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Implications of consumer orientation towards environmental sustainability on the uptake of bio-based and biodegradable plastics 消费者环境可持续性取向对生物基塑料和生物降解塑料吸收的影响
IF 4.4
Current Research in Environmental Sustainability Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.crsust.2024.100246
Carly A. Fletcher , Selena Aureli , Eleonora Foschi , Walter Leal Filho , Jelena Barbir , Freddys R. Beltrán , Liisa Lehtinen , Craig E. Banks
{"title":"Implications of consumer orientation towards environmental sustainability on the uptake of bio-based and biodegradable plastics","authors":"Carly A. Fletcher ,&nbsp;Selena Aureli ,&nbsp;Eleonora Foschi ,&nbsp;Walter Leal Filho ,&nbsp;Jelena Barbir ,&nbsp;Freddys R. Beltrán ,&nbsp;Liisa Lehtinen ,&nbsp;Craig E. Banks","doi":"10.1016/j.crsust.2024.100246","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crsust.2024.100246","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The overconsumption of conventional plastics has led to several environmental and social-economic issues related to plastic pollution, carbon emissions and resource depletion. Acknowledging these issues, the introduction of alternatives such as bioplastics has been promoted by national, supranational, and international organizations. However, the market for such materials is still niche, where businesses are uncertain about the benefits and costs associated with the use of these innovative materials. Successful (and sustainable) uptake of such alternatives will depend on public acceptance and changes in consumer behavior. Therefore, this study aims to explore how consumers' orientation towards environmental sustainability is related to consumer utilization of alternatives such as bio-based and biodegradable plastics. Consumer knowledge and performance expectations of these materials are also analyzed. This study employed a predominately quantitative research approach, where a self-administered online survey was used to collect the opinions of consumers across society using a snowball sampling technique. Results show continued consumer confusion, unrealistic expectations, and a value-action gap. These elements may have consequences for market uptake and broader implications across the value chain. A key implication is that both policy makers and businesses should address these barriers through enhanced communication of relevant information alongside improved consumer awareness and education.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":34472,"journal":{"name":"Current Research in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"7 ","pages":"Article 100246"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666049024000069/pdfft?md5=1b59019bdd923f89e2c42514a6b0d7b8&pid=1-s2.0-S2666049024000069-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140066909","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Assessing determinants, challenges and perceptions to adopting water-saving technologies among agricultural households in semi-arid states of India 评估印度半干旱邦农户采用节水技术的决定因素、挑战和看法
IF 4.4
Current Research in Environmental Sustainability Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.crsust.2024.100255
Geetha Mohan , Lakshmi Narayana Perarapu , Saroj Kumar Chapagain , A. Amarender Reddy , Indrek Melts , Ranjeeta Mishra , Ram Avtar , Kensuke Fukushi
{"title":"Assessing determinants, challenges and perceptions to adopting water-saving technologies among agricultural households in semi-arid states of India","authors":"Geetha Mohan ,&nbsp;Lakshmi Narayana Perarapu ,&nbsp;Saroj Kumar Chapagain ,&nbsp;A. Amarender Reddy ,&nbsp;Indrek Melts ,&nbsp;Ranjeeta Mishra ,&nbsp;Ram Avtar ,&nbsp;Kensuke Fukushi","doi":"10.1016/j.crsust.2024.100255","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crsust.2024.100255","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study investigates the adoption of water-saving irrigation technologies, specifically drip and sprinklers, within India's semi-arid states. Utilizing a probit model and data sourced from the India Human Development Survey-II, the research scrutinizes a sample size of 2891 households while engaging in focus group discussions. The findings highlight several key factors significantly impacting technology adoption, including education, caste, employment status, household income, orchard ownership, landholding size, irrigation source, access to irrigation, the Kisan Credit Card scheme, and utilization of electric and diesel pumps. Moreover, the study uncovers state-specific variations driven by factors such as water resources, crop patterns, and government policies, ultimately shaping the adoption landscape of specific irrigation technologies. Focus group discussions conducted in Andhra Pradesh reveal prominent challenges faced, including limited subsidies, high costs associated with adoption, and crop-specific irrigation requirements. In light of these findings, the study emphasizes the necessity for a comprehensive approach to achieve water conservation and enhance livelihoods. This approach advocates for the integration of joint farming practices, water-sharing methods, supportive financial policies encompassing subsidies and accessible credit facilities, and the implementation of sustainable government social schemes. Such integrated efforts are deemed imperative for fostering resilient societies amidst evolving agricultural and environmental landscapes.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":34472,"journal":{"name":"Current Research in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"7 ","pages":"Article 100255"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266604902400015X/pdfft?md5=c4182737195661f07019abc5b880441d&pid=1-s2.0-S266604902400015X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141290119","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Prosperous futures inspired by prosperous pasts: Fostering imagination of radical food system alternatives in Guatemala 繁荣的未来源自繁荣的过去:培养危地马拉对激进粮食系统替代方案的想象力
