Pub Date : 2023-01-25DOI: 10.1080/13504509.2023.2166142
Nabila Amin, Huaming Song, M. Shabbir, Muhammad Umar Farrukh, I. Haq
ABSTRACT The quality of the environment has become one of the primary objectives of South Asian governments. The majority of South Asian nations are susceptible to the negative effects of climate change, so it is crucial to identify factors that can contribute to environmental sustainability in the region. As a result of globalization, South Asian economies have attracted the attention of developed economies due to their abundance of mineral resources. This study fills a gap in the body of literature by analyzing the impact of economic globalization, financial development, natural resource availability, and disaggregated energy consumption on the environmental sustainability of South Asian nations from 1990 to 2020, taking into account economic growth, trade openness, and urbanization. This study employs a cross-sectional autoregressive distributed lags (CS-ARDL) estimator for short-run and long-run estimation, which accounts for slope parameter variability and country-specific dependencies. The results show that 1% increase in natural resource abundance and economic globalization improve the environmental quality in South Asian nations by 1.987% and 0.158% respectively. Furthermore, increasing the amount of renewable energy in total energy consumption minimizes CO2 emissions by 0.295% for every 1% change in renewable energy consumption. By contrast, 1% change in trade openness, financial development, urbanization, non-renewable energy consumption, and economic growth have a negative impact on the environment by 0.178%, 0.182%, 1.131%, 0.352% and 0.854% respectively. There is a unidirectional connection between natural resources and economic globalization that creates trade openness. For sustainable development goals, this study delivers new practical evidence and policy suggestions.
{"title":"Moving towards a sustainable environment: do disaggregated energy consumption, natural resources, financial development and economic globalization really matter?","authors":"Nabila Amin, Huaming Song, M. Shabbir, Muhammad Umar Farrukh, I. Haq","doi":"10.1080/13504509.2023.2166142","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13504509.2023.2166142","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The quality of the environment has become one of the primary objectives of South Asian governments. The majority of South Asian nations are susceptible to the negative effects of climate change, so it is crucial to identify factors that can contribute to environmental sustainability in the region. As a result of globalization, South Asian economies have attracted the attention of developed economies due to their abundance of mineral resources. This study fills a gap in the body of literature by analyzing the impact of economic globalization, financial development, natural resource availability, and disaggregated energy consumption on the environmental sustainability of South Asian nations from 1990 to 2020, taking into account economic growth, trade openness, and urbanization. This study employs a cross-sectional autoregressive distributed lags (CS-ARDL) estimator for short-run and long-run estimation, which accounts for slope parameter variability and country-specific dependencies. The results show that 1% increase in natural resource abundance and economic globalization improve the environmental quality in South Asian nations by 1.987% and 0.158% respectively. Furthermore, increasing the amount of renewable energy in total energy consumption minimizes CO2 emissions by 0.295% for every 1% change in renewable energy consumption. By contrast, 1% change in trade openness, financial development, urbanization, non-renewable energy consumption, and economic growth have a negative impact on the environment by 0.178%, 0.182%, 1.131%, 0.352% and 0.854% respectively. There is a unidirectional connection between natural resources and economic globalization that creates trade openness. For sustainable development goals, this study delivers new practical evidence and policy suggestions.","PeriodicalId":50287,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology","volume":"4 1","pages":"515 - 532"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2023-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90072364","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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 : 2023-01-23DOI: 10.1080/13504509.2023.2169966
Rong Ran, Mingjuan Xie, Lei Hua
ABSTRACT The vicious cycle between economy and environment is a key issue affecting the sustainable development of poverty-stricken areas, and how to break the environment-economic trap in poverty-stricken areas is a hot topic concerned globally. Therefore, this study uses county data from 2011–2019 of Yunnan-Guizhou-Guangxi rocky desertification contiguous poverty-stricken areas, and investigates the correlation and mechanism among industrial structure, ecological environment and economic growth in poverty-stricken areas based on the fixed effect model and the mediating effect model. The results show that there is a significant contradictory relationship between environmental protection and economic growth in the Yunnan-Guizhou-Guangxi rocky desertification contiguous poverty-stricken areas, while the industrial structure upgrading can alleviate the contradictory relationship. The mode of developing characteristic industries based on ecological resource endowment and then promoting economic growth can more effectively solve the contradiction between environmental protection and economic growth, which is conducive to breaking the environment-economic trap in poverty-stricken areas. This study provides a reference for the development of other poverty-stricken areas in the world, and also provides experience for promoting poverty reduction and sustainable development in the world.
