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Prof. Graciela Metternicht
School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, UNSW Sydney, Kensington 2052, Australia

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Journal article
Published: 06 July 2021 in Remote Sensing of Environment
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Around 350 million hectares of land are affected by wildfires every year influencing the health of ecosystems and leaving a trail of destruction. Accurate information over burned areas (BA) is essential for governments and communities to prioritize recovery actions. Prior research over the past decades has established the potentials and limitations of space-borne earth observation for mapping BA over large geographic areas at various scales. The operational deployment of Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 constellations significantly improved the quality and quantity of the imagery from the microwave (C-band) and optical regions on the spectrum. Based on that, this study set to investigate whether the existing coarse BA products can be further improved by the synergy of optical surface reflectance (SR), radar backscatter coefficient (BS), and/or radar interferometric coherence (COR) data with higher spatial resolutions. A Siamese Self-Attention (SSA) classification strategy is proposed for the multi-sensor BA mapping and a multi-source dataset is constructed at the object level for the training and testing. Results are analyzed by test sites, feature sources, and classification strategies to appraise the improvements achieved by the proposed method.

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Qi Zhang; Linlin Ge; Ruiheng Zhang; Graciela Isabel Metternicht; Zheyuan Du; Jianming Kuang; Min Xu. Deep-learning-based burned area mapping using the synergy of Sentinel-1&2 data. Remote Sensing of Environment 2021, 264, 112575 .

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Qi Zhang, Linlin Ge, Ruiheng Zhang, Graciela Isabel Metternicht, Zheyuan Du, Jianming Kuang, Min Xu. Deep-learning-based burned area mapping using the synergy of Sentinel-1&2 data. Remote Sensing of Environment. 2021; 264 ():112575.

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Qi Zhang; Linlin Ge; Ruiheng Zhang; Graciela Isabel Metternicht; Zheyuan Du; Jianming Kuang; Min Xu. 2021. "Deep-learning-based burned area mapping using the synergy of Sentinel-1&2 data." Remote Sensing of Environment 264, no. : 112575.

Journal article
Published: 18 May 2021 in Energies
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Actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions are required from all actors. Adopting plug-in electric vehicles (EV) would reduce light motor vehicle travel emissions, a significant and rising emissions source. To encourage EV uptake, many governments have implemented policies which may be less effective than desired. Using New Zealand as a case study, we surveyed private motorists. The results show that consumers are heterogeneous, with varying car-buying motivations, perceptions, attitudes to EVs and awareness of policies. Uniquely, we segmented motorists into four attitudinal groups to ascertain characteristics potentially affecting EV readiness to provide evidence to improve policies and aid social marketing. Our results show the next-most-ready to buy EVs are early mainstream consumers—designated the EV Positives—who were most concerned about vehicle range, perceptions of EV expense, charging-related inconvenience and the unknown value proposition of batteries, and were relatively unaware of incentives compared to EV Owners. The EV Positives favored incentives designed to effect purchase price reductions and increase nation-wide fast-charger deployment. To increase awareness of EVs and shift perceptions of EV expense and inconvenience, we suggest policies that potentially increase EV adoption rates and suggest reframing the language to appeal to EV Positives through information programs. Increasing EV procurement by organizations could increase opportunities for positive information dissemination via employees.

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Gail Broadbent; Graciela Metternicht; Thomas Wiedmann. Increasing Electric Vehicle Uptake by Updating Public Policies to Shift Attitudes and Perceptions: Case Study of New Zealand. Energies 2021, 14, 2920 .

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Gail Broadbent, Graciela Metternicht, Thomas Wiedmann. Increasing Electric Vehicle Uptake by Updating Public Policies to Shift Attitudes and Perceptions: Case Study of New Zealand. Energies. 2021; 14 (10):2920.

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Gail Broadbent; Graciela Metternicht; Thomas Wiedmann. 2021. "Increasing Electric Vehicle Uptake by Updating Public Policies to Shift Attitudes and Perceptions: Case Study of New Zealand." Energies 14, no. 10: 2920.

