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  1. Article: The physics of conservation culturomics: the mass-energy-information equivalence principle to address misrepresented controversies.

    Troumbis, Andreas Y

    Heliyon

    2021  Volume 7, Issue 2, Page(s) e06333

    Abstract: The application of the mass-energy-information equivalence principle developed after the experimentally demonstrated Landauer's principle on thermodynamics, entropy, and information is an unexplored but promising path in search of objectivity and ... ...

    Abstract The application of the mass-energy-information equivalence principle developed after the experimentally demonstrated Landauer's principle on thermodynamics, entropy, and information is an unexplored but promising path in search of objectivity and compatibility between strict physical and mathematical entities and relative human behavior in biodiversity conservation issues. Conservation culturomics is proposed as the epistemic methodology and programme to trace the evolution in cultural human-nature relationships. Historically, controversies do persist between pro- vs. non- environmental opinions and policies. The proposed combination of physics and culturomics is feasible, although complex, multileveled, and depending on a series of academic, technical, and political prerequisites. In the era of staggering information technologies, Internet use proliferation and cultural relativism, reliable information on conservation knowledge vs. often unfounded story-tellings is a sine qua non for the development of badly needed modern global conservation strategies, targets, and goals.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-02-25
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2835763-2
    ISSN 2405-8440
    ISSN 2405-8440
    DOI 10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e06333
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  2. Article ; Online: Testing the socioeconomic determinants of COVID-19 pandemic hypothesis with aggregated Human Development Index.

    Troumbis, Andreas Y

    Journal of epidemiology and community health

    2020  

    Language English
    Publishing date 2020-12-08
    Publishing country England
    Document type Letter
    ZDB-ID 391868-3
    ISSN 1470-2738 ; 0142-467X ; 0141-7681 ; 0143-005X
    ISSN (online) 1470-2738
    ISSN 0142-467X ; 0141-7681 ; 0143-005X
    DOI 10.1136/jech-2020-215986
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  3. Article: Imbalances in attitudes of European citizens towards biodiversity: Did the communication of the European Biodiversity Strategy work?

    Troumbis, Andreas Y.

    Journal for nature conservation

    2021  Volume 63, Issue -, Page(s) 126041

    Language English
    Document type Article
    ZDB-ID 2077553-2
    ISSN 1617-1381
    Database Current Contents Nutrition, Environment, Agriculture

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  4. Article: Imbalances in attitudes of European citizens towards biodiversity: Did the communication of the European Biodiversity Strategy work?

    Troumbis, Andreas Y.

    Journal for nature conservation. 2021 Oct., v. 63

    2021  

    Abstract: The European Union is the forefront supra-national Institution leading worldwide the environmental and biodiversity conservation strategy evolution. However, European citizens appear as poorly aware of the core relative concepts and policies within the ... ...

    Abstract The European Union is the forefront supra-national Institution leading worldwide the environmental and biodiversity conservation strategy evolution. However, European citizens appear as poorly aware of the core relative concepts and policies within the EU’s territory. This paper examines whether: (1) there are ‘imbalances’ in Europeans’ attitudes towards biodiversity between the Member States and more specifically between formal or informal country-groups (e.g. the Med 7 or the Nordic Council/Baltic Assembly); (2) the European Biodiversity Strategy is effective in achieving the goal of increasing people awareness and engagement as predicted in its own formally ratified resolutions; and, (3) information from Google Trends-based conservation culturomics techniques and public opinion Eurobarometer surveys is comparable and converges quantitatively. Large data sets of ca 40 nominal, ordinal, and count variables were analyzed using General and Generalized Linear Models to identify those which form a coherent and significant explanatory scheme. It is suggested that the communication of the European Biodiversity strategy should be re-oriented towards processes, risks, benefits, and costs to people to give a new breath to the incumbent conservation narrative.
    Keywords European Union ; biodiversity ; biodiversity conservation ; public opinion
    Language English
    Dates of publication 2021-10
    Publishing place Elsevier GmbH
    Document type Article
    ZDB-ID 2077553-2
    ISSN 1618-1093 ; 1617-1381
    ISSN (online) 1618-1093
    ISSN 1617-1381
    DOI 10.1016/j.jnc.2021.126041
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  5. Article ; Online: Probabilistic Wildfire Risk Assessment and Modernization Transitions: The Case of Greece

    Troumbis, Andreas Y. / Gaganis, Cleo Maria / Sideropoulos, Haralambos

    Fire. 2023 Apr. 14, v. 6, no. 4

    2023  

    Abstract: Wildfire is the primary cause of deforestation in fire-prone environments, disrupting the forest transition process generated by multiple social-ecological drivers of modernization. Given the positive feedback between climate change and wildfire-driven ... ...

