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An overview of sustainable business models for innovation in Swedish agri-food production 瑞典农业食品生产创新的可持续商业模式概述

IF 2.4 4区环境科学与生态学

Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences Pub Date : 2018-12-12 DOI: 10.1080/1943815X.2018.1554590

Per-ola Ulvenblad, Pia Ulvenblad, J. Tell

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引用次数: 35

Study of urban carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) accounting based on the comparable GPC framework: a case of the underdeveloped city, Nanning, China 基于可比GPC框架的城市二氧化碳当量核算研究——以欠发达城市南宁为例

IF 2.4 4区环境科学与生态学

Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences Pub Date : 2018-01-01 DOI: 10.1080/1943815X.2018.1447970

Junsong Jia, Zhihai Gong, D. Xie, Huiyong Jian, Chundi Chen

{"title":"Study of urban carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) accounting based on the comparable GPC framework: a case of the underdeveloped city, Nanning, China","authors":"Junsong Jia, Zhihai Gong, D. Xie, Huiyong Jian, Chundi Chen","doi":"10.1080/1943815X.2018.1447970","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1943815X.2018.1447970","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract It is innovative to account for the carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) of underdeveloped regions such as Nanning city of China. Meanwhile, the ‘Global Protocol for Community-scale greenhouse gas emission inventories (GPC)’ has been considered a worldwide comparable framework for calculating urban CO2e emission (CE). So, the CEs of Nanning were calculated during 1994–2015 by the GPC methodology in this paper. The results show the total CE of Nanning, containing the electricity CE of Scope 2, grew rapidly from 6.56 Mt in 1994 to 55.44 Mt in 2015, with an annual average increasing rate of 10.69% and amount of 2.33 Mt. The biggest three contributors were industrial energy consumption, transportation and industrial processes, which contributed 29.72–61.09, 10.75–41.87 and 7.40–14.99%, respectively, to the total CE. Almost always, more than 90.94% of Nanning’s CE was related to coal. When considering only the CEs from coal, oil and gas, both these CEs per unit area and per GDP of Nanning were always greater than those of the world, although less than those of China due to the underdeveloped status of Nanning in most years. So, it was necessary for Nanning to pursue the pattern of low-carbon development, and some corresponding countermeasures were recommended.","PeriodicalId":16194,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80920035","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

Sustainability: a missing dimension in climate change adaptation discourse in Africa? 可持续性:非洲气候变化适应话语中缺失的维度?

IF 2.4 4区环境科学与生态学

Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences Pub Date : 2018-01-01 DOI: 10.1080/1943815X.2018.1450766

S. Bhatasara, A. Nyamwanza

引用次数: 22

Use of nutrient medium technique for vegetation restoration in Karst region of Southwest China 营养介质技术在西南喀斯特地区植被恢复中的应用

IF 2.4 4区环境科学与生态学

Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences Pub Date : 2018-01-01 DOI: 10.1080/1943815X.2018.1471725

F. Wu, Changwu Liu, Hongkai Chen, Zhaofeng Diao, Shuang Zhao, H. Xie

{"title":"Use of nutrient medium technique for vegetation restoration in Karst region of Southwest China","authors":"F. Wu, Changwu Liu, Hongkai Chen, Zhaofeng Diao, Shuang Zhao, H. Xie","doi":"10.1080/1943815X.2018.1471725","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1943815X.2018.1471725","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Karst rocky desertification (KRD) is a global environmental degradation problem caused by human activities and vegetation deterioration. Vegetation restoration in KRD is very difficult due to severe water loss, soil erosion and extensive bare bedrock. For achieving vegetation restoration on bare bedrock areas of KRD, the nutrient medium technique was developed, which is based on the special hydro-geological conditions that is seasonal rainfall is abundant in Karst region of Southwest China and limestone fissures are extremely developed and rich in fissure water. The objective of this research is to investigate the feasibility of using nutrient medium technique to achieve vegetation restoration in KRD region. Through the indoor and field experiments, some properties of the nutrient medium mixture were tested, including water retention, water absorption and nutrient retention. The results showed that the moisture content on the 75th day and water absorption rate of No.2 mixture was 19.9% and 1.67 mm/d, respectively, which could be used as optimum mix ratio for producing nutrient medium. The field results showed that the nutrient medium technique could effectively guarantee the survival of sapling at early age and sustainable growth at later age in the field, and the nutrient medium had less nutrient loss. This novel approach can retain and absorb moisture, and saplings do not need artificially supply water and fertiliser in the dry season, and the use of nutrient medium technique to achieve vegetation restoration in KRD region seems to be a feasible option.","PeriodicalId":16194,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/1943815X.2018.1471725","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72431961","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: 3