Journal article
Published: 08 April 2020 in Sustainability
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Population growth and economic development are driving changes in land use/land cover (LULC) of the transboundary Lower Mekong River Basin (LMB), posing a serious threat to the integrity of the river system. Using data collected on a monthly basis over 30 years (1985–2015) at 14 stations located along the Lower Mekong river, this study explores whether spatiotemporal relationships exist between LULC changes and instream concentrations of total suspended solids (TSS) and nitrate—as proxies of water quality. The results show seasonal influences where temporal patterns of instream TSS and nitrate concentrations mirror patterns detected for discharge. Changes in LULC influenced instream TSS and nitrate levels differently over time and space. The seasonal Mann–Kendall (SMK) confirmed significant reduction of instream TSS concentrations at six stations (p < 0.05), while nitrate levels increased at five stations (p < 0.05), predominantly in stations located in the upper section of the basin where forest areas and mountainous topography dominate the landscape. Temporal correlation analyses point to the conversion of grassland (r = −0.61, p < 0.01) to paddy fields (r = 0.63, p < 0.01) and urban areas (r = 0.44, p < 0.05) as the changes in LULC that mostly impact instream nitrate contents. The reduction of TSS appears influenced by increased forest land cover (r = −0.72, p < 0.01) and by the development and operation of hydropower projects in the upper Mekong River. Spatial correlation analyses showed positive associations between forest land cover and instream concentrations of TSS (r = 0.64, p = 0.01) and nitrate (r = 0.54, p < 0.05), indicating that this type of LULC was heavily disturbed and harvested, resulting in soil erosion and runoff of nitrate rich sediment during the Wet season. Our results show that enhanced understanding of how LULC changes influence instream water quality at spatial and temporal scales is vital for assessing potential impacts of future land and water resource development on freshwater resources of the LMB.

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Kongmeng Ly; Graciela Metternicht; Lucy Marshall. Linking Changes in Land Cover and Land Use of the Lower Mekong Basin to Instream Nitrate and Total Suspended Solids Variations. Sustainability 2020, 12, 2992 .

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Kongmeng Ly, Graciela Metternicht, Lucy Marshall. Linking Changes in Land Cover and Land Use of the Lower Mekong Basin to Instream Nitrate and Total Suspended Solids Variations. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (7):2992.

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Kongmeng Ly; Graciela Metternicht; Lucy Marshall. 2020. "Linking Changes in Land Cover and Land Use of the Lower Mekong Basin to Instream Nitrate and Total Suspended Solids Variations." Sustainability 12, no. 7: 2992.

Book chapter
Published: 04 April 2020 in Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals
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Alex Baumber; Johannes M. Luetz; Graciela Metternicht. Carbon Neutral Education: Reducing Carbon Footprint and Expanding Carbon Brainprint. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals 2020, 55 -67.

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Alex Baumber, Johannes M. Luetz, Graciela Metternicht. Carbon Neutral Education: Reducing Carbon Footprint and Expanding Carbon Brainprint. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. 2020; ():55-67.

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Alex Baumber; Johannes M. Luetz; Graciela Metternicht. 2020. "Carbon Neutral Education: Reducing Carbon Footprint and Expanding Carbon Brainprint." Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals , no. : 55-67.

Research article
Published: 01 January 2020 in The Rangeland Journal
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Global drylands are a significant driver of earth system processes that affect the world’s common resources such as the climate. Their peoples are also among the first to be widely affected by global changes such as land degradation and climate change. Yet drylands are a source of many social and technical innovations, globally, as well as in Australia. As a major developed dryland nation, Australia has previously played a major role in extending these innovations to the rest of the world. The nation has reaped reputational and commercial benefits through major research and practice contributions to dryland agriculture, water management and governance, remote area services, indigenous partnerships, dryland monitoring systems, and ‘desert knowledge’ innovation. Australian researchers continue to contribute to various relevant international processes, yet recognition and support for this within Australia has dropped off markedly in recent years. We analyse the Australian government’s investment in research and in overseas aid for drylands over the last two decades, and explore trends in government’s active involvement in major international processes related to land. These trends are short-sighted, overlooking potential economic benefits for Australian enterprises, and undermining Australia’s stance and scientific leadership in dryland systems globally. In this commentary, we argue that it is time for the trends to be reversed, as this is an area of comparative advantage for Australian diplomacy with significant returns on investment for Australia, both direct and indirect, especially when most emerging economies contain substantial drylands. We identify four major pathways to obtaining benefits from science diplomacy, and four interrelated actions within Australia to enable these – to place a higher emphasis on science diplomacy, to re-forge a bipartisan recognition of Australian drylands expertise, to establish a dedicated Dryland Information Hub, and to create a network of relevant science and technology advisors.

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Graciela Metternicht; Mark Stafford Smith. Commentary: on the under-valuing of Australia’s expertise in drylands research and practice globally. The Rangeland Journal 2020, 42, 253 .

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Graciela Metternicht, Mark Stafford Smith. Commentary: on the under-valuing of Australia’s expertise in drylands research and practice globally. The Rangeland Journal. 2020; 42 (5):253.

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Graciela Metternicht; Mark Stafford Smith. 2020. "Commentary: on the under-valuing of Australia’s expertise in drylands research and practice globally." The Rangeland Journal 42, no. 5: 253.

