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{"title":"Understanding sustainability perceptions: Insights from textual analysis and a survey experiment","authors":"Valentina Rotondi ,&nbsp;Alice Noris ,&nbsp;Emanuele Carpanzano","doi":"10.1016/j.wds.2024.100182","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wds.2024.100182","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study delves into sustainability perceptions and behaviors within the Italian-speaking regions of Switzerland and Northern Italy, areas chosen for their unique cultural and socio-economic contexts. Through a geolocated survey and a subsequent survey experiment, we investigate how individuals in these regions conceptualize sustainability and how narrative framing affects their willingness to financially support local environmental policies. Our analysis reveals significant demographic variations in sustainability perceptions. Gender differences are evident, with men prioritizing economic and technological aspects, while women focus on ecological and ethical considerations. Parental status also influences perspectives, with parents emphasizing environmental conservation and related policy interests. Age differences show that older individuals concentrate on nature and mobility, whereas younger respondents highlight infrastructure and environmental issues. Geographical distinctions indicate that Italian residents frequently mention energy, recycling, and technology, while those in Southern Italian Switzerland emphasize culture and tourism. The survey experiment shows that narrative framing plays a crucial role in shaping public support for sustainability initiatives. Messages emphasizing potential losses or negative outcomes are more effective in motivating financial support for environmental policies compared to positive framings. These findings underscore the complexity of public attitudes towards sustainability, highlighting the need for tailored communication strategies that resonate with diverse demographic segments. The study offers valuable insights for policymakers and advocates, suggesting that strategically crafted messages can bridge the gap between environmental values and actual behaviors, thereby enhancing public engagement with sustainability efforts.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":101285,"journal":{"name":"World Development Sustainability","volume":"5 ","pages":"Article 100182"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142720867","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}

{"title":"Eyes on the data—How the methodology of the 2030 Agenda contributes to its probable failure","authors":"Wiegand Koerber","doi":"10.1016/j.wds.2024.100188","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wds.2024.100188","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>More than halfway through the 15-year timeline, the world is still far from reaching the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This study locates one important reason for this in the specific design of the 2030 Agenda's methodology, the indicator-based goal-setting. In this, the Global Indicator Framework (GIF) should play a central role as a basis for political decisions and as an instrument for critical political communication. However, drawing on social science indicator research, this article shows that shortcomings in the GIF's genesis have led to the 2030 Agenda's effectiveness being severely limited. These limitations are: the one-sided focus on the provision of data, which results in the neglect of questions of implementation and tensions between and within political and statistical actors, which in turn leads to an undermining of the GIF itself. As a result, the GIF shows several crucial gaps in terms of content, is characterised by discrepancies between the political target and the measurement content of the indicators, and features indicators that change the goals through their measurement content. In response, the article notes a tendency towards non-use of the indicators, which undermines the whole 2030 Agenda. The results of this study can thus also be used as a basis for the future implementation of indicator-based policies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":101285,"journal":{"name":"World Development Sustainability","volume":"5 ","pages":"Article 100188"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142651575","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}

{"title":"Environmental agricultural practices in the Ziban palm groves: Should we choose between yield and sustainability?","authors":"Salah Eddine Benziouche ,&nbsp;Salim Khechai ,&nbsp;Foued Cheriet","doi":"10.1016/j.wds.2024.100187","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wds.2024.100187","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Since antiquity, with transhumant breeding, the cultivation of the date palm has been the main agricultural vector around which social and economic activities are articulated in oasis regions. The conduct of this culture is guided by a specific and complex technical itinerary. The objective of the present study aims to identify and characterize the main sustainable agricultural practices within the palm groves of the Ziban in south–eastern Algeria and the sensitivity of date palm farmers to environmental practices as well as their degree of adaptation. Our study is based on face-to-face surveys conducted among 50 producers among 10 date palm areas in the region. It brings to light that despite the production developments, date palm farming in this region remains dominated by extensive and traditional agriculture, either due to a lack of means, knowledge, or environmental commitment. As a result, several sustainable practices remain widely shared in the majority of palm groves. Similarly, it appears that several larger and newly established producers are committed to these new practices which have various objectives in particular, to protect the environment, and to sustain the culture and the quality of the products.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":101285,"journal":{"name":"World Development Sustainability","volume":"5 ","pages":"Article 100187"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142573410","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}

