Pub Date : 2022-07-04DOI: 10.1080/13504509.2022.2036855
Sodiq Arogundade, A. Hassan, Santos Bila
ABSTRACT This study examines the impact of diaspora income on the ecological footprint of 22 African countries. Methodologically, we used the robust type fixed-effect model, fixed effect instrumental variable regression, method of moments quantile regression (MMQR), and the heterogenous granger causality test. There are four main important findings from this empirical study: (1) diaspora income has a negative and statistically significant impact on ecological footprint. (2) financial development plays a crucial role in mitigating the environmental degradation impact of diaspora income, and African countries must achieve an annual estimated threshold of financial development before they could reap the environmental quality impact of diaspora income. (3) the role of financial development in reducing the environmental degradation impact of diaspora income is less for higher polluting countries in Africa. (4) unidirectional causality from diaspora income to ecological footprint. In ensuring a sustainable environment, we recommend that African governments provide a tax credit to the recipient of the diaspora income who invests in environment-friendly technologies.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-04DOI: 10.1080/13504509.2022.2036856
Sara Al-Mulla, Ibrahim Ari, M. Koç
ABSTRACT Today, social media has been taking an increasingly expansive, invasive, and persuasive role in shaping the individuals’ – and hence – the families’ and society’s behavior, actions, habits, consumption, and production patterns. This paper presents findings from a study focusing on developing a strategy to change people’s behavior towards sustainability and turn them into actions by utilizing education for sustainability, pervasive design, digital media, and gamification concepts and methods. To this end, first, a survey is conducted to understand the current knowledge, awareness, and responses of a representative segment of society in Doha, Qatar on sustainability issues, concerns, and problems. Second, a social experiment is performed through a social media account in order to increase people’s knowledge, awareness, skills, and actions for sustainable living. Finally, a follow-up survey is performed to assess and understand the outcomes of the social experiment (Instagram account campaign) among its followers. This study aims to learn the effectiveness of the proposed social media experiment for a sustainable lifestyle in Qatar among college-level educated young adults. In conclusion, following the social media campaign, the results show that 49% of followers learned more about sustainable living and 25% developed at least one sustainable habit in two months. Thus, this study demonstrates the potential of using social media, persuasive design, and sustainability education concepts and methods to change people’s behavior into sustainable actions to achieve a more sustainable living, society, and world.
{"title":"Social media for sustainability education: gaining knowledge and skills into actions for sustainable living","authors":"Sara Al-Mulla, Ibrahim Ari, M. Koç","doi":"10.1080/13504509.2022.2036856","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13504509.2022.2036856","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Today, social media has been taking an increasingly expansive, invasive, and persuasive role in shaping the individuals’ – and hence – the families’ and society’s behavior, actions, habits, consumption, and production patterns. This paper presents findings from a study focusing on developing a strategy to change people’s behavior towards sustainability and turn them into actions by utilizing education for sustainability, pervasive design, digital media, and gamification concepts and methods. To this end, first, a survey is conducted to understand the current knowledge, awareness, and responses of a representative segment of society in Doha, Qatar on sustainability issues, concerns, and problems. Second, a social experiment is performed through a social media account in order to increase people’s knowledge, awareness, skills, and actions for sustainable living. Finally, a follow-up survey is performed to assess and understand the outcomes of the social experiment (Instagram account campaign) among its followers. This study aims to learn the effectiveness of the proposed social media experiment for a sustainable lifestyle in Qatar among college-level educated young adults. In conclusion, following the social media campaign, the results show that 49% of followers learned more about sustainable living and 25% developed at least one sustainable habit in two months. Thus, this study demonstrates the potential of using social media, persuasive design, and sustainability education concepts and methods to change people’s behavior into sustainable actions to achieve a more sustainable living, society, and world.","PeriodicalId":50287,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology","volume":"2016 1","pages":"455 - 471"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2022-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86466396","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 : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13504509.2022.2095452
C. Mac-lean, Pablo Núñez-Cárdenas, Bárbara Rodríguez, C. Aldea
ABSTRACT Green buildings have gained increasing relevance and market share in recent decades. Also, higher education institutions are progressively incorporating the conceptualisation of sustainable development by greening campuses. Thus, given the construction sector relevance in climate change mitigation and the role universities have to play as models for society, the purpose of the present paper is twofold. First, the authors develop a baseline study to determine the extent to which green buildings’ features and certifications are being incorporated in public Chilean higher education institutions, as a first of its kind effort in the higher education sector in Chile. Second, the authors explore the opportunities that can support the advancement of campus greening through green buildings deployment on university campuses in Chile. This study follows a qualitative strategy approach in the form of a survey design based on the UI GreenMetric World University Ranking that was administered through an online questionnaire to representatives who hold the position of Sustainability or Infrastructure Heads in public universities, which are united in the Chilean State Universities Consortium. The main findings suggest a general maturation process of green building features´ incorporation on campuses at Chilean public higher education institutions in early or transitional stages. The leading indicators relate to open space, pedestrian paths, and efficient appliances, whereas the reported performance is lower with respect to sustainability budget, zero emission vehicles, and greenhouse gas emission reduction programmes. The opportunities identified for promoting the implementation of green buildings relate to three entrenched dimensions: research, promotion, and public policy.
