Pub Date : 2024-11-19eCollection Date: 2025-01-01DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2024.2428215
Daniele Tubino de Souza, Lena Hommes, Arjen Wals, Jaime Hoogesteger, Rutgerd Boelens, Bibiana Duarte-Abadía, Juan Pablo Hidalgo-Bastidas, Edward Huijbens, Leila M Harris, Diana Suhardiman, Lieke Melsen, Tom Buijse, Fabio de Castro, Leontien Cremers, Barbara Hogenboom, Mariela Garcia Vargas, Denisse Roca-Servat, Gert Jan Veldwisch, K J Joy
This paper develops the methodological concept of river co-learning arenas (RCAs) and explores their potential to strengthen innovative grassroots river initiatives, enliven river commons, regenerate river ecologies, and foster greater socio-ecological justice. The integrity of river systems has been threatened in profound ways over the last century. Pollution, damming, canalisation, and water grabbing are some examples of pressures threatening the entwined lifeworlds of human and non-human communities that depend on riverine systems. Finding ways to reverse the trends of environmental degradation demands complex spatial-temporal, political, and institutional articulations across different levels of governance (from local to global) and among a plurality of actors who operate from diverse spheres of knowledge and systems of practice, and who have distinct capacities to affect decision-making. In this context, grassroots river initiatives worldwide use new multi-actor and multi-level dialogue arenas to develop proposals for river regeneration and promote social-ecological justice in opposition to dominant technocratic-hydraulic development strategies. This paper conceptualises these spaces of dialogue and action as RCAs and critically reflects on ways of organising and supporting RCAs while facilitating their cross-fertilisation in transdisciplinary practice. By integrating studies, debates, and theories from diverse disciplines, we generate multi-faceted insights and present cornerstones for the engagement with and/or enaction of RCAs. This encompasses five main themes central to RCAs: (1) River knowledge encounters and truth regimes, (2) transgressive co-learning, (3) confrontation and collaboration dynamics, (4) ongoing reflexivity, (5) transcultural knowledge assemblages and translocal bridging of rooted knowledge.
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Pub Date : 2024-09-13DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2024.2402714
Roberta Moruzzo, Salomon Espinosa Diaz, Giulia Granai, Francesco Di Iacovo, Francesco Riccioli
In addition to providing private goods such as food, fibre and biomass, agriculture can deliver a variety of environmental public goods and ecosystem services, such as biodiversity conservation, wa...
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Pub Date : 2024-09-11DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2024.2402716
Aji Saputra, Oekan S. Abdoellah, Gemilang Lara Utama
Urban Agriculture in Indonesia is seen as a multidimensional approach to overcome urban challenges and offers several potential social, economic, and environmental benefits. This commentary article...
{"title":"Challenges and opportunities of urban agriculture programme implementation in Indonesia: social, economic, and environmental perspectives","authors":"Aji Saputra, Oekan S. Abdoellah, Gemilang Lara Utama","doi":"10.1080/13549839.2024.2402716","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2024.2402716","url":null,"abstract":"Urban Agriculture in Indonesia is seen as a multidimensional approach to overcome urban challenges and offers several potential social, economic, and environmental benefits. This commentary article...","PeriodicalId":54257,"journal":{"name":"Local Environment","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142247722","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 : 2024-09-03DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2024.2386966
Michael Osei Asibey, Ebenezer Akakpo, Yetimoni Kpeebi
Urban green infrastructure is critical for creating garden cities, promoting public health, environmental quality, and building resilience to climate change. While these spaces are increasingly rec...
{"title":"Revisiting the garden city concept and urban green infrastructure discourse in sustainable city planning in sub-Saharan Africa","authors":"Michael Osei Asibey, Ebenezer Akakpo, Yetimoni Kpeebi","doi":"10.1080/13549839.2024.2386966","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2024.2386966","url":null,"abstract":"Urban green infrastructure is critical for creating garden cities, promoting public health, environmental quality, and building resilience to climate change. While these spaces are increasingly rec...","PeriodicalId":54257,"journal":{"name":"Local Environment","volume":"109 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142178841","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 : 2024-09-03DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2024.2391057
Daisaku Yamamoto, Yumiko Yamamoto
Local knowledge is recognised as a critical element of global energy transition and energy justice. This paper explores the roles local knowledge in the formation of a community organisation respon...
