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Volume 4 Issue 11, November 2021

Volume 4 Issue 11

Human activity and landslide risk in Africa

Population pressure and land-use change affect landslide risk. Depicker and colleagues analyse the impact of population dynamics, conflicts and deforestation on landslide risk in the Kivu Rift region (pictured), Eastern Africa.

See Depickeret al.

Image: Dr. Olivier Dewitte, Royal Museum for Central Africa. Cover Design: Valentina Monaco.

Editorial

Editorial | 16 November 2021

In the coming months, Nature Sustainability will be publishing a series of World Views from diverse scholars to stimulate further thinking and dialogue within the community.

Comment & Opinion

Q&A | 11 October 2021

Dr Shailja Vaidya Gupta is Senior Adviser at the Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India. She tells Nature Sustainability about the challenges of climate negotiations from her country’s perspective, views are her own.

  • Aiora Zabala

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Research Highlights

Research Highlight | 05 August 2021

  • Stephanie M. Olen

Research Highlight | 07 October 2021

  • Stephanie M. Olen

News & Views

News & Views | 04 October 2021

Sustainability and resilience are priorities in agriculture. A new analysis of four experiments with a combined 46 years of data shows that intercropping — growing multiple crops together — can increase yields, yield stability and soil fertility.

  • Matthew R. Ryan

News & Views | 02 September 2021

Wise management of ecosystem services merits considering their changes over time, but current practices are based on static maps. A new study highlights the importance of studying forest ecosystem service dynamics.

  • María R. Felipe-Lucia

News & Views | 19 August 2021

Changing social and biophysical dynamics, as well as data limitations, in the Kivu Rift in Eastern Africa make it difficult to plan for landslide risk. A study of historical remote sensing data identifies in detail the factors impacting the evolution of this risk.

  • Anthony Vodacek

News & Views | 13 September 2021

Tree planting is often proposed as part of the solution to climate change. A new study demonstrates why it is critical to see this as a social science issue, not just an ecological one.

  • Rose Pritchard

Reviews

Perspective | 16 August 2021

Biodiversity underpins the health and strength of ecosystems, but the complexity of those systems can be overwhelming for policymakers. This Perspective proposes a new framework for measuring biodiversity with an eye towards greater conservation.

  • C. A. Soto-Navarro
  • M. Harfoot
  • N. D. Burgess

Research

Article | 04 October 2021

Growing demand for food is confronting constraints to its sustainable production. This study finds that intercropping increases grain yields and their stability and that yield benefits increase over time.

  • Xiao-Fei Li
  • Zhi-Gang Wang
  • Long Li

Article | 02 September 2021

Static maps are key tools for assessing ecosystem services. This study shows that hotspots of three boreal-forest services—wood production, bilberry production and topsoil carbon storage—can vary widely over just ten years, suggesting the value of dynamic tools to manage dynamic landscapes.

  • Tord Snäll
  • María Triviño
  • Jon Moen

Article | 30 September 2021

Proper management to mitigate and avoid algal blooms in drinking water is dependent on expertise. This study surveyed water managers across the United States to assess how knowledge is formed and disseminated, or how it is not.

  • Galen Treuer
  • Christine Kirchhoff
  • Francesca McGrath

Article | 19 August 2021

A mapping study covering over 50 years finds that landslide risk is much higher in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, due to more recent deforestation and more people living in more susceptible areas, than in similar landscapes in neighbouring countries.

  • Arthur Depicker
  • Liesbet Jacobs
  • Gerard Govers

Article | 12 August 2021

Despite concern among racially minoritized groups about environmental impacts within their communities, students of colour remain underrepresented in environmental science degree programmes in the United States and Europe. This study examines the experiences of students of colour to illuminate pathways to racial equity in the pursuit of sustainability.

  • Tania M. Schusler
  • Charlie B. Espedido
  • V. Bala Chaudhary

Analysis | 05 August 2021

Co-production includes diverse aims, terminologies and practices. This study explores such diversity by mapping differences in how 32 initiatives from 6 continents co-produce diverse outcomes for the sustainable development of ecosystems at local to global scales.

  • Josephine M. Chambers
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  • Tomas Pickering

Analysis | 13 September 2021

Large-scale tree planting programmes have been implemented or planned for areas around the world suffering from deforestation, but this study presents evidence that such efforts may not necessarily deliver the desired environmental and economic outcomes.

  • Eric A. Coleman
  • Bill Schultz
  • Forrest Fleischman

Analysis | 23 September 2021

Carbon pricing can alter income distribution. With a focus on Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Philippines, Thailand, Turkey and Vietnam, this study compares four types of carbon pricing schemes and finds substantial variation in distributional effects across policy designs and countries.

  • Jan C. Steckel
  • Ira I. Dorband
  • Sebastian Renner

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