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: 10.1080/13549839.2023.2249511
L. Mabon, Akiko Hiratsuka-Sasaki, Andrew J. Chapman, B. McLellan
{"title":"Just transitions at the local level: insights from coal communities in Japan","authors":"L. Mabon, Akiko Hiratsuka-Sasaki, Andrew J. Chapman, B. McLellan","doi":"10.1080/13549839.2023.2249511","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2023.2249511","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54257,"journal":{"name":"Local Environment","volume":"41 4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88746261","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 : 2023-08-28DOI: 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.
{"title":"Transformation or deformation? Ghana's Bui hydropower dam and the myth of modernity of the resettlement camps","authors":"Kwame Adovor Tsikudo","doi":"10.1080/13549839.2023.2249490","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2023.2249490","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":54257,"journal":{"name":"Local Environment","volume":"187 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77928815","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 : 2023-08-28DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2023.2248625
C. D. De Sousa, A. Carroll, Sandra Whitehead, L. Berman, Sarah L. Coffin, Lauren C. Heberle, G. Hettiarachchi, Sabine Martin, Karen Sullivan, James Van Der Kloot
ABSTRACT Over the past 30 years, US-based research on contaminated and potentially-contaminated sites, or brownfields, has grown from defining the scope and size of the environmental, health and economic risks posed by abandoned manufacturing sites to exploring and documenting site-specific and area-wide impacts of their cleanup and revitalisation. From early and varied research on environmental and economic policy to equity and public impacts on minority communities, later research considered planning, adding case studies on sustainability and resilience to the scope of research covered. This review paper stems from exchanges of a long-standing network of academic, government agency, and practice professionals working to identify research, policy, and practice gaps. It traces the evolution of US brownfield revitalization research as was informed by, and informed, policy, program and practice. This review summarizes the literature and identifies research gaps and opportunities to further community and agency actions related to investigating, remediating, and redeveloping brownfield sites. It outlines site and area options to build climate resilience, strengthen community action for dismantling structural racism and disinvestment, and reduce the disproportionate risks experienced by communities of colour and areas of low income. The authors propose a new research agenda to address the gaps identified.
{"title":"A review of brownfields revitalisation and reuse research in the US over three decades","authors":"C. D. De Sousa, A. Carroll, Sandra Whitehead, L. Berman, Sarah L. Coffin, Lauren C. Heberle, G. Hettiarachchi, Sabine Martin, Karen Sullivan, James Van Der Kloot","doi":"10.1080/13549839.2023.2248625","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2023.2248625","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Over the past 30 years, US-based research on contaminated and potentially-contaminated sites, or brownfields, has grown from defining the scope and size of the environmental, health and economic risks posed by abandoned manufacturing sites to exploring and documenting site-specific and area-wide impacts of their cleanup and revitalisation. From early and varied research on environmental and economic policy to equity and public impacts on minority communities, later research considered planning, adding case studies on sustainability and resilience to the scope of research covered. This review paper stems from exchanges of a long-standing network of academic, government agency, and practice professionals working to identify research, policy, and practice gaps. It traces the evolution of US brownfield revitalization research as was informed by, and informed, policy, program and practice. This review summarizes the literature and identifies research gaps and opportunities to further community and agency actions related to investigating, remediating, and redeveloping brownfield sites. It outlines site and area options to build climate resilience, strengthen community action for dismantling structural racism and disinvestment, and reduce the disproportionate risks experienced by communities of colour and areas of low income. The authors propose a new research agenda to address the gaps identified.","PeriodicalId":54257,"journal":{"name":"Local Environment","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85113676","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 : 2023-08-28DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2023.2248609
S. Banerji, Nilanjana Chakraborty, Deblina Mitra
ABSTRACT Water is one of the most contended resources on the planet. The need and the un-ubiquitous nature of the resource is a reality faced by the Bally-Jagachha block in Howrah, West Bengal. Here, the available water sources are tube-well and piped water, both having Water Quality Indices of more than 300 and 200, respectively. This indicates that drinking water is unpalatable, making people vulnerable to diseases. Additionally, as is evident through the Water Poverty map, inaccessibility is an expensive, debilitating problem, as people have to travel twice in 4–7 min to and from the water source to collect it and then again spend more to filter the same. The Ridit scores thus state that people are overcome by water woes in supply, availability, consumption, quality, demand, etc., but yet have no alternatives like rainwater harvesting (RWH), despite people’s acceptance to it. Thus this paper attempts to collate all the problems regarding water and suggest ways by which the Gram Panchayats here can safely implement RWH and resolve the situation for the future.