Framing and visualising biodiversity in EU policy 在欧盟政策中构建和可视化生物多样性

IF 2.4 4区环境科学与生态学

Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences Pub Date : 2018-01-01 DOI: 10.1080/1943815X.2018.1455714

Ylva Uggla

引用次数: 6

Circular economy and Cradle to Cradle in educational practice 循环经济与从摇篮到摇篮的教育实践

IF 2.4 4区环境科学与生态学

Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences Pub Date : 2018-01-01 DOI: 10.1080/1943815X.2018.1471724

H. Kopnina

{"title":"Circular economy and Cradle to Cradle in educational practice","authors":"H. Kopnina","doi":"10.1080/1943815X.2018.1471724","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1943815X.2018.1471724","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article describes how Circular Economy (CE) and Cradle to Cradle (C2C) can be used in university teaching to address these frameworks’ strengths and weaknesses in practice. The advantages of these frameworks for radical change are outlined, including their emphasis on upcycling rather than recycling (downcycling). This article discusses how students apply their understanding of transformative production frameworks to three case studies of products or materials. The student projects evaluating existing products in terms of their circularity value outline a number of practical as well as theoretical challenges. The case studies demonstrate that some products still have a long way to go to fully cycle materials within a closed system. Aside from illustrating the dangers of subversion of circular frameworks to the ‘business-as-usual’ scenarios, the assignments are instructive in showing how CE/C2C can be successfully taught. This article recommends pedagogical strategies involving both theory of sustainable production and sustainability and practical research into company’s operations in order to develop the students’ ability to meaningfully engage with CE/C2C models.","PeriodicalId":16194,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79673472","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: 40

Geographical scoping and willingness-to-pay for nature protection 地理范围和自然保护的支付意愿

IF 2.4 4区环境科学与生态学

Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences Pub Date : 2018-01-01 DOI: 10.1080/1943815X.2018.1441158

W. Botzen, Pieter J. H. van Beukering

{"title":"Geographical scoping and willingness-to-pay for nature protection","authors":"W. Botzen, Pieter J. H. van Beukering","doi":"10.1080/1943815X.2018.1441158","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1943815X.2018.1441158","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This study offers a Choice Experiment (CE) analysis of geographical scope effects. About 500 stated preference surveys were conducted to estimate willingness-to-pay (WTP) for nature protection in the Netherlands and the Caribbean Netherlands which became part of the Netherlands’ constitution just before the survey, providing a unique policy setting. Two version of the CE were implemented with a narrow or a broader geographical scope. Estimation of error correction mixed logit models resulted in the following main insights. First, the hypothesis of scope invariance is rejected since expanding the geographical scope influenced WTP values for nature protection. As an illustration, policies of preventing a degradation of nature have an average WTP of about €20 in the experiment with the smaller geographical scope, while this WTP is not significantly different from zero in the experiment with the more extensive scope. Second, evidence of scope sensitivity of WTP to the levels of nature protection is mixed, and depends on the geographical scope of the CE. We find a sizable WTP for protection of nature in Caribbean Netherlands among citizens of the mainland of the Netherlands, which supports the observed sizable funding of the Dutch government for nature management in the Caribbean Netherlands.","PeriodicalId":16194,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80286338","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: 6

Producing expertise: the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity & Ecosystem Services’ socialisation of young scholars 产生专业知识:生物多样性与生态系统服务政府间科学政策平台青年学者的社会化

IF 2.4 4区环境科学与生态学

Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences Pub Date : 2018-01-01 DOI: 10.1080/1943815X.2018.1439509

