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{"title":"Impact of land transformation, management and governance on subjective wellbeing across social-ecological systems.","authors":"Patricia Santillán-Carvantes, Alejandra Tauro, Patricia Balvanera, Juan Miguel Requena-Mullor, Antonio J Castro, Cristina Quintas-Soriano, Berta Martín-López","doi":"10.1007/s11625-024-01584-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11625-024-01584-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Recognizing and understanding the subjective wellbeing (SWB) of individuals is essential for designing effective policies that promote human development and the sustainable management of social-ecological systems (SES). This is particularly important for smallholders, critical stewards of biodiversity who face acute livelihood challenges. This article explores how smallholders inhabiting tropical dry forests in Mexico perceive their SWB and how it changes across a spectrum of SES that undergo different land transformations, management intensities, and governance dynamics. Our aims are to identify the dimensions of SWB that smallholders perceive, understand how these dimensions change across SES, and examine how smallholders' perceptions of fulfilled material and non-material dimensions vary across SES. We analyzed the content of 25 in-depth interviews with farmers and identified 48 SWB items belonging to six categories: (1) social capital, (2) economic capital, (3) agency, (4) nature, (5) pleasant non-work activities, and (6) governmental services, and two additional dimensions referred to obstacles and enablers. We found two prevailing visions of SWB: 'living well' prevails especially in areas with communal governance and medium management intensity, and 'need to earn more' prevails in areas with individual governance and intensified land management. As management is intensified and governance fosters individualism, the lower the self-perceived material and non-material satisfaction. We discuss the different SWB found per SES, as well as strategies that can foster smallholder's SWB and SES dynamics that can motivate different conservation goals and sustainable uses of nature, especially in biodiverse areas.</p><p><strong>Supplementary information: </strong>The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11625-024-01584-5.</p>","PeriodicalId":49457,"journal":{"name":"Sustainability Science","volume":"20 2","pages":"469-483"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11937195/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143732544","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":"Beyond the urban shift: towards a relational degrowth spatial politics.","authors":"A Varvarousis, G Kallis, C Catanneo, F Sekulova, M Tsagkari, A Slamersak, M Conde, G Dalisa, K Hanacek, B Roy","doi":"10.1007/s11625-024-01590-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11625-024-01590-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Degrowth is coming of age, and its analysis of what can be called <i>degrowth spatial politics</i> is advancing rapidly. In this article, we attempt to unravel the history of spatial thought in the degrowth literature to reveal its tendencies, tipping points, and blank spots. We argue that the more recent degrowth spatial literature overly focuses on the big urban scale by reversing what has purportedly been one of the weak spots of degrowth scholarship: its focus and preference for small-scale, relocalization, and decentralized communities. While we see the merit of this shift, first, we try to contextualize it in the broader sustainability discourse, and second, we contend that it has not been without problems and omissions. We see three predicaments stemming from it: first, a deficit of the degrowth spatial literature in recognizing and engaging with unsustainable rural transformations such as rural depopulation and shrinkage, as well as rural dispossession and depeasantisation. Second, a difficulty to account for urban and rural interconnectedness and engage with new epistemological frames that emerge in urban studies, such as planetary urbanization. Third, the urban shift may affect the capacity of degrowth to remain pluriversal, anti-colonial, and grassroots-fueled, or what Chertkovskaya et al. (Towards a political economy of degrowth. Rowman & Littlefield, 2019. https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=PuXaDwAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PP1&dq=info:c45bQLgYCfYJ:scholar.google.com&ots=5LsDF9Y_Er&sig=buZn4ogpUN4octi3_WFJf1mO9Lg) called <i>nomadic utopianism</i>. Finally, in the concluding part, we set the stepstones for a relational degrowth spatial politics, focusing on a solidary connection of space and place across the urban and rural and in multiple scales. This approach avoids the pitfalls of both degrowth proposals for relocalization and those who put excessive trust in urban transformations alone.