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Improving smallholder farm practices in Central Bangladesh through wide-row intercropping: Lessons from two clustered villages 通过宽行间作改善孟加拉国中部小农的耕作方式：来自两个集群村庄的经验教训

Societal Impacts

Pub Date : 2025-10-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.socimp.2025.100155

Md. Salauddin Palash , A.K.M. Mominul Islam , Mohammad Gulzarul Aziz , M. Wakilur Rahman , Alison Laing

This paper explores the current practices and experiences of additive intercropping in central Bangladesh, focusing on its socio-economic and nutritional benefits in enhancing food security and livelihoods. A farm-based, participatory experimental design involving 40 households compared monocrop maize production to additive maize intercropped with various vegetables. The study found that intercropping improves yields and profitability. Additive intercropping in wide-row crops like maize maintains the full main crop density while introducing short-duration intercrops which are sown concurrently with maize, thus enhancing smallholder farmers’ nutrition and food security, providing additional income, and mitigating climate risks. Uptake of additive intercropping varied across locations, with Jamalpur farmers displaying greater vegetable diversity and higher usage compared to Muktagacha. In both regions radish was the most preferred vegetable. Differences in farmers’ preferences for growing heavy feeder vegetables, like cabbage and cauliflower, reflect local consumption preferences, food habits, and knowledge gaps in both horticultural production and food preparation. The findings underscore the importance of scaling up simple and effective agronomic management practices such as wide-row, additive intercropping among smallholder farmers by promoting its socio-economic and nutritional benefits. Increased awareness and knowledge about vegetable utilization can further enhance food security and improve livelihoods through sustainable intercropping practices.

本文探讨了孟加拉国中部加料间作的当前做法和经验，重点关注其在加强粮食安全和生计方面的社会经济和营养效益。一项基于农场的参与性实验设计涉及40户家庭，比较了单一作物玉米生产与多种蔬菜间作的添加剂玉米生产。研究发现间作提高了产量和盈利能力。玉米等宽行作物的附加间作既保持了主要作物的全部密度，又引入了与玉米同时播种的短周期间作，从而提高了小农的营养和粮食安全，提供了额外收入，并减轻了气候风险。不同地区对添加剂间作的吸收情况各不相同，与Muktagacha相比，Jamalpur农民表现出更大的蔬菜多样性和更高的使用量。在这两个地区，萝卜是最受欢迎的蔬菜。农民对种植卷心菜和花椰菜等重饲料蔬菜的偏好差异，反映了当地的消费偏好、饮食习惯以及园艺生产和食品制备方面的知识差距。研究结果强调了通过促进社会经济和营养效益，在小农中推广简单有效的农艺管理实践（如宽行加料间作）的重要性。提高对蔬菜利用的认识和知识，可以通过可持续间作进一步加强粮食安全，改善生计。

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Cross-cultural insights from the AGILE index 2025 on aligning AI governance with the SDGs 2025年敏捷指数对人工智能治理与可持续发展目标的跨文化洞察

Societal Impacts

Pub Date : 2025-10-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.socimp.2025.100154

Ammar Younas , Cunqing Huangfu , Yi Zeng

The uneven alignment between AI governance and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) threatens to widen global inequities and slow progress toward shared sustainability targets. Drawing on data from the AGILE Index 2025, a comprehensive evaluation of AI governance capacity across 40 countries, this paper provides cross-cultural insights into how different governance traditions, societal priorities, and institutional capacities shape the relationship between AI and the SDGs. The analysis highlights three areas of concern: declining SDG-related performance in several high-income countries, uneven research attention across SDG domains, and the limited integration of sustainability principles into national AI strategies. By situating these disparities within their cultural and societal contexts, the paper underscores the importance of designing governance frameworks that are not only technically robust but also socially relevant and context-sensitive. These findings offer actionable pathways for governments and stakeholders to align AI governance with global sustainability objectives in more inclusive and equitable ways.