{"title":"Green buildings in Chilean public higher education: a trend or a must-have in university strategic guidelines?","authors":"C. Mac-lean, Pablo Núñez-Cárdenas, Bárbara Rodríguez, C. Aldea","doi":"10.1080/13504509.2022.2095452","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13504509.2022.2095452","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Green buildings have gained increasing relevance and market share in recent decades. Also, higher education institutions are progressively incorporating the conceptualisation of sustainable development by greening campuses. Thus, given the construction sector relevance in climate change mitigation and the role universities have to play as models for society, the purpose of the present paper is twofold. First, the authors develop a baseline study to determine the extent to which green buildings’ features and certifications are being incorporated in public Chilean higher education institutions, as a first of its kind effort in the higher education sector in Chile. Second, the authors explore the opportunities that can support the advancement of campus greening through green buildings deployment on university campuses in Chile. This study follows a qualitative strategy approach in the form of a survey design based on the UI GreenMetric World University Ranking that was administered through an online questionnaire to representatives who hold the position of Sustainability or Infrastructure Heads in public universities, which are united in the Chilean State Universities Consortium. The main findings suggest a general maturation process of green building features´ incorporation on campuses at Chilean public higher education institutions in early or transitional stages. The leading indicators relate to open space, pedestrian paths, and efficient appliances, whereas the reported performance is lower with respect to sustainability budget, zero emission vehicles, and greenhouse gas emission reduction programmes. The opportunities identified for promoting the implementation of green buildings relate to three entrenched dimensions: research, promotion, and public policy.","PeriodicalId":50287,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology","volume":"29 1","pages":"756 - 770"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81298884","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 : 2022-06-14DOI: 10.1080/13504509.2022.2084795
Jorge Cunha, Carla Ferreira, M. Araújo, M. Nunes, P. Ferreira
ABSTRACT Recent literature on social innovation highlights its conceptual ambiguity and fragmentation. According to this context, this paper explores how social innovation can contribute to the achievement of sustainable development goals (SDGs). Using a case study approach, we apply a mixed research methodology comprising a content analysis followed by multiple correspondence analysis. We examine 209 social innovation projects financed by the Portugal Social Innovation program in three dimensions: empowerment, content, and process. The social innovation projects addressed showed that social innovation projects can have varied objectives, be developed in different intervention areas, and empower different vulnerable groups of beneficiaries. The findings put in evidence the interaction between social innovation and SDGs, therefore social innovation supports the three sustainability dimensions: economy, society, and environment. In this sense, it is possible to conclude that SDGs constitute a framework that positions social innovation, bringing clarity and structure to the field. This identification and classification can promote the creation of a market of supply and demand of social innovations, strengthening the social innovation ecosystem.