{"title":"Unlocking sustainable development: Evaluating the impact of monetary and fiscal policies on ecological footprint in India","authors":"Muhammed Ashiq Villanthenkodath ,&nbsp;Shreya Pal ,&nbsp;Mohd Arshad Ansari","doi":"10.1016/j.wds.2024.100186","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wds.2024.100186","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>India's rapid economic growth underscores the increased necessity of pursuing the paradigms of sustainable development. However, concerns over environmental sustainability have risen in tandem with the country's aspirational goals for economic progress. Therefore, a crucial aspect of managing this is to create a balance between economic prosperity and environmental quality, wherein comprehending how fiscal and monetary policies affect India's ecological footprint becomes an utmost priority. In this vein, this study evaluates the impact of fiscal and monetary policies on India's ecological footprint while controlling for economic growth, squared economic growth, and renewable energy consumption between 1990 and 2022. Given the complexity of these links and well-suitability for examining both short-term dynamics and long-term relationships, this study employs the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) model as its methodology for the empirical analysis. Thus, the findings indicate a significant long-term relationship between India's ecological footprint, fiscal policy, monetary policy, economic growth, squared economic growth, and renewable energy consumption while considering the ecological footprint as the dependent variable. Surprisingly, fiscal policy demonstrates insignificat negligible impacts on the ecological footprint in both the short and long run. Conversely, the result underscores that monetary policy effectively curbs the ecological footprint in both the short and long run. Furthermore, the study validates the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis in the long run. However, no evidence supports the EKC hypothesis in the short run. Besides, the outcome unveils that renewable energy consumption reduces the ecological footprint with no temporal differences. Hence, the policy implications derived from these findings emphasize the crucial role of monetary policy and integrating renewable energy strategies into policy frameworks for achieving sustainable development outcomes, in addition to the other policy interventions that prioritize ecological conservation alongside economic development, ensuring a balanced approach to solve environmental and economic challenges in India.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":101285,"journal":{"name":"World Development Sustainability","volume":"5 ","pages":"Article 100186"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142531079","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}

{"title":"Digital sustainability tracing in smallholder context: Ex-ante insights from the Peruvian cocoa supply chain","authors":"Jonathan Steinke ,&nbsp;Yovita Ivanova ,&nbsp;Sarah K. Jones ,&nbsp;Thai Minh ,&nbsp;Andrea Sánchez ,&nbsp;José Sánchez-Choy ,&nbsp;Jonathan Mockshell","doi":"10.1016/j.wds.2024.100185","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wds.2024.100185","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Global demand for sustainable agri-food products creates opportunities for smallholder farmers. But on-farm verification of sustainable practices is costly, making third-party certification inaccessible to many poor farmers. Digital technologies for tracing agri-food products from farm to fork could help: novel traceability systems, based on blockchain technology, can make data about on-farm practices transparently available to downstream stakeholders, enabling them to verify sustainability claims without external audits. There is limited understanding, however, of how such digital tracing systems fit local needs and capacities in smallholder contexts. Through a grounded theory approach, we explore the potential of digital traceability for sustainability monitoring in a case study in the Ucayali region of Peru. Based on interviews with local cocoa sector stakeholders, we identify two major challenges: first, setting up digital traceability systems requires investments that do not seem justified by corresponding increases in income. And second, relying on farmer-supplied data creates the risk of inaccurate information due to insufficient capacity as well as incentives for providing distorted data. Our findings suggest that strong cooperation along the supply chain is needed to ensure adequate return on farmer-side costs and investments. Focusing on sustainability metrics at the community level, in addition to the farm level, may be promising, as these metrics can be reliably collected by external stakeholders and add value beyond existing third-party certification standards. Our case study provides recommendations for local policy makers and supply chain stakeholders to develop inclusive digital sustainability tracing systems with smallholder farmers.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":101285,"journal":{"name":"World Development Sustainability","volume":"5 ","pages":"Article 100185"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142531078","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}

