Pub Date : 2024-03-24DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2024.2330419
David Oscar Yawson, Godfred O. Boateng, Karl Payne, Antonio Joyette, Frederick Ato Armah
Economies and livelihoods in the Caribbean strongly depend on the terrestrial and marine natural resource base. There are critical gaps in quantitative data and the contextual and compositional fac...
{"title":"Perceived changes in the quality of terrestrial, coastal, marine environment and natural resources in coastal communities in the Caribbean","authors":"David Oscar Yawson, Godfred O. Boateng, Karl Payne, Antonio Joyette, Frederick Ato Armah","doi":"10.1080/13549839.2024.2330419","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2024.2330419","url":null,"abstract":"Economies and livelihoods in the Caribbean strongly depend on the terrestrial and marine natural resource base. There are critical gaps in quantitative data and the contextual and compositional fac...","PeriodicalId":54257,"journal":{"name":"Local Environment","volume":"45 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140302919","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 : 2024-03-20DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2024.2330408
Arimiyaw Abdul Somed, Abdul Rashid Adam, Michael Osei Asibey
There are two major debates on the discussion of urban sprawl; those who maintain that it has positive implications on development and sustainability of cities and those who are otherwise. This stu...
{"title":"Rethinking the implications of sprawl to building sustainable secondary cities; case of Tamale, Ghana","authors":"Arimiyaw Abdul Somed, Abdul Rashid Adam, Michael Osei Asibey","doi":"10.1080/13549839.2024.2330408","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2024.2330408","url":null,"abstract":"There are two major debates on the discussion of urban sprawl; those who maintain that it has positive implications on development and sustainability of cities and those who are otherwise. This stu...","PeriodicalId":54257,"journal":{"name":"Local Environment","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140205634","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 : 2024-03-19DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2024.2318574
Fernanda Deister Moreira, Leo Heller, Sonaly Rezende
Water and sanitation are fundamental rights that must be secured in the workplace to promote workers’ health, productivity, and wellbeing. However, informal street workers often do not have these s...
{"title":"Street vendors and the human rights to water and sanitation: a scoping review","authors":"Fernanda Deister Moreira, Leo Heller, Sonaly Rezende","doi":"10.1080/13549839.2024.2318574","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2024.2318574","url":null,"abstract":"Water and sanitation are fundamental rights that must be secured in the workplace to promote workers’ health, productivity, and wellbeing. However, informal street workers often do not have these s...","PeriodicalId":54257,"journal":{"name":"Local Environment","volume":"52 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140171502","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 : 2024-03-07DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2024.2325087
Ben-Willie Kwaku Golo
The negative effects of Ghana’s artisanal mining industry on the sustainability of the natural environment and community life, exemplifies the dilemma of the protracted relationship between the que...
{"title":"Eco-justice and human well-being in Ghana’s artisanal mining communities: towards a theological ethic of sustainable community","authors":"Ben-Willie Kwaku Golo","doi":"10.1080/13549839.2024.2325087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2024.2325087","url":null,"abstract":"The negative effects of Ghana’s artisanal mining industry on the sustainability of the natural environment and community life, exemplifies the dilemma of the protracted relationship between the que...","PeriodicalId":54257,"journal":{"name":"Local Environment","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140070980","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 : 2024-03-05DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2024.2318571
Melanie Lowe, Sarah Bell, Jessie Briggs, Elissa McMillan, Merrick Morley, Maree Grenfell, David Sweeting, Alison Whitten, Nikki Jordan
Urban resilience has rapidly developed as a concept to assist urban actors to prepare for, and respond to, shocks and stresses experienced in cities. Urban resilience has been variously defined, an...
{"title":"A research-based, practice-relevant urban resilience framework for local government","authors":"Melanie Lowe, Sarah Bell, Jessie Briggs, Elissa McMillan, Merrick Morley, Maree Grenfell, David Sweeting, Alison Whitten, Nikki Jordan","doi":"10.1080/13549839.2024.2318571","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2024.2318571","url":null,"abstract":"Urban resilience has rapidly developed as a concept to assist urban actors to prepare for, and respond to, shocks and stresses experienced in cities. Urban resilience has been variously defined, an...","PeriodicalId":54257,"journal":{"name":"Local Environment","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140035655","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}
The built environment plays a key role in everyday wellbeing, as well-designed and accessible environments help fulfil people’s daily needs and activities. Of special relevance is the urban vitalit...
