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{"title":"Schoolyard revegetation as a dual mechanism for environmental education and overheat mitigation","authors":"Antonio Serrano-Jiménez ,&nbsp;Israel Marques-Valderrama ,&nbsp;Rosa Ana Jiménez-Expósito ,&nbsp;Carmen Díaz-López ,&nbsp;Ángela Barrios-Padura ,&nbsp;Marta Molina-Huelva ,&nbsp;José Antonio Becerra-Villanueva ,&nbsp;Ricardo Chacartegui","doi":"10.1016/j.envdev.2025.101144","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envdev.2025.101144","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Current research gaps in environmental action guidelines that tackle urban heat island effects and improve environmental education to students are identified in order to address urban and environmental challenges. This research aims to promote revegetation patterns in schoolyards through a scientific-educational strategy of planting trees, thereby increasing the shaded area and promoting environmental activities in schools in warm climates. This study provides a standardised strategy in five phases for the diagnosis, decision-making, proposal, and monitoring of tree planting, which can be replicated in multiple climatic and urban contexts. This study presents a real-life pilot experience that tests and applies this strategy in Itaca secondary school, in Southern Spain, within an H2020-European research project, in which a diagnosis of the schoolyard and an in-situ tree-planting strategy is developed by researchers together with students. The collaborative methodology is based on a multidisciplinary evaluation involving a selection of tree species and their in-situ planting by the students, thereby filling the gap with an action strategy towards greener practices in schools and highlighting key outcomes for upcoming bioclimatic policies. The results confirm an increase in the Normalised Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) from 0.15 to 0.74 in tree-planting areas, and 91.5% of the 142 participants in the educational community have perceived this tree-planting strategy as highly satisfactory for increasing outdoor comfort. The conclusions reveal multiple insights that contribute to sustainable development goals, based on the environmental education between researchers and students and on the advantages in mitigating the effects of overheating in schoolyards.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54269,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Development","volume":"54 ","pages":"Article 101144"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143158723","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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}

{"title":"Using self-affirmation to encourage recycle and reuse behaviors in New York State","authors":"Prerna Shah,&nbsp;Janet Z. Yang","doi":"10.1016/j.envdev.2025.101149","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envdev.2025.101149","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The United States produces an exorbitant amount of waste. Recycle and reuse are two ways to manage the waste problem. Since even non-political environmental issues are often polarized in the United States, we attempt to affirm group identity by highlighting the moral values that appeal to conservatives and liberals to examine downstream effects on message derogation and behavioral intention. Specifically, we explore how message derogation is associated with risk perception, self-efficacy, and behavioral willingness to recycle and reuse, as moderated by political ideology. Our findings indicate that linking environmental behaviors to specific moral values may not be the best way to encourage citizens to recycle and reuse. In particular, conservatives tend to view a persuasive message about plastic waste as overblown and manipulative, thus highlighting the need to strategically design environmental communication targeting conservatives. Moreover, to combat message derogation, effective ways to elevate risk perceptions and enhance self-efficacy are needed.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54269,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Development","volume":"54 ","pages":"Article 101149"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143158724","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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}