Karin M. Gustafsson

{"title":"Producing expertise: the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity & Ecosystem Services’ socialisation of young scholars","authors":"Karin M. Gustafsson","doi":"10.1080/1943815X.2018.1439509","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1943815X.2018.1439509","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Expert organisations, such as the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity & Ecosystem Services (IPBES), have become increasingly important in global, regional, and local efforts to manage current environmental challenges. As producers of environmental knowledge assessments, these expert organisations are epistemic authorities in their field of expertise. To achieve and maintain epistemic authority, expert organisations constantly need to reproduce and develop their expertise. By using the first cohort of IPBES’s fellowship program as a case study, the current paper examines the production of expertise and the socialisation of new experts into expert organisations. The paper also examines the importance of these socialisation processes in the institutionalisation of expert organisations. By analyzing interviews, observations, and documents, the current study explores the expected goals, the performance, and the results of the socialisation. The study shows how the fellows learned and acquired new roles and norms. The study also shows that whoever controls the socialisation process also control the production of expertise and the institutionalisation of the expert organisation.","PeriodicalId":16194,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85763474","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: 13

Are peatland farming systems sustainable? Case study on assessing existing farming systems in the peatland of Central Kalimantan, Indonesia 泥炭地耕作系统可持续吗?评估印度尼西亚加里曼丹中部泥炭地现有农业系统的案例研究

IF 2.4 4区环境科学与生态学

Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences Pub Date : 2018-01-01 DOI: 10.1080/1943815X.2017.1412326

Arif Surahman, P. Soni, G. Shivakoti

{"title":"Are peatland farming systems sustainable? Case study on assessing existing farming systems in the peatland of Central Kalimantan, Indonesia","authors":"Arif Surahman, P. Soni, G. Shivakoti","doi":"10.1080/1943815X.2017.1412326","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1943815X.2017.1412326","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Economically, peatland plays an important role since they can be reclaimed for agriculture. Shallow peat (<100 cm) can be used to grow food crops including vegetables. Peatland has also become attractive for development of large-scale oil palm and rubber plantations. However, peatland has a number of constraints in terms of greenhouse gas (GHG) emission, especially CO2 emissions in the degraded peatland. These arise from decomposition of peat. Common sense suggests three alternatives to manage GHG emissions from degraded peatland: conservation and restoration, natural recovery, and agricultural use. In this context, the challenge is to utilize degraded tropical peatland for agriculture while avoiding the negative impacts, and ensuring its environmental sustainability. This research attempts to contribute toward developing better management plans. Results of this study show that rice farming has highest sustainable score in degraded peatland. Rice farming secured a 52.14% sustainability score, while oil palm and rubber farming exhibited 47.55 and 47.67% sustainable scores, respectively. Therefore, rice farming can be considered as the first alternative for development of degraded peatland. Improved oil palm and rubber farming systems may also be subsequently considered if their sustainability can be improved.","PeriodicalId":16194,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78088903","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: 34

An assessment of Swaziland sugarcane farmer associations’ vulnerability to climate change 对斯威士兰甘蔗农民协会对气候变化脆弱性的评估

IF 2.4 4区环境科学与生态学

Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences Pub Date : 2017-01-01 DOI: 10.1080/1943815X.2017.1335329

Bon'sile F N Mhlanga-Ndlovu, G. Nhamo

{"title":"An assessment of Swaziland sugarcane farmer associations’ vulnerability to climate change","authors":"Bon'sile F N Mhlanga-Ndlovu, G. Nhamo","doi":"10.1080/1943815X.2017.1335329","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1943815X.2017.1335329","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The study investigated the vulnerability of Swaziland’s sugarcane small scale farmer associations (SSFAs) to climate change through the Sustainable Livelihoods Framework. From a survey of 45 SSFAs, representing +2700 farmers, drought emerged as the most significant stress. Droughts result in failed cane germination, increased pests and increased diseases. Farmers indicated that there had no land title deeds and were concerned about the poor state of infield and feeder roads damaged during heavy rainfall and floods. It emerged that the bulk of the SSFAs irrigate during the day, a scenario that leaves them vulnerable to high temperatures leading to high evapotranspiration. In addition, 97% of the SSFAs sampled did not have drought preparedness plans and likewise, all did not have a flood management plan. About 76% of SSFAs operation costs goes to crop upkeep and harvesting, with labour cost increases attributed to extreme weather events. All sampled SSFAs had no insurance against loss from extreme weather events. Given the foregone, the paper recommends that the government fast tracks the 1999 Draft Land Policy intended to address the issue of title deeds. The paper further suggest that extension officers and farmers be trained to sharpen skills on understanding climate change.","PeriodicalId":16194,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86279199","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: 14