Eutrophication is one of the most common causes of water quality impairment of inland and
marine waters. Its best-known manifestations are toxic cyanobacteria blooms in lakes and …

Abrupt ecological changes are, by definition, those that occur over short periods of time
relative to typical rates of change for a given ecosystem. The potential for such changes is …

We are part of Nature, not separate from it. We rely on Nature to provide us with food, water
and shelter; regulate our climate and disease; maintain nutrient cycles and oxygen …

A major concern for the world's ecosystems is the possibility of collapse, where landscapes
and the societies they support change abruptly. Accelerating stress levels, increasing …

" Across diverse disciplines, the term resilience is appearing more and more often. However,
while each discipline has developed theory and models to explain the resilience of the …

The question of what and how to measure ecological resilience has been troubling
ecologists since Holling 1973s seminal paper in which he defined resilience as the ability of …

The fragility of health systems has never been of greater interest—or importance—than at
this moment, in the aftermath of the worst Ebola virus disease epidemic to date. The loss of …

The water quality response to implementation of conservation measures across watersheds
has been slower and smaller than expected. This has led many to question the efficacy of …

Anthropogenic pressures on the Earth System have reached a scale where abrupt global
environmental change can no longer be excluded. We propose a new approach to global …

Abstract In 2019, Her Majesty's Treasury (UK) commissioned Sir Partha Dasgupta, an
economist and Professor Emeritus at Cambridge University to produce an independent …