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Towards true prices in food retailing: the value added tax as an instrument transforming agri-food systems Sustain. Sci. (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 B. Oebel, L. Stein, A. Michalke, S. Stoll-Kleemann, T. Gaugler
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Understanding the embeddedness of individuals within the larger system to support energy transition Sustain. Sci. (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Katharina Biely, Siddharth Sareen, Gerdien de Vries, Emile Chappin, Thomas Bauwens, Fabio Maria Montagnino
CO2 emissions need to be reduced drastically to fight climate change and minimise the further increase of average global temperatures. The decarbonisation of the energy system aims at reducing CO2 emissions and is thus urgently needed. This transition is facilitated by inter alia switching to renewable energy sources and more efficient technologies. In the past, the energy transition has mostly focused
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Empowering citizens for the energy transition: facilitating role change through real-world experiments Sustain. Sci. (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-10 Helena Trenks, Paula Maria Bögel
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Beyond a checklist for acceptance: understanding the dynamic process of community acceptance Sustain. Sci. (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Nikki Kluskens, Floor Alkemade, Johanna Höffken
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Money and the ecological turn: lessons from alternative currencies Sustain. Sci. (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Jérôme Blanc
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The multilocality of sense of place in ecosystem services discourse Sustain. Sci. (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Sakineh Ghorbanzadeh, Kenneth Nordberg
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At the intersections of influence: exploring the structure–agency nexus across sufficiency goals and time frames Sustain. Sci. (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Laura Maria Wallnoefer, Sahra Svensson-Hoglund, Soumyajit Bhar, Paul Upham
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Estimating scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions through the shareholder network of publicly traded firms Sustain. Sci. (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Cristian Mejia, Yuya Kajikawa
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Unveiling global sustainability boundaries: exploring inner dimensions of human critical determinants for sustainability Sustain. Sci. (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Filipe Duarte Santos, Tim O’Riordan, Miguel Rocha de Sousa, Jiesper Tristan Strandsbjerg Pedersen
Greater global awareness and action to implement sustainable development are underway. However, global progress towards sustainability has been slow. Advancing towards some form of sustainability requires greater attention and analysis of the role played by the human inner world. While the scientific analytic tools have focused on external aspects, we present a scientific methodology to identify human
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Inter- and transdisciplinary reasoning for action: the case of an arts–sciences–humanities intervention on climate change Sustain. Sci. (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-17 Luana Poliseli, Guido Caniglia
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Centring Indigenous peoples in knowledge exchange research-practice by resetting assumptions, relationships and institutions Sustain. Sci. (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-17 J. K. Weir, R. Morgain, K. Moon, B. J. Moggridge
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An organizing framework to break down Western-centric views of knowledge in North–South research Sustain. Sci. (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-17 Hannah Turner, Briony Rogers, Sarah Kneebone, Diego Ramirez, Matthew French, Mere Jane Sawailau, Filise Volavola, Sholyn Baran, Kelera Matavesi, Orlando Newton, Maraia Batiota Luveniyali, Autiko Tela, Isoa Vakarewa
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Assessing the relevance of different proximity dimensions for knowledge exchange and (co-)creation in sustainability-oriented innovation networks Sustain. Sci. (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Ulrich Wilke, Andreas Pyka
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Social acceptance of district heating: evidence from the Netherlands Sustain. Sci. (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-15
Abstract The Netherlands Climate Change Agreement aims to reduce CO2 emissions and seismic events by halting natural gas usage by 2050. This will require widespread societal acceptance by 90% of households. The study investigates the social acceptance of a district heating network (DHN) among social housing tenants in Haarlem, Netherlands. The findings of a survey administered to ninety-five tenants
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A methodological framework for capturing marine small-scale fisheries' contributions to the sustainable development goals Sustain. Sci. (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 R. E. Bitoun, M. Léopold, T. Razanakoto, R. Randrianandrasana, S. L. Akintola, P. Bach, E. N. Fondo, N. Franz, N. Gaibor, Y. Massey, L. M. Saavedra-Díaz, S. Salas, M. Arias Schreiber, B. Trouillet, R. Chuenpagdee, R. Devillers
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Multifunctionality benefits of small-scale urban agriculture Sustain. Sci. (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Chethika Gunasiri Wadumestrige Dona, Geetha Mohan, Kensuke Fukushi
