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Eco-justice and human well-being in Ghana’s artisanal mining communities: towards a theological ethic of sustainable community Local Environ. (IF 3.59) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Ben-Willie Kwaku Golo
The negative effects of Ghana’s artisanal mining industry on the sustainability of the natural environment and community life, exemplifies the dilemma of the protracted relationship between the que...
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Are vital neighbourhoods socially privileged? Exploring the spatial relationship between urban vitality and urban vulnerability Local Environ. (IF 3.59) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Irene Gómez-Varo, Xavier Delclòs-Alió, Carme Miralles-Guasch, Oriol Marquet
The built environment plays a key role in everyday wellbeing, as well-designed and accessible environments help fulfil people’s daily needs and activities. Of special relevance is the urban vitalit...
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Environmental justice from the ground(water) up: coping with contamination in Tallevast, Florida Local Environ. (IF 3.59) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Grey W. Caballero, E. Christian Wells, Serena A. Echols, Emerson H. Peaslee
How do communities living with chronic environmental contamination cope with the social, political, and economic impacts of the contamination? This research employs a community-engaged oral history...
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Children’s everyday recreational mobilities – growing up in a densifying Swedish small town Local Environ. (IF 3.59) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Märit Jansson, Anna Sunding
Access to urban open space is of large importance for the child-friendliness of built environments and might also play an important role in children’s sustainable recreational mobilities. Yet, litt...
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A research-based, practice-relevant urban resilience framework for local government Local Environ. (IF 3.59) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Melanie Lowe, Sarah Bell, Jessie Briggs, Elissa McMillan, Merrick Morley, Maree Grenfell, David Sweeting, Alison Whitten, Nikki Jordan
Urban resilience has rapidly developed as a concept to assist urban actors to prepare for, and respond to, shocks and stresses experienced in cities. Urban resilience has been variously defined, an...
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Intersectional climate action: the role of community-based organisations in urban climate justice Local Environ. (IF 3.59) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Kaitlin F. Strange, Mar Satorras, Hug March
With climate change increasingly threatening people in uneven and disproportional ways, community-based solutions and interventions have become critical to ensure equitable, just, and inclusive cli...
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Spatial analysis of urban agriculture in the utilization of open spaces in Nigeria Local Environ. (IF 3.59) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Olalekan Tolulope B. Aduloju, Olumuyiwa Bayo Akinbamijo, Abdullateef Iyanda Bako, Abdulfatai Olanrewaju Anofi, Kolade Victor Otokiti
Growing food in upper- and lower-income countries commands different connotations and dimensions. Urban agriculture (UA) is increasingly an essential urban fabric and a critical enabler of sustaina...
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Connecting art and development: studying the role of city art on bridges in forwarding urban sustainability Local Environ. (IF 3.59) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Annie Sadhana Arulraj, Sunitha Don Bosco
Bridges are important physical structures in a cityscape. With spaces in urban areas, becoming increasingly precious and important, even the bridges and their columns have gained a significant role...
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Adaptation through knowledge coexistence: insights for environmental and sea lamprey stewardship Local Environ. (IF 3.59) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Charity Nonkes, Ryan Lauzon, Breanna Redford, Alexander T. Duncan
Strategies for tackling environmental issues, including the consequences of invasive species and corresponding control efforts, are frequently approached through a Western scientific lens that ofte...
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Assessing the publicness of three streets in ethnically-diverse neighbourhoods Local Environ. (IF 3.59) Pub Date : 2024-02-03 Maryam Lesan
Public space is the domain of interest for urban designers, and streets represent one of its most significant forms. In multicultural societies, public space users come from diverse social and ethn...
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Cultural probes: a speculative and creative method for environmental research Local Environ. (IF 3.59) Pub Date : 2024-02-03 Justin Chun-Him Lau, Michelle W. T. Cheng
This article considers cultural probes as an experimental qualitative method in promoting collaborative and prefigurative participation in research. While the extant literature tends to frame cultu...
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Access heterogeneities and collection time inequalities of drinking water sources in Ghana: implications for water and development policy Local Environ. (IF 3.59) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Godfred Amankwaa, Kwaku Abrefa Busia, Pascal Agbadi, Henry O. Duah, Francis Arthur-Holmes
Time poverty remains a critical issue for water access across the globe. However, research on the time spent for water collection and the factors associated with collection time inequalities and ac...
