Priscilla Wainaina, Peter A Minang, Kennedy Muthee
{"title":"Relational values within landscape restoration: a review","authors":"Priscilla Wainaina, Peter A Minang, Kennedy Muthee","doi":"10.1016/j.cosust.2023.101335","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cosust.2023.101335","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Instrumental values have mostly informed the assessment of viability and decision-making in landscape restoration literature — especially cost–benefit analysis. Yet, relational and intrinsic values have also been suggested as important values to enable holistic approaches to land restoration. We review articles that include relational values in landscape restoration to assess differences in values across social and geographic contexts and their implications in motivating further restoration. While some values are held constant across different communities, we find differences between values held by developing versus developed countries, rural versus urban communities, and between local stakeholders and others. Developed countries and urban communities hold relational values, while developing countries and rural communities emphasize instrumental values. Similarly, local stakeholders hold instrumental values, while other stakeholders hold relational values. The review also highlights the role of culture in restoration and why nonutilitarian values ought to be captured to understand the holistic value of restoration.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":294,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"64 ","pages":"Article 101335"},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44745368","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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}
Matthias Barth , Amanda Jiménez-Aceituno , David PM Lam , Lina Bürgener , Daniel J Lang
{"title":"Transdisciplinary learning as a key leverage for sustainability transformations","authors":"Matthias Barth , Amanda Jiménez-Aceituno , David PM Lam , Lina Bürgener , Daniel J Lang","doi":"10.1016/j.cosust.2023.101361","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cosust.2023.101361","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Learning and transdisciplinary research are widely acknowledged as key components for achieving sustainability; however, the links between these concepts remain vague in the sustainability literature. Recently, emphasis has been given to transdisciplinary learning, highlighting its potential as an approach that contributes to solving real-world problems. To better understand and foster transdisciplinary learning for sustainability transformations, it is relevant to pay attention to two dimensions that define transdisciplinary learning: <em>social interaction</em> (individual learning in a social setting, as a group, or beyond the group), and <em>learning forms</em> (single-, double-, or triple-loop learning). This article introduces a conceptual framework built upon these two dimensions to understand three specific forms of transdisciplinary learning as a) individual competence development, b) experience-based collaboration, and c) societal interaction. This framework helps to clarify the design of learning processes as well as their interactions in transdisciplinary processes to support transformative change.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":294,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"64 ","pages":"Article 101361"},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877343523001082/pdfft?md5=f4f807f38ab5b625136523b18206a992&pid=1-s2.0-S1877343523001082-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49080527","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Is food system research guided by the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development?","authors":"Olivier Dangles, Quentin Struelens","doi":"10.1016/j.cosust.2023.101331","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cosust.2023.101331","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span>One of the top aims of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2 ‘zero hunger’ is to “end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture”. While food system sustainability is a growing area of research, it remains unclear to what extent the SDG-2 targets are guiding the creation of new scientific knowledge and the publication of findings. To examine this, we assessed 97,392 publications published between 2017 and 2021 whose research results supposedly support the achievement of SDG 2. We found that the vast majority of articles had only a superficial engagement with SDG 2, suggesting a lack of interest by food system researchers in the 2030 </span>UN agenda and a widespread practice of ‘SDG-washing’. We argue that scientists working on food systems should take better account of the SDG-2 targets and indicators in their research to identify the conditions, incentives, and supporting institutions necessary for their successful implementation.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":294,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"64 ","pages":"Article 101331"},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44585797","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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}
{"title":"Transformative finance for climate-resilient development","authors":"Architesh Panda","doi":"10.1016/j.cosust.2023.101327","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cosust.2023.101327","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Despite recent advances in global climate finance architecture, the amount of funds available for risk reduction and build resilience in the world’s most vulnerable countries is still insufficient. There is an urgent need to overhaul the climate and disaster risk finance landscape in order to safeguard the most vulnerable people in the world from growing loss and damage from climate change and reduce the climate finance gap. Theories, data, and conceptual frameworks for operationalizing such transformative changes are currently still developing. Based on the analysis of existing evidence on transformative climate finance landscape, this paper makes the case that, in order to achieve climate-resilient development, we need to fully integrate transformative disaster risk finance approaches into the broader climate finance debate that addresses not only mitigation concerns, but also caters to the financial needs building resilience of both people and nature.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":294,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"64 ","pages":"Article 101327"},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48800098","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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}
{"title":"Editorial overview: On the environmental sustainability of small island states","authors":"Kalim U Shah","doi":"10.1016/j.cosust.2023.101358","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cosust.2023.101358","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":294,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"64 ","pages":"Article 101358"},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49196437","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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}
Jérôme Molénat , Karim Barkaoui , Salah Benyoussef , Insaf Mekki , Rim Zitouna , Frédéric Jacob
