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Nature sustainability

Volume 3 Issue 8, August 2020

Volume 3 Issue 8

Mortality risks of survivors

Little is known about the long-term effects of natural disasters on mortality risks. Frankenberg and colleagues examined how mortality and individual-specific traumatic exposures during the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami affected mortality risks of survivors over the following ten years.

See Frankenberg et al.

Image: US Navy Photo / Alamy Stock Photo. Cover design: Valentina Monaco

Editorial

  • Editorial | 12 August 2020

    Constructive criticism is paramount to the advance of scholarly debates but comes with challenges.

Comment & Opinion

  • Comment | 22 June 2020

    The current definition of desertification excludes hyper-arid zones given their lack of economic activity. However, the 101 million people living there, ongoing land degradation associated with the use of groundwater for intensive agriculture and climate-change-induced aridity call for a revision of this definition.

    • Jaime Martínez-Valderrama
    • Emilio Guirado
    •  & Fernando T. Maestre

    Q&A | 29 June 2020

    Pushpam Kumar, Chief Environmental Economist at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), talks to Nature Sustainability about the need to focus on wealth to achieve sustainability.

    • Monica Contestabile

News & Views

  • News & Views | 04 May 2020

    In a world of increasingly integrated supply chains, disasters have impacts far from where they hit. A new paper looks at how tropical-cyclone impacts propagate across cities, showing that indirect impacts become large for the most-destructive storms.

    • Stephane Hallegatte

Reviews

  • Perspective | 04 May 2020

    Policies and discussion regarding sustainable goals has overlooked inland fisheries despite its importance for both food security and livelihoods. This Perspective looks at synergies between SDGs in regards to this critical food and economic service.

    • Abigail J. Lynch
    • Vittoria Elliott
    •  & Gretchen L. Stokes

    Review Article | 04 May 2020

    The ocean genome is the genetic material present in marine biodiversity. While technological advances are enabling exploration, conservation and innovation of this resource, the associated capacities are inequitably distributed among countries.

    • R. Blasiak
    • R. Wynberg
    •  & C. C. C. Wabnitz

Research

  • Article | 04 May 2020

    Transforming the energy system to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2100 is vital to fight climate change. This target can be achieved in California, USA, by 2050—alongside air quality benefits especially in disadvantaged communities—by using bioenergy with carbon capture and sequestration.

    • Tianyang Wang
    • Zhe Jiang
    •  & Yifang Zhu

    Article | 04 May 2020

    Hazards affect more than the area originally hit. This study finds cities distant from cyclones may still be vulnerable to secondary impacts through their trade networks.

    • Chris Shughrue
    • BT Werner
    •  & Karen C. Seto

    Article | 11 May 2020

    The long-term impacts on mortality risks of exposure to disasters have not been analysed. Using data from Indonesia collected before and after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, this study examines the effects of the disaster on mortality risks of survivors over the subsequent ten years.

    • Elizabeth Frankenberg
    • Cecep Sumantri
    •  & Duncan Thomas

    Article | 18 May 2020

    A framed common-pool resource game analysis in the Brazilian Amazon shows that participatory initiatives are associated with cooperative behaviour and intrinsic motivations for tree conservation.

    • Charles Palmer
    • Grace Iara Souza
    •  & Anthony Hall

    Article | 11 May 2020

    While many regions are striving to reduce water consumption, this Article examines the side effects and downstream impacts on wastewater quality for human and ecosystem health.

    • Kurt Schwabe
    • Mehdi Nemati
    •  & David Jassby

    Article | 11 May 2020

    Photovoltaic panel conversion generates heat that reduces the energy efficiency and lifetime of the panel. A photovoltaic panel cooling strategy by a sorption-based atmospheric water harvester is shown to improve the productivity of electricity generation with important sustainability advantages.

    • Renyuan Li
    • Yusuf Shi
    •  & Peng Wang

    Analysis | 11 May 2020

    While political interference with science is not new, this analysis of Australia’s largest coal mine being approved despite and over the objections of scientific managers provides a thorough case study in how environmental considerations are being ignored.

    • M. J. Currell
    • D. J. Irvine
    •  & C. McGrath

    Analysis | 11 May 2020

    An analysis reveals only 17 out of 65 financiers require biodiversity impact mitigation measures, and overall the initiative falls short of international best practices

    • Divya Narain
    • Martine Maron
    •  & Alex Mark Lechner

    Analysis | 04 May 2020

    Carbon capture and storage (CCS) can reduce emissions from coal-fired power plants (CFPPs) but it needs additional power that increases water use for plant cooling. This study models the impacts of retrofitting CFPPs with CCS on water resources globally and finds areas at risk of water scarcity.

    • Lorenzo Rosa
    • Jeffrey A. Reimer
    •  & Paolo D’Odorico

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