首页 > 最新文献

Frontiers in Sustainable Cities最新文献

英文 中文
Commuters opinion on public transport services in mega cities: the case of Istanbul buses 乘客对特大城市公共交通服务的意见:伊斯坦布尔公交车案例
IF 2.8 Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2023-11-27 DOI: 10.3389/frsc.2023.1291914
Atakan Genç, Khaled Alkhaledi, Sait Sağlam, S. Bendak
Using public transport is an important part of daily routine of many people in large cities and consumes considerable time and financial resources. Enhancing public transport can help in encouraging less use of privately owned motor vehicles and, therefore, in emitting less greenhouse gases. Hence, there is a need to improve public transport and make it more attractive than private motor vehicles. This study aims to assess commuters opinion on several aspects related to using public buses in Istanbul with the ultimate aim of making them more attractive than private motor vehicles. A total of 620 randomly selected bus commuters responded to a questionnaire specially prepared for this purpose. Satisfaction rates with most aspects related to public buses were found to be high. Nevertheless, non-parametric test results revealed that female commuters recorded significantly lower satisfaction rates than male commuters on many aspects related to public buses. Results also revealed that a significant minority of commuters walk for long distances to the nearest bus stop or wait for very long times for the next bus to come. Moreover, results revealed that commuters of older ages and higher income levels recorded significant higher satisfaction rates than others. Results also show that the majority of commuters support increasing bus fees during peak hours in order to minimize crowdedness during these hours. Implications of these results for decision makers in megacities on ways to encourage the use of public buses are discussed at the end.
使用公共交通是大城市中许多人日常生活的重要组成部分,需要耗费大量的时间和财力。加强公共交通有助于鼓励减少私人机动车的使用,从而减少温室气体的排放。因此,有必要改善公共交通,使其比私人机动车更具吸引力。本研究旨在评估乘客对伊斯坦布尔公共巴士使用相关几个方面的意见,最终目的是使公共巴士比私人机动车更具吸引力。共有 620 名随机抽取的公交乘客回答了为此专门准备的调查问卷。调查发现,乘客对公共汽车大多数方面的满意度都很高。然而,非参数检验结果显示,女性乘客对公共巴士许多方面的满意度明显低于男性乘客。结果还显示,有相当一部分乘客要走很远的路才能到达最近的巴士站,或者要等很长时间才能等到下一班巴士。此外,结果显示,年龄较大和收入水平较高的乘客的满意度明显高于其他乘客。结果还显示,大多数乘客支持提高高峰时段的巴士费用,以尽量减少高峰时段的拥挤程度。最后讨论了这些结果对特大城市决策者在鼓励使用公共汽车方面的启示。
{"title":"Commuters opinion on public transport services in mega cities: the case of Istanbul buses","authors":"Atakan Genç, Khaled Alkhaledi, Sait Sağlam, S. Bendak","doi":"10.3389/frsc.2023.1291914","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/frsc.2023.1291914","url":null,"abstract":"Using public transport is an important part of daily routine of many people in large cities and consumes considerable time and financial resources. Enhancing public transport can help in encouraging less use of privately owned motor vehicles and, therefore, in emitting less greenhouse gases. Hence, there is a need to improve public transport and make it more attractive than private motor vehicles. This study aims to assess commuters opinion on several aspects related to using public buses in Istanbul with the ultimate aim of making them more attractive than private motor vehicles. A total of 620 randomly selected bus commuters responded to a questionnaire specially prepared for this purpose. Satisfaction rates with most aspects related to public buses were found to be high. Nevertheless, non-parametric test results revealed that female commuters recorded significantly lower satisfaction rates than male commuters on many aspects related to public buses. Results also revealed that a significant minority of commuters walk for long distances to the nearest bus stop or wait for very long times for the next bus to come. Moreover, results revealed that commuters of older ages and higher income levels recorded significant higher satisfaction rates than others. Results also show that the majority of commuters support increasing bus fees during peak hours in order to minimize crowdedness during these hours. Implications of these results for decision makers in megacities on ways to encourage the use of public buses are discussed at the end.","PeriodicalId":33686,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sustainable Cities","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139234252","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
Holistic wild bee management in urban spaces 城市空间的野生蜜蜂综合管理
IF 2.8 Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2023-11-23 DOI: 10.3389/frsc.2023.1155714
Julie A. Weissmann, Sandra Rader, Rasmus Ritz, Iris R. M. Walldorf, Juliane Probst, Kristin R. Szydlik, Hanno Schaefer
Projects promoting bees in urban areas are initiated in cities around the world but evidence-based conservation concepts at a city-wide scale are scarce. We developed a holistic approach for assessment of bee and flowering plant diversity in a medium-sized city. In addition to standard mapping approaches in bee hotspots, we initiated citizen science projects for participative urban bee research to be able to collect comprehensive bee data across the entire city. We identified 22 hotspots of bee diversity, analyzed connectivity between those hotspots and evaluated the impact of flower patches planted in collaboration with the municipal gardens department as stepping stones for oligolectic bee species throughout the city. Participation by urban citizens in bee identification trainings was high (c. 630 persons) but their subsequent contribution through observation reports was relatively low (1,165 records by 140 observers). However, we identified a total of 139 bee taxa, seven of them only discovered by citizen scientists. Total species richness was higher in extensively managed orchards than in semi-natural and wasteland areas. Half of the stepping stone flower patches were occupied by the target oligolectic bee species in the year of planting. After 3 years, all but two species could be confirmed. We suggest a 5-step concept for bee management in cities: (1) identification of bee hotspots combined with standardized surveys, especially of rare species; (2) training of citizen scientists at two different levels for comprehensive surveys in all parts of the city: (a) half-day introductions to wild bee diversity, ecology and conservation in order to create more awareness and (b) 2-weeks workshops for in-depth training of a small number of dedicated citizen scientists; (3) extensive management of existing habitats and special conservation programs for very rare species; (4) creation of high-value habitats which take into account the varied resource needs of bees within flight ranges of only a few hundred meters; (5) creation of stepping stone habitats as floral and nesting resources, integrating educative and participative aspects.
