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Does forest management certification halt forest loss at country level? A global analysis 森林管理核证能在国家一级制止森林损失吗？全球分析

Cleaner Production Letters

Pub Date : 2025-07-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.clpl.2025.100104

Saskia Dröge , Charline Depoorter , Axel Marx , Bart Muys

Forests play a vital role in regulating the global climate, supporting biodiversity, and sustaining the livelihoods of approximately 1.6 billion people. However, unsustainable forest management continues to drive widespread forest loss. Certification schemes such as the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) and the Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) evolved to promote sustainable forestry practices, yet evidence of their effectiveness in reducing deforestation and forest degradation remained inconclusive. This study employed generalised additive models to assess whether increased FSC and PEFC certification coverage was associated with reduced permanent and temporary forest loss, using annual data from 2005 to 2019 across more than 113 countries while controlling for other drivers of forest change. No significant association between certification coverage and forest loss reduction was found at the country level. These findings were limited by the lack of publicly available data on certified forests at high spatial resolution and the use of aggregated country-level certification coverage, which might obscure regional (sub-country) effects. Improved transparency and finer-scale data are needed for more definitive assessments of certification's impact. Furthermore, for achieving global goals such as halting deforestation by 2030, additional strategies beyond voluntary certification are needed.

森林在调节全球气候、支持生物多样性和维持约16亿人的生计方面发挥着至关重要的作用。然而，不可持续的森林管理继续造成广泛的森林损失。诸如森林管理委员会（FSC）和认可森林核证方案（PEFC）等核证办法的发展是为了促进可持续的林业做法，但它们在减少毁林和森林退化方面的有效性的证据仍然没有定论。本研究使用了超过113个国家2005年至2019年的年度数据，同时控制了森林变化的其他驱动因素，采用广义加性模型来评估FSC和PEFC认证覆盖率的增加是否与永久性和临时性森林损失的减少有关。在国家一级没有发现核证覆盖率与减少森林损失之间的重大联系。由于缺乏关于高空间分辨率核证森林的公开数据，以及使用国家一级核证覆盖率的总和，这些调查结果受到限制，这可能会模糊区域（分国家）的影响。为了更明确地评估认证的影响，需要提高透明度和更精细的数据。此外，为了实现到2030年停止森林砍伐等全球目标，需要在自愿认证之外采取其他战略。

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Nurturing green behaviour: Exploring managerial competencies for effective green human resource management in hotels 培育绿色行为：探索酒店有效的绿色人力资源管理的管理能力

Cleaner Production Letters

Pub Date : 2025-06-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.clpl.2025.100102

Said Shabban Abdo , David Edgar

Global environmental concerns are intensifying, placing organizations under pressure to integrate sustainability into their operations. Businesses, particularly in resource-intensive industries such as hospitality, must adopt environmentally responsible practices to reduce their ecological footprint and align with regulatory, societal, and consumer expectations. Employees play a crucial role in achieving these sustainability goals; however, fostering employee green behavior requires more than policy mandates, it necessitates a strategic approach that develops competencies, enhances motivation, and creates opportunities for sustainable practices. This study examines the factors related to managerial competencies employed by a multinational hotel organization operating in Egypt to facilitate employee green behavior and enhance sustainable performance. Using the Ability, Motivation, and Opportunity (AMO) theory as a conceptual framework, this study adopts a qualitative research design with semi-structured interviews conducted with seven highly experienced Egyptian national hotel general managers. Thematic analysis was performed to identify key managerial competencies influencing employees’ green behavior. The findings propose a Green Human Resource Management (GHRM) practices framework as a central mechanism for enhancing employees’ abilities, motivation, and opportunities to support sustainable performance. This framework is underpinned by three core managerial competencies, problem-solving, communication, and trust, developed through formal training, engagement strategies, knowledge-sharing, and trust-building initiatives. The research contributes to the conversations in the field by extending the AMO model to incorporate GHRM practices and highlighting the strategic importance of investing in managerial competencies and human resources to align employee development with corporate sustainability objectives.