{"title":"Social innovation projects link to sustainable development goals: case of Portugal","authors":"Jorge Cunha, Carla Ferreira, M. Araújo, M. Nunes, P. Ferreira","doi":"10.1080/13504509.2022.2084795","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13504509.2022.2084795","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Recent literature on social innovation highlights its conceptual ambiguity and fragmentation. According to this context, this paper explores how social innovation can contribute to the achievement of sustainable development goals (SDGs). Using a case study approach, we apply a mixed research methodology comprising a content analysis followed by multiple correspondence analysis. We examine 209 social innovation projects financed by the Portugal Social Innovation program in three dimensions: empowerment, content, and process. The social innovation projects addressed showed that social innovation projects can have varied objectives, be developed in different intervention areas, and empower different vulnerable groups of beneficiaries. The findings put in evidence the interaction between social innovation and SDGs, therefore social innovation supports the three sustainability dimensions: economy, society, and environment. In this sense, it is possible to conclude that SDGs constitute a framework that positions social innovation, bringing clarity and structure to the field. This identification and classification can promote the creation of a market of supply and demand of social innovations, strengthening the social innovation ecosystem.","PeriodicalId":50287,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology","volume":"1 1","pages":"725 - 737"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2022-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83060231","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 : 2022-06-13DOI: 10.1080/13504509.2022.2087115
M. Kartal, Serpil Kılıç Depren, F. Ayhan, Özer Depren
ABSTRACT The study investigates impact of energy consumption on environmental degradation at aggregated and disaggregated levels. In this context, the study considers carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions as proxy of environmental degradation, and focuses on the United States of America (USA) as the biggest economy and highest second carbon-emitting country. Moreover, the study uses monthly data between 1989 January and 2021 September and performs nonlinear approaches as Wavelet Coherence (WC), Granger Causality-in-Quantiles (GCQ), and Quantile-on-Quantile Regression (QQR). Besides, Quantile Regression (QR) is used for robustness checks of the QQR. The results show that (i) energy consumption has an important impact on the CO2 emissions in the short, medium and long term, while the impact changes according to times and frequencies; (ii) causal effect exists in almost all quantiles excluding some lower (0.05, 0.25), middle (0.65, 0.70, 0.75, 0.80) and higher (0.95) quantiles, whereas indicator-based results change a bit; (iii) the QR results confirm that the QQR results are robust; (iv) overall, the effects of the energy consumption indicators change according to times, frequencies, quantiles, and aggregated/disaggregated levels. Hence, the empirical outcomes underline the significance of renewable energy consumption in improving environmental quality through limiting CO2 emissions at aggregated and disaggregated levels. The results imply that the USA policymakers should focus on the efforts the decreasing fossil sources and increasing renewable sources through conversion of energy systems to limit CO2 emissions while considering changing impacts of energy consumption at various times, frequencies, quantiles, and aggregated/disaggregated levels.
{"title":"Impact of renewable and fossil fuel energy consumption on environmental degradation: evidence from USA by nonlinear approaches","authors":"M. Kartal, Serpil Kılıç Depren, F. Ayhan, Özer Depren","doi":"10.1080/13504509.2022.2087115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13504509.2022.2087115","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The study investigates impact of energy consumption on environmental degradation at aggregated and disaggregated levels. In this context, the study considers carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions as proxy of environmental degradation, and focuses on the United States of America (USA) as the biggest economy and highest second carbon-emitting country. Moreover, the study uses monthly data between 1989 January and 2021 September and performs nonlinear approaches as Wavelet Coherence (WC), Granger Causality-in-Quantiles (GCQ), and Quantile-on-Quantile Regression (QQR). Besides, Quantile Regression (QR) is used for robustness checks of the QQR. The results show that (i) energy consumption has an important impact on the CO2 emissions in the short, medium and long term, while the impact changes according to times and frequencies; (ii) causal effect exists in almost all quantiles excluding some lower (0.05, 0.25), middle (0.65, 0.70, 0.75, 0.80) and higher (0.95) quantiles, whereas indicator-based results change a bit; (iii) the QR results confirm that the QQR results are robust; (iv) overall, the effects of the energy consumption indicators change according to times, frequencies, quantiles, and aggregated/disaggregated levels. Hence, the empirical outcomes underline the significance of renewable energy consumption in improving environmental quality through limiting CO2 emissions at aggregated and disaggregated levels. The results imply that the USA policymakers should focus on the efforts the decreasing fossil sources and increasing renewable sources through conversion of energy systems to limit CO2 emissions while considering changing impacts of energy consumption at various times, frequencies, quantiles, and aggregated/disaggregated levels.","PeriodicalId":50287,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology","volume":"2 1","pages":"738 - 755"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2022-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73187670","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}