{"title":"Green leaders and global change: Uncovering the drivers of corporate environmental sustainability","authors":"Saltanat Suieubayeva ,&nbsp;Eduardo Sánchez-García ,&nbsp;Javier Martínez-Falcó ,&nbsp;Bartolomé Marco-Lajara ,&nbsp;Assel Sadenova ,&nbsp;Johnny Vicente Montalvo-Falcón","doi":"10.1016/j.envdev.2025.101148","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envdev.2025.101148","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The growing global pressure for the implementation of sustainable business practices highlights the need for companies, especially those with a significant environmental impact, such as the wine industry, to adopt strategies that promote the transition to a more environmentally friendly economy. The main objective of this research is to examine the impact of green transformational leadership on the environmental performance of wine companies, as well as the role of green organizational culture and green motivation as mediating factors in this relationship. Primary data is analyzed using PLS-SEM technique, which has been obtained from a sample of 196 wine enterprises. The results show positive and significant relationships between the dimensions analyzed, evidencing the influence of effective green leadership on the environmental performance of companies both directly and indirectly, through green organizational culture and green motivation, being underscored how these leaders serve as key change agents in promoting eco-friendly practices and values, and fostering a culture of sustainability within organizations, ensuring that environmental considerations are integral to organizational decision-making processes. This analysis has important theoretical, managerial and policy implications, that underscore the relevance of deepening the analysis of the main factors that reduce the environmental impact of the entrepreneurial activities, of implementing and fostering leadership styles that integrate environmental management into the core of business operations to ensure long-term sustainability of the wine industry, and of developing policies that support green leadership skills development programs to drive the transition to a fully sustainable business environment in both environmental and economic terms.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54269,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Development","volume":"54 ","pages":"Article 101148"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143158960","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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}

{"title":"Sustainability and challenges of renewable energy in ASEAN countries: Insights from the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework","authors":"Chengling Yang ,&nbsp;Zifeng Lin ,&nbsp;Jiapei Li ,&nbsp;Chuangbin Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.envdev.2025.101145","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envdev.2025.101145","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Supported by the \"Indo-Pacific Economic Framework\" (IPEF), the United States has established multilateral partnerships with fourteen countries in the Indo-Pacific region, including seven ASEAN (the Association of Southeast Asian Nations) countries. The main content of IPEF revolves around the four core pillars of the interconnected economy, flexible economy, clean economy, and fair economy, deeply integrating allies in the Indo-Pacific region, forming a new geo-economic structure. In the context of the global energy crisis, renewable clean energy has become an important focus area of the IPEF. As an important part of the IPEF, the renewable energy economy of ASEAN countries, dominated by traditional fossil energy, is facing sustainable opportunities and difficulties in the energy transition period. Based on that, this research conducts a concrete analysis from three dimensions: the status quo of renewable energy supply and demand in ASEAN countries, the analysis of ASEAN's renewable energy development opportunities in the context of IPEF, and the analysis of ASEAN's renewable energy development challenges in the context of IPEF. Finally, policy recommendations are put forward, including the formulation of energy strategies and action plans for ASEAN countries, improvement of the renewable energy policy system, and strengthening of power infrastructure planning.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54269,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Development","volume":"54 ","pages":"Article 101145"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143158681","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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}