全球对环境的关注正在加剧，使组织面临将可持续发展纳入其业务的压力。企业，特别是酒店等资源密集型行业的企业，必须采取对环境负责的做法，以减少其生态足迹，并与监管、社会和消费者的期望保持一致。员工在实现这些可持续发展目标方面发挥着至关重要的作用；然而，培养员工的绿色行为需要的不仅仅是政策规定，它需要一种战略方法来发展能力，增强动机，并为可持续实践创造机会。本研究考察了在埃及经营的一家跨国酒店组织所采用的管理能力的相关因素，以促进员工的绿色行为和提高可持续绩效。本研究以能力、动机和机会（AMO）理论为概念框架，采用定性研究设计，对7位经验丰富的埃及国家酒店总经理进行了半结构化访谈。通过主题分析，找出影响员工绿色行为的关键管理胜任力。研究结果表明，绿色人力资源管理（GHRM）实践框架是提高员工能力、激励和机会以支持可持续绩效的核心机制。该框架以三项核心管理能力为基础，即解决问题能力、沟通能力和信任能力，这些能力是通过正式培训、参与战略、知识共享和建立信任举措发展起来的。该研究通过扩展AMO模型以纳入GHRM实践，并强调投资于管理能力和人力资源以使员工发展与企业可持续发展目标保持一致的战略重要性，为该领域的对话做出了贡献。

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Embracing LCA: Understanding and facilitating adoption in manufacturing firms 拥抱LCA：理解并促进制造企业的采用

Cleaner Production Letters

Pub Date : 2025-06-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.clpl.2025.100101

Synnøve Hjellvik , Arjan F. Kirkels

Companies increasingly apply Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) to assess the environmental impact of products. A broad body of literature exists on applying product-level LCA that identifies drivers and barriers. However, a more systemic and theoretical insight into its adoption in manufacturing companies is largely lacking. We fill this gap by conceptualizing LCA implementation as innovation adoption over different stages. We do so by literature review and a cross-case analysis of nine manufacturing companies.

Drivers and barriers from the literature are mapped, and the cases validate their current relevance. LCA as innovation shows strong compatibility with company internal and external drivers, which suggests a shift compared to findings in the literature. Barriers are mainly complexity, lack of data, and practical constraints. Subsequently, a conceptual model is constructed following Rogers' diffusion model. It shows how companies gradually acquire the knowledge and skills to apply and interpret LCA and subsequently institutionalize and integrate it into the regular company activities, as well as the required support, guidance, and means to make it through subsequent stages. A prescriptive design science approach translates this into guidelines for companies on how to start and increase adoption. Managers and policymakers can draw from this general insight to support the implementation of LCA.

While this research shows diffusion theory's theoretical and practical relevance, insights are limited by the qualitative and explorative approach as well as by the limitations of diffusion theory. Further validation and differentiation can help to understand the influence of external context, internal company characteristics, and integration with broader business management and transition studies.

企业越来越多地应用生命周期评估（LCA）来评估产品对环境的影响。关于应用产品级LCA识别驱动因素和障碍的文献很多。然而，对其在制造企业中的应用的更系统和理论的见解在很大程度上是缺乏的。我们通过将LCA实施概念化为不同阶段的创新采用来填补这一空白。我们通过文献综述和对九家制造公司的跨案例分析来做到这一点。从文献的驱动因素和障碍被映射，和案例验证其当前的相关性。LCA作为创新表现出与公司内部和外部驱动因素的强兼容性，这表明与文献研究结果相比发生了转变。障碍主要是复杂性、缺乏数据和实际限制。随后，根据罗杰斯的扩散模型构建了概念模型。它展示了公司如何逐渐获得应用和解释LCA的知识和技能，并随后将其制度化并整合到公司的常规活动中，以及使其通过后续阶段所需的支持，指导和手段。规定性的设计科学方法将其转化为公司如何开始和增加采用的指导方针。管理者和决策者可以从这一普遍见解中获得支持LCA的实施。虽然本研究显示了扩散理论的理论和实践相关性，但由于定性和探索性方法以及扩散理论的局限性，见解受到限制。进一步的验证和区分可以帮助理解外部环境、内部公司特征的影响，以及与更广泛的业务管理和转型研究的整合。

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Enabling the sustainability transition in buyer–seller interactions: Strategic insights from sellers and buyers 在买卖双方互动中实现可持续转型：来自买卖双方的战略见解

