Pub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2025-11-22DOI: 10.1016/j.crsust.2025.100323
Stephanie Buechler , Karen Lopez-Olmedo , Claudia Rebeca Navarrete-Torices , Hem Nalini Morzaria-Luna , José Manuel Dorantes Hernández , Ricardo Cavieses-Nuñez , Paloma A. Valdivia-Jiménez , Gabriela Cruz-Piñón , Qingyuan Lu
This study uses Social-ecological Systems (SES) and Feminist Political Ecology (FPE) frameworks to examine women and men fishers' perceptions of climate change impacts on their fishing activities in three coastal communities in the Northern Gulf of California, Sonora state, Mexico. Surveys and interviews were conducted January–April 2024. A gender analysis of these perceptions was crucial because fishing sector activities are highly diversified by species and by gender divisions of labor embedded in the catch, processing and sale of each species. These differing roles shape fishers' perceptions around climate change impacts on fishing activities and in resources they currently have available to address those challenges. Perceptions in turn shape current and aspirational livelihood responses to those climate change impacts. We performed ordination of survey responses and found significant differences across communities, age, and gender. We provide examples of fishery-related associations and recommend strategies aimed at helping fishers respond to gendered climate change impacts on their activities.
{"title":"Climate change perceptions and responses of male and female fishers in the Gulf of California, Mexico","authors":"Stephanie Buechler , Karen Lopez-Olmedo , Claudia Rebeca Navarrete-Torices , Hem Nalini Morzaria-Luna , José Manuel Dorantes Hernández , Ricardo Cavieses-Nuñez , Paloma A. Valdivia-Jiménez , Gabriela Cruz-Piñón , Qingyuan Lu","doi":"10.1016/j.crsust.2025.100323","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.crsust.2025.100323","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study uses Social-ecological Systems (SES) and Feminist Political Ecology (FPE) frameworks to examine women and men fishers' perceptions of climate change impacts on their fishing activities in three coastal communities in the Northern Gulf of California, Sonora state, Mexico. Surveys and interviews were conducted January–April 2024. A gender analysis of these perceptions was crucial because fishing sector activities are highly diversified by species and by gender divisions of labor embedded in the catch, processing and sale of each species. These differing roles shape fishers' perceptions around climate change impacts on fishing activities and in resources they currently have available to address those challenges. Perceptions in turn shape current and aspirational livelihood responses to those climate change impacts. We performed ordination of survey responses and found significant differences across communities, age, and gender. We provide examples of fishery-related associations and recommend strategies aimed at helping fishers respond to gendered climate change impacts on their activities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34472,"journal":{"name":"Current Research in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"10 ","pages":"Article 100323"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145568478","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}
Pub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2025-02-05DOI: 10.1016/j.crsust.2025.100281
Maria Jacobsen , Lotta Moraeus , Emma Patterson , Anna Karin Lindroos , Mattias Eriksson , Elin Röös
The dietary impacts of 746 young Swedish children were assessed across ten indicators: carbon footprint, cropland use, new nitrogen and phosphorus inputs, blue water use, ammonia emissions, pesticide use, biodiversity loss, antibiotic use, and animal welfare. This analysis utilized caretaker-reported food intake data from the Riksmaten Young Children study (2021–24). It employed the Sustainability Assessment of Foods And Diets tool to quantify these impacts against per capita 1000 kcal planetary boundaries and variations in dietary impacts based on factors such as gender, municipal area, parental education level, and consumption setting (home or preschool). We found that the mean dietary impacts fell within or exceeded the uncertainty zone per capita planetary boundaries for five out of six indicators, with only blue water use remaining within the ‘safe space’; notably, zero children had eaten below the uncertainty levels for all indicators. Boys exhibited higher dietary impacts than girls in absolute terms and when adjusted for energy intake. Children from rural areas and those with lower parental education levels also demonstrated higher impacts than their peers. Carbon footprint analysis revealed no substantial differences between home and preschool settings, with lower meat consumption in preschools offset by higher dairy intake. The primary drivers of dietary impacts were red meat, dairy products, and fruit and vegetable consumption. These results highlight substantial challenges in achieving sustainable food production and diets in Sweden while providing essential insights for informing policy and governance frameworks to promote healthier dietary patterns among young children.