{"title":"If it’s in our backyard: the roles of local knowledge in the formation of a nuclear oversight organisation","authors":"Daisaku Yamamoto, Yumiko Yamamoto","doi":"10.1080/13549839.2024.2391057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2024.2391057","url":null,"abstract":"Local knowledge is recognised as a critical element of global energy transition and energy justice. This paper explores the roles local knowledge in the formation of a community organisation respon...","PeriodicalId":54257,"journal":{"name":"Local Environment","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142178842","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 : 2024-08-28DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2024.2390464
Hung Gia Hoang, Sen Thi Trinh
The purpose of this study is to investigate the smallholder paddy farmers’ perceptions of climate change and identify factors that affect their perceptions of it in Vietnam. A sample size of 260 wa...
本研究旨在调查越南小农对气候变化的看法,并找出影响其看法的因素。样本量为 260 名农民。
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Pub Date : 2024-08-23DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2024.2394678
Rachael Walshe, Lisa Law, Neus (Snowy) Evans
This paper explores the potential role of school garden learning experiences in remediating Environmental Generational Amnesia (EGA). EGA is a generational type of environmental forgetting brought ...
{"title":"Understanding environmental generational amnesia through urban school garden learning experiences in Gimuy/Cairns, Australia","authors":"Rachael Walshe, Lisa Law, Neus (Snowy) Evans","doi":"10.1080/13549839.2024.2394678","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2024.2394678","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores the potential role of school garden learning experiences in remediating Environmental Generational Amnesia (EGA). EGA is a generational type of environmental forgetting brought ...","PeriodicalId":54257,"journal":{"name":"Local Environment","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142178843","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 : 2024-08-22DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2024.2394667
Yuan Sun, Bishawjit Mallick, Mucahid Mustafa Bayrak
While climate change may amplify global mobility patterns, most affected individuals voluntarily stay in their locales. This research studies the multiple forms of voluntary non-migration amidst so...
{"title":"“No fish – no fishermen”: staying as a voluntary choice despite environmental risks","authors":"Yuan Sun, Bishawjit Mallick, Mucahid Mustafa Bayrak","doi":"10.1080/13549839.2024.2394667","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2024.2394667","url":null,"abstract":"While climate change may amplify global mobility patterns, most affected individuals voluntarily stay in their locales. This research studies the multiple forms of voluntary non-migration amidst so...","PeriodicalId":54257,"journal":{"name":"Local Environment","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142178846","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 : 2024-08-20DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2024.2391035
Dylan D. Furszyfer Del Rio, Benjamin K. Sovacool, Steve Griffiths, Joao Uratani
Energy and mobility poverty are often experienced together by vulnerable and disadvantaged segments of society. Effectively addressing these issues requires identifying specific groups within uniqu...
{"title":"Addressing energy and mobility poverty in the Middle East: lived experience, spatial injustice, and temporary migrants in the United Arab Emirates","authors":"Dylan D. Furszyfer Del Rio, Benjamin K. Sovacool, Steve Griffiths, Joao Uratani","doi":"10.1080/13549839.2024.2391035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2024.2391035","url":null,"abstract":"Energy and mobility poverty are often experienced together by vulnerable and disadvantaged segments of society. Effectively addressing these issues requires identifying specific groups within uniqu...","PeriodicalId":54257,"journal":{"name":"Local Environment","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142178844","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 : 2024-08-17DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2024.2386961
Felix Chari, Bethuel Sibongiseni Ngcamu
More than half of the world’s population lives in cities, and this proportion is projected to reach 70% by 2050. This increased urbanisation has fuelled a growing divide among urban dwellers, bring...
{"title":"Achieving social inclusion for vulnerable urban residents through community gardens: a case of Bulawayo city, Zimbabwe","authors":"Felix Chari, Bethuel Sibongiseni Ngcamu","doi":"10.1080/13549839.2024.2386961","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2024.2386961","url":null,"abstract":"More than half of the world’s population lives in cities, and this proportion is projected to reach 70% by 2050. This increased urbanisation has fuelled a growing divide among urban dwellers, bring...","PeriodicalId":54257,"journal":{"name":"Local Environment","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142178845","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}