The social shortfall and ecological overshoot of nations

Fanning, Andrew L.; O'Neill, Daniel W; Hickel, Jason; Roux, Nicolas Le

doi:10.1038/s41893-021-00799-z

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“…On the other hand, analytic approaches to assessing the impacts of policy decisions on nature are also noteworthy, especially since they had been successfully applied as decision-making tools for introducing health into policies. For example, tools like the Health Impact Assessment, the Environmental Benefits Mapping and Analysis Program – Community Edition, the “doughnut model”, and others will continue playing an important role in making better transport planning, quantifying the human health impacts of air quality, conducting global cross-national analysis, and so on ( Sacks et al, 2018 ; Khomenko et al, 2020 ; Fanning et al, 2022 ).…”

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Mapping of Research in the Field of Forest Therapy-Related Issues: A Bibliometric Analysis for 2007–2021

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Exposure to forest environments promotes human health. The number of relevant studies in this area has increased rapidly. However, an overall review of relevant analyses from the perspectives of bibliometrics and visualization is lacking. A scientometric analysis of 2,545 publications from 2007 to 2021 via the Web of Science database was conducted to identify the knowledge structure and frontiers objectively. The publications were subsequently analyzed in terms of the distribution of journals and countries, citation bursts, major subject areas, and evolutionary stages. The findings showed that the knowledge foundation of forest therapy was multidisciplinary with most published in the fields of environmental sciences and ecology but lacking input from social disciplines. The research hotspots evolved from the early focus on individual benefits obtained from nature to increasing attention on human well-being at the social-ecological scale. More rigorous experiments with strict randomized controlled trials and blinding are needed to accommodate the trend of forest therapy toward non-pharmacological treatments. According to Shneider’s four-stage theory, forest therapy research is in the third stage of the scientific research process. More future studies utilizing novel technologies and decision-making frameworks to solve practical issues are needed for introducing health into policies and promoting human well-being.

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Mapping of Research in the Field of Forest Therapy-Related Issues: A Bibliometric Analysis for 2007–2021

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“…Our analysis has demonstrated that forest change may be the result of a number of dynamics within the forest, enabled by diverging proximate and underlying drivers associated to resource use. Ending deforestation today, a major challenge in many tropical countries in the Global South (Harris et al, 2021 ; Le Noë et al, 2021a ), will need to avoid falling into patterns of unsustainable resource use characteristic of today’s industrialized countries (Fanning et al, 2021 ; O’Neill et al, 2018 ). Specifically, our findings highlight two major sustainability challenges connected to present and future forest conservation.…”

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Forest Transitions in the United States, France and Austria: dynamics of forest change and their socio- metabolic drivers

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Magerl

Matej

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Journal of Land Use Science

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Understanding the drivers of forest transitions is relevant to inform effective forest conservation. We investigate pathways of forest transitions in the United States (1920–2010), France (1850–2010), and Austria (1830–2010). By combining evidence from forest inventories with the forest model CRAFT, we first quantify how change in forest area ( ΔA ), maximum biomass density ( ΔBd max ), and actual biomass as fraction of maximum biomass ( ΔF max ) shaped forest dynamics. Second, to investigate the connections between forest change and societal resource use, or social metabolism, we quantify the importance of selected proximate and underlying socio-metabolic drivers. We find that agricultural intensification and reduced forest grazing correlated most with positive ΔA and ΔBd max . By contrast, change in biomass imports or harvest did not explain forest change. Our findings highlight the importance of forest growth conditions in explaining long-term forest dynamics, and demonstrate the distinct ways in which resource use drove forest change.

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“…1 , 2 The current economic system is a major driver of climate change and biodiversity loss, both of which pose substantial threats to human health. 3 , 4 , 5 At this crucial time for humanity, when no country is meeting the basic needs of its residents at a globally sustainable level of resource use, 6 and no country is on track to do so, 7 we highlight the relevance of pluralist economic approaches, in particular ecological economics, to public and planetary health.…”

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confidence: 94%