Cleaner Production Letters

Pub Date : 2025-05-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.clpl.2025.100100

Pia Hautamäki , Karina Burgdorff Jensen , Andrea Urbinati

Legislation is now compelling European firms to conduct their businesses in an environmentally sustainable manner. Also, customers are increasingly demanding sustainability aspects in business proposals, products and solutions. Thus, numerous firms are seeking effective sales-related strategies to enable a shift toward sustainable business practices and support their customers' sustainability transition. There is a paucity of studies within the context of buyer–seller interactions and lack of empirical understanding concerning sustainability transition and professional selling. Our study takes stock of this research gap by investigating how sales executives and their buyers in three countries enable the sustainability transition in buyer‒seller interactions. Leveraging the theoretical lens of relationship selling and drawing on qualitative research based on one-to-one interviews and focus-group interviews conducted in Finland, Denmark, and Italy, our study developed a model of sales strategies enabling sustainability transition in buyer‒seller interactions, both from the sellers' and buyers’ perspectives. These strategies can be categorized as context-driven, customer-driven, sales-driven, or joint-driven, depending on whether they are shaped by customers or sellers, or by collaborative efforts. Our study demonstrates that sales strategies influencing the sustainability transition in buyer–seller interactions vary based on the maturity level of sustainability within the firm, while firm size also matters. Our study contributes to the literature on sustainability transition in buyer‒seller interactions from a sales strategy perspective by delineating how sales firms can incorporate sustainability principles for their customers. This study also offers managerial suggestions for firms on how to implement sales strategies during sustainability transitions.

立法现在迫使欧洲公司以环境可持续的方式开展业务。此外，客户对商业提案、产品和解决方案的可持续性要求也越来越高。因此，许多公司正在寻求有效的销售相关策略，以实现向可持续商业实践的转变，并支持其客户的可持续转型。在买卖双方相互作用的背景下缺乏研究，缺乏对可持续性过渡和专业销售的经验理解。我们的研究通过调查三个国家的销售主管和他们的买家如何在买卖双方的互动中实现可持续性转变，来评估这一研究差距。利用关系销售的理论视角，并借鉴在芬兰、丹麦和意大利进行的一对一访谈和焦点小组访谈为基础的定性研究，我们的研究开发了一个销售策略模型，从卖家和买家的角度来看，在买卖双方的互动中实现可持续转变。这些策略可以被分类为上下文驱动、客户驱动、销售驱动或联合驱动，这取决于它们是由客户还是卖家塑造的，还是由合作努力塑造的。我们的研究表明，在企业内部的可持续性成熟度水平不同的情况下，销售策略对买卖双方互动中可持续性转变的影响也不同，而企业规模也有影响。我们的研究从销售策略的角度描述了销售公司如何将可持续性原则纳入其客户，从而为有关买卖双方互动中可持续性转变的文献做出了贡献。本研究也为企业在可持续转型过程中如何实施销售策略提供管理建议。

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Digging Deep – Governing subsurface uses for the German energy transition 深挖——治理德国能源转型的地下用途

Cleaner Production Letters

Pub Date : 2025-04-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.clpl.2025.100099

Juliane Biehl , Johann Köppel , Julia Neugebauer , Gesa Geißler

The geological subsurface holds diverse use potentials, including raw material extraction, renewable energy storage, carbon sequestration, and waste storage. While global resource governance is often emphasised, comprehensive synoptic overviews of specific subsurface uses and their environmental and social impacts are lacking. Given the climate crisis, sustainability goals, and recent geopolitical shifts, the European Union has intensified efforts to secure domestic raw materials to reduce dependency and support the energy transition. Within this context, Germany, the EU's most populous and economically influential member, provided a critical case study for examining subsurface governance challenges. This study aimed to (i) synthesise impacts and pressures from multiple subsurface uses and (ii) identify respective governance, planning, impact assessment (IA), and permitting gaps. A configurative literature review was conducted, reviewing academic literature, grey literature, policy reports, and IA documents for various subsurface activities, including mineral extraction, geothermal energy, carbon dioxide sequestration and hydrogen storage in Germany. Findings revealed cumulative environmental and social pressures, with significant impacts on land and water resources, and gaps in IA practices, such as limited consideration of population impacts, land degradation, and subsurface biodiversity. Increased spatial competition for subsurface space, including space for energy storage and waste management, heightened regulatory pressures. The study concluded that IA practices are often assumption-based, lacking long-term empirical data and that certain subsurface activities are inadequately assessed. Critical governance gaps are identified, suggesting entry points for enhancing environmental planning, impact assessments, and governance strategies in Germany's subsurface resource management.