{"title":"How to break the environment-economic trap in rocky desertification contiguous poverty-stricken areas: the mediating effect of industrial structure upgrading","authors":"Rong Ran, Mingjuan Xie, Lei Hua","doi":"10.1080/13504509.2023.2169966","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13504509.2023.2169966","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The vicious cycle between economy and environment is a key issue affecting the sustainable development of poverty-stricken areas, and how to break the environment-economic trap in poverty-stricken areas is a hot topic concerned globally. Therefore, this study uses county data from 2011–2019 of Yunnan-Guizhou-Guangxi rocky desertification contiguous poverty-stricken areas, and investigates the correlation and mechanism among industrial structure, ecological environment and economic growth in poverty-stricken areas based on the fixed effect model and the mediating effect model. The results show that there is a significant contradictory relationship between environmental protection and economic growth in the Yunnan-Guizhou-Guangxi rocky desertification contiguous poverty-stricken areas, while the industrial structure upgrading can alleviate the contradictory relationship. The mode of developing characteristic industries based on ecological resource endowment and then promoting economic growth can more effectively solve the contradiction between environmental protection and economic growth, which is conducive to breaking the environment-economic trap in poverty-stricken areas. This study provides a reference for the development of other poverty-stricken areas in the world, and also provides experience for promoting poverty reduction and sustainable development in the world.","PeriodicalId":50287,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology","volume":"38 1","pages":"576 - 590"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2023-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88187236","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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 : 2023-01-19DOI: 10.1080/13504509.2023.2167884
W. Leal Filho, A. Simaens, Arminda Paço, Paula M. Hernandez-Diaz, Claudio R. P. Vasconcelos, Bárbara Fritzen, C. Mac-lean
ABSTRACT Despite the relevance of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the fact that universities may make valuable contributions towards their implementation, there is a paucity of international studies which may allow an assessment of their degree of engagement or their performance against the SDGs. This paper reports on an international study among a sample of 128 members of higher education institutions (HEIs) located in 28 countries, which aimed at ascertaining the extent to which the SDGs are being integrated into the strategy of HEIs. The focus of this paper is on the means which have been deployed by various universities in order to embed or include the SDGs in their activities. More specifically, this paper explores 1) the scope of integration, 2) the organisational influences, and 3) strategic influencing factors. The research identified the fact that, whereas many organisations are aware of the need for and the relevance of sustainable development and consider it as part of their institutional settings, the same cannot be said for the SDGs, whose level of emphasis is that many HEIs are comparatively somewhat limited. In addition, there seems to be a shortage of training opportunities focusing on the SDGs, which could equip university staff to handle this topic. Against this background, the paper describes some measures that may be implemented to make the SDGs more present in HEI programmes, hence maximising their contribution to addressing the global sustainability challenges.