IF 3.7
Current Research in Environmental Sustainability Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.crsust.2024.100270
Lucas Rutting , Marieke Veeger , Randolph von Breymann , Ubaldino Garcia , Norma Sancir , Sandra Calel , Fredy Canek , Miriam Suyuk , Joost Vervoort
{"title":"Prosperous futures inspired by prosperous pasts: Fostering imagination of radical food system alternatives in Guatemala","authors":"Lucas Rutting ,&nbsp;Marieke Veeger ,&nbsp;Randolph von Breymann ,&nbsp;Ubaldino Garcia ,&nbsp;Norma Sancir ,&nbsp;Sandra Calel ,&nbsp;Fredy Canek ,&nbsp;Miriam Suyuk ,&nbsp;Joost Vervoort","doi":"10.1016/j.crsust.2024.100270","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.crsust.2024.100270","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Transformations imply the need for radical alternatives to current realities. This requires a fundamental reimagination of current systems. Different future-oriented practices specifically designed for the imagination of transformations have emerged in recent years, including the Disruptive Seeds approach (DS). DS focuses on innovative bottom-up initiatives (seeds), that show potential to grow in impact and challenge unsustainable systems, contributing to transformative change. This paper reports on the first time DS was applied in practice, as part of a project focusing on food systems transformation in Guatemala. Working primarily with Indigenous actors representing smallholder communities, DS shows great potential when it comes to emphasizing their perspectives and objectives in the imagination of desired futures. Tapping into marginalized perspectives and sources of knowledge, it can help advance the conceptualization of transformative change that truly contributes to social equity and justice. Moreover, the approach facilitates an inclusive platform for articulating and interrogating power dynamics. Initially developed and tested in Global Northern contexts, the DS approach demonstrates adaptability across diverse contexts, including Indigenous communities in the Global South. Findings underscore the transformative potential of collective imagination rooted in Indigenous worldviews, offering alternatives to unsustainable and unjust realities, challenging dominant narratives and contributing to more just and sustainable futures. More generally, it demonstrates huge potential for imagining transformations, challenging dominant political structures and imaginaries, emphasizing issues of social justice and equity. It shows the value of incorporating the knowledge, perspectives, values and imaginaries of—often marginalized—communities into conversations about sustainability transformations.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34472,"journal":{"name":"Current Research in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"8 ","pages":"Article 100270"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142706270","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Challenges to managing fisheries with high inter-community variability on the Kenya-Tanzania border 管理肯尼亚-坦桑尼亚边境社区间差异较大的渔业所面临的挑战
IF 4.4
Current Research in Environmental Sustainability Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.crsust.2024.100244
T.R. McClanahan , R.M. Oddenyo , Jesse K. Kosgei
{"title":"Challenges to managing fisheries with high inter-community variability on the Kenya-Tanzania border","authors":"T.R. McClanahan ,&nbsp;R.M. Oddenyo ,&nbsp;Jesse K. Kosgei","doi":"10.1016/j.crsust.2024.100244","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crsust.2024.100244","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Reconciling variable between-community and neighboring country goals is the focus of the United Nations partnership goals (Sustainable Development Goal 17) because of the challenges of managing shared common-pool resources, such as fisheries. Our objective was to better understand and suggest management that accounts for this variability among fishing villages along the Kenya-Tanzania national boundary. We asked stakeholders to scale their dependency on fish, objective knowledge of fisheries, governance effectiveness, management preferences, and future fisheries provisioning scenarios among villages economically aligned with international trade or national park conservation. We found high dependency on fish (90% daily consumption), modest objective knowledge about fisheries and their status (62% correct answers) but a broad agreement on the need for community engagement (&gt;90% agreement). The perceived weakest governance principles were fisheries monitoring and the resolution of conflicts with neighbors. Considerable variability in opinions about how to provide more fish reflected the international boundary trade and conservation contexts. Rural households further from the border favored community management and local or national fisheries closure management whereas stakeholder preferences with more urban and public were associated with greater support for offshore fishing and port and aquaculture infrastructure developments. Previously measured losses of fisheries catch production in most villages was hidden from stakeholders by a lack of catch monitoring and production potential estimates. Lost fisheries production and sustainability could be recovered by increased knowledge of resource production capacity, monitoring, and governance engagement that increases compliance. Village level economics and transnational contexts require multilevel governance and good coordination to manage the diverse capacities, preferences, and management needs.