{"title":"Fostering unsustainability? An analysis of 4-year-olds' dietary impacts in Sweden","authors":"Maria Jacobsen , Lotta Moraeus , Emma Patterson , Anna Karin Lindroos , Mattias Eriksson , Elin Röös","doi":"10.1016/j.crsust.2025.100281","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.crsust.2025.100281","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The dietary impacts of 746 young Swedish children were assessed across ten indicators: carbon footprint, cropland use, new nitrogen and phosphorus inputs, blue water use, ammonia emissions, pesticide use, biodiversity loss, antibiotic use, and animal welfare. This analysis utilized caretaker-reported food intake data from the Riksmaten Young Children study (2021–24). It employed the Sustainability Assessment of Foods And Diets tool to quantify these impacts against per capita 1000 kcal planetary boundaries and variations in dietary impacts based on factors such as gender, municipal area, parental education level, and consumption setting (home or preschool). We found that the mean dietary impacts fell within or exceeded the uncertainty zone per capita planetary boundaries for five out of six indicators, with only blue water use remaining within the ‘safe space’; notably, zero children had eaten below the uncertainty levels for all indicators. Boys exhibited higher dietary impacts than girls in absolute terms and when adjusted for energy intake. Children from rural areas and those with lower parental education levels also demonstrated higher impacts than their peers. Carbon footprint analysis revealed no substantial differences between home and preschool settings, with lower meat consumption in preschools offset by higher dairy intake. The primary drivers of dietary impacts were red meat, dairy products, and fruit and vegetable consumption. These results highlight substantial challenges in achieving sustainable food production and diets in Sweden while providing essential insights for informing policy and governance frameworks to promote healthier dietary patterns among young children.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34472,"journal":{"name":"Current Research in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"9 ","pages":"Article 100281"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143161200","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 : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2025-09-15DOI: 10.1016/j.crsust.2025.100304
Elizabeth Deborah Martínez Aguilar, Sjors Witjes, René ten Bos
This paper interrogates how institutional sustainability discourses enact closure through logocentric operations that structurally marginalize alterity. We argue that closure is not contingent upon geographical origin or ideological-power positioning but constitutes a structural feature of institutional discourses, manifesting equally in Global Hegemonic Discourses (GHD) and Local Counter-hegemonic Discourses (LChD). We identify two interlocking discursive mechanisms that produce closure: Organizational Arrangements (OAs), which establish hierarchical orders and internal dynamics in a dominant meaning structure; and Moral Articulations (MAs), which bind values and identities through normative imperatives that discipline inclusion and regulate exclusion. To expose how closure operates through these mechanisms, we engage with deconstruction as an ethical practice. We apply it through a double-reading strategy, comprising Double Commentary and Disruptive Reading, to two institutional texts: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (UN, 2015) and The Care Society (ECLAC, 2022). Our readings reveal how OAs and MAs collaborate to constitute, impose, and legitimize particular interpretations of sustainability, rendering alterity unintelligible, contrarian to the dominant discourse, and morally deficient from its very emergence. Through our readings, we unveiled that OAs-MAs function not merely to establish structural positions, internal logics, and disciplinary and regulatory actions, but to prevent inclusion, police alterity, naturalize authority, conceal differánces and aporias, and mask structural incompleteness. Our contribution lies in opening closures, exposing them as structural conditions of logocentric discourse-making. Deconstruction proved essential for opening the closures in institutional sustainability discourses, foregrounding its constitutive inclusion/exclusions and affirming an ethical responsibility toward that which remains unrepresented, excluded, and yet to come.
