Maria J Santos
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3588321 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Maria J Santos |
| NOMBRES | Maria J |
| APELLIDO | Santos |
| FIRMA | SANTOS M J |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Zurich |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6558-7477 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2014 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Citizens ditching cars
In light of climate change, urbanization and worldwide mobility trends, the requirements for transforming urban transport systems towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are twofold. First, understanding the systemic interactions underlying sustainable development as envisioned in the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is key. In the context of urban transport systems, this includes understanding what hinders or fosters reduced c…
Deforestation-induced immediate and delayed shifts in moisture recycling
Moisture recycling is a fundamental process that sustains regional precipitation, supports ecosystem stability, and delivers critical ecosystem services at both local and global scales. In the Amazon, deforestation disrupts this process, altering moisture source and sink dynamics of areas in the region and impacting its overall moisture recycling function. This study examined the spatial and temporal variability of moisture recycling by assessing…
The role of livelihood assets in shaping water security in mountain regions
Water security in mountain regions requires a deep understanding of the complex interplay of climatic and socioeconomic factors. While socio-hydrology offers a conceptual framework emphasizing the equal importance of social and hydrological processes in water management outcomes, the relative significance of each may vary depending on the specific context, water users’ perspectives, and their particular needs. To study these relationships, we app…
Projected land-use change emissions surpass climate change-induced carbon sinks in Sub-Saharan African biomes
Land-use and land-cover change (LULCC) dominates climate change (CC) in driving SSA’s carbon loss by 2100. • Moist and dry savannas biomes are projected to be emission hotspots in SSA, with major losses under SSP3 and SSP4. • While CC may boost vegetation growth in some biomes, these gains do not offset emissions from LULCC. • Biome-specific policies are urgent to sustain SSA as a carbon sink. Land-use and land-cover change (LULCC) and climate ch…
Livelihood vulnerability and human-wildlife interactions across protected areas
Protected Areas (PAs) are important wildlife refuges and act as climate change buffers, but they may impact human livelihoods, particularly engendering a high risk of negative human-wildlife interactions (HWI). Understanding synergies and trade-offs among the drivers of overall human vulnerability within PAs is needed to ensure good outcomes for conservation and human well-being. We examined how climate variability, HWI, and socio-demographics af…
Global change scenarios in coastal river deltas and their sustainable development implications
Deltas play a critical role in the ambition to achieve global sustainable development given their relatively large shares in population and productive croplands, as well as their precarious low-lying position between upstream river basin development and rising seas. The large pressures on these systems risk undermining the persistence of delta societies, economies, and ecosystems. We analyse possible future development in 49 deltas around the glo…
Environmental change and ecosystem functioning drive transitions in social-ecological systems
Sustainable management of social-ecological systems requires an understanding of how anthropogenic climate- and land use change may disrupt interactions between human societies and the ecosystem processes they depend on. In this study, we expand an existing stylized social-ecological system model by explicitly considering how urbanizing societies may become less dependent on local ecosystem functioning. This expansion is motivated by a previously…
How puzzles are shaping our understanding of biodiversity
Games as a didactic tool (e. g., puzzles) are gaining recognition in environmental education to promote skill development, but also to develop a specific understanding of the natural world. However, a children’s puzzle containing representations of nature may unwillingly lead to “misconceptions” of biodiversity themes and processes, and an over-simplification of the relationship between people and nature. To solve this problem, positive connotati…
Biodiversity mediates relationships between anthropogenic drivers and ecosystem services across global mountain, island and delta systems
Global change increasingly threatens nature, endangering the ecosystem services human wellbeing depends upon. Biodiversity potentially mediates these impacts by providing resilience to ecosystems. While biodiversity has been linked to resilience and ecosystem service supply on smaller scales, we lack understanding of whether mediating interactions between biodiversity and anthropogenic drivers are global and ubiquitous, and how they might differ …
Long term impacts of transitions in charcoal production systems in tropical biomes
Mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions through transitions to biomass-based renewable energy may result in higher land needs, affecting ecosystem services and livelihoods. Charcoal is a biomass-based renewable energy that provides energy for hundreds of millions of households worldwide and generates income for 40 million people. However, it currently causes up to 7% of the global deforestation rate. In the absence of affordable alternative fuels,…
Atmospheric moisture contribution to the growing season in the Amazon arc of deforestation
The Amazon moisture recycling system has been widely examined because it is fundamental to maintain some of the global climate processes, however, we have yet to know to what extent the agricultural growing season is dependent on the evapotranspiration contribution from the Amazon forest. Here we use a moisture tracking model to calculate the forest’s contribution to downwind precipitation. Specifically, we calculate the influence of moisture rec…