人工智能治理与可持续发展目标（sdg）之间的不平衡可能会扩大全球不平等，并减缓实现共同可持续发展目标的进程。本文利用对40个国家人工智能治理能力进行综合评估的《2025年敏捷指数》（AGILE Index 2025）的数据，从跨文化视角分析了不同的治理传统、社会优先事项和机构能力如何影响人工智能与可持续发展目标之间的关系。该分析强调了三个令人担忧的领域：几个高收入国家与可持续发展目标相关的绩效下降，可持续发展目标领域的研究关注不平衡，以及可持续性原则与国家人工智能战略的整合有限。通过将这些差异置于文化和社会背景中，本文强调了设计治理框架的重要性，这些框架不仅在技术上稳健，而且具有社会相关性和环境敏感性。这些发现为政府和利益相关者提供了可行的途径，以更加包容和公平的方式使人工智能治理与全球可持续发展目标保持一致。

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Designing inclusive energy transitions: Insights from Latin America’s electricity sector 设计包容性能源转型：来自拉丁美洲电力部门的见解

Societal Impacts

Pub Date : 2025-09-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.socimp.2025.100153

Ana Julieth Calderón Márquez , Beatrice Smyth , André Felipe Simões , Marcelo Pereira da Cunha

Policymakers in the Global South lack tailored guidance for aligning decarbonization with social equity. Imported frameworks from high-income countries often overlook local governance and territorial realities. To address this gap, this study employs a three-stage methodology analyzing Latin America's electricity sector: (i) a comparative policy analysis of six frontrunner countries that achieved near-universal electricity access with high shares of renewables, (ii) a historical diagnosis of structural lock-ins constraining Colombia’s electricity transition, and (iii) a scenario-based input–output model assessing Colombia's decarbonization pathways to 2037. Findings reveal that successful countries combined stable long-horizon policies, adaptive governance that balances state and market roles, and equity-focused access measures. By contrast, Colombia’s transition is hindered by structural technological, institutional, financial, and territorial lock-ins that reproduce inequality and limit diversification. Modeling suggests ambitious decarbonization could cut Colombia's CO₂-equivalent emissions by up to 11 % in 2037, with minimal macroeconomic impact. However, achieving this outcome requires complementary redistribution measures to protect vulnerable groups. This study offers a transferable framework for designing inclusive electricity transitions in the Global South.

全球南方国家的政策制定者缺乏将脱碳与社会公平结合起来的量身定制的指导。从高收入国家引进的框架往往忽视了地方治理和地域现实。为了解决这一差距，本研究采用了一种三阶段方法来分析拉丁美洲的电力部门：(i)对六个实现了高可再生能源比例的几乎普遍电力接入的领先国家进行比较政策分析，（ii）对制约哥伦比亚电力转型的结构性锁定进行历史诊断，以及（iii）基于场景的投入产出模型评估哥伦比亚到2037年的脱碳途径。研究结果表明，成功的国家结合了稳定的长期政策、平衡国家和市场角色的适应性治理以及以公平为重点的准入措施。相比之下，哥伦比亚的转型受到结构性技术、体制、金融和地域限制的阻碍，这些限制了不平等和多样化。模型显示，雄心勃勃的脱碳计划可以在2037年将哥伦比亚的二氧化碳当量排放量减少11. %，同时对宏观经济的影响最小。然而，要实现这一成果，需要采取补充性的再分配措施来保护弱势群体。本研究为设计全球南方的包容性电力转型提供了一个可转移的框架。

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Altered tradeoffs between uncertainty and feeling in inherent indecisions: Uniform-binomial mixture densities to gauge the impact of shifts in work operations on employees 在不确定性和内在不确定性之间的改变权衡：均匀二项混合密度来衡量工作操作中轮班对员工的影响

Societal Impacts

Pub Date : 2025-09-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.socimp.2025.100152