地质地下具有多种用途潜力，包括原材料提取、可再生能源储存、碳封存和废物储存。虽然经常强调全球资源治理，但缺乏对具体地下利用及其环境和社会影响的全面概要概述。考虑到气候危机、可持续发展目标和最近的地缘政治变化，欧盟加大了确保国内原材料的努力，以减少对能源的依赖并支持能源转型。在此背景下，欧盟人口最多、经济影响力最大的成员国德国为研究地下治理挑战提供了一个重要的案例研究。本研究旨在(i)综合多种地下用途的影响和压力，（ii）确定各自的治理、规划、影响评估（IA）和许可差距。对德国的矿物开采、地热能、二氧化碳封存和储氢等地下活动的学术文献、灰色文献、政策报告和IA文件进行了配置性文献综述。研究结果揭示了累积的环境和社会压力，对土地和水资源产生了重大影响，以及IA实践中的差距，例如对人口影响、土地退化和地下生物多样性的考虑不足。地下空间（包括能源储存和废物管理空间）的空间竞争加剧，监管压力加大。该研究的结论是，人工智能的实践通常是基于假设的，缺乏长期的经验数据，并且某些地下活动没有得到充分的评估。指出了关键的治理差距，为加强德国地下资源管理的环境规划、影响评估和治理策略提出了切入点。

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Green and climate finance research trends: A bibliometric study of pre- and post-pandemic shifts 绿色和气候融资研究趋势：大流行前后变化的文献计量学研究

Cleaner Production Letters

Pub Date : 2025-04-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.clpl.2025.100098

Azhar Mohamad

Green and climate finance are critical for solving global climate concerns and promoting sustainable development. However, research gaps remain in identifying theme shifts and regional discrepancies, particularly in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. This study undertakes a bibliometric analysis of 1039 Scopus papers published between 1997 and 2024, utilising tools including Bibliomagika, VOSviewer, and Biblioshiny to look at co-authorship networks, keyword co-occurrence, and thematic clusters. The findings emphasise a significant increase in research output following 2020, which indicates the increasing significance of sustainable financial mechanisms. China is becoming a global centre for research collaboration, while journals such as Environmental Science and Pollution Research are the most prolific in terms of publications and citations. Thematic analysis indicates a transition from adaptation and food security prior to the pandemic to green finance, renewable energy, and sustainable development goals during the pandemic. Nevertheless, climate finance has a substantial research gap, particularly in adaptation strategies. The study emphasises the necessity of strategic investments in green financial mechanisms and the integration of green finance into economic recovery frameworks, providing policymakers with actionable insights. The key to leveraging green and climate finance to achieve a sustainable, resilient future is to enhance interdisciplinary research and foster equitable global collaboration.

绿色和气候融资对于解决全球气候问题和促进可持续发展至关重要。然而，在确定主题转变和地区差异方面仍存在研究空白，尤其是在 COVID-19 大流行之后。本研究利用 Bibliomagika、VOSviewer 和 Biblioshiny 等工具，对 1997 年至 2024 年间发表的 1039 篇 Scopus 论文进行了文献计量分析，以研究共同作者网络、关键词共同出现率和主题集群。研究结果表明，2020 年之后，中国的科研产出将大幅增长，这表明可持续的财政机制的重要性与日俱增。中国正在成为全球研究合作中心，而《环境科学》和《污染研究》等期刊的发表量和引用量最高。专题分析表明，从大流行病之前的适应性和粮食安全，到大流行病期间的绿色金融、可再生能源和可持续发展目标。尽管如此，气候融资仍存在巨大的研究缺口，尤其是在适应战略方面。本研究强调，有必要对绿色金融机制进行战略投资，并将绿色金融纳入经济复苏框架，为政策制定者提供可操作的见解。利用绿色金融和气候金融实现可持续、有复原力的未来，关键在于加强跨学科研究，促进公平的全球合作。