{"title":"Opening closures: Organizational arrangements and moral articulations in institutional global hegemonic and local counter-hegemonic sustainability discourses","authors":"Elizabeth Deborah Martínez Aguilar, Sjors Witjes, René ten Bos","doi":"10.1016/j.crsust.2025.100304","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.crsust.2025.100304","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper interrogates how institutional sustainability discourses enact closure through logocentric operations that structurally marginalize alterity. We argue that closure is not contingent upon geographical origin or ideological-power positioning but constitutes a structural feature of institutional discourses, manifesting equally in Global Hegemonic Discourses (GHD) and Local Counter-hegemonic Discourses (LChD). We identify two interlocking discursive mechanisms that produce closure: Organizational Arrangements (OAs), which establish hierarchical orders and internal dynamics in a dominant meaning structure; and Moral Articulations (MAs), which bind values and identities through normative imperatives that discipline inclusion and regulate exclusion. To expose how closure operates through these mechanisms, we engage with deconstruction as an ethical practice. We apply it through a double-reading strategy, comprising Double Commentary and Disruptive Reading, to two institutional texts: <em>The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development</em> (<span><span>UN, 2015</span></span>) and <em>The Care Society</em> (<span><span>ECLAC, 2022</span></span>). Our readings reveal how OAs and MAs collaborate to constitute, impose, and legitimize particular interpretations of sustainability, rendering alterity unintelligible, contrarian to the dominant discourse, and morally deficient from its very emergence. Through our readings, we unveiled that OAs-MAs function not merely to establish structural positions, internal logics, and disciplinary and regulatory actions, but to prevent inclusion, police alterity, naturalize authority, conceal differánces and aporias, and mask structural incompleteness. Our contribution lies in opening closures, exposing them as structural conditions of logocentric discourse-making. Deconstruction proved essential for opening the closures in institutional sustainability discourses<em>,</em> foregrounding its constitutive inclusion/exclusions and affirming an ethical responsibility toward that which remains unrepresented, excluded, and yet to come.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34472,"journal":{"name":"Current Research in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"10 ","pages":"Article 100304"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145060636","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}
Understanding the coupling mechanism among key elements of nature–human systems is crucial for achieving sustainable development goals related to water, food, and ecosystem security in a changing environment. We developed an analytical framework integrating a comprehensive evaluation index, the coupling coordination degree (CCD) model, with the partial least squares structural equation model (PLS-SEM) to examine how land development influences the coupling coordination and interaction pathway of the water–food–ecology (WFE) nexus in Fujian Province, a coastal province significantly affected by human activity and climate change between 2000 and 2020. Results showed that land development intensified accompanied by increasing water consumption, slightly decreasing food production, and stable ecological status over the last two decades. Land subsystem integration reduced the synergy among elements of the WFE nexus, based on an overall decrease in the CCD, in these regions, integration of land subsystems reduced direct pathways within the land–water–food–ecology (LWFE) nexus, simplified interconnections, and reduced synergies in the nexus. The opposite was observed in highly urbanized areas, such as Xiamen, where the CCD increased, the integration of the land subsystem increased the indirect pathways within the LWFE nexus, increasing pathway complexity and synergies. Land development can both enhance and inhibit the coupling of key system elements depending on the urbanization level, suggesting that a one-size-fits-all approach is not effective. Our research offers valuable insights to inform sustainable development policies for the Fujian Province and other regions facing similar environmental and developmental challenges.