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Design principles for sustainable community currency projects Sustain. Sci. (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-05
Abstract Community currencies (CCs) are alternative forms of money usually issued and managed by citizens, NGOs and companies as well as local public administrations. Used to trade goods and services in limited territories or among a certain community, CCs are composed of symbolic, cultural, and social dimensions and fully immersed in particular economic and institutional contexts. Despite the increasing
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Understanding the mechanisms of meaning-making for transformations toward sustainability: contributions from Personal Knowledge Theory Sustain. Sci. (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-04 Benita C. Odii, Yanyan Huang, Marie K. Harder
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Teaching–learning environmental conflicts through case studies and experiential immersion: introducing students to transdisciplinary research Sustain. Sci. (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-04
Abstract Environmental conflicts have increased considerably in recent years and approaches from situated and complex perspectives have gained relevance for their study. However, disciplinary approaches are still dominant to the detriment of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary studies. This article analyzes the relevance of a transdisciplinary approach applied to case studies coupled with what
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A practical tool to enable Indigenous enterprise planning and development grounded in culture Sustain. Sci. (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-03 Kirsten Maclean, Phil Rist, Whitney Rassip, Nicole Prudames
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Collective action lessons for the energy transition: learning from social movements of the past Sustain. Sci. (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Vanja Djinlev, BinBin J. Pearce
To accelerate the energy transition and achieve the needed large-scale transformation to address climate change, different barriers including lock-ins and path dependencies, incumbent power structures and changing individual and collective norms, values, and behaviors around energy need to be addressed. In the face of these challenges, citizens are beginning to play a bigger role in the transformation
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Assessment of transdisciplinarity by its participants: the case of Tertúlias do Montado, Alentejo, Portugal Sustain. Sci. (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 M. Helena Guimarães, Gonçalo Jacinto, Catarina Isidoro, Christian Pohl
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To charge or not to charge? Using Prospect Theory to model the tradeoffs of electric vehicle users Sustain. Sci. (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 S. Pelka, A. Bosch, E. J. L. Chappin, F. Liesenhoff, M. Kühnbach, L. J. de Vries
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Community-centred scenarios development for water–energy–food security on Zanzibar Sustain. Sci. (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-23
Abstract Small developing islands demonstrate strong social–ecological interactions as well as a high level of exposure to climate-related effects, which can result in intense land use pressures. Scenario methodologies are useful for reflecting on how competing pressures interact when planning for a more sustainable future. In small islands, local knowledge is integral to the development of scenarios
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Action research for transformative change Sustain. Sci. (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Thami Croeser, Sarah Clement, Marta Fernandez, Georgia E. Garrard, Ian Mell, Sarah A. Bekessy
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Special on purpose: complementary currencies in the hierarchy of money Sustain. Sci. (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-22
Abstract No money is universally acceptable. What distinguishes special-purpose monies (SPMs) from national currencies is not the fact of geographical or institutional constraints on their acceptability as such, but the intentional imposition of such constraints as a design priority. This article integrates SPMs into the theoretical framework of the credit theory of money and proposes a novel typology
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Spatial exploration of rural capital contributing to quality of life and urban-to-rural migration decisions: a case study of Hokuto City, Japan Sustain. Sci. (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Yasuo Takahashi, Takahiro Yoshida, Sawako Shigeto, Hiroyuki Kubota, Brian Alan Johnson, Yoshiki Yamagata
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Job creation in a low carbon transition to renewables and energy efficiency: a review of international evidence Sustain. Sci. (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Richard Hanna, Philip Heptonstall, Robert Gross
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Monitoring environmental sustainability in Japan: an ESGAP assessment Sustain. Sci. (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-10
Abstract This paper assesses the environmental sustainability of Japan by applying the environmental sustainability gap (ESGAP) framework, which builds on the concepts of strong sustainability, critical natural capital, environmental functions, and science-based reference values. The assessment is carried out using two indices of environmental sustainability (Strong Environmental Sustainability Index
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Directing personal sustainability science toward subjective experience: conceptual, methodological, and normative cornerstones for a first-person inquiry into inner worlds Sustain. Sci. (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Pascal Frank, Johannes Wagemann, Julius Grund, Oliver Parodi