Moinak Bhaduri

Responses from large sample surveys are routinely analyzed and often ingeniously recycled to sense people’s latent tendencies, to erect policies, trigger changes. The way these responses originate, whether they are exact revelations, often, at best, get glossed over; at worst, ignored, leading to unexpected impacts when fresh policies get deployed. Here, we analyze Likert scale answers we collected in collaboration with Gallup, surveying 5835 US residents on how they sense guidelines on remote work or a four-day work week or spending time on work outside of scheduled hours could impact their lives. Through binomial-uniform mixture densities, we make provisions for answers to be generated as a result of an inherent uncertainty and feeling towards a topic. We test whether the basis of responses - positive or negative - is imprecision, an unsureness towards an issue, whether sureness gives way to a certain kind of feeling. We find the tradeoff between uncertainty and feeling switches across topics. For some, such as a four-day week or returning to in-person work, uncertainty and feeling covary, while for others, such as spending time outside of work, they anti-vary. Often, separation of demographic-political profiles pairs up with separation of uncertainty-feeling profiles making guessing the impact of new policies predictable.

来自大样本调查的回应经常被分析，并经常巧妙地循环利用，以感知人们的潜在倾向，制定政策，引发变化。这些反应产生的方式，无论它们是否是确切的启示，往往最多被掩盖；最坏的情况是，被忽视，导致新政策出台时产生意想不到的影响。在这里，我们分析了我们与盖洛普（Gallup）合作收集的李克特量表（Likert scale）的答案，调查了5835名美国居民，了解他们如何感知远程工作、每周工作四天或在计划时间之外工作的指导方针会影响他们的生活。通过二项式均匀混合密度，我们为由于固有的不确定性和对主题的感觉而产生的答案提供了条件。我们测试反应的基础——积极的或消极的——是否是不精确的，对一个问题的不确定，确定是否让位于一种特定的感觉。我们发现在不确定性和不同主题的感觉切换之间的权衡。对于一些人来说，比如一周工作四天或重返工作岗位，不确定性和感觉变化，而对另一些人来说，比如在工作之外的时间里，他们会感到反变化。通常，人口政治特征的分离与不确定性特征的分离使得猜测新政策的影响是可预测的。

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Assessing the societal impact of clay resource exploitation: Challenges and opportunities for sustainable pottery development 评估粘土资源开发的社会影响：陶艺可持续发展的挑战与机遇

Societal Impacts

Pub Date : 2025-09-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.socimp.2025.100150

Charles Vicku , Emmanuel Offei Asiamah , Henritta Meakoa Barfi-Mensah , Robert Amoanyi

Clay resource exploitation for ceramic production is often associated with both opportunities and challenges, raising sustainability concerns. The study examines the challenges and opportunities associated with clay extraction for pottery and ceramic production in Vume in the Volta region of Ghana, highlighting potential pathways for sustainability. Using a quantitative approach, structured surveys were administered to artisans, extraction operators, and community members. The findings reveal that while clay extraction supports economic activities and preserves traditional knowledge, it poses significant environmental, social, and financial challenges. Key challenges include ecological degradation, safety and health risks, and competition with mass production, with average indices of 3.12, 3.08, and 2.83, respectively. However, opportunities such as the preservation of traditional knowledge and community empowerment through cooperatives were identified as key factors for promoting sustainable development. Notably, policy development (average index of 2.45) was ranked as the least significant opportunity, while concerns about the sustainability of clay resource extraction (average index of 2.25) were perceived as the least significant challenge. The study underscores the need for policy interventions, regulatory frameworks, and sustainable practices to mitigate the negative impacts of clay extraction while fostering long-term economic and cultural sustainability.