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Social protection for transformative resilience: do programmes really address underlying causes of vulnerability of subsistence farmers to climate change? Local Environ. (IF 3.59) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Hare Krisna Kundo, Rochelle Spencer, Martin Brueckner, John K. Davis
Conventional social protection programmes that fail to intentionally consider climate change effects in their design and delivery are criticised for not addressing the root causes of vulnerability ...
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Community perceptions of sustainability: (Re)framing what matters for more just, ethical, and liveable municipalities Local Environ. (IF 3.59) Pub Date : 2024-01-28 Kathryn Riley, Mariia Iakovleva, Erin Dueck, Heather O’Watch, Margot Hurlbert, Candice Minott, Akram Mahani, Tanvir Ahmed, Michaela Lynds
Municipal governments and community organisations are key stakeholders in the mobilisation of global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through opportunities to make and implement sustainability ...
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Building rural public cultural spaces for enhanced well-being: evidence from China Local Environ. (IF 3.59) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Xiaomei Cai, Jie He, Meixin Liu, Alastair M. Morrision, Yongqi Wu
Rural public cultural spaces are important living environments that improve resident well-being. According to space theory, this research explored the core dimensions of rural public cultural space...
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The micropolitics of coal in India: understanding resource politics from the ground up through a materiality lens Local Environ. (IF 3.59) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Patrik Oskarsson, Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt, Nikas Kindo
Coal in India carries different values and meanings for different actors. Consequently, the politics of this resource is manifested in multiple forms at multiple levels. Whereas the extraction of c...
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Soil publics: regenerating relations with urban soils through citizen science Local Environ. (IF 3.59) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Hannah L. Price, Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro, Kathy High, Mónica D. Ramírez-Andreotta, Sebastián Ureta, Dan Walls, Chie Xu, Abby Kinchy
In contexts of regulatory neglect, it often falls to concerned individuals and community groups to identify and reduce people’s exposure to health-threatening pollutants in urban soils. The Our Soi...
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Holding up a mirror: researching symmetrically to explore exclusion, othering and whiteness in local environmental governance Local Environ. (IF 3.59) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Sherilyn MacGregor, Nafhesa Ali, Tally Katz-Gerro, Catherine Walker, Zarina Ahmad
The positioning of minoritised and racialised groups such as Global South immigrants as deficient in knowledge, language or motivation is a form of othering prevalent in all spheres of Global North...
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Recognising summer energy poverty. Evidence from Southern Europe Local Environ. (IF 3.59) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Daniel Torrego-Gómez, Marta Gayoso-Heredia, Patricia San-Nicolás Vargas, Miguel Núñez-Peiró, Carmen Sánchez-Guevara
Summer energy poverty (SEP) is becoming a more concerning issue in southern European countries. This is due to the increasing intensity and frequency of heatwaves, which are particularly severe in ...
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Analyzing alternative food networks in highly-globalised and standardised agrifood systems to attain sustainability for small-scale growers: inferences from tea sector Local Environ. (IF 3.59) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Nabajyoti Deka, Kishor Goswami
Alternative Food Networks (AFNs) are often seen as an opportunity to promote sustainability among small-scale farmers. The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a greater realisation to explore more about A...
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Older street vendors during a crisis: vulnerability and resilience Local Environ. (IF 3.59) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Pham Tien Thanh, Duong The Duy
Older street vendors have long been considered a vulnerable group in Global South countries, especially during times of crisis. This research aims to examine the welfare and mental health status of...
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Correction Local Environ. (IF 3.59) Pub Date : 2024-01-16
Published in Local Environment: The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability (Vol. 29, No. 2, 2024)
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How do local government strategies advance social accountability? The challenges from environmental management of Slaughterhouse in Semarang City, Indonesia Local Environ. (IF 3.59) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Hartuti Purnaweni, Titik Djumiarti, Ali Roziqin, Budi Santoso
This study aimed to analyze local government strategies in advancing social accountability regarding the environmental impact of Slaughterhouses in Semarang City, Indonesia. It also highlighted the...
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Visualising spatial equity of park-access for the elderly from a multidimensional perspective in Yangzhou, China Local Environ. (IF 3.59) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Zhiming Li, Liang Xia
Urban parks provide critical ecosystem services and satisfy residents’ recreational needs. As the population ages, whether the elderly can enjoy park resources equally has become an important issue...
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Perceptions of environmental impacts of artisanal coal mining vis-à-vis the scientific reality: a case of a community in South Africa's Kwazulu-Natal Province Local Environ. (IF 3.59) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 T. Makhubu, H. Moyo, L. Mugwedi, J. Belle
The current study investigated the perceived impact of informal coal mining on the environment of a rural community in Blaauwbosch, KwaZulu-Natal Province, in South Africa. Data was extracted throu...