{"title":"Impact of land development on the water-food-ecology nexus: Coupling coordination and interaction pathways in a coastal region of China","authors":"Jianyong Wu , Wei Huang , Zilong Chen , Xi Tang , Jinliang Huang","doi":"10.1016/j.crsust.2025.100284","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.crsust.2025.100284","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Understanding the coupling mechanism among key elements of nature–human systems is crucial for achieving sustainable development goals related to water, food, and ecosystem security in a changing environment. We developed an analytical framework integrating a comprehensive evaluation index, the coupling coordination degree (CCD) model, with the partial least squares structural equation model (PLS-SEM) to examine how land development influences the coupling coordination and interaction pathway of the water–food–ecology (WFE) nexus in Fujian Province, a coastal province significantly affected by human activity and climate change between 2000 and 2020. Results showed that land development intensified accompanied by increasing water consumption, slightly decreasing food production, and stable ecological status over the last two decades. Land subsystem integration reduced the synergy among elements of the WFE nexus, based on an overall decrease in the CCD, in these regions, integration of land subsystems reduced direct pathways within the land–water–food–ecology (LWFE) nexus, simplified interconnections, and reduced synergies in the nexus. The opposite was observed in highly urbanized areas, such as Xiamen, where the CCD increased, the integration of the land subsystem increased the indirect pathways within the LWFE nexus, increasing pathway complexity and synergies. Land development can both enhance and inhibit the coupling of key system elements depending on the urbanization level, suggesting that a one-size-fits-all approach is not effective. Our research offers valuable insights to inform sustainable development policies for the Fujian Province and other regions facing similar environmental and developmental challenges.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34472,"journal":{"name":"Current Research in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"9 ","pages":"Article 100284"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143471168","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 : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2025-04-26DOI: 10.1016/j.crsust.2025.100293
Masudul Alam , Mokbul Morshed Ahmad , Takuji W. Tsusaka , Malay Pramanik
Salinity intrusion is a widespread issue across coastal areas. There remains a lack of evidence regarding awareness of the impacts of salinity intrusion on livelihoods in coastal areas, particularly in terms of how this awareness affects preparedness and the development of strategies. The paper aims to assess the awareness of the impacts of salinity intrusion among southern coastal inhabitants in Bangladesh from a comparative perspective. A survey was conducted with 400 households in Kalapara, Taltali, and Patharghata sub-districts of Bangladesh, which was analyzed with descriptive and inferential statistics. The chi-squared test shows that salinity intrusion is associated with factors such as saline water flow (p < 0.10). In addition, 46 % of the respondents from the high-salinity sub-districts perceive prevalence of numerous diseases such as diarrhea, cholera, and skin infections (p < 0.01) significantly higher compared to moderate-salinity areas. Very high levels of awareness (WAI = 0.78, 0.76) of groundwater salinity are observed in the high-salinity sub-districts (p < 0.01). Moderate awareness of the impacts on winter season rice was found across the three areas (p < 0.01), while Kalapara showed higher awareness (WAI = 0.53, 0.65) of the impacts on cereals and health, respectively. Awareness of other impacts, such as on land use, aquaculture, mangrove, and coastal resources, was found to be lower. Significant regional differences in awareness exist across the three regions. The findings suggest improving education and access to information to increase awareness, and help communities adopt area-specific adaptation measures to alleviate adverse effects on health, agriculture, and environments.