ABSTRACT A variety of factors may affect the planning and design of urban infrastructure but urban population usually is the primary consideration given scaling laws between population and infrastructure. Although urban physical spatial form and infrastructure are physically attached, their allometric scaling has not been systematically addressed. In this study, we examine how five types of infrastructure, including roads, water supply pipelines, drainage pipelines, buses, and schools, affect urban spatial form characterized with landscape metrics derived for 78 large cities in China. The results suggest that urban infrastructure has scaling relations with landscape shape index (LSI), area-weighted mean perimeter-area ratio (PARA_AM), and largest patch index. Specifically, at the mean value of PARA_AM, road area increases about 2.5 times when doubling LSI. Under the same population size, cities with more fragmented spatial form need more investments in infrastructure, particularly roads and other traffic components. It is concluded that urban infrastructure experiences a super-linear quantitative relationship with landscape metrics, and a city with a more complex urban form spatially requires more infrastructure. The coefficients of the regression models show a lot of variations but the allometric scaling is meaningful for the planning and design of urban infrastructure. It will be helpful to incorporate ecological landscape metrics into urban planning and development.
{"title":"Exploring the scaling relations between urban spatial form and infrastructure","authors":"Yuqiu Jia, Lina Tang, Panfeng Zhang, Mingfei Xu, Lei Luo, Qi Zhang","doi":"10.1080/13504509.2022.2084796","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13504509.2022.2084796","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT A variety of factors may affect the planning and design of urban infrastructure but urban population usually is the primary consideration given scaling laws between population and infrastructure. Although urban physical spatial form and infrastructure are physically attached, their allometric scaling has not been systematically addressed. In this study, we examine how five types of infrastructure, including roads, water supply pipelines, drainage pipelines, buses, and schools, affect urban spatial form characterized with landscape metrics derived for 78 large cities in China. The results suggest that urban infrastructure has scaling relations with landscape shape index (LSI), area-weighted mean perimeter-area ratio (PARA_AM), and largest patch index. Specifically, at the mean value of PARA_AM, road area increases about 2.5 times when doubling LSI. Under the same population size, cities with more fragmented spatial form need more investments in infrastructure, particularly roads and other traffic components. It is concluded that urban infrastructure experiences a super-linear quantitative relationship with landscape metrics, and a city with a more complex urban form spatially requires more infrastructure. The coefficients of the regression models show a lot of variations but the allometric scaling is meaningful for the planning and design of urban infrastructure. It will be helpful to incorporate ecological landscape metrics into urban planning and development.","PeriodicalId":50287,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology","volume":"12 1","pages":"665 - 675"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2022-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90472956","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 : 2022-06-06DOI: 10.1080/13504509.2022.2084794
G. Candan, Merve Cengiz Toklu
ABSTRACT Circular economy (CE), which has emerged with the integration of environmental science and sustainable development, has a significant contribution to human development and is a constantly developing concept that can be measured at the country, region, city, or enterprise level. Evaluating the CE performances of the European Union (EU) member countries at specific periods is crucial for monitoring their development. This study bridges the gap in the literature in terms of the method, dataset, and comparative analysis used while measuring the CE performances, and this is one of the first studies to look at the importance weights of CE criteria. In this study, a novel approach is proposed to evaluate the CE performances of EU member countries. The evaluation criteria are based on the European Commission CE monitoring framework in the proposed approach. The importance weights of criteria are determined using the fuzzy Simple Multi-Attribute Rating Technique (SMART) approach. The EU member countries are ranked according to their CE performances with the Combinative Distance-Based Assessment (CODAS) method considering the weights of the evaluation criteria. The proposed evaluation approach is applied by taking 2014, 2016, and 2018 years data into account. As a result of the application, according to the CE efficiency, the top five countries are the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Belgium, France, and Germany. The study’s findings can assist researchers and policymakers in gaining a better understanding of countries’ CE performance levels.
