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society, etc ; carbon; carbon dioxide; climate change; issues and policy; pollution; socioeconomic development; China; Show all 8 Subjects
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... China is the largest developing economy and carbon dioxide emitter in the world, the carbon neutrality goal of which will have a profound influence on the mitigation pathway of global climate change. The transition towards a carbon-neutral society is integrated into the construction of ecological civilization in China, and brings profound implications for China’s socioeconomic development. Here, w ...
society, etc ; animal welfare; aquaculture; aquaculture industry; biosphere; case studies; crossing; environmental protection; ethics; gene editing; genome; issues and policy; salmon; stakeholders; Show all 14 Subjects
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... In this paper we present a suggestion for a sustainability assessment framework using genome editing of salmon as a case study. The salmon farming industry is facing several challenges hindering sustainable production. Genome editing has entered as a tool that can improve selective breeding and feed ingredients in aquaculture, hence providing solutions such as resistance to salmon lice and other p ...
... Many barriers exist in academia. Shedding light on scholars from marginalized groups is important for scientific publishing and policy–science dialogs to ensure equity, beyond merely aiming to increase the numbers to achieve equality. Achieving diversity, inclusiveness, and equality in academia is not the goal, but an essential means of realizing a sustainable future. ...
... Food packaging use is a wicked problem that is increasingly impacting on the environment. Current efforts to solve this global challenge are fragmented, fixating on single issues rather than on a ‘whole-of-system’ approach. To address this, we have used a novel approach combining systems thinking and network analysis to map out food packaging use in food systems. This process draws from experts ac ...
... The transition towards carbon-neutral energy systems requires the identification of solutions that are optimal at a societal level, however, market actors operate under a different logic where each individual investment option is required to show business-economic feasibility. Thus, while there are energy system analysis modelling tools that can help identify optimal transition paths for a given s ...
... There is a consensus that inequality increases the supply of crime. As disparity in income grows within a society, the incentives for low-income individuals to engage in criminal activities also increase. However, in a context of high inequality, better-off individuals invest in deterring those who want to appropriate their resources. We examine this twofold effect of inequality in an equilibrium ...
... Government-led housing is linked explicitly to building socially just and environmentally sustainable cities. However, marrying justice and sustainability remains an intractable challenge. This paper reveals how this challenge is both conceptual and practical. This review considers the hybrid notion of just sustainability and how these ideas are reflected within government-led housing, using South ...
society, etc ; environmental sustainability; governance; Show all 3 Subjects
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... The burgeoning literature on sustainability transformation agrees that values play a key, albeit unelucidated, role on the transformation research agenda. Recent literature linking values and transformation increasingly points toward the hypothesis that values may act as leverage points for sustainability transformation. However, how transformation research can engage with values as leverage point ...
... The oceans face a range of complex challenges for which the impacts on society are highly uncertain but mostly negative. Tackling these challenges is testing society’s capacity to mobilise transformative action, engendering a sense of powerlessness. Envisaging positive but realistic visions of the future, and considering how current knowledge, resources, and technology could be used to achieve the ...
... City sustainability evaluation has a positive effect on guiding urban economy toward efficiency, stability and innovation with minimal resource consumption. This paper evaluated the sustainability level of Urban Agglomeration on the West Side of the Straits (WSS) in China from three dimensions: economy, society, and environment. We proposed a weighting method based on the hybrid GRA (HGRW) to calc ...
... Exclusive reductionism in nutritional science consists of viewing foods as only the sum of nutrients. This position paper argues that the extreme application of this paradigm since 1950 has greatly contributed to confusion about a healthy diet among consumers and to the development of chronic diseases worldwide. First, history of nutritional sciences in Western countries shows that by approximatel ...
... Degrowth thought and strategies suffer from a tension between viewing the state as incapable of initiating transformational change and making a political appeal to it to do precisely this via targeted eco-social policies. While a small number of academic papers has theoretically addressed this tension, there is a lack in research on the strategic implications arising from conceptualizations of the ...
... If governments are serious about meeting environmental and social goals, they should overcome dominance of the GDP indicator in political discourse. Institutionalizing a beyond-GDP metric would be an essential step, in interaction with a shift in the direction of an “agrowth” paradigm. For a significant step forward, a permanent UN panel could be charged to explore the options and prepare a metric ...
... A circular economy limits the consumption of virgin resources, fosters cleaner production, and promotes the efficient utilization of resources. However, many companies still struggle with its implementation. In this study, we explore the barriers that companies encounter internally and externally when implementing circular economy measures. Based on 59 interviews with Swiss small- and medium-sized ...
... Barriers to access-based consumption (ABC) have been extensively studied in different strands of literature. However, cumulative knowledge is not organized to date, and a comprehensive overview of barriers identified by empirical studies in diverse strands is lacking. Such a picture is essential for laying the ground for further change-oriented research and actual changes in practice. This article ...
... The use of online social networking sites has become part of everyday life for more than three billion people worldwide. However, its use may go beyond being a habit, leading to compulsive use behaviours that jeopardize the well-being of an individual and the whole society. This study proposes and evaluates a theoretical model that examines the four dimensions of social capital, mediated by bondin ...
... The concept of ‘social licence to operate’ (SLO) is relevant to all animal-use activities. An SLO is an intangible, implicit agreement between the public and an industry/group. Its existence allows that industry/group to pursue its activities with minimal formalised restrictions because such activities have widespread societal approval. In contrast, the imposition of legal restrictions—or even an ...
... Forests represent the largest green infrastructure worldwide, and their protection and enhancement are a responsibility of the whole Society, being a common good, linked to history and culture. The future of our planet depends on how we perceive, protect and manage this heritage. Forests are saved if they are at the center of society’s interest. Cultural awareness of the intrinsic value of forests ...
society, etc ; activists; environmental sustainability; traffic; Show all 4 Subjects
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... In recent decades, many transportation authorities have been responding to traffic-flow concerns through the construction of ‘footbridges’ on both major roadways and lower-velocity streets. Notwithstanding some exceptions, much of this (infra)structure poses major safety and accessibility challenges for active commuters. Building on calls for socially just approaches to sustainable transitions, th ...
... This paper investigates the origin of the once popular belief in Australian society that wild dingoes do not attack humans. To address this problem, a digital repository of archived newspaper articles and other published texts written between 1788 and 1979 were searched for references to dingoes attacking non-Indigenous people. A total of 52 accounts spanning the period between 1804 and 1928 was i ...