{"title":"Diversification from field to landscape to adapt Mediterranean rainfed agriculture to water scarcity in climate change context","authors":"Jérôme Molénat , Karim Barkaoui , Salah Benyoussef , Insaf Mekki , Rim Zitouna , Frédéric Jacob","doi":"10.1016/j.cosust.2023.101336","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2023.101336","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Rainfed Mediterranean agriculture (MA) must adapt to water scarcity<span> due to climate change and pressures on water resources. According to recent literature, two adaptation solutions based on the concept of diversification can be explored. The first solution is crop diversification at the field level. Three main cropping systems, namely agroforestry, intercropping, and service crops, have been shown to increase soil water availability and to improve crop water use. The second solution is to consider diversification at the landscape level by diversifying crops and associated agricultural management practices (in number, abundance, and spatial organization) and building small-scale water-harvesting infrastructures (WHI). In order to move toward a sustainable MA, one of the main scientific challenges ahead is to provide knowledge and tools, such as integrated agro-hydrological models, useful to evaluate several spatiotemporal combinations of these solutions in order to optimize soil water availability and crop water use.</span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":294,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"65 ","pages":"Article 101336"},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2023-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"6551350","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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}
{"title":"Just transitions and resilience in contexts of conflict and fragility: the need for a transformative approach","authors":"Erin McCandless , Alexia Faus Onbargi","doi":"10.1016/j.cosust.2023.101360","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2023.101360","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Countries affected by conflict and fragility are disproportionately affected by climate crises that are not of their making. Calls for Just Transitions (JTs) to post-carbon societies are accelerating, with scholarly attention to these contexts. This article critically reviews literature on JTs and environmental peacebuilding for insights and evidence to build a foundation for more informed analysis and action. We argue that durable transition pathways in such contexts require a transformative, political economy lens. Such a lens goes beyond a focus on adaptation, seeking solutions that address the root causes across crises, supporting accountability and financial responsibility for climate crisis consequences, and framing action around measures that build transformative resilience at multiple scales.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":294,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"65 ","pages":"Article 101360"},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2023-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"6551239","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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}
McKenzie F Johnson , Tobias Ide , Jesann Gonzalez Cruz
{"title":"Conceptualizing resilience within environmental peacebuilding","authors":"McKenzie F Johnson , Tobias Ide , Jesann Gonzalez Cruz","doi":"10.1016/j.cosust.2023.101362","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2023.101362","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Environmental peacebuilding integrates sustainable natural resource management into peacebuilding processes to promote peace and stability. Environmental peacebuilding scholars increasingly view resilience as an important concept. Yet, the ways in which they understand resilience and its relationship to the environment, conflict, and peacebuilding remain unclear. Much of the research vaguely argues that cooperative natural resource management builds resilience, which has a positive impact on peace amid environmental change. Here, we examine the relationship between resilience and environmental peacebuilding. We review environmental peacebuilding scholarship produced between 2016 and 2022 to assess how scholars 1) employ resilience and 2) conceptualize the mechanisms linking resilience and peace. We argue that scholars need to think critically about the role of resilience in environmental peacebuilding as integrating a nebulous concept such as resilience may serve to muddle rather than clarify natural resource management–peace causal linkages. We offer recommendations on how to better integrate resilience within environmental peacebuilding research and practice.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":294,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"65 ","pages":"Article 101362"},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2023-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"6551285","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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}
Margaret Githinji , Meine van Noordwijk , Catherine Muthuri , Erika N. Speelman , Gert Jan Hofstede
{"title":"Farmer land-use decision-making from an instrumental and relational perspective","authors":"Margaret Githinji , Meine van Noordwijk , Catherine Muthuri , Erika N. Speelman , Gert Jan Hofstede","doi":"10.1016/j.cosust.2023.101303","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2023.101303","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Farmer decisions shape land-use systems, with consequences for a landscape’s economy, ecology, and the well-being of its inhabitants. These decisions are central in the management of natural resources as they may contribute to the tragedy of the commons, or ways to avoid it. Farmer decisions have been explained by several concepts and theories, including sociodemographic factors, expected utility theory, prospect theory, bounded rationality, and the theory of planned behavior as variations on goal-oriented (instrumental) decision-making. This review provides an analysis of each theory, in comparison with Kemper’s theory on status, power, and reference groups as a primarily social relation lens through which to understand decision-making. Combining relational and instrumental perspectives on decision-making may be key to understanding the emergence of collective action and avoidance of tragedy of the commons.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":294,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"63 ","pages":"Article 101303"},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"3020172","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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}
Trung Thanh Nguyen , Ulrike Grote , Frank Neubacher , Dil B. Rahut , Manh Hung Do , Gokul P. Paudel
{"title":"Security risks from climate change and environmental degradation: implications for sustainable land use transformation in the Global South","authors":"Trung Thanh Nguyen , Ulrike Grote , Frank Neubacher , Dil B. Rahut , Manh Hung Do , Gokul P. Paudel","doi":"10.1016/j.cosust.2023.101322","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2023.101322","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Climate change and environmental degradation remain the most complex challenges that present and future generations of humankind face and raise several security risks that have received relatively little attention in the literature. This paper aims to review the evidence of security risks arising from these challenges in the Global South and to provide forward-looking perspectives on how to increase the resilience of affected individuals and communities. We see diverse land use strategies as a key element to drive a transformation towards greater sustainability and resilience. We propose that rural land use in the Global South should be geared towards the promotion of resource and biodiversity conservation, the development of agroforestry, tree-based farming systems, the diversification of crops, and the utilization of climate-resilient cultivars, and neglected and under-utilized plants. These actions would contribute to addressing the security risks stemming from the interconnected challenges of climate change and environmental degradation.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":294,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"63 ","pages":"Article 101322"},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"3207873","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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}