陶瓷生产中粘土资源的开发往往伴随着机遇和挑战，这引起了人们对可持续性的关注。该研究考察了加纳Volta地区Vume陶器和陶瓷生产中粘土提取的挑战和机遇，强调了可持续发展的潜在途径。采用定量方法，对工匠、采掘经营者和社区成员进行了结构化调查。研究结果表明，尽管粘土开采支持经济活动并保存了传统知识，但它也带来了重大的环境、社会和金融挑战。主要挑战包括生态退化、安全和健康风险以及与大规模生产的竞争，平均指数分别为3.12、3.08和2.83。但是，诸如保存传统知识和通过合作社赋予社区权力等机会被确定为促进可持续发展的关键因素。值得注意的是，政策制定（平均指数为2.45）被列为最不重要的机遇，而对粘土资源开采可持续性的担忧（平均指数为2.25）被认为是最不重要的挑战。该研究强调了政策干预、监管框架和可持续实践的必要性，以减轻粘土开采的负面影响，同时促进长期的经济和文化可持续性。

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From nobel intent to social ills: Mitigating wicked problems in public sector housing in Small Island Developing States (SIDS) 从诺贝尔奖的意图到社会弊病：减轻小岛屿发展中国家公共部门住房的恶劣问题

Societal Impacts

Pub Date : 2025-09-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.socimp.2025.100151

Aaron Anil Chadee

Public sector social housing projects (PSSHPs) play a crucial role in stimulating societal and infrastructural growth in Small Island Developing States (SIDS). The intended delivery of benefits from these social projects are curtailed due to political influences. This impacts decision-making, leading to self-interest and deceptive practices. The aim of this paper is to examine the societal impacts of inept political influence on PSSHPs, which manifests as inadequate planning, incomplete scope and design of public housing communities, and inherently increase the complexity and unpredictability of delivering PSSHPs within time, quality and cost. This contributes to the emergence of a "wicked problem" dilemma, negatively impacting on four broader social problems, such as crime, educational opportunities, unemployment, and poverty. The culmination of these problems further complicates societal growth by promoting negative public perceptions and social dependency on short term government employment programs. To address these challenges, a holistic approach that incorporates accountable and transparent practices, political risk mitigation, and effective project management strategies are recommended to combat the “wicked- problem, clumsy- solutions” phenomenon. By understanding and proactively addressing these issues, a more inclusive and successful public housing system can be created, meeting the requirements of society while minimizing negative unsustainable consequences.

公共部门社会住房项目在刺激小岛屿发展中国家的社会和基础设施增长方面发挥着关键作用。由于政治影响，这些社会项目的预期效益受到限制。这会影响决策，导致自利和欺骗行为。本文的目的是研究不当的政治影响对公共住房社区的社会影响，这种影响表现为公共住房社区的规划不充分、范围和设计不完整，并固有地增加了在时间、质量和成本方面交付公共住房社区的复杂性和不可预测性。这导致了“邪恶问题”困境的出现，对四个更广泛的社会问题产生了负面影响，如犯罪、教育机会、失业和贫困。这些问题的高潮通过促进负面的公众观念和社会对短期政府就业计划的依赖，使社会发展进一步复杂化。为了应对这些挑战，建议采用一种全面的方法，将负责任和透明的实践、政治风险缓解和有效的项目管理策略结合起来，以对抗“邪恶的问题，笨拙的解决方案”现象。通过了解和积极解决这些问题，可以创建一个更具包容性和成功的公共住房体系，在满足社会需求的同时最大限度地减少负面的不可持续的后果。

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Building trust and warmth: Co-designing energy solutions with travellers and displaced communities in Ireland 建立信任和温暖：与爱尔兰的旅行者和流离失所的社区共同设计能源解决方案

Societal Impacts

Pub Date : 2025-09-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.socimp.2025.100149

Michelle O’Keeffe , Moya Cronin , Thomas Murphy , Paul Lally , Ciara Ahern , Mary Galvin , Ehiaze Ehimen