Research article
Published: 01 January 2020 in The Rangeland Journal
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Australia’s rangeland communities, industries, and environment are under increasing pressures from anthropogenic activities and global changes more broadly. We conducted a horizon scan to identify and prioritise key challenges facing Australian rangelands and their communities, and outline possible avenues to address these challenges, with a particular focus on research priorities. We surveyed participants of the Australian Rangeland Society 20th Biennial Conference, held in Canberra in September 2019, before the conference and in interactive workshops during the conference, in order to identify key challenges, potential solutions, and research priorities. The feedback was broadly grouped into six themes associated with supporting local communities, managing natural capital, climate variability and change, traditional knowledge, governance, and research and development. Each theme had several sub-themes and potential solutions to ensure positive, long-term outcomes for the rangelands. The survey responses made it clear that supporting ‘resilient and sustainable rangelands that provide cultural, societal, environmental and economic outcomes simultaneously’ is of great value to stakeholders. The synthesis of survey responses combined with expert knowledge highlighted that sustaining local communities in the long term will require that the inherent social, cultural and natural capital of rangelands are managed sustainably, particularly in light of current and projected variability in climate. Establishment of guidelines and approaches to address these challenges will benefit from: (i) an increased recognition of the value and contributions of traditional knowledge and practices; (ii) development of better governance that is guided by and benefits local stakeholders; and (iii) more funding to conduct and implement strong research and development activities, with research focused on addressing critical knowledge gaps as identified by the local stakeholders. This requires strong governance with legislation and policies that work for the rangelands. We provide a framework that indicates the key knowledge gaps and how innovations may be implemented and scaled out, up and deep to achieve the resilience of Australia’s rangelands. The same principles could be adapted to address challenges in rangelands on other continents, with similar beneficial outcomes.

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Uffe N. Nielsen; Mark Stafford-Smith; Graciela I. Metternicht; Andrew Ash; Alex Baumber; Matthias M. Boer; Sandy Booth; Don Burnside; Amber C. Churchill; Marwan El Hassan; Margaret H. Friedel; Cecile M. Godde; Dana Kelly; Mick Kelly; John F. Leys; Sarah E. McDonald; Yiheyis T. Maru; David G. Phelps; Malcolm Ridges; Geoff Simpson; Barry Traill; Brian Walker; Cathleen M. Waters; Angus W. Whyte. Challenges, solutions and research priorities for sustainable rangelands. The Rangeland Journal 2020, 42, 359 .

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Uffe N. Nielsen, Mark Stafford-Smith, Graciela I. Metternicht, Andrew Ash, Alex Baumber, Matthias M. Boer, Sandy Booth, Don Burnside, Amber C. Churchill, Marwan El Hassan, Margaret H. Friedel, Cecile M. Godde, Dana Kelly, Mick Kelly, John F. Leys, Sarah E. McDonald, Yiheyis T. Maru, David G. Phelps, Malcolm Ridges, Geoff Simpson, Barry Traill, Brian Walker, Cathleen M. Waters, Angus W. Whyte. Challenges, solutions and research priorities for sustainable rangelands. The Rangeland Journal. 2020; 42 (5):359.

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Uffe N. Nielsen; Mark Stafford-Smith; Graciela I. Metternicht; Andrew Ash; Alex Baumber; Matthias M. Boer; Sandy Booth; Don Burnside; Amber C. Churchill; Marwan El Hassan; Margaret H. Friedel; Cecile M. Godde; Dana Kelly; Mick Kelly; John F. Leys; Sarah E. McDonald; Yiheyis T. Maru; David G. Phelps; Malcolm Ridges; Geoff Simpson; Barry Traill; Brian Walker; Cathleen M. Waters; Angus W. Whyte. 2020. "Challenges, solutions and research priorities for sustainable rangelands." The Rangeland Journal 42, no. 5: 359.

Research article
Published: 01 January 2020 in The Rangeland Journal
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Carbon farming is a new land use option over extensive areas of the Australian rangelands. This land use change has been promoted by government incentives to mitigate climate change, with most of Australia’s land sector abatement to date being delivered in rangelands. Aside from these mitigation benefits, carbon farming has also demonstrated potential co-benefits that enhance socio-ecological resilience by diversifying land uses and income streams, providing opportunities for sustainable land management to enhance soil and vegetation and creating opportunities for self-organisation and collaboration. However, factors such as policy uncertainty, perceived loss of future land use flexibility and the potential for carbon farming eligibility to create social divisions may negatively affect resilience. In this paper we weigh up these risks, opportunities and co-benefits and propose indicators for measuring the impact of carbon farming on the resilience of rangeland systems. A set of land policy principles for enhancing resilience through carbon farming are also identified.

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Alex Baumber; Cathy Waters; Rebecca Cross; Graciela Metternicht; Marja Simpson. Carbon farming for resilient rangelands: people, paddocks and policy. The Rangeland Journal 2020, 42, 293 .

