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Positive social transformations of coastal communities: what conditions enable the success of territorial use rights for fishing? Curr. Opin. Environ. Sustain (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2021-01-14 Juan Francisco Lechuga Sánchez; Amber Himes-Cornell; Kathryn Dalton; Rebecca Metzner
Recognizing or establishing territorial use rights for fisheries (TURFs) can drive positive social transformation, including change of (i) norms, values and beliefs; (ii) rules and practices; and, (iii) the distribution and flow of power, authority, and resources. However, positive social transformation is not always ensured. This review describes a set of enabling conditions that are useful to achieve
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Drivers of soil salinity and their correlation with climate change Curr. Opin. Environ. Sustain (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2021-01-12 Deepthi Eswar; Rajan Karuppusamy; Selvi Chellamuthu
Climate change has affected diverse spheres and its impact is being witnessed worldwide. Soil, the basis of human sustenance, is both directly and indirectly affected by climate change. Soil erosion, vegetation degradation and soil salinisation are becoming prevalent, causing a threat to future food security. Saline soils are found mainly in North and Central Asia, Africa and South America. Various
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Climate change, slow onset events and human mobility: reviewing the evidence Curr. Opin. Environ. Sustain (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2021-01-06 Caroline Zickgraf
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 providing
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Navigating slow-onset risks through foresight and flexibility in Fiji: emerging recommendations for the planned relocation of climate-vulnerable communities Curr. Opin. Environ. Sustain (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2020-12-28 Daniel Lund
The multifaceted relationships that exist between communities and the environment in Fiji are increasingly threatened by the cross-temporal impacts of climate change. Recent literature on the relocation of vulnerable communities as a means to avoid slow-onset climate change impacts in Fiji highlights the complexity of these relationships and the range of considerations that must be factored in when
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Introductory article: technology, innovations, and environmental sustainability in the Anthropocene Curr. Opin. Environ. Sustain (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2020-12-11 Opha Pauline Dube; Eduardo Sonnewend Brondizio; William Solecki
A leading edge facet of the transition to sustainability is the development, implementation and extended use of new technologies and related system innovations. The two open issues, volumes 45 and 49, of Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability journal, are focused on a set of review pieces that evaluate a broad range of these emerging technologies and innovations and document how they are influencing
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Pandemics: the limits to growth and environmental health research Curr. Opin. Environ. Sustain (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2020-12-02 Colin D Butler
The Limits to Growth (published 1972), warned that if dominant trends continue, then, probably by 2070, an ‘uncontrollable decline in both population and industrial capacity’ will occur. Its warning is one of many, from nature and from scientists, that remain largely ignored by global decision makers. For example, almost all measures of progress are still unadjusted for decline in natural or social
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A time for transdisciplinarity Curr. Opin. Environ. Sustain (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2020-11-23 Hein Mallee
This commentary places the Coronavirus Disease pandemic in the context of research approaches such as ‘Ecohealth,’ ‘One Health,’ and ‘Planetary Health.’ It argues that systemic analysis of the underlying drivers of the pandemic is called for and that this is a time when transdisciplinarity is needed more than ever.