{"title":"Water woes and vulnerabilities: a case study of Bally-Jagachha block of Howrah District in West Bengal, India","authors":"S. Banerji, Nilanjana Chakraborty, Deblina Mitra","doi":"10.1080/13549839.2023.2248609","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2023.2248609","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Water is one of the most contended resources on the planet. The need and the un-ubiquitous nature of the resource is a reality faced by the Bally-Jagachha block in Howrah, West Bengal. Here, the available water sources are tube-well and piped water, both having Water Quality Indices of more than 300 and 200, respectively. This indicates that drinking water is unpalatable, making people vulnerable to diseases. Additionally, as is evident through the Water Poverty map, inaccessibility is an expensive, debilitating problem, as people have to travel twice in 4–7 min to and from the water source to collect it and then again spend more to filter the same. The Ridit scores thus state that people are overcome by water woes in supply, availability, consumption, quality, demand, etc., but yet have no alternatives like rainwater harvesting (RWH), despite people’s acceptance to it. Thus this paper attempts to collate all the problems regarding water and suggest ways by which the Gram Panchayats here can safely implement RWH and resolve the situation for the future.","PeriodicalId":54257,"journal":{"name":"Local Environment","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72899431","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 : 2023-08-25DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2023.2249496
I. Park
{"title":"Unravelling the relationship between spatial and social inclusion: evidence from Korean cities and regions","authors":"I. Park","doi":"10.1080/13549839.2023.2249496","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2023.2249496","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54257,"journal":{"name":"Local Environment","volume":"63 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81079711","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 : 2023-08-25DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2023.2249504
Miriam J. Williams, K. Ruming, Dong Ju Lee, Mia McCarthy
{"title":"Growing, consuming, and wasting/disposing: a study of the sustainable food practices of Australian households","authors":"Miriam J. Williams, K. Ruming, Dong Ju Lee, Mia McCarthy","doi":"10.1080/13549839.2023.2249504","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2023.2249504","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54257,"journal":{"name":"Local Environment","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81238864","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 : 2023-08-25DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2023.2248623
Andrei Briones-Hidrovo, J. Uche, Amaya Martínez-Gracia
ABSTRACT Renewable energies are vital to tackle climate change and reduce environmental issues. In this sense, hydropower plays a key role. Broadly speaking, hydropower is perceived as a climate ally and considered environmentally sustainable. However, its development is still controversial due to the well-known environmental and ecological impacts that put its environmental sustainability in question. In this sense, this study aims to analyse and discuss hydropower development and policy in Ecuador from an environmental perspective. The analysis addresses the research question of to what extent the business-as-usual hydropower policy is compatible and consistent with national environmental sustainability and Buen Vivir (Good Living) goals. For such purpose, the analysis is conducted by applying a proposed conceptual framework composed of critical elements such as Buen Vivir principles, rights of nature and the evidence on the environmental sustainability of hydropower. The analysis highlights the main environmental drawbacks of the BAU-HP policy and finds that the current development and policy of hydropower is ultimately detrimental to achieving national environmental sustainability and Buen Vivir. Moreover, it easily infringes the Rights of Nature and conflicts with the conservation of ecosystems and biodiversity. Following the findings, several environmental sustainability-oriented recommendations are suggested for future hydropower policymaking.