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":34472,"journal":{"name":"Current Research in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"7 ","pages":"Article 100244"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666049024000045/pdfft?md5=7eaa4266aad00813691e503cebbbee79&pid=1-s2.0-S2666049024000045-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139908395","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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The development of global environmental concern during the last three decades 过去三十年全球环境问题的发展情况
IF 3.7
Current Research in Environmental Sustainability Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.crsust.2024.100260
Axel Franzen, Sebastian Bahr
{"title":"The development of global environmental concern during the last three decades","authors":"Axel Franzen,&nbsp;Sebastian Bahr","doi":"10.1016/j.crsust.2024.100260","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crsust.2024.100260","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The environmental concern of a country's population is an important prerequisite for addressing environmental problems, foremost reducing CO<sub>2</sub> emissions and limiting global warming. In this paper, we analyze the development of environmental concern by using the newest wave of the environmental module of the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) for 29 countries. First, we discuss the measurement of environmental concern and construct a ranking of countries according to the 2020 survey results. Second, we analyze the determinants of environmental concern by employing multilevel models that take individual effects as well as context effects into account. The results show that environmental concern has increased in almost all nations since the last measurement in 2010. The country ranking is headed by European nations such as Switzerland, France and Germany. The USA takes a middle position and China ranks number 20. We observe more variance within countries at the individual level as compared to the differences between countries. At the individual level, environmental concern is closely related to education, post-materialistic values, political attitudes, and individuals' trust in the news media and in science. At the country level, the average environmental concern increases with the wealth of nations.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":34472,"journal":{"name":"Current Research in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"8 ","pages":"Article 100260"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666049024000203/pdfft?md5=89b2801d82a8b176cee8ec81d9a73976&pid=1-s2.0-S2666049024000203-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141482754","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Framing vulnerability: An ecolinguistic analysis of gender and climate change discourse 塑造脆弱性:性别与气候变化话语的生态语言分析
IF 4.4
Current Research in Environmental Sustainability Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.crsust.2024.100258
Musarat Yasmin, Sidra
{"title":"Framing vulnerability: An ecolinguistic analysis of gender and climate change discourse","authors":"Musarat Yasmin,&nbsp;Sidra","doi":"10.1016/j.crsust.2024.100258","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crsust.2024.100258","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study examines how climate change organizations employ discourse strategies to highlight the vulnerability of women to climate change. It also explores how these strategies disrupt the conventional climate change narrative by integrating gender issues and emphasizing women's social and cultural experiences. The study utilizes the framework of ecolinguistics to examine narratives woven into the textual discourse. The research, based on 40 tweets from organizations such as the UN Environment Program and UN Women, offers insights into how these organizations utilize ecolinguistic techniques in communicating climate issues. The findings of the study revealed that gender intersections with other social identities determine vulnerabilities to environmental changes, as the research highlights the disproportionate impacts on women, especially those from marginalized backgrounds. This study contributes to the existing literature in terms of exploring the depiction of this issue in the Twitter discourse of international organizations.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":34472,"journal":{"name":"Current Research in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"7 ","pages":"Article 100258"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666049024000185/pdfft?md5=2e9f55f641e245fb08e6031538c62c63&pid=1-s2.0-S2666049024000185-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141323545","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Impacts of gender-inclusive extension approaches on farmer understanding and willingness to pay for bundled financial services 性别包容推广方法对农民对捆绑式金融服务的理解和支付意愿的影响