    Abstract Wildfire is the primary cause of deforestation in fire-prone environments, disrupting the forest transition process generated by multiple social-ecological drivers of modernization. Given the positive feedback between climate change and wildfire-driven deforestation, it seems necessary to abstract the primary- or micro-characteristics of wildfire event(s) and focus on the general behavior of the phenomenon across time and space. This paper intends to couple wildfire self-organizing criticality theory (SOC) and modernization statistics to propose a verisimilar explanation of the phenomenon’s evolution in the past decades and a prediction of its trends in Greece. We use power law distributions of the fire frequency–magnitude relationship to estimate the basic SOC parameters and the Weibull reliability method to calculate large-size wildfires’ conditional probability as a time function. We use automatic linear modeling to search for the most accurate relationship between wildfire metrics and the best subset of modernization predictors. The discussion concentrates on reframing the political debate on fire prevention vs. suppression, its flaws and limitations, and the core challenges for adopting more efficient wildfire management policies in Greece.
    Keywords Weibull statistics ; climate change ; deforestation ; fire prevention ; forests ; modernization ; politics ; prediction ; probability ; risk assessment ; wildfires ; wildland fire management ; Greece
    Language English
    Dates of publication 2023-0414
    Publishing place Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
    Document type Article ; Online
    ISSN 2571-6255
    DOI 10.3390/fire6040158
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  6. Article ; Online: The physics of conservation culturomics

    Andreas Y. Troumbis

    Heliyon, Vol 7, Iss 2, Pp e06333- (2021)

    the mass-energy-information equivalence principle to address misrepresented controversies

    2021  

    Abstract: The application of the mass-energy-information equivalence principle developed after the experimentally demonstrated Landauer's principle on thermodynamics, entropy, and information is an unexplored but promising path in search of objectivity and ... ...

    Abstract The application of the mass-energy-information equivalence principle developed after the experimentally demonstrated Landauer's principle on thermodynamics, entropy, and information is an unexplored but promising path in search of objectivity and compatibility between strict physical and mathematical entities and relative human behavior in biodiversity conservation issues. Conservation culturomics is proposed as the epistemic methodology and programme to trace the evolution in cultural human-nature relationships. Historically, controversies do persist between pro- vs. non- environmental opinions and policies. The proposed combination of physics and culturomics is feasible, although complex, multileveled, and depending on a series of academic, technical, and political prerequisites. In the era of staggering information technologies, Internet use proliferation and cultural relativism, reliable information on conservation knowledge vs. often unfounded story-tellings is a sine qua non for the development of badly needed modern global conservation strategies, targets, and goals.
    Keywords Mass ; Energy ; Information ; Public interest ; Conservation culturomics ; Science (General) ; Q1-390 ; Social sciences (General) ; H1-99
    Subject code 306
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-02-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher Elsevier
    Document type Article ; Online
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  7. Article: Uncovering patterns of public perceptions towards biodiversity crime using conservation culturomics.

    Troumbis, Andreas Y / Iosifidis, Spyridon / Kalloniatis, Christos

    Crime, law, and social change

    2022  Volume 78, Issue 4, Page(s) 405–426

    Abstract: This paper examines aspects of the relationship between (1) the recently typified form of biodiversity crime, (2) information made available to the public through the Internet, and (3) cultural dynamics quantified through info-surveillance methods ... ...

    Abstract This paper examines aspects of the relationship between (1) the recently typified form of biodiversity crime, (2) information made available to the public through the Internet, and (3) cultural dynamics quantified through info-surveillance methods through Culturomics techniques. We propose two conceptual models: (1) the building-up process of a biodiversity crime
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-04-30
    Publishing country Netherlands
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2015096-9
    ISSN 1573-0751 ; 0925-4994
    ISSN (online) 1573-0751
    ISSN 0925-4994
    DOI 10.1007/s10611-022-10028-z
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  8. Article: Diverging rationalities between forest fire management services and the general public after the 21st-century mega-fires in Greece

    Troumbis, Andreas Y. / Kalabokidis, Kostas / Palaiologou, Palaiologos

    Journal of forestry research. 2022 Apr., v. 33, no. 2

    2022  

    Abstract: Wildfire risk related to hazards on people and assets is expected to increase in the face of climate change, especially in fire-prone environments such as the Mediterranean Basin. Distinguishing rationalities, i.e., the complex profile of multi-thematic, ...