Putting sustainability research into practice on the university campus
Purpose Despite increasing efforts to incorporate sustainability in curricula and practices of institutions of higher education, effective implementation remains challenging. The purpose of this study is to present an approach to incorporate sustainability into a practice-oriented research skills course, which was implemented at a small island state university in the Caribbean. Design/methodology/approach First-year university students followed a…
Arctic greening associated with lengthening growing seasons in Northern Alaska
Many studies have reported that the Arctic is greening; however, we lack an understanding of the detailed patterns and processes that are leading to this observed greening. The normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) is used to quantify greening, which has had largely positive trends over the last few decades using low spatial resolution satellite imagery such as AVHRR or MODIS over the pan-Arctic region. However, substantial fine scale spa…
Structure and evolution of cod quota market networks in Iceland over times of financial volatility
How can global conventions for biodiversity and ecosystem services guide local conservation actions
Shaded Coffee and Cocoa – Double Dividend for Biodiversity and Small-scale Farmers
Environmental impacts of climate change adaptation
The use of regional advance mitigation planning (Ramp) to integrate transportation infrastructure impacts with sustainability; a perspective from the USA
Globally, urban areas are expanding, and their regional, spatially cumulative, environmental impacts from transportation projects are not typically assessed. However, incorporation of a Regional Advance Mitigation Planning (RAMP) framework can promote more effective, ecologically sound, and less expensive environmental mitigation. As a demonstration of the first phase of the RAMP framework, we assessed environmental impacts from 181 planned trans…
Environmental impacts of climate change adaptation
Shaded Coffee and Cocoa – Double Dividend for Biodiversity and Small-scale Farmers
Global change scenarios in coastal river deltas and their sustainable development implications
Deltas play a critical role in the ambition to achieve global sustainable development given their relatively large shares in population and productive croplands, as well as their precarious low-lying position between upstream river basin development and rising seas. The large pressures on these systems risk undermining the persistence of delta societies, economies, and ecosystems. We analyse possible future development in 49 deltas around the glo…
Environmental change and ecosystem functioning drive transitions in social-ecological systems
Sustainable management of social-ecological systems requires an understanding of how anthropogenic climate- and land use change may disrupt interactions between human societies and the ecosystem processes they depend on. In this study, we expand an existing stylized social-ecological system model by explicitly considering how urbanizing societies may become less dependent on local ecosystem functioning. This expansion is motivated by a previously…
How can global conventions for biodiversity and ecosystem services guide local conservation actions
Livelihood vulnerability and human-wildlife interactions across protected areas
Protected Areas (PAs) are important wildlife refuges and act as climate change buffers, but they may impact human livelihoods, particularly engendering a high risk of negative human-wildlife interactions (HWI). Understanding synergies and trade-offs among the drivers of overall human vulnerability within PAs is needed to ensure good outcomes for conservation and human well-being. We examined how climate variability, HWI, and socio-demographics af…
The use of regional advance mitigation planning (Ramp) to integrate transportation infrastructure impacts with sustainability; a perspective from the USA
Globally, urban areas are expanding, and their regional, spatially cumulative, environmental impacts from transportation projects are not typically assessed. However, incorporation of a Regional Advance Mitigation Planning (RAMP) framework can promote more effective, ecologically sound, and less expensive environmental mitigation. As a demonstration of the first phase of the RAMP framework, we assessed environmental impacts from 181 planned trans…
How can global conventions for biodiversity and ecosystem services guide local conservation actions
Shaded Coffee and Cocoa – Double Dividend for Biodiversity and Small-scale Farmers
Environmental impacts of climate change adaptation
Arctic greening associated with lengthening growing seasons in Northern Alaska
Many studies have reported that the Arctic is greening; however, we lack an understanding of the detailed patterns and processes that are leading to this observed greening. The normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) is used to quantify greening, which has had largely positive trends over the last few decades using low spatial resolution satellite imagery such as AVHRR or MODIS over the pan-Arctic region. However, substantial fine scale spa…
Structure and evolution of cod quota market networks in Iceland over times of financial volatility
Putting sustainability research into practice on the university campus
Purpose Despite increasing efforts to incorporate sustainability in curricula and practices of institutions of higher education, effective implementation remains challenging. The purpose of this study is to present an approach to incorporate sustainability into a practice-oriented research skills course, which was implemented at a small island state university in the Caribbean. Design/methodology/approach First-year university students followed a…
Long term impacts of transitions in charcoal production systems in tropical biomes
Mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions through transitions to biomass-based renewable energy may result in higher land needs, affecting ecosystem services and livelihoods. Charcoal is a biomass-based renewable energy that provides energy for hundreds of millions of households worldwide and generates income for 40 million people. However, it currently causes up to 7% of the global deforestation rate. In the absence of affordable alternative fuels,…
Atmospheric moisture contribution to the growing season in the Amazon arc of deforestation
The Amazon moisture recycling system has been widely examined because it is fundamental to maintain some of the global climate processes, however, we have yet to know to what extent the agricultural growing season is dependent on the evapotranspiration contribution from the Amazon forest. Here we use a moisture tracking model to calculate the forest’s contribution to downwind precipitation. Specifically, we calculate the influence of moisture rec…
How puzzles are shaping our understanding of biodiversity
Games as a didactic tool (e. g., puzzles) are gaining recognition in environmental education to promote skill development, but also to develop a specific understanding of the natural world. However, a children’s puzzle containing representations of nature may unwillingly lead to “misconceptions” of biodiversity themes and processes, and an over-simplification of the relationship between people and nature. To solve this problem, positive connotati…
Biodiversity mediates relationships between anthropogenic drivers and ecosystem services across global mountain, island and delta systems
Global change increasingly threatens nature, endangering the ecosystem services human wellbeing depends upon. Biodiversity potentially mediates these impacts by providing resilience to ecosystems. While biodiversity has been linked to resilience and ecosystem service supply on smaller scales, we lack understanding of whether mediating interactions between biodiversity and anthropogenic drivers are global and ubiquitous, and how they might differ …
Global change scenarios in coastal river deltas and their sustainable development implications
Deltas play a critical role in the ambition to achieve global sustainable development given their relatively large shares in population and productive croplands, as well as their precarious low-lying position between upstream river basin development and rising seas. The large pressures on these systems risk undermining the persistence of delta societies, economies, and ecosystems. We analyse possible future development in 49 deltas around the glo…
Environmental change and ecosystem functioning drive transitions in social-ecological systems
Sustainable management of social-ecological systems requires an understanding of how anthropogenic climate- and land use change may disrupt interactions between human societies and the ecosystem processes they depend on. In this study, we expand an existing stylized social-ecological system model by explicitly considering how urbanizing societies may become less dependent on local ecosystem functioning. This expansion is motivated by a previously…
Livelihood vulnerability and human-wildlife interactions across protected areas
Protected Areas (PAs) are important wildlife refuges and act as climate change buffers, but they may impact human livelihoods, particularly engendering a high risk of negative human-wildlife interactions (HWI). Understanding synergies and trade-offs among the drivers of overall human vulnerability within PAs is needed to ensure good outcomes for conservation and human well-being. We examined how climate variability, HWI, and socio-demographics af…
Citizens ditching cars
In light of climate change, urbanization and worldwide mobility trends, the requirements for transforming urban transport systems towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are twofold. First, understanding the systemic interactions underlying sustainable development as envisioned in the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is key. In the context of urban transport systems, this includes understanding what hinders or fosters reduced c…
Deforestation-induced immediate and delayed shifts in moisture recycling
Moisture recycling is a fundamental process that sustains regional precipitation, supports ecosystem stability, and delivers critical ecosystem services at both local and global scales. In the Amazon, deforestation disrupts this process, altering moisture source and sink dynamics of areas in the region and impacting its overall moisture recycling function. This study examined the spatial and temporal variability of moisture recycling by assessing…
The role of livelihood assets in shaping water security in mountain regions
Water security in mountain regions requires a deep understanding of the complex interplay of climatic and socioeconomic factors. While socio-hydrology offers a conceptual framework emphasizing the equal importance of social and hydrological processes in water management outcomes, the relative significance of each may vary depending on the specific context, water users’ perspectives, and their particular needs. To study these relationships, we app…
Projected land-use change emissions surpass climate change-induced carbon sinks in Sub-Saharan African biomes
Land-use and land-cover change (LULCC) dominates climate change (CC) in driving SSA’s carbon loss by 2100. • Moist and dry savannas biomes are projected to be emission hotspots in SSA, with major losses under SSP3 and SSP4. • While CC may boost vegetation growth in some biomes, these gains do not offset emissions from LULCC. • Biome-specific policies are urgent to sustain SSA as a carbon sink. Land-use and land-cover change (LULCC) and climate ch…
Environmental Science (14 obras) · Ecology (13 obras) · Geography (11 obras) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (7 obras) · Environmental resource management (7 obras) · Business (6 obras) · Computer Science (6 obras) · Economics (6 obras) · Ecosystem (5 obras) · Land Use and Ecosystem Services (5 obras)