Pub Date : 2025-01-25DOI: 10.1016/j.envdev.2025.101149
Prerna Shah, Janet Z. Yang
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.
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Pub Date : 2025-01-25DOI: 10.1016/j.envdev.2025.101148
Saltanat Suieubayeva , Eduardo Sánchez-García , Javier Martínez-Falcó , Bartolomé Marco-Lajara , Assel Sadenova , Johnny Vicente Montalvo-Falcón
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.
{"title":"Green leaders and global change: Uncovering the drivers of corporate environmental sustainability","authors":"Saltanat Suieubayeva , Eduardo Sánchez-García , Javier Martínez-Falcó , Bartolomé Marco-Lajara , Assel Sadenova , 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}
Pub Date : 2025-01-23DOI: 10.1016/j.envdev.2025.101147
Jieh-Haur Chen , Mu-Chun Su , Meng-Fen Yeh , Wei-Jen Lin , Tzuyang Yu , Ming-Chung Yeh
Taoyuan City ranks second in Taiwan for land pollution area. Despite government remediation efforts, the dynamic nature of land characteristics continues to present risks of recontamination. This study utilizes the Random Forest (RF) algorithm to predict and manage potential heavy metal recontamination zones in farmland. Key model parameters were identified through a literature review, leveraging a dataset of 1,555 records from Taoyuan City's managed agricultural lands collected over 19 years (2004–2022). The proposed RF model demonstrates exceptional performance, achieving 75.76% accuracy in predicting soil monitoring concentration variations and an outstanding 99.95% accuracy for soil heavy metal concentration increments. It outperforms alternative models, including MLP, SVM, and DT, in establishing prediction thresholds for heavy metal recontamination, such as cadmium (Low: 0.0022, High: 0.0045), copper (Low: 0.1095, High: 0.1826), and zinc (Low: 0.2374, High: 0.5479), measured in mg/kg-day increments. This model provides critical insights into areas susceptible to heavy metal pollution, with a specific focus on cadmium, copper, and zinc contamination. By leveraging its predictive capabilities, authorities can proactively devise and implement strategies to mitigate risks, safeguarding both the environment and public health.
{"title":"Predicting and regulating potential zone for heavy metal re-contaminated farmland: Case study in Taiwan","authors":"Jieh-Haur Chen , Mu-Chun Su , Meng-Fen Yeh , Wei-Jen Lin , Tzuyang Yu , Ming-Chung Yeh","doi":"10.1016/j.envdev.2025.101147","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envdev.2025.101147","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Taoyuan City ranks second in Taiwan for land pollution area. Despite government remediation efforts, the dynamic nature of land characteristics continues to present risks of recontamination. This study utilizes the Random Forest (RF) algorithm to predict and manage potential heavy metal recontamination zones in farmland. Key model parameters were identified through a literature review, leveraging a dataset of 1,555 records from Taoyuan City's managed agricultural lands collected over 19 years (2004–2022). The proposed RF model demonstrates exceptional performance, achieving 75.76% accuracy in predicting soil monitoring concentration variations and an outstanding 99.95% accuracy for soil heavy metal concentration increments. It outperforms alternative models, including MLP, SVM, and DT, in establishing prediction thresholds for heavy metal recontamination, such as cadmium (Low: 0.0022, High: 0.0045), copper (Low: 0.1095, High: 0.1826), and zinc (Low: 0.2374, High: 0.5479), measured in mg/kg-day increments. This model provides critical insights into areas susceptible to heavy metal pollution, with a specific focus on cadmium, copper, and zinc contamination. By leveraging its predictive capabilities, authorities can proactively devise and implement strategies to mitigate risks, safeguarding both the environment and public health.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54269,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Development","volume":"54 ","pages":"Article 101147"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143377933","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}
Pub Date : 2025-01-23DOI: 10.1016/j.envdev.2025.101145
Chengling Yang , Zifeng Lin , Jiapei Li , Chuangbin Chen
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.
{"title":"Sustainability and challenges of renewable energy in ASEAN countries: Insights from the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework","authors":"Chengling Yang , Zifeng Lin , Jiapei Li , 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}
Pub Date : 2025-01-23DOI: 10.1016/j.envdev.2025.101138
Luigi Operato , Andrea Gallo , Erika Amaranta Eva Marino , Daniele Mattioli
This manuscript explores how organizations can adapt to the new EU sustainability regulations, specifically focusing on the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD). It highlights the distinct approaches to sustainability in academia and industry, and the role of regulatory governance in bridging these perspectives to promote sustainable practices. We argue that compliance with the CSRD requires a structured framework to guide sustainability assessments, ensuring reliability, comprehensiveness, manageability, and transparency. These principles support the creation of quantitative metrics for sustainability reporting, facilitating third-party verification and integrating sustainability into corporate governance. Key findings include the strategic benefits of using science-based metrics for sustainable business development and long-term value creation. The proposed framework enables reaching these benefits by balancing methodological rigor with contextual relevance. Hence, it bridges the gap between regulatory compliance and strategic business development. The adoption of a forward-looking approach not only ensures compliance but also enables leveraging sustainability reporting as a tool for strategic planning. While the framework introduces key principles to guide the sustainability assessment, further research is needed to develop specific guidelines and tools to facilitate the implementation of the proposed principles in the organizational contexts.