世界各地的城市都启动了在城市地区推广蜜蜂的项目,但在整个城市范围内以证据为基础的保护理念却很少见。我们开发了一种整体方法,用于评估一个中等城市的蜜蜂和开花植物多样性。除了蜜蜂热点地区的标准绘图方法外,我们还启动了公民科学项目,开展参与式城市蜜蜂研究,以便能够收集整个城市的蜜蜂综合数据。我们确定了 22 个蜜蜂多样性热点地区,分析了这些热点地区之间的连接性,并评估了与市政园林部门合作种植的花卉补丁作为整个城市中寡选蜜蜂物种的踏脚石所产生的影响。参加蜜蜂识别培训的城市居民人数较多(约 630 人),但他们随后通过观察报告提供的信息相对较少(140 名观察者提供了 1,165 条记录)。不过,我们共鉴定出 139 个蜜蜂类群,其中 7 个类群是市民科学家才发现的。在广泛管理的果园中,物种总丰富度高于半自然和荒地地区。在种植当年,有一半的台阶石花卉区被目标蜜蜂物种占据。3 年后,除两个物种外,其他所有物种均可确认。我们提出了城市蜜蜂管理的五步概念:(1)确定蜜蜂热点地区,并结合标准化调查,特别是稀有物种;(2)培训两个不同层次的公民科学家,以便在城市所有地区进行全面调查:(a) 为期半天的关于野生蜜蜂多样性、生态学和保护的介绍,以提高人们的认识;(b) 为期两周的讲习班,对少数热心的公民科学家进行深入培训;(3) 对现有栖息地进行广泛管理,对非常稀有的物种实施特别保护计划;(4) 建立高价值栖息地,考虑到蜜蜂在几百米的飞行范围内对各种资源的需求;(5) 建立阶梯式栖息地,作为花卉和巢穴资源,将教育和参与方面结合起来。
{"title":"Holistic wild bee management in urban spaces","authors":"Julie A. Weissmann, Sandra Rader, Rasmus Ritz, Iris R. M. Walldorf, Juliane Probst, Kristin R. Szydlik, Hanno Schaefer","doi":"10.3389/frsc.2023.1155714","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/frsc.2023.1155714","url":null,"abstract":"Projects promoting bees in urban areas are initiated in cities around the world but evidence-based conservation concepts at a city-wide scale are scarce. We developed a holistic approach for assessment of bee and flowering plant diversity in a medium-sized city. In addition to standard mapping approaches in bee hotspots, we initiated citizen science projects for participative urban bee research to be able to collect comprehensive bee data across the entire city. We identified 22 hotspots of bee diversity, analyzed connectivity between those hotspots and evaluated the impact of flower patches planted in collaboration with the municipal gardens department as stepping stones for oligolectic bee species throughout the city. Participation by urban citizens in bee identification trainings was high (c. 630 persons) but their subsequent contribution through observation reports was relatively low (1,165 records by 140 observers). However, we identified a total of 139 bee taxa, seven of them only discovered by citizen scientists. Total species richness was higher in extensively managed orchards than in semi-natural and wasteland areas. Half of the stepping stone flower patches were occupied by the target oligolectic bee species in the year of planting. After 3 years, all but two species could be confirmed. We suggest a 5-step concept for bee management in cities: (1) identification of bee hotspots combined with standardized surveys, especially of rare species; (2) training of citizen scientists at two different levels for comprehensive surveys in all parts of the city: (a) half-day introductions to wild bee diversity, ecology and conservation in order to create more awareness and (b) 2-weeks workshops for in-depth training of a small number of dedicated citizen scientists; (3) extensive management of existing habitats and special conservation programs for very rare species; (4) creation of high-value habitats which take into account the varied resource needs of bees within flight ranges of only a few hundred meters; (5) creation of stepping stone habitats as floral and nesting resources, integrating educative and participative aspects.","PeriodicalId":33686,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sustainable Cities","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139244193","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
Trading off sustainable development in Canadian cities: theoretical implications of SDG 11 indicator aggregation approaches 权衡加拿大城市的可持续发展:可持续发展目标11指标汇总方法的理论含义
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2023-11-09 DOI: 10.3389/frsc.2023.1264710
Muhammad Adil Rauf, Cameron McCordic, James Sgro, Bruce Frayne, Jeffrey Wilson
Sustainable Urban Development requires an optimization of multi-dimensional targets across social, economic, and environmental pillars of development. These multi-dimensional targets are largely captured by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, which comprise 17 goals spread across pillars of sustainable development. The pursuit of these targets, however, often exposes synergies and trade-offs between the goals. Broader discussions of trade-offs between human and natural capital have been conceptualized along the contours of weak versus strong conceptualizations of sustainable development. This challenge is exposed not only in strategizing sustainable urban development but also in measuring progress toward that aim. With this background in mind, there is limited research to indicate how Canadian cities are progressing toward the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals and the extent to which trade-offs in SDG performance should be treated. This investigation collected indicators for SDG 11, Sustainable Cities and Communities, on 18 Census Metropolitan Areas in Canada for the purpose of designing an index of SDG achievement. The resulting index aggregation measures compared performance depending on whether the CMAs were allowed to trade-off performance across the SDG 11 indicators. The results expose the significant role of non-compensatory aggregation methods (which do not allow the trade-off of performance) when measuring sustainable development. The implications of these findings demonstrate the need to consider policy pathways that address these trade-offs and consider how that progress is measured.
