Showing papers in "Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability in 2022"

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors use the environmental justice perspective that emphasises distributional, recognitional, and procedural dimensions regarding disabled populations to understand impacts and adaptation concerns and their implications for achieving the SDGs.

TL;DR: In this article , a set of EESV classes comprises: ecological supply, anthropogenic contribution, demand, use, instrumental values, and relational values, with specific indicators of these classes for three exemplary ecosystem services (food from fisheries, crop pollination and wildlife viewing).

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors draw on the social-ecological-technological systems (SETS) literature and framing to expand and improve the impact of smart city agendas, and provide a series of examples of subsystems interactions to illustrate how a SETS approach can expand and enhance smart city infrastructure and development to meet normative societal goals.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors explore the trade-off between efficiency and resilience in infrastructure and propose to treat resilience as a public good to catalyze an E-R balance in infrastructure.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors discuss how strategic planning of hydropower expansion can assist decision makers in comparing the benefits of building dams against their socioenvironmental impacts, and how to improve both economic and socio-environmental outcomes.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors ask what new opportunities hybrid infrastructure offers for building different layers of resilience critical for dealing with increased variation in the frequency, magnitude and different phases of climate-related disturbances.

TL;DR: This article explored the notion of "disvalues", which pertains to aspects of nature that reduce well being (instrumental disvalues), relationships that are detrimental to a dignified and flourishing life (relational disvalues) or the perception of badness in an absolute sense, regardless of the impact on people (intrinsic disvalues).

TL;DR: In this article , a special issue on the contribution of social science to addressing transformations to sustainability is presented, highlighting the importance of embracing theoretically rooted, empirically informed, and collaboratively generated knowledge to address sustainability challenges and transformative change.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors argue for transforming infrastructure planning and design to effectively utilize safe-to-fail approaches by navigating the opportunities and trade-offs of SETS resilience capabilities.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors consider the roles and diversity of food retailers within urban food systems and address the specific pathways through which urbanization and climate change will impact food system sustainability across rapidly growing African cities.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors synthesize current knowledge and research in support of this transition, drawing from recent literature and two NSF-funded workshops on wasted food management in sustainable urban systems.

TL;DR: The authors examines the challenges facing local institutions in downscaling doughnut economics for planning, decision-making and leadership, and draws on wider literature from previous efforts to localise sustainability governance to help illuminate these challenges and outlines a future research agenda to support local governance for a safe and just space.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors highlight the diversity of ways in which theories, as assemblages of different elements that can serve a variety of purposes, can emerge within inter-disciplinary and trans-disciplinary processes.

TL;DR: In this article , the main types of tradeoffs and synergies that can originate from the design and implementation of UGI are identified and categorized based on a review of the recent literature.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors argue that successful climate change policy will depend on finding the right balance of stakeholder engagement and bureaucratic autonomy, which they label the "sweet spot." They introduce and discuss recent advances in three areas in the public management literature.

TL;DR: In this paper , three distinct, yet mutually compatible approaches (habitat-mediated, breeding-dependent, and epigenetic tactics) can be deployed at different organizational levels, that is, from an individual seed to entire farming landscapes.

TL;DR: A growing empirical literature explores the potential of shadow networks to expand inclusion in governance arenas, yet some shadow networks reinforce historic legacies of injustice exacerbating exclusion and centering particular actors or communities as discussed by the authors .

TL;DR: In this article , the authors argue that strengthening the tenure-restoration nexus is critical in catalysing efforts of direct land users to protect, sustainably manage and restore natural and modified ecosystems that underpin their livelihoods.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors synthesize emerging approaches to the governance of transformative infrastructural change, revealing their underlying logics and potential contributions, including appraisal of; alternative infrastructure pathways via "futuring", their enactment via experimentation processes, supported by cross-domain coordination and new assessment methods.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors examine some conceptual and policy challenges in rethinking community hubs as anchor institutions for addressing vulnerability, building community resilience, and fostering adaptive responses to enable more socially and environmentally just development.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors focus on the decision processes of infrastructure investment intended to enhance sustainability transformations and highlight promising directions and an emergent research agenda on addressing these challenges in infrastructural decision processes.

TL;DR: The authors argue that the leverage points perspective can foster a stronger engagement with plural ways of knowing (i.e. diverse epistemologies) and diverse, potentially divergent paradigms; a combination of methods to achieve a more comprehensive understanding of system dynamics; special attention to possible interactions between leverage points within a given system to design more effective interventions and recognition of power imbalances and differing values to reach agreements, shared visions and codesigned actions.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors propose four principles to guide the development of knowledge infrastructure that will delineate the values, relationships, and power dynamics among different actors that produce knowledge, with the goal of building the capacity of local communities to reconfigure science and governance relationships that prioritize local needs in regional and global partnerships.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors conducted a systematic literature search and identified 30 articles published between 2019 and 2022 to identify the frequency and impact of simultaneous crop failures in multiple major producing regions (breadbaskets).

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors argue that transformation research needs to distinguish between two modes of knowledge production and mobilization: a linear, knowledge-first, mode-1 science, and a context-sensitive, linearity-contesting,mode-2 science.

TL;DR: In this paper , a model for advancing justice-oriented modular, adaptive, and decentralised (MAD) water infrastructures is proposed to address climate change, ageing infrastructure, and funding shortfalls threaten the sustainability of modern, 20th century centralised water systems by increasing drinking water costs and undermining water security.

TL;DR: In this paper , the body's role in perception is emphasized, and embodied rationality provides a bridge between relational and individualistic conceptions of human-nature, and facilitates theorizing infrastructures as inherently co-constructed.

TL;DR: The authors argue for a research agenda that analyzes "the rural" and "the urban" as mutually constituted, which can inspire a new generation of infrastructure that integrates nature as essential for urban sustainability, supports diverse livelihoods and lifestyles, and helps to bridge rural-urban divides.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors look at the prospects for implementing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and analyzes the social infrastructure, the political and institutional processes, by which more effective governance is possible.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors argue for increased attention to pedestrian-rights activism in infrastructure studies, offering insightful traffic-calming proposals and sustainable-transportation alternatives, and advocate for greater critical analysis of urban footbridges that privilege pervasive and uninterrupted motor-vehicle traffic.