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Fostering cleaner production through the adoption of sustainable maintenance: An umbrella review with a questionnaire-based survey analysis 通过采用可持续维修促进清洁生产：以问卷为基础的调查分析的综合审查

Cleaner Production Letters

Pub Date : 2025-02-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.clpl.2025.100095

Marko Orošnjak , Nebojša Brkljač , Kristina Ristić

The global industrial sector accounts for about 26%, while manufacturing and construction accounts for about 13% of global CO₂ emissions, highlighting the need for sustainable operational strategies. Regulatory frameworks (e.g., GreenDeal, RePowerEU), have placed increasing pressure on manufacturing industries to align their economic productivity practices with sustainable business models. In this context, Sustainable Maintenance (SM) emerged as a strategic approach to reduce resource inefficiencies and minimise environmental waste. Hence, the research on SM is important for two reasons. Firstly, the impact of maintenance activities in reducing energy consumption can be considered one of the main determinants for enhancing the sustainability of manufacturing processes. Secondly, integrating SM practices within the context of Industry 4.0 offers a strategic move in achieving cleaner production and availability of manufacturing processes. However, the lack of research on investigating factors hindering the adoption of these practices within manufacturing entities has been reported. Leveraging Umbrella Review, contemporary research on SM prospects has been examined. Instead of focusing solely on the barriers and enablers, the study uses these factors to describe the existing body of SM research by performing network analysis. Secondly, given that digitalization is a barrier and an enabler, a questionnaire-based survey instrument has been developed. The data obtained from the survey is subjected to statistical testing using Bayes inferential statistics and Multiple Correspondence Analysis. The findings suggest strong to extreme evidence (BF₁₀ > 100) in favour of the existence of a correlation between digitalization (and technology) and maintenance sustainability aspects.

全球工业部门约占26%，而制造业和建筑业约占全球二氧化碳排放量的13%，突出了可持续运营战略的必要性。监管框架（如GreenDeal、RePowerEU）对制造业施加了越来越大的压力，要求它们将经济生产力实践与可持续商业模式结合起来。在这种背景下，可持续维护（SM）作为减少资源低效和减少环境浪费的战略方法出现了。因此，SM的研究有两个重要的原因。首先，维护活动在降低能源消耗方面的影响可以被认为是提高制造过程可持续性的主要决定因素之一。其次，在工业4.0的背景下整合SM实践为实现清洁生产和制造工艺的可用性提供了战略举措。然而，据报道，缺乏对阻碍在制造实体中采用这些做法的因素的调查研究。借助Umbrella Review，对当代研究的SM前景进行了考察。本研究并没有仅仅关注障碍和推动因素，而是通过网络分析，利用这些因素来描述SM研究的现有主体。其次，鉴于数字化是一种障碍和推动者，我们开发了一种基于问卷的调查工具。从调查中获得的数据使用贝叶斯推理统计和多重对应分析进行统计检验。这些发现提供了强有力的极端证据(BF10 >；100)支持数字化（和技术）与维护可持续性方面之间存在相关性。

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A review of the implementation of R-imperatives in circular construction 循环结构中r -命令式的实施综述

Cleaner Production Letters

Pub Date : 2025-02-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.clpl.2025.100097

