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Sustainability Institute
Recent research
- Climate & EnvironmentOpen access
Abstract Urban green spaces are crucial for city resilience, especially in the Mediterranean Basin, where climate change poses major challenges to urban sustainability. This region faces increased environmental stress from climate change, marked by rising temperatures and frequen...
- Climate & EnvironmentOpen access
Abstract. Ground-based and satellite atmospheric observations are essential for reducing uncertainties in methane (CH4) emissions by atmospheric inversion, particularly in data-sparse regions such as Africa. However, adding new observation sites does not yield linear improvements...
- Climate & EnvironmentOpen access
The UK energy transition is projected to require billions of pounds of investment, not only in renewable supply, but also in demand-side technologies and system management. While this investment is expected to come from large scale commercial finance, both citizen finance and sma...
- BiologyOpen access
Abstract. Island ecosystems often harbour unique and vulnerable species, yet many remain poorly documented. In the Azores archipelago, two extant bat species are known to occur: the endemic Nyctalus azoreum and the Macaronesian endemic Pipistrellus maderensis. On Flores Island, p...
- Climate & EnvironmentOpen access
Abstract The world’s forests, and the biodiversity they contain, provide multiple cultural ecosystem services that are essential to people’s well-being. However, interactions between people and forests evolve alongside broader societal and environmental change, raising questions...
- Climate & EnvironmentOpen access
Current research challenges in sustainability science require us to consider nonlinear changes—shifts that do not happen gradually but can be sudden and difficult to predict. Central questions are therefore how we can prevent harmful shifts, promote desirable ones, and better ant...
- Climate & EnvironmentOpen access
SurfaceProton ReservoirsConstrain Alkalinity Exportfrom Enhanced Weathering
Abstract The addition of silicate and carbonate materials to soils (enhanced weathering) is a proposed carbon dioxide removal (CDR) strategy with potential agronomic co-benefits, especially for soil pH management. However, alkalinity from mineral dissolution interacts with the su...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
The UK Clean Air Act at 70: An interdisciplinary analysis of historical air quality change
Abstract 2026 marks the 70th anniversary of the first UK Clean Air Act, a pivotal moment for air quality in modern British history. Previous narratives on this legislation have largely centred on pollution in London and monodisciplinary perspectives. This article integrates histo...
- Climate & EnvironmentOpen access
ABSTRACT Across species' geographic ranges, local populations may enlist behavioral, physiological, and morphological plasticity together to cope with stress from changing thermal conditions. But if local populations cannot sufficiently adjust their phenotype, then they may fail...
- Climate & EnvironmentOpen access
<ns5:p>The TRIAD framework is a widely used approach to assess site-specific ecological risk by integrating three Lines of Evidence (LoE): chemical, ecotoxicological, and ecological. As environmental contamination grows increasingly complex, the framework requires modernization i...
- Biology
Abstract BACKGROUND Pine wilt disease, caused by Bursaphelenchus xylophilus , threatens pine forests worldwide, yet sustainable biological control strategies remain limited. We evaluated the effects of pre‐emptive inoculation with Esteya vermicola and E. floridanum on nematode re...
- Society & Economics
Semi-structured interviews were used to evaluate the phenomenon of experiencing God by self-identifying Christians through social interactions during leisure or employment at two U.S. National Parks. Collectively, 36 participants were recruited from three sources and include: 1)...