Pub Date : 2025-10-20DOI: 10.1016/j.envdev.2025.101380
Gideon Baffoe , Harrison Green
The rapid growth in global e-waste production presents profound social challenges for developing nations like Ghana, where informal recycling practices remain a major economic activity, albeit being detrimental to the environment and human health. This paper examines the potential of Circular Economy (CE) principles, particularly reduction and reuse, in addressing the social challenges associated with e-waste. Drawing on interviews with key informants, including e-waste workers and government officials, as well as insights from Nigeria's Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) program, the paper identifies critical lessons and opportunities for improving Ghana's approach to e-waste. The paper reveals that while CE offers environmental benefits, it often neglects the social inequities embedded in informal sectors. We argue that an equitable CE transition in Ghana requires integrating social protections, alternative livelihoods, international cooperation, and environmental reforms.
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The Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) is one of the European Union's most ambitious climate-related trade initiatives, designed to reshape global industrial competitiveness well beyond Europe's borders. Despite its significance, empirical evidence on its economic impacts, particularly on partner countries such as Indonesia, remains limited. This study aims to address two objectives: first, to examine the potential effects of CBAM tariffs on the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of EU trading partners; and second, to assess their implications for trade flows, sectoral adjustment, investment, and employment in Indonesia. Employing a Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) framework with the Global Trade Analysis Project Recursive Dynamic (GTAP-RD) model, the analysis provides evidence-based insights into how CBAM may reverberate through the Indonesian economy. The results show that while aggregate effects on partner countries' GDP are negligible, sectoral and distributional consequences are much more pronounced. In Indonesia, carbon-intensive industries, particularly iron and steel, face considerable adjustment pressures through declining labor demand and structural reallocation, whereas other sectors remain relatively resilient. This suggests that CBAM functions less as a macroeconomic shock than as a catalyst, exposing the vulnerability of specific industries to low-carbon trade regimes. These findings enrich ongoing policy debates by demonstrating that modest aggregate outcomes can mask substantial sectoral disruptions. For the EU, the study clarifies CBAM's external ramifications, while for Indonesia, it underscores the urgency of adaptive strategies, from technological upgrading to labor market policies, to transform potential risks into opportunities for sustainable industrial development.
{"title":"The potential effects of the implementation of the carbon border adjustment mechanism - the case of Indonesia","authors":"Iwan Hermawan , Carunia Mulya Firdausy , Erwidodo , Reninta Dewi Nugraheni , Fadhlan Zuhdi , Khoiru Rizqy Rambe , Delima Hasri Azahari , Dian Dwi Laksani , Ferry Samuel Jacob","doi":"10.1016/j.envdev.2025.101375","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envdev.2025.101375","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) is one of the European Union's most ambitious climate-related trade initiatives, designed to reshape global industrial competitiveness well beyond Europe's borders. Despite its significance, empirical evidence on its economic impacts, particularly on partner countries such as Indonesia, remains limited. This study aims to address two objectives: first, to examine the potential effects of CBAM tariffs on the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of EU trading partners; and second, to assess their implications for trade flows, sectoral adjustment, investment, and employment in Indonesia. Employing a Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) framework with the Global Trade Analysis Project Recursive Dynamic (GTAP-RD) model, the analysis provides evidence-based insights into how CBAM may reverberate through the Indonesian economy. The results show that while aggregate effects on partner countries' GDP are negligible, sectoral and distributional consequences are much more pronounced. In Indonesia, carbon-intensive industries, particularly iron and steel, face considerable adjustment pressures through declining labor demand and structural reallocation, whereas other sectors remain relatively resilient. This suggests that CBAM functions less as a macroeconomic shock than as a catalyst, exposing the vulnerability of specific industries to low-carbon trade regimes. These findings enrich ongoing policy debates by demonstrating that modest aggregate outcomes can mask substantial sectoral disruptions. For the EU, the study clarifies CBAM's external ramifications, while for Indonesia, it underscores the urgency of adaptive strategies, from technological upgrading to labor market policies, to transform potential risks into opportunities for sustainable industrial development.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54269,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Development","volume":"58 ","pages":"Article 101375"},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2025-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145840832","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}
It is imperative for every country to establish a comprehensive framework for monitoring and reporting on forest sustainability, given the increasing recognition of forests for their diverse benefits and services. This is especially important for a country like India, which has the largest population in the world, and millions of marginalized communities are reliant on forest resources for their sustenance. With increasing anthropogenic pressure and climate change impacts, a holistic monitoring framework of forests, considering ecological, social, and economic dimensions, can help design context-specific interventions for strengthening forest management and enhancing livelihoods. A detailed review of existing monitoring and reporting frameworks in India and the world revealed that they are continuously evolving to meet the growing recognition of forests for their multiple roles and benefits. However, India's frameworks lack a comprehensive approach to capturing the social and economic aspects of sustainability. In this context, the current paper proposes a list of twenty-eight (28) indicators and sixty-four (64) sub-indicators pertaining to the ecological, social, and economic dimensions through a literature review to assess the sustainability of forests in India. Parallelly, it also identifies the existing sources and stakeholders for collecting data on the proposed indicators to reduce the overlap, inconsistencies and redundancy. Furthermore, building the capacities of concerned officials and improving coordination between the nodal organizations to strengthen the existing forest monitoring and reporting practices is also recommended. Such a comprehensive indicator-based framework would support informed decision-making in optimising the diverse forest-based benefits and prioritising actions to achieve the goal of sustainable forest management.
