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{"title":"Sustainable Urban Futures and Sustainable Urban Systems in the Built Environment: Towards an Integrated Urban Science Research Agenda","authors":"Timothy J. Dixon","doi":"10.20900/jsr20220015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20900/jsr20220015","url":null,"abstract":"Today the built environment (or the human-made spaces and related infrastructures in which we live, work and play) is a vitally important element of our urban-oriented world. Increasingly we also see a closer focus on long-term ‘sustainable urban futures’ research, as both academics and national and international interest groups frame their discourses, policy and practice guidance, and current research agendas not only on the best and most effective ways of transitioning to a sustainable future, but also recognising the inherent complexity in existing ‘urban systems’. This perspective paper aims to trace the evolution of such thinking, drawing on both scholarly work and previous national and international high-level publications from relevant research programmes to identify key themes and commonalities of approach. The paper focuses on highlighting the importance of two interconnected research themes within the wider context of built environment research: (i) ‘sustainable urban systems’ (SUS) and (ii) ‘sustainable urban futures’ (SUF). In doing this the paper aims to synthesise the literature, distil emergent research findings from a range of publications to develop an integrated research agenda positioned at the nexus between these themes, and to explain what these and other key related concepts mean, and why they are important to understand. Adopting an international perspective and drawing on previous research from the ‘Global North’ and ‘Global South’, the paper concludes by highlighting the emerging lessons and challenges for research practice and suggests areas for future transdisciplinary research in what is termed ‘urban science’.","PeriodicalId":275909,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sustainability Research","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122571439","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Examining Sustainable Consumption Behaviors Through the Mass Customization Context: Emotional Product Attachment and Environmental Attitude Perspectives","authors":"Jessica Shaver","doi":"10.20900/jsr20220010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20900/jsr20220010","url":null,"abstract":"Background : Existing research regarding mass customization apparel (MCA) has suggested that the business model can be sustainable from a production perspective; however, minimal research has been conducted to understand MCA from the consumer perspective and how it relates to sustainability. The purpose of the study was to explore the linkage between mass customization apparel consumption and sustainability. Specifically, this study examined the relationships among motivations for MCA purchases (MMP), clothing sustainability knowledge (CSK), emotional product attachment (EPA), environmental attitude (EA), sustainable apparel behaviors (SAB), and general sustainable behavior (GSB). Methods : A total of 220 responses were collected from existing MCA consumers via an online survey distributed through Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk). Modified from existing literature, all major variables in the study were measured on 7-point Likert type scales. Results : Regression analyses indicated that all relationships of the study were significant except for the relationship between utilitarian motivation for MCA purchases and emotional product attachment and the relationship between self-expressive motivation for MCA purchases and environmental attitudes. Direct relationships between MMP and SAB/GSB, and between CSK and SAB/GSB were examined as well. CSK was found to be the strongest predictor highlighting the importance of educating consumers about clothing sustainability to promote responsible consumption behaviors. Conclusions : This study found evidence of the relationships between motivations for MCA purchases and sustainability-related variables. Future research can further examine how MCA consumers vs. non-MCA consumers might differ in their sustainable behaviors.","PeriodicalId":275909,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sustainability Research","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129950688","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Caribbean Fishery and Aquaculture Financing Needs in the Blue Economy: Identifying Opportunities and Constraints in Barbados, Grenada, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines","authors":"A. March, P. Failler, Michael Bennett","doi":"10.20900/jsr20230004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20900/jsr20230004","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this study is to identify the key policy, regulatory, economic, and capacity constraints, as well as opportunities for the financing needs of Blue Economy (BE) projects focused on fishery and aquaculture in Barbados, Grenada, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Coastal and marine environments provide multiple important contributions to the Blue Economy in Barbados, Grenada and St. Vincent and the Grenadines. The total contribution of the ecosystem services provided by mangroves, coral reefs and seagrass beds is estimated at around US$800 million annually for all three countries. The health of these important provisioning ecosystems is under threat. The natural capital in Grenada, Barbados, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines is being depleted, largely due to the anthropogenic drivers of overfishing, coastal