</p>","PeriodicalId":49457,"journal":{"name":"Sustainability Science","volume":"20 2","pages":"485-498"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11937061/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143732486","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":"Monitoring environmental sustainability in Japan: an ESGAP assessment","authors":"Masahiro Sato, Arkaitz Usubiaga-Liaño, Alison Fairbrass, Paul Ekins, Jusen Asuka","doi":"10.1007/s11625-023-01441-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-023-01441-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49457,"journal":{"name":"Sustainability Science","volume":"45 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139440953","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":"Directing personal sustainability science toward subjective experience: conceptual, methodological, and normative cornerstones for a first-person inquiry into inner worlds","authors":"Pascal Frank, Johannes Wagemann, Julius Grund, Oliver Parodi","doi":"10.1007/s11625-023-01442-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-023-01442-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49457,"journal":{"name":"Sustainability Science","volume":"47 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139382244","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":"Critical hydrologic impacts from climate change: addressing an urgent global need","authors":"Jim Falk, P. Gleick, Shinichiro Asayama, Faten Attig-Bahar, Swadin Behera, Joachim von Braun, Rita R. Colwell, Ashok K. Chapagain, Adel S. El-Beltagy, Charles F. Kennel, Masahide Kimoto, Toshio Koike, Agnes Asiimwe Konde, P. Koundouri, Sameh Kotb Mohamed Abd-Elmabod, Rattan Lal, Yuan Tseh Lee, C. Murray, Vina Nangia, Amy Sapkota, T. Saijo, Ismail Serageldin, J. Soussana, Kaoru Takara, Kazuhiko Takeuchi, Thong Tran, David Victor, Chiho Watanabe, Kevin Wheeler, T. Yasunari","doi":"10.1007/s11625-023-01428-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-023-01428-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49457,"journal":{"name":"Sustainability Science","volume":"60 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139451036","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":"Can security be sustainable? Three perspectives on security and social sustainability: paradox, co-production, and deconstruction","authors":"Irja Malmio","doi":"10.1007/s11625-023-01450-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-023-01450-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49457,"journal":{"name":"Sustainability Science","volume":"3 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139389514","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":"Urban novel ecosystems as affective landscapes.","authors":"Clair Cooper, Marcus J Collier, Melissa Pineda-Pinto, Natalia Rodriguez Castañeda, Mairéad O'Donnell, Fiona Nulty","doi":"10.1007/s11625-024-01539-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-024-01539-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Intertwined within a patchwork of different types of land use and land cover, novel ecosystems are urban ecosystems that have no historical analogues and contain novel species assemblages. Some researchers and practitioners in the field of conservation and restoration regard urban novel ecosystems unworthy of concern, while other groups call for their preservation due to the rate of biodiversity loss in cities and limited access to nature among some social groups. However, very little is known about how people perceive novel ecosystems (such as informal green spaces, post-industrial or derelict land sites awaiting redevelopment, brownfield sites, vacant lots, interstitial or gap spaces) which are often characterised by assemblages of wild, spontaneous, and overgrown vegetation, but also remanent or derelict urban infrastructure in cities. This paper addresses this gap by firstly asking how people percieve assemblages of wild-looking vegetation and urban infrastructure often found in novel ecosystems and how our affective and aesthetic responses to these ecosystems affects our attitudes towards wildness in cities. To begin to unpack this question, we obtain data from a series of exploratory workshops held in four cities in the global north where we asked people 'what is urban nature?' Our findings suggest that value judgements that people ascribe to novel ecosystems are often deeply polarised, but they are influenced by different ecological and urban conditions that people encounter within them. However, some negative perceptions about novel ecosystems may be mediated by situational cues; these situational cues could have important implications for rewilding and restoration programmes that aim to reconnect urban communities with nature through socio-ecological stewardship. To conclude, areas for further research that could improve our understanding of the social values of novel ecosystems in cities and the influence that these ecosystems may have on affective encounters with urban nature are proposed.</p><p><strong>Supplementary information: </strong>The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11625-024-01539-w.</p>","PeriodicalId":49457,"journal":{"name":"Sustainability Science","volume":"19 6","pages":"1921-1933"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11543712/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142631412","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":"Using novel data and ensemble models to improve automated labeling of Sustainable Development Goals.","authors":"Dirk U Wulff, Dominik S Meier, Rui Mata","doi":"10.1007/s11625-024-01516-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11625-024-01516-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A number of labeling systems based on text have been proposed to help monitor work on the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Here, we present a systematic comparison of prominent SDG labeling systems using a variety of text sources and show that these differ considerably in their sensitivity (i.e., true-positive rate) and specificity (i.e., true-negative rate), have systematic biases (e.g., are more sensitive to specific SDGs relative to others), and are susceptible to the type and amount of text analyzed. We then show that an ensemble model that pools SDG labeling systems alleviates some of these limitations, exceeding the performance of the individual SDG labeling systems considered. We conclude that researchers and policymakers should care about the choice of the SDG labeling system and that ensemble methods should be favored when drawing conclusions about the absolute and relative prevalence of work on the SDGs based on automated methods.