Current Research in Environmental Sustainability最新文献

{"title":"Effects of climate change on food security and nutrition in India: A systematic review","authors":"Abhishek Das ,&nbsp;Shalander Kumar ,&nbsp;Kavitha Kasala ,&nbsp;S. Nedumaran ,&nbsp;Pradnya Paithankar ,&nbsp;Abhay Kumar ,&nbsp;Ayushi Jain ,&nbsp;Vijay Avinandan","doi":"10.1016/j.crsust.2025.100286","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.crsust.2025.100286","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Climate change poses a complex challenge to food and nutritional security, impacting human health, well-being, and sustainable development. India, facing heightened vulnerability in agriculture and a growing population surpassing 1.3 billion, requires a detailed examination of these effects. This examination will serve as a crucial resource for shaping policies, directing research efforts, and fostering public discourse. This systematic review thoroughly analyzes the impact of climate change on food and nutritional security in India. Examining 231 articles, the study delves into various dimensions, including availability, accessibility, utilization, and stability. The review utilized Web of Science, PubMed, and CABI review, employing 100 different keywords. Temperature variations, erratic rainfall, and extreme weather events disrupt crops, livestock, poultry, and aquaculture production (food availability), leading to food shortages, income loss, and elevated food prices (accessibility), especially affecting low-income groups. Indirectly, climate change affects livelihoods and incomes, exacerbating inequalities and leading to the displacement of marginalized communities (stability), thereby escalating food insecurity and malnutrition (utilization). However, few studies cover diverse aspects such as the influence of climate change on traditional crops, nutritional value, agricultural biodiversity, food distribution systems, indigenous food systems, and nutrition outcomes, particularly for vulnerable groups like women and children. Hence, there is a pressing need for a more holistic and integrated approach to tackle the impacts of climate change on food and nutrition security in India.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34472,"journal":{"name":"Current Research in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"9 ","pages":"Article 100286"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143682686","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}

{"title":"Economics, energy budgeting and environmental impact assessment of coconut-based cropping system in the west coast of India","authors":"Vadivel Arunachalam,&nbsp;Venkatesh Paramesh,&nbsp;Diksha C. Salgaonkar","doi":"10.1016/j.crsust.2025.100289","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.crsust.2025.100289","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>A sustainable agricultural production system should be economically viable, energy-efficient, and eco-friendly. This study aimed to assess the economic viability, energy efficiency, and environmental impact of seven different coconut-based cropping systems in Goa, India. The systems included coconut (<em>Cocos nucifera</em> L) monocrop and various intercropping combinations such as drumstick (<em>Moringa oleifera</em>) and papaya (<em>Carica papaya</em>), heliconia (<em>Heliconia psittacorum</em>) or banana (<em>Musa</em> sp.,) and lemon (<em>Citrus limon</em>), pineapple (<em>Ananas comosus</em>) and passion fruit (<em>Passiflora edulis</em>), and crossandra (<em>Crossandra infundibuliformis</em>). Results indicated that the coconut + pineapple + passion fruit system and coconut + heliconia system showed promising in terms of both economic returns and energy output. The coconut + papaya + drumstick system, however, showed the highest global warming potential (GWP) due to considerable input requirements during the crop cycle. The coconut + pineapple + passion fruit system exhibited the highest economic returns with an average additional coconut equivalent yield of 8605 nuts per hectare, a high benefit-to-cost ratio of 1.99, with an average net return of USD 1558.5 per hectare. Energy efficiency among the systems was compared based on computed energy values for inputs and outputs, highest efficiency at 45.3 was recorded in the coconut + heliconia system. Using the ReCiPe 2016 (H) Midpoint method, life cycle inventories were calculated, and the coconut monocrop system showed the lowest GWP due to its lower input consumption. The agroforestry combinations of coconut + crossandra and coconut + soursop showed nearly equivalent GWP as that of coconut monocrop despite their higher input requirement over coconut monocrop. On-farm emissions were found to contribute significantly to the GWP, ranging from 73 % in coconut + crossandra to 40 % in coconut + heliconia. Nitrogenous fertilizers and fuel-intensive tillage operations were identified as major contributors to both higher energy consumption and GWP in all the cropping systems. In conclusion, the coconut+soursop system has proven to be optimally productive, profitable, energy-efficient, and eco-friendly. In addition, this system offers the opportunity to incorporate various intercrops such as pepper and pineapple, to improve multiple ecosystem services in the West Coast region of India. The findings emphasize that selecting low-input, shade-adapted crops can optimize resource use, reduce emissions, and enhance sustainability.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34472,"journal":{"name":"Current Research in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"9 ","pages":"Article 100289"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143682687","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}

