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... This review article analyses the interconnectedness of different fields of social practice. Our aim is to understand if and how the literature using social practice theory addresses these interrelations and how this is linked to questions of sustainability transformations. Based on our review, we suggest a framework that conceives everyday-life practices of working, dwelling, mobility, eating, and ...
... Waste recycling constitutes an important part of sustainable municipal eco-management, but the chronic and enduring problem in China is how to motivate residents to participate. Although previous research has found that persuasive incentives can exert a powerful influence on people’s pro-environmental behavior, little work placed much emphasis on the effect of various incentives and make a compari ...
publicpolicy, etc ; advocacy; education; finance; medicine; sports; Show all 6 Subjects
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... In Australia, community sport plays an essential role in the objectives of national sports organizations and local and national social policy more generally. The opinions of senior community sport club officials (n=53) in rural New South Wales concerning sustainability, policy and advocacy matters impacting upon community sports clubs (CSCs) were identified. Participants were surveyed to establish ...
publicpolicy, etc ; crime; crime prevention; deforestation; forests; Brazil; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Forest crimes are a sparsely researched topic. There is ample evidence that protected areas play a role in lessening deforestation in the developing world, but their relationship to forest crimes is unknown. We examine the coastal municipalities of São Paulo State, Brazil to identify what role protected areas play in the incidence of forest crimes, using a series of regression models. Our findings ...
publicpolicy, etc ; agricultural policy; mechanization; peasantry; tractors; Africa; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Mechanisation has made a comeback to agricultural policy in Africa, encouraging scholars to revisit seminal literature on induced innovation. Recent studies emphasise the role for markets in addressing Africa’s mechanisation gaps and warn about past government failures to be avoided. The trust in the ability of markets to offer optimal solutions is debatable. Markets are shaped, as states are, by ...
publicpolicy, etc ; employment; face; income; macroeconomics; poverty; socioeconomics; Pakistan; Show all 8 Subjects
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... In Pakistan, women face economic and social vulnerability, which keeps them underpaid even without social barriers. Government micro and macroeconomic policies are aimed at income generation rather than making women part of the economic mainstream. The cash transfer program is an essential component of social protection policy in the developing world, with one of its key objectives of raising wome ...
publicpolicy, etc ; agrochemicals; agroecology; ecological balance; farmers; markets; simulation models; Show all 7 Subjects
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... We present a simple simulation model whose purpose is to explore qualitatively and heuristically the effects that agrochemical subsidies could have on the type of decisions farmers make about their plots (keeping other variables fixed). We use elements of Chayanovian thinking and ecological complexity as a basis, considering that this decision is made by families with heterogeneous preferences in ...
publicpolicy, etc ; adults; environmental stewardship; gender; household surveys; landscapes; Scotland; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Spending time outdoors in natural environments is associated with an array of benefits to individuals’ health and wellbeing, as well as being implicated in the development of connections to the natural world, attachment to place, and environmental stewardship behaviours. Disparities between population subgroups in relation to frequency of nature contact may, however, shape the extent to which natu ...
publicpolicy, etc ; cultural heritage; ecology; evolution; fruits; management systems; vision; China; Show all 8 Subjects
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... Research on the evolution of cultural policy is the key in the field of public policy study, and it is also an important means to solve the problems that have emerged in cultural heritage management. The National Cultural Park is an innovative cultural heritage protection system proposed by Chinese leaders within the context of national rejuvenation and building a culturally-strong country campaig ...
publicpolicy, etc ; food security; risk; socioeconomics; surveys; Germany; Netherlands; United Kingdom; Show all 8 Subjects
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... Food insecurity among adults age 65 and older is a growing public policy concern in European countries, but the extent of the problem and the related financial stressors are unclear. The purpose of this paper is to measure the percent of food insecure individuals in a targeted sample of financially fragile older adults, and to identify associated financial stressors and socio-economic characterist ...
publicpolicy, etc ; environment; farms; fish; lakes; quality of life; religion; Amazonia; Brazil; Show all 9 Subjects
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... This paper aims to identify the perceived quality of life of women who fish and farm in the Maicá Lake region, Santarém, Brazilian Amazonia. The study was realized in 2018 and involved 18 women residing in two districts of Santarém (structured interview with open questions). The results indicate that the women's quality of life was related to factors such as health, family, work, religion, and com ...