The MOBILISE project addresses the exclusion of Irish Travellers, asylum seekers, and displaced communities in mobile dwellings from national energy efficiency and climate action plans. By combining human-centred design and participatory methods, the project co-develops practical, low-carbon retrofit solutions that respond to cultural, social, and technical realities often overlooked by mainstream policy. Community workshops and design-thinking sessions revealed that mobile-home residents face high energy costs, poor indoor air quality, and unsafe fuels, leading to significant health risks. MOBILISE aims to provide practical retrofit solutions and build community capacity through accessible information, skills development, and training opportunities. A Community of Practice model fosters ongoing collaboration among residents, advocates, local authorities, and service providers, creating trust and shared learning. The project demonstrates that inclusive retrofits can reduce energy poverty, improve health, and advance climate goals, contributing to UN SDGs on health, clean energy, reduced inequalities, sustainable communities, and climate action. MOBILISE offers a replicable blueprint for equitable retrofit policy and practice, highlighting that technical solutions alone are insufficient without participatory engagement and cultural competence. By centring lived experience, the project shows how marginalised groups can actively shape a fair, low-carbon future.

MOBILISE项目解决了将爱尔兰旅行者、寻求庇护者和流动住房中的流离失所社区排除在国家能源效率和气候行动计划之外的问题。通过结合以人为本的设计和参与式方法，该项目共同开发实用的低碳改造解决方案，以应对经常被主流政策忽视的文化、社会和技术现实。社区讲习班和设计思考会议表明，移动房屋居民面临着高昂的能源成本、糟糕的室内空气质量和不安全的燃料，导致重大的健康风险。MOBILISE旨在提供切实可行的改造解决方案，并通过无障碍信息、技能开发和培训机会建设社区能力。实践社区模式促进居民、倡导者、地方当局和服务提供者之间的持续合作，创造信任和共享学习。该项目表明，包容性改造可以减少能源贫困，改善健康，推进气候目标，为联合国关于健康、清洁能源、减少不平等、可持续社区和气候行动的可持续发展目标做出贡献。MOBILISE为公平的改造政策和实践提供了可复制的蓝图，强调如果没有参与性参与和文化能力，仅靠技术解决方案是不够的。通过以生活经验为中心，该项目展示了边缘化群体如何积极塑造一个公平、低碳的未来。

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The societal impact of heatwave intensification and heat stress on African Urban populations 热浪加剧和热应激对非洲城市人口的社会影响

Societal Impacts

Pub Date : 2025-09-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.socimp.2025.100148

Oluwafemi E. Adeyeri , Sodiq A. Ajadi , Kazeem A. Ishola , Suebat O. Mustapha

Heatwave intensification and associated heat stress represent growing societal challenges in Africa, where rapid urbanization intersects with limited adaptive capacity and pronounced climate vulnerability. This study investigates the societal implications of increasing heatwaves, focusing on urban populations across nine African regions. Leveraging a multi-model ensemble of bias-corrected climate models, we assess heatwaves and the consequent heat stress to evaluate health risks and quantify urban population exposure to heatwaves. We observe regional disparities, with West and Central Africa projected to experience some of the highest levels of heat stress, exposing over 60 % of the urban population to '''strong' or '''extreme' heat stress by the late 21st century. We emphasize the need for region-specific, evidence-based strategies to address these escalating risks and contribute to achieving Good Health and Well-being (SDG 3), Sustainable Cities and Communities (SDG 11), and Climate Action (SDG 13).

在非洲，快速城市化与有限的适应能力和明显的气候脆弱性交织在一起，热浪加剧和相关的热应激构成了日益严峻的社会挑战。这项研究调查了热浪增加的社会影响，重点关注非洲九个地区的城市人口。利用多模型集合的偏差校正气候模型，我们评估热浪和随之而来的热应激，以评估健康风险和量化城市人口暴露于热浪。我们观察到区域差异，西非和中非预计将经历一些最高水平的热应激，到21世纪末，60% %以上的城市人口将面临“强”或“极端”热应激。我们强调需要针对具体地区制定基于证据的战略，以应对这些不断升级的风险，并为实现良好健康和福祉（可持续发展目标3）、可持续城市和社区（可持续发展目标11）和气候行动（可持续发展目标13）做出贡献。