{"title":"A comparative analysis of the circular economy performances for European Union countries","authors":"G. Candan, Merve Cengiz Toklu","doi":"10.1080/13504509.2022.2084794","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13504509.2022.2084794","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Circular economy (CE), which has emerged with the integration of environmental science and sustainable development, has a significant contribution to human development and is a constantly developing concept that can be measured at the country, region, city, or enterprise level. Evaluating the CE performances of the European Union (EU) member countries at specific periods is crucial for monitoring their development. This study bridges the gap in the literature in terms of the method, dataset, and comparative analysis used while measuring the CE performances, and this is one of the first studies to look at the importance weights of CE criteria. In this study, a novel approach is proposed to evaluate the CE performances of EU member countries. The evaluation criteria are based on the European Commission CE monitoring framework in the proposed approach. The importance weights of criteria are determined using the fuzzy Simple Multi-Attribute Rating Technique (SMART) approach. The EU member countries are ranked according to their CE performances with the Combinative Distance-Based Assessment (CODAS) method considering the weights of the evaluation criteria. The proposed evaluation approach is applied by taking 2014, 2016, and 2018 years data into account. As a result of the application, according to the CE efficiency, the top five countries are the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Belgium, France, and Germany. The study’s findings can assist researchers and policymakers in gaining a better understanding of countries’ CE performance levels.","PeriodicalId":50287,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology","volume":"100 1","pages":"653 - 664"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2022-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82288102","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 : 2022-05-25DOI: 10.1080/13504509.2022.2080296
Nágela Bianca do Prado, G. Moraes, B. Fischer, R. Anholon, I. Rampasso
ABSTRACT Ecopreneurs emerged as a specific class of entrepreneurs that demonstrate skills to connect business activities with the natural environment. However, while literature has come a long way in addressing drivers and motivations behind value creation in ‘traditional’ entrepreneurs, a conspicuous gap remains when it comes to the generation of environmental value in the ecopreneurial cohort. In this article we assess these relationships by focusing on the impact of ecopreneurial perspectives on environmental value creation, considering the effects of empathy, moral obligation, ecopreneurial self-efficacy, perceived social support, and environmental engagement of ecopreneurs. The sample consisted of 130 ecopreneurs participating in the Atlantic Forest Connection Project in southeastern Brazil, home to one of the most important ecoregions in the world. Analytical procedures involved Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) and fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA). According to the PLS-SEM results, antecedents with a positive effect comprehend ecopreneurial self-efficacy, perceived social support, and environmental engagement. Complementarily, the fsQCA analysis indicates that three different configurations are sufficient for a high level of value creation, where empathy and perceived social support function as pivotal elements across paths. These findings contribute to formulating initiatives that aim at fostering sustainable transitions in entrepreneurial ecosystems. The research also contributes with analytical insights to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
{"title":"Antecedents of environmental value creation: an analysis with ecopreneurs in a developing country","authors":"Nágela Bianca do Prado, G. Moraes, B. Fischer, R. Anholon, I. Rampasso","doi":"10.1080/13504509.2022.2080296","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13504509.2022.2080296","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Ecopreneurs emerged as a specific class of entrepreneurs that demonstrate skills to connect business activities with the natural environment. However, while literature has come a long way in addressing drivers and motivations behind value creation in ‘traditional’ entrepreneurs, a conspicuous gap remains when it comes to the generation of environmental value in the ecopreneurial cohort. In this article we assess these relationships by focusing on the impact of ecopreneurial perspectives on environmental value creation, considering the effects of empathy, moral obligation, ecopreneurial self-efficacy, perceived social support, and environmental engagement of ecopreneurs. The sample consisted of 130 ecopreneurs participating in the Atlantic Forest Connection Project in southeastern Brazil, home to one of the most important ecoregions in the