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1. Overcoming Blind Spots to Promote Environmental Justice Research

Author:
Miriti, Maria N.; Bowser, Gillian; Cid, Carmen R.; Harris, Nyeema C.
Source:
Trends in ecology & evolution 2021 v.36 no.4 pp. 269-273
ISSN:
0169-5347
Subject:
environmental sustainability,   etc   ; ecology; evolution;     Show all 3 Subjects
Abstract:
... Ecological research includes social–ecological–evolutionary processes, but the intersectionality and feedbacks between ecology and environmental justice (EJ) remain low. We here present opportunities for ecological research contributions to EJ. Ultimately, such work can reduce racial and social disparities in environmental provisioning and improve global environmental sustainability. ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.tree.2020.12.011

2. The Social Licence to Operate and the legitimacy of resource extraction

Author:
Meesters, Marieke; Wostyn, Piet; van Leeuwen, Judith; Behagel, Jelle Hendrik; Turnhout, Esther
Source:
Current opinion in environmental sustainability 2021 v.49 pp. 7-11
ISSN:
1877-3435
Subject:
environmental sustainability,   etc   ; politics; stakeholders;     Show all 3 Subjects
Abstract:
... The Social Licence to Operate (SLO) has emerged as a leading concept to assess the legitimacy of extractive operations. This article examines recent SLO literature to discuss how the SLO is conceptualized and enacted. Our discussion focuses on three main themes: (1) who are considered to be relevant stakeholders; (2) the ways in which these stakeholders are engaged; and (3) how social and environm ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.cosust.2020.11.002

3. Entry points for addressing justice and politics in urban flood adaptation decision making

Author:
Eakin, Hallie; Parajuli, Jagadish; Yogya, Yamini; Hernández, Bertha; Manheim, Marisa
Source:
Current opinion in environmental sustainability 2021 v.51 pp. 1-6
ISSN:
1877-3435
Subject:
environmental sustainability,   etc   ; politics; risk; stakeholders;     Show all 4 Subjects
Abstract:
... Adaptation decisions are necessarily about the distribution of risk and resources and thus are inherently political, with implications for equity and justice. These concerns are increasingly recognized to be pertinent in adaptation to urban flooding. Yet, the technical orientation of many flood adaptation interventions and decision-support may make these issues less visible in flood decision-proce ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.cosust.2021.01.001

4. Community-based monitoring for environmental sustainability: A review of characteristics and the synthesis of criteria

Author:
Muhamad Khair, Nur Khairlida; Lee, Khai Ern; Mokhtar, Mazlin
Source:
Journal of environmental management 2021 v.289 pp. 112491
ISSN:
0301-4797
Subject:
environmental sustainability,   etc   ; environmental management; governance;     Show all 3 Subjects
Abstract:
... Community-based monitoring is increasingly recognised as one solution to sustainable environmental management. However, the development of community-based monitoring has led to confusion or misconceptions regarding other similar initiatives. Through a review of the characteristics and synthesising criteria of effective community-based monitoring, this article addresses how to distinguish community ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.112491

5. Loss and damage implications of sea-level rise on Small Island Developing States

Author:
Martyr-Koller, Rosanne; Thomas, Adelle; Schleussner, Carl-Friedrich; Nauels, Alexander; Lissner, Tabea
Source:
Current opinion in environmental sustainability 2021 v.50 pp. 245-259
ISSN:
1877-3435
Subject:
environmental sustainability,   etc   ; infrastructure; sea level;     Show all 3 Subjects
Abstract:
... Sea-level rise poses a significant threat to Small Island Developing States (SIDS) due to the concentration of people, assets, and infrastructure in coastal zones. This review assesses literature on key emerging topics in sea level rise including: the lasting impact of near-term mitigation on long-term sea-level rise; new global coastal vertical elevation data and their impact on existing sea-leve ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.cosust.2021.05.001

6. Fostering bottom-up actor coalitions for transforming complex rural territorial pathways

Author:
Bastiaensen, Johan; Huybrechs, Frédéric; Merlet, Pierre; Romero, Milagros; Van Hecken, Gert
Source:
Current opinion in environmental sustainability 2021 v.49 pp. 42-49
ISSN:
1877-3435
Subject:
environmental sustainability,   etc   ; politics; uncertainty; Nicaragua;     Show all 4 Subjects
Abstract:
... This contribution presents the perspective on rural transformations to sustainability of the TRUEPATH action-research project in the agrarian frontier in Nicaragua. We start from a ‘territorial pathways’ framework, assembled from diverse theoretical building blocks and empirically grounded in experiences with local development interventions. This framework holds that incumbent and transformative p ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.cosust.2021.02.001

7. Responsible research and innovation and social licence to operate: aligning concepts for advancing marine innovation and development governance

Author:
Edwards, Peter; Fleming, Aysha; Kelly, Rachel
Source:
Current opinion in environmental sustainability 2021 v.49 pp. 12-17
ISSN:
1877-3435
Subject:
environmental sustainability,   etc   ; governance; society; stakeholders;     Show all 4 Subjects
Abstract:
... Considering social expectations is important when adopting new technologies, however, they do not necessarily align. Identifying societal values, and the ways that social actors, are involved in science and innovation processes are critical. Two concepts are gaining attention around the social context of technology – Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) and Social Licence to Operate (SLO). Bo ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.cosust.2020.11.003

