Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability最新文献

{"title":"A Maritime Sociology for Sustainability Science","authors":"Constantino Villarroel Rios ,&nbsp;Benjamín B Chicaguala","doi":"10.1016/j.cosust.2024.101474","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cosust.2024.101474","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Sustainability science emphasizes interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research. However, several authors argue that sociology remains underutilized, despite its potential to significantly improve our understanding of the human–nature relationship and social change processes. This has been changing in recent years, with more attention directed to maritime social sciences, especially after the MARE 2019 conference. Academic production in different social sciences regarding maritime issues has been intensively developing. In this article, we first assess the current position of sociology within the subfield of maritime social sciences. We found that sociology lags in its engagement in social maritime research and provides a possible explanation related to the classical disciplinary distinction between modernity and tradition. Second, we describe the recent discussions on a possible new “maritime sociology” subfield. Finally, we discuss the potential contributions of sociology’s disciplinary toolbox (agency, institutions, social change, social fields) to transitions to sustainability.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":294,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"70 ","pages":"Article 101474"},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2024-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142076443","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":"Innovations and insights in environmental monitoring and assessment in port areas","authors":"Martí Puig ,&nbsp;Rosa Mari Darbra","doi":"10.1016/j.cosust.2024.101472","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cosust.2024.101472","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Environmental monitoring and assessment in port areas are vital for mitigating the impacts of maritime activities on surrounding ecosystems and communities. This review paper synthesizes recent literature (57 papers) from 2022 to 2024, highlighting technological advancements, case studies, and future directions. The integration of traditional and innovative approaches, such as remote sensing, Geographic Information Systems, big data analytics, and autonomous vehicles, is emphasized to enhance monitoring effectiveness. Key environmental issues, such as air and water pollution, habitat degradation, and noise pollution, are examined, alongside initiatives addressing these concerns. This review aims to inform researchers, practitioners, and policymakers about state-of-the-art techniques and emerging challenges in port environmental monitoring, contributing to sustainable port development and management.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":294,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"70 ","pages":"Article 101472"},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2024-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877343524000599/pdfft?md5=6586a8b9772056e0ce711ce16fa085ea&pid=1-s2.0-S1877343524000599-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142050173","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":"Editorial overview: Climate finance, risks, and accounting","authors":"Rosella Carè ,&nbsp;Othmar Lehner ,&nbsp;Olaf Weber","doi":"10.1016/j.cosust.2024.101473","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cosust.2024.101473","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":294,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"70 ","pages":"Article 101473"},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2024-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141998650","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":"Recent developments for robust potato seed systems through agrobiodiversity and farmers engagement in the Andes","authors":"Israel Navarrete ,&nbsp;Fabiola Parra-Rondinel ,&nbsp;Maria Scurrah ,&nbsp;Alejandro Bonifacio ,&nbsp;Jorge L Andrade-Piedra","doi":"10.1016/j.cosust.2024.101454","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2024.101454","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Ensuring the sustainability of food systems is imperative, and agroecology, with its emphasis on increasing agrobiodiversity within seed systems, emerges as a crucial approach. However, influential groups strongly promote an emphasis on improved varieties and certified seeds. This article aims to increase the portfolio of options of seed systems interventions by presenting the recent developments in enhancing agrobiodiversity to make potato seed systems in the Andes more robust. We reviewed the literature on this subject, and the results show different innovative seed initiatives taking place in the Andes. These initiatives encompass, for example, capacity-building for regional seed custodian networks, fostering stronger ties between rural schools and local agrobiodiversity knowledge, and the implementation of payments for agrobiodiversity conservation services. We expect that this article shows new strategies to strengthen seed systems through the engagement of farmers and the conservation and use of agrobiodiversity.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":294,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"69 ","pages":"Article 101454"},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2024-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877343524000411/pdfft?md5=db70067a01b7330eb7db4ae8b8ee1220&pid=1-s2.0-S1877343524000411-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141434204","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":"Editorial overview: Navigating climate challenges for the future of food systems","authors":"Helen Gurney-Smith ,&nbsp;Toshihiro Hasegawa ,&nbsp;Rachel Bezner Kerr","doi":"10.1016/j.cosust.2024.101450","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2024.101450","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":294,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"69 ","pages":"Article 101450"},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141424248","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: Open Issue 2023: Sustainability Science, Digitization, and Artificial Intelligence","authors":"Victor Galaz ,&nbsp;Opha P Dube ,&nbsp;William Solecki","doi":"10.1016/j.cosust.2024.101452","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2024.101452","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":294,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"68 ","pages":"Article 101452"},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141163499","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":"Deconstructing the Doughnut","authors":"Arnaud Z Dragicevic","doi":"10.1016/j.cosust.2024.101451","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2024.101451","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This review paper contributes to understanding and interpreting the widely adopted Doughnut model by investigating the mathematical objects underpinning its creation. While the model has gained popularity as a geometrical representation of sustainability, little attention has been given to the nature and properties of its components. By analyzing the visuals of the model and using mathematical tools such as sets and hypergraphs, this work provides a new perspective on the pathways to sustainability. The deconstructive methodology reveals a paradox within the model that distinguishes weak sustainability from strong sustainability. This paper adds value by extending the range of ideas and implications associated with the Doughnut model and providing a more nuanced understanding of its implications for sustainability.