Preprints
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Awareness and Action: An Exploration Between Public Perception and Space Industry Priorities Regarding Sustainability
Published: 2026-05-30
Subjects: Environmental Sciences, Environmental Studies, Natural Resources and Conservation, Natural Resources Management and Policy, Nature and Society Relations, Sustainability
As issues regarding sustainability continue to grow more urgent and prevalent to everyday life, it is important to recognize whether society fully understands what is occurring. The low earth orbit is at threat of overcongestion, and the environment is experiencing higher rates of pollution due to rocket launches, calling for the need for the government and public to engage in this issue. [...]
Unequal weather exposure across teams and groups at the 2026 FIFA World Cup: an event-based analysis using hourly reanalysis
Published: 2026-05-30
Subjects: Climate, Environmental Studies, Human Geography
The connection between climate change and sports is evident, as sports contribute to environmental challenges, while climate change impacts the conditions for playing, organizing, and enjoying sports. In professional football, heat, humidity, rain, wind, and insufficient recovery time at night can influence player health, physical stress, and game performance. Evaluations of the 2026 FIFA World [...]
An adaptive hybrid model for wildfire front forecasting based on cellular automata, multi-agent UAV observations, and binary data assimilation: A case study of the 2021 Dixie Fire
Published: 2026-05-30
Subjects: Environmental Studies
This study presents a retrospective case-study evaluation of a hybrid framework for daily wildfire-front forecasting during the 2021 Dixie Fire in California, USA. The framework couples a stochastic cellular automaton (CA) with a multi-agent system (MAS) of simulated UAV observations and a lightweight binary data-assimilation scheme. The model uses topography, vegetation, fuel proxies, and [...]
Productive Rather Than Aesthetic Urban Landscapes Drive Actualized Sustainable Consumption
Published: 2026-05-25
Subjects: Environmental Studies, Geographic Information Sciences, Human Geography, Nature and Society Relations
Global sustainability initiatives prioritize urban greenery to foster resilient cities, yet their efficacy remains under-researched in the Global South. Conventional reliance on self-reported data risks a pervasive “green illusion”— a discrepancy between reported behavior and actual sustainable consumption behavior. To diagnose this anomaly, we synthesize spatial morphology and psychometric [...]
When Fiction Reflects Fiction: Contrarian Views of Climate Change in Popular Entertainment TV & Films
Published: 2026-05-23
Subjects: Environmental Studies
Climate contrarian discourse permeates a wide range of media outlets, including popular entertainment television shows and films. This study identifies and quantifies the frequency of these views within a large global corpus of entertainment scripts derived from film and television subtitles (N = 223,782). Additionally, drawing on a discourse studies perspective, we evaluate the performance of a [...]
Multidimensional Inconsistency in Forest Ecosystem Representation: An NLP-Assisted Thematic Review
Published: 2026-05-14
Subjects: Earth Sciences, Environmental Sciences, Environmental Studies, Geography
Forest ecosystem monitoring increasingly relies on multisensor remote sensing approaches integrating optical imagery, synthetic aperture radar (SAR), and LiDAR observations to assess biomass, degradation, and ecosystem condition. However, these systems frequently generate inconsistent representations of the same ecosystem due to differences in sensor sensitivity, ecological complexity, scale [...]
Bridging science, policy, practice and purpose: global insights from sustainability leaders driving transformative change
Published: 2026-05-09
Subjects: Environmental Studies
Seventeen percent of the Sustainable Development Goals are currently on track to be achieved by 2030. That number points to a problem that better frameworks and more ambitious targets have not resolved: the gap between sustainability policy and operational delivery is not primarily a design problem. It is, at least in part, a leadership problem. This study examines how that problem is experienced [...]
Understanding Microplastics Discourse Through Social Sensing: Insights from Geotagged Social Media
Published: 2026-05-07
Subjects: Environmental Studies
Microplastics have emerged as a growing global environmental and public health concern due to their widespread presence and increasing potential for human exposure through food, water, and air. Recent scientific evidence and expanding media coverage have heightened public awareness and debate surrounding their ecological and health impacts. However, a systematic understanding of how public [...]
A Multi-Dimensional Framework for Diagnosing Inconsistencies in Remote Sensing-Based Ecosystem Assessment
Published: 2026-05-04
Subjects: Environmental Sciences, Environmental Studies, Geography
Remote sensing-based ecosystem assessment increasingly relies on the integration of spectral, structural, and model-derived datasets; however, inconsistencies among these data sources can produce divergent representations of vegetation dynamics and carbon processes. This study proposes a multi-dimensional framework to diagnose such inconsistencies by integrating scale, dimensional, and variable [...]
Assessing the impact of Colombian public land acquisitions on forest cover in the Andes
Published: 2026-05-01
Subjects: Environmental Studies, Geographic Information Sciences, Human Geography, Nature and Society Relations, Remote Sensing
Public land acquisitions (PLAs) are a promising conservation instrument, combining the permanence of protected areas with the voluntary, compensatory structure of payments for ecosystem services, yet causal evidence on their effectiveness remains limited. Colombia’s Article 111 mandate, which requires departments to allocate 1% of revenue to land acquisition for watershed protection, has produced [...]
Between extraction and protection: Public support for natural resource regulation and environmental governance across Africa, a continental analysis with West Africa as a case study
Published: 2026-04-24
Subjects: Environmental Studies
Natural resource extraction is central to development strategies across Africa, yet it generates persistent conflicts over environmental costs, benefit distribution, and governance legitimacy. Public attitudes toward this trade-off have remained largely unmeasured at the continental scale. This paper provides the first cross-national quantitative analysis of citizen preferences for environmental [...]
‘Egg that tastes like egg’: An ethnographic and economic inquiry into the assets and challenges of the organic farming market in the Canary Islands
Published: 2026-04-23
Subjects: Environmental Studies
The development of self-sufficient organic food systems has become an important focus in the Canary Islands, where reliance on imported foods and conventional agriculture are predominant. This study examines the main challenges and opportunities in the market through eleven on-site, semi-structured interviews combined with participant observation. Thematic analysis was conducted and findings were [...]
Structural–carbon decoupling and forest structural thinning in degrading forests of Southwestern Nigeria using GEDI LiDAR and multi-sensor data fusion
Published: 2026-04-13
Subjects: Environmental Sciences, Environmental Studies, Geography
Accurate monitoring of forest degradation requires indicators that capture both structural condition and carbon dynamics. While canopy height derived from spaceborne LiDAR is widely used as a proxy for forest condition, its ability to represent aboveground biomass (AGB) under ongoing degradation remains uncertain. This study examines the relationship between canopy height and AGB in tropical [...]
River Paradigm for Sedentary Mammoth Hunters
Published: 2026-04-11
Subjects: Environmental Studies
Simple forensic systems analysis of Upper Paleolithic mammoth procurement, including analysis of foraging radii, taphonomic representation, portability, caloric costs, hunting and transportation energetics, labor economics, socio-economic and personal vulnerability to predators, and material-handling logistics, prove Upper Paleolithic Mammuthus primigenius were not often hunted, scavenged, [...]
Coupling Coordination and Driving Mechanisms of Land Use and Ecosystem Service Value in the Central Yunnan Urban Agglomeration
Published: 2026-04-10
Subjects: Environmental Studies
ABSTRACT Research Content: This study focuses on the Central Yunnan Urban Agglomeration, analyzing the spatiotemporal evolution characteristics, coupling coordination relationship, and driving mechanisms of land use and ecosystem service value (ESV) from 2010 to 2024. It aims to provide a scientific basis for regional territorial spatial optimization and ecological civilization [...]