Search Results - "Otto, Ilona M."
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Social tipping dynamics for stabilizing Earth’s climate by 2050
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (04-02-2020)“…Safely achieving the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement requires a worldwide transformation to carbon-neutral societies within the next 30 y. Accelerated…”
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Social Innovation in Community Energy in Europe: A Review of the Evidence
Published in Frontiers in energy research (05-04-2019)“…Citizen-driven Renewable Energy (RE) projects of various kinds, known collectively as community energy (CE), have an important part to play in the worldwide…”
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Earth system justice needed to identify and live within Earth system boundaries
Published in Nature sustainability (01-06-2023)“…Living within planetary limits requires attention to justice as biophysical boundaries are not inherently just. Through collaboration between natural and…”
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Systematic evaluation of scenario assessments supporting sustainable integrated natural resources management: evidence from four case studies in Africa
Published in Ecology and society (01-01-2018)“…Scenarios have become a key tool for supporting sustainability research on regional and global change. In this study we evaluate four regional scenario…”
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Lessons from COVID-19 for managing transboundary climate risks and building resilience
Published in Climate risk management (2022)“…COVID-19 has revealed how challenging it is to manage global, systemic and compounding crises. Like COVID-19, climate change impacts, and maladaptive responses…”
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How physical and social factors affect village-level irrigation: An institutional analysis of water governance in northern China
Published in Agricultural water management (01-03-2013)“…► Water users rationally responded to the incentives of water use. ► The organization of irrigation water fits the physical and the institutional settings. ►…”
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Cooperation Enhances Adaptation to Environmental Uncertainty: Evidence from Irrigation Behavioral Experiments in South China
Published in Water (Basel) (01-04-2022)“…The world currently faces an unprecedented phase of global environmental change largely driven by the combined impact of anthropogenic climate change and…”
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Shift the focus from the super-poor to the super-rich
Published in Nature climate change (01-02-2019)“…Carbon mitigation efforts often focus on the world’s poorest people, dealing with topics such as food and energy security, and increased emissions potential…”
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Human agency in the Anthropocene
Published in Ecological economics (01-01-2020)“…The human species has been recognized as a new force that has pushed the Earth's system into a new geological epoch referred to as the Anthropocene. This human…”
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Understanding Socio-metabolic Inequalities Using Consumption Data from Germany
Published in Capitalism, nature, socialism (02-10-2023)“…The Earth's population of seven billion consume varying amounts of planetary resources with varying impacts on the environment. We combine the analytical tools…”
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Opening up knowledge systems for better responses to global environmental change
Published in Environmental science & policy (01-04-2013)“…► Achieving sustainability requires radical and deliberate changes in knowledge systems. ► Scientific practice needs better orientation toward societal…”
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Social vulnerability to climate change: a review of concepts and evidence
Published in Regional environmental change (01-08-2017)“…This article provides a review of recent scientific literature on social vulnerability to climate change, aiming to determine which social and demographic…”
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The unjust just transition? Exploring different dimensions of justice in the lignite regions of Lusatia, Eastern Greater Poland, and Gorj
Published in Energy research & social science (01-10-2023)“…The European Green Deal has been designed to make the European Union the world's first carbon-neutral union by 2050. Changing to fossil fuel-free energy…”
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Climate change impacts in the Middle East and Northern Africa (MENA) region and their implications for vulnerable population groups
Published in Regional environmental change (01-08-2017)“…The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region emerges as one of the hot spots for worsening extreme heat, drought and aridity conditions under climate change…”
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REPLY TO SMITH ET AL: Social tipping dynamics in a world constrained by conflicting interests
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Integrating public health in European climate change adaptation policy and planning
Published in Climate policy (28-05-2023)“…The study assesses the extent to which public health is integrated into European national and urban climate change adaptation policy and planning. We analyse…”
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Calling energy inequalities into the transition agenda
Published in Energy research & social science (01-07-2023)“…The presented perspective paper delivers insights into the complex problem of energy inequalities in the context of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The war…”
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Rebuild better for a sustainable future
Published in PLOS climate (20-03-2023)“…While it is important to recognize how as destructive the war in Ukraine has been and continues to be, it is just as important to start planning to rebuild the…”
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Climate change impacts in Central Asia and their implications for development
Published in Regional environmental change (01-08-2017)“…This paper synthesizes what is known about the physical and biophysical impacts of climate change and their consequences for societies and development under…”
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The effects of rules and communication in a behavioral irrigation experiment with power asymmetries carried out in North China
Published in Ecological economics (01-03-2014)“…In our field experiment carried out with stakeholders from the Chinese Haihe River Basin, a group of five players located along an irrigation channel first…”
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