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Can security be sustainable? Three perspectives on security and social sustainability: paradox, co-production, and deconstruction Sustain. Sci. (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Irja Malmio
Security and sustainability are prioritized goals in the “Western liberal” world. Maintaining democratic resources while simultaneously strengthening society’s ability to deal with security issues firmly resonates with ideals associated with social sustainability. However, merging normative theories like security and social sustainability produces conceptual difficulties that are hard to resolve. Based
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Accelerating actions for leveraging a climate-neutral sustainable society Sustain. Sci. (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2023-12-29
Abstract The establishment of the Leveraging a Climate-neutral Society–strategic Research Network (LCS–RNet) (then named the International Research Network for Low Carbon Societies) was proposed at the Group of Eight (G8) Environment Ministers’ Meeting in 2008. Its 12th annual meeting in December 2021 focused on the discussion on how to transition into a just and sustainable society and how to reduce
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(Too) high hopes? How Austrian energy community actors construct their roles in the energy transition Sustain. Sci. (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2023-12-21 Andrea Vogler, Barbara Kump
Energy communities (ECs), as forms of social innovation, have the potential to contribute to sustainability transitions in the energy system. Hence, policymakers place great hopes in ECs as drivers of the energy transition and impose 'transformative goals' on EC actors. However, earlier work revealed differentiated motives (e.g., personal gain, hedonism, economic reasons) on the part of these actors
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Reflexive use of methods: a framework for navigating different types of knowledge and power in transformative research Sustain. Sci. (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2023-12-20 Kaljonen Minna, Johanna Jacobi, Kaisa Korhonen-Kurki, Jani P. Lukkarinen, Anna Ott, Juha Peltomaa, Flurina Schneider, Theresa Tribaldos, Julie G. Zaehringer
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Processes of sustainability transformation across systems scales: leveraging systemic change in the textile sector Sustain. Sci. (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2023-12-16 Julia Leventon, Maike Buhr, Lisa Kessler, Jorge Gustavo Rodriguez Aboytes, Felix Beyers
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Breaking the unsustainable paradigm: exploring the relationship between energy consumption, economic development and carbon dioxide emissions in Ecuador Sustain. Sci. (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2023-12-16 Jennifer Borja-Patiño, Andrés Robalino-López, Angel Mena-Nieto
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Operationalizing ambiguity in sustainability science: embracing the elephant in the room Sustain. Sci. (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2023-12-15
Abstract Ambiguity is often recognized as an intrinsic aspect of addressing complex sustainability challenges. Nevertheless, in the practice of transdisciplinary sustainability research, ambiguity is often an ‘elephant in the room’ to be either side-stepped or reduced rather than explicitly mobilized in pursuit of solutions. These responses threaten the salience and legitimacy of sustainability science
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Economic inequality expanded after an extreme climate event: a long-term analysis of herders’ household data in Mongolia Sustain. Sci. (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Kaoru Kakinuma, Kohei Tamura, Hiroki Takikawa, Yuichiro Fujioka, Kazuhiro Kezuka, Hiroshi Nakamura
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Emotions and transformative learning for sustainability: a systematic review Sustain. Sci. (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Julius Grund, Mandy Singer-Brodowski, Alexander Georg Büssing
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How individuals make sense of their climate impacts in the capitalocene: mixed methods insights from calculating carbon footprints Sustain. Sci. (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Tullia Jack, Jonas Bååth, Jukka Taneli Heinonen, Kirsten Gram-Hanssen
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Restricted and large-scale sustainability Sustain. Sci. (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Fulvio Mazzocchi
This article argues for a new way of approaching sustainability, reconsidering its fundamental assumptions. It describes two contrasting stances, namely ‘restricted’ and ‘large-scale’ sustainability. Restricted sustainability, i.e. the current dominant approach, focuses mostly on human welfare and is still rooted in a dualistic (man/nature) conception and an underlying sense of separateness. Large-scale
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Leverage points for tackling unsustainable global value chains: market-based measures versus transformative alternatives Sustain. Sci. (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Truly Santika, Valerie Nelson, Michael Flint, Melissa MacEwen, Stefania Cerretelli, Duncan Brack
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Sustainability of international research: evidence from an H2020 European project Sustain. Sci. (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2023-12-06 Claudia Fabiani, Fabiana Frota de Albuquerque Landi, Luisa F. Cabeza, Anna Laura Pisello
