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Farmers’ willingness to adopt sustainable agricultural practices: A meta-analysis 农民采用可持续农业实践的意愿:一个元分析

PLOS Sustainability and Transformation Pub Date : 2023-01-05 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pstr.0000037

Sawssan Boufous, D. Hudson, C. Carpio

引用次数: 1

Trade, GDP value adding activities and income inequality in the East African community 东非共同体的贸易、GDP增值活动和收入不平等

PLOS Sustainability and Transformation Pub Date : 2022-12-14 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pstr.0000036

R. Kadigi

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引用次数: 3

Narrative explorations of the role of the informal food sector in food flows and sustainable transitions during the COVID-19 lockdown 以叙事方式探讨非正规粮食部门在2019冠状病毒病疫情封锁期间粮食流动和可持续转型中的作用

PLOS Sustainability and Transformation Pub Date : 2022-12-07 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pstr.0000038

S. B. Kushitor, Shawn Alimohammadi, P. Currie

{"title":"Narrative explorations of the role of the informal food sector in food flows and sustainable transitions during the COVID-19 lockdown","authors":"S. B. Kushitor, Shawn Alimohammadi, P. Currie","doi":"10.1371/journal.pstr.0000038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pstr.0000038","url":null,"abstract":"Globally, the informal food sector has been the recipient of exclusionary urban policies, despite its dominant role in urban life. This study examined the contributions of the informal food sector to food flows during the COVID-19 lockdown in Cape Town, South Africa. An ethnographic research method consisting of in-depth interviews and participant observations was used to gather data between April and November 2020. The data were thematically analysed. Corporate retailers and informal vendors managed food flows through the city prior to COVID-19. Due to the lockdown regulations, food flows through the informal sector ceased. The situation resulted in job loss and increased food insecurity. During this challenging period, the informal sector transformed food flows by facilitating sustainable urban agriculture, food aid programmes, and community change. Although the sector can hinder urban modernisation, the current study findings showed that the informal food sector is a buffer for meeting urban sustainability needs. Regulatory frameworks that embrace inclusive governance approaches are highly recommended.","PeriodicalId":384293,"journal":{"name":"PLOS Sustainability and Transformation","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132373461","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}

引用次数: 0

Setting ambitious international restoration objectives for terrestrial ecosystems for 2030 and beyond 为2030年及以后的陆地生态系统制定雄心勃勃的国际恢复目标

PLOS Sustainability and Transformation Pub Date : 2022-12-06 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pstr.0000039

P. Leadley, E. Archer, B. Bendandi, J. Cavender-Bares, L. Dávalos, F. DeClerck, George D. Gann, E. Gonzales, C. Krug, J. Metzger, Emily Nicholson, Ü. Niinemets, D. Obura, B. Strassburg, Bob Tansey, P. Verburg, Adriana Vidal, J. Watson, Stephen Woodley, M. Yasuhara

引用次数: 4

Actions needed to achieve ambitious objectives of net gains in natural ecosystem area by 2030 and beyond 到2030年及以后实现自然生态系统领域净收益的宏伟目标所需的行动

PLOS Sustainability and Transformation Pub Date : 2022-12-06 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pstr.0000040

P. Leadley, D. Obura, E. Archer, M. J. Costello, L. Dávalos, F. Essl, A. Hansen, S. Hashimoto, D. Leclère, Akira S. Mori, Emily Nicholson, A. Purvis, C. Rondinini, L. Shannon, Xiaoli Shen, E. Turak, P. Verburg, P. Visconti

{"title":"Actions needed to achieve ambitious objectives of net gains in natural ecosystem area by 2030 and beyond","authors":"P. Leadley, D. Obura, E. Archer, M. J. Costello, L. Dávalos, F. Essl, A. Hansen, S. Hashimoto, D. Leclère, Akira S. Mori, Emily Nicholson, A. Purvis, C. Rondinini, L. Shannon, Xiaoli Shen, E. Turak, P. Verburg, P. Visconti","doi":"10.1371/journal.pstr.0000040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pstr.0000040","url":null,"abstract":"1 Laboratoire d’Ecologie Systématique Evolution, Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, AgroParisTech, Gif-surYvette, France, 2 CORDIO East Africa, Mombasa, Kenya, 3 Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa, 4 Faculty of Biosciences and Aquaculture, Nord Universitet, Bodø, Norway, 5 Department of Ecology and Evolution, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America, 6 Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, 7 Ecology Department, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America, 8 Department of Ecosystem Studies, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, 9 Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program, International Institute for Applied System Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria, 10 Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, 11 School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Centre for Integrative Ecology, Deakin University, Burwood, Australia, 12 Biodiversity Change theme, Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom, 13 Department of Biology and Biotechnologies, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy, 14 Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa, 15 State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, 16 NSW Department of Planning, Industry and the Environment, Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia, 17 Institute for Environmental Studies, VU University, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 18 Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL), Birmensdorf, Switzerland, 19 Biodiversity, Ecology and Conservation group, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria","PeriodicalId":384293,"journal":{"name":"PLOS Sustainability and Transformation","volume":"78 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132004726","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}

引用次数: 3

Climate change’s impact on real estate prices in Chile 气候变化对智利房地产价格的影响

PLOS Sustainability and Transformation Pub Date : 2022-11-22 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pstr.0000035

K. Hernández, Facundo Luna, Carlos Madeira

引用次数: 0

‘Factory farming’? Public perceptions of farm sizes and sustainability in animal farming “工厂化养殖”?公众对农场规模和动物养殖可持续性的看法

PLOS Sustainability and Transformation Pub Date : 2022-10-28 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pstr.0000032

G. Busch, E. Bayer, A. Spiller, Sarah Kühl

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引用次数: 2

Correction: Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Agriculture in India: Cross-Sectional Results from a Nationally Representative Survey 更正:2019冠状病毒病大流行对印度农业的影响:一项全国代表性调查的横截面结果

PLOS Sustainability and Transformation Pub Date : 2022-10-21 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pstr.0000033

L. Jaacks, N. Gupta, Jagjit Plage, A. Awasthi, D. Veluguri, S. Rastogi, Elena Dall’Agnese, G. Ramanjaneyulu, A. Jain

引用次数: 1

Lost in translation: Challenges in creating new transformative innovation policy practices 迷失在翻译中:创造新的变革性创新政策实践的挑战

PLOS Sustainability and Transformation Pub Date : 2022-10-17 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pstr.0000031

J. Ulmanen, Anna Bergek, Hans Hellsmark

引用次数: 3

Applicability of Hubbert model to global mining industry: Interpretations and insights Hubbert模型在全球采矿业中的适用性:解读与洞察

PLOS Sustainability and Transformation Pub Date : 2022-10-05 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pstr.0000047

L. Riondet, D. Suchet, O. Vidal, J. Halloy

引用次数: 0