8. Diversifying the Landscape with Animal Integration: An Introduction to the Environmental Sustainability of Crop–Livestock Systems

Author:
Delate, Kathleen; Heins, Bradley J.
Source:
Agronomy 2021 v.11 no.1
ISSN:
2073-4395
Subject:
environmental sustainability,   etc   ; agronomy; animals; landscapes;     Show all 4 Subjects
Abstract:
... In this Special Issue of “Environmental Sustainability of Crop–Livestock Systems,” we collected eleven articles that represent a wide breadth of integrated systems around the world, including the U [...] ...
DOI:
10.3390/agronomy11010140

9. Collaborative planning through dialogue models: situated practices, the pursuit of transferability and the role of leadership

Author:
Palm, Jenny; Lazoroska, Daniela
Source:
Journal of environmental planning and management 2021 v.64 no.1 pp. 164-181
ISSN:
1360-0559
Subject:
environmental sustainability,   etc   ; energy; leadership; Sweden;     Show all 4 Subjects
Abstract:
... Sweden is considered an environmental sustainability pioneer, targeting a 50% reduction in energy use in buildings by 2050. This ambitious goal requires the active engagement of municipal actors and the building sector. Dialogue processes have been identified as a way to mobilize such engagement, but in earlier research, there has been a lack of studies where dialogue practices are analyzed in rea ...
DOI:
10.1080/09640568.2020.1756758

10. Fisheries conflicts as drivers of social transformation

Author:
Dahlet, Lol Iana; Himes-Cornell, Amber; Metzner, Rebecca
Source:
Current opinion in environmental sustainability 2021 v.53 pp. 9-19
ISSN:
1877-3435
Subject:
environmental sustainability,   etc   ; conflict management; fisheries; stakeholders;     Show all 4 Subjects
Abstract:
... Fisheries social-ecological systems regularly experience conflicts. In many regions of the world, the way conflicts are dealt with may lead to social transformation resulting from changes in tenure rights. This analysis is focused on the many types of fisheries tenure, access and user rights and reveals that some sort of conflict is present in the majority of them. In the fisheries sector, the pri ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.cosust.2021.03.011

11. Climate urgency: evidence of its effects on decision making in the laboratory and the field

Author:
Wilson, Andrew JS; Orlove, Ben
Source:
Current opinion in environmental sustainability 2021 v.51 pp. 65-76
ISSN:
1877-3435
Subject:
environmental sustainability,   etc   ; climate; climate change; motivation; risk;     Show all 5 Subjects
Abstract:
... Increasingly, a wide variety of actors describe climate change as urgent. Urgency arises when the time available for making a decision is short—relative to task complexity and the time required for implementing the selected options—but the decision faced is nonetheless important. Recent behavioral experiments and observational studies suggest that urgency affects decision making. In particular, a ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.cosust.2021.02.007

12. Expertise and exclusivity in adaptation decision-making

Author:
Falzon, Danielle
Source:
Current opinion in environmental sustainability 2021 v.51 pp. 95-100
ISSN:
1877-3435
Subject:
environmental sustainability,   etc   ; climate change; decision making;     Show all 3 Subjects
Abstract:
... Climate change adaptation decision-making has been dominated by professional experts while vulnerable communities have limited input. In order to understand the unequal distribution of power among adaptation actors, I propose the ‘adaptation field’ as an advantageous theoretical tool. In the adaptation field, professional experts are constructed as the ultimate authority on how adaptation should t ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.cosust.2021.03.016

13. Does the importance of environmental issues within an industry affect the relationship between lean operations and corporate financial performance?

Author:
Manikas, Andrew S.; Kroes, James R.; Foster, Benjamin P.
Source:
Sustainable Production and Consumption 2021 v.27 pp. 2112-2120
ISSN:
2352-5509
Subject:
environmental sustainability,   etc   ; equipment; finance; industry; inventories;     Show all 5 Subjects
Abstract:
... Lean operations and environmental sustainability have been generally accepted to be complementary activities, although prior studies have not found consistent relationships between these factors and corporate financial performance. It has been proposed that these inconsistent findings might be due to industry-specific differences in sustainability. Thus, this study examines: (i) whether the level ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.spc.2021.05.015

14. Retailing local food through supermarkets: Cases from Belgium and the Netherlands

Author:
Zwart, Tjitske Anna; Wertheim-Heck, Sigrid C.O.
Source:
Journal of cleaner production 2021 v.300 pp. 126948
ISSN:
0959-6526
Subject:
environmental sustainability,   etc   ; economic sustainability; supermarkets; Belgium; Netherlands;     Show all 5 Subjects
Abstract:
... The (re)localization of food systems is often presented as an alternative to the ‘globalized’ food system and its presumed unsustainabilities. Studies on sustainability transitions and food systems (re)localization predominantly address the role of Alternative Food Networks whereas the role that conventional supermarket based retail can play has not been as thoroughly studied. Supermarkets, howeve ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.126948