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SARS-CoV-2 emergence and diffusion: a new disease manifesting human-environment interactions and a global geography of health Curr. Opin. Environ. Sustain (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2020-10-27 Sophie O. Vanwambeke; Catherine Linard; Marius Gilbert; Simon Dellicour
SARS-CoV-2, and the disease it causes, COVID-19, is sweeping through the world, disrupting human activities everywhere. The consequences of this on-going event on societies are yet to be fully understood. The emergence of SARS-CoV-2 illustrates how human-environment interaction should be framing research on pathogen spillover. Furthermore, the geography of human contacts at various scales in our globalized
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Insect decline, an emerging global environmental risk Curr. Opin. Environ. Sustain (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2020-10-24 Jeroen P van der Sluijs
The Earth’s entomofauna seems in an ongoing state of collapse. Insect decline could pose a global risk to key insect-mediated ecosystem functions and services such as soil and freshwater functions (nutrient cycling, soil formation, decomposition, and water purification), biological pest control, pollination services and food web support that all are critical to ecosystem functioning, human health and
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Exploring climate-driven non-economic loss and damage in the Pacific Islands Curr. Opin. Environ. Sustain (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2020-10-10 Karen E McNamara; Ross Westoby; Alvin Chandra
Non-economic loss and damage induced by climate change in the Pacific Islands region has been reported as fears of cultural loss, deterioration of vital ecosystem services, and dislocation from ancestral lands, among others. This paper undertakes an in-depth systematic review of literature from the frontlines of the Pacific Islands to ascertain the complexities of non-economic loss and damage from
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Strengthening protected areas to halt biodiversity loss and mitigate pandemic risks Curr. Opin. Environ. Sustain (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2020-09-30 Julien Terraube; Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares
The current COVID-19 pandemics is having a major impact on our global health and economies. There is widespread recognition that ecosystem disruption, including land-use change and illegal wildlife trade, is linked to the increasing emergence of zoonotic diseases. Here, we emphasize that protected areas play a fundamental role in buffering against novel disease outbreaks by maintaining ecosystem integrity
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Responses and feedbacks of African dryland ecosystems to environmental changes Curr. Opin. Environ. Sustain (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2020-09-21 Fangli Wei; Shuai Wang; Martin Brandt; Bojie Fu; Michael E Meadows; Lixin Wang; Lanhui Wang; Xiaowei Tong; Rasmus Fensholt
Drylands occupy 43% of the African continent and play an important role in the global carbon cycle and in supporting local livelihoods. Understanding how dryland ecosystems respond to environmental changes, both structurally and functionally, is of great significance for sustainable dryland management. In this article, we review the current remote sensing-based knowledge on African dryland ecosystem
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The Global-DEP conceptual framework — research on dryland ecosystems to promote sustainability Curr. Opin. Environ. Sustain (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2020-09-17 Bojie Fu; Mark Stafford-Smith; Yanfeng Wang; Binfang Wu; Xiubo Yu; Nan Lv; Dennis S Ojima; Yihe Lv; Chao Fu; Yu Liu; Shuli Niu; Yangjian Zhang; Hongwei Zeng; Yuexian Liu; Yanxu Liu; Xiaoming Feng; Lu Zhang; Yongping Wei; Xi Chen
Given the increasing speed and intensity of ongoing climate change and human interventions, more systematic research is needed to realize the Sustainable Development Goals in drylands. The current research status of drylands globally was reviewed together with a conceptual framework that included four key themes: (1) dryland social-ecological system dynamics and driving forces, (2) dryland social-ecological
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Managing supply and demand of ecosystem services in dryland catchments Curr. Opin. Environ. Sustain (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2020-09-08 Yongping Wei; Shuanglei Wu; Chong Jiang; Xiaoming Feng
The abilities of global ecosystems to produce services are declining; while the demands for these services are rapidly increasing. However, there is limited understanding of mismatches between supply and demand of ecosystem services (ESs), which has serious implications for both human wellbeing and environmental sustainability, particularly in drylands. This paper provides three perspectives: (1) an
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Multi-scale analyses on the ecosystem services in the Chinese Loess Plateau and implications for dryland sustainability Curr. Opin. Environ. Sustain (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2020-08-29 Yihe Lü; Da Lü; Xiaoming Feng; Bojie Fu
Dryland sustainability is a challenging global concern because of the comparatively low natural and socioeconomic carrying capacities. Land degradation neutrality is a challenging sustainability goal in drylands, for which ecological restoration has to transcend the scale of land degradation. Actions on ecological restoration are prevalent in global drylands driving changes of ecosystem services across
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Mitigation of nitrous oxide emissions in the context of nitrogen loss reduction from agroecosystems: managing hot spots and hot moments Curr. Opin. Environ. Sustain (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2020-08-27 Claudia Wagner-Riddle; Elizabeth M Baggs; Tim J Clough; Kathrin Fuchs; Søren O Petersen
Across landscape and field scales, nitrogen (N) transformation rates are enhanced in hot spots (HS) and transient hot moments (HM), leading to losses of environmentally reactive N. Nitrous oxide (N2O) emission trends follow these spatial and temporal patterns. Consequently, landscape features can accelerate N2O emissions, and significant fractions of total annual emissions occur in these N2O emissions
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THE NATURE OF CITIES AND THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC. Curr. Opin. Environ. Sustain (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2020-08-27 Ka Yan Lai,Chris Webster,Sarika Kumari,Chinmoy Sarkar
The virtual issue will only include the main essay.
