Pub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2024.101493
Stacey C Heath
Adaptation strategies are essential for mitigating climate risks and safeguarding human well-being. However, not all adaptation options are equal, either in their effectiveness at reducing risk or in their consequences and outcomes. This paper examines the interplay between adaptation strategies, psychosocial constraints, and well-being. It highlights how the success of adaptation measures is interconnected with their often overlooked social and psychological consequences. By exploring psychological mechanisms and societal implications (e.g. identity and social norms), I aim to contribute to a better understanding of the adaptation–well-being nexus. The concept of well-being is considered within the milieu of climate adaptation, recognising diverse interpretations across contexts. The unequal impacts of adaptation on vulnerable populations are also discussed, highlighting the need for context-specific approaches that prioritise the well-being of heterogeneous communities. The paper provides critical insights into the psychosocial dimensions of climate adaptation, offering recommendations for more transformative adaptation strategies that foster overall well-being.
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The intersection of biodiversity and finance represents a burgeoning area of research with significant implications for sustainable development. Our synthesis of existing research reveals a fragmented field characterised by theoretical and review-based studies, but with a notable scarcity of empirical research. To address this gap, we propose five thematic pathways for future research: corporate and financial biodiversity strategies, measurement and reporting, stakeholder and sectoral engagement, foundational approaches for actionable solutions, and empirical insights through case studies. These pathways provide a roadmap for advancing the integration of biodiversity and finance, emphasising the necessity for multidisciplinary and data-driven approaches to foster transformative change and mitigate biodiversity loss through financial mechanisms.
{"title":"The biodiversity–finance nexus: a future research agenda","authors":"Kristina Jonäll , Ylva Baeckström , Viktor Elliot , Susanne Arvidsson","doi":"10.1016/j.cosust.2024.101504","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cosust.2024.101504","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The intersection of biodiversity and finance represents a burgeoning area of research with significant implications for sustainable development. Our synthesis of existing research reveals a fragmented field characterised by theoretical and review-based studies, but with a notable scarcity of empirical research. To address this gap, we propose five thematic pathways for future research: corporate and financial biodiversity strategies, measurement and reporting, stakeholder and sectoral engagement, foundational approaches for actionable solutions, and empirical insights through case studies. These pathways provide a roadmap for advancing the integration of biodiversity and finance, emphasising the necessity for multidisciplinary and data-driven approaches to foster transformative change and mitigate biodiversity loss through financial mechanisms.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":294,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"72 ","pages":"Article 101504"},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143092460","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}
Pub Date : 2025-01-31DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2025.101508
Caroline Hélène Dabard , Carsten Mann , Berta Martín-López
Place-based innovations are expected to provide transformative solutions to global wicked problems. Biosphere Reserves, as designated model regions for sustainable development and sustainability transformations, are bound to support place-based innovations. Yet, empirical scientific evidence about innovation in Biosphere Reserves is rare so far. Hence, we review recent findings on innovations, grassroots, and transitions in Biosphere Reserves. We highlight five pathways in which place-based innovations develop in or with Biosphere Reserves. Following, we propose five strategies for Biosphere Reserves to purposefully support place-based innovations. Finally, we argue that Biosphere Reserves research should focus on transformation governance, and we call for support from policy and from the World Network to support innovation and enhance cross-boundary learning.
