Environment and Conservation

TL;DR: In this article, a cost-effectiveness approach for prioritizing threat management to maximize the in situ protection of biodiversity per dollar spent is presented, which draws on empirical data and expert knowledge of major threats to biodiversity, feasible threat management actions, and likely responses of biodiversity to a set of costed management scenarios.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose that the biodiversity bank should be used as a savings bank to ensure that the accrued biodiversity values can be used to offset biodiversity losses, and provide recommendations about how this could be achieved in practice.

TL;DR: Overall, the investigation indicates that bacteriophages may be adequate viral surrogates, especially in built systems, such as wastewater treatment plants, and more reflective of infectious enteric virus levels.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors trace new developments and trends on road-deposited sediments (RDS) pollutant characteristics with respect to their distribution in time and space, total and labile fractions in the different particle size and density fractions, source apportionment, and chemical speciation, as well as on the management of the pollutants.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors measured place attachment within three spatial ranges (house, neighbourhood, and city) and two dimensions (physical and social), in order to establish some comparison between them.

TL;DR: In this article, the validity and generalizability of place attachment across measurement items, places, and dimensions (place dependence and place identity) of attachment was examined. And the validity of the place attachment measures was supported through analyses of the relationships between the place attachments and both behavioral and psychological variables predicted to be related to place attachment.

TL;DR: In contrast to the dominant multiattribute commodity view of outdoor recreation settings, wilderness users are described as having emotional and symbolic ties to the setting that are manifested as attachment to the site and the wilderness concept as mentioned in this paper.