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Anticipatory governance of solar geoengineering: conflicting visions of the future and their links to governance proposals. Curr. Opin. Environ. Sustain (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2020-08-13 Aarti Gupta,Ina Möller,Frank Biermann,Sikina Jinnah,Prakash Kashwan,Vikrom Mathur,David R Morrow,Simon Nicholson
This article identifies diverse rationales to call for anticipatory governance of solar geoengineering, in light of a climate crisis. In focusing on governance rationales, we step back from proliferating debates in the literature on 'how, when, whom, and where' to govern, to address the important prior question of why govern solar geoengineering in the first place: to restrict or enable its further
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Approaches and concepts of modelling denitrification: increased process understanding using observational data can reduce uncertainties Curr. Opin. Environ. Sustain (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2020-08-12 Stephen J Del Grosso; Ward Smith; David Kraus; Raia S Massad; Iris Vogeler; Kathrin Fuchs
Denitrification is a key but poorly quantified component of the N cycle. Because it is difficult to measure the gaseous (NOx, N2O, N2) and soluble (NO3) components of denitrification with sufficient intensity, models of varying scope and complexity have been developed and applied to estimate how vegetation cover, land management and environmental factors such as soil type and weather interact to control
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From research to policy: optimizing the design of a national monitoring system to mitigate soil nitrous oxide emissions Curr. Opin. Environ. Sustain (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2020-08-06 Stephen M Ogle; Klaus Butterbach-Bahl; Laura Cardenas; Ute Skiba; Clemens Scheer
Nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions from agricultural soils are a key source of greenhouse gas emissions in most countries. In order for governments to effectively reduce N2O emissions, a national inventory system is needed for monitoring, reporting and verifying emissions that provides unbiased estimates with the highest precision feasible. Inventory frameworks could be advanced by incorporating experimental
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Nitrous oxide emissions from ruminant urine: science and mitigation for intensively managed perennial pastures Curr. Opin. Environ. Sustain (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2020-08-05 Timothy J Clough; Laura M Cardenas; Johannes Friedl; Benjamin Wolf
Despite optimising fertiliser practice and nitrogen (N) use efficiency nitrous oxide N2O generation from ruminant-urine deposition prevails due to the concentration of N in the urine excreted. Development and application of mitigation strategies to reduce N2O emissions from grazed pasture systems requires knowledge of production and consumption pathways, and factors affecting these. Soil physical properties
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Improving N2O emission estimates with the global N2O database Curr. Opin. Environ. Sustain (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2020-06-11 Christopher D Dorich; Richard T Conant; Fabrizio Albanito; Klaus Butterbach-Bahl; Peter Grace; Clemens Scheer; Val O Snow; Iris Vogeler; Tony J van der Weerden
Climate change will have dire consequences and collaborative efforts are required to quickly develop and assess mitigation solutions. Agriculture is the primary source of the powerful greenhouse gas (GHG) nitrous oxide (N2O) and an important source of GHG emissions. Due to sampling limitations, N2O measurements have traditionally been sparse; approximately 75% of sites we reviewed sampled for fewer
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Building on Paris: integrating nitrous oxide mitigation into future climate policy Curr. Opin. Environ. Sustain (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2020-06-01 David R Kanter; Stephen M Ogle; Wilfried Winiwarter
Nitrous oxide (N2O) is an important contributor to climate change and stratospheric ozone depletion and yet it receives little attention in either the global climate or ozone agreements. More concerted efforts to address N2O could be key in meeting the 2°C target and a suite of Sustainable Development Goals. The past several years has seen major advances in N2O science and technology: our ability to
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Soil N intensity as a measure to estimate annual N2O and NO fluxes from natural and managed ecosystems Curr. Opin. Environ. Sustain (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2020-05-05 Zhisheng Yao; David E Pelster; Chunyan Liu; Xunhua Zheng; Klaus Butterbach-Bahl
As natural and managed terrestrial ecosystems are major sources of the potent greenhouse gas nitrous oxide (N2O) and of the atmospheric pollutant nitric oxide (NO), predicting the source strengths of these ecosystems is central to understanding and sustainably managing the N-oxides fluxes. Here we reviewed 82 high temporal resolution datasets on N2O and 57 on NO fluxes collected from multi-site and