{"title":"Conceptualisation of Campus Living Labs for the sustainability transition: An integrative literature review","authors":"Claudia Stuckrath,&nbsp;Jesús Rosales-Carreón,&nbsp;Ernst Worrell","doi":"10.1016/j.envdev.2025.101143","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envdev.2025.101143","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Higher education institutions (HEI) have the potential to catalyse the sustainability transition, but effective collaboration among their various units and faculties is essential. Living labs have emerged to address this gap, yet a unified terminology and concept for this phenomenon remains lacking. This research aims to clarify and establish a unified terminology and definition for living labs within the university context for the sustainability transition, i.e. “Campus Living Lab” (CLL). An integrative literature review was conducted first to develop a Living Lab Categorization Framework to classify living labs in a specific domain and second to apply it to case studies of university-based living labs focused on sustainability transitions. The study introduces the term “campusian” to describe the users or citizens in a CLL. CLLs are conceptualised as <em>systems for innovation and learning where real-life experimental and research activities are co-produced by students, researchers, teachers, and operational staff to integrate sustainability in the different processes within higher education institutions, prioritising the needs and preferences of the “campusian”</em>. Additionally, the research presents the Campus Living Lab Model with four distinct modes: Educational, Test-bed, Strategic, and Grassroots, each uniquely contributing to the campus's sustainability goals. These findings offer a shared understanding and framework for implementing and analysing CLLs to catalyse sustainability transition from within universities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54269,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Development","volume":"54 ","pages":"Article 101143"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143158763","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Assessing sustainable wellbeing in Africa through “Years of Good Life”","authors":"Aayushma KC ,&nbsp;Mohammad Jalal Abbasi-Shavazi ,&nbsp;Ilse Eigelaar-Meets ,&nbsp;Anastasia Aldelina Lijadi ,&nbsp;Claudia Reiter ,&nbsp;Erich Striessnig ,&nbsp;Wolfgang Lutz","doi":"10.1016/j.envdev.2025.101140","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envdev.2025.101140","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The ultimate end of sustainable development can be defined as achieving sustainable human wellbeing. With the intention of measuring this, an indicator that aims to capture the universal constituents of sustainable human wellbeing titled “Years of Good Life” (YoGL) was designed (Lutz et al., 2021). Based on the demographic life table approach, YoGL assumes that being alive is the fundamental prerequisite for enjoying any quality of life. However, as mere survival is not seen as sufficient, being above minimum thresholds in the dimensions of material, physical and cognitive wellbeing, as well as the subjective dimension of life satisfaction, is required. This paper aims to explore the concept of sustainable wellbeing and assess it in Africa through YoGL, using a mixed methods approach.</div><div>Firstly, the paper presents results from focus group discussions in South Africa aimed at understanding cultural differences in the perception of human well-being. Secondly, a comparative analysis of YoGL across 46 African countries over the period of 1950–2015 is carried out, giving special emphasis to the differentiation by gender. Again, taking South Africa as a case study, trends in the different constituents of gender-specific wellbeing are examined. Turning to the future, the paper looks at YoGL as the output variable in a multi-sector global systems model which also incorporates feedbacks from social, economic and environmental change on human wellbeing over the rest of this century.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54269,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Development","volume":"54 ","pages":"Article 101140"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143158683","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Investigating the impact of environmental communication gamification on green perceived value and green value Co-creation intention: The mediating role of psychological and social well-being","authors":"Ning Zhang ,&nbsp;Xiaohui Sun ,&nbsp;Salman Majeed ,&nbsp;Amin Hu ,&nbsp;Zhimin Zhou","doi":"10.1016/j.envdev.2025.101136","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envdev.2025.101136","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>To protect the natural environment, research on environmental protection communication through the lens of mobile gaming applications remained fragmented and underexplored in the existing literature. Drawing on the background of the Ant Forest mobile game application, a relatively new phenomenon promoting green behavior for environmental protection in China, this study investigates how the impact of environmental communication gamification (ECG) on consumer green value co-creation intention (GVCI) under the spotlight of green perceived value (GPV) and expected eudaimonic (i.e., psychological and social) well-being. Findings from 421 Chinese respondents reveal that ECG significantly impacts GVCI, with the mediating effects GPV, expected personal growth (i.e., expected psychological well-being), and expected social contribution (i.e., expected social well-being). This study introduces novel theoretical insights, outlines practical implications, and suggests avenues for future research aimed at fostering low-carbon initiatives by influencing consumer attitudes towards environmental protection.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54269,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Development","volume":"54 ","pages":"Article 101136"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143158958","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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}

{"title":"Obituary for professor Jerry McBeath (1942–2024)","authors":"Bo Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.envdev.2024.101134","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envdev.2024.101134","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54269,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Development","volume":"54 ","pages":"Article 101134"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143158687","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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}