{"title":"Awareness of impacts of salinity intrusion on livelihoods: Evidence from southern coastal rural areas of Bangladesh","authors":"Masudul Alam , Mokbul Morshed Ahmad , Takuji W. Tsusaka , Malay Pramanik","doi":"10.1016/j.crsust.2025.100293","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.crsust.2025.100293","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Salinity intrusion is a widespread issue across coastal areas. There remains a lack of evidence regarding awareness of the impacts of salinity intrusion on livelihoods in coastal areas, particularly in terms of how this awareness affects preparedness and the development of strategies. The paper aims to assess the awareness of the impacts of salinity intrusion among southern coastal inhabitants in Bangladesh from a comparative perspective. A survey was conducted with 400 households in Kalapara, Taltali, and Patharghata sub-districts of Bangladesh, which was analyzed with descriptive and inferential statistics. The chi-squared test shows that salinity intrusion is associated with factors such as saline water flow (<em>p</em> < 0.10). In addition, 46 % of the respondents from the high-salinity sub-districts perceive prevalence of numerous diseases such as diarrhea, cholera, and skin infections (<em>p</em> < 0.01) significantly higher compared to moderate-salinity areas. Very high levels of awareness (WAI = 0.78, 0.76) of groundwater salinity are observed in the high-salinity sub-districts (<em>p</em> < 0.01). Moderate awareness of the impacts on winter season rice was found across the three areas (<em>p</em> < 0.01), while Kalapara showed higher awareness (WAI = 0.53, 0.65) of the impacts on cereals and health, respectively. Awareness of other impacts, such as on land use, aquaculture, mangrove, and coastal resources, was found to be lower. Significant regional differences in awareness exist across the three regions. The findings suggest improving education and access to information to increase awareness, and help communities adopt area-specific adaptation measures to alleviate adverse effects on health, agriculture, and environments.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34472,"journal":{"name":"Current Research in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"9 ","pages":"Article 100293"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143873788","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}
Protected areas are essential for conserving biodiversity and maintaining ecosystem services, yet they face growing threats from habitat fragmentation, human encroachment, and limited funding. This study investigates community willingness to support conservation in Kafta-Sheraro National Park through financial or labor contributions, aiming to address these challenges and uncover factors influencing participation. Surveying 384 local residents, the study reveals widespread concern over habitat degradation caused by agricultural expansion, illegal logging, and overgrazing. Majority of respondents (88.8 %) supported the proposed conservation plan, with 72.43 % preferring to contribute labor and 27.57 % opting for monetary support. Using probit and biprobit models the study identified key determinants of payment vehicle preference and amount of contribution. Ethnicity and residence condition, living conditions, livestock ownership, and income from forest resources are factors influencing decision. Prior conflicts related to conservation efforts negatively impacted willingness to participate. Households favoring monetary contributions were willing to pay an average of 1362.24 birr annually (approximately US$40.40), while those preferring labor offered 30 days per year. When extrapolated across kebeles (lower administrative unit) bordering the park, total annual contributions amounted to 5,632,519 birr (US$166,988.41) and 325,929 labor days—equivalent to 88,000,830 birr (US$2,608,978.06). The study recommends a more inclusive conservation strategy that legally integrates community roles in park governance. This includes mandated involvement in patrols, infrastructure maintenance, faire control activities, decision-making, and financial support. Such measures are vital for ensuring the long-term sustainability of protected areas and fostering sense of shared responsibility among local communities.
{"title":"Valuation of protected area restoration: Contingent valuation approach","authors":"Hailay Gebreegziabher Hailemicheal , Feyera Senbeta , Tamirat Tefera Negash","doi":"10.1016/j.crsust.2025.100313","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.crsust.2025.100313","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Protected areas are essential for conserving biodiversity and maintaining ecosystem services, yet they face growing threats from habitat fragmentation, human encroachment, and limited funding. This study investigates community willingness to support conservation in Kafta-Sheraro National Park through financial or labor contributions, aiming to address these challenges and uncover factors influencing participation. Surveying 384 local residents, the study reveals widespread concern over habitat degradation caused by agricultural expansion, illegal logging, and overgrazing. Majority of respondents (88.8 %) supported the proposed conservation plan, with 72.43 % preferring to contribute labor and 27.57 % opting for monetary support. Using probit and biprobit models the study identified key determinants of payment vehicle preference and amount of contribution. Ethnicity and residence condition, living conditions, livestock ownership, and income from forest resources are factors influencing decision. Prior conflicts related to conservation efforts negatively impacted willingness to participate. Households favoring monetary contributions were willing to pay an average of 1362.24 birr annually (approximately US$40.40), while those preferring labor offered 30 days per year. When extrapolated across kebeles (lower administrative unit) bordering the park, total annual contributions amounted to 5,632,519 birr (US$166,988.41) and 325,929 labor days—equivalent to 88,000,830 birr (US$2,608,978.06). The study recommends a more inclusive conservation strategy that legally integrates community roles in park governance. This includes mandated involvement in patrols, infrastructure maintenance, faire control activities, decision-making, and financial support. Such measures are vital for ensuring the long-term sustainability of protected areas and fostering sense of shared responsibility among local communities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34472,"journal":{"name":"Current Research in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"10 ","pages":"Article 100313"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145361054","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}