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Advancing understanding of natural resource governance: a post-Ostrom research agenda Curr. Opin. Environ. Sustain (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2020-05-03 G.S. Cumming; G. Epstein; J.M. Anderies; C.I. Apetrei; J. Baggio; Ö. Bodin; S. Chawla; H.S. Clements; M. Cox; L. Egli; G.G. Gurney; M. Lubell; N. Magliocca; T.H. Morrison; B. Müller; R. Seppelt; M. Schlüter; H. Unnikrishnan; C.M. Weible
Institutions are vital to the sustainability of social-ecological systems, balancing individual and group interests and coordinating responses to change. Ecological decline and social conflict in many places, however, indicate that our understanding and fostering of effective institutions for natural resource management is still lacking. We assess theoretical and methodological challenges facing positivist
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Indigenous peoples and transformations in freshwater governance and management Curr. Opin. Environ. Sustain (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2020-04-28 Meg Parsons; Karen Fisher
In this paper, we consider how Indigenous peoples are contesting freshwater management regimes based on Western ontologies and epistemologies, and are seeking recognition for the inclusion of Indigenous knowledge, practices, and authority over freshwater. We focus on the potential of new governance arrangements emerging around the globe to contribute to broader societal deliberations about, and transformations
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Managing socio-ecological systems: who, what and how much? The case of the Banas river, Rajasthan, India Curr. Opin. Environ. Sustain (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2020-04-25 Mark Everard
Addressing socio-ecological linkages is essential for diagnosing and proposing solutions to complex sustainability challenges, such as river-basin management, climate adaptation and broader sustainability problems. ‘Who?’ is integral to an inclusive approach, ‘What?’ dimensions of supportive ecosystems are included, and ‘How much?’ of the value of ecosystem services informs management decisions? In
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Open Standards for conservation as a tool for linking research and conservation agendas in complex socio-ecological systems Curr. Opin. Environ. Sustain (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2020-04-16 Mauricio M Núñez-Regueiro; Lyn C Branch; Enrique Derlindati; Ignacio Gasparri; Sofia Marinaro; Sofia Nanni; Cristina Núñez Godoy; María Piquer-Rodríguez; José R Soto; Andrés Tálamo
Disparity between the knowledge produced and knowledge required to address complex environmental challenges, such as biodiversity conservation and climate adaptation, continues to grow. Systems thinking under the Open Standards for Conservation framework can help close this gap by facilitating interdisciplinary engagement, advancing conversations on how environmental systems work, and identifying actions
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The institutional grammar tool in policy analysis and applications to resilience and robustness research Curr. Opin. Environ. Sustain (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2020-04-14 Aaron M Lien
Resilient and robust natural resources management institutions have the ability to adapt (be resilient to) or withstand (be robust to) endogenous and exogenous shocks. While resilience and robustness are relatively easily defined, their empirical assessment and measurement are more challenging. With institutions understood as the individual rules, norms, and shared strategies used to organize repeated
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Arctic youth transcending notions of ‘culture’ and ‘nature’: emancipative discourses of place for cultural sustainability Curr. Opin. Environ. Sustain (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2020-03-30 Reetta Toivanen; Nora Fabritius
This article presents research on contradictory representations of the Arctic and its inhabitants from the point of view of sustainable development. Indigenous peoples are repeatedly presented as connected to nature but outside politics, while business and state stakeholders portray the Arctic as uninhabited and utilizable for extractivism. These depictions diminish the agency of indigenous Sámi in
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The Sámi reindeer herders’ conceptualizations of sustainability in the permitting of mineral extraction – contradictions related to sustainability criteria Curr. Opin. Environ. Sustain (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2020-03-25 Tiina Jääskeläinen
Although international institutions increasingly recognize the connection that indigenous peoples have to lands and the particular role that indigenous peoples have in maintaining and achieving sustainable development, notable challenges remain in the recognition of indigenous peoples’ own conceptualizations of sustainability. At a time when there is a growing pressure to intensify land use in Sápmi
