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Challenges and strategies for agricultural green development in the Yangtze River Basin 长江流域农业绿色发展面临的挑战与对策

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Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI: 10.1080/1943815X.2021.1883674

Chaoyi Guo, Z. Bai, Xiaojun Shi, Xuanjing Chen, D. Chadwick, M. Strokal, Fusuo Zhang, Lin Ma, Xinping Chen

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引用次数: 13

Substitution, natural capital and sustainability 替代、自然资本和可持续性

IF 2.4 4区环境科学与生态学

Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI: 10.1080/1943815X.2021.2007133

L. Reijnders

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引用次数: 2

Transboundary rivers of Ukraine: perspectives for sustainable development and clean water 乌克兰的跨界河流:可持续发展和清洁水的前景

IF 2.4 4区环境科学与生态学

Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI: 10.1080/1943815X.2021.1930058

V. Strokal

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引用次数: 9

Topical themes in biodiversity financing 生物多样性融资的专题

IF 2.4 4区环境科学与生态学

Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI: 10.1080/1943815X.2020.1866616

Nowella Anyango-van Zwieten

引用次数: 3

A qualitative study of the migration-adaptation nexus to deal with environmental change in Tinghir and Tangier (Morocco) 廷希尔和丹吉尔(摩洛哥)地区应对环境变化的迁移-适应关系的定性研究

IF 2.4 4区环境科学与生态学

Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI: 10.1080/1943815X.2020.1869784

L. Van Praag

{"title":"A qualitative study of the migration-adaptation nexus to deal with environmental change in Tinghir and Tangier (Morocco)","authors":"L. Van Praag","doi":"10.1080/1943815X.2020.1869784","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1943815X.2020.1869784","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Over the last two decades, migration-as-adaptation discourses have theorized and studied how migration could facilitate adaptation to deal with the effects of adverse environmental change. However, contextual factors, such as migration trends and local social and economic contexts, as well as perceptions of this linkage have often been neglected. This study aims to understand how people perceive this relationship and whether and how migration, often in the form of remittances, is used for adaptation purposes. For this study, 48 semi-structured interviews were conducted with inhabitants of Tangier and Tinghir (Morocco). These regions are confronted differently by environmental change impacts. While both face increasing precipitation and temperature changes, Tinghir is additionally confronted with drought, desertification, water scarcity, and a growing number of more extreme weather events. Furthermore, both regions receive internal migrants and experienced significant emigration towards Europe. Results indicate that migration, as well as the sending of remittances, could produce a multitude of adaptation outcomes towards environmental change, resulting in an exacerbation of existing social vulnerabilities, alter economic development at the community level, and impact the development of alternative adaptation strategies, at both the individual/household and community levels. Findings demonstrate that migration-as-adaptation discourses must be considered within social, political, economic, and environmental contexts. These discourses should consider local migration histories and prevalent cultures of migration.","PeriodicalId":16194,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82783038","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 2

Evaluation of the potential environmental impacts of condom production in Thailand 评估泰国生产避孕套对环境的潜在影响

IF 2.4 4区环境科学与生态学

Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI: 10.1080/1943815X.2021.1949354

W. Jawjit, P. Pavasant, C. Kroeze, Jindee Tuffrey

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引用次数: 1

Non-CO2 greenhouse gases: the underrepresented, complex side of the climate challenge 非二氧化碳温室气体:气候挑战中未被充分代表的复杂一面

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Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences Pub Date : 2020-12-29 DOI: 10.1080/1943815X.2020.1907106

M. Harmsen, Jillian Student, C. Kroeze

引用次数: 1

Rethinking the urban Nexus - Resilience and vulnerability at the urban Nexus of Water, Energy and Food (WEF). An introduction to the special issue 重新思考城市关系——水、能源和粮食城市关系的复原力和脆弱性(WEF)。特刊简介

IF 2.4 4区环境科学与生态学

Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences Pub Date : 2020-12-22 DOI: 10.1080/1943815X.2020.1866617

P. Mguni, Bas van Vliet

引用次数: 4

The making of a sustainable food city in Barcelona: insights from the water, energy, and food urban nexus 巴塞罗那可持续食物之城的建立:从水、能源和食物城市关系的见解

IF 2.4 4区环境科学与生态学

Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences Pub Date : 2020-12-22 DOI: 10.1080/1943815x.2019.1675715

M. Covarrubias, Ingrid Boas

{"title":"The making of a sustainable food city in Barcelona: insights from the water, energy, and food urban nexus","authors":"M. Covarrubias, Ingrid Boas","doi":"10.1080/1943815x.2019.1675715","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1943815x.2019.1675715","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper examines the making of urban sustainable food provisioning through the case of Barcelona. Barcelona is seeking to develop a more sustainable food system. It aims to green its municipal food markets by reducing the distances from which the food is sourced from. This has been labelled by the city of Barcelona as “proximity food”. We shed light on how, and to what extent, proximity food contributes to making the city more sustainable. To frame our analysis, we employ concepts from networks and flows as developed in sociology by Manuel Castells. We examine the provisioning processes that proximity food goes through before they enter retail markets. This includes an analysis of connections with urban energy and water flows. This so-called water, energy and food Urban Nexus, which we argue to be a key factor in the greening of urban food systems. This means that sustainability of food is not just determined by physical distances between its provisioning processes per se but by the specific ways in which food flows relate to connections (both physical and social) with energy and water.","PeriodicalId":16194,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2020-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88594670","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 8

Peri-urban territories and WEF nexus: the challenges of Brazilian agrarian reform areas for social justice 城市周边地区与世界经济论坛的联系:巴西土地改革领域对社会正义的挑战

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Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences Pub Date : 2020-12-15 DOI: 10.1080/1943815x.2020.1844757

Thainara Granero de Melo, Bruno Lacerra de Souza, R. A. Scopinho

{"title":"Peri-urban territories and WEF nexus: the challenges of Brazilian agrarian reform areas for social justice","authors":"Thainara Granero de Melo, Bruno Lacerra de Souza, R. A. Scopinho","doi":"10.1080/1943815x.2020.1844757","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1943815x.2020.1844757","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Over the past three decades, agrarian reform areas have transformed urban and rural spaces across Brazil. Although these areas’ creation reduced inequalities and environmental problems, their residents still experience several constraints and vulnerabilities associated with water, energy, and food provision. Drawing on the water-energy-food (WEF) nexus’ critical and territorial perspectives, this paper aims to better understand the agrarian reform areas’ challenges in peri-urban interfaces towards social justice. We analyse a territory in the Northeast portion of the São Paulo State, where it is located the Sepé Tiaraju agrarian reform settlement in interface with two municipalities. We suggest that agrarian reform areas can activate a progressive and concrete environmental change at the local level where food is the key element to redefining the area’s nexus. However, socio-political and spatial dynamics involving water and energy for the sugarcane sector, the municipal government, and tense relationships among residents around food also reproduce unequal access to resources. This paper contributes to the emerging critical literature and its efforts to politicize the nexus debate, giving more nuanced views to the complex and contradictory dynamics involving environmental problems and social justice struggles.","PeriodicalId":16194,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2020-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78935074","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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