Pub Date : 2024-12-01DOI: 10.1016/j.wds.2024.100193
Ammar Abulibdeh
This study explores the transformation of educational institutions towards becoming zero-carbon, resilient, and community-integrated smart schools and campuses. It highlights the growing commitment to sustainability and technology-driven education in response to climate change challenges. The study aims to examine the critical aspects of this transformation, including the pursuit of zero-carbon operations, resilience measures for climate-related challenges, and active community engagement. Utilizing a scoping review methodology, the research maps existing literature to identify key concepts and gaps, covering sustainability initiatives, smart technology integration, and resilience strategies. Findings emphasize the role of educational institutions as living laboratories for sustainability, highlighting innovations in renewable energy adoption, energy-efficient building designs, and waste reduction programs. The study's originality lies in its comprehensive analysis of how educational institutions evolve into catalysts for sustainable change, enhancing education and campus management through smart technologies while addressing financial and regulatory challenges.
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Pub Date : 2024-12-01DOI: 10.1016/j.wds.2024.100192
Santa Islam , Samiul Haider , Nazmus Sayadat , Saifur Rahman
Traditional techniques have been used in fish farming in Bangladesh since ancient times. However, nowadays the adoption of modern technologies in fish farming in Bangladesh has revolutionized the industry. The goal of this research was to investigate the factors that influence fish farmers' decisions to accept new technologies for aquaculture and to ascertain the degree to which fish farmers have adopted these new technologies. A total of 101 fish farmers in the Trishal Upazila of the Mymensingh district were randomly selected and interviewed using a structured interview schedule. The research found that most of the sample fish farmers were middle to old-aged, had small farm sizes, and earned low to medium income. A significant number of fish farmers didn't receive any training, and about half of them had moderate farming experience. The majority of respondents in this survey had average levels of extended media interaction, organizational engagement, and fish farming expertise. Based on the statistics, we can deduce that 46.53 % of fish farmers made minimal use of some fish farming technology, while 20.79 % used them very little, and 32.67 % utilized them extensively. From the list of eleven socio-demographic characteristics, adopting modern aquaculture technologies was positively and significantly correlated with education, farm size, annual fish farming income, experience, and knowledge of fish farming. The most significant positive link was seen between fish farming experience and adoption. The survey revealed that financial stress, lack of adequate training, market instability, and resource deficits are the major obstacles to modern aquaculture technology adoption, while cultural resistance is the least significant. These factors collectively slow the progress of modernizing fish farming in Bangladesh, despite the potential benefits of improved yields and sustainability. Hence, by resolving these issues, the study area will have more space to employ advanced aquaculture technologies, paving the way to sustainable fish farming in Bangladesh.
{"title":"Adoption of modern aquaculture technologies in fish farming: The case of rural Bangladesh","authors":"Santa Islam , Samiul Haider , Nazmus Sayadat , Saifur Rahman","doi":"10.1016/j.wds.2024.100192","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wds.2024.100192","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Traditional techniques have been used in fish farming in Bangladesh since ancient times. However, nowadays the adoption of modern technologies in fish farming in Bangladesh has revolutionized the industry. The goal of this research was to investigate the factors that influence fish farmers' decisions to accept new technologies for aquaculture and to ascertain the degree to which fish farmers have adopted these new technologies. A total of 101 fish farmers in the Trishal Upazila of the Mymensingh district were randomly selected and interviewed using a structured interview schedule. The research found that most of the sample fish farmers were middle to old-aged, had small farm sizes, and earned low to medium income. A significant number of fish farmers didn't receive any training, and about half of them had moderate farming experience. The majority of respondents in this survey had average levels of extended media interaction, organizational engagement, and fish farming expertise. Based on the statistics, we can deduce that 46.53 % of fish farmers made minimal use of some fish farming technology, while 20.79 % used them very little, and 32.67 % utilized them extensively. From the list of eleven socio-demographic characteristics, adopting modern aquaculture technologies was positively and significantly correlated with education, farm size, annual fish farming income, experience, and knowledge of fish farming. The most significant positive link was seen between fish farming experience and adoption. The survey revealed that financial stress, lack of adequate training, market instability, and resource deficits are the major obstacles to modern aquaculture technology adoption, while cultural resistance is the least significant. These factors collectively slow the progress of modernizing fish farming in Bangladesh, despite the potential benefits of improved yields and sustainability. Hence, by resolving these issues, the study area will have more space to employ advanced aquaculture technologies, paving the way to sustainable fish farming in Bangladesh.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":101285,"journal":{"name":"World Development Sustainability","volume":"5 ","pages":"Article 100192"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142748234","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-12-01DOI: 10.1016/j.wds.2024.100175
Achsania Hendratmi , Marhanum Che Mohd Salleh , Puji Sucia Sukmaningrum , Ririn Tri Ratnasari