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Spatial justice and climate vulnerability: Evaluating the relationship between urban expansion patterns and flood risk 空间正义与气候脆弱性：城市扩张模式与洪水风险的关系评价

Societal Impacts

Pub Date : 2025-09-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.socimp.2025.100147

Mahmoud Mabrouk

Urban flooding remains a critical hazard for rapidly urbanizing coastal cities, with climate change intensifying both its frequency and severity. This article summarizes and contextualizes the findings of our published study on spatial justice and flood vulnerability in Alexandria, Egypt, which examined 28 years of urban growth patterns (1995–2023) using remote sensing, GIS, and socio-economic data. The analysis identified three forms of urban expansion—infilling, edge expansion, and leapfrogging—and revealed that unplanned infilling increases flood risk far more than other growth types, disproportionately affecting marginalized, low-income neighborhoods. These findings present a replicable framework for risk-informed urban planning, with clear implications for equitable zoning, targeted infrastructure investment, and the adoption of nature-based solutions. The societal impact stems from redefining flood risk as both an environmental and social justice issue, offering decision-makers actionable, evidence-based strategies to mitigate hazard exposure.

随着气候变化加剧了城市洪水的发生频率和严重程度，城市洪水仍然是快速城市化的沿海城市的一个重要危害。本文总结并阐述了我们发表的关于埃及亚历山大市空间正义和洪水脆弱性的研究结果，该研究利用遥感、GIS和社会经济数据分析了1995-2023年的28年城市增长模式。分析确定了城市扩张的三种形式——填充型、边缘型和跨越式扩张——并揭示了无计划的填充型比其他增长类型更容易增加洪水风险，对边缘低收入社区的影响尤为严重。这些发现为风险知情的城市规划提供了一个可复制的框架，对公平分区、有针对性的基础设施投资和采用基于自然的解决方案具有明确的影响。社会影响源于将洪水风险重新定义为环境和社会正义问题，为决策者提供可操作的、基于证据的战略来减轻灾害风险。

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The role of qualitative methods in shaping policy on employment rights for people with disabilities in Uganda 定性方法在制定乌干达残疾人就业权利政策方面的作用

Societal Impacts

Pub Date : 2025-09-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.socimp.2025.100146

Andrew Griffiths , Stevens Bechange , Hannah Loryman , Monica Ndoria , Adetokunbo Johnson , Graham Long

There is widespread evidence that people with disabilities face challenges, including discrimination, in accessing labour markets: however, there is much less evidence around how the rights to employment of persons with disabilities should be implemented within national legal frameworks. Our current study looks at this question in the context of Uganda where, despite an estimated 12 % of the population living with a disability, data and evidence on the employment of people with disabilities, and on implementation of relevant anti-discrimination law, is scarce. We present our methodology and some early results of a mixed-methods, participatory research project examining policy implementation. One key finding is that the information-gathering interviews conducted with policy actors have themselves changed the perceptions and intentions of these actors. We reflect on potential explanations of these results and situate them in relevant debates around participant-researcher relationships. Lastly, we consider how significant the implications for policy implementation, and change-oriented research more generally, might be.

有广泛证据表明，残疾人在进入劳动力市场方面面临包括歧视在内的挑战；然而，关于如何在国家法律框架内落实残疾人的就业权利的证据却少得多。我们目前的研究着眼于乌干达背景下的这个问题，尽管估计有12% %的人口生活在残疾人中，但关于残疾人就业和相关反歧视法实施的数据和证据很少。我们介绍了我们的方法和一些混合方法的早期结果，参与性研究项目检查政策实施。一个关键的发现是，对政策行为者进行的信息收集访谈本身就改变了这些行为者的看法和意图。我们反思了这些结果的潜在解释，并将它们置于围绕参与者-研究人员关系的相关辩论中。最后，我们考虑了政策实施的重要意义，以及更普遍的以变革为导向的研究。

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