{"title":"Navigating CSRD reporting: Turning compliance into sustainable development with science-based metrics","authors":"Luigi Operato , Andrea Gallo , Erika Amaranta Eva Marino , Daniele Mattioli","doi":"10.1016/j.envdev.2025.101138","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envdev.2025.101138","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This manuscript explores how organizations can adapt to the new EU sustainability regulations, specifically focusing on the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD). It highlights the distinct approaches to sustainability in academia and industry, and the role of regulatory governance in bridging these perspectives to promote sustainable practices. We argue that compliance with the CSRD requires a structured framework to guide sustainability assessments, ensuring reliability, comprehensiveness, manageability, and transparency. These principles support the creation of quantitative metrics for sustainability reporting, facilitating third-party verification and integrating sustainability into corporate governance. Key findings include the strategic benefits of using science-based metrics for sustainable business development and long-term value creation. The proposed framework enables reaching these benefits by balancing methodological rigor with contextual relevance. Hence, it bridges the gap between regulatory compliance and strategic business development. The adoption of a forward-looking approach not only ensures compliance but also enables leveraging sustainability reporting as a tool for strategic planning. While the framework introduces key principles to guide the sustainability assessment, further research is needed to develop specific guidelines and tools to facilitate the implementation of the proposed principles in the organizational contexts.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54269,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Development","volume":"54 ","pages":"Article 101138"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143395483","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}
Pub Date : 2025-01-22DOI: 10.1016/j.envdev.2025.101139
Jihye Jeong , Kerstin Jantke , Livia Rasche , Annette Eschenbach , David Uchezuba , Barbara Reinhold-Hurek , Uwe A. Schneider
Namibia, as many Sub-Saharan countries such faces increasing food insecurity due to a combination of climatic and socio-economic challenges. Despite having limited arable land, agriculture remains crucial for rural livelihoods in the country. Cowpea, a legume known for its resilience to water and temperature stress, plays an important role in the livelihoods of smallholder farmers in Namibia. This study aims to explore the potential of cowpea cultivation in Namibia and its impact on resource use. To investigate the resource demand of cowpea production, to assess the impact of irrigation and inoculation on cowpea productivity, and to analyze trade-offs between water and land resources in cowpea production, we integrate crop growth simulations with resource allocation optimization. Field experiment data inform our simulations of cowpea production, covering both rainfed and irrigated systems for standard and inoculated cowpeas. Our results show that both irrigation and inoculation substantially enhance cowpea productivity in northern Namibia, with yields reaching a maximum of 5.73 tons per hectare. In particular, inoculation emerges as a promising strategy for improving yields and resource efficiency without exacerbating water stress, unlike irrigation. Our simulations indicate that inoculated cowpea cultivation alone has the potential to meet the protein needs of the entire Namibian population using 10% of the current cropland and water resources. Therefore, inoculation is a viable strategy for smallholder farmers in Namibia to sustainably increase yields and reduce food insecurity under resource scarcity. In conclusion, this study highlights the importance of exploring innovative agricultural practices to address food insecurity in sub-Saharan countries such as Namibia and emphasizes the role of cowpea cultivation in achieving sustainable food production in the region.
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Pub Date : 2025-01-20DOI: 10.1016/j.envdev.2025.101143
Claudia Stuckrath, Jesús Rosales-Carreón, Ernst Worrell
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 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”. 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.
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Pub Date : 2025-01-20DOI: 10.1016/j.envdev.2025.101140
Aayushma KC , Mohammad Jalal Abbasi-Shavazi , Ilse Eigelaar-Meets , Anastasia Aldelina Lijadi , Claudia Reiter , Erich Striessnig , Wolfgang Lutz
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.
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.
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Pub Date : 2025-01-16DOI: 10.1016/j.envdev.2025.101136
Ning Zhang , Xiaohui Sun , Salman Majeed , Amin Hu , Zhimin Zhou
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.
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Pub Date : 2025-01-13DOI: 10.1016/j.envdev.2024.101134
Bo Wang
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