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The ‘double-exposure’ of riverine communities in Northeast India to dams and climate change

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Environmental Development Pub Date : 2025-01-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.envdev.2025.101142

Costanza Rampini

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Sustainable intensification of fodder crop production can mitigate feed shortage and seasonality in East Africa

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Environmental Development Pub Date : 2025-01-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.envdev.2025.101158

Julian Joseph , Sylvia Tramberend , Fred Kabi , Günther Fischer , Taher Kahil

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On the allocation of critical metals between nations for a green and just transition

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Environmental Development Pub Date : 2025-01-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.envdev.2025.101157

J. Mikael Malmaeus , Eva C. Alfredsson , Erik Lindblom

{"title":"On the allocation of critical metals between nations for a green and just transition","authors":"J. Mikael Malmaeus , Eva C. Alfredsson , Erik Lindblom","doi":"10.1016/j.envdev.2025.101157","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envdev.2025.101157","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Critical metals are needed for a green transition, but both global reserves and production capacity are limited on the short time scale when the transition needs to take place. In this article we consider critical metals as global commons based on the assumption that they are a required component of a green transition towards zero greenhouse gas emissions, which need to happen in all countries to achieve the Paris agreement. We analyze how the projected demand for critical metals in the EU associated with the green transition relates to supply of 14 critical metals according to different allocation principles. For almost half of the metals, the cumulative demand until 2050 in the EU is significantly greater than the per capita share of global reserves. Even in a scenario with a 5% annual production increase, 10 out of 14 metals are in overuse in relation to an equal per capita share of global production capacity. A gap analysis shows that only somewhere around 10–20% of the projected use for the green transition in the EU would be sustainable for many metals in relation to an equal allocation. For some metals even greater reductions are needed. Basing a green transition on such a large overuse of critical metals is not sustainable. This calls for strategies that substantially reduce the use of critical metals.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54269,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Development","volume":"54 ","pages":"Article 101157"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143377932","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}

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Impacts of climate change on children's rights to food and health in coastal communities in Ghana

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Environmental Development Pub Date : 2025-01-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.envdev.2025.101151

Harrison Kwame Golo , Sulley Ibrahim , Bolanle T. Erinosho

{"title":"Impacts of climate change on children's rights to food and health in coastal communities in Ghana","authors":"Harrison Kwame Golo , Sulley Ibrahim , Bolanle T. Erinosho","doi":"10.1016/j.envdev.2025.101151","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envdev.2025.101151","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Anthropogenic climate change impacts all internationally recognised human rights; nevertheless, the international community prioritises children's human rights due to their vulnerability to environmental changes. However, there is a paucity of empirical studies regarding the effects of climate change-related events on children's rights in Ghana's coastal communities. This article examines the effects of climate change on children's rights to food and health, as established in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, through comprehensive interviews and focus group discussions conducted in small-scale fishing communities in the Keta Municipalities and Ketu South district of the Volta Region of Ghana. Consequently, 62 participants from four communities identified as vulnerable to climate change and variability were selected by purposive and convenience sampling techniques. We illustrate how climate change-related phenomena, including tidal waves and resultant floods, as well as unforeseen severe droughts, disrupted economic activities, adversely impacting incomes, leading to malnutrition and health issues, thereby compromising fundamental human rights and the quality of life for children. We end with a framework for intervention and additional research.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54269,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Development","volume":"54 ","pages":"Article 101151"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143158682","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}

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Exploring the role of governance and institutional indicators in environmental degradation across global regions

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Environmental Development Pub Date : 2025-01-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.envdev.2025.101152