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Indigenous environmental justice and sustainability Curr. Opin. Environ. Sustain (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2020-03-19 Deborah McGregor; Steven Whitaker; Mahisha Sritharan
A distinct formulation of Indigenous environmental justice (IEJ) is required in order to address the challenges of the ecological crisis as well the various forms of violence and injustices experienced specifically by Indigenous peoples. A distinct IEJ formulation must ground its foundations in Indigenous philosophies, ontologies, and epistemologies in order to reflect Indigenous conceptions of what
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The role of technology in inclusive innovation of urban agriculture Curr. Opin. Environ. Sustain (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2020-03-17 Hannington Shem Odame; Jash Barack Okeyo-Owuor; Janice Ghemoh Changeh; John Okoth Otieno
Inclusive innovation seeks to understand how technology can provide benefits for the marginalized groups. However, the role technology might play in inclusive innovation of urban agriculture is not well understood. We review and reflect on the term ‘inclusive innovation’ and its role in providing benefits of technology for the marginalized groups in urban agriculture. Through review of journal articles
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Nothing goes to waste: sustainable practices of re-use among indigenous groups in the Russian North Curr. Opin. Environ. Sustain (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2020-03-09 Laura Siragusa; Dmitry Arzyutov
In the last few decades, the literature on waste has soared and taken two main directions. Considering the assumption that waste is a natural category, which we need to ‘dispose of’, the scholarship on waste management and its sustainability offers mainly problem-solving propositions (e.g., the 3Rs proposal—re-cycling, re-using, and reducing—or ‘circular economy’). The social scientific waste studies
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Indigenous music sustainability during climate change Curr. Opin. Environ. Sustain (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2020-02-29 Klisala Harrison
Indigenous music sustainability forms a cohesive concept due to shared sustainability threats globally among different Indigenous peoples historically and contemporaneously, shared aspects of music culture, and current ways of Indigenous pursuing music sustainability. During colonization, forced geographical relocations and cultural assimilations of Indigenous peoples threatened or extinguished their
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Game masters and Amazonian Indigenous views on sustainability Curr. Opin. Environ. Sustain (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2020-02-25 Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares; Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen
Throughout the Amazon, notions of ownership and mastership shape the use of natural resources among many Indigenous communities. These ideas are reflected in the figure of game masters (i.e. spiritual beings who own the animals), which are widespread among Indigenous peoples across the Amazon Basin. In this paper, we explore the diverse biocultural manifestations of this socio-cosmology, focusing on
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Inclusive and adaptive business models for climate-smart value creation Curr. Opin. Environ. Sustain (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2020-02-25 Todd S Rosenstock; Rob Lubberink; Sera Gondwe; Timothy Manyise; Domenico Dentoni
Climate-smart business models target multiple Sustainable Development Goals by fostering agricultural productivity, supporting farm and farmer livelihood resilience, and encouraging climate mitigation. While many business models (cl)aiming to create climate-smart value already exist both in agricultural development and business practice, little scholarly attention has so far been directed toward their
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Transformations to sustainability: combining structural, systemic and enabling approaches Curr. Opin. Environ. Sustain (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2020-01-22 Ian Scoones; Andrew Stirling; Dinesh Abrol; Joanes Atela; Lakshmi Charli-Joseph; Hallie Eakin; Adrian Ely; Per Olsson; Laura Pereira; Ritu Priya; Patrick van Zwanenberg; Lichao Yang
The imperatives of environmental sustainability, poverty alleviation and social justice (partially codified in the Sustainable Development Goals or SDGs) call for ambitious societal transformations. As such, few aspects of actionable knowledge for sustainability are more crucial than those concerning the processes of transformation. This article offers a brief overview of different conceptualisations