{"title":"Integrating the Sustainable Development Goals into the strategy of higher education institutions","authors":"W. Leal Filho, A. Simaens, Arminda Paço, Paula M. Hernandez-Diaz, Claudio R. P. Vasconcelos, Bárbara Fritzen, C. Mac-lean","doi":"10.1080/13504509.2023.2167884","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13504509.2023.2167884","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Despite the relevance of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the fact that universities may make valuable contributions towards their implementation, there is a paucity of international studies which may allow an assessment of their degree of engagement or their performance against the SDGs. This paper reports on an international study among a sample of 128 members of higher education institutions (HEIs) located in 28 countries, which aimed at ascertaining the extent to which the SDGs are being integrated into the strategy of HEIs. The focus of this paper is on the means which have been deployed by various universities in order to embed or include the SDGs in their activities. More specifically, this paper explores 1) the scope of integration, 2) the organisational influences, and 3) strategic influencing factors. The research identified the fact that, whereas many organisations are aware of the need for and the relevance of sustainable development and consider it as part of their institutional settings, the same cannot be said for the SDGs, whose level of emphasis is that many HEIs are comparatively somewhat limited. In addition, there seems to be a shortage of training opportunities focusing on the SDGs, which could equip university staff to handle this topic. Against this background, the paper describes some measures that may be implemented to make the SDGs more present in HEI programmes, hence maximising their contribution to addressing the global sustainability challenges.","PeriodicalId":50287,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology","volume":"3 1","pages":"564 - 575"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2023-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76384108","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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 : 2023-01-18DOI: 10.1080/13504509.2022.2162148
Siyu Liu, Zhiyuan Zhang, Yanyan Jiao, W. Shi, Nan Liu, Le Wang
ABSTRACT Biocultural diversity is an important result and outstanding representation of human-land relationship. This study established a novel framework for evaluating the coupling mechanism of biocultural diversity beyond the nature-culture dualism. Taking the Beichuan-River-Source National Nature Reserve (BRSNNR) as an example, combined with regional characteristics, Coupling Coordination Degree Model (CCDM) and Canonical Correlation Analysis (CCA) were used to explore the correlation mechanism between natural systems and cultural systems in protected areas. The research results indicated that BRSNNR had five types of landscape character areas with outstanding natural and cultural characteristics; the spatial distribution of biodiversity and cultural diversity was highly overlapping, forming a ‘high-medium-low’ three-level biocultural diversity area. Analysis demonstrated that positive or negative feedback patterns between natural and cultural systems contributed to the formation of representations of biocultural diversity. Altitude, animals, and traffic conditions are important drivers for the biological and cultural diversity in protected areas. At the same time, residents’ emotions and behaviors have a direct impact on the formation of biocultural diversity. The research suggests that the priority protection areas and functional divisions of protected areas should be delineated according to the evaluation results of biocultural diversity, and thresholds should be calculated and set for the constraints. This method is conducive to the improvement of the system’s ability to deal with risks and the formation of the action mechanism of ‘factor interaction-system interaction-biocultural diversity representation’ in protected areas.
{"title":"Spatial coupling mechanism of biocultural diversity: case of Beichuan-River-Source National Nature Reserve, Qinghai, China","authors":"Siyu Liu, Zhiyuan Zhang, Yanyan Jiao, W. Shi, Nan Liu, Le Wang","doi":"10.1080/13504509.2022.2162148","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13504509.2022.2162148","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Biocultural diversity is an important result and outstanding representation of human-land relationship. This study established a novel framework for evaluating the coupling mechanism of biocultural diversity beyond the nature-culture dualism. Taking the Beichuan-River-Source National Nature Reserve (BRSNNR) as an example, combined with regional characteristics, Coupling Coordination Degree Model (CCDM) and Canonical Correlation Analysis (CCA) were used to explore the correlation mechanism between natural systems and cultural systems in protected areas. The research results indicated that BRSNNR had five types of landscape character areas with outstanding natural and cultural characteristics; the spatial distribution of biodiversity and cultural diversity was highly overlapping, forming a ‘high-medium-low’ three-level biocultural diversity area. Analysis demonstrated that positive or negative feedback patterns between natural and cultural systems contributed to the formation of representations of biocultural diversity. Altitude, animals, and traffic conditions are important drivers for the biological and cultural diversity in protected areas. At the same time, residents’ emotions