development, pollution, introduction of invasive species, and the impacts of climate change. Despite these threats, at present the policies and agreements in place (at the national, regional and international level) operate in fragmented manners with insufficient overarching frameworks to involve financial support or investment to mitigate these threats. In this way, the full potential of the fisheries and their ability to contribute to the wider Blue Economy is not being realised in the target countries. To valorise the fishery sector and generate long-term sustainable financing options, prioritising the domestic market and intra-regional trade, and increasing the value addition of fish products to increase profitability is recommended. Further to this, by improving the condition of the ecosystems on which fisheries depend through sustainable financing strategies such as blue bonds or payments for ecosystem services, the capacity of fisheries can be increased by up to 60%. In this regard, better valuing of the ecosystems for their economic role to each nation should be a key focus of national priorities and investment. Lastly, the improved management of current marine protected areas (MPAs) and the networking of MPAs should be a more refined focus for fisheries management, rather than using MPAs solely for conservation purposes. In Open Access Received: 02 June 2022 Accepted: 20 March 2023 Published: 06 April 2023 Copyright © 2023 by the author(s). Licensee Hapres, London, United Kingdom. This is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Journal of Sustainability Research 2 of 37 terms of investing into the expansion of the aquaculture and mariculture sectors, three focus areas are discussed. The first area is the scaling up of aquaculture and mariculture which offers the potential to optimise the benefits received from the development of the marine environment, create sustainable quality employment, and offer high-value commodities for export and the domestic market. Dedicated blue financing funds are needed to drive technological advancements to fac","PeriodicalId":275909,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sustainability Research","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132573329","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Investigating the Application of a Transportation Energy Consumption Prediction Model for Urban Planning Scenarios in Machine Learning and Shapley Additive Explanations Method","authors":"S. Amiri, M. Mueller, S. Hoque","doi":"10.20900/jsr20220001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20900/jsr20220001","url":null,"abstract":"Accurate forecasts of future energy usage are an important step towards reaching carbon mitigation commitments for city policymakers. Beyond identifying sources of emission intensity for a region, the forecast mechanism must be capable of compensating for gaps in available data and of accounting for the uncertainties behind the dynamics of an urban system. By considering a range of possible scenarios, the prediction model can identify recurring sources of high energy consumption and fine-tune areas of priority with incoming data. This paper considers the impact of predicted shifts in demographic and economic trends for the region on transportation energy consumption. The transportation energy use model is formulated from the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission (DVRPC) open-source Household Travel Survey (HTS). Based on these data inputs, a Machine Learning (ML) algorithm is implemented in the form of an Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) model to estimate energy consumption with a corresponding SHapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP) analysis of feature contribution. From this, a synthetic population is produced using the ML outputs and marginal sums with data from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS) to estimate energy consumption for the region. The results indicate that shifting dominant travel modes and income distribution in accordance with the Enduring Urbanism forecast projections led to a decrease in household transportation energy use. Moreover, additional analysis of the model output demonstrates that changes in energy use depend strongly on geographic area and income group.","PeriodicalId":275909,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sustainability Research","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129604806","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Land-Use Planning in Municipalities as a Driver for Sustainable Residential Building in Finland: A Regional Innovation System Approach","authors":"Atte Koskivaara, K. Lähtinen","doi":"10.20900/jsr20230006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20900/jsr20230006","url":null,"abstract":"Land-use planning has been identified as an important tool in pursuing sustainability by guiding the construction and development of our built environment. Sustainability action places large requirements for municipalities to develop and introduce priorities in their planning. Landuse planning system in Finland relate to regulation and decisions of authorities connected to national, regional, and municipal levels. In general, municipal level has the most power in decision making by holding e.g., planning monopolies. Municipal land-use planners operate in the junction of different actors including businesses, local politicians, citizens, and research institutions. Thus, they provide an interesting opportunity to study the operationalization and objectives of land-use planning in different regions. This study takes the regional innovation system approach to illustrate planning systems, involvement of different stakeholders and