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Women's leadership in cooperative and social movement in the issue of food waste: Evidence from Bandung City 妇女在解决食物浪费问题的合作社和社会运动中的领导作用：来自万隆市的证据

World Development Sustainability Pub Date : 2025-04-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.wds.2025.100219

Arry Bainus , Dina Yulianti , Deasy Silvya Sari , Virtuous Setyaka , Wa Ode Kodrat Rahmatika

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Leveraging CA-ANN modelling for SDGs alignment: Previse future land use patterns and their influence on Mirik Lake of sub-Himalayan Region 利用CA-ANN模型实现可持续发展目标：预测未来土地利用模式及其对喜马拉雅地区Mirik湖的影响

World Development Sustainability Pub Date : 2025-04-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.wds.2025.100218

Md Ashif Ali , Saleha Jamal , Nilofer Wahid , Wani Suhail Ahmad

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From ideologies to practice: A political ecology approach to green transitions–The case of Tanzania's Ujamaa sustainability communities 从意识形态到实践：绿色转型的政治生态学方法——以坦桑尼亚Ujamaa可持续社区为例

World Development Sustainability Pub Date : 2025-03-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.wds.2025.100217

Christopher C. Graham

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Challenges with microplastic pollution in the regime of UN sustainable development goals 微塑料污染在联合国可持续发展目标体系中的挑战

World Development Sustainability Pub Date : 2025-03-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.wds.2025.100216

Moharana Choudhury , Priyabrata Roy

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Agricultural commercialization and food security: Evidence and policy implications for smallholder farmers in Kenya 农业商业化和粮食安全：对肯尼亚小农的证据和政策影响

World Development Sustainability Pub Date : 2025-03-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.wds.2025.100214

Emily Mutea , Johanna Jacobi , Stephan Rist , Boniface Kiteme , Md Sarwar Hossain

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Sustainable healing: Natural compounds facilitating the future cancer treatment 可持续治疗：天然化合物促进未来癌症治疗

World Development Sustainability Pub Date : 2025-03-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.wds.2025.100215

M．Amin Mir , Bimal Krishna Banik

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Does the relative size of agricultural exports matter for sustainable development? Evidence from Sub-Sahara Africa 农业出口的相对规模对可持续发展有影响吗？来自撒哈拉以南非洲的证据

World Development Sustainability Pub Date : 2025-02-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.wds.2025.100212

Taofeekat Temitope Nofiu, Rashidat Sumbola Akande, Hauwah K.K. Abdulkareem, Sodiq Olaiwola Jimoh

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On income inequality and CO2 emissions in Bangladesh 孟加拉国的收入不平等与二氧化碳排放

World Development Sustainability Pub Date : 2025-02-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.wds.2025.100211

Syeed Khan , Leanora Brown , Anupam Das

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Impact of public climate change adaptation policies on women's employment and poverty in Burkina Faso 公共气候变化适应政策对布基纳法索妇女就业和贫困的影响

World Development Sustainability Pub Date : 2025-02-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.wds.2025.100210

Boureima Sawadogo

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Why the impasse? The large dams debate and divergent perspectives 为什么会陷入僵局？关于大坝的争论和不同的观点

World Development Sustainability Pub Date : 2025-02-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.wds.2025.100209

Lucy Goodman

{"title":"Why the impasse? The large dams debate and divergent perspectives","authors":"Lucy Goodman","doi":"10.1016/j.wds.2025.100209","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wds.2025.100209","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Should we build more large dams? This has been the subject of articles, one multi-stakeholder world commission, government inquiries and protest movements. Nevertheless, unresolved disagreements have persisted for 50 years within the literature on this topic. More recently, the call for hydropower for climate change mitigation has concentrated attention. However, focusing on the energy transition has not resolved more fundamental questions within the contradictory narratives around large dams. I describe the current debate by investigating its subjectivities using Q methodology. In Q methodology, participants rank controversial notions from the debate, and the researcher uses these rankings' scores to retrieve generic opinion profiles. Twenty-seven participants ranked thirty-seven statements on large dams, the result is three opinion profiles (\"Dam Busters\", \"Dam Necessarists\" and \"It-Dependers\") and their points of contention. Divisive issues are the economic benefits, climate change and renewable energy, engineering solutions for impact mitigation, and cultural issues. The most profound division was between the ideology and politics of the Dam Busters and Dam Necessarists regarding the necessity of dams for mitigating climate change, and the economic benefits. Ideas and political values significantly shaped people's viewpoints, leading to a more intractable debate. I conclude by arguing against simplifying the debate into Not-In -My-BackYard (“NIMBY”) and There-Is-No-Alternative (“TINA”). Instead, I suggest the debate will move forward if we acknowledge that the divisions are subjective and ideological and if there is transparency around where disagreements lie. As an individual's ideology rarely changes, I propose that objective approaches will not resolve the debate.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":101285,"journal":{"name":"World Development Sustainability","volume":"6 ","pages":"Article 100209"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143487834","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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