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Failing septic systems in Lowndes County, Alabama: citizen participation, science, and community knowledge Local Environ. (IF 3.59) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Elizabeth A. Albright, Catherine Coleman Flowers, Randall A. Kramer, Erika S. Weinthal
The United Nations has estimated that 2.8 billion individuals across the world will not have access to safely managed sanitation in 2030. In the accounting of global sanitation access, local inequi...
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More than one story: remaking community and place in Sweden’s transition to a fossil free society Local Environ. (IF 3.59) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Anna Bohman, Clifton Evers, Eva Lövbrand
In this article, we study how Sweden’s transition to a fossil free society is interpreted and experienced by communities whose livelihoods and cultural identities are entangled with carbon-intensiv...
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Unexpected effects of urban food activism on community and human wellbeing Local Environ. (IF 3.59) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Jennifer Wardle, John McKenzie, Martin Barker, David F.R.P. Burslem, Donald Gray
Participation in urban agriculture conducted through community gardens and allotments is known for its benefits to physical and mental health. Due to the recognition of these benefits, which includ...
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Flood risk perception and disaster preparedness in marginalised flood-prone communities: evidence from Saadi neighbourhood, Shiraz, Iran Local Environ. (IF 3.59) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Mousa Pazhuhan, Melika Amirzadeh
Poor and marginalised communities worldwide bear a disproportionate burden of the impacts caused by flash floods, resulting in significant socioeconomic and financial damages. To enhance community ...
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Highland communities’ climate change perceptions, climatic shocks and livelihood practices during COVID-19 pandemic Local Environ. (IF 3.59) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Xuesong Zhang, Rundong He, Zhenghua Hu, Abu Reza Md Towfiqul Islam, Afsana Akter, Abdullah Al Mamun, G. M. Monirul Alam, Md Nazirul Islam Sarker, Subodh Chandra Pal, Md Mostafizur Rahman, Md. Emran Hossain
Highland areas are more susceptible to climate change impacts. This study investigates the highland communities’ climate change perceptions, climatic hazards, and livelihood practices during the CO...
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The politics of airing grievances: an analysis of air quality knowledge and ignorance in Pittsburgh Local Environ. (IF 3.59) Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Chie Togami, Michael Warren Murphy
Pittsburgh's airshed is among the most surveilled and studied in the United States, yet its residents continue to endure some of the worst air quality in the United States. In 2016, in response to ...
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Tracing sustainability meanings in Rosendal: interrogating an unjust urban sustainability discourse and introducing alternative perspectives Local Environ. (IF 3.59) Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Malin Bäckman, Katarina Pettersson, Lotten Westberg
Sustainability is a much debated concept, often criticised as ill-defined. While some argue it is time to leave sustainability behind, others defend the concept's potential to initiate change. In t...
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Analysing access to parks and other green spaces on walking, biking, and driving networks through a socioeconomic lens Local Environ. (IF 3.59) Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Nicholas N. Ferenchak, Alan Barney
Green spaces are important elements of cities due to their benefits to residents’ physical health, mental health and development, and social connections. Residents are more likely to experience gre...
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Talking ‘bout a revolution: resilience and coastal policy in England Local Environ. (IF 3.59) Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Christopher Thomas Blunkell
Sea defence policy in England has proven contentious in the early twenty-first century, with government willing to defend the coast only where it is considered cost effective and not minded to comp...
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Socially embedding the food system: the role of alternative food initiatives to build sustainable food models Local Environ. (IF 3.59) Pub Date : 2023-12-31 Futoshi Sato, Laura Calvet-Mir, Sergio Villamayor-Tomas
The current industrial food system is failing in all aspects of sustainability. Alternative Food Initiatives (AFIs) and the industrial green food market (iGFM) both claim that they are building sus...
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Semi high-speed rail development in Kerala, India: a political ecology perspective Local Environ. (IF 3.59) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Chitra Karunakaran Prasanna, Preetha Kizhakkekara Vannadil
The paper aims to critically analyse the development dichotomies and socio-ecological concerns inherent in a controversial megaproject in Kerala – the Semi High-Speed Rail Corridor, also known as t...
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Compatibility of climate adaptation strategies with livelihood vulnerability patterns: the case of Fars province, Iran Local Environ. (IF 3.59) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Samane Ghazali, Mansoor Zibaei, Goran Skataric, Rytis Skominas, Hossein Azadi
Pastoralists’ livelihood on natural rangelands is increasingly influenced by the destructive impacts of climate change. While the phenomenon of climate change continues globally, it is expected to ...
