Pub Date : 2023-11-21DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2023.2284937
Irtifa Mukhter, Richa Chowdhary
One of the Millennium Development Goals is to ensure environmental sustainability. Farm households and rural communities are significant producers of manure, crop residues or mixed solid waste dail...
千年发展目标之一是确保环境的可持续性。农户和农村社区是粪肥、作物残茬或混合固体废物的重要生产者。
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Pub Date : 2023-11-16DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2023.2282094
Hartuti Purnaweni, Titik Djumiarti, Ali Roziqin, Budi Santoso
This study aimed to analyze local government strategies in advancing social accountability regarding the environmental impact of Slaughterhouses in Semarang City, Indonesia. It also highlighted the...
本研究旨在分析印尼三宝垄市屠宰场对环境影响的社会问责政策。它还突出了……
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Pub Date : 2023-11-16DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2023.2282064
Victor Kwesi Quagraine, Michael Osei Asibey, Kwabena Fosuhene Mosner-Ansong
Urban parks provide environmental, social and economic benefits to users. A notable model that sought to integrate green spaces and create self-sufficient, healthy and pleasant places to live by co...
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Pub Date : 2023-11-15DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2023.2280223
Henry Mensah, Dorothy Julian Nalumu
Waste picking within the informal sector is essential to solid waste management policy and practice. A healthy number of academic articles have emerged from the practice of waste picking, particula...
{"title":"Transforming waste-picking landscape in Ghana: from survival to sustainable enterprise","authors":"Henry Mensah, Dorothy Julian Nalumu","doi":"10.1080/13549839.2023.2280223","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2023.2280223","url":null,"abstract":"Waste picking within the informal sector is essential to solid waste management policy and practice. A healthy number of academic articles have emerged from the practice of waste picking, particula...","PeriodicalId":54257,"journal":{"name":"Local Environment","volume":"52 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138540831","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 : 2023-11-10DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2023.2279546
Zhiming Li, Liang Xia
ABSTRACTUrban parks provide critical ecosystem services and satisfy residents’ recreational needs. As the population ages, whether the elderly can enjoy park resources equally has become an important issue in spatial justice research. However, most research on park equity is based on accessibility evaluation at spatial scales. Insufficient attention has been paid to selectivity and convenience in accessing parks for the elderly, as well as the importance of their perceptions and preferences in park-selection decision-making. Thus, this study constructed a multidimensional model to assess park equity for the elderly that included accessibility (Ai), proximity (Pi), quality (Qi), and diversity (Di). Our analysis of Yangzhou, China, revealed the following: (1) In Yangzhou central districts, only 21.46% of the elderly in the community could have a high level of park access, while entering parks was difficult or almost impossible for them in 28.34% of the communities. (2) The demographic distribution of the elderly was complete mismatched with all four assessment dimensions, among which accessibility was the most unequal. (3) The number and types of facilities inside parks were the most important considerations for the elderly when choosing parks, and the comfort level of parks had the most influence on their decision-making. The research results aim to make targeted recommendations to ameliorate inequalities in park access for the elderly and contribute to the construction of “age-friendly” cities.KEYWORDS: Elderlyspatial equityurban parkmultidimensional evaluationaccessibilitypreference AcknowledgementsThe authors greatly appreciate everyone for their enthusiastic help during the writing process. We thank the corresponding author for his generous support of this study. We would also like to thank the reviewers for their helpful comments and suggestions.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).