{"title":"Are vital neighbourhoods socially privileged? Exploring the spatial relationship between urban vitality and urban vulnerability","authors":"Irene Gómez-Varo, Xavier Delclòs-Alió, Carme Miralles-Guasch, Oriol Marquet","doi":"10.1080/13549839.2024.2324294","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2024.2324294","url":null,"abstract":"The built environment plays a key role in everyday wellbeing, as well-designed and accessible environments help fulfil people’s daily needs and activities. Of special relevance is the urban vitalit...","PeriodicalId":54257,"journal":{"name":"Local Environment","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140044703","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 : 2024-03-05DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2024.2325079
Märit Jansson, Anna Sunding
Access to urban open space is of large importance for the child-friendliness of built environments and might also play an important role in children’s sustainable recreational mobilities. Yet, litt...
{"title":"Children’s everyday recreational mobilities – growing up in a densifying Swedish small town","authors":"Märit Jansson, Anna Sunding","doi":"10.1080/13549839.2024.2325079","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2024.2325079","url":null,"abstract":"Access to urban open space is of large importance for the child-friendliness of built environments and might also play an important role in children’s sustainable recreational mobilities. Yet, litt...","PeriodicalId":54257,"journal":{"name":"Local Environment","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140035507","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 : 2024-03-05DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2024.2325080
Grey W. Caballero, E. Christian Wells, Serena A. Echols, Emerson H. Peaslee
How do communities living with chronic environmental contamination cope with the social, political, and economic impacts of the contamination? This research employs a community-engaged oral history...
{"title":"Environmental justice from the ground(water) up: coping with contamination in Tallevast, Florida","authors":"Grey W. Caballero, E. Christian Wells, Serena A. Echols, Emerson H. Peaslee","doi":"10.1080/13549839.2024.2325080","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2024.2325080","url":null,"abstract":"How do communities living with chronic environmental contamination cope with the social, political, and economic impacts of the contamination? This research employs a community-engaged oral history...","PeriodicalId":54257,"journal":{"name":"Local Environment","volume":"238 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140035948","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 : 2024-03-01DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2024.2315992
Kaitlin F. Strange, Mar Satorras, Hug March
With climate change increasingly threatening people in uneven and disproportional ways, community-based solutions and interventions have become critical to ensure equitable, just, and inclusive cli...
{"title":"Intersectional climate action: the role of community-based organisations in urban climate justice","authors":"Kaitlin F. Strange, Mar Satorras, Hug March","doi":"10.1080/13549839.2024.2315992","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2024.2315992","url":null,"abstract":"With climate change increasingly threatening people in uneven and disproportional ways, community-based solutions and interventions have become critical to ensure equitable, just, and inclusive cli...","PeriodicalId":54257,"journal":{"name":"Local Environment","volume":"101 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140011075","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 : 2024-02-28DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2024.2320251
Olalekan Tolulope B. Aduloju, Olumuyiwa Bayo Akinbamijo, Abdullateef Iyanda Bako, Abdulfatai Olanrewaju Anofi, Kolade Victor Otokiti
Growing food in upper- and lower-income countries commands different connotations and dimensions. Urban agriculture (UA) is increasingly an essential urban fabric and a critical enabler of sustaina...
{"title":"Spatial analysis of urban agriculture in the utilization of open spaces in Nigeria","authors":"Olalekan Tolulope B. Aduloju, Olumuyiwa Bayo Akinbamijo, Abdullateef Iyanda Bako, Abdulfatai Olanrewaju Anofi, Kolade Victor Otokiti","doi":"10.1080/13549839.2024.2320251","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2024.2320251","url":null,"abstract":"Growing food in upper- and lower-income countries commands different connotations and dimensions. Urban agriculture (UA) is increasingly an essential urban fabric and a critical enabler of sustaina...","PeriodicalId":54257,"journal":{"name":"Local Environment","volume":"51 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140009930","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}