可持续城市发展需要优化社会、经济和环境发展支柱的多维目标。这些多维目标在很大程度上体现在联合国可持续发展目标中,该目标由17个目标组成,分布在可持续发展的各个支柱上。然而,追求这些目标往往暴露出目标之间的协同作用和权衡。关于人力资本和自然资本之间权衡的更广泛讨论已沿着可持续发展的弱与强概念化的轮廓概念化。这一挑战不仅体现在制定可持续城市发展战略方面,也体现在衡量实现这一目标的进展方面。考虑到这一背景,关于加拿大城市如何朝着实现可持续发展目标的方向前进以及可持续发展目标绩效的权衡应该在多大程度上得到处理的研究有限。本次调查收集了可持续发展目标11,可持续城市和社区的指标,在加拿大的18个人口普查大都市区,目的是设计一个可持续发展目标实现指数。由此产生的指数汇总指标根据cma是否被允许在可持续发展目标11指标之间权衡绩效来比较绩效。结果揭示了非补偿性汇总方法(不允许绩效权衡)在衡量可持续发展时的重要作用。这些发现的含义表明,需要考虑解决这些权衡的政策途径,并考虑如何衡量这些进展。
{"title":"Trading off sustainable development in Canadian cities: theoretical implications of SDG 11 indicator aggregation approaches","authors":"Muhammad Adil Rauf, Cameron McCordic, James Sgro, Bruce Frayne, Jeffrey Wilson","doi":"10.3389/frsc.2023.1264710","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/frsc.2023.1264710","url":null,"abstract":"Sustainable Urban Development requires an optimization of multi-dimensional targets across social, economic, and environmental pillars of development. These multi-dimensional targets are largely captured by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, which comprise 17 goals spread across pillars of sustainable development. The pursuit of these targets, however, often exposes synergies and trade-offs between the goals. Broader discussions of trade-offs between human and natural capital have been conceptualized along the contours of weak versus strong conceptualizations of sustainable development. This challenge is exposed not only in strategizing sustainable urban development but also in measuring progress toward that aim. With this background in mind, there is limited research to indicate how Canadian cities are progressing toward the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals and the extent to which trade-offs in SDG performance should be treated. This investigation collected indicators for SDG 11, Sustainable Cities and Communities, on 18 Census Metropolitan Areas in Canada for the purpose of designing an index of SDG achievement. The resulting index aggregation measures compared performance depending on whether the CMAs were allowed to trade-off performance across the SDG 11 indicators. The results expose the significant role of non-compensatory aggregation methods (which do not allow the trade-off of performance) when measuring sustainable development. The implications of these findings demonstrate the need to consider policy pathways that address these trade-offs and consider how that progress is measured.","PeriodicalId":33686,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sustainable Cities","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135292671","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
From social engineering to neoliberal governance, and then what? Mapping a sustainability shift in urban planning in a medium-sized Swedish city 从社会工程到新自由主义治理,然后呢?绘制瑞典一个中型城市城市规划的可持续性转变
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2023-11-09 DOI: 10.3389/frsc.2023.1273972
Ida Sjöberg
Introduction This paper focuses on how a (assumed) entrepreneurial shift in urban planning and development has been implemented in a medium-sized city in northern Sweden, and how sustainability-as in sustainable urban development-can be argued to be a second shift in urban planning and development or represents an alternative form of neoliberal governance. Method To explore how and when urban entrepreneurialism and sustainability are interlinked, as well as when they are not, urban policy documents from 1988, 2007 and 2016 focusing on the development of Sundsvall city center has been examined using thematic content analysis. Results The result shows that the 1988 document is significantly influenced by social democratic welfare politics, with prioritizing social bonds and the Sundsvall resident being the focus, while the newer documents emphasize visitors, potential residents and architectural design to promote the flow of people, money and goods. In this sustainability is put forward as a mobilizing metaphor, and serves to conceal the potential paradoxes of the priorities of the strategy, which involve the contradictions between economic, environmental and social values. Discussion Consequently, it is possible to claim that sustainability, as a concept, has acquired a new function: to disguise the less palatable consequences of growth by evoking sustainability as a guarantee of the strategy's quality.
本文关注的是瑞典北部一个中型城市在城市规划和发展方面的(假设的)企业家转变是如何实施的,以及可持续城市发展中的可持续性如何被认为是城市规划和发展的第二次转变,或者代表了新自由主义治理的另一种形式。方法采用主题内容分析的方法,对1988年、2007年和2016年有关松德斯瓦尔市中心发展的城市政策文件进行分析,探讨城市创业精神与可持续性之间的相互关系,以及何时相互关系。结果1988年的文件受到社会民主福利政治的显著影响,优先考虑社会纽带和松兹瓦尔居民,而较新的文件强调游客、潜在居民和建筑设计,以促进人员、资金和货物的流动。在这种情况下,可持续性被提出作为一个动员隐喻,并用于掩盖战略优先事项的潜在悖论,其中涉及经济,环境和社会价值之间的矛盾。因此,有可能声称可持续性作为一个概念已经获得了一种新的功能:通过唤起可持续性作为战略质量的保证来掩盖增长的不那么令人愉快的后果。
{"title":"From social engineering to neoliberal governance, and then what? Mapping a sustainability shift in urban planning in a medium-sized Swedish city","authors":"Ida Sjöberg","doi":"10.3389/frsc.2023.1273972","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/frsc.2023.1273972","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction This paper focuses on how a (assumed) entrepreneurial shift in urban planning and development has been implemented in a medium-sized city in northern Sweden, and how sustainability-as in sustainable urban development-can be argued to be a second shift in urban planning and development or represents an alternative form of neoliberal governance. Method To explore how and when urban entrepreneurialism and sustainability are interlinked, as well as when they are not, urban policy documents from 1988, 2007 and 2016 focusing on the development of Sundsvall city center has been examined using thematic content analysis. Results The result shows that the 1988 document is significantly influenced by social democratic welfare politics, with prioritizing social bonds and the Sundsvall resident being the focus, while the newer documents emphasize visitors, potential residents and architectural design to promote the flow of people, money and goods. In this sustainability is put forward as a mobilizing metaphor, and serves to conceal the potential paradoxes of the priorities of the strategy, which involve the contradictions between economic, environmental and social values. Discussion Consequently, it is possible to claim that sustainability, as a concept, has acquired a new function: to disguise the less palatable consequences of growth by evoking sustainability as a guarantee of the strategy's quality.","PeriodicalId":33686,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sustainable Cities","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135291938","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
Broad Brush Surveys: a rapid qualitative assessment approach for water and sanitation infrastructure in urban sub-Saharan cities 大刷式调查:撒哈拉以南城市水和卫生基础设施的快速定性评估方法
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2023-11-08 DOI: 10.3389/frsc.2023.1185747
Melissa Nel, Melvin Simuyaba, Justina Muchelenje, Taonga Chirwa, Musonda Simwinga, Vanessa Speight, Zenzile Mhlanga, Heinz Jacobs, Nicole Nel, Janet Seeley, Erastus Mwanaumo, Lario Viljoen, Graeme Hoddinott, Virginia Bond
Introduction Broad Brush Surveys (BBS) are a rapid, qualitative assessment approach using four meta-indicators -physical features, social organization, social networks and community narratives - to gauge how local context interfaces with service/intervention options, implementation and uptake. Methods In 2021, responding to rapid urbanization and the accompanying need for water and sanitation services, BBS was innovatively applied by social scientists and engineers to assess water and sanitation infrastructure, both formal and informal, in two African cities - Lusaka and Cape Town. In four urban communities, identified with local stakeholders, BBS data collection included: four mapping group discussions with local stakeholders (participants = 24); eight transect walks/drives; 60 structured observations of water and sanitation options, transport depots, health facilities, weekends, nights, rainy days; seven mixed gender focus group discussions (FGDs) with older and young residents (participants = 86); 21 key-informant interviews (KII, participants = 21). Results Findings were rapidly summarized into community profiles, including narrative reports, maps and posters, and first discussed with community stakeholders, then at national/provincial levels. The meta-indicator framework and set sequence of qualitative activities allowed the detail on water and sanitation to gradually emerge. For example, the mapping discussion identified water sources considered a risk for waterborne infections, further observed in the transect walks and then structured observations, which compared their relative condition and social interactions and what local residents narrated about them. FGDs and KIIs elaborated on the control of these sources, with nuanced detail, including hidden sources and the use of different water sources for different activities also emerging. Discussion We demonstrated that despite some limitations, BBS provided useful insight to systems and social processes surrounding formal and informal water and sanitation infrastructure in and across designated urban areas. Furthermore, BBS had the potential to galvanize local action to improve infrastructure, and illuminated the value of informal options in service delivery.