the sustainability objectives of land-use planning in varying regions in Finland. Quantitative methods (i.e., exploratory factor analysis, statistical tests) are used in the online survey data analysis. Our results suggest a strong connection between informal planning system and municipalities’ sustainability objectives as well as stakeholders representing research and governance organizations whereas statutory planning system is more connected with users of existing knowledge. Regarding regional characteristics, urban municipality planners were found to perceive informal planning as more important than planners in other municipalities. Additionally, connected to the results on sustainability objectives, urban municipality planners paid attention especially on goals for sustainable building, while those working in other municipalities emphasized both goals on sustainable building and securing ecosystem services.","PeriodicalId":275909,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sustainability Research","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127164097","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Insights from the Analysis of Sustainability Reporting Across UK Real Estate Companies","authors":"Henry Squier, C. Booth","doi":"10.20900/jsr20230005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20900/jsr20230005","url":null,"abstract":"Organisational sustainability reporting can act as a mechanism for the United Nations to track the progress of the Sustainability Development Goals (SDGs) and concomitantly provide clarity of business activities and performance to a range of stakeholders. This study aims to assess the reporting of sustainability-related matters, and notably the incorporation and prioritisation of the SDGs, across the real estate market of the UK by interrogating both sustainability and annual reports. Content analysis was utilised to consider the qualitative aspects of the text itself, subsequently a scoring process was employed to uncover a quantitative view. Results demonstrate that, although there is acknowledgement of the sustainability agenda among these companies, there is a focal cluster of SDGs that explicitly apply to the property sector (namely SDGs 11,12,13) and a leastimportant group of goals (namely SDGs 1,2,6,9,10,14,15,16), which do not relate-well with real estate activities. Based upon the calculated average quality scoring (2.19 out of 5), findings reveal firms generally convey their sustainability activities in a qualitative manner with minimal incorporation of quantitative key performance indicators. Moreover, SDG 13 achieves one of the highest scores (2.99) and this suggests the greatest focus of company intentions are directed towards climate action. However, it is important to also note that very few companies discuss specific SDG targets in their reports. Based on this evidence, it is proposed that if the companies employed goal-specific targets it would allow for a greater overview of sector performance on the goals, year-on-year, and also counter-balance concerns that firms are green-washing (or rainbowwashing) their communications and the emergence of a disconnect between proclaimed intentions and genuine measurable actions.","PeriodicalId":275909,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sustainability Research","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129124072","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Do Ideas Change Policies? Some Reflections on Ecosystem Services in Environmental Decision-Making","authors":"G. Ferraro, P. Failler, E. Trégarot","doi":"10.20900/jsr20220009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20900/jsr20220009","url":null,"abstract":"Ecosystems play crucial functions in our economic and social well-being, known as Ecosystem Services (ESs). The uptake of ESs in national public policies and decision-making is advancing slowly, and the application of the concept still lags behind in many national and subnational systems within the European Union (EU) and beyond. Delays are particularly long in the EU’s Outermost Regions (ORs) and Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs) as well as in the Overseas Territories (OTs) of the United Kingdom. This article presents the research conducted in some of these ORs, OCTs and OTs—internationally acknowledged as biodiversity hotspots—and frames it in the context of the relationship between ideational innovation and institutional change. In particular, it investigates whether, to what extent and how ideas can cause changes in the status quo of laws, regulations and administrative practices that are designed to protect nature. The article also explores the major obstacles faced by ideas in the attempt of causing political, administrative and policy change, and disrupting existing patterns of decision-making. Finally, it recommends possible lines of actions to circumvent these cognitive, organisational and political constraints.","PeriodicalId":275909,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sustainability Research","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126871849","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Attitudes and Perceptions of Recreational Boat Owners on Waste Management Processes: A Case Study of Chichester Harbour, United Kingdom","authors":"P. O. Olatunji, J. Potts, P. Failler, Richard Austin","doi":"10.20900/jsr20220013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20900/jsr20220013","url":null,"abstract":"The paper analyses the current Port Waste Management Plan (PWMP) of Chichester Harbour, United Kingdom. The perceptions and attitudes of recreational boat owners on the waste management process in the Harbour were examined using a web-based survey and a selected