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Alex Baumber, Cathy Waters, Rebecca Cross, Graciela Metternicht, Marja Simpson. Carbon farming for resilient rangelands: people, paddocks and policy. The Rangeland Journal. 2020; 42 (5):293.

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Alex Baumber; Cathy Waters; Rebecca Cross; Graciela Metternicht; Marja Simpson. 2020. "Carbon farming for resilient rangelands: people, paddocks and policy." The Rangeland Journal 42, no. 5: 293.

Reference work
Published: 06 December 2019 in Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals
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Carbon neutral education may be defined as: The provision of education services in a manner that results in no net increase of greenhouse gas concentrations in the Earth’s atmosphere Education of an...

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Alex Baumber; Johannes M. Luetz; Graciela Metternicht. Carbon Neutral Education: Reducing Carbon Footprint and Expanding Carbon Brainprint. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals 2019, 1 -13.

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Alex Baumber, Johannes M. Luetz, Graciela Metternicht. Carbon Neutral Education: Reducing Carbon Footprint and Expanding Carbon Brainprint. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. 2019; ():1-13.

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Alex Baumber; Johannes M. Luetz; Graciela Metternicht. 2019. "Carbon Neutral Education: Reducing Carbon Footprint and Expanding Carbon Brainprint." Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals , no. : 1-13.

Chapter
Published: 20 November 2019 in Manual of Digital Earth
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Sustainable development is nothing new, but it has proven notoriously difficult to implement in practice. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, with 17 goals, 169 targets and 232 associated indicators, was approved at the 2015 UN General Assembly and addresses the economic, social and environmental pillars of development, aspiring to attain by 2030 a sustainable future that balances equitable prosperity within planetary boundaries. While the goals are universal (i.e., applicable to both developing and developed countries), it is left to individual countries to establish national Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) targets according to their own priorities and level of ambition in terms of the scale and pace of transformation aspired to.

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Graciela Metternicht; Norman Mueller; Richard Lucas. Digital Earth for Sustainable Development Goals. Manual of Digital Earth 2019, 443 -471.

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Graciela Metternicht, Norman Mueller, Richard Lucas. Digital Earth for Sustainable Development Goals. Manual of Digital Earth. 2019; ():443-471.

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Graciela Metternicht; Norman Mueller; Richard Lucas. 2019. "Digital Earth for Sustainable Development Goals." Manual of Digital Earth , no. : 443-471.

Journal article
Published: 01 November 2019 in Data
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This study establishes the use of the Earth Observation Data for Ecosystem Monitoring (EODESM) to generate land cover and change classifications based on the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) Land Cover Classification System (LCCS) and environmental variables (EVs) available within, or accessible from, Geoscience Australia’s (GA) Digital Earth Australia (DEA). Classifications representing the LCCS Level 3 taxonomy (8 categories representing semi-(natural) and/or cultivated/managed vegetation or natural or artificial bare or water bodies) were generated for two time periods and across four test sites located in the Australian states of Queensland and New South Wales. This was achieved by progressively and hierarchically combining existing time-static layers relating to (a) the extent of artificial surfaces (urban, water) and agriculture and (b) annual summaries of EVs relating to the extent of vegetation (fractional cover) and water (hydroperiod, intertidal area, mangroves) generated through DEA. More detailed classifications that integrated information on, for example, forest structure (based on vegetation cover (%) and height (m); time-static for 2009) and hydroperiod (months), were subsequently produced for each time-step. The overall accuracies of the land cover classifications were dependent upon those reported for the individual input layers, with these ranging from 80% (for cultivated, urban and artificial water) to over 95% (for hydroperiod and fractional cover). The changes identified include mangrove dieback in the southeastern Gulf of Carpentaria and reduced dam water levels and an associated expansion of vegetation in Lake Ross, Burdekin. The extent of detected changes corresponded with those observed using time-series of RapidEye data (2014 to 2016; for the Gulf of Carpentaria) and Google Earth imagery (2009–2016 for Lake Ross). This use case demonstrates the capacity and a conceptual framework to implement EODESM within DEA and provides countries using the Open Data Cube (ODC) environment with the opportunity to routinely generate land cover maps from Landsat or Sentinel-1/2 data, at least annually, using a consistent and internationally recognised taxonomy.

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Richard Lucas; Norman Mueller; Anders Siggins; Christopher Owers; Daniel Clewley; Peter Bunting; Cate Kooymans; Belle Tissott; Ben Lewis; Leo Lymburner; Graciela Metternicht. Land Cover Mapping using Digital Earth Australia. Data 2019, 4, 143 .

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Richard Lucas, Norman Mueller, Anders Siggins, Christopher Owers, Daniel Clewley, Peter Bunting, Cate Kooymans, Belle Tissott, Ben Lewis, Leo Lymburner, Graciela Metternicht. Land Cover Mapping using Digital Earth Australia. Data. 2019; 4 (4):143.

