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• Article | 22 February 2023

  Optimal nitrogen rate strategy for sustainable rice production in China

  A proposed optimal nitrogen rate strategy together with analysis of an extensive on-farm dataset shows that meeting national rice production targets in 2030 in China is possible while concurrently reducing nationwide nitrogen consumption.

  • Siyuan Cai
  • , Xu Zhao
  •  & Xiaoyuan Yan

• Article | 04 May 2022

  Projected environmental benefits of replacing beef with microbial protein

  Replacing 20% of per-capita ruminant consumption with microbial protein can offset future increases in global pasture area, cut annual deforestation and related CO₂ emissions in half, and lower methane emissions.

  • Florian Humpenöder
  • , Benjamin Leon Bodirsky
  •  & Alexander Popp

• Article | 16 February 2022

  Determinants of emissions pathways in the coupled climate–social system

  A stylized model of the climate–social system could help to understand policy and emissions futures.

  • Frances C. Moore
  • , Katherine Lacasse
  •  & Brian Beckage

• Article | 17 March 2021

  Enabling conditions for an equitable and sustainable blue economy

  The capacity to create an equitable and sustainable ‘blue economy’ from ocean resources will be determined by addressing social conditions, governance and infrastructure, not just resource availability, as shown by a fuzzy logic model incorporating multidisciplinary criteria.

  • Andrés M. Cisneros-Montemayor
  • , Marcia Moreno-Báez
  •  & Yoshitaka Ota

• Letter
  27 March 2019 | Open Access

  Mapping changes in housing in sub-Saharan Africa from 2000 to 2015

  The prevalence of improved housing (with improved drinking water and sanitation, sufficient living area and durable construction) in urban and rural sub-Saharan Africa doubled between 2000 and 2015.

  • Lucy S. Tusting
  • , Donal Bisanzio
  •  & Samir Bhatt

• Article | 04 November 2015

  Australia is ‘free to choose’ economic growth and falling environmental pressures

  A multi-model framework that accounts for climate, water, energy, food, biodiversity and economic activity in Australia reveals that a sustainable society that enjoys economic improvement without ecological deterioration is possible, but that specific political and economic choices need to be made to achieve this.

  • Steve Hatfield-Dodds
  • , Heinz Schandl
  •  & Alex Wonhas

• Perspective | 01 May 2013

  Globally networked risks and how to respond

  Strongly connected and interdependent networks create risks of global-scale catastrophic failure; to make networked risks more manageable, it is suggested to establish a ‘Global Systems Science’.

  • Dirk Helbing