{"title":"An economic analysis of tidal energy to support sustainable development","authors":"Matteo Catalano ,&nbsp;Idiano D'Adamo ,&nbsp;Massimo Gastaldi ,&nbsp;Marzena Smol","doi":"10.1016/j.wds.2024.100184","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wds.2024.100184","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Decarbonization of the energy sector, requires a strong expansion of renewable energy, which combined with effective and efficient use of resources, enables the development of models based on the green economy. Tidal energy, which is currently underutilized, can contribute to this change by providing affordable and clean energy, thus contributing to sustainable development. This work evaluates the economic dimension of sustainability and provides a profitability analysis related to a 1 MW plant located in central Italy. The methodology consists of a technical framework, geared toward quantifying the energy potential from that plant, and economic models based on indicators such as Net Present Value (NPV), Levelized Cost of Energy (LCOE) and Discounted Payback Time (DPBT).</div><div>The results show that the plant turns out to be profitable in the base case (NPV = 573 k€ and DPBT = 21 years) and policy interventions, which see the use of capital grants and subsidies, change the results to NPV ranging between 338 and 1287 k€ and DPBT between 11 and 15 years. However, alternative scenarios indicate that the variables that most impact economic outcomes are changes related to energy selling price and capacity factor. The LCOE in the different scenarios varies between 49.4–89.8 €/MWh. The implications of this work define that tidal energy supports the energy transition to sustainable development and that the mix of technical, market, and political factors must be considered in policy decision making.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":101285,"journal":{"name":"World Development Sustainability","volume":"5 ","pages":"Article 100184"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142420896","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}

{"title":"Green finance and investment index for assessing scenario and performance in selected countries","authors":"Sumedha Bhatnagar ,&nbsp;Dipti Sharma ,&nbsp;Rashmi Bundel","doi":"10.1016/j.wds.2024.100183","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wds.2024.100183","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Globally, countries are engaged in developing strategies and undertaking initiatives for green transitioning of the financial system and achieving net-zero targets by 2050. Green transitioning of the financial system includes boosting green finance (GF) and green investment (GI) in the country. Countries are making initiatives to develop infrastructure and a conducive ecosystem to attract green finance and investment. The present study attempts to develop a green finance and investment index to evaluate the green financing and investing scenario of 15 selected countries. The study attempts to evaluate countries on the basis of four integral dimensions viz., transparency, resilience, efficacy and efficiency. The dimensions include 29 variables, representing 11 parameters identified through a comprehensive literature review and experts' inputs. Multiple-factor analysis is applied to develop the index and rank the countries. The results show that the UK is ranked first, followed by Germany, the USA and Japan. These countries have taken initiatives to include environmental financing in the legal and regulatory framework. Among the developing countries, China is ranked seventh, followed by Mexico, Brazil and Indonesia. The results show that transparency and resilience dimensions are homogeneous to each other. Likewise, efficiency and efficacy are relatively more homogeneous to each other. Transparency plays the prominent role in developing GFI ecosystem. The study recommends that by improving transparency in regulations will positively impact the resilience of the country. Improving efficacy will result in increasing efficiency in the countries. The findings of the study contributes to the literature on quantitative analysis of green finance and investment. The results can contribute to the decision-making of the policymakers for devising an appropriate policy by strategically addressing the critical variables in each dimension. Lastly, the study can provide the foundation for analysing the green finance and investment ecosystem and the performance of the countries over the period of time.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":101285,"journal":{"name":"World Development Sustainability","volume":"5 ","pages":"Article 100183"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142420898","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}

{"title":"Green entrepreneurship: Opportunities and challenges for the transition to a circular economy in Togo, West Africa","authors":"Baladjida Parfait Badjeena,&nbsp;Essossinam Ali,&nbsp;Kwami Ossadzifo Wonyra,&nbsp;Katou Tamou","doi":"10.1016/j.wds.2024.100181","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wds.2024.100181","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The traditional linear economic model, characterized by extraction, production, consumption, and waste disposal, has increasingly exposed its limitations, particularly in the depletion of natural resources and the acceleration of global warming, which are critical global issues. These challenges inherent in the linear economy have prompted a shift towards a circular economy. This study analyzes the opportunities and challenges for transitioning to a circular economy through green entrepreneurship among 29 environmentally friendly entrepreneurs in Togo, West Africa. The descriptive analysis of the results revealed that green entrepreneurs are mainly motivated by economic factors, such as job creation and business opportunities, which take precedence over environmental motivations. However, they face significant challenges, including a lack of access to appropriate financing and complex administrative procedures that affect their growth. It is essential to develop themselves, provide specific support by alleviating bureaucratic obstacles to access to finance, and meet economic and environmental goals from green entrepreneurship. In addition, it's important to advocate for pro-environmental behavior among the general public and to support research and development to increase understanding of the advantages of promoting environmentally friendly entrepreneurship for sustainable development while combating climate change. Mainstreaming gender into circular economy policies design and implementation for sustainable development is crucial due to the low representativeness of women in green entrepreneurship. These measures will strengthen Togo's economic resilience while enabling the transition to a circular economy, thus aligning financial objectives with environmental preservation in pursuing green entrepreneurship.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101285,"journal":{"name":"World Development Sustainability","volume":"5 ","pages":"Article 100181"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772655X24000594/pdfft?md5=eab4145443e406bb14331c4aa54e38b4&pid=1-s2.0-S2772655X24000594-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142136508","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}