IF 3.7
Current Research in Environmental Sustainability Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.crsust.2024.100268
Anne G. Timu , Dismas Manoti , Apurba Shee , Liangzhi You
{"title":"Impacts of gender-inclusive extension approaches on farmer understanding and willingness to pay for bundled financial services","authors":"Anne G. Timu ,&nbsp;Dismas Manoti ,&nbsp;Apurba Shee ,&nbsp;Liangzhi You","doi":"10.1016/j.crsust.2024.100268","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.crsust.2024.100268","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Building the resilience of smallholder farmers, and their ability to cope with the negative impacts of climate shocks can significantly improve the sustainability of agriculture as a reliable source of livelihood. While innovations such as index insurance and bundled financial instruments could enhance smallholder farmers' climate resilience, their uptake, and use remain low, especially among women farmers. Based on experimental data from a risk contingent credit (RCC—an insurance bundled credit product) project in Kenya, we argue that employing inclusive extension approaches that address social inequities in information access and use could enhance gender equality in product understanding, a key determinant of uptake. We evaluate the gender differences of the impacts of conventional face-to-face, animated brochures, and video-based extension approaches on product understanding and willingness to pay (WTP) for RCC. We find that; (i) providing animated brochures to a random subset of farmers significantly improved their understanding and WTP for the product, (ii) the use of animated videos significantly increased product understanding, but it had weaker impacts on the farmers' WTP, and (iii) the impact of animated brochures on product understanding was significantly larger among women farmers. This study underscores the importance of addressing social and cultural barriers to agricultural information access and use, and designing tailored extension approaches to support men and women in making informed decisions about climate risk management. From a policy perspective, we conclude that addressing these barriers could foster a socially fair, and a more sustainable and resilient agricultural sector for both men and women smallholder farmers.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34472,"journal":{"name":"Current Research in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"8 ","pages":"Article 100268"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142572950","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Assessing major food companies in Australia on their policies and practices related to environmental sustainability, 2023 评估澳大利亚主要食品公司与环境可持续性相关的政策和做法,2023 年
IF 3.7
Current Research in Environmental Sustainability Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.crsust.2024.100269
Francesca Serrentino , Katherine Sievert , Jasmine Chan , Madeleine Johnson , Gary Sacks
{"title":"Assessing major food companies in Australia on their policies and practices related to environmental sustainability, 2023","authors":"Francesca Serrentino ,&nbsp;Katherine Sievert ,&nbsp;Jasmine Chan ,&nbsp;Madeleine Johnson ,&nbsp;Gary Sacks","doi":"10.1016/j.crsust.2024.100269","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.crsust.2024.100269","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The private sector, including food manufacturers, retailers, and quick-service restaurants, has an important role to play in reducing the environmental impact of food systems. Monitoring and benchmarking of company actions can identify areas of good practice and contribute to increasing the accountability of the food industry in this area. This study aimed to assess major food companies in Australia on their policies and practices related to environmental sustainability. We conducted the assessment by pilot testing a monitoring framework developed by the global INFORMAS network. The framework was designed to assess the comprehensiveness, specificity and transparency of company policies and practices in 10 domains: ‘overarching environmental sustainability strategy’; ‘packaging’; ‘greenhouse gas emissions'; ‘energy’; ‘water’; ‘biodiversity’; ‘food loss and waste’; ‘environmental compliance’; ‘animal-sourced products'; and ‘relationships with other organisations'. We selected 19 of the most prominent food companies operating in Australia for assessment. Each company was allocated a score (out of 100) using the assessment framework. Company scores ranged from 2 to 58 (median: 31/100). Companies generally had strong commitments in place across several domains, but reporting of their performance associated with those commitments was limited. Companies scored highest in the ‘greenhouse gas emissions' domain (median: 58/100), and lowest in the ‘animal-sourced products' (median: 10/100) and ‘water’ domains (median: 23/100). Overall, the study identified considerable variability in company reporting practices related to environmental sustainability. The findings indicate that food companies in Australia are falling well short of good practice in implementing a comprehensive approach to addressing environmental sustainability.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34472,"journal":{"name":"Current Research in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"8 ","pages":"Article 100269"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142653335","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Vertical fit of water governing systems: A regional assessment 水治理系统的垂直匹配:地区评估