Charles Shaaba Saba , Andrew Adewale Alola , Nicholas Ngepah

{"title":"Exploring the role of governance and institutional indicators in environmental degradation across global regions","authors":"Charles Shaaba Saba , Andrew Adewale Alola , Nicholas Ngepah","doi":"10.1016/j.envdev.2025.101152","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envdev.2025.101152","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) essentially includes climate action that targets the protection and conservation of the natural environment and human lives. After establishing the existence and addressing the associated endogeneity problem, a two-step system-GMM was deployed to examine the influence of potential macroeconomic and socioeconomic factors alongside six categories of governance indicators and institutional quality on carbon dioxide (CO<sub>2</sub>) emission across selected 183 countries, first in a single panel and then in sub-divided panels of five regions: Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA); Middle East and North Africa (MENA); Europe & Central Asia (ECA); East & South Asia and the Pacific (ESAP); and the America. Importantly, the investigation reveals that the governance indicators (i.e control of corruption, government effectiveness, political stability/terrorism, regulatory quality, rule of law, and voice and accountability) and institutional quality aggravate carbon emission in the overall panel while these influences vary across the region. Moreover, financial development and total natural resource are found to abate emission from CO<sub>2</sub> emission in the overall panel while value added from agricultural and industrial activities alongside trade openness, land area, information and communication technology (ICT), population, and income per capita are detrimental to environmental quality. On policy relevance, the results overwhelmingly point policymakers to the criticality of the aspects of governance, institution quality, and socioeconomic factors in driving environmental sustainability goals across respective regions and particularly in the comprising countries.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54269,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Development","volume":"54 ","pages":"Article 101152"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143422716","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}

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Promoting use of vetiver grass for landslide protection: A pathway to achieve Sustainable Development Goals in Thailand

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Environmental Development Pub Date : 2025-01-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.envdev.2025.101155

Unruan Leknoi , Annop Yiengthaisong , Suched Likitlersuang

{"title":"Promoting use of vetiver grass for landslide protection: A pathway to achieve Sustainable Development Goals in Thailand","authors":"Unruan Leknoi , Annop Yiengthaisong , Suched Likitlersuang","doi":"10.1016/j.envdev.2025.101155","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envdev.2025.101155","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Landslides have socio-economic and environmentally negative impacts and pose a threat to land security in many countries. The United Nations has defined landslide control as one of its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). SDG15: Life on Land highlighting soil resources is a foundation of land sustainability. In some developing countries, the soil bioengineering approach, which uses vegetation to stabilise earth slopes, is employed as an environmentally friendly and cost-effective solution for landslide protection. Previous studies report that vetiver grass is effective for landslide and soil erosion control. Thailand is one of the leading countries who has an excellent lesson learned in the promoting use of vetiver grass to reduce the risk of landslides at the community level. This research employed the Theory of Change to investigate the process and changes from the four communities throughout Thailand in the use of vetiver grass for soil erosion control and landslide prevention and its linkages to the SDGs. The results indicated that collaboration between local people and other stakeholders created knowledge, social value and learning lesson leading to changes in the local practices in the use of vetiver grass for sustainable landslide control. These practices can be used as driving tools to address SDGs in long-term. The outcome from this research can be a guideline for the sustainable application of using vegetation for landslide protection.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54269,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Development","volume":"54 ","pages":"Article 101155"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143158725","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}

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Exploring inconsistent and susceptible reservoir storage areas using frequency and rule-based decision tree approach

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Environmental Development Pub Date : 2025-01-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.envdev.2025.101146

Swades Pal , Priyanka Das , Rajesh Sarda

{"title":"Exploring inconsistent and susceptible reservoir storage areas using frequency and rule-based decision tree approach","authors":"Swades Pal , Priyanka Das , Rajesh Sarda","doi":"10.1016/j.envdev.2025.101146","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envdev.2025.101146","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Numerous studies have focused on analyzing changes in reservoir storage using inflow and outflow ratios and related models. The present work endorsed a new image-driven hydrological components-based approach for water storage inconsistency and susceptibility study using water presence frequency (WPF) and the Rule-based decision tree (RBDT). This study would be an effective means for monitoring inflow and outflow in infrastructure-scarce settings.</div><div>The findings indicate that (1) There is a significant seasonal fluctuation in water cover area, with a seasonal coverage of 19 km<sup>2</sup> and water depth closely correlating with rainfall, (2) The area of inconsistent water storage increased from 7% in the 1st phase to 18% in the 3rd phase mainly in the reservoir fringe area, (3) In last 30 years, the water storage area during pre-monsoon and post-monsoon seasons has been identified as 16 km<sup>2</sup> and 10 km<sup>2</sup> respectively, (4) From phase-1 to phase-3, the area under eco-hydrological stress during the post-monsoon season increased from 17% to 71%, (5) The proportion of areas under very high and high susceptibility was increased from 20% to 48% in between phase 1 to 3. These trends highlight the growing uncertainty in water supply, ecological habitat, and related ecosystem goods and services. This finding is an early caution to avoid economic and ecological risk due to hydrological failure caused chiefly by anthropogenic factors. This research provides valuable insights for long-term water resource planning and assessment. The approach is also a state-of-arts in infrastructure-scarce conditions and could be reproduced in other such regions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54269,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Development","volume":"54 ","pages":"Article 101146"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143357916","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}