and behaviors have a direct impact on the formation of biocultural diversity. The research suggests that the priority protection areas and functional divisions of protected areas should be delineated according to the evaluation results of biocultural diversity, and thresholds should be calculated and set for the constraints. This method is conducive to the improvement of the system’s ability to deal with risks and the formation of the action mechanism of ‘factor interaction-system interaction-biocultural diversity representation’ in protected areas.","PeriodicalId":50287,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology","volume":"35 1","pages":"458 - 484"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2023-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89233956","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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 : 2023-01-18DOI: 10.1080/13504509.2023.2166141
B. Gyamfi, Stephen Taiwo Onifade, Savaş Erdoğan, E. B. Ali
ABSTRACT While economic globalization and resource utilization continue to foster growth among nations, the Paris Convention adopted at COP21 has highlighted some imminent environmental dangers facing humanity if pertinent collective climate actions are ignored. Thus, this study assesses the links between ecological footprint and economic globalization among the E7 nations in the aftermath of COP21. This study fills the gap in the literature on the E7 bloc by accounting for the unexplored role of agricultural value-added while accounting for the impacts of resources rent, disaggregated energy use, and economic growth towards addressing environmental-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the bloc. A combination of estimation techniques, including the Dynamic Ordinary Least Squares (DOLS), Fully Modified Ordinary Least Squares (FMOLS), and Panel-ARDL, was employed to address methodological flaws while analyzing data ranging from 1990 to 2019. The results show that globalization and agricultural activities have exacerbated ecological footprint to the detriment of the E7’s environmental quality. The results further indicate that the expansion of economic activities in the E7 countries has also increased the conventional energy consumption (oil, coal, and gas for electricity generation), thereby translating to environmental deterioration via a higher ecological footprint. Overall, to ensure a sustainable environment in our increasingly globalized world, the study posits that policymakers in the E7 should facilitate proper implementation of environmental damage cost in addition to maintaining strategic resource control measures in order to increase the awareness of the explorers of natural resources and other international organizations of their economic activities beyond business as usual.
{"title":"Colligating ecological footprint and economic globalization after COP21: Insights from agricultural value-added and natural resources rents in the E7 economies","authors":"B. Gyamfi, Stephen Taiwo Onifade, Savaş Erdoğan, E. B. Ali","doi":"10.1080/13504509.2023.2166141","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13504509.2023.2166141","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT While economic globalization and resource utilization continue to foster growth among nations, the Paris Convention adopted at COP21 has highlighted some imminent environmental dangers facing humanity if pertinent collective climate actions are ignored. Thus, this study assesses the links between ecological footprint and economic globalization among the E7 nations in the aftermath of COP21. This study fills the gap in the literature on the E7 bloc by accounting for the unexplored role of agricultural value-added while accounting for the impacts of resources rent, disaggregated energy use, and economic growth towards addressing environmental-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the bloc. A combination of estimation techniques, including the Dynamic Ordinary Least Squares (DOLS), Fully Modified Ordinary Least Squares (FMOLS), and Panel-ARDL, was employed to address methodological flaws while analyzing data ranging from 1990 to 2019. The results show that globalization and agricultural activities have exacerbated ecological footprint to the detriment of the E7’s environmental quality. The results further indicate that the expansion of economic activities in the E7 countries has also increased the conventional energy consumption (oil, coal, and gas for electricity generation), thereby translating to environmental deterioration via a higher ecological footprint. Overall, to ensure a sustainable environment in our increasingly globalized world, the study posits that policymakers in the E7 should facilitate proper implementation of environmental damage cost in addition to maintaining strategic resource control measures in order to increase the awareness of the explorers of natural resources and other international organizations of their economic activities beyond business as usual.","PeriodicalId":50287,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology","volume":"1 1","pages":"500 - 514"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2023-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88311590","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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 : 2023-01-18DOI: 10.1080/13504509.2023.2167241
Tariku Olana Jawo, Nikola Teutscherová, M. Negash, Kefyalew Sahle, B. Lojka