IF 4.4
Current Research in Environmental Sustainability Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.crsust.2024.100248
Peyman Arjomandi A. , Seyedalireza Seyedi , Nadejda Komendantova , Ebrahim Vahdani Hulasu
{"title":"Vertical fit of water governing systems: A regional assessment","authors":"Peyman Arjomandi A. ,&nbsp;Seyedalireza Seyedi ,&nbsp;Nadejda Komendantova ,&nbsp;Ebrahim Vahdani Hulasu","doi":"10.1016/j.crsust.2024.100248","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crsust.2024.100248","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>To promote environmentally sustainable water governance, this study emphasizes the necessity of aligning institutional structures with ecological scales. The research focused on the Urmia Lake Basin in Iran facing the serious problem of drying up. Beyond the political and economic determinants shaping the water governance system in the region, the study evaluated the effect of Urmia Lake Restoration Program (ULRP), an environmental movement, on the basin's water governance structure. Employing statistical mechanics methods to scrutinize Hamiltonian system costs related to administrative interactions for water supply-demand, the study assessed the structural fit of the water governance system to the basin across distinct stages: without- and with-including the ULRP. Results revealed diminished costs following ULRP involvement, notably in entities with higher water demands, head offices and the system overall, further improved by water-saving measures. These findings highlighted the efficacy of vertical (re)arrangements and structural reform through ULRP incorporation in enhancing system fit, stressing the significance of its water-saving policy. The methodology provides a fast and explicit scan of the system structure, demonstrating its ability to project the effect of institutional reforms on the system state. Serving as a constructive tool for policymakers, it facilitates rapid, efficient and informed decision-making in water governance. Furthermore, following the UN SDG 6, this framework supports integrated water resources management (IWRM) across sectors and regions, particularly targeting water-stressed contexts.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":34472,"journal":{"name":"Current Research in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"7 ","pages":"Article 100248"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666049024000082/pdfft?md5=1878ba0c0af5d92bd778a108de69ac13&pid=1-s2.0-S2666049024000082-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140069182","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Performance of Equisetum spp and Zantedeschia aethiopica on the evaluation of artificial wetlands as an alternative for wastewater treatment in rural areas of the Ecuadorian Andes 评估人工湿地作为厄瓜多尔安第斯山脉农村地区废水处理替代方案的马钱子属植物和泽兰的性能
IF 4.4
Current Research in Environmental Sustainability Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.crsust.2024.100243
Carlos Matovelle , María Quinteros , Santiago Aurelio Ochoa-García
{"title":"Performance of Equisetum spp and Zantedeschia aethiopica on the evaluation of artificial wetlands as an alternative for wastewater treatment in rural areas of the Ecuadorian Andes","authors":"Carlos Matovelle ,&nbsp;María Quinteros ,&nbsp;Santiago Aurelio Ochoa-García","doi":"10.1016/j.crsust.2024.100243","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crsust.2024.100243","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Constructed wetlands have been used worldwide as an alternative for wastewater treatment. The purpose of this study was to evaluate two constructed wetlands for wastewater treatment using two different species of macrophyte in order to reduce pollution levels in the Curiquingue Creek belonging to the Baños parish in Cuenca, Ecuador. A pilot plant was constructed using <em>Equisetum spp</em> and <em>Zantedeschia aethiopica</em> with a constant flow of <span><math><mn>0.32</mn><mspace></mspace><msup><mi>m</mi><mn>3</mn></msup><msup><mi>d</mi><mrow><mo>−</mo><mn>1</mn></mrow></msup></math></span>. Each unit was filled with sand and gravel as the porosity medium with a hydraulic retention time of 5 days. To analyze the efficiency of the wetlands, physical and chemical parameters were analyzed in the laboratory. The results obtained in the laboratory showed that the two species of macrophyte showed good efficiency in the removal of organic matter (100% COD-100% BOD<sub>5</sub>). On the other hand, <em>Equisetum spp</em> showed better efficiency in the removal of NO<sub>3</sub><sup>−</sup> (80.28%) and PO<sub>4</sub><sup>3−</sup> (98.57%) meanwhile, <em>Zantedeschia aethiopica</em> showed better efficiency in the removal of TSS (85.71%). Constructed wetlands are an effective and sustainable option for wastewater treatment.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":34472,"journal":{"name":"Current Research in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"7 ","pages":"Article 100243"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666049024000033/pdfft?md5=817a97dbb4eb9817a73443e2d8dcc348&pid=1-s2.0-S2666049024000033-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139675537","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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