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Dynamics and perceived drivers of land use and cover change in the Kassena-Nankana West district of Ghana

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Environmental Development Pub Date : 2025-01-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.envdev.2025.101154

Philip Aniah , Katherine Kaunza-Nu-Dem Millar , Joseph Nyaaba Akongbangre

{"title":"Dynamics and perceived drivers of land use and cover change in the Kassena-Nankana West district of Ghana","authors":"Philip Aniah , Katherine Kaunza-Nu-Dem Millar , Joseph Nyaaba Akongbangre","doi":"10.1016/j.envdev.2025.101154","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envdev.2025.101154","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Land use and cover change is now a pertinent issue due to the degradation of vital ecosystems, which provides diverse services. Amidst these changing trends, existing studies that mostly rely on spatial analyses alone has limited integration with the broader social science narratives. Emerging discourses have blamed land use and cover change on population growth without consideration of the wider political economy. This paper employed a hybrid method to identify the dynamics and underlying drivers of land use and cover change in the Kassena-Nankana West District. The findings reveal that agriculture, settlement, and bare soil expanded greatly at the expense of wooded savannah area between 1990 and 2020. In tandem with the satellite data, local farmers observed significant expansion in settlement, agriculture and bare soil and decreases in wooded savannah area over the same period. The findings further revealed that colonial footprints in forest reservation, biological constraints, economic opportunities, and labour migration are important drivers of land use and cover change in the KNWD. To sustain livelihoods and maintain stable natural vegetation, planned ecosystem integrity pathways should consider labour migration and resettlement, but these require careful planning to address challenges such as equitable land allocation, livelihood access, community vulnerabilities, cultural dimensions, and participatory planning to avoid exacerbating vulnerabilities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54269,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Development","volume":"54 ","pages":"Article 101154"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143158726","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}

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Herding resilience: Surveys and Bayesian spatial models for Africa’s livestock

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Environmental Development Pub Date : 2025-01-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.envdev.2025.101141

Tamás Krisztin , Michiel van Dijk , Philipp Piribauer

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Changes in gross primary productivity: A past and future approach to climate, land use and wildfires in the western Amazon, Brazil

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Environmental Development Pub Date : 2025-01-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.envdev.2025.101150

Caio Gabriel Santos da Cruz , Rafael Coll Delgado , Marcos Gervasio Pereira , Henderson Silva Wanderley

{"title":"Changes in gross primary productivity: A past and future approach to climate, land use and wildfires in the western Amazon, Brazil","authors":"Caio Gabriel Santos da Cruz , Rafael Coll Delgado , Marcos Gervasio Pereira , Henderson Silva Wanderley","doi":"10.1016/j.envdev.2025.101150","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envdev.2025.101150","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Given its proportion of conserved forest, the state of Acre, located in the Brazilian Amazon, is important to the global carbon cycle. The aim of this study was to evaluate fire foci of wildfires and the behaviour of GPP from 2001 to 2021 under different types of land use and cover; the ARIMA model was used to generate the future series. A trend analysis between the variables of climate GPP and fire foci was carried out using the Mann-Kendall test. A negative correlation was seen between rainfall and the fire foci of wildfires, i.e. wildfires are more prevalent during the dry season. The highest concentration of fire foci was located close to urban areas and areas of pasture. With positive trends for GPP occurring during the driest three-month period (June-July-August), mean rates were generally higher during the driest months of the year. The future series indicates changes in land cover in the state, with a trend towards a reduction in forested areas and an increase in pasture and urban areas. Use of the ARIMA model for future series proved to be viable, and is an important product for monitoring fire risks and assessing the GPP in the short term.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54269,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Development","volume":"54 ","pages":"Article 101150"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143158935","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}

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