{"title":"Visualising spatial equity of park-access for the elderly from a multidimensional perspective in Yangzhou, China","authors":"Zhiming Li, Liang Xia","doi":"10.1080/13549839.2023.2279546","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2023.2279546","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTUrban parks provide critical ecosystem services and satisfy residents’ recreational needs. As the population ages, whether the elderly can enjoy park resources equally has become an important issue in spatial justice research. However, most research on park equity is based on accessibility evaluation at spatial scales. Insufficient attention has been paid to selectivity and convenience in accessing parks for the elderly, as well as the importance of their perceptions and preferences in park-selection decision-making. Thus, this study constructed a multidimensional model to assess park equity for the elderly that included accessibility (Ai), proximity (Pi), quality (Qi), and diversity (Di). Our analysis of Yangzhou, China, revealed the following: (1) In Yangzhou central districts, only 21.46% of the elderly in the community could have a high level of park access, while entering parks was difficult or almost impossible for them in 28.34% of the communities. (2) The demographic distribution of the elderly was complete mismatched with all four assessment dimensions, among which accessibility was the most unequal. (3) The number and types of facilities inside parks were the most important considerations for the elderly when choosing parks, and the comfort level of parks had the most influence on their decision-making. The research results aim to make targeted recommendations to ameliorate inequalities in park access for the elderly and contribute to the construction of “age-friendly” cities.KEYWORDS: Elderlyspatial equityurban parkmultidimensional evaluationaccessibilitypreference AcknowledgementsThe authors greatly appreciate everyone for their enthusiastic help during the writing process. We thank the corresponding author for his generous support of this study. We would also like to thank the reviewers for their helpful comments and suggestions.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).","PeriodicalId":54257,"journal":{"name":"Local Environment","volume":"75 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135092736","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 : 2023-11-10DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2023.2279543
T. Makhubu, H. Moyo, L. Mugwedi, J. Belle
ABSTRACTThe current study investigated the perceived impact of informal coal mining on the environment of a rural community in Blaauwbosch, KwaZulu-Natal Province, in South Africa. Data was extracted through questionnaires, focus group discussions and key informant interviews targeting perceptions from community members, government officials, informal coal miners, learners and educators of a local school on the environmental impacts of informal coal mining. After stratifying the participants, community members aware of the environmental impacts of coal mining cited poor air quality as the most critical impact of coal mining, while educators and learners mentioned landscape transformation. Community members were generally not satisfied with government's interventions towards containing the impact of coal mining, while educators and learners were somewhat satisfied as they felt government response was slow and laboured. Therefore, in addition to awareness campaigns within the community to improve information access regarding the disadvantages of informal coal mining, the government should intensify its efforts by implementing effective follow-ups on proposed responses. The government should also design interventions to address the area's high poverty and unemployment levels to reduce community engagement in informal coal mining activities.KEYWORDS: Air qualityinformal minersland degradationwater pollution AcknowledgementsThe authors appreciate the assistance of the data collection assistants and two anonymous reviewers for reading the draft of the manuscript.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).
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Pub Date : 2023-10-24DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2023.2267066
Elizabeth A. Albright, Catherine Coleman Flowers, Randall A. Kramer, Erika S. Weinthal
The United Nations has estimated that 2.8 million individuals across the world will not have access to safely managed sanitation in 2030. In the accounting of global sanitation access, local inequities often are invisible to those counting, especially given that many of these counters are physically distant and often external to communities suffering from lack of access. Lowndes County, Alabama, a predominantly-Black county in rural Alabama (USA), provides a window into the social, racial, and environmental injustices that are present in the rural American South. Our survey of household sanitation access in Lowndes County, implemented by a collaboration of an academic institution, a local environmental justice organisation, and residents, shows that community members in the county are aware of the problems associated with failing septic systems. Producing data that can make publicly visible the lack of access to sanitation will, however, remain a challenge until institutional and structural barriers are overcome.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-13DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2023.2254797
Björn Wickenberg
Nature-based solutions (NBS) is a relatively novel concept and real-world application has only started to proliferate in cities, which motivates addressing early attempts of cross-boundary collaboration for implementing NBS. The aim of this paper is to reflect about the process of transdisciplinary research-practice collaboration on NBS and its associated learnings, potentials and challenges. To do so, this paper reflects on one of the local urban-regional innovation partnerships within the Naturvation research project, which included urban planning practitioners, researchers and public and private organisations, and aimed to understand what NBS can achieve in cities and how to advance implementation through collaboration. This paper is based on embedded research and uses participant observation as methodological inspiration. It draws on two streams of literature to frame the reflections; (a) transdisciplinary research, to reflect on the collaborative process of research and practice engaging in learning and knowledge co-production and (b) boundary concepts, to capture the boundary-spanning nature of NBS. Observations, grey literature and the “network compass” [Schneider, F., T. Tribaldos, C. Adler, R. O. Biggs, A. de Bremond, T. Buser, C. Krug et al. 2021. “Co-Production of Knowledge and Sustainability Transformations: A Strategic Compass for Global Research Networks.” Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 49: 127–142. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2021.04.007] were used ex-post to identify and map fields of action and associated potentials and challenges. The process included joint problem understanding and building relations, visioning and creation of roadmaps, targeted collaboration and horizontal learning. This paper suggests that future research-practice collaboration on NBS should focus on relational capacities and communicative skills, and integrating joint reflection and learning as central components for co-producing knowledge. Furthermore, transdisciplinary collaboration requires facilitation and management skills, which should be considered an area of expertise and not taken for granted.