{"title":"Advancing transformative adaptation through social equity: Land, water and food systems in the Global South","authors":"Eleanor Fisher ,&nbsp;Jon Hellin ,&nbsp;Mary Ng'endo","doi":"10.1016/j.crsust.2025.100283","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.crsust.2025.100283","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The Virtual Special Issue: Social Equity published by Current Research in Environmental Sustainability focuses on the importance of social equity for climate adaptation in land, water and food systems in the Global South. Emphasizing that theory is ahead of practice and that empirical examples are vital for learning, we introduce the set of articles, which each present the results of empirical research relevant to equity considerations. The papers demonstrate how vital is transdisciplinary research that engages critical social science perspectives and addresses how different actors give meaning to social equity, fairness and justice based on their experiences and lived realities. Taken together, they reinforce the need for further learning on how social equity can be fostered within transformative adaptation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34472,"journal":{"name":"Current Research in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"9 ","pages":"Article 100283"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144253925","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":"Between confluence and disenfranchisement: The role of power dynamics in transdisciplinary research","authors":"Gabriela De La Rosa ,&nbsp;David Ludwig ,&nbsp;Abigail Nieves ,&nbsp;Charbel Niño El-Hani","doi":"10.1016/j.crsust.2025.100300","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.crsust.2025.100300","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The aim of this article is to address the tension between aspirations of transdisciplinary projects to overcome inequalities through more inclusive forms of knowledge co-creation and risks of reproducing these inequalities through power dynamics among transdisciplinary collaborators. We examine how different layers - related to race, class, gender, ethnicity, rurality, and geography, among others - structure the positions of such collaborators. Inspired by Nego Bispo's concept of \"confluence,\" which emphasizes the coexistence of diverse knowledge systems without losing their unique identities, this article proposes an approach that is reflective of prevailing inequalities in transdisciplinarity without giving up on the goal of co-creation. Based on a case study in Siribinha, an artisanal fishing village on the northern coast of Bahia, Brazil, we examine how power dynamics shape the interactions between community members, local policy makers, and researchers. Over the past nine years, our research team has employed participant observation, semi-structured interviews, design research methods, and arts-based methods in collaborative work in and with this community. The findings reveal that power imbalances, rooted in historical marginalization, influence who participates in decision-making processes and whose voices are heard. The community's sense of disenfranchisement is linked to the dominance of external actors in local decision making. Based on these findings, this study calls for an understanding that confluences of knowledge can flourish in transdisciplinary efforts despite their inherent embedment in inevitable power dynamics.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34472,"journal":{"name":"Current Research in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"10 ","pages":"Article 100300"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144757514","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":"An analysis of macro-environment factors influencing the governance of tree planting schemes in Africa","authors":"Tibebe Weldesemaet Yitbarek ,&nbsp;John R.U. Wilson ,&nbsp;Adrian Evans ,&nbsp;Katharina Dehnen-Schmutz","doi":"10.1016/j.crsust.2025.100302","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.crsust.2025.100302","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Tree planting schemes in Africa are increasingly promoted for their potential to address environmental degradation, enhance biodiversity, and support socioeconomic development. Yet, complex and interrelated macro-environmental factors constrain the achievement of these targets. While past studies have assessed local-level technical, ecological, and governance challenges influencing the success of tree planting schemes, they have often overlooked the influence of broader macro-environmental factors. In this study, we analysed the influence of these macro-environmental factors by reviewing 143 publications, interviewing 19 key informants, and participating in 8 related events across four African countries (Algeria, Cameroon, Ethiopia, and South Africa). We employed the macroenvironment analysis framework called PESTEL (Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Ecological, and Legal) to analyse the influence of these factors supplemented by polycentric governance and socio-technical transition theories. Our findings revealed that while PESTEL factors dominate the discourse, historical legacies, institutional instability, and emergent cross-sectoral factors also play critical roles. Accordingly, we expanded the PESTEL framework to HPESTELI+, incorporating Historical (H), Institutional (I), and a flexible ‘+’ dimension to capture context-specific influences. The HPESTELI+ framework offers a comprehensive diagnostic tool for policymakers and practitioners to identify cross-cutting and context-specific factors that support sustainable tree planting. We argue that a holistic understanding of these macro-environmental factors is crucial for enhancing governance and the long-term sustainability of tree planting schemes in Africa and beyond.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34472,"journal":{"name":"Current Research in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"10 ","pages":"Article 100302"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144922456","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":"Potential environmental benefits of enforcing best available technology in the Swedish dairy cattle systems","authors":"Sanna Pasanen ,&nbsp;Karin Alvåsen ,&nbsp;Mattias Eriksson ,&nbsp;Jonas Christensen ,&nbsp;Ingrid Strid","doi":"10.1016/j.crsust.2025.100306","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.crsust.2025.100306","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Animal-based food production places significant strain on environmental resources, yet much of its mitigation potential remains untapped. Sweden's Environmental Code (1999) mandates resource efficiency and waste minimization, but its application to reduce on-farm losses in agriculture has not been fully explored. This study examines the potential environmental impact of targeting animal losses through the enforcement of the Environmental Code on Swedish cattle farms.</div><div>Using data from 4222 dairy cattle farms, we demonstrate that reducing losses on farms exceeding the median loss rate could lead to 2800 t of additional meat reaching the food supply chain annually (34 % reduction in losses), decrease the CO₂e associated with meat losses by 52,000 t, and recover €15 million in revenue losses. While these reductions represent a small fraction of Sweden's total agricultural emissions, the study suggests the potential could be even greater if applied to all livestock farms nationwide.</div><div>Importantly, Sweden's Environmental Code aligns with EU legislation, making these findings highly relevant not only for Sweden but also for other EU countries with similar regulatory frameworks.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34472,"journal":{"name":"Current Research in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"10 ","pages":"Article 100306"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145094747","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":"The institutional analysis and development framework: A mathematical representation in water arena","authors":"Peyman Arjomandi A. ,&nbsp;Seyedalireza Seyedi ,&nbsp;Nadejda Komendantova ,&nbsp;Masoud Yazdanpanah ,&nbsp;Matteo Mannocchi","doi":"10.1016/j.crsust.2025.100307","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.crsust.2025.100307","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Institutions are human-designed systems facilitating structured interactions to achieve specific objectives. The Institutional Analysis and Development Framework (IAD), introduced by Elinor Ostrom, is a valuable tool for analyzing these systems. This study formulates a mathematical representation of the IAD within an operational context related to water demand and supply services. It demonstrates that structuring institutional (sub)systems entails a cost driven by external factors and interactions. Such a cost functions as an outcome within the scope of the IAD. This outcome can be mathematically expressed based on the components of the action arena and exogenous variables within a given context and over a distinct timeframe. This concept provides a theoretical basis for computationally evaluating and comparing different system states across varying (sub)system structures.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34472,"journal":{"name":"Current Research in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"10 ","pages":"Article 100307"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145094763","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":"Sustainability as Buen Vivir within a community-territory and the Rights of Nature: biocentric standpoints, relational perspectives and onto-epistemic diversity","authors":"Unai Villalba-Eguiluz ,&nbsp;César Carranza-Barona","doi":"10.1016/j.crsust.2025.100308","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.crsust.2025.100308","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We examine Buen Vivir (BV) as a comprehensive proposal based on a distinctive onto-epistemic framework that can offer alternative pathways towards sustainability. We identify three key principles of BV for sustainability reinterpretations: Transcendence of human-nature divide from a