Pub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2025-11-13DOI: 10.1016/j.crsust.2025.100320
Jørgen Kjøsen Lindgren , Adrian Tobias Werner , Nora Johanne Klungseth , Bjørn Sørskot Andersen
The Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) marks a major shift in EU sustainability reporting by requiring compliance with the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS). This study examines how a sample of Norwegian companies relate to measuring the ESRS's broad set of indicators on environmental impacts. Using a mixed methods design, it explores: (1) which indicators are deemed material, (2) companies' experience with measuring them, and (3) how challenging companies expect their measurement to be going forward. Results show that indicators pertaining to climate change are most frequently considered material, while biodiversity is expected to gain prominence due to the required double materiality assessment. Scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions are particularly challenging to measure, followed by indicators related to microplastics and secondary resource use. These assessments varied by companies' sectors and reporting groups, but not by their customer segment. The study contributes to the ongoing theoretical discussions by supporting legitimacy and stakeholder theories over institutional and signaling theories. Based on the findings, normative recommendations are offered. Practitioners should begin assessments early and collaborate with value chain partners. In the context of the EU's Omnibus simplification process, guidance should be prioritized over simplifications, with focus on the most challenging indicators. Future research could examine how companies conduct the double materiality assessment in practice and reporting challenges in project-based companies.
{"title":"Exploring companies' relationships with environmental indicators from the European sustainability reporting standards (ESRS) – The case of Norway","authors":"Jørgen Kjøsen Lindgren , Adrian Tobias Werner , Nora Johanne Klungseth , Bjørn Sørskot Andersen","doi":"10.1016/j.crsust.2025.100320","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.crsust.2025.100320","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) marks a major shift in EU sustainability reporting by requiring compliance with the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS). This study examines how a sample of Norwegian companies relate to measuring the ESRS's broad set of indicators on environmental impacts. Using a mixed methods design, it explores: (1) which indicators are deemed material, (2) companies' experience with measuring them, and (3) how challenging companies expect their measurement to be going forward. Results show that indicators pertaining to climate change are most frequently considered material, while biodiversity is expected to gain prominence due to the required double materiality assessment. Scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions are particularly challenging to measure, followed by indicators related to microplastics and secondary resource use. These assessments varied by companies' sectors and reporting groups, but not by their customer segment. The study contributes to the ongoing theoretical discussions by supporting legitimacy and stakeholder theories over institutional and signaling theories. Based on the findings, normative recommendations are offered. Practitioners should begin assessments early and collaborate with value chain partners. In the context of the EU's Omnibus simplification process, guidance should be prioritized over simplifications, with focus on the most challenging indicators. Future research could examine how companies conduct the double materiality assessment in practice and reporting challenges in project-based companies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34472,"journal":{"name":"Current Research in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"10 ","pages":"Article 100320"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145519159","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}
Pub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2024-12-12DOI: 10.1016/j.crsust.2024.100274
J. Mac Mahon , A. Revez , M. Burke , P. Hogan , M.M. Nyhan
A national study in Ireland on the impacts of creative and cultural climate action initiatives highlights their potential to act as catalysts for fostering citizen engagement. This research evaluated five distinct creative projects, each addressing critical themes such as sustainable agriculture, circular economy, repair culture, consumption habits, sea-level rise, biodiversity, and community-driven climate action. These initiatives formed part of a government programme to enhance public participation in climate action. Utilising surveys, interviews, observations, and focus groups, data was collected and analysed to understand impacts on participants' cognitive, emotional, and practical engagement with climate issues. The COM-B Behaviour System Model was also employed to assess impacts on participants' capacity, opportunity, and motivation to take climate action. Results showed that interactive, participatory-style creative mediums led by artists and practitioners, such as demonstrations, workshops, presentations, and discussion, effectively engaged participants across cognitive, emotional, and practical dimensions. Respondents reported an increased sense of self-efficacy and capacity to take achievable climate actions. Community-centred, peer-sharing formats emerged as trusted and valued opportunities for accessing relevant climate information, aiding constructive dialogue on complex topics. Artists' unique perspectives and creative expressions generated positive energy and an openness to engage, renewing participants' motivation to act. Nature-based events notably deepened emotional connections to the natural world, a strong motivator of pro-environmental behaviours. The study underscored participants' need for supportive and safe spaces to facilitate sustained climate dialogue and action within their communities. Findings suggest that targeted creative community events can significantly support climate policy efforts by fostering high-quality citizen engagement.
