The Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), the largest U.S. private lands conservation initiative, incentivizes farmers to retire environmentally sensitive land to reduce erosion, improve water quality, and enhance wildlife habitat. The program is currently under consideration for reauthorization by Congress. We assessed social, economic, and ecological factors associated with CRP enrollment to evaluate program effectiveness and...

In governance and social policies for environmental planning, communities are often engaged for decision-making, aspiring to fulfill democratic ideals. However, community participation is usually limited to decision making; policy implementation seems outside the scope and mandate of the community, considered separate from the governance body. This study takes up a limit case whereby community is inherent to governance. Drawin...

This review assesses two decades (2000–2024) of Road Ecology research in the Brazilian Cerrado, a global biodiversity hotspot. We analyzed 63 studies on four major vertebrate groups to quantify trends, methodological procedures, omissions, and road mortality, drivers that could compromise the evidence base for environmental management. While research output has expanded temporally, it remains geographically concentrated in est...

Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions originating from rewetted peat extraction sites are largely unknown. While the emissions can be quantified with chamber measurements, spatial upscaling is needed to quantify the emissions over the whole rewetted areas. Therefore, we developed a method to upscale chamber-measured GHG emissions with drone and satellite imagery. We measured GHG fluxes in five different surface types within three rew...

Maritime Spatial Planning is a pivotal tool for the sustainable development of coastal areas and the implementation of the blue economy. It requires a spatially explicit environmental risk assessment, including risk identification, analysis and evaluation, following the principles of Ecosystem-Based Management. This study aims to test an Environmental Risk Assessment approach using the InVEST Habitat Risk Assessment model to e...

Hydropeaking, driven by intermittent hydropower production, induces frequent and rapid sub-daily discharge fluctuations that alter riverine habitats and cause biodiversity loss worldwide. Benthic macroinvertebrates are particularly vulnerable due to their limited mobility, complex life cycles, and sensitivity to rapid hydraulic change. Yet, tools to quantify hydropeaking impacts on macroinvertebrate habitats at ecologically re...

Nature-based solutions (NBS) are increasingly promoted in agricultural and forestry policy, yet their effectiveness depends on technical assistance providers (TAPs) who translate policy guidelines into land management decisions. Drawing on Diffusion of Innovations and Value–Belief–Norm frameworks, this study examines how TAPs’ professional backgrounds, organizational affiliations, regional contexts, and management experiences...