概略式调查(BBS)是一种快速的定性评估方法,使用四个元指标——物理特征、社会组织、社会网络和社区叙述——来衡量当地环境如何与服务/干预方案、实施和吸收相结合。2021年,为了应对快速城市化以及随之而来的对水和卫生服务的需求,社会科学家和工程师创新性地将BBS应用于两个非洲城市卢萨卡和开普敦的正式和非正式水和卫生基础设施评估。在四个与当地利益相关者认同的城市社区,BBS数据收集包括:与当地利益相关者进行四次绘图小组讨论(参与者= 24);8条横断面步行/开车;60次对供水和卫生选择、运输仓库、保健设施、周末、夜间、雨天进行有组织的观察;与老年和年轻居民进行的7次混合性别焦点小组讨论(参与者= 86);21个关键信息提供者访谈(KII,参与者= 21)。研究结果被迅速总结为社区概况,包括叙述性报告、地图和海报,并首先与社区利益相关者进行讨论,然后在国家/省一级进行讨论。元指标框架和定性活动的既定顺序使水和卫生的细节逐渐显现出来。例如,绘图讨论确定了被认为有水传播感染风险的水源,在样带步行中进一步观察,然后进行结构化观察,比较它们的相对状况和社会互动以及当地居民对它们的叙述。FGDs和kii详细阐述了对这些水源的控制,其中包括隐藏的水源以及不同活动使用不同水源的细节。我们证明,尽管存在一些局限性,BBS为在指定的城市地区和整个地区围绕正式和非正式的水和卫生基础设施的系统和社会过程提供了有用的见解。此外,论坛有可能激励地方采取行动改善基础设施,并阐明非正式选择在提供服务方面的价值。
{"title":"Broad Brush Surveys: a rapid qualitative assessment approach for water and sanitation infrastructure in urban sub-Saharan cities","authors":"Melissa Nel, Melvin Simuyaba, Justina Muchelenje, Taonga Chirwa, Musonda Simwinga, Vanessa Speight, Zenzile Mhlanga, Heinz Jacobs, Nicole Nel, Janet Seeley, Erastus Mwanaumo, Lario Viljoen, Graeme Hoddinott, Virginia Bond","doi":"10.3389/frsc.2023.1185747","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/frsc.2023.1185747","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction Broad Brush Surveys (BBS) are a rapid, qualitative assessment approach using four meta-indicators -physical features, social organization, social networks and community narratives - to gauge how local context interfaces with service/intervention options, implementation and uptake. Methods In 2021, responding to rapid urbanization and the accompanying need for water and sanitation services, BBS was innovatively applied by social scientists and engineers to assess water and sanitation infrastructure, both formal and informal, in two African cities - Lusaka and Cape Town. In four urban communities, identified with local stakeholders, BBS data collection included: four mapping group discussions with local stakeholders (participants = 24); eight transect walks/drives; 60 structured observations of water and sanitation options, transport depots, health facilities, weekends, nights, rainy days; seven mixed gender focus group discussions (FGDs) with older and young residents (participants = 86); 21 key-informant interviews (KII, participants = 21). Results Findings were rapidly summarized into community profiles, including narrative reports, maps and posters, and first discussed with community stakeholders, then at national/provincial levels. The meta-indicator framework and set sequence of qualitative activities allowed the detail on water and sanitation to gradually emerge. For example, the mapping discussion identified water sources considered a risk for waterborne infections, further observed in the transect walks and then structured observations, which compared their relative condition and social interactions and what local residents narrated about them. FGDs and KIIs elaborated on the control of these sources, with nuanced detail, including hidden sources and the use of different water sources for different activities also emerging. Discussion We demonstrated that despite some limitations, BBS provided useful insight to systems and social processes surrounding formal and informal water and sanitation infrastructure in and across designated urban areas. Furthermore, BBS had the potential to galvanize local action to improve infrastructure, and illuminated the value of informal options in service delivery.","PeriodicalId":33686,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sustainable Cities","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135393000","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
Change in urban forest age structure affects the value of ecosystem services provided 城市森林年龄结构的变化影响生态系统服务的价值
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2023-11-07 DOI: 10.3389/frsc.2023.1265610
Miia M. Mänttäri, Leena Lindén, Eeva-Maria Tuhkanen
To achieve resilience goals, urban planners and decision-makers need accurate information on the benefits provided by urban trees and on the effects that management may have on them. This study investigates the impacts of management and disturbances on urban forest structure and function in Turku, Finland. Using a comprehensive urban tree database and the i-Tree software suite, we assessed the current structure and estimated the value of ecosystem services provided by Turku's urban forest. Additionally, we simulated changes in the urban forest over a 50-year period, considering different tree planting scenarios and the potential outbreak of the Asian longhorned beetle (ALB). Turku's urban forest comprised 38,438 public trees, dominated by Acer platanoides, Pinus sylvestris, Tilia × europaea, and Betula pendula. The estimated carbon storage was 12,336 t, valued at 1.98 million €, with an annual sequestration rate of 284 t (45,549 €/year). The trees also removed 8.97 t of pollutants annually, with an estimated value of 153,273 €. At the current rate of tree planting, the number of trees would decline over the course of 50 years resulting in a gradual decrease in the provision of ecosystem services. Although doubling the tree planting rate could slowly increase carbon storage and sequestration even under moderate ALB attack, it was insufficient to offset the damage caused by ALB if tree mortality rate reaches 50%. Compared to carbon storage and sequestration, changes in urban forest age structure had a more immediate impact on the removal of air pollution. These findings emphasize the importance of prioritizing investments in urban forests on grounds of their capacity to provide diverse ecosystem services. Incorporating these findings into decision-making processes would promote sustainable and resilient urban environments.