{"title":"Unraveling climate change vulnerability and adaptation in flood-affected communities of northern Bangladesh: A multidimensional poverty perspective","authors":"Tasin Islam Himel ,&nbsp;Md Zakir Hossain ,&nbsp;Khan Rubayet Rahaman","doi":"10.1016/j.envdev.2025.101135","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envdev.2025.101135","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article focuses on the climate change vulnerability and adaptation among flood-affected communities in Bangladesh from a multidimensional poverty perspective. The study was conducted in the Kaijuri and Sadia Chandpur Union areas of Shahjadpur and Chauhali Upazila in Sirajganj, a region known for frequent floods and river erosion. The research examines three main areas: climate change vulnerability, multidimensional poverty, and adaptation strategies. The study surveyed 385 households from six major communities in the two Unions. Climate change vulnerability was measured using a Principal Component Analysis (PCA) based weighting approach, considering nineteen indicators across seven principal components. The vulnerability extent was categorized into low, moderate, and high vulnerability, with 32.21% of households classified as highly vulnerable, 14.03% as low vulnerable, and the rest as moderately vulnerable. Kaijuri Union, being more agricultural and vulnerable (37.04%), contrasted with Sadia Chandpur (27.55%). The analysis revealed that social factors (social capital, human capital) had a more decisive influence on vulnerability than physical factors (non-productive asset value, infrastructure, flood frequency). Adaptation strategies, particularly in agriculture, were more significant in the highly vulnerable Kaijuri Union. The study also identified four clusters of co-existing multidimensional poverty index (MPI) and climate change vulnerability index. The ‘worst-case’ category represented households that were MPI poor with high vulnerability (23.90%), whereas the ‘best-case’ represented MPI non-poor with low vulnerability (24.16%). The remaining households were either MPI non-poor with high vulnerability (26.75%) or poor with low vulnerability (25.19%). The adaptation strategies of the worst-case households included early planting andearly harvesting as agricultural adaptations, and house relocation as non-agricultural adaptation. In contrast, the best-case households practiced various crop varieties, crop rotation, and homestead farming among agricultural adaptations. They invested in repairing, reinforcing, or rebuilding their houses with sturdy materials, among non-agricultural adaptations. The findings highlight the need to prioritize vulnerable rural marginal farmers in flood-affected communities in Bangladesh. This research can aid stakeholders, including local government, NGOs, and central government organizations, in planning effective climate vulnerability, adaptation, and poverty eradication strategies. Differentiating communities based on vulnerability and multidimensional poverty can facilitate targeted and efficient beneficiary selection and speed up recovery during crises.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54269,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Development","volume":"54 ","pages":"Article 101135"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143158937","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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}

{"title":"Impact of severe tropical cyclone Winston on fisheries-dependent communities in Fiji","authors":"Alyssa S. Thomas ,&nbsp;Sangeeta Mangubhai ,&nbsp;Katherine Chaston Radway ,&nbsp;Margaret Fox ,&nbsp;Stacy D. Jupiter ,&nbsp;Watisoni Lalavanua ,&nbsp;Marita Manley ,&nbsp;Alisi Rabukawaqa","doi":"10.1016/j.envdev.2025.101137","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envdev.2025.101137","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Coastal communities in the south Pacific are vulnerable to cyclones which are projected to increase in intensity due to climate change. We conducted a study 2–3 months after a Category 5 tropical cyclone passed through Fiji in 2016 to examine socio-economic impacts from the cyclone and the changes to livelihood strategies of fisheries-dependent communities. Key informant interviews were done in 154 Indigenous Fijian (<em>iTaukei</em>) coastal villages across six provinces. Questions focused on changes to participation in different fisheries and livelihoods, as well as dietary changes and impacts to fishing gear and infrastructure. We found that the affected villages had not returned to many of their pre-cyclone livelihoods, and many villages had stopped fishing altogether. Instead, in the short-term communities coped through livelihood reprioritisation, and a high reliance on external aid (e.g. food packages). The heterogeneity of livelihood strategies, the diversity of species targeted and lack of specialised gear requirements suggested many fisheries can serve as a buffer to natural hazards and external shocks for vulnerable coastal communities. Gender also had an influence on the experienced effects of the cyclone and coping strategies. Women had fewer changes to their fisheries activities post-cyclone and were less likely to have stopped fishing at the time of the survey, as they harvest from a wider diversity of habitats, glean and use low technology gear such as hand nets, and hooks and lines. Understanding how communities are impacted by intense cyclones through a gender lens can help local people better prepare for and mitigate impacts to their livelihoods, while also providing valuable information to assist authorities with their disaster preparedness, response, and recovery strategies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54269,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Development","volume":"54 ","pages":"Article 101137"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143158959","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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}