15. Climate change, slow onset events and human mobility: reviewing the evidence

Author:
Zickgraf, Caroline
Source:
Current opinion in environmental sustainability 2021 v.50 pp. 21-30
ISSN:
1877-3435
Subject:
environmental sustainability,   etc   ; climate change; databases; geography; humans;     Show all 5 Subjects
Abstract:
... This article synthesizes recent empirical literature on human mobility linked to slow-onset impacts of climate change. Through a review of the CLIMIG database from 2015 to 2020, it assesses the state of knowledge on human mobility related to slow onset events by distilling peer-reviewed articles across world regions, with particular attention given to developing country contexts. On top of providi ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.cosust.2020.11.007

16. Financing loss and damage from slow onset events in developing countries

Author:
Robinson, Stacy-ann; Khan, Mizan; Roberts, J Timmons; Weikmans, Romain; Ciplet, David
Source:
Current opinion in environmental sustainability 2021 v.50 pp. 138-148
ISSN:
1877-3435
Subject:
environmental sustainability,   etc   ; climate; insurance; systematic review;     Show all 4 Subjects
Abstract:
... Based on a systematic review of journal articles, books and book chapters, and policy papers, we evaluate possible sources of finance for addressing loss and damage from slow onset climate events in developing countries. We find that most publications explore insurance schemes which are not appropriate for most slow onset events. From this, we determine that only a few sources are sustainable. Lev ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.cosust.2021.03.014

17. Prospects of insects as food and feed

Author:
van Huis, Arnold
Source:
Organic agriculture 2021 v.11 no.2 pp. 301-308
ISSN:
1879-4238
Subject:
environmental sustainability,   etc   ; hygiene; organic production; stakeholders;     Show all 4 Subjects
Abstract:
... In the last 10 years, the interest to use insects as food and feed has increased exponentially. In tropical zones, insects are a common food item as they are more readily available as food in nature than in other climate zones. However, if we want to promote insects as food and feed, harvesting from nature is not an option and the farming of these animals is required. This can be done in environme ...
DOI:
10.1007/s13165-020-00290-7

18. Homochiral metal–organic frameworks for enantioseparation

Author:
Liu, Juan; Mukherjee, Soumya; Wang, Fei; Fischer, Roland A.; Zhang, Jian
Source:
Chemical Society reviews 2021 v.50 no.9 pp. 5706-5745
ISSN:
1460-4744
Subject:
environmental sustainability,   etc   ; enantioselectivity; human health; ligands; models;     Show all 5 Subjects
Abstract:
... Obtaining homochiral compounds is of high importance to human health and environmental sustainability. Currently, enantioseparation is one of the most effective approaches to obtain homochiral compounds. Thanks to their controlled synthesis and high efficiency, homochiral metal–organic frameworks (HMOFs) are one of the most widely studied porous materials to enable enantioseparation. In this revie ...
DOI:
10.1039/d0cs01236j

19. Co-production of knowledge and sustainability transformations: a strategic compass for global research networks

Author:
Schneider, Flurina; Tribaldos, Theresa; Adler, Carolina; Biggs, Reinette (Oonsie); de Bremond, Ariane; Buser, Tobias; Krug, Cornelia; Loutre, Marie-France; Moore, Sarah; Norström, Albert V; Paulavets, Katsia; Urbach, Davnah; Spehn, Eva; Wülser, Gabriela; Zondervan, Ruben
Source:
Current opinion in environmental sustainability 2021 v.49 pp. 127-142
ISSN:
1877-3435
Subject:
environmental sustainability,   etc   ; attitudes and opinions; learning;     Show all 3 Subjects
Abstract:
... An increasing number of voices highlight the need for science itself to transform and to engage in the co-production of knowledge and action, in order to enable the fundamental transformations needed to advance towards sustainable futures. But how can global sustainability-oriented research networks engage in co-production of knowledge and action? The present article introduces a strategic tool ca ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.cosust.2021.04.007

20. Transformation beyond conservation: how critical social science can contribute to a radical new agenda in biodiversity conservation

Author:
Massarella, Kate; Nygren, Anja; Fletcher, Robert; Büscher, Bram; Kiwango, Wilhelm A; Komi, Sanna; Krauss, Judith E; Mabele, Mathew B; McInturff, Alex; Sandroni, Laila T; Alagona, Peter S; Brockington, Dan; Coates, Robert; Duffy, Rosaleen; Ferraz, Katia M.P.M.B.; Koot, Stasja; Marchini, Silvio; Percequillo, Alexandre R
Source:
Current opinion in environmental sustainability 2021 v.49 pp. 79-87
ISSN:
1877-3435
Subject:
environmental sustainability,   etc   ; Anthropocene epoch; biodiversity conservation;     Show all 3 Subjects
Abstract:
... Multiple proposals for transforming biodiversity conservation have been put forward, yet critical exploration of how transformative change is conceptualised in this context is lacking. Drawing on transformations to sustainability scholarship, we review recent proposals for transformative change in biodiversity conservation, considering the suggested goals and means of transformation. We outline th ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.cosust.2021.03.005