为了实现恢复力目标,城市规划者和决策者需要关于城市树木提供的效益以及管理可能对其产生的影响的准确信息。本研究探讨了管理和干扰对芬兰图尔库城市森林结构和功能的影响。利用综合的城市树木数据库和i-Tree软件,我们评估了图尔库城市森林的现有结构,并估计了城市森林提供的生态系统服务价值。此外,我们还模拟了50年期间城市森林的变化,考虑了不同的植树方案和亚洲长角甲虫(ALB)的潜在爆发。图尔库城市森林共有公共树木38438棵,以平槭、西洋松、木犀、白桦为主。估计碳储量为12,336吨,价值198万欧元,年固碳率为284吨(45,549欧元/年)。这些树木每年还清除了8.97吨污染物,估计价值为153,273欧元。按照目前的植树速度,树木的数量将在50年内减少,从而导致提供的生态系统服务逐渐减少。即使在白桦桦中度侵袭的情况下,将植树率提高一倍也能缓慢增加碳的储存和固存,但当树木死亡率达到50%时,仍不足以抵消白桦桦桦造成的损害。与碳储存和固碳相比,城市森林年龄结构的变化对空气污染的清除具有更直接的影响。这些发现强调了优先投资城市森林的重要性,因为它们有能力提供多样化的生态系统服务。将这些发现纳入决策过程将促进可持续和有弹性的城市环境。
{"title":"Change in urban forest age structure affects the value of ecosystem services provided","authors":"Miia M. Mänttäri, Leena Lindén, Eeva-Maria Tuhkanen","doi":"10.3389/frsc.2023.1265610","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/frsc.2023.1265610","url":null,"abstract":"To achieve resilience goals, urban planners and decision-makers need accurate information on the benefits provided by urban trees and on the effects that management may have on them. This study investigates the impacts of management and disturbances on urban forest structure and function in Turku, Finland. Using a comprehensive urban tree database and the i-Tree software suite, we assessed the current structure and estimated the value of ecosystem services provided by Turku's urban forest. Additionally, we simulated changes in the urban forest over a 50-year period, considering different tree planting scenarios and the potential outbreak of the Asian longhorned beetle (ALB). Turku's urban forest comprised 38,438 public trees, dominated by Acer platanoides, Pinus sylvestris, Tilia × europaea, and Betula pendula. The estimated carbon storage was 12,336 t, valued at 1.98 million €, with an annual sequestration rate of 284 t (45,549 €/year). The trees also removed 8.97 t of pollutants annually, with an estimated value of 153,273 €. At the current rate of tree planting, the number of trees would decline over the course of 50 years resulting in a gradual decrease in the provision of ecosystem services. Although doubling the tree planting rate could slowly increase carbon storage and sequestration even under moderate ALB attack, it was insufficient to offset the damage caused by ALB if tree mortality rate reaches 50%. Compared to carbon storage and sequestration, changes in urban forest age structure had a more immediate impact on the removal of air pollution. These findings emphasize the importance of prioritizing investments in urban forests on grounds of their capacity to provide diverse ecosystem services. Incorporating these findings into decision-making processes would promote sustainable and resilient urban environments.","PeriodicalId":33686,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sustainable Cities","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135476454","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
Building upcycling or building reconstruction? The ‘Global Benefit’ perspective to support investment decisions for sustainable cities 楼宇升级再造或楼宇重建?支持可持续城市投资决策的“全球效益”视角
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2023-11-03 DOI: 10.3389/frsc.2023.1282748
Elena Fregonara
Investment decisions on demolition and reconstruction vs. refurbishment of the existing building stock can extend beyond financial and economic criteria. However, they must involve energy savings, environmental preservation, material consumption, and waste management for sustainable cities. The regulatory framework used in the past decades and the correlated research seem more unbalanced toward the containment of building energy consumption than toward embodied energy (EE) management in production processes and environmental impact management. Foreshadowing the perspective of a more restrictive regulatory framework on EE, such as prohibiting the displacement of materials with residual energy potential, such as waste in landfills, some challenging frontier issues are involved when facing the limits of the economic evaluation methodologies for transformation projects. Thus, this study aimed to propose a reasoning and an operative modality to support urban governance policies and investment decisions involving private and public subjects in the construction sector. Circular economy and life cycle thinking principles, through life cycle costing (LCC) and life cycle assessment (LCA), are assumed and harmonized with the discounted cash-flow analysis (DCFA): (1) monetizing and modeling into the DCFA the EE and the embodied carbon (EC); (2) internalizing the Global Cost and the new ‘Global Benefit’ into the net present value (NPV) calculation; and (3) focusing on the residual end-of-life value calculation from the early design and investment decision stages. The reasoning can be extended to single buildings, the urban scale, or even entire portions of existing buildings in urban areas concerning typological sub-segments. The operative modality is yet to be explored in a concrete application for orienting urban governance policies and sustainable public–private partnerships, including environmental and, thus, social externalities even in the private real estate investment decision process, in the scope of evolving regulations.