Pauline Jegen , Lukas Gast , Martin Faulstich

Worldwide, the construction industry has the potential to implement circular economy (CE) principles and transform its practices to reduce the environmental impact of production and use of materials. Thus, numerous studies analysed CE implementations in the construction industry. This work expands the current research by providing insights in the current state of the distribution of R-imperative in articles about circular construction. These represent a series of strategies for the practical implementation of CE principles over the whole lifecycle of a product and range from reuse (R0) to recover (R9). This review paper aims to comprehensively review the current CE research, with a focus on the 9R framework by using systematic literature research. The R-imperatives are employed to analyse which imperatives are emphasized in existing research and at which specific stages in the lifecycle of buildings, building elements, and materials CE measures are applied. The review considers a wide range of literature resulting in analysing 182 articles. To clarify the approaches within the construction industry that align with the 9R strategies, a categorisation system is proposed. As a result, the review highlights the primary focus of circular construction research which has been found to be predominantly on recycling, followed by rethink and reuse. Little evidence of representation of the R-imperatives refuse, reduce, repair, refurbish, remanufacture, repurpose and recover was found in the reviewed literature. However, opportunities exist to reduce material demand and carbon footprint through the integration of sufficiency and material efficiency in construction, as suggested by several studies. Consequently, further attention could be directed towards the other R-imperatives, with a particular focus on extending the lifespan of buildings and materials through reuse, repair, refurbish, remanufacture and repurpose. The findings state that the practical implementation of CE in construction can be facilitated by the use of standardised material passports, stakeholder integration and building information modelling.

在世界范围内，建筑行业有潜力实施循环经济（CE）原则，并改变其做法，以减少生产和使用材料对环境的影响。因此，许多研究分析了建筑行业的CE实施情况。这项工作通过在关于循环结构的文章中提供R-imperative分布的当前状态的见解，扩展了当前的研究。这些代表了在产品的整个生命周期中实际实现CE原则的一系列策略，范围从重用（R0）到回收（R9）。本文采用系统的文献研究方法，以9R框架为重点，对当前的研究现状进行了综述。r指令用于分析在现有研究中强调哪些指令，以及在建筑物、建筑元素和材料生命周期的哪些特定阶段应用CE措施。该综述考虑了广泛的文献，分析了182篇文章。为了明确建筑业内与9R策略相一致的方法，提出了一个分类系统。因此，回顾强调了循环建筑研究的主要重点，该研究主要集中在回收利用上，其次是重新思考和再利用。在文献综述中，很少有证据表明r命令拒绝，减少，修复，翻新，再制造，重新利用和恢复。然而，正如几项研究所建议的那样，通过将建筑的充分性和材料效率结合起来，存在减少材料需求和碳足迹的机会。因此，可以进一步关注其他r -要务，特别侧重于通过重复使用、修理、翻新、再制造和重新利用来延长建筑物和材料的寿命。研究结果表明，使用标准化的材料护照、利益相关者整合和建筑信息模型，可以促进在建筑中实际实施节能。

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Direction, drivers and design: The driving forces of sustainability policy creation at Canadian universities 方向、驱动因素和设计：加拿大大学可持续发展政策制定的驱动力

Cleaner Production Letters

Pub Date : 2025-02-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.clpl.2025.100096

Brandon Dickson

Internationally, pushes for sustainability have come from a variety of actors, and universities have increasingly been seen as important sustainability actors due to their roles in research, education and their large resource consumption. Given this context, it is important to understand how universities shaped their sustainability direction. The aim of this research then was to explore the drivers that result in universities' sustainability direction. In order to do this, interviews were conducted with 16 university sustainability administrators from across Canada to determine the drivers of their sustainability strategy and direction. This research adopted a mixed methods coding procedure to analyse the interviews. Findings include that internal drivers including senior administrators and community members are the most significant drivers of sustainability priority development, and that government legislation has minimal impact on university sustainability priorities. Universities highlight that global governance mechanisms such as ratings are seen as both legitimate and useful, however high-level benchmarks and ranking organizations are often seen as communications tools rather than drivers. This research presents one of the earliest of its kind focused on the drivers of action on sustainability in higher education and shows how policy development takes a unique approach in universities compared with other sectors. These findings are significant to understand how universities are shaping their sustainability direction and to support policy makers and practitioners to guide university sustainability towards meaningful planning and prioritization. Conclusions include a need for future research into the implementation into such policies and a focus on the ‘next generation’ of sustainability priorities in new emerging policies.