The United Nations certified the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) emphasise the crucial and multifaceted contribution the business sector can make to their achievement. This study analyses sustainable livelihood models as potential solutions that could aid in attaining the SDGs. This research aimed to examine women entrepreneurs' access from the perspective of Sustainable Livelihoods, specifically focusing on business strategies based on volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity. The study used a quantitative method to identify five components of sustainable livelihood strategies that women entrepreneurs in Indonesia have developed in response to the uncertainties brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic using Partial Least Square (PLS). The data in this study were obtained by administering a survey that utilised a structured questionnaire. The participants in this research were female entrepreneurs who had been actively operating their enterprises for an average duration of three years. The study's sample size consisted of 168 participants. The theoretical framework adopted for this study encompassed sustainable livelihoods and business strategies for survival. This study emphasises the significance of comprehending the behavioural patterns of women entrepreneurs during periods of uncertainty and demonstrates that the contextual factors of a country play a crucial role. The study recommends increasing government funding towards training small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) proprietors. This should prioritise enhancing accessibility to training opportunities, fostering networking initiatives, facilitating financial resources, and promoting company development. Additionally, the study emphasises the importance of implementing suitable government support programmes to address these areas of concern effectively.
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Pub Date : 2024-11-22DOI: 10.1016/j.wds.2024.100189
Sodiq Arogundade, Adewale Samuel Hassan
This study examines the effect of environment tax and renewable energy transition on the green economic growth of 37 OECD countries from 1990 to 2021. The empirical results show that environmental tax has a non-linear impact on green economic growth. The nonlinearity is characterised by a U-shape relationship, indicating that at the initial stage, environmental taxes negatively impact green growth. The impact then becomes positive and significant at a later stage when environment tax reaches a threshold of 3.53 % for production-based green growth and 2.46 % for demand-based green growth. By replacing fossil fuels in electricity generation, heating, transportation, and industrial processes, the study finds that transitions to renewable energy improve air pollution and the green economy. The estimated results are reassuringly robust to alternative measures of green economic growth (production-based and demand-based Co2 productivity) and various estimators such as instrumental regression, fixed effect instrumental regression, Machado and Silva quantile regression and JKS Granger non-causality results. The study recommends that since environmental taxes do not improve green economic growth immediately, it is important to gradually implement these taxes to allow industries and consumers time to adjust and invest in green alternatives.
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Industrialization has led to numerous environmental issues, prompting both industrialized and developing countries to adopt sustainable practices. This research investigates the impact of renewable energy and industrialization on the ecological footprint in Africa using the GMM method with data that span from 2006 to 2020 due to data availability. The findings reveal that renewable energy significantly reduces the level of ecological footprint, while industrialization raises it and thus detrimental to the environment. However, industrialization can enhance environmental sustainability if driven by renewable energy use since renewable energy has the potentials in contributing to sustainable development. It equally helps in mitigating climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions and contributing to a cleaner environment. These results therefore underscore the importance of sustainable development and environmental protection in Sub Saharan Africa. The study thus recommends that African countries improve their industrial and institutional frameworks through policies that promote renewable energy investments, support domestic low-carbon technology for producers and phase out fossil fuel subsidies. Additionally, policymakers should implement carbon pricing to incentivize companies to adopt more sustainable practices.
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Pub Date : 2024-11-17DOI: 10.1016/j.wds.2024.100190
Noel Habashy , Nicole Webster , Carter A. Hunt
Global service learning (GSL) sits at the interdisciplinary intersection of international development and study abroad, with visiting university students engaging in community development projects. Many GSL programs assert they contribute to the development of local communities, and promote greater cultural understanding for student participants. However, GSL can be a setting where unequal power dynamics are reinforced, and local community interests and histories are overlooked or patronized. Unfortunately, despite the growing emphasis on evaluation among international development and education abroad programs, few empirical studies exist to examine the perspectives of local communities that host GSL programs. The purpose of this research is to assess community power dynamics as affected by GSL using a comparative case study of communities in Costa Rica and Kenya. A rapid ethnographic approach yielded qualitative data via semi-structured interviews, archival sources, and participant observation. A comparative analysis of these data highlights the ways local residents engage with service learning programs, opportunities provided to residents with access to programs, and obstacles to a more ethical community development. Our study finds residents in these cases value relationships with visiting students and infrastructure development within a community, however, they lament instances where students and organizations do not listen to their perspectives. Our findings will be relevant to the design and implementation of the thousands of education abroad and international volunteer programs taking place annually. Without seeking insights from local residents, global service learning may be reinforcing colonialistic patterns.
