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From ideologies to practice: A political ecology approach to green transitions–The case of Tanzania's Ujamaa sustainability communities

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

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

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

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

M．Amin Mir , Bimal Krishna Banik

{"title":"Sustainable healing: Natural compounds facilitating the future cancer treatment","authors":"M．Amin Mir , Bimal Krishna Banik","doi":"10.1016/j.wds.2025.100215","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wds.2025.100215","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Natural products have always played an important part in cancer treatment. These chemicals are generally obtained from plants and microbes, which are significant sources of bioactive molecules with strong anticancer effects. Plant-derived anticancer drugs include Cisplatin, Taxanes, Gemcitabine, Erlotinib, Berberine, and Antroquinonol. These chemicals have shown great success in treating several forms of cancer. Microorganisms, notably bacteria and fungus, create a variety of natural chemicals having potent anticancer properties. Many of these microbial compounds, which were initially identified and utilized as antibiotics, have later been shown to have powerful anticancer effects. Examples include rapamycins, carfilzomib, midostaurin, and Adcetris. These chemicals are physically and chemically varied, and they frequently exhibit their anticancer effects via novel modes of action, such as accelerating specific biochemical processes within cancer cells that impede growth, proliferation, or survival. This review examines a number of medications derived from both plant and microbial sources that have shown efficacy against various malignancies, demonstrating the possibility for combining natural products from multiple sources to produce new, more effective cancer treatments.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":101285,"journal":{"name":"World Development Sustainability","volume":"6 ","pages":"Article 100215"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143601492","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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Does the relative size of agricultural exports matter for sustainable development? Evidence from Sub-Sahara Africa

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

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

Boureima Sawadogo

{"title":"Impact of public climate change adaptation policies on women's employment and poverty in Burkina Faso","authors":"Boureima Sawadogo","doi":"10.1016/j.wds.2025.100210","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wds.2025.100210","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Climate change is expected to bring hotter periods and reduced rainfall to Burkina Faso, decreasing water availability and soil moisture. This will negatively affect agriculture and food production. This study uses a gender-dynamic computable general equilibrium (CGE) model linked to a microsimulation model to evaluate the potential impacts of climate change and two adaptation policies on sustainable development goals (SDGs) such as poverty (SDG1), food security (SDG2), gender equality (SDG5), and economic growth (SDG8) for Burkina Faso up to 2050. The CGE model utilizes the 2019 Social Accounting Matrix (SAM), while poverty incidence calculations are based on the 2018/2019 Harmonized Household Living Conditions Survey, which covers 7010 households in Burkina Faso. Climate change is projected to harm Burkina Faso's economy through production losses, price increases, reduced food access and availability, greater food import dependency, increased extreme poverty, and GDP losses. The scenario drives down employment, with women being the most affected. However, simulation results suggest that adaptation policies could mitigate these effects by improving food security, reducing extreme poverty, and addressing wage inequalities. Investing in agricultural research and development may be more effective than expanding irrigated land in mitigating climate change impacts, highlighting the need for robust adaptation policies to address gender pay disparities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":101285,"journal":{"name":"World Development Sustainability","volume":"6 ","pages":"Article 100210"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143471657","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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Why the impasse? The large dams debate and divergent perspectives

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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Farmers’ preferences toward organic certification scheme: Evidence from a discrete choice experiment in Northern Vietnam

World Development Sustainability Pub Date : 2025-02-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.wds.2025.100203

Kene Boun My , Huy Nguyen-Quang , Phu Nguyen-Van , Thi Kim Cuong Pham , Anne Stenger , Tuyen Tiet , Nguyen To-The

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The impact of digital industries on carbon emission in China: Input-output and structural decomposition analysis

World Development Sustainability Pub Date : 2025-02-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.wds.2025.100208

Yuke Li , Jing Wu , Xiaodong Pei , Qianting Zhu

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