{"title":"Evaluating heat health risk in Indian cities: Geospatial and socio-ecological analysis","authors":"Kaushik Mandvikar ,&nbsp;Nirmal Kumar ,&nbsp;Hitesh Supe ,&nbsp;Deepak Singh ,&nbsp;Ankita Gupta ,&nbsp;Pankaj Kumar ,&nbsp;Gowhar Meraj ,&nbsp;Inam Danish Khan ,&nbsp;Asma Kouser ,&nbsp;Santosh Kumar Pandey ,&nbsp;Ram Avtar","doi":"10.1016/j.wds.2024.100180","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wds.2024.100180","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>India is home to 11 % of the global urban population and is ranks as the second-largest urban system in the world. This study introduces a Heat Health Risk Index (HHRI) rankings for 37 major Indian cities with more than one million residents, using geospatial and socio-ecological data to identify potential heat health risk areas. In this study, the Otsu method was employed to determine the critical parameters in the heat health index, considering factors such as Land Surface Temperature (LST), solar radiation, population density, mean temperature, urban green cover, rainfall, specific humidity, and wind speed. All data values were standardized to a uniform scale (0–1) for comparability. The standardized values, integrated with the assigned weights, formed the HHRI. Results indicate that cities such as Chennai, Mumbai, Kolkata, and Ahmedabad, each with populations exceeding 10 million, are deemed less livable due to their high HHRI (&gt;0.50). Both Chennai and Mumbai stand out with highest hazard index as 0.66, followed by Kolkata (0.62) and Ahmedabad (0.56). Cities that lack sufficient green spaces are often more vulnerable, display elevated risk levels, and have decreased adaptability. In contrast, cities such as Ludhiana, Theni, Amritsar, and Nabarangpur are perceived as the most livable, with a mean HHRI of 0.21, owing to their higher adaptive capacity and lower exposure. Overall, this study serves as a foundation for conceiving future perspective plans for existing urban and peri‑urban areas, compared to living standards within the realms of sustainability.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101285,"journal":{"name":"World Development Sustainability","volume":"5 ","pages":"Article 100180"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772655X24000582/pdfft?md5=78cfe66adfa38a1582775d9aa4093e90&pid=1-s2.0-S2772655X24000582-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142168269","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}

{"title":"Land suitability and human adaptation: River Siang from Sangam to Pongging, Arunachal Pradesh, India","authors":"Chandra Kumar Dutta ,&nbsp;Ankulin Duwarah ,&nbsp;Anamika Borah ,&nbsp;Prerana Boruah ,&nbsp;Chandana Das ,&nbsp;Anandita Das","doi":"10.1016/j.wds.2024.100179","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wds.2024.100179","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Land suitability in mountainous regions profoundly influences human adaptation strategies, particularly in environments shaped by morphometric characteristics. This study focuses on the Siang river valley from Sangam to Pongging, Arunachal Pradesh, India, employing Land Suitability Analysis (LSA) to assess terrain viability for settlement, and orchard cultivation. Key determinants such as topographic features, drainage morphometry, and infrastructural accessibility were analyzed to develop thematic maps delineating optimal zones for different land uses. The research underscores how geomorphic attributes and accessibility influence settlement patterns and orchard suitability, with lower elevations proving favorable for settlements and orchards due to accessible topography and climatic conditions. By integrating spatial analysis techniques and assessing variables like elevation, slope, and proximity to infrastructure by euclidian distance and pareto principle (80/20 rule), this research provides a comprehensive framework for informed land use planning. Strategic planning recommendations emphasize sustainable practices and community engagement to balance development needs with environmental preservation in Arunachal Pradesh's rugged terrain. It advocates for collaborative efforts between stakeholders to optimize land utilization and foster resilient development amidst challenging environmental conditions. This initial attempt aims to raise awareness among land users, planners, research workers, and administrators to ensure proper and effective land management.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101285,"journal":{"name":"World Development Sustainability","volume":"5 ","pages":"Article 100179"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772655X24000570/pdfft?md5=840350de723142fb034a57853509c58f&pid=1-s2.0-S2772655X24000570-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142076502","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}