关于拆除和重建与翻新现有建筑存量的投资决策可以超越金融和经济标准。然而,它们必须涉及能源节约、环境保护、材料消耗和可持续城市的废物管理。过去几十年使用的监管框架和相关研究似乎更倾向于遏制建筑能耗,而不是生产过程中的体现能源管理和环境影响管理。在面对改造项目经济评估方法的局限性时,涉及到一些具有挑战性的前沿问题,这预示着对电子电气更严格的监管框架的前景,例如禁止转移具有剩余能源潜力的材料,例如垃圾填埋场的废物。因此,本研究旨在提出一种推理和操作模式,以支持城市治理政策和投资决策,涉及建筑部门的私人和公共主体。循环经济和生命周期思维原则,通过生命周期成本(LCC)和生命周期评估(LCA),假设和协调贴现现金流分析(DCFA):(1)货币化和建模到DCFA的EE和隐含碳(EC);(2)将全球成本和新的“全球效益”内部化到净现值(NPV)计算中;(3)侧重于从早期设计和投资决策阶段计算剩余终寿命价值。推理可以扩展到单个建筑,城市规模,甚至是城市地区现有建筑的整个部分,涉及类型学子段。在具体应用城市管理政策和可持续的公私伙伴关系,包括甚至在私人房地产投资决策过程中的环境和因此的社会外部性,以及在不断变化的规章范围内,还有待探索这种运作方式。
{"title":"Building upcycling or building reconstruction? The ‘Global Benefit’ perspective to support investment decisions for sustainable cities","authors":"Elena Fregonara","doi":"10.3389/frsc.2023.1282748","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/frsc.2023.1282748","url":null,"abstract":"Investment decisions on demolition and reconstruction vs. refurbishment of the existing building stock can extend beyond financial and economic criteria. However, they must involve energy savings, environmental preservation, material consumption, and waste management for sustainable cities. The regulatory framework used in the past decades and the correlated research seem more unbalanced toward the containment of building energy consumption than toward embodied energy (EE) management in production processes and environmental impact management. Foreshadowing the perspective of a more restrictive regulatory framework on EE, such as prohibiting the displacement of materials with residual energy potential, such as waste in landfills, some challenging frontier issues are involved when facing the limits of the economic evaluation methodologies for transformation projects. Thus, this study aimed to propose a reasoning and an operative modality to support urban governance policies and investment decisions involving private and public subjects in the construction sector. Circular economy and life cycle thinking principles, through life cycle costing (LCC) and life cycle assessment (LCA), are assumed and harmonized with the discounted cash-flow analysis (DCFA): (1) monetizing and modeling into the DCFA the EE and the embodied carbon (EC); (2) internalizing the Global Cost and the new ‘Global Benefit’ into the net present value (NPV) calculation; and (3) focusing on the residual end-of-life value calculation from the early design and investment decision stages. The reasoning can be extended to single buildings, the urban scale, or even entire portions of existing buildings in urban areas concerning typological sub-segments. The operative modality is yet to be explored in a concrete application for orienting urban governance policies and sustainable public–private partnerships, including environmental and, thus, social externalities even in the private real estate investment decision process, in the scope of evolving regulations.","PeriodicalId":33686,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sustainable Cities","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135868393","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
Balance on social inclusion and environmental justice at the end of the 30 years of the drinking water service concession in the city of Aguascalientes, Mexico 墨西哥阿瓜斯卡连特斯市30年的饮用水服务特许经营权结束时社会包容和环境正义的平衡
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2023-11-03 DOI: 10.3389/frsc.2023.1177179
Alex Ricardo Caldera Ortega, Daniel Tagle Zamora
After three decades since the concession for drinking water and sewerage services was granted to a private company, which eventually became part of the Veolia group in the city of Aguascalientes, Mexico, it is necessary to assess the situation. The local government chose not to renew the contract and, furthermore, opted to remunicipalize the system and its management. This document provides an evaluation from the perspective of political ecology, which focuses on two dimensions: social inclusion and environmental justice. The primary outcomes are within the framework of water commodification, where the service operation primarily views users as customers who must pay their fees promptly, while the city’s growth is seen as a business opportunity. The logic of market environmentalism also restricts the exploration of options to secure water resources for the region’s future. Currently, there is a failure to address the substantial overexploitation of groundwater sources that the drinking water service relies upon, which jeopardizes both the population’s fundamental right to water and the city’s sustainability. The case of Aguascalientes, Mexico, is significant because it represents not only the initial foray into private company involvement in providing drinking water services in this country but also stands as the first instance where the contractual term concluded. Consequently, local authorities opted for remunicipalizing the service to be administered by a public organization.