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Richard Lucas; Norman Mueller; Anders Siggins; Christopher Owers; Daniel Clewley; Peter Bunting; Cate Kooymans; Belle Tissott; Ben Lewis; Leo Lymburner; Graciela Metternicht. 2019. "Land Cover Mapping using Digital Earth Australia." Data 4, no. 4: 143.

Journal article
Published: 27 September 2019 in Sustainability
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Implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals requires countries to determine targets for the protection, conservation, or restoration of coastal ecosystems such as mangrove forests by 2030. Satellite remote sensing provides historical and current data on the distribution and dynamics of mangrove forests, essential baseline data that are needed to design suitable policy interventions. In this study, Landsat time series were used to map trends and dynamics of mangrove change over a time span of 30 years (1987–2017) in protected areas of Hainan Island (China). A support vector machine algorithm was combined with visual interpretation of imagery and result showed alternating periods of expansion and loss of mangrove forest at seven selected sites on Hainan Island. Over this period, there was a net decrease in mangrove area of 9.3%, with anthropic activities such as land conversion for aquaculture, wastewater disposal and discharge, and tourism development appearing to be the likely drivers of this decline in cover. Long-term studies examining trends in land use cover change coupled with assessments of drivers of loss or gain enable the development of evidence based on policy and legislation. This forms the basis of financing of natural reserves of management and institutional capacity building, and facilitates public awareness and participation, including co-management.

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Jingjuan Liao; Jianing Zhen; Li Zhang; Graciela Metternicht. Understanding Dynamics of Mangrove Forest on Protected Areas of Hainan Island, China: 30 Years of Evidence from Remote Sensing. Sustainability 2019, 11, 5356 .

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Jingjuan Liao, Jianing Zhen, Li Zhang, Graciela Metternicht. Understanding Dynamics of Mangrove Forest on Protected Areas of Hainan Island, China: 30 Years of Evidence from Remote Sensing. Sustainability. 2019; 11 (19):5356.

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Jingjuan Liao; Jianing Zhen; Li Zhang; Graciela Metternicht. 2019. "Understanding Dynamics of Mangrove Forest on Protected Areas of Hainan Island, China: 30 Years of Evidence from Remote Sensing." Sustainability 11, no. 19: 5356.

Letter
Published: 01 August 2019 in Remote Sensing
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Unprecedented human-induced land cover changes happened in China after the Reform and Opening-up in 1978, matching with the era of Landsat satellite series. However, it is still unknown whether Landsat data can effectively support retrospective analysis of land cover changes in China over the past four decades. Here, for the first time, we conduct a systematic investigation on the availability of Landsat data in China, targeting its application for retrospective and continuous monitoring of land cover changes. The latter is significant to assess impact of land cover changes, and consequences of past land policy and management interventions. The total and valid observations (excluding clouds, cloud shadows, and terrain shadows) from Landsat 5/7/8 from 1984 to 2017 were quantified at pixel scale, based on the cloud computing platform Google Earth Engine (GEE). The results show higher intensity of Landsat observation in the northern part of China as compared to the southern part. The study provides an overall picture of Landsat observations suitable for satellite-based annual land cover monitoring over the entire country. We uncover that two sub-regions of China (i.e., Northeast China-Inner Mongolia-Northwest China, and North China Plain) have sufficient valid observations for retrospective analysis of land cover over 30 years (1987–2017) at an annual interval; whereas the Middle-Lower Yangtze Plain (MLYP) and Xinjiang (XJ) have sufficient observations for annual analyses for the periods 1989–2017 and 2004–2017, respectively. Retrospective analysis of land cover is possible only at a two-year time interval in South China (SC) for the years 1988–2017, Xinjiang (XJ) for the period 1992–2003, and the Tibetan Plateau (TP) during 2004–2017. For the latter geographic regions, land cover dynamics can be analyzed only at a three-year interval prior to 2004. Our retrospective analysis suggest that Landsat-based analysis of land cover dynamics at an annual interval for the whole country is not feasible; instead, national monitoring at two- or three-year intervals could be achievable. This study provides a preliminary assessment of data availability, targeting future continuous land cover monitoring in China; and the code is released to the public to facilitate similar data inventory in other regions of the world.

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Yan Zhou; Jinwei Dong; Jiyuan Liu; Graciela Metternicht; Wei Shen; Nanshan You; Guosong Zhao; Xiangming Xiao. Are There Sufficient Landsat Observations for Retrospective and Continuous Monitoring of Land Cover Changes in China? Remote Sensing 2019, 11, 1808 .