在国际上，推动可持续发展的力量来自各种各样的行动者，由于大学在研究、教育和大量资源消耗方面的作用，它们越来越被视为重要的可持续发展行动者。在这种背景下，了解大学如何塑造其可持续发展方向是很重要的。本研究的目的是探讨导致大学可持续发展方向的驱动因素。为了做到这一点，我们采访了来自加拿大各地的16所大学可持续发展管理人员，以确定他们的可持续发展战略和方向的驱动因素。本研究采用混合方法编码程序对访谈进行分析。研究发现，包括高级管理人员和社区成员在内的内部驱动因素是可持续性优先发展的最重要驱动因素，而政府立法对大学可持续性优先发展的影响最小。大学强调，像评级这样的全球治理机制被视为既合法又有用，但高水平的基准和排名机构往往被视为沟通工具，而不是驱动力。这项研究是同类研究中最早的研究之一，主要关注高等教育可持续发展行动的驱动因素，并展示了与其他部门相比，大学的政策制定如何采取独特的方法。这些发现对于理解大学如何塑造其可持续发展方向，并支持政策制定者和实践者指导大学可持续发展朝着有意义的规划和优先顺序发展具有重要意义。结论包括需要对这些政策的实施进行未来研究，并将重点放在新出现的政策中的“下一代”可持续性优先事项上。

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Biophilic Quality Matrix: A tool to evaluate the biophilic quality of a building during early design stage 亲生物质量矩阵：在早期设计阶段评估建筑亲生物质量的工具

Cleaner Production Letters

Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.clpl.2025.100094

Niranjika Wijesooriya , Arianna Brambilla , Lina Markauskaite

Biophilic design has gained popularity in recent times that brings multiple benefits to the built environment including the ability to strengthen the weak human-nature connectedness in sustainable building designs. Premised on the notion of biophilia, biophilic design facilitates a sensory experience that could potentially influence psychology, cognition and behaviours. Measuring the biophilic impact and the quality of the design with its sensory experience is a challenge during the early design stages. Therefore, all existing tools developed to measure the biophilic quality, focused on completed projects in the industry. In academic settings design outcome is judged during the early design stage. Hence, the existing tools could not fully support biophilic quality evaluation. To fill this gap this study proposes a Biophilic Quality Matrix, to evaluate the biophilic quality that was developed adopting three techniques of 1) literature synthesis, 2) framework synthesis, and 3) expert knowledge that included a thorough analysing of the current tools. This novel matrix type tool comprises of 10 criteria and 10 intervention scales to capture the sensory experiences that could be adapted in both conventional and sustainable studios. It was developed allowing postgraduate students to use as a self-assessment tool to scaffold learning by facilitating for evaluative judgement. Two sample evaluations are given with a validation by tutors using an interrater rating method with 92% agreement for case 1 and 93% for case 2. The statistical analysis revealed that the Cohen's kappa was .804 for Case 1 and .823 for Case 2, both indicating a strong agreement level by the tutors. Therefore, this new tool can be used in design studios to evaluate the biophilic quality. Further, this matrix contains criteria that is commonly applicable biophilic design allowing to be used in industry for real projects both during design stage and after completion with systematic validation.

近年来，亲生物设计越来越受欢迎，它为建筑环境带来了多种好处，包括在可持续建筑设计中加强人类与自然的联系。以亲生命的概念为前提，亲生命的设计促进了一种可能影响心理、认知和行为的感官体验。在设计的早期阶段，通过感官体验来衡量亲生物的影响和设计的质量是一个挑战。因此，所有现有的测量亲生物质量的工具都集中在已完成的项目上。在学术环境中，设计结果是在早期设计阶段判断的。因此，现有的工具不能完全支持亲生物质量评价。为了填补这一空白，本研究提出了一个亲生物质量矩阵，以评估采用三种技术开发的亲生物质量：1)文献综合，2)框架综合，3)专家知识，包括对现有工具的全面分析。这种新颖的矩阵类型工具包括10个标准和10个干预尺度，以捕捉可在传统和可持续工作室中适应的感官体验。它的开发允许研究生使用作为一种自我评估工具，通过促进评估判断来支撑学习。给出了两个样本评估，并由导师使用解释器评级方法进行验证，案例1的一致性为92%，案例2的一致性为93%。统计分析显示，案例1的科恩kappa为0.804，案例2的科恩kappa为0.823，两者都表明导师的一致性很强。因此，这个新工具可以用于设计工作室评估亲生物质量。此外，该矩阵包含通常适用于亲生物设计的标准，允许在设计阶段和系统验证完成后在工业实际项目中使用。

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