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The effects of resettlement in urban redevelopment; insights from the Kejetia project in Ghana Local Environ. (IF 3.59) Pub Date : 2023-12-09 Francis Mensah, Guoqing Shi, Qingnian Yu
Traditional marketplaces have become the key targets for urban redevelopment by local governments in Ghana to reinvent spaces and generate income. However, the resettlement issues have become the m...
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“The bad job brings the good one”: photovoice study with female and male waste workers in Rwanda Local Environ. (IF 3.59) Pub Date : 2023-12-08 Mélanie Surchat, Micline Irakoze, Speciose Kantengwa, Matieyedou Konlambigue, Leonhard Späth, Benjamin Wilde, Johan Six, Pius Krütli, Michael Stauffacher
Within the circular economy framework in Africa, sustainable waste management can contribute to improving the environment and creating green jobs. However, recycling activities are mostly carried o...
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Local governments as gatekeepers to community gardens: what does “support” mean? Local Environ. (IF 3.59) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Amy Carrad, Nick Rose, Karen Charlton, Belinda Reeve
In Australia, community gardens (CGs) commonly take the form of communally-operated growing spaces situated on public land administered by local governments (LGs). LGs and their policies are gateke...
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Alley greening: a tool for enhancing community resilience? Local Environ. (IF 3.59) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Daniel Forde, Linda McElduff, Gavan Rafferty
In many cities across the world alleys are transitioning from residual spaces to hybrid places providing the foundation for new functions, uses, and identities to take root and coincide through a p...
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The interests, ideas, and institutions shaping public participation in local climate change governance in Ireland Local Environ. (IF 3.59) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Paul M. Wagner, Valesca Lima
Public participation in local governance is crucial for effective climate action and for ensuring that policies are designed in a way that respects the rights of communities. Policy developments an...
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Latin American immigrants and the environment: acculturation, information sources, and place Local Environ. (IF 3.59) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Bruno Takahashi
This study examines how acculturation – defined as the changes in cultural patterns after cultural contact between different groups – relates to environmental perceptions of Latin American and Cari...
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An evaluation of the Place Standard Tool as a means of examining inequalities in relation to place Local Environ. (IF 3.59) Pub Date : 2023-11-23 Lauren Powell, Zoe McCluskey, Helen Bewsher, Phil Brown, Timothy Gomersall, Jenny Retzler, Owen Richardson
Improving the quality of places is a crucial element in addressing the inequalities that exist across the UK. While standardised tools exist to structure conversations about place, the extent to wh...
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What rural women say about their role in household waste management in Kashmir? A case-series approach Local Environ. (IF 3.59) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Irtifa Mukhter, Richa Chowdhary
One of the Millennium Development Goals is to ensure environmental sustainability. Farm households and rural communities are significant producers of manure, crop residues or mixed solid waste dail...
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Factors that influence user patronage and satisfaction of urban parks in Ghanaian cities: case of the Rattray Park in Nhyiaeso, Kumasi Local Environ. (IF 3.59) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Victor Kwesi Quagraine, Michael Osei Asibey, Kwabena Fosuhene Mosner-Ansong
Urban parks provide environmental, social and economic benefits to users. A notable model that sought to integrate green spaces and create self-sufficient, healthy and pleasant places to live by co...
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Transforming waste-picking landscape in Ghana: from survival to sustainable enterprise Local Environ. (IF 3.59) Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Henry Mensah, Dorothy Julian Nalumu
Waste picking within the informal sector is essential to solid waste management policy and practice. A healthy number of academic articles have emerged from the practice of waste picking, particula...
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Collaborating for nature-based solutions: bringing research and practice together Local Environ. (IF 3.59) Pub Date : 2023-09-13 Björn Wickenberg
Nature-based solutions (NBS) is a relatively novel concept and real-world application has only started to proliferate in cities, which motivates addressing early attempts of cross-boundary collabor...
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How does community food growing build community bonds? Insights from grassroots visual storytelling Local Environ. (IF 3.59) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Les Levidow, Andrea Berardi, Julia Jung
Community food growing (CFG) builds community bonds and placemaking through emotional attachments. This process has been illuminated by grassroots visual storytelling, whereby CFG participants made...