</p>","PeriodicalId":49457,"journal":{"name":"Sustainability Science","volume":"19 5","pages":"1773-1787"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11366727/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142127155","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":"NUS so fast: the social and ecological implications of a rapidly developing indigenous food economy in the Cape Town area.","authors":"Jenny Willis, Bruno Losch, Laura M Pereira","doi":"10.1007/s11625-024-01528-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11625-024-01528-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The modern global food system is highly unsustainable, shaped by industrialisation and corporate consolidation, with negative repercussions on the environment and biodiversity as well as human health. This paper looks at the burgeoning economy in neglected and underutilised species (NUS) in the Western Cape, South Africa, as a potential innovation that could make the local food system more socially and ecologically resilient. Although, at present, NUS are only marginally included in the local food system and policy discussions, NUS increasingly appear in the high-end food industry, driven by international gastronomic trends. These species hold potential as climate resilient, nutritionally dense, and socially and culturally significant foods in the region, but they also carry ecological and social risks. We critically examine the fledgling NUS economy in the Cape Town area to unpack the motivations and challenges associated with the potentially transformative inclusion of these foods into the local food system. We demonstrate that the main risks associated with NUS are negative ecological repercussions, privatisation of the NUS economy, and the reproduction and further entrenchment of unequal power and race dynamics in the region. To mitigate these risks and actualise the related benefits associated with NUS, engagement with the ecological, social, and political context of NUS needs to be significantly deepened. This is particularly true for those working in the high-end food industry, who appear to be driving the NUS economy, and will require education around sustainability and Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK), as well as a foregrounding awareness of power dynamics.</p>","PeriodicalId":49457,"journal":{"name":"Sustainability Science","volume":"19 5","pages":"1595-1607"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11366722/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142127154","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":"Communications enhance sustainable intentions despite other ongoing crises.","authors":"Ngoc T H Nguyen, Simon Willcock, Louise M Hassan","doi":"10.1007/s11625-024-01556-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-024-01556-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>There is an ongoing trend toward more frequent and multiple crises. While there is a clear need for behaviors to become more sustainable to address the climate crisis, how to achieve this against the backdrop of other crises is unknown. Using a sample of 18,805 participants from the UK, we performed a survey experiment to investigate if communication messages provide a useful tool in nudging intentions toward improved sustainability in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. We found that, despite the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, media messaging resulted in increases in sustainability-related intentions for all our communication messaging conditions. Specifically, after our communication was presented, (i) almost 80% of people who were not currently recycling their surgical masks reported their intention to do so; there was a > 70% increase in both (ii) the number of people likely to pick up face mask litter and (iii) the number of people willing to disinfect and reuse their filtering facepiece (FFP) masks 4-6 times, while (iv) there was an increase by 165% in those who would wash cloth masks at 60 °C. Our results highlight that communication messaging can play a useful role in minimizing the trade-offs between multiple crises, as well as maximizing any synergies. To support this, decision-makers and practitioners should encourage the delivery of sustainability advice via multiple sources and across different types of media, while taking steps to address potential misinformation.</p><p><strong>Supplementary information: </strong>The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11625-024-01556-9.</p>","PeriodicalId":49457,"journal":{"name":"Sustainability Science","volume":"19 6","pages":"1997-2012"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11543749/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142636188","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}