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Working with indigenous, local and scientific knowledge in assessments of nature and nature’s linkages with people Curr. Opin. Environ. Sustain (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2020-01-15 Rosemary Hill; Çiğdem Adem; Wilfred V Alangui; Zsolt Molnár; Yildiz Aumeeruddy-Thomas; Peter Bridgewater; Maria Tengö; Randy Thaman; Constant Y Adou Yao; Fikret Berkes; Joji Carino; Manuela Carneiro da Cunha; Mariteuw C Diaw; Sandra Díaz; Viviana E Figueroa; Judy Fisher; Preston Hardison; Kaoru Ichikawa; Dayuan Xue
Working with indigenous and local knowledge (ILK) is vital for inclusive assessments of nature and nature’s linkages with people. Indigenous peoples’ concepts about what constitutes sustainability, for example, differ markedly from dominant sustainability discourses. The Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystems Services (IPBES) is promoting dialogue across different knowledge systems
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Understanding and countering the motivated roots of climate change denial Curr. Opin. Environ. Sustain (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2020-01-08 Gabrielle Wong-Parodi; Irina Feygina
Action on climate change is currently minimal, and woefully inadequate for steering away from its worst trajectories and impacts. Psychological science offers insights into the causes of climate change denial and reluctance to engage with solutions, and identifies avenues for enhancing climate acceptance and engagement. We review psychological processes that underlie denial, and survey promising directions
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Indigenous sustainable relations: considering land in language and language in land Curr. Opin. Environ. Sustain (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2019-12-16 Jenanne Ferguson; Marissa Weaselboy
In this piece we (as one Indigenous anthropologist writing with a non-Indigenous anthropologist) explore research on how land is also connected to the revitalization of Indigenous minority languages and lifeways, suggesting that projects concerning either the sustainability of language and of land should not be considered separately. Under a framework of ‘sustainable relations,’ we explore how Indigenous
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The role of group-based contracts for risk-sharing; what are the opportunities to cover catastrophic risk? Curr. Opin. Environ. Sustain (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2019-12-06 Miranda PM Meuwissen, Mariska JM Bottema, Lien Hong Ho, Sawitree Chamsai, Kebede Manjur, Yann de Mey
Group-based contracts are stimulated by food and agricultural development programs as powerful tools for risk-sharing. In successful groups social capital serves as a catalyst for risk prevention and knowledge sharing. It is however difficult to deal with catastrophic risk. In this paper we ask whether and how group-based contracts have been innovated to include catastrophic risk? The review shows
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Exploring the inclusiveness of producer cooperatives Curr. Opin. Environ. Sustain (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2019-12-05 Jos Bijman, Gea Wijers
Given the relevance of producer cooperatives in policy debates around rural development, agricultural sustainability and inclusive business, there is surprisingly little information on whether these cooperatives are inclusive of smallholders. This paper reviews conceptual discussions and empirical evidence on the notion of a producer cooperative as an inclusive business. Three organisational characteristics
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Making room and moving over: knowledge co-production, Indigenous knowledge sovereignty and the politics of global environmental change decision-making Curr. Opin. Environ. Sustain (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2019-12-01 Nicole Latulippe, Nicole Klenk
The global environmental change research community that engages with Indigenous knowledge holders commonly practice engagement in an extractive way: knowledge is treated as data that can be aggregated and understood in abstract and universal form. This assumes that knowledge and governance are separate and gives knowledge co-production the appearance of playing an informative and facilitative role
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Inclusive agribusiness models in the Global South: the impact on local food security Curr. Opin. Environ. Sustain (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2019-11-26 ACM (Guus) van Westen, Ellen Mangnus, James Wangu, Senait Getahun Worku
Private business is increasingly presented as a leading agent of development in policy, also in the pursuit of developmental goals beyond business, such as food security (SDG2 in particular). It is argued that the private sector is more effective and efficient in raising investment capital and targeting goals than entities of the public sector and civil society. This has spawned inclusive business
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How inclusive businesses can contribute to local food security Curr. Opin. Environ. Sustain (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2019-11-26 Ellen Mangnus