ABSTRACT Recent studies suggest that smallholder farmers’ perceptions rather than exact meteorological data strongly influence how they adapt to the changing climate. Therefore, we explored the climate change (CC) perceptions and adaptation strategies of coffee farmers in dependence on the meteorological data (1983–2020) along an elevation gradient (1,600–2,000 masl) in the Sidama region, Ethiopia. In total, 351 coffee farmers were randomly selected for household interviews, complemented with key informants (KIs), focus group discussions (FGDs), and field observations. Severity Index (SI) was computed to measure farmers’ perception of CC, followed by a Mann–Kendall test to ascertain climate trends. Weighted Average Index (WAI) was also used to rank adaptation strategies. We detected an increasing temperature and annual rainfall trend. Nevertheless, while farmers agreed on rising temperatures, they perceived rainfall reduction, contradicting the meteorological data. The highest SI was recorded for the rising temperature, followed by the uncertainty of rainfall distribution, increasing number of hot days, late-onset, and reduced amount of rainfall. The SI results with KIs and FGDs confirmed that weather events seemed more variable than in the past two to three decades and affected coffee production. As the most important CC adaptation strategies, the respondents practise agroforestry, application of compost, terrace construction, modification of farming calendar, and crop diversification. Our results also revealed that gender, education, farming experience, family size, access to agricultural and farmer-to-farmer extensions, and credit services affected adopting adaptation strategies. This study confirms that farmers’ perception is more important in shaping the applied adaptation strategies.
{"title":"Smallholder coffee-based farmers’ perception and their adaptation strategies of climate change and variability in South-Eastern Ethiopia","authors":"Tariku Olana Jawo, Nikola Teutscherová, M. Negash, Kefyalew Sahle, B. Lojka","doi":"10.1080/13504509.2023.2167241","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13504509.2023.2167241","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Recent studies suggest that smallholder farmers’ perceptions rather than exact meteorological data strongly influence how they adapt to the changing climate. Therefore, we explored the climate change (CC) perceptions and adaptation strategies of coffee farmers in dependence on the meteorological data (1983–2020) along an elevation gradient (1,600–2,000 masl) in the Sidama region, Ethiopia. In total, 351 coffee farmers were randomly selected for household interviews, complemented with key informants (KIs), focus group discussions (FGDs), and field observations. Severity Index (SI) was computed to measure farmers’ perception of CC, followed by a Mann–Kendall test to ascertain climate trends. Weighted Average Index (WAI) was also used to rank adaptation strategies. We detected an increasing temperature and annual rainfall trend. Nevertheless, while farmers agreed on rising temperatures, they perceived rainfall reduction, contradicting the meteorological data. The highest SI was recorded for the rising temperature, followed by the uncertainty of rainfall distribution, increasing number of hot days, late-onset, and reduced amount of rainfall. The SI results with KIs and FGDs confirmed that weather events seemed more variable than in the past two to three decades and affected coffee production. As the most important CC adaptation strategies, the respondents practise agroforestry, application of compost, terrace construction, modification of farming calendar, and crop diversification. Our results also revealed that gender, education, farming experience, family size, access to agricultural and farmer-to-farmer extensions, and credit services affected adopting adaptation strategies. This study confirms that farmers’ perception is more important in shaping the applied adaptation strategies.","PeriodicalId":50287,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology","volume":"28 2 1","pages":"533 - 547"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2023-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90876088","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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 : 2023-01-17DOI: 10.1080/13504509.2022.2152899
L. Lisha, Nawal Hanim Binti Abdullah, Sridar A/LRamachandran, Raja Nerina Binti Raja Yusof
ABSTRACT Tourism has been widely recognized as a powerful tool for economic growth in rural communities around the world. The growth of rural tourism has always been a significant start in targeting poverty alleviation and promoting economic change in rural China. Rural tourism development is the participation of rural people in tourism and full integration into tourism development. Rural tourism development depends on the participation and support of rural residents. Therefore, this research explores the influencing factors of rural tourism residents’ happiness and their influence on tourism support. The sample was selected from Anren Town, Chengdu City, China, and the research subjects were residents of Anren Town. In this study, data were collected from 370 residents of Anren Town via a questionnaire survey. The results show that Community Involvement (CI) and Community Attachment (CA) positively affect residents’ Authentic Happiness (AH). This research found that improving residents’ support for tourism development can promote the development of rural tourism. The study finding provides a new perspective for the treatment of residents’ problems in tourism development and has guiding significance for the improvement of residents’ happiness index in tourism destinations. If the community is better, the happiness of the residents will be stronger.