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Phasing-out ‘coal tradition’ in favour of ‘renewable colonialism’: how the press contributes to the discursive (de)legitimization of coal and renewables in a coal region in transition Sustain. Sci. (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2023-11-23 Fulvio Biddau, Valentina Rizzoli, Mauro Sarrica
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Enablers of transdisciplinary collaboration for researchers working on climate risks in African cities Sustain. Sci. (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2023-11-11 Alice McClure
This study explores enablers that help researchers to undertake collaborative transdisciplinary work with non-academic actors to co-produce knowledge on complex climate risks in African cities. Enablers were explored using a qualitative case study approach and expansive learning theory, which emphasises the embeddedness of practices in cultural and historical contexts. Concepts associated with expansive
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Sustainability governance for agrarian transformation under climate change Sustain. Sci. (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2023-11-11 Chuan Liao, Juan Liu, Arun Agrawal
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Broad values as the basis for understanding deliberation about protected area management Sustain. Sci. (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2023-11-10 Devin J. Goodson, Carena J. van Riper, Riley Andrade, William Stewart, Miguel A. Cebrián-Piqueras, Christopher M. Raymond
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Identifying untapped legal capacity to promote multi-level and cross-sectoral coordination of natural resource governance Sustain. Sci. (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2023-11-08 Nicola Harvey, Ahjond Garmestani, Craig R. Allen, Anoeska Buijze, Marleen van Rijswick
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Mitigation policies buffer multiple climate stressors in a socio-ecological salt marsh habitat Sustain. Sci. (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2023-10-27 Michael S. Roy, Jarrett E. K. Byrnes, Georgia Mavrommati
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Promoting agricultural conservation on Facebook: an exploration of the performance of farmer identity frames across age and gender Sustain. Sci. (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2023-10-17 Laura Witzling, Bret R. Shaw, Jaqueline Comito, Dara M. Wald, Elizabeth Ripley, Nathan Stevenson
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Teaching sustainability at the high sea: the “One Ocean Expedition” Sustain. Sci. (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Jarle Eid, Marianne Aanerud, Katja Enberg
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A transdisciplinary model for teaching and learning for sustainability science in a rapidly warming world Sustain. Sci. (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2023-10-16 Orla Kelly, Peta White, Fabrizio Butera, Sam Illingworth, Pim Martens, Maud Huynen, Susan Bailey, Geertje Schuitema, Sian Cowman
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Designing sustainable systems using nature’s toolbox Sustain. Sci. (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2023-10-14 Matthew J. Hasenjager, Xiaohui Guo, Noa Pinter-Wollman, Nina H. Fefferman
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Crop diversification practices in Europe: an economic cross-case study comparison Sustain. Sci. (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 J. A. Zabala, V. Martínez-García, J. M. Martínez-Paz, E. I. López-Becerra, M. Nasso, E. Díaz-Pereira, V. Sánchez-Navarro, J. Álvaro-Fuentes, M. González-Rosado, R. Farina, C. Di Bene, E. Huerta, A. Jurrius, K. Frey-Treseler, D. Lóczy, L. Fosci, E. Blasi, H. Lehtonen, F. Alcon
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Mapping the shared socio-economic pathways onto the Nature Futures Framework at the global scale Sustain. Sci. (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2023-10-04 Peter Alexander, Roslyn Henry, Sam Rabin, Almut Arneth, Mark Rounsevell
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Stakeholders’ involvement and reflections on preserving sacred swamps in the Western Ghats, India, as revealed by participatory visioning Sustain. Sci. (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Narasimha Hegde, Hans Joosten, Rafael Ziegler
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Identifying nature-positive futures in new cities: an application of the Urban Nature Futures Framework Sustain. Sci. (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2023-09-21 Shaikh Fairul Edros Ahmad Shaikh, Perrine Hamel
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Memory in energy transitions: individual agency through historical narratives in the energy transition to gas and electricity in the Dutch household Sustain. Sci. (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2023-09-21 Gijs ten Berge
Authors adopting socio-technical frameworks to study energy transitions argue that individual behavioural change and the uptake of social and technological innovations on higher-level scales are both imperative for sustainability transitions to come about. However, the way individuals are embedded in the larger system has remained largely unclear. To better understand individual embedment in energy
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The contributions of citizen science to SDG monitoring and reporting on marine plastics Sustain. Sci. (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2023-09-19 Dilek Fraisl, Linda See, Rachel Bowers, Omar Seidu, Kwame Boakye Fredua, Anne Bowser, Metis Meloche, Sarah Weller, Tyler Amaglo-Kobla, Dany Ghafari, Juan Carlos Laso Bayas, Jillian Campbell, Grant Cameron, Steffen Fritz, Ian McCallum