publicpolicy, etc ; batteries; business planning; carbon; economic sustainability; energy; generators (equipment); India; Show all 8 Subjects
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... Managing the transition to a low carbon economy is a complex challenge that needs both early wins and a longer-term alternate technologies leapfrog, to better supplement existing public policies. Relative to the significant investment and policy focus on renewable energy generation and Electric Vehicles (EV) - both globally and in India - Stationary Energy Storage systems (ESS) have received far l ...
publicpolicy, etc ; credit; education; fertilizers; food policy; irrigation; models; public investment; trade; Show all 9 Subjects
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... Private on-farm investment has been lacking by smallholders in Indian agriculture. This study explores the efficiency of alternative public expenditures to support Indian agriculture and encourage private on-farm investment. Specifically, the paper examines the crowding-in effect of input subsidies and other forms of public investments on private on-farm investment. The study uses an autoregressiv ...
publicpolicy, etc ; ecological economics; equations; natural resources conservation; tourism; tourists; France; Quebec; Show all 8 Subjects
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... Tourism sustainability has been extensively investigated in prior research. Yet, its relationships with social engagement remain unclear. The objective of this research is to investigate the direct and indirect effects of tourism sustainability and nature affinity on social engagement propensity. It relies on structural equation modeling and on three different studies across different time periods ...
publicpolicy, etc ; consumer preferences; logit analysis; nests; public transportation; sustainable development; China; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Sustainable mobility is critical to achieve sustainable development goals. Public policy makers worldwide have introduced different policy instruments to motivate sustainable mobility such as promoting car sharing and introducing car license plate lottery. Limited attention has been devoted to studying the effects of these types of policies on consumers' accessibility in urban mobility system, in ...
publicpolicy, etc ; direct contact; energy; energy policy; markets; wind; wind power; Uruguay; Show all 8 Subjects
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... Within a 20-year timeframe, Uruguay transitioned from being a hydro and thermal energy-dependent country to one of the world's leaders in wind energy, including a vast surplus capacity enabling energy exports to its neighbors. Even though the country presents one of the best examples of a successful implementation of clear and sound energy policy, it is still little known overseas. Therefore, the ...
publicpolicy, etc ; energy; fruits; income; nutrition; physical activity; sports; sugar sweetened beverages; tea; Show all 9 Subjects
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... BACKGROUND: Cardiovascular health is linked to sugar- and artificially-sweetened beverages (SSBs and ASBs). Prior studies document declines in SSB purchases. However, it is unclear if similar trends exist at convenience and other small food outlets, which often serve lower-income communities and where objective point-of-sales data are difficult to obtain. We examined trends (2014–2017) in observed ...
publicpolicy, etc ; gender; information sources; land; national surveys; questionnaires; races; social problems; stereotyped behavior; Show all 9 Subjects
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... Ageism refers to the stereotypes, prejudices and discrimination towards others or oneself due to age, and it is the most prevalent type of social disadvantage, even more so than those due to gender and race, with negative effects worldwide. Ageism is an evidently real social problem that needs to be addressed and fought. Our study has two main objectives: firstly, to study to what extent programme ...
publicpolicy, etc ; agricultural land; human settlements; land policy; land use; politics; stakeholders; vision; Egypt; Show all 9 Subjects
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... Egypt has been facing substantial unplanned human settlement growth on agricultural land since the 1950s. Although plans to better manage future settlement growth are ongoing, a full understanding of unplanned settlement growth on agricultural land remains lacking. This study investigated why and how unplanned human settlement growth occurs in Assiut Governorate, the Nile Valley. A mixed-method ap ...
publicpolicy, etc ; adverse effects; decentralization; energy efficiency; energy policy; income; regression analysis; renewable energy sources; Show all 8 Subjects
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... In previous studies, fiscal decentralization and public support to energy research development and demonstration (RD&D) have so far been investigated separately. This study combines these two strands of the literature on public policy by exploring the effects of fiscal decentralization (FID) on budget allocation for energy RD&D in renewable energy and energy efficiency fields (GERDD). With the pan ...