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Yan Zhou, Jinwei Dong, Jiyuan Liu, Graciela Metternicht, Wei Shen, Nanshan You, Guosong Zhao, Xiangming Xiao. Are There Sufficient Landsat Observations for Retrospective and Continuous Monitoring of Land Cover Changes in China? Remote Sensing. 2019; 11 (15):1808.

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Yan Zhou; Jinwei Dong; Jiyuan Liu; Graciela Metternicht; Wei Shen; Nanshan You; Guosong Zhao; Xiangming Xiao. 2019. "Are There Sufficient Landsat Observations for Retrospective and Continuous Monitoring of Land Cover Changes in China?" Remote Sensing 11, no. 15: 1808.

Journal article
Published: 04 March 2019 in World Electric Vehicle Journal
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Transitioning from internal combustion engine vehicles (ICEVs) to innovative technologies, including electric vehicles (EVs), can be a crucial pathway to reducing Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions and other negative externalities arising from fossil-fueled cars used for personal transport. Government action to correct insufficient market incentives has been essential in countries working to enhance EV acceptance; however, to date in Australia, there has been little government support to enact EV uptake. This paper identifies barriers and incentives to EV adoption in Australia through a survey of pro-environmental motorists, including an experimental component to test information provision influences on attitude change. Results evidence that wide ranging factors influence vehicle choice including EVs. Purchase barriers are focused on lack of a comprehensive recharge network and high EV purchase price. Factors encouraging fully EV uptake showed affordable price (56%) increased vehicle range (26%) and an adequate recharge network (28%) were mentioned most often; only 13% specifically indicated environmental regard as influential. Information provided about EVs increased the likelihood of positive attitudes towards EV purchase and decreased uncertainty about the technology. Recommendations arising from this research could be considered by laggard countries that, like Australia, have yet to take significant action to encourage transition to EVs.

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Gail Helen Broadbent; Graciela Metternicht; Danielle Drozdzewski. An Analysis of Consumer Incentives in Support of Electric Vehicle Uptake: An Australian Case Study. World Electric Vehicle Journal 2019, 10, 11 .

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Gail Helen Broadbent, Graciela Metternicht, Danielle Drozdzewski. An Analysis of Consumer Incentives in Support of Electric Vehicle Uptake: An Australian Case Study. World Electric Vehicle Journal. 2019; 10 (1):11.

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Gail Helen Broadbent; Graciela Metternicht; Danielle Drozdzewski. 2019. "An Analysis of Consumer Incentives in Support of Electric Vehicle Uptake: An Australian Case Study." World Electric Vehicle Journal 10, no. 1: 11.

Articles
Published: 10 September 2018 in International Journal of Remote Sensing
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A large earthquake with a magnitude of MW 7.3 struck the border of Iran and Iraq at the province of Kermanshah, Iran. In our study, coseismic deformation and source model of the 12 November 2017 Kermanshah Earthquake are investigated using ALOS-2 ScanSAR and Sentinel-1A/B TOPSAR Differential Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (DInSAR) techniques. Geodetic inversion has been performed to constrain source parameters and invert slip distribution on the fault plane. The optimised source model from joint inversion shows a blind reverse fault with a relatively large right-lateral component, striking 353.5° NNW-SSE and dipping 16.3° NE. The maximum slip is up to 3.8 m at 12–14 km depth and the inferred seismic moment is 1.01 × 1020 Nm, corresponding to MW 7.3, consistent with seismological solutions. The high-resolution optical images from SuperView-1 satellite suggest that most of the linear surface features mapped by DInSAR measurements are landslides or surface cracks triggered by the earthquake. Coulomb stress changes on the source fault indicating consistency between aftershock distribution and high loaded stress zones. Based on the stress change on neighbouring active faults around this area, the Kermanshah Earthquake has brought two segments of the Zagros Mountain Front Fault (MFF), MFF-1 and MFF-2, 0.5–3.1 MPa and 0.5–1.96 MPa closer to failure, respectively, suggesting the risk of future earthquakes. Recent major aftershocks (MW≥ 5.0) could probably ease the seismic hazard on MFF-2, but the risk of earthquakes on MFF-2 is still increasing.

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Jianming Kuang; Linlin Ge; Graciela Isabel Metternicht; Alex Ng; Hua Wang; Mehdi Zare; Farnaz Kamranzad. Coseismic deformation and source model of the 12 November 2017 MW 7.3 Kermanshah Earthquake (Iran–Iraq border) investigated through DInSAR measurements. International Journal of Remote Sensing 2018, 40, 532 -554.

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Jianming Kuang, Linlin Ge, Graciela Isabel Metternicht, Alex Ng, Hua Wang, Mehdi Zare, Farnaz Kamranzad. Coseismic deformation and source model of the 12 November 2017 MW 7.3 Kermanshah Earthquake (Iran–Iraq border) investigated through DInSAR measurements. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 2018; 40 (2):532-554.

