Featured paper
Bugnot, A.B., Hose, G.C., Walsh, C.J., Floerl, O., French, K., Dafforn, K.A., Hanford, J., Lowe, E.C. and Hahs, A.K. (2019). Urban impacts across realms: Making the case for inter-realm monitoring and management. Science of the Total Environment, 648, 711–719.
An output from a workshop at the University of New South Wales aiming to further collaboration between ecologists working in terrestrial, freshwater and marine realms. In this paper, we discuss that the terrestrial realm is most commonly a ‘net-donor’ of impacts, as most human activities occur on land and the resulting impacts are transferred to aquatic and atmospheric realms (although impacts in the reverse direction also occur). We conclude that, to achieve effective management strategies, greater collaboration is needed between scientists and managers focussing on different realms and regions and we present suggestions for approaches to achieve this.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.08.134
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Compromising normal human activities
An insightful perspective from Jonathon Green on the ABC website today on the ongoing dismal state of Australian politics. He concludes: “As the IPCC says, climate change, unchecked, will destroy the economy we recognise. Isn’t that what we can read beneath its anodyne, phlegmatic phrasing: “compromising normal human activities”? The…
Attention: Sen. Brandis
Another pertinent contribution from xkcd to the dismal state of Australian politics. As Mr Monroe notes in his footnote for this cartoon “…someone once said that defending a position by citing free speech is sort of the ultimate concession; you’re saying that the most compelling thing you can say for…
A larger-scale digression
The prime minister of Australia believes we have quite enough National Parks. Politicians around the world see economic growth as their primary goal, and (while economic growth is not necessarily linked to human population growth) in Australia, the idea of aiming to limit human population growth is virtually a taboo…
Environmental Benefit Calculator resurrected
I posted a new beta version of the Environmental Benefit Calculator on urbanstreams.net today. The R package ‘Shiny’ has made the rewrite remarkably easy (and yet it has taken me forever). I still need to ‘prettify’ the page, but it seems to be mostly functional – doing all of the…
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