{"title":"Decolonizing or Re-colonizing? Community members’ perspectives of global service learning programs","authors":"Noel Habashy , Nicole Webster , Carter A. Hunt","doi":"10.1016/j.wds.2024.100190","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wds.2024.100190","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Global service learning (GSL) sits at the interdisciplinary intersection of international development and study abroad, with visiting university students engaging in community development projects. Many GSL programs assert they contribute to the development of local communities, and promote greater cultural understanding for student participants. However, GSL can be a setting where unequal power dynamics are reinforced, and local community interests and histories are overlooked or patronized. Unfortunately, despite the growing emphasis on evaluation among international development and education abroad programs, few empirical studies exist to examine the perspectives of local communities that host GSL programs. The purpose of this research is to assess community power dynamics as affected by GSL using a comparative case study of communities in Costa Rica and Kenya. A rapid ethnographic approach yielded qualitative data via semi-structured interviews, archival sources, and participant observation. A comparative analysis of these data highlights the ways local residents engage with service learning programs, opportunities provided to residents with access to programs, and obstacles to a more ethical community development. Our study finds residents in these cases value relationships with visiting students and infrastructure development within a community, however, they lament instances where students and organizations do not listen to their perspectives. Our findings will be relevant to the design and implementation of the thousands of education abroad and international volunteer programs taking place annually. Without seeking insights from local residents, global service learning may be reinforcing colonialistic patterns.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":101285,"journal":{"name":"World Development Sustainability","volume":"5 ","pages":"Article 100190"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142706654","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-11-16DOI: 10.1016/j.wds.2024.100182
Valentina Rotondi , Alice Noris , Emanuele Carpanzano
This study delves into sustainability perceptions and behaviors within the Italian-speaking regions of Switzerland and Northern Italy, areas chosen for their unique cultural and socio-economic contexts. Through a geolocated survey and a subsequent survey experiment, we investigate how individuals in these regions conceptualize sustainability and how narrative framing affects their willingness to financially support local environmental policies. Our analysis reveals significant demographic variations in sustainability perceptions. Gender differences are evident, with men prioritizing economic and technological aspects, while women focus on ecological and ethical considerations. Parental status also influences perspectives, with parents emphasizing environmental conservation and related policy interests. Age differences show that older individuals concentrate on nature and mobility, whereas younger respondents highlight infrastructure and environmental issues. Geographical distinctions indicate that Italian residents frequently mention energy, recycling, and technology, while those in Southern Italian Switzerland emphasize culture and tourism. The survey experiment shows that narrative framing plays a crucial role in shaping public support for sustainability initiatives. Messages emphasizing potential losses or negative outcomes are more effective in motivating financial support for environmental policies compared to positive framings. These findings underscore the complexity of public attitudes towards sustainability, highlighting the need for tailored communication strategies that resonate with diverse demographic segments. The study offers valuable insights for policymakers and advocates, suggesting that strategically crafted messages can bridge the gap between environmental values and actual behaviors, thereby enhancing public engagement with sustainability efforts.