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Jianming Kuang; Linlin Ge; Graciela Isabel Metternicht; Alex Ng; Hua Wang; Mehdi Zare; Farnaz Kamranzad. 2018. "Coseismic deformation and source model of the 12 November 2017 MW 7.3 Kermanshah Earthquake (Iran–Iraq border) investigated through DInSAR measurements." International Journal of Remote Sensing 40, no. 2: 532-554.

Journal article
Published: 31 August 2018 in Technology Innovation Management Review
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Alex Baumber; Graciela Metternicht; Peter Ampt; Rebecca Cross; Emily Berry. From Importing Innovations to Co-Producing Them: Transdisciplinary Approaches to the Development of Online Land Management Tools. Technology Innovation Management Review 2018, 8, 16 -26.

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Alex Baumber, Graciela Metternicht, Peter Ampt, Rebecca Cross, Emily Berry. From Importing Innovations to Co-Producing Them: Transdisciplinary Approaches to the Development of Online Land Management Tools. Technology Innovation Management Review. 2018; 8 (8):16-26.

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Alex Baumber; Graciela Metternicht; Peter Ampt; Rebecca Cross; Emily Berry. 2018. "From Importing Innovations to Co-Producing Them: Transdisciplinary Approaches to the Development of Online Land Management Tools." Technology Innovation Management Review 8, no. 8: 16-26.

Journal article
Published: 22 August 2018 in Environmental Science & Policy
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The conceptual framework for Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) highlights that land degradation in developing countries impacts men and women differently, mainly due to unequal access to land, water, credit, extension services and technology. It further asserts that gender inequality plays a significant role in land-degradation-related poverty hence the need to address persistent gender inequalities that fuel women’s poverty in LDN interventions. This paper presents recommendations for moving towards a twin-agenda: gender equality and land degradation neutrality. It first introduces gender dimensions of current global environmental regimes, identifying critical interlinkages between gender equality and women’s human rights and land rights with a focus on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD). Next, it analyses gender entry points in the LDN conceptual framework, presenting promising gender mainstreaming practices in local efforts to address land degradation. The research methods of content analysis of relevant literature, including official documents of the UNCCD Conference of the Parties (COP); collection and analysis of case studies from different geographies to identify promising gender-responsive practices at country and local levels; and the analysis of the outcomes from a capacity building workshop on gender mainstreaming held during the COP13 in Ordos, China, in September 2017 are used to recommend how gender perspectives can be incorporated into policies, programs and interventions aimed to avoid, reduce or reverse land degradation at local and national levels.

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Verona Collantes; Karina Kloos; Paulette Henry; Atieno Mboya; Tzili Mor; Graciela Metternicht. Moving towards a twin-agenda: Gender equality and land degradation neutrality. Environmental Science & Policy 2018, 89, 247 -253.

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Verona Collantes, Karina Kloos, Paulette Henry, Atieno Mboya, Tzili Mor, Graciela Metternicht. Moving towards a twin-agenda: Gender equality and land degradation neutrality. Environmental Science & Policy. 2018; 89 ():247-253.

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Verona Collantes; Karina Kloos; Paulette Henry; Atieno Mboya; Tzili Mor; Graciela Metternicht. 2018. "Moving towards a twin-agenda: Gender equality and land degradation neutrality." Environmental Science & Policy 89, no. : 247-253.

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Published: 21 July 2018 in Environmental Science & Policy
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Viewing humans as drivers of change operating outside the natural environment is unhelpful for defining interventions that effectively manage change and complexity. Indeed, there is now broad agreement that environmental governance needs to consider integrated social-ecological systems (SES) in order to tackle the world’s grand challenges of land degradation. This requires a more differentiated, innovative approach that considers how changes in SES shape the functioning of land systems as a whole, and the synergies and trade-off these changes may produce. In this study, we identify and discuss some of the ways SES science and practice can inspire progress towards land degradation neutrality (LDN) outcomes in an integrated manner, through synthesis of literature and relevant documents related to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD). We do these by considering: (i) how LDN has been approached to date and the challenges likely to undermine progress towards achieving it; and (ii) an SES-based LDN approach relevant to the neutrality agenda, in particular, by describing how LDN might be thought of differently through an SES lens. We argue that an SES approach focusing on: (i) “people as part of nature”, not “people and nature”; and (ii) the frame of reference against which neutrality can be assessed across temporal and spatial dimensions, is necessary to both inform policy and guide actions of the different groups involved in avoiding and combating land degradation. Such an (integrated) approach adds a dimension (to achieving neutrality goals) not previously explored in sustainable land management and LDN research. Important next steps in operationalising the SES-based LDN approach involve empirical and field case studies, requiring interdisciplinary, mixed method techniques.