{"title":"Biosphere Reserves as catalysts for sustainability transformations: five strategies to support place-based innovation","authors":"Caroline Hélène Dabard , Carsten Mann , Berta Martín-López","doi":"10.1016/j.cosust.2025.101508","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cosust.2025.101508","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Place-based innovations are expected to provide transformative solutions to global wicked problems. Biosphere Reserves, as designated model regions for sustainable development and sustainability transformations, are bound to support place-based innovations. Yet, empirical scientific evidence about innovation in Biosphere Reserves is rare so far. Hence, we review recent findings on innovations, grassroots, and transitions in Biosphere Reserves. We highlight five pathways in which place-based innovations develop in or with Biosphere Reserves. Following, we propose five strategies for Biosphere Reserves to purposefully support place-based innovations. Finally, we argue that Biosphere Reserves research should focus on transformation governance, and we call for support from policy and from the World Network to support innovation and enhance cross-boundary learning.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":294,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"73 ","pages":"Article 101508"},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143169255","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}
Pub Date : 2025-01-25DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2024.101507
Ivo Wallimann-Helmer , Simon Kräuchi
Overstepping adaptation limits is often conceived as a negative impact to be avoided. This assertion towards adaptation limits implicitly assumes distributive entitlements of communities and their members. By reviewing different principles of distributive justice, this paper suggests sufficientarianism to be best suited to capture these entitlements. We argue that, in the context of climate adaptation, a sufficientarian approach can best deal with the challenges faced by egalitarian and prioritarian principles. In the literature on climate justice, sufficiency thresholds in adaptation have most recently been defined in terms of capabilities to live a decent human life or as the capabilities necessary for climate resilience.
{"title":"Adaptation limits as sufficiency entitlements of justice","authors":"Ivo Wallimann-Helmer , Simon Kräuchi","doi":"10.1016/j.cosust.2024.101507","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cosust.2024.101507","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Overstepping adaptation limits is often conceived as a negative impact to be avoided. This assertion towards adaptation limits implicitly assumes distributive entitlements of communities and their members. By reviewing different principles of distributive justice, this paper suggests sufficientarianism to be best suited to capture these entitlements. We argue that, in the context of climate adaptation, a sufficientarian approach can best deal with the challenges faced by egalitarian and prioritarian principles. In the literature on climate justice, sufficiency thresholds in adaptation have most recently been defined in terms of capabilities to live a decent human life or as the capabilities necessary for climate resilience.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":294,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"73 ","pages":"Article 101507"},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143169254","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}
Pub Date : 2025-01-20DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2024.101506
Iris C Bohnet , Rosalind Bryce , Inger E Måren , Alicia D Barraclough , Zoe Malcolm , Siiri Külm , Toomas Kokovkin , Steve Taylor , Eva Cudlinova , Kalev Sepp
Place-based social-ecological research is crucial for understanding local sustainability challenges. However, lack of transferability of insights to other locations and to larger scales remains challenging. In this paper, we present a novel transdisciplinary learning framework that links notions of cultural heritage, landscape, and social-ecological systems thinking to support sustainable rural development. Continuous dialogue, learning, and collaboration among communities and stakeholders, including researchers, take centre stage in this framework. We outline the four steps of the framework, conceptually integrating and operationalising how dialogue, learning, and collaboration can take place in each step. We tested the framework in the CULTIVATE project (https://www.cultivate-project.net), which explored the role of cultural heritage narratives in supporting sustainable rural development in four European UNESCO Biosphere Reserves. The framework successfully guided our research and comparative cross-case analysis, thereby contributing to aggregate learnings from place-based social-ecological research to develop knowledge at the national or global scale.
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Pub Date : 2024-11-15DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2024.101491
Gina Ziervogel , Ralph Hamann
Social innovation is a term that is being increasingly used, albeit quite superficially, in the climate adaptation field. We thus seek to develop a more consolidated approach to linking social innovation and climate adaptation, suggesting that the scholarly and practical roots of the social innovation literature can be useful in developing better understanding about how to shift the limits to climate adaptation. Specifically, we foreground three themes salient to climate adaptation. First, rather than focus on one of the sectors, much is to be gained by identifying and using the complementary competencies of state, market, and civil society. Second, social innovation foregrounds the need for change at multiple scales, requiring more careful attention to the opportunities and constraints emanating from macro-level institutional structures. And third, social innovation scholarship points to the potentially far-reaching social changes that may be catalysed by market actors, but there is a need to complement this with a democratic perspective that foregrounds the diffusion of power and agency — in line with transformative adaptation priorities.