The concept of inclusive business has gained a central place in development policy and practice. that the underlying premise is that by making small scale farmers part of their business model, companies can increase their profitability and at the same time contribute to farmers’ livelihoods. Despite a wealth of positive anecdotal evidence, it remains unclear whether and how a company can do this. This
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Synergies of sustainable development goals between China and countries along the Belt and Road initiative Curr. Opin. Environ. Sustain (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2019-11-26 Tian-tian Feng, Qi Kang, Bin-bin Pan, Yi-sheng Yang
In 2015, the United Nations passed ‘Reforming Our World: An Agenda on Sustainable Development by 2030’ which established 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) to supervise global economic, social and environmental sustainable development programs. Soon afterwards, China published ‘A Proposal for Different Countries to Realize Sustainable Development Goals by 2030’ which stipulated detailed strategies
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Inclusive environmental performance through ‘beyond-farm’ aquaculture governance Curr. Opin. Environ. Sustain (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2019-11-23 Simon R Bush, Peter Oosterveer, Mariska Bottema, Miranda Meuwissen, Yann de Mey, Sawitree Chamsai, Ho Hong Lien, Mohan Chadag
This paper examines the potential for improved environmental performance of smallholder aquaculture production through ‘beyond-farm’ governance. Smallholder aquaculture farmers face a range of systemic environmental risks related to disease and water quality that extend beyond the boundary of their farms. Yet most governance arrangements aimed at mitigating risks, such as certification, finance and
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Digital technologies, hyper-transparency and smallholder farmer inclusion in global value chains Curr. Opin. Environ. Sustain (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2019-11-23 Diana Kos, Sanneke Kloppenburg
Globalization of food value chains has increased the demand for greater transparency over where food is produced, how, by whom and with what effect on society and the environment. A range of new digital technologies are available to facilitate transparency, with the promise of leading the global food system to an era of ‘hyper-transparency’. Its impact on smallholder farmer inclusion, however, remains
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The water-energy-food nexus in the anthropocene: moving from ‘nexus thinking’ to ‘nexus action’ Curr. Opin. Environ. Sustain (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2019-11-23 Gareth B Simpson, Graham PW Jewitt
The Water-Energy-Food (WEF) nexus has emerged as a multi-centric lens for assessing integrated resources management and sustainable development in the past decade. This paper initially reviews the current status of this approach, which has received some critique for being largely conceptual. The call to operationalise the nexus is heralded in many recent publications and a common theme is that ‘nexus
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Exploring the potential contribution of green microfinance in transformations to sustainability Curr. Opin. Environ. Sustain (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2019-11-23 Frédéric Huybrechs, Johan Bastiaensen, Gert Van Hecken
In this review, we explore the potential of green microfinance to contribute to transformations to sustainability. Green microfinance aims for environmental objectives in addition to microfinance’s traditional financial and social goals. We argue that the questions of whether and how these instruments contribute to social-ecological change on the ground have so far remained underexplored. Moreover
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Urban soil management of marginalized lands: recognizant of history Curr. Opin. Environ. Sustain (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2019-11-22 Nicolette Tamara Jonkman, Boris Jansen
Urban agriculture (UA) forms a crucial part of the urban food chain in many cities in sub-Sahara Africa (SSA). As urbanization continues, it becomes increasingly important to acknowledge the role of UA within the socioeconomic fabric of the city, and build inclusive business models to empower its practitioners. A crucial constraint for this is that various stakeholders in UA often take conflicting
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Building a learning network: reflections from the RISA program Curr. Opin. Environ. Sustain (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2019-11-22 Chelsea Combest-Friedman, Claudia Nierenberg, Caitlin Simpson
The challenges of applied climate science and decision making require deeper engagement across communities. The RISA program has sustained regional research to advance climate adaptation for 20+ years. Managed to build and sustain relationships through a network, RISA aims to foster capacity necessary for addressing complex climate and social welfare challenges. Reflecting on the design and evolution