semi-structured interview by examining their demographics, vessel choice, and perception of the effectiveness of the PWMP in managing Harbour waste. Our findings revealed that boat owners had little or no awareness of what the PWMP is all about. In addition, they have limited use of the waste reception facilities made accessible by the Harbour despite knowing most of the Harbour’s Environmental Designated Areas (EDAs). Education on the purpose of the PWMP increased publicity and the availability of more affordable pump-out facilities are critical for improving waste management and developing best practices in the Harbour. The research bridged a knowledge gap regarding the perception of the waste management process in Chichester Harbour.","PeriodicalId":275909,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sustainability Research","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123792420","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Re-Framing Sustainability in a Pandemic. Understanding Sustainability Attitudes, Behaviors, Visions and Responsibilities for a Post-Covid Future","authors":"F. Weder, S. Mertl, R. Hübner, Wilfried Elmenreich, Robert G. Sposato","doi":"10.20900/jsr20220006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20900/jsr20220006","url":null,"abstract":"The Covid-19 pandemic has challenged global health and equity and reinforced intergenerational and ecological problems. Future orientation focuses primarily on existing global efforts (Earth Charter, UN Millennium Declaration, SDGs, etc.), however, there is a lack of concepts and empirical studies looking at the potential of a vision of and for the future influencing individual behavior, amplifying moral evaluations of everyday behavior, and allocating responsibility and agency. The pilot study presented assumes that sustainability as a normative framework has the potential to influence social practices on all levels (institutionalized to individual) and was aimed to explore the impact of Covid-related behavior changes on envisioned futures and the willingness to take responsibility for societal transformation processes. The insights gained from a mixed-method survey in Austria (2020, n = 264) indicate that people tend to use three narratives for the future, which are related to a certain degree of morality, the perception of being a change agent and the willingness to take responsibility as an individual. This enabled the creation of a typology of individual perceptions of sustainability, ranging from rather fear- or concern-driven resignation (Type A), to guilt-driven resilience (Type B) and to anger-driven but active responsibility (Type C). In the conclusion and outlook, limitations regarding the generalization of the results of the pilot study and future research potential are presented and discussed. Copyright © 2022 by the author(s). Licensee Hapres, London, United Kingdom. This is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.","PeriodicalId":275909,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sustainability Research","volume":"241 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124659824","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Embodied Carbon Reporting by German Real Estate Institutional Investors","authors":"Sandra Weinfeld, G. Wiejak-Roy, C. Booth","doi":"10.20900/jsr20230003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20900/jsr20230003","url":null,"abstract":"Background: The building sector is one of the largest contributors of greenhouse gas emissions across the globe. The European Union pledges to become climate neutral by 2050. To reach this goal, member states will need to account for embodied carbon emissions. Currently, in Germany, there are no regulations that require institutional real estate investors to account for the embodied carbon of their buildings. However, existing voluntary measurement frameworks could be used for embodied carbon accounting. Hence, this is the first systematic study exploring public disclosures by German institutional real estate investors on their embodied carbon emissions to improve the transparency of their emissions. Methods: The study uses a mixed-methods research design. Secondary data was collected using purposive sampling of German institutional real estate investors and investigating their public disclosures via corporate websites. This data was then used to shape exploratory semi-structured interviews with industry experts from those institutions responsible for addressing sustainability issues. Results: While the built environment sector is one of the major contributors of carbon emissions and is under pressure to disclose these in a transparent way in order to evaluate opportunities for reductions, the current public disclosures are limited and lack substance, suggesting that institutional real estate investors in Germany are yet to adequately quantify their environmental impact regarding embodied carbon and, thus, need to improve reporting on their progress towards climate neutrality. Conclusions: This study gives an overview of embodied carbon measuring and accounting tools, current and proposed regulations in Germany, and sets the foundations for best-practice recommendations on embodied carbon accounting across Europe. Open Access Received: 21 February 2023 Accepted: 29 March 2023 Published: 03 April 2023 Copyright © 2023 by the author(s). Licensee Hapres, London, United Kingdom. This is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Journal of Sustainability Research 2 of 32","PeriodicalId":275909,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sustainability Research","volume":"188 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114974354","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}