    Abstract Wildfire risk related to hazards on people and assets is expected to increase in the face of climate change, especially in fire-prone environments such as the Mediterranean Basin. Distinguishing rationalities, i.e., the complex profile of multi-thematic, wildfire-related perceptions that collectively characterize and quantify all of a society’s responses, its interrelations, and influence on its insights, are of primary importance to understand the degree of preparedness and the direction that wildfire management policies are moving. Greece is a country that suffered mega-wildfire events during the first years of the twenty-first century. This paper presents a scheme of advanced multivariate statistical procedures applied on standard social survey questionnaires to uncover different or similar rationalities between fire management services and the general public. Profession-centered versus message-oriented rationalities is defined. They differ mainly on the priorities attributed to strengthening personnel and equipment capacities versus the need for public education and awareness. Both are evaluated against the needs of long-term risk assessment and forest management policies in Greece. The main conclusion is that Greek society, although traumatized by recent fire disasters, is not yet prepared for long-term strategic forestry adaptation and planning.
    Keywords climate change ; education ; equipment ; forest fire management ; forest management ; human resources ; research ; risk ; risk assessment ; society ; surveys ; wildfires ; wildland fire management ; Greece ; Mediterranean region
    Language English
    Dates of publication 2022-04
    Size p. 553-564.
    Publishing place Springer Singapore
    Document type Article
    ZDB-ID 2299615-1
    ISSN 1993-0607 ; 1007-662X
    ISSN (online) 1993-0607
    ISSN 1007-662X
    DOI 10.1007/s11676-021-01371-3
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  9. Article: The time and timing components of conservation culturomics cycles and scenarios of public interest in the Google era

    Troumbis, Andreas Y

    Biodiversity and conservation. 2019 June, v. 28, no. 7

    2019  

    Abstract: Analysis of Google Trends data on Internet crowd-searches regarding biodiversity conservation and global change is steadily developing as a meta-information data stream on public interest in environmental issues and challenges. Literature develops on the ...

    Abstract Analysis of Google Trends data on Internet crowd-searches regarding biodiversity conservation and global change is steadily developing as a meta-information data stream on public interest in environmental issues and challenges. Literature develops on the validity and multiple determinants of Google Trends, involving a large palette of constraints regarding the adoption of simplistic linear regressions of search volumes versus time. In this paper, we focus on the analysis of monthly (or yearly) deviations from long-term averages of Google Trends as descriptors of public interest variability. We propose (1) a SWOT-like Methodological-Social/Ecological-Technical-Conceptual framework of Google Trends based analysis of culturomics; (2) a series of specific data on deviations or error distribution regarding flag-terms of conservation discourse; and, (3) two potential mechanisms driving fluctuations of Google Trends.
    Keywords Internet ; biodiversity conservation ; global change
    Language English
    Dates of publication 2019-06
    Size p. 1717-1727.
    Publishing place Springer Netherlands
    Document type Article
    ZDB-ID 2000787-5
    ISSN 1572-9710 ; 0960-3115
    ISSN (online) 1572-9710
    ISSN 0960-3115
    DOI 10.1007/s10531-019-01750-7
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  10. Article: Biodiversity crime and economic crisis: Hidden mechanisms of misuse of ecosystem goods in Greece

    Troumbis, Andreas Y / Zevgolis, Yiannis

    Land use policy. 2020 Dec., v. 99

    2020  

    Abstract: The paper presents the case of biodiversity misuse in urban and rural areas of Greece during the years of economic recession (2008–2019). The hypothesis addressed is that if fiscal crisis and economic recession lead to biodiversity misuse, then, even ... ...

    Abstract The paper presents the case of biodiversity misuse in urban and rural areas of Greece during the years of economic recession (2008–2019). The hypothesis addressed is that if fiscal crisis and economic recession lead to biodiversity misuse, then, even strong conservation strategies such as those allegedly implemented in developed countries may not be resilient to macro-economic shocks. Empirical data and official statistics are combined in an interpretive way. Mechanisms that enable criminal misuse of biotic resources in protected areas, forests and coastal areas of the country are defined and quantified through specific examples of illegal hunting, logging and fishing. They are defined as the Active Sampling effect, the Market De-concentration effect and the Underground Market effect of crisis. Such crime enablers are not, most likely, country-level singularities; they can be generalized both through their trans-boundary effects and in view of their interference with international conservation strategy and Law.
    Keywords biodiversity ; crime ; economic crises ; economic recession ; ecosystems ; land policy ; markets ; statistics ; Greece
    Language English
    Dates of publication 2020-12
    Publishing place Elsevier Ltd
    Document type Article
    Note NAL-AP-2-clean
    ZDB-ID 852476-2
    ISSN 0264-8377
    ISSN 0264-8377
    DOI 10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.105061
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