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Pub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2025-01-04DOI: 10.1016/j.crsust.2024.100277
Astha Bhatta , Heleen Vreugdenhil , Jill Slinger
Living labs have emerged as a long-term, collaborative approach to addressing complex societal challenges, such as sustainable land and water management and climate change adaption. While these transdisciplinary environments foster continuous knowledge exchange and interactions among actors from diverse disciplines and sectors, the role of learning in realizing the impacts of living labs on participating actors and broader society is often underexplored. This paper aims to identify and analyze learning that occurs within a sequence of co-creative activities and their resulting outcomes, using the concept of ‘learning pathways’. The ‘living lab learning framework’ provides a systematic approach to organizing and categorizing living lab activities, enabling to infer learning pathways. An ex-post analysis of an empirical case study on a climate adaptation project, KLIMAP, resulted in seven distinct learning pathways: 1) harnessing collective integrated knowledge, 2) building collaborative networks, 3) enhancing stakeholder capacity, 4) adapting and contextualizing knowledge, 5) diffusing knowledge, 6) facilitating co-creation, and 7) reflecting on learning. These pathways were developed by examining the types of learning activities, their processes, and the entities involved, linking them to the outcomes achieved. The findings highlight that learning pathways contribute to identifying outcomes and broader impacts of living labs.
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Pub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2025-10-29DOI: 10.1016/j.crsust.2025.100312
Ringo Ossewaarde , Roshnee Ossewaarde-Lowtoo
In this article it is argued that scientific sustainability discourses are largely informed by the Enlightenment paradigm. This paradigm, the argument goes, is not only hegemonic but also deeply problematic for sustainability science. Its ontological assumptions about nature as a collection of natural resources that must be mastered for human purposes (such as peace, prosperity, well-being) inform a mastery of nature that is unsustainable and has come to pose existential threats to the whole planet. This article therefore questions this hegemony of the Enlightenment paradigm in sustainability science, to pave the way for a trans-paradigmatic understanding of sustainability. Anthropogenic and academic sustainability discourses, it is argued, are fundamentally pluralistic and therefore informed by rivalling paradigms that come with rivalling ontologies and corresponding understandings of nature, sustainability, and justice. It follows that trans-paradigmatic ecological knowledge requires not so much a shift of paradigm as the transcendence of bounded paradigmatic knowledge through a dialectical process in sustainability science. The dialectical process, however, is still being hindered, or so we argue. To illustrate the attempts at trans-paradigmatic knowledge, we consider the ‘Rights of Nature’ (RoN) movement. As a discourse, RoN may be considered both as an Enlightenment translation of the indigenous worldview and as an indigenous integration of the Enlightenment theories of social contract and natural rights. We argue that this ‘fusion’ might have the potential to inform trans-paradigmatic discourses if RoN evokes non-individualist and non-atomist ontologies and thereby escapes the hegemony of the Enlightenment paradigm.
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