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Pub Date : 2024-10-23DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2024.101490
Eduardo Lalla-Ruiz , Israel López-Plata , Christopher Expósito-Izquierdo , Yeray Barrios-Fleitas , Rosa G. González-Ramírez
Container terminals are essential nodes in global trade, facilitating worldwide cargo flows between various transport modes. However, their operations contribute significantly to global emissions, producing greenhouse gases like CO2 and pollutants such as nitrogen oxide. Mitigating that impact requires integrating green technologies and goals as well as exploiting renewable energy sources into terminal planning and decision support systems. Optimization techniques are key for driving terminals into this green transformation. In recent years, there has been a relevant increase in research and attention to greening ports. This growing interest includes the development of effective strategies and optimization approaches to reduce the terminal’s environmental impact. This systematic literature review examines relevant studies in optimization and greening terminals from the past two years, highlighting examples such as implementing microgrids, cold ironing, autonomous electric vehicles, retrofitting yard machinery, or promoting truck platooning. We propose a research agenda to guide future efforts in this direction.
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Pub Date : 2024-10-09DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2024.101489
Susan Taljaard , Steven P Weerts , Michelle Audouin
The Western Indian Ocean (WIO) region is experiencing rapid growth in large-scale developments, including ports. These ports play an important role in the region’s economy, but they are invariably located in coastal areas with rich natural resources that provide other ecosystem-based societal benefits. Progress has been made towards greater port sustainability in the region in recent years, but there is an urgent need to accelerate regional sustainable efforts. In response, the Nairobi Convention Secretariat initiated the development of a ‘Toolkit for Sustainable Port Development’. This was rooted in an Integrated Port Management (IPM) framework comprising four key phases: planning, design, construction, and operations. A systematic and incremental approach is recommended for implementation, first adopting the IPM framework and then applying eco-friendly technologies and practices based on place-based priorities to reduce environmental impacts and unacceptable socio-economic consequences. This will contribute significantly to sustainable port development in the WIO region.
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Pub Date : 2024-09-25DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2024.101488
Adelle Thomas , Emily Theokritoff
This review of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) from Small Island Developing States (SIDS) highlights a myriad of adaptation constraints that are identified by island nations, with financial and economic constraints emerging as predominant. While governance constraints are less frequently acknowledged, finance and improved governance are identified as critical enabling conditions for adaptation, underscoring the need for increased financial support to improve adaptation governance mechanisms. Addressing the complex array of adaptation constraints facing SIDS demands urgent action to improve adaptation finance and acknowledge the unique vulnerabilities, disproportionate burdens and climate justice concerns of island nations.
{"title":"Adaptation constraints, limits and enabling conditions in small island developing states","authors":"Adelle Thomas , Emily Theokritoff","doi":"10.1016/j.cosust.2024.101488","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cosust.2024.101488","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This review of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) from Small Island Developing States (SIDS) highlights a myriad of adaptation constraints that are identified by island nations, with financial and economic constraints emerging as predominant. While governance constraints are less frequently acknowledged, finance and improved governance are identified as critical enabling conditions for adaptation, underscoring the need for increased financial support to improve adaptation governance mechanisms. Addressing the complex array of adaptation constraints facing SIDS demands urgent action to improve adaptation finance and acknowledge the unique vulnerabilities, disproportionate burdens and climate justice concerns of island nations.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":294,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"71 ","pages":"Article 101488"},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2024-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142318647","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}
Pub Date : 2024-09-14DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2024.101479
Katrien Termeer, Art Dewulf, Robbert Biesbroek
Choosing successful governance strategies for transformative change toward sustainability is critical. However, the multitude of approaches is overwhelming. This article identifies three underlying key dimensions of transformative change: in depth, system-wide, and quick. We content that these cannot be achieved simultaneously due to trade-offs. This provides the starting point for conceptualizing three more realistic archetypical governance pathways. They all start with strategies representing two of the three dimensions, while the third follows: (1) Big Plans start with deep and system-wide change (e.g. large-scale flood protection), (2) Small Wins with deep and quick change (e.g. community-based conservation), and (3) Rule Changes with system-wide and quick change (e.g. the EU Emissions Trading System). Choices depend on the societal context and governance capabilities.
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