30年前,饮用水和污水处理服务特许权被授予一家私营公司,该公司最终成为墨西哥阿瓜斯卡连特斯市威立雅集团的一部分。现在,有必要对形势进行评估。当地政府选择不再续签合同,并进一步选择将该系统及其管理公有化。本文从政治生态学的角度进行了评估,重点关注两个维度:社会包容和环境正义。主要结果是在水商品化的框架内,服务运营主要将用户视为必须及时支付费用的客户,而城市的增长则被视为商机。市场环境保护主义的逻辑也限制了为该地区未来保护水资源的各种选择的探索。目前,饮用水服务所依赖的地下水资源严重过度开采的问题未能得到解决,这既危害了人口用水的基本权利,也危害了城市的可持续性。墨西哥阿瓜斯卡连特斯的案例意义重大,因为它不仅代表了私营公司参与该国提供饮用水服务的首次尝试,而且也是合同条款达成的第一个实例。因此,地方当局选择将这项服务公有化,由一个公共组织管理。
{"title":"Balance on social inclusion and environmental justice at the end of the 30 years of the drinking water service concession in the city of Aguascalientes, Mexico","authors":"Alex Ricardo Caldera Ortega, Daniel Tagle Zamora","doi":"10.3389/frsc.2023.1177179","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/frsc.2023.1177179","url":null,"abstract":"After three decades since the concession for drinking water and sewerage services was granted to a private company, which eventually became part of the Veolia group in the city of Aguascalientes, Mexico, it is necessary to assess the situation. The local government chose not to renew the contract and, furthermore, opted to remunicipalize the system and its management. This document provides an evaluation from the perspective of political ecology, which focuses on two dimensions: social inclusion and environmental justice. The primary outcomes are within the framework of water commodification, where the service operation primarily views users as customers who must pay their fees promptly, while the city’s growth is seen as a business opportunity. The logic of market environmentalism also restricts the exploration of options to secure water resources for the region’s future. Currently, there is a failure to address the substantial overexploitation of groundwater sources that the drinking water service relies upon, which jeopardizes both the population’s fundamental right to water and the city’s sustainability. The case of Aguascalientes, Mexico, is significant because it represents not only the initial foray into private company involvement in providing drinking water services in this country but also stands as the first instance where the contractual term concluded. Consequently, local authorities opted for remunicipalizing the service to be administered by a public organization.","PeriodicalId":33686,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sustainable Cities","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135821470","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
Longevity of rain gardens in Minnesota (US) as a stormwater solution: a question of homeowner motivation and satisfaction 美国明尼苏达州雨水花园作为雨水解决方案的寿命:房主动机和满意度的问题
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2023-11-03 DOI: 10.3389/frsc.2023.1277066
Linda B. Jahnke, Michael R. Barnes
Rain gardens are gardens with a specific purpose. Designed as a shallow depression that captures stormwater runoff from impervious surfaces, rain gardens are planted with deep-rooted, wet/dry-cycle tolerant plants that enable the water to slowly permeate and be filtered by the soil. They are used as stormwater best management practices by municipalities and organizations as part of their overall plans to meet water quality goals as mandated by the United States (US) Clean Water Act. City and watershed administrators are counting on these rain gardens to be durable, effective solutions for managing stormwater runoff. But when the rain gardens are installed in the yards of privately owned homes, control of these solutions lands on the homeowners' shoulders. How effective are the rain gardens years after installation? How do the social factors of motivation and satisfaction relate to the longevity of the rain gardens? The objective of this case study was to determine the perceived performance of residential rain gardens as well as homeowner motivation and satisfaction with them over time. Data was collected via an email survey from homeowners located in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, MN, US that had installed a rain garden. Key findings include (1) almost all rain gardens performed effectively, though some were not seen as successful, (2) motivations for installing rain gardens differ widely for successful vs. challenged gardens and (3) satisfaction with the rain gardens decreases over time.
雨花园是有特定用途的花园。雨水花园被设计成一个浅浅的洼地,从不透水的表面收集雨水径流,雨水花园种植了深根、耐湿/干循环的植物,使水能够缓慢渗透并被土壤过滤。它们被市政当局和组织用作雨水最佳管理实践,作为其总体计划的一部分,以实现美国《清洁水法》规定的水质目标。城市和流域管理者指望这些雨水花园成为管理雨水径流的持久、有效的解决方案。但是,当雨水花园被安装在私人住宅的院子里时,控制这些解决方案就落在了房主的肩上。雨水花园安装几年后效果如何?动机和满意度的社会因素如何与雨花园的寿命相关?本案例研究的目的是确定住宅雨水花园的感知性能,以及业主的动机和满意度。数据是通过电子邮件调查收集的,调查对象是位于美国明尼苏达州明尼阿波利斯和圣保罗双城的房主,他们安装了一个雨水花园。主要发现包括:(1)几乎所有的雨水花园都有效运行,尽管有些并不被视为成功;(2)安装雨水花园的动机在成功和挑战的花园之间差异很大;(3)对雨水花园的满意度随着时间的推移而降低。
{"title":"Longevity of rain gardens in Minnesota (US) as a stormwater solution: a question of homeowner motivation and satisfaction","authors":"Linda B. Jahnke, Michael R. Barnes","doi":"10.3389/frsc.2023.1277066","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/frsc.2023.1277066","url":null,"abstract":"Rain gardens are gardens with a specific purpose. Designed as a shallow depression that captures stormwater runoff from impervious surfaces, rain gardens are planted with deep-rooted, wet/dry-cycle tolerant plants that enable the water to slowly permeate and be filtered by the soil. They are used as stormwater best management practices by municipalities and organizations as part of their overall plans to meet water quality goals as mandated by the United States (US) Clean Water Act. City and watershed administrators are counting on these rain gardens to be durable, effective solutions for managing stormwater runoff. But when the rain gardens are installed in the yards of privately owned homes, control of these solutions lands on the homeowners' shoulders. How effective are the rain gardens years after installation? How do the social factors of motivation and satisfaction relate to the longevity of the rain gardens? The objective of this case study was to determine the perceived performance of residential rain gardens as well as homeowner motivation and satisfaction with them over time. Data was collected via an email survey from homeowners located in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, MN, US that had installed a rain garden. Key findings include (1) almost all rain gardens performed effectively, though some were not seen as successful, (2) motivations for installing rain gardens differ widely for successful vs. challenged gardens and (3) satisfaction with the rain gardens decreases over time.","PeriodicalId":33686,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sustainable Cities","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135820614","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
Some like it complex: building a common multidisciplinarity background from local experiences within the South-Mediterranean environmental research communities 有些人认为它很复杂:从南地中海环境研究界的当地经验中建立一个共同的多学科背景
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2023-11-02 DOI: 10.3389/frsc.2023.1152244
Mehdi Saqalli, H. Chakroun, G. Mahé, Carla Khater, Laurent Drapeau, J. Feniamos, Sébastien Cartier, Z.-L. Chaabane, Jean Luc Probst, M. Saenz
This article addresses the difficulty of introducing and establishing multidisciplinarity in environmental research within and among the South-Mediterranean environmental research national communities. Moreover, this work attends to assess the internal and external structural factors treating such complex issues in rural, urban, and peri-urban contexts as well as the connections and dependencies of these factors. Throughout a series of programs, projects, and actions that involved scientists and scholars from Algeria, France, Lebanon, Morocco, and Tunisia, some common patterns can be observed despite notable differences in environmental and political contexts. Thus, the main common issues involve funding matters (budget reductions and less versatility), administrative and social hierarchy, relatively small connections with public services and community representatives, and finally the reluctance shown by many researchers to make data available for the community. Nevertheless, the fact that national and international (Arabic and French speaking sphere) researcher's communities have progressively built mutual knowledge thanks to different collaborations is a major achievement, sustaining multidisciplinarity in environmental research. Indeed, this allowed the elaboration of sustainability metrics, demarches, and procedures for assessing environmentally and socioeconomically complex issues.