{"title":"Improvement of residents’ happiness index in tourism destinations based on guiding significance and tourism development","authors":"L. Lisha, Nawal Hanim Binti Abdullah, Sridar A/LRamachandran, Raja Nerina Binti Raja Yusof","doi":"10.1080/13504509.2022.2152899","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13504509.2022.2152899","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Tourism has been widely recognized as a powerful tool for economic growth in rural communities around the world. The growth of rural tourism has always been a significant start in targeting poverty alleviation and promoting economic change in rural China. Rural tourism development is the participation of rural people in tourism and full integration into tourism development. Rural tourism development depends on the participation and support of rural residents. Therefore, this research explores the influencing factors of rural tourism residents’ happiness and their influence on tourism support. The sample was selected from Anren Town, Chengdu City, China, and the research subjects were residents of Anren Town. In this study, data were collected from 370 residents of Anren Town via a questionnaire survey. The results show that Community Involvement (CI) and Community Attachment (CA) positively affect residents’ Authentic Happiness (AH). This research found that improving residents’ support for tourism development can promote the development of rural tourism. The study finding provides a new perspective for the treatment of residents’ problems in tourism development and has guiding significance for the improvement of residents’ happiness index in tourism destinations. If the community is better, the happiness of the residents will be stronger.","PeriodicalId":50287,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology","volume":"47 1","pages":"374 - 386"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2023-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90791208","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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 : 2023-01-11DOI: 10.1080/13504509.2023.2167242
Yeshey, R. Keenan, R. Ford, C. Nitschke
ABSTRACT Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are part of 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (SD) that aim to eradicate poverty, achieve economic prosperity, gender equality, ensure social well-being, promote sustainable management and use of natural resources, and protect the Earth’s natural ecosystems. However, the occurrence of human–wildlife conflict (HWC) may impair SDGs to be achieved in developing regions where people and wildlife cooccur frequently. Surprisingly, there are few studies which have examined how HWC impedes achievement of SDGs. This paucity of information hinders the formulation and implementation of appropriate policy actions to achieve SDGs. We explored how HWC impacts on the livelihoods of rural communities in Bhutan through SD lens. We used a mixed method research approach and interviewed a stratified-random sample of 96 farmers from four different regions of Bhutan. Wildlife impacts are multidimensional and can inhibit achievement of several SDGs. All interviewees suffered crop and livestock depredations with substantial economic losses. These losses were higher for female-headed households and those with low asset holding, compounding their vulnerability. Among the HWC adaptation measures, adopted guarding, vigilant livestock herding, and electric fences were perceived effective but were predominantly applied by households in high asset class. Policy actions should focus on female-headed households and those families with lower asset category to reduce negative impacts of human wildlife interactions.