{"title":"Hydropower policy in Ecuador: an analysis from environmental perspective and recommendations for future policymaking","authors":"Andrei Briones-Hidrovo, J. Uche, Amaya Martínez-Gracia","doi":"10.1080/13549839.2023.2248623","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2023.2248623","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Renewable energies are vital to tackle climate change and reduce environmental issues. In this sense, hydropower plays a key role. Broadly speaking, hydropower is perceived as a climate ally and considered environmentally sustainable. However, its development is still controversial due to the well-known environmental and ecological impacts that put its environmental sustainability in question. In this sense, this study aims to analyse and discuss hydropower development and policy in Ecuador from an environmental perspective. The analysis addresses the research question of to what extent the business-as-usual hydropower policy is compatible and consistent with national environmental sustainability and Buen Vivir (Good Living) goals. For such purpose, the analysis is conducted by applying a proposed conceptual framework composed of critical elements such as Buen Vivir principles, rights of nature and the evidence on the environmental sustainability of hydropower. The analysis highlights the main environmental drawbacks of the BAU-HP policy and finds that the current development and policy of hydropower is ultimately detrimental to achieving national environmental sustainability and Buen Vivir. Moreover, it easily infringes the Rights of Nature and conflicts with the conservation of ecosystems and biodiversity. Following the findings, several environmental sustainability-oriented recommendations are suggested for future hydropower policymaking.","PeriodicalId":54257,"journal":{"name":"Local Environment","volume":"167 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88468207","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 : 2023-08-25DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2023.2249497
Nina Simberg-Koulumies
{"title":"Just sustainabilities: lessons from the Lake Turkana Wind Power project in Kenya","authors":"Nina Simberg-Koulumies","doi":"10.1080/13549839.2023.2249497","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2023.2249497","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54257,"journal":{"name":"Local Environment","volume":"176 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75180345","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 : 2023-08-23DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2023.2249489
Ruyi Yu, Xiaoyan Su, Jinlong Cheng, Wenxia Du, Zongzheng Liang
ABSTRACT Using data from 524 households in the upper reaches of the Yihe River, China, a tourism livelihood resilience index (TLRI) was developed to explore the correlation between livelihood resilience and strategies of tourism smallholders. The smallholders were grouped into four categories: tourism oriented (TO), tourism and part-time migration work (TPM), migration work and part-time tourism (MPT) and migration work-oriented (MO). The TLRI revealed notable differences among these groups, with MPT smallholders demonstrating the lowest resilience (0.287) due to a weak buffer capacity (0.242). In contrast, MO smallholders displayed high resilience, as they were able to become successful professional tourism operators. Interestingly, households with low-diversity livelihoods (e.g. MO and TO) had higher resilience than those with high diversity (MPT and TPM). Regression findings showed that increased buffer capacity, self-organisation capacity and community protective capacity tend to motivate smallholders to engage in tourism intensification activities, while learning capacity had no measurable impact. Based on these results, three suggestions have been presented for improving the livelihood resilience of tourism smallholders. The conceptualisation of the TLRI enhances our understanding of the livelihood resilience of tourism smallholders in China and provides insights into the household operation system in tourism-guided rural transition.
{"title":"An assessment of the livelihood resilience of tourism smallholders in the upper reaches of Yihe River, China","authors":"Ruyi Yu, Xiaoyan Su, Jinlong Cheng, Wenxia Du, Zongzheng Liang","doi":"10.1080/13549839.2023.2249489","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2023.2249489","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Using data from 524 households in the upper reaches of the Yihe River, China, a tourism livelihood resilience index (TLRI) was developed to explore the correlation between livelihood resilience and strategies of tourism smallholders. The smallholders were grouped into four categories: tourism oriented (TO), tourism and part-time migration work (TPM), migration work and part-time tourism (MPT) and migration work-oriented (MO). The TLRI revealed notable differences among these groups, with MPT smallholders demonstrating the lowest resilience (0.287) due to a weak buffer capacity (0.242). In contrast, MO smallholders displayed high resilience, as they were able to become successful professional tourism operators. Interestingly, households with low-diversity livelihoods (e.g. MO and TO) had higher resilience than those with high diversity (MPT and TPM). Regression findings showed that increased buffer capacity, self-organisation capacity and community protective capacity tend to motivate smallholders to engage in tourism intensification activities, while learning capacity had no measurable impact. Based on these results, three suggestions have been presented for improving the livelihood resilience of tourism smallholders. The conceptualisation of the TLRI enhances our understanding of the livelihood resilience of tourism smallholders in China and provides insights into the household operation system in tourism-guided rural transition.","PeriodicalId":54257,"journal":{"name":"Local Environment","volume":"51 1","pages":"1371 - 1387"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84719869","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}
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