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Just transitions at the local level: insights from coal communities in Japan Local Environ. (IF 3.59) Pub Date : 2023-08-28 Leslie Mabon, Akiko Hiratsuka-Sasaki, Andrew Chapman, Benjamin C. McLellan
International scholarship and policy advice is gaining interest in understanding what a just transition means for communities, the lived environment and sense of place. At the same time, Japan is f...
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A review of brownfields revitalisation and reuse research in the US over three decades Local Environ. (IF 3.59) Pub Date : 2023-08-28 Christopher De Sousa, Ann M. M. Carroll, Sandra Whitehead, Sarah Coffin, Lauren Heberle, Ganga Hettiarachchi, Sabine Martin, Karen Sullivan, James Van Der Kloot
Over the past 30 years, US-based research on contaminated and potentially-contaminated sites, or brownfields, has grown from defining the scope and size of the environmental, health and economic ri...
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Transformation or deformation? Ghana's Bui hydropower dam and the myth of modernity of the resettlement camps Local Environ. (IF 3.59) Pub Date : 2023-08-28 Kwame Adovor Tsikudo
The Bui Dam is a consequential infrastructure undertaking in modern Ghana. The project is Ghana's third large dam and the second largest by total installed capacity. In addition to addressing a cri...
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Water woes and vulnerabilities: a case study of Bally-Jagachha block of Howrah District in West Bengal, India Local Environ. (IF 3.59) Pub Date : 2023-08-28 Suranjana Banerji, Nilanjana Chakraborty, Deblina Mitra
Water is one of the most contended resources on the planet. The need and the un-ubiquitous nature of the resource is a reality faced by the Bally-Jagachha block in Howrah, West Bengal. Here, the av...
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Growing, consuming, and wasting/disposing: a study of the sustainable food practices of Australian households Local Environ. (IF 3.59) Pub Date : 2023-08-25 Miriam J. Williams, Kristian Ruming, Dong Ju Lee, Mia McCarthy
Sustainable food practices are increasingly of interest to scholars and practitioners concerned with the impacts of food production, consumption, and waste in an age of climate change. Attention ha...
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Unravelling the relationship between spatial and social inclusion: evidence from Korean cities and regions Local Environ. (IF 3.59) Pub Date : 2023-08-25 In Kwon Park
Spatial inclusion is defined as the availability of space and mobility for underprivileged people, as well as the physical closeness of different social groups. This study seeks to uncover the key ...
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Just sustainabilities: lessons from the Lake Turkana Wind Power project in Kenya Local Environ. (IF 3.59) Pub Date : 2023-08-25 Nina Simberg-Koulumies
In the light of increasing socio-ecological crises, there has been a surge in the promotion of renewable energy in the Global South. Previous theories and research often hail these developments as ...
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Hydropower policy in Ecuador: an analysis from environmental perspective and recommendations for future policymaking Local Environ. (IF 3.59) Pub Date : 2023-08-25 Andrei Briones-Hidrovo, Javier Uche, Amaya Martínez-Gracia
Renewable energies are vital to tackle climate change and reduce environmental issues. In this sense, hydropower plays a key role. Broadly speaking, hydropower is perceived as a climate ally and co...
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An assessment of the livelihood resilience of tourism smallholders in the upper reaches of Yihe River, China Local Environ. (IF 3.59) Pub Date : 2023-08-23 Ruyi Yu, Xiaoyan Su, Jinlong Cheng, Wenxia Du, Zongzheng Liang
Using data from 524 households in the upper reaches of the Yihe River, China, a tourism livelihood resilience index (TLRI) was developed to explore the correlation between livelihood resilience and...
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Local food systems and health interventions: an exploratory study of farmers perspectives on food prescription programs in the Mississippi delta Local Environ. (IF 3.59) Pub Date : 2023-08-22 Curtis Kline, Anne Cafer, Megan Rosenthal
According to the most recent food insecurity statistics published by the USDA Economic Research Service approximately 10.5% of US households face low or very low food security. However, not all geo...
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Oral histories document community mobilisation to participate in decision-making regarding a hazardous waste thermal treatment facility Local Environ. (IF 3.59) Pub Date : 2023-08-22 Jennifer Richmond-Bryant, M. Odera, W. Subra, B. Vallee, L. Rivers III, B. Kelley, J.A. Cramer, A. Wilson, J. Tran, T. Beckham, J. Irving, M. Reams
Colfax, Louisiana hosts a commercial hazardous waste thermal treatment (TT) facility, which treats fireworks, explosives, and military ordnances by open-burn/open-detonation one mile from the edge ...