world. Analytical procedures involved Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) and fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA). According to the PLS-SEM results, antecedents with a positive effect comprehend ecopreneurial self-efficacy, perceived social support, and environmental engagement. Complementarily, the fsQCA analysis indicates that three different configurations are sufficient for a high level of value creation, where empathy and perceived social support function as pivotal elements across paths. These findings contribute to formulating initiatives that aim at fostering sustainable transitions in entrepreneurial ecosystems. The research also contributes with analytical insights to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).","PeriodicalId":50287,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology","volume":"82 1","pages":"709 - 724"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2022-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84350225","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 : 2022-05-20DOI: 10.1080/13504509.2022.2075483
Lan Zhang, Guowen Huang, Yongtao Li, Shitai Bao
ABSTRACT To objectively identify the research hot topics, development trends, and frontiers of landsenses ecology, the current paper uses CiteSpace software to carry out keyword co-occurrence and cluster analysis on relevant literature collected from the Web of Science database. The paper then summarizes characteristics and trends in the development of this discipline and briefly introduces linguistic landsense ecology, a branch of landsenses ecology concerned with the study of the relationship between language and environment. This survey shows that landsenses ecology draws on the Chinese philosophy of integrating ‘heaven, earth and man’, and emphasizes the comprehensive analysis of various elements both natural, economic, and humanistic, as well as incorporating multidimensional sensitivity to people’s physical senses and psychological perceptions. Its goal is to realize a dynamic balance between human well-being and ecosystem services and to achieve their sustainable development. In general, landsenses ecology provides the advantages of an analytical framework for sustainable development oriented towards human well-being, and great progress has been made in obtaining in-situ information on ecosystem services via the quantification of human perceptions. This integrated approach promotes an organic combination of natural environmental factors with human physical senses and psychological perceptions, so as to provide comprehensive and dynamic information for the sustainability of ecosystems in relation to human well-being. Landsenses ecology also has unique cross-cultural and interdisciplinary features, providing a theoretical framework for researchers from different cultural and disciplinary backgrounds in dealing with complex socio-environmental problems, and thus ensuring the orderly implementation of sustainable development.
摘要:为了客观识别陆地感官生态学的研究热点、发展趋势和前沿，本文利用CiteSpace软件对Web of Science数据库中收集的相关文献进行关键词共现和聚类分析。然后总结了该学科的特点和发展趋势，并简要介绍了语言学生态学的一个分支——语言学生态学，主要研究语言与环境的关系。景观生态学借鉴了中国“天、地、人”三位一体的哲学思想，强调对自然、经济、人文等多种要素的综合分析，并融入了对人的生理感官和心理感知的多维敏感性。其目标是实现人类福祉与生态系统服务之间的动态平衡，并实现其可持续发展。总体而言，陆地感官生态学为面向人类福祉的可持续发展提供了分析框架的优势，并且在通过人类感知的量化获取生态系统服务的原位信息方面取得了很大进展。这种综合方法促进了自然环境因素与人类生理感官和心理感知的有机结合，从而为与人类福祉有关的生态系统的可持续性提供全面和动态的信息。景观生态学还具有独特的跨文化和跨学科特征，为不同文化和学科背景的研究人员处理复杂的社会环境问题提供了理论框架，从而保证了可持续发展的有序实施。
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Pub Date : 2022-05-18DOI: 10.1080/13504509.2022.2073616
K. Thapa, David King, Z. Banhalmi-Zakar, A. Diedrich
ABSTRACT Nature-based tourism, which includes visits to protected areas, is a growing trend. This may include consumptive and non-consumptive activities, with nature-based tourists being motivated to experience local culture and nature. Thus, tourism can contribute economically and socially to communities associated with protected areas, with the outcomes being both benefits and costs to local people. We carried out a systematic literature review to document and characterise the outcomes of nature-based tourism for people living in and around protected areas (terrestrial and inland waters). We evaluated 89 papers published from 1996 to 2020, most of which were conducted in low- and middle-income countries. The main benefits were employment, business opportunities and income, and the main costs were acculturation and abandonment of traditional lifestyle/practices, price inflation and conflict/crime. While most benefits were economic, most costs were socio-cultural. We found that benefits were most frequently experienced individually and costs experienced mostly at the collective or community levels. Inconsistencies in reporting of impacts suggests that future research should take a more consistent and systematic approach to evaluating benefits and costs of nature-based tourism from both the demographic and geographic perspectives, be more inclusive, and pay equal attention to objective and subjective measures of costs and benefits.
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