{"title":"Sustainable development implications of human wildlife conflict: an analysis of subsistence farmers in Bhutan","authors":"Yeshey, R. Keenan, R. Ford, C. Nitschke","doi":"10.1080/13504509.2023.2167242","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13504509.2023.2167242","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are part of 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (SD) that aim to eradicate poverty, achieve economic prosperity, gender equality, ensure social well-being, promote sustainable management and use of natural resources, and protect the Earth’s natural ecosystems. However, the occurrence of human–wildlife conflict (HWC) may impair SDGs to be achieved in developing regions where people and wildlife cooccur frequently. Surprisingly, there are few studies which have examined how HWC impedes achievement of SDGs. This paucity of information hinders the formulation and implementation of appropriate policy actions to achieve SDGs. We explored how HWC impacts on the livelihoods of rural communities in Bhutan through SD lens. We used a mixed method research approach and interviewed a stratified-random sample of 96 farmers from four different regions of Bhutan. Wildlife impacts are multidimensional and can inhibit achievement of several SDGs. All interviewees suffered crop and livestock depredations with substantial economic losses. These losses were higher for female-headed households and those with low asset holding, compounding their vulnerability. Among the HWC adaptation measures, adopted guarding, vigilant livestock herding, and electric fences were perceived effective but were predominantly applied by households in high asset class. Policy actions should focus on female-headed households and those families with lower asset category to reduce negative impacts of human wildlife interactions.","PeriodicalId":50287,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology","volume":"44 2","pages":"548 - 563"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2023-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72394465","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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 : 2023-01-03DOI: 10.1080/13504509.2022.2163717
Jorge Antonio Gómez Díaz, A. Lira‐Noriega, F. Villalobos
ABSTRACT The region of central Veracruz is considered a biodiversity hotspot due to its high species richness and environmental heterogeneity, but only 2% of this region is currently protected. This study aimed to assess the current protected area system’s effectiveness and to identify priority conservation areas for expanding the existing protected area system. We used the distribution models of 1186 species from three kingdoms (Animalia, Plantae, and Fungi) together with ZONATION software, a conservation planning tool, to determine areas that could help expand the current network of protected areas. We applied three different parametrizations (including only species, using the boundary quality penalty, and using corridor connectivity). We found that protecting an additional 15% of the area would increase, between 16.2% and 19.3%, the protection of the distribution area of all species. We propose that the regions with a consensus of the three parametrizations should be declared as new protected areas to expand 374 km2 to the 216 km2 already protected. Doing so would double the protected surface in central Veracruz. The priority areas identified in this study have more species richness, carbon stock values, natural vegetation cover, and less human impact index than the existing protected areas. If our identified priority areas are declared protected, we could expect a future recovery of endangered species populations for Veracruz. The proposed new protected areas are planned and designed as corridors connecting currently isolated protected areas to promote biodiversity protection.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-27DOI: 10.1080/13504509.2022.2162147
R. Ibrahim, Y. Huang, A. Mohammed, T. Adebayo
ABSTRACT Today, the world is encountering one of the most challenging moments in history due to the surging levels of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions linked to many factors, with natural resources standing out. The recent COP26 extensively echoes the need for a conscious exploration of natural resources in a bid to sustain the ecosystem for the present and future generations. To this end, the current research probes the impacts of natural resources vectoring oil, coal, and gases, on CO2 emissions in selected 10 top natural resource-dependent countries from 1995 to 2019. Additionally, the model considers the pertinent role of renewable energy, green finance, structural change, and technology advancement. The empirical evidence relies on preliminary tests comprising cross-sectional interdependence tests, homogeneity tests, stationarity tests, and cointegration tests that account for the issue of cross-sectional dependence in the panel model, all of which conform to the expected rule of thumb. Besides, second-generation estimators such as CS-ARDL, CCEMG, AMG, and the novel quantile regression, are employed to evaluate the empirical model. The results show that natural resources exacerbate CO2 emission surge. However, moderating impacts are evident from renewable energy, structural change, green finance, and technology. The heterogeneous effects which emanate from quantile regression indicate that the main results are robust. Consequently, cutting down fossil fuels subsidies and increasing investment in renewable energy constitute key recommendations advanced by this study.
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