{"title":"Understanding sustainability perceptions: Insights from textual analysis and a survey experiment","authors":"Valentina Rotondi , Alice Noris , Emanuele Carpanzano","doi":"10.1016/j.wds.2024.100182","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wds.2024.100182","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study delves into sustainability perceptions and behaviors within the Italian-speaking regions of Switzerland and Northern Italy, areas chosen for their unique cultural and socio-economic contexts. Through a geolocated survey and a subsequent survey experiment, we investigate how individuals in these regions conceptualize sustainability and how narrative framing affects their willingness to financially support local environmental policies. Our analysis reveals significant demographic variations in sustainability perceptions. Gender differences are evident, with men prioritizing economic and technological aspects, while women focus on ecological and ethical considerations. Parental status also influences perspectives, with parents emphasizing environmental conservation and related policy interests. Age differences show that older individuals concentrate on nature and mobility, whereas younger respondents highlight infrastructure and environmental issues. Geographical distinctions indicate that Italian residents frequently mention energy, recycling, and technology, while those in Southern Italian Switzerland emphasize culture and tourism. The survey experiment shows that narrative framing plays a crucial role in shaping public support for sustainability initiatives. Messages emphasizing potential losses or negative outcomes are more effective in motivating financial support for environmental policies compared to positive framings. These findings underscore the complexity of public attitudes towards sustainability, highlighting the need for tailored communication strategies that resonate with diverse demographic segments. The study offers valuable insights for policymakers and advocates, suggesting that strategically crafted messages can bridge the gap between environmental values and actual behaviors, thereby enhancing public engagement with sustainability efforts.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":101285,"journal":{"name":"World Development Sustainability","volume":"5 ","pages":"Article 100182"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142720867","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-11-08DOI: 10.1016/j.wds.2024.100188
Wiegand Koerber
More than halfway through the 15-year timeline, the world is still far from reaching the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This study locates one important reason for this in the specific design of the 2030 Agenda's methodology, the indicator-based goal-setting. In this, the Global Indicator Framework (GIF) should play a central role as a basis for political decisions and as an instrument for critical political communication. However, drawing on social science indicator research, this article shows that shortcomings in the GIF's genesis have led to the 2030 Agenda's effectiveness being severely limited. These limitations are: the one-sided focus on the provision of data, which results in the neglect of questions of implementation and tensions between and within political and statistical actors, which in turn leads to an undermining of the GIF itself. As a result, the GIF shows several crucial gaps in terms of content, is characterised by discrepancies between the political target and the measurement content of the indicators, and features indicators that change the goals through their measurement content. In response, the article notes a tendency towards non-use of the indicators, which undermines the whole 2030 Agenda. The results of this study can thus also be used as a basis for the future implementation of indicator-based policies.
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Pub Date : 2024-10-28DOI: 10.1016/j.wds.2024.100187
Salah Eddine Benziouche , Salim Khechai , Foued Cheriet
Since antiquity, with transhumant breeding, the cultivation of the date palm has been the main agricultural vector around which social and economic activities are articulated in oasis regions. The conduct of this culture is guided by a specific and complex technical itinerary. The objective of the present study aims to identify and characterize the main sustainable agricultural practices within the palm groves of the Ziban in south–eastern Algeria and the sensitivity of date palm farmers to environmental practices as well as their degree of adaptation. Our study is based on face-to-face surveys conducted among 50 producers among 10 date palm areas in the region. It brings to light that despite the production developments, date palm farming in this region remains dominated by extensive and traditional agriculture, either due to a lack of means, knowledge, or environmental commitment. As a result, several sustainable practices remain widely shared in the majority of palm groves. Similarly, it appears that several larger and newly established producers are committed to these new practices which have various objectives in particular, to protect the environment, and to sustain the culture and the quality of the products.
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Pub Date : 2024-10-13DOI: 10.1016/j.wds.2024.100186
Muhammed Ashiq Villanthenkodath , Shreya Pal , Mohd Arshad Ansari
India's rapid economic growth underscores the increased necessity of pursuing the paradigms of sustainable development. However, concerns over environmental sustainability have risen in tandem with the country's aspirational goals for economic progress. Therefore, a crucial aspect of managing this is to create a balance between economic prosperity and environmental quality, wherein comprehending how fiscal and monetary policies affect India's ecological footprint becomes an utmost priority. In this vein, this study evaluates the impact of fiscal and monetary policies on India's ecological footprint while controlling for economic growth, squared economic growth, and renewable energy consumption between 1990 and 2022. Given the complexity of these links and well-suitability for examining both short-term dynamics and long-term relationships, this study employs the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) model as its methodology for the empirical analysis. Thus, the findings indicate a significant long-term relationship between India's ecological footprint, fiscal policy, monetary policy, economic growth, squared economic growth, and renewable energy consumption while considering the ecological footprint as the dependent variable. Surprisingly, fiscal policy demonstrates insignificat negligible impacts on the ecological footprint in both the short and long run. Conversely, the result underscores that monetary policy effectively curbs the ecological footprint in both the short and long run. Furthermore, the study validates the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis in the long run. However, no evidence supports the EKC hypothesis in the short run. Besides, the outcome unveils that renewable energy consumption reduces the ecological footprint with no temporal differences. Hence, the policy implications derived from these findings emphasize the crucial role of monetary policy and integrating renewable energy strategies into policy frameworks for achieving sustainable development outcomes, in addition to the other policy interventions that prioritize ecological conservation alongside economic development, ensuring a balanced approach to solve environmental and economic challenges in India.
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