本文讨论了在南地中海环境研究国家团体内部和之间引入和建立多学科环境研究的困难。此外,本工作旨在评估在农村、城市和城郊环境中处理此类复杂问题的内部和外部结构因素,以及这些因素之间的联系和依赖关系。在阿尔及利亚、法国、黎巴嫩、摩洛哥和突尼斯的科学家和学者参与的一系列计划、项目和行动中,尽管环境和政治背景存在显著差异,但仍可以观察到一些共同的模式。因此,主要的共同问题包括经费问题(预算减少和多样性减少)、行政和社会等级制度、与公共服务和社区代表的联系相对较少、以及许多研究人员不愿向社区提供数据。然而,由于不同的合作,国家和国际(阿拉伯语和法语领域)研究人员社区已经逐步建立了相互知识,这是一项重大成就,维持了环境研究的多学科性。事实上,这使得可持续性指标、准则和评估环境和社会经济复杂问题的程序得以细化。
{"title":"Some like it complex: building a common multidisciplinarity background from local experiences within the South-Mediterranean environmental research communities","authors":"Mehdi Saqalli, H. Chakroun, G. Mahé, Carla Khater, Laurent Drapeau, J. Feniamos, Sébastien Cartier, Z.-L. Chaabane, Jean Luc Probst, M. Saenz","doi":"10.3389/frsc.2023.1152244","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/frsc.2023.1152244","url":null,"abstract":"This article addresses the difficulty of introducing and establishing multidisciplinarity in environmental research within and among the South-Mediterranean environmental research national communities. Moreover, this work attends to assess the internal and external structural factors treating such complex issues in rural, urban, and peri-urban contexts as well as the connections and dependencies of these factors. Throughout a series of programs, projects, and actions that involved scientists and scholars from Algeria, France, Lebanon, Morocco, and Tunisia, some common patterns can be observed despite notable differences in environmental and political contexts. Thus, the main common issues involve funding matters (budget reductions and less versatility), administrative and social hierarchy, relatively small connections with public services and community representatives, and finally the reluctance shown by many researchers to make data available for the community. Nevertheless, the fact that national and international (Arabic and French speaking sphere) researcher's communities have progressively built mutual knowledge thanks to different collaborations is a major achievement, sustaining multidisciplinarity in environmental research. Indeed, this allowed the elaboration of sustainability metrics, demarches, and procedures for assessing environmentally and socioeconomically complex issues.","PeriodicalId":33686,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sustainable Cities","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135875322","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
期刊
Frontiers in Sustainable Cities
全部 Acc. Chem. Res. ACS Applied Bio Materials ACS Appl. Electron. Mater. ACS Appl. Energy Mater. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces ACS Appl. Nano Mater. ACS Appl. Polym. Mater. ACS BIOMATER-SCI ENG ACS Catal. ACS Cent. Sci. ACS Chem. Biol. ACS Chemical Health & Safety ACS Chem. Neurosci. ACS Comb. Sci. ACS Earth Space Chem. ACS Energy Lett. ACS Infect. Dis. ACS Macro Lett. ACS Mater. Lett. ACS Med. Chem. Lett. ACS Nano ACS Omega ACS Photonics ACS Sens. ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng. ACS Synth. Biol. Anal. Chem. BIOCHEMISTRY-US Bioconjugate Chem. BIOMACROMOLECULES Chem. Res. Toxicol. Chem. Rev. Chem. Mater. CRYST GROWTH DES ENERG FUEL Environ. Sci. Technol. Environ. Sci. Technol. Lett. Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. IND ENG CHEM RES Inorg. Chem. J. Agric. Food. Chem. J. Chem. Eng. Data J. Chem. Educ. J. Chem. Inf. Model. J. Chem. Theory Comput. J. Med. Chem. J. Nat. Prod. J PROTEOME RES J. Am. Chem. Soc. LANGMUIR MACROMOLECULES Mol. Pharmaceutics Nano Lett. Org. Lett. ORG PROCESS RES DEV ORGANOMETALLICS J. Org. Chem. J. Phys. Chem. J. Phys. Chem. A J. Phys. Chem. B J. Phys. Chem. C J. Phys. Chem. Lett. Analyst Anal. Methods Biomater. Sci. Catal. Sci. Technol. Chem. Commun. Chem. Soc. Rev. CHEM EDUC RES PRACT CRYSTENGCOMM Dalton Trans. Energy Environ. Sci. ENVIRON SCI-NANO ENVIRON SCI-PROC IMP ENVIRON SCI-WAT RES Faraday Discuss. Food Funct. Green Chem. Inorg. Chem. Front. Integr. Biol. J. Anal. At. Spectrom. J. Mater. Chem. A J. Mater. Chem. B J. Mater. Chem. C Lab Chip Mater. Chem. Front. Mater. Horiz. MEDCHEMCOMM Metallomics Mol. Biosyst. Mol. Syst. Des. Eng. Nanoscale Nanoscale Horiz. Nat. Prod. Rep. New J. Chem. Org. Biomol. Chem. Org. Chem. Front. PHOTOCH PHOTOBIO SCI PCCP Polym. Chem.
×
引用
GB/T 7714-2015
复制
MLA
复制
APA
复制
导出至
BibTeX EndNote RefMan NoteFirst NoteExpress
×
0
微信
客服QQ
Book学术公众号 扫码关注我们
反馈
×
意见反馈
请填写您的意见或建议
请填写您的手机或邮箱
×
提示
您的信息不完整,为了账户安全,请先补充。
现在去补充
×
提示
您因"违规操作"
具体请查看互助需知
我知道了
×
提示
现在去查看 取消
×
提示
确定
Book学术官方微信
Book学术文献互助
Book学术文献互助群
群 号:481959085
Book学术
文献互助 智能选刊 最新文献 互助须知 联系我们:info@booksci.cn
Book学术提供免费学术资源搜索服务,方便国内外学者检索中英文文献。致力于提供最便捷和优质的服务体验。
Copyright © 2023 Book学术 All rights reserved.
ghs 京公网安备 11010802042870号 京ICP备2023020795号-1