{"title":"Designing a comprehensive framework for assessing forest sustainability in India","authors":"Aaheli Chaki , Bhaskar Sinha , Jigyasa Bisaria , Ashutosh Verma , Carsten Schusser","doi":"10.1016/j.envdev.2025.101370","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envdev.2025.101370","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>It is imperative for every country to establish a comprehensive framework for monitoring and reporting on forest sustainability, given the increasing recognition of forests for their diverse benefits and services. This is especially important for a country like India, which has the largest population in the world, and millions of marginalized communities are reliant on forest resources for their sustenance. With increasing anthropogenic pressure and climate change impacts, a holistic monitoring framework of forests, considering ecological, social, and economic dimensions, can help design context-specific interventions for strengthening forest management and enhancing livelihoods. A detailed review of existing monitoring and reporting frameworks in India and the world revealed that they are continuously evolving to meet the growing recognition of forests for their multiple roles and benefits. However, India's frameworks lack a comprehensive approach to capturing the social and economic aspects of sustainability. In this context, the current paper proposes a list of twenty-eight (28) indicators and sixty-four (64) sub-indicators pertaining to the ecological, social, and economic dimensions through a literature review to assess the sustainability of forests in India. Parallelly, it also identifies the existing sources and stakeholders for collecting data on the proposed indicators to reduce the overlap, inconsistencies and redundancy. Furthermore, building the capacities of concerned officials and improving coordination between the nodal organizations to strengthen the existing forest monitoring and reporting practices is also recommended. Such a comprehensive indicator-based framework would support informed decision-making in optimising the diverse forest-based benefits and prioritising actions to achieve the goal of sustainable forest management.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54269,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Development","volume":"57 ","pages":"Article 101370"},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2025-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145362217","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 : 2025-10-17DOI: 10.1016/j.envdev.2025.101369
Masoud Yazdanpanah , Alexa Lamm , James S. Owen , James E. Altland , Sarah A. White
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Pub Date : 2025-10-17DOI: 10.1016/j.envdev.2025.101378
Yanguo Liu , Li Wang , Xiurong He , Jingji Li , Ziqin Wang , Yu Chen , Qiang Zou , Liwei Tan , Mengni He , Xiangjun Pei
Eco-hydrological zoning is a key challenge in eco-hydrology. Large-scale principal component and clustering fail to capture eco-hydrological coupling or support adaptive management. Multiscale eco-hydrological zoning enables refined, coordinated regional management of ecosystems and water resources. Taking the Yarlung Zangbo River Basin as an example, we quantified the eco-hydrological index (EHI) through entropy and catastrophe progression methods and divided into three eco-hydrological zones: a low-water, a normal-water and a multi-water from 2000 to 2020 integration of five scales, and analyzed drivers of zones with the Optimal Parameters-based Geographical Detector (OPGD) and Partial Least Squares–Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). The results showed that (1) the low-water zone aligned with sandy land, bare rock, and permanent ice/snow; the normal-water zone correlated with alpine grasslands and the multi-water zone matched alpine wetlands and forests. (2) Over the 20-year period, eco-hydrological zoning pattern overall remained stable, normal-water ecological zone averaged 56.98 %, the low-water and the multi-water ecological zones averaged 18.15 % and 24.87 %, increased 0.18 % and 0.39 %. (3) GDP and vegetation cover were the primary driving factors influencing EHI with the interactions between driving factors primarily characterized by double-factor enhancement, and synergistic effects between drivers substantially exceed their individual contributions. (4) Ecological and topographic factors were positively correlated with EHI, while human activities, climate and hydrology factors were negatively correlated with EHI. Topography indirectly influenced EHI by shaping climate and affecting human activities. The eco-hydrological zoning of Nature reserves and Ecological red lines offers direction for the protection, monitoring, and ecological restoration of protected areas.
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Pub Date : 2025-10-16DOI: 10.1016/j.envdev.2025.101368
Damayanti Banerjee , Samhitha Kasibhatta
Climate scientists have examined the impact of increased soil salinity on farming, freshwater access, crop quality, and aquaculture. Much like coastal communities around the world, this is a pressing issue in the Sundarbans, an active delta region spanning both India and Bangladesh. Home to millions of people, salinization has deeply affected the lives and livelihoods of communities in the Sundarbans and endangered the fragile mangrove ecosