Publications by authors named "Jan McDonald"
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- * The study discusses two potential scenarios for 2030: a "business-as-usual" path continuing current trends, and a more hopeful future achieved through informed action towards the UN SDGs.
- * Key drivers for these futures include the eagerness for climate action, response to extreme events, and implementation of climate interventions, with various proactive measures suggested to promote a sustainable future such as enhancing economic incentives and supporting local initiatives.
Unlabelled: Ocean governance is complex and influenced by multiple drivers and actors with different worldviews and goals. While governance encompasses many elements, in this paper we focus on the processes that operate within and between states, civil society and local communities, and the market, including industry. Specifically, in this paper, we address the question of how to move towards more sustainable ocean governance aligning with the sustainable development goals (SDGs) and the UN Ocean Decade.
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- Coastal communities worldwide face challenges like sea level rise, severe storms, and loss of natural resources due to climate change, leading to a need for better adaptation strategies.
- Traditional engineering methods to protect coastlines may not be sustainable long-term; instead, communities should focus on ecological resilience for managing coastal zones.
- Comparing coastal management laws in countries like Australia, Finland, and the Netherlands reveals valuable insights on promoting social-ecological resilience and highlights the potential for smoother transitions away from outdated approaches.
Climate change is driving a pervasive global redistribution of the planet's species. Species redistribution poses new questions for the study of ecosystems, conservation science and human societies that require a coordinated and integrated approach. Here we review recent progress, key gaps and strategic directions in this nascent research area, emphasising emerging themes in species redistribution biology, the importance of understanding underlying drivers and the need to anticipate novel outcomes of changes in species ranges.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDistributions of Earth's species are changing at accelerating rates, increasingly driven by human-mediated climate change. Such changes are already altering the composition of ecological communities, but beyond conservation of natural systems, how and why does this matter? We review evidence that climate-driven species redistribution at regional to global scales affects ecosystem functioning, human well-being, and the dynamics of climate change itself. Production of natural resources required for food security, patterns of disease transmission, and processes of carbon sequestration are all altered by changes in species distribution.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHypothesis: The success of an educational program in July 1999 that lowered the catheter-related bloodstream infection (CRBSI) rate in our intensive care unit (ICU) 3-fold is correlated with compliance with "best-practice" behaviors.
Design: Before-after trial.
Setting: Surgical ICU in a referral hospital.