asset losses but 41% of the well-being losses.
Article | 27 April 2020
The importance of system configuration for distributed direct potable water reuse
Water and wastewater infrastructure worldwide faces unprecedented challenges. A new model can assess the environmental and economic implications of a hybrid water supply system that provides a centralized surface water supply with distributed direct potable reuse of municipal wastewater.
Article | 06 April 2020
Multi-heteroatom-doped carbon from waste-yeast biomass for sustained water splitting
Cleaner hydrogen production can help energy sustainability. The use of yeast biomass-derived materials to develop efficient, eco-friendly and economical catalysts—compared with industrially adopted catalysts—is shown to improve hydrogen production as a strategy towards a sustainable energy system.
Analysis | 04 May 2020
High-spatiotemporal-resolution mapping of global urban change from 1985 to 2015
The world keeps urbanizing. This study finds that since 1985 global urban lands have expanded four times faster than previously recognized and faster than population is growing.
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