基于自然的解决方案(NBS)是一个相对较新的概念，在现实世界中的应用才刚刚开始在城市中扩散，这激发了解决基于自然的解决方案的跨界合作的早期尝试。本文旨在反思国家统计局跨学科研究与实践合作的过程，以及相关的经验、潜力和挑战。为此，本文反思了naturation研究项目中的一个地方城市-区域创新伙伴关系，其中包括城市规划从业人员、研究人员以及公共和私人组织，旨在了解NBS在城市中可以实现什么以及如何通过合作推进实施。本文以嵌入式研究为基础，采用参与式观察作为方法论灵感。它借鉴了两种文学流派来构建反思;(a)跨学科研究，反思从事学习和知识合作生产的研究和实践的协作过程;(b)边界概念，捕捉国家统计局的跨边界性质。观察、灰色文献和“网络指南针”[Schneider, F.， T. Tribaldos, C. Adler, R. O. Biggs, A. de Bremond, T. Buser, C. Krug等。2021。知识的共同生产和可持续性转变:全球研究网络的战略指南针。环境可持续发展现状[j]， 49(1): 127-142。https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2021.04.007]事后用来确定和绘制行动领域以及相关的潜力和挑战。这个过程包括共同理解问题和建立关系，设想和创建路线图，有针对性的合作和横向学习。未来的研究与实践合作应关注关系能力和沟通能力，并将共同反思和学习作为共同产生知识的核心要素。此外，跨学科合作需要促进和管理技能，这应被视为一个专门知识领域，而不是理所当然的。
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Pub Date : 2023-09-07DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2023.2248612
L. Levidow, Andrea Berardi, Julia Jung
Community food growing (CFG) builds community bonds and placemaking through emotional attachments. This process has been illuminated by grassroots visual storytelling, whereby CFG participants made short video stories about their experiences. The stories inspired community-building for better futures so as to encourage greater support for and participation in CFG. These stories were analysed to illuminate the social basis and roles of CFG. Participants ” stories highlight some key aspects, namely: solidaristic mutual-aid relationships around food-growing, cooking, eating and distribution; cooperative, creative, adaptive capacities for collectively responding to common di ffi culties; empathetic bonds among participants across various di ff erences (such as ethnicity, age and prior skills); a food culture strengthening participants ’ knowledge and supply of healthy food; and the social-organisational skills for facilitating and inspiring those group practices. As these video stories show, community-building processes are radically hopeful: they acknowledge di ffi cult issues and emotions, alongside aspirations for a di ff erent future. Together those roles helped to strengthen place-attachments for more participants. By screening the video stories, moreover, participants have made the process more visible and attractive. This provides a stronger basis to identify exemplary practices, extend their strengths, spread the societal bene fi ts and attract greater commitments. Although many urban and peri-urban spaces are potentially available for expanding CFG, successful initiatives depend on social-organisational skills to facilitate self-con fi dence, empathetic cooperation and place attachments among volunteers. Support measures from Local Authorities are generally fragmented across several policy areas and so warrant integration. Community-building skills can provide a focus for such policy integration around the multiple roles and bene fi ts of CFG initiatives.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-28DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2023.2249490
Kwame Adovor Tsikudo
ABSTRACT The Bui Dam is a consequential infrastructure undertaking in modern Ghana. The project is Ghana's third large dam and the second largest by total installed capacity. In addition to addressing a crippling national energy crisis, proponents touted the project's high modernist imperatives, including industrialisation and rural development. These benefits were promoted to counteract resistance by surrounding communities who opposed the project. However, after an involuntary resettlement programme overseen by Ghanaian authorities, resettlers now feel the reality of their acquiescence. Resettlers’ declining quality of life and harsh living conditions coupled with several unmet promises underline the dissonance between rhetoric and reality. Using modernisation framework, this study evaluates the dam's post-resettlement challenges and argues that missteps, poor planning, failed promises, and neglect have combined to unleash hardships on resettlers. The study stresses adherence to pre- and post-dam planning procedures in ensuring sustainability and justice for dam-affected populations.
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