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Partnering for inclusive business in food provisioning Curr. Opin. Environ. Sustain (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2019-11-21 Greetje Schouten, Sietze Vellema
This review aims to unravel how partnering processes relate to processes of inclusion in the context of food provisioning. In food provisioning, inclusion has two key dimensions: the inclusion of (low-income) consumers to increase levels of food security, and the inclusion of smallholder producers to promote inclusive economic growth. This review discusses both dimensions and shows that the tandem
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Advances in global hydrology–crop modelling to support the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals in South Asia Curr. Opin. Environ. Sustain (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2019-11-21 Hester Biemans, Christian Siderius
Achieving the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) in the context of a rapidly changing climate and demographics is one of the major challenges for South Asia. Interventions aimed at achieving the SDGs will be varied and are likely to contain basin-wide trade-offs that need to be understood. In this paper, we synthesize recent global hydrology-crop model developments, with a specific
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Mitigation options to reduce nitrogen losses to water from crop and livestock production in China Curr. Opin. Environ. Sustain (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2019-11-20 Jie Lu, Zhaohai Bai, Dave Chadwick, Gerard L Velthof, Hao Zhao, Xiaoxin Li, Chunsheng Hu, Lin Ma
Nitrogen (N) loss from agriculture threatens water quality and affects human health, especially the nitrate leaching. In China, nitrate concentrations in ground-water frequently exceed the World Health Organization (WHO) quality standard for drinking water of 50 mg L−1. In this paper we explore mitigation measures for reducing N loss to water from agriculture. Firstly, we synthesis the current state
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Building urgent intergenerational bridges: assessing early career researcher integration in global sustainability initiatives Curr. Opin. Environ. Sustain (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2019-11-16 Peter Søgaard Jørgensen, Chijioke J Evoh, Leopoldo Cavaleri Gerhardinger, Alice C Hughes, Gaby S Langendijk, Hannah Moersberger, Jay Pocklington, Nibedita Mukherjee
A double intergenerational conundrum abounds in sustainability science as young generations of researchers have relatively little influence on current strategic decisions, but inherit their potential future consequences as professionals as well as human-beings. Collaborating with early career researchers (ECRs) in global sustainability initiatives can help address this conundrum. Guided by a model
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Water pollution from food production: lessons for optimistic and optimal solutions Curr. Opin. Environ. Sustain (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2019-11-15 Ang Li, Carolien Kroeze, Taher Kahil, Lin Ma, Maryna Strokal
Food production is a source of various pollutants in aquatic systems. For example, nutrients are lost from fertilized fields, and pathogens from livestock production. Water pollution may impact society and nature. Large-scale water pollution assessments, however, often focus on single pollutants and not on multiple pollutants simultaneously. This study draws lessons from air pollution control for large-scale
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Usable environmental knowledge from the perspective of decision-making: the logics of consequentiality, appropriateness, and meaningfulness Curr. Opin. Environ. Sustain (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2019-11-15 Art Dewulf, Nicole Klenk, Carina Wyborn, Maria Carmen Lemos
Environmental knowledge is a crucial input for public and private decision-making, yet often useful environmental knowledge appears to be unusable for decision-makers. To better understand how usable knowledge can be produced, we need to build on a better understanding of decision-making processes. We distinguish three different logics of decision-making and discuss their implications for knowledge
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Joint knowledge production in climate change adaptation networks Curr. Opin. Environ. Sustain (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2019-11-12 Veruska Muccione, Christian Huggel, David N Bresch, Christine Jurt, Ivo Wallimann-Helmer, Meeta K Mehra, José Daniel Pabón Caicedo
Adaptation to changing and new environmental conditions is of fundamental importance to sustainability and requires concerted efforts amongst science, policy, and practice to produce solution-oriented knowledge. Joint knowledge production or co-production of knowledge have become increasingly popular terms to describe the process of scientists, policy makers and actors from the civil society coming