biocentric/ecocentric standpoint; Relational perspectives of coexistence in harmony, regarding the intertwiness of all forms of life; Recognition of onto-epistemic diversity including indigenous/local worldviews. These principles could be enacted for sustainability purposes via two strategies: establishing Rights of Nature, and territorial/communitarian practices with autonomy. While acknowledging limitations in global applicability, we emphasize BV's potential for inter-epistemic dialogue and alignment with transformative social movements already present around the globe, like degrowth, food sovereignty, social and solidarity economy or ecofeminisms. Our analysis critiques the coloniality of knowledge inherent in mainstream sustainability discourses like those implicit behind the sustainable development goals or planetary limits, advocating for decolonization and valuing diverse worldviews towards the pluriverse.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34472,"journal":{"name":"Current Research in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"10 ","pages":"Article 100308"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145264966","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":"Public opinion on climate policies that reduce emissions abroad to reach domestic targets—A Swiss case study","authors":"G. Brückmann","doi":"10.1016/j.crsust.2025.100295","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.crsust.2025.100295","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>To slow climatic change, all countries must reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. Under the Paris Agreement, countries can reduce climate-relevant emissions both domestically and abroad to meet their nationally determined contributions (NDCs). Remarked for cost-effectiveness and the ability to shift funds to Developing Countries, so far only few countries use Internationally Transferred Mitigation Outcomes (ITMOs). While previously attributed to preferences for domestic co-benefits, “<em>climate backlash</em>” might have changed the tide.</div><div>This paper is the first to study public opinion about greenhouse gas emission reductions abroad to meet NDCs within a country that already engages in it. Switzerland is one of the few countries using ITMOs. A population survey (n = 4915) reveals a pattern of support drastically different from other forms of climate policies, as only 18% are in favor of reducing emissions abroad. This implies that future research should study under which conditions public opinion on ITMOs alters and how perceived effectiveness, fairness, and co-benefits influence public opinion on the use of foreign emission reductions to meet domestic decarbonization goals.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34472,"journal":{"name":"Current Research in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"10 ","pages":"Article 100295"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144329772","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":"From surplus to sustainability: The role of legislation in reducing climate impact from Swedish bread waste","authors":"M. Eriksson ,&nbsp;L. Bartek ,&nbsp;F. Sturén ,&nbsp;J. Christensen ,&nbsp;C. Cicatiello ,&nbsp;C. Giordano ,&nbsp;C. Malefors ,&nbsp;S. Pasanen ,&nbsp;A. Sjölund ,&nbsp;I. Strid ,&nbsp;N. Sundin ,&nbsp;P. Brancoli","doi":"10.1016/j.crsust.2025.100301","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.crsust.2025.100301","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Food waste infers considerable environmental, social, and economic consequences. While previous research has focused on interventions at the supplier-retailer interface to reduce surplus, this paper explores the reduction potential in applying legal instruments and evaluates the climate benefits of enforcing four different policy measures: 1) <em>Prohibiting Unfair Trading Practices</em>; 2) <em>Advancing Redistribution of Surplus</em>; 3) <em>Enforcing Best Available Technology</em>; and 4) <em>Legally binding reduction targets</em>. Applied to the case study of bread in Sweden, the results clearly show that, through the enforcement of binding regulations or market-based mechanisms, surplus could be reduced by 6–50 %, while also lowering climate impact with up to 18 % compared to the current system. The results illustrate how Sweden can optimize its bread supply chain through regulatory and market-based strategies, with applicability on an international scale. These findings also highlight the potential in combining legislation and economic incentives to optimize the conventional bread supply chain, for reduced waste and improved surplus management. By demonstrating the benefits of enforcing different legislations and policy measures, the results can be used to further develop and enforce targeted policy recommendations and legislations for reduced food waste. While the scenarios explored are specific to the bread supply chain, the insights gained are applicable to other perishable food sectors facing similar waste management challenges.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34472,"journal":{"name":"Current Research in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"10 ","pages":"Article 100301"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144879934","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}