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":294,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"68 ","pages":"Article 101451"},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141073015","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":"Climate change and biodiversity loss: new territories for financial authorities","authors":"Hugues Chenet","doi":"10.1016/j.cosust.2024.101449","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2024.101449","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Climate change became a central issue in 1988 with the creation of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Financial authorities only started to take up the subject in 2015. Since then, they have continuously accelerated their endeavour in this regard and have quickly added biodiversity loss to the environmental issues to deal with. Unfortunately, despite the very fast learning curve they follow, financial authorities have taken a path that may not succeed. But moving beyond approaches solely based on a financial risk paradigm and fostering transdisciplinary research to address broad systemic questions at the interface of the natural and socioeconomic worlds, central banks and supervisory authorities could enter a new era, where the impact of their decisions would contribute materially to solve the challenges of our time.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":294,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"68 ","pages":"Article 101449"},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877343524000368/pdfft?md5=a0905b3e5c18a5be07df4a64498a2f26&pid=1-s2.0-S1877343524000368-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140537072","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":"Biodiversity reporting: standardization, materiality, and assurance","authors":"Viktor Elliot ,&nbsp;Kristina Jonäll ,&nbsp;Mari Paananen ,&nbsp;Jan Bebbington ,&nbsp;Giovanna Michelon","doi":"10.1016/j.cosust.2024.101435","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2024.101435","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper examines the evolving landscape of biodiversity reporting standards, describes their underlying rationale and anticipated effects, and highlights unresolved issues that impede the provision of ‘good’ information to markets and other report users. While a variety of reporting regulations exist, they do not point to a common ground for reporting. They address different aspects of corporate biodiversity impact and adopt different conceptions of assurance and materiality. Given the early stage of this field, further research is needed on what best practice informational governance may entail.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":294,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"68 ","pages":"Article 101435"},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877343524000228/pdfft?md5=87797ea287bef4bc6cd955b1c12a17b5&pid=1-s2.0-S1877343524000228-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140533812","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":"Addressing marine plastic pollution: a systematic literature review","authors":"Stefania Bertolazzi ,&nbsp;Angela Cuttitta ,&nbsp;Vito Pipitone","doi":"10.1016/j.cosust.2024.101428","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2024.101428","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;After being for a long time disregarded, marine plastic pollution is now a growing topic among scholars, industry and government. It represents an enormous pressing threat to the integrity of the marine ecosystem, influencing its ability to provide socio-economic benefits on which human well-being is based &lt;span&gt;[1]&lt;/span&gt;. The need to react is clear: the annual discharge of plastic into the ocean is estimated to be 11 million tons &lt;span&gt;[2]&lt;/span&gt;. Projections indicate that by 2040, plastic leakage into the ocean will nearly triple &lt;span&gt;[2]&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This article aims to perform a systematic literature review on marine plastic pollution, approaching it from a problem-solving perspective. The study provides readers with an overview of how the issue is generally perceived and the potential solutions implemented and proposed thus far. Indeed, as a multi-sectoral problem, marine plastic pollution does not have a single solution. An appropriate approach to the problem should involve several levels of action: governmental (at local and global levels) and community-based (consumer and industry commitment and local initiatives). To conduct our systematic review, we decided to narrow our research to three aspects essential for effectively addressing the issue: consumer perception of marine plastic pollution, best local practices of plastic pollution management and global governance of marine plastic.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Consumer perception of the issue is crucial in the fight against marine plastic pollution. In this regard, many authors highlight the important role that the general public can play in influencing patterns of industrial and government choice of actions. Sharing knowledge and raising the level of awareness about the issue appears essential. Many authors also stress the importance of bottom-up approaches to implement sustainable waste management. In this sense, local management of marine plastic debris can be seen as an opportunity for communities to drive economic development based on innovative use and disposal of plastic waste. As for the governance level, this study tries to collect research on marine plastics devoted to the study of the ongoing and future possible actions that global decision-makers can take to address the issue. Notwithstanding the high relevance of local governance of marine plastic pollution, we have decided to focus our attention on the global governance level. Indeed, marine plastic pollution, as a global problem, necessarily needs a coordinated international response. Despite the optimistic expectations stemming from the ongoing negotiations for a global plastics-binding treaty since March 2022, the reviewed authors denounce the current international marine plastic legal framework as incomplete and fragmented, characterised by a shortage of effective and binding instruments to reduce marine plastic pollution. Overall, from the analysis of our selected articles, it is possible to observe a rising widespread consens","PeriodicalId":294,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"68 ","pages":"Article 101428"},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2024-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140195933","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}