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Uche T. Okpara; Lindsay C. Stringer; Mariam Akhtar-Schuster; Graciela I. Metternicht; Martin Dallimer; Mélanie Requier-Desjardins. A social-ecological systems approach is necessary to achieve land degradation neutrality. Environmental Science & Policy 2018, 89, 59 -66.

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Uche T. Okpara, Lindsay C. Stringer, Mariam Akhtar-Schuster, Graciela I. Metternicht, Martin Dallimer, Mélanie Requier-Desjardins. A social-ecological systems approach is necessary to achieve land degradation neutrality. Environmental Science & Policy. 2018; 89 ():59-66.

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Uche T. Okpara; Lindsay C. Stringer; Mariam Akhtar-Schuster; Graciela I. Metternicht; Martin Dallimer; Mélanie Requier-Desjardins. 2018. "A social-ecological systems approach is necessary to achieve land degradation neutrality." Environmental Science & Policy 89, no. : 59-66.

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Published: 01 July 2018 in IGARSS 2018 - 2018 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium
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In this paper, ground deformation and source model of the 12 November 2017 Kermanshah Earthquake (border region between Iran and Iraq) are investigated by using ALOS-2 ScanSAR and Sentinel-lAiB TOPSAR co-seismic Differential Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (DInSAR) measurements. Geodetic inversion has been performed to constrain source parameters and invert slip distribution on the fault plane. Stress changes on the source fault and neighboring active faults around this area are estimated based on co-seismic deformation. The best-fit source model shows a reverse fault with a relative large right-lateral component, striking 353.5° NNW-SSE and dipping 16.3° NE. The maximum slip is up to 3.8m at 12-14 km depth and the inferred seismic moment is 1.01×10 20 Nm, corresponding to Mw 7.3. The positive stress changes on the neighboring active faults indicate that this event may trigger other earthquakes on the Zagros Mountain Front Fault (MFF).

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Jianming Kuang; Linlin Ge; Graciela Isabel Metternicht; Alex Hay-Man Ng; Mehdi Zare; Farnaz Kamranzad. Source Model of the 12 November 2017 Mw 7.3 Kermanshah Earthquake (Iran-Iraq Border) Inferred from ALOS-2 Scansar and Sentinel-L Data. IGARSS 2018 - 2018 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium 2018, 3055 -3058.

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Jianming Kuang, Linlin Ge, Graciela Isabel Metternicht, Alex Hay-Man Ng, Mehdi Zare, Farnaz Kamranzad. Source Model of the 12 November 2017 Mw 7.3 Kermanshah Earthquake (Iran-Iraq Border) Inferred from ALOS-2 Scansar and Sentinel-L Data. IGARSS 2018 - 2018 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium. 2018; ():3055-3058.

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Jianming Kuang; Linlin Ge; Graciela Isabel Metternicht; Alex Hay-Man Ng; Mehdi Zare; Farnaz Kamranzad. 2018. "Source Model of the 12 November 2017 Mw 7.3 Kermanshah Earthquake (Iran-Iraq Border) Inferred from ALOS-2 Scansar and Sentinel-L Data." IGARSS 2018 - 2018 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium , no. : 3055-3058.

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Published: 13 January 2018 in Atmospheric and Space Sciences: Ionospheres and Plasma Environments
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Unpacking the different aspects of SLM (i.e., maximizing economic and social benefits, and maintaining or enhancing the ecological support functions of land resources).

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Graciela Metternicht. Principles of Best Practice in Land Use Planning for SLM. Atmospheric and Space Sciences: Ionospheres and Plasma Environments 2018, 15 -33.

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Graciela Metternicht. Principles of Best Practice in Land Use Planning for SLM. Atmospheric and Space Sciences: Ionospheres and Plasma Environments. 2018; ():15-33.

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Graciela Metternicht. 2018. "Principles of Best Practice in Land Use Planning for SLM." Atmospheric and Space Sciences: Ionospheres and Plasma Environments , no. : 15-33.

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Published: 13 January 2018 in Atmospheric and Space Sciences: Ionospheres and Plasma Environments
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In September 2015, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the 2030 agenda for sustainable development, a plan of action for people, the planet and prosperity (UNGA 2015).

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Graciela Metternicht. Land Use Planning for Advancing Internationally Agreed Development Goals. Atmospheric and Space Sciences: Ionospheres and Plasma Environments 2018, 53 -59.

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Graciela Metternicht. Land Use Planning for Advancing Internationally Agreed Development Goals. Atmospheric and Space Sciences: Ionospheres and Plasma Environments. 2018; ():53-59.

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Graciela Metternicht. 2018. "Land Use Planning for Advancing Internationally Agreed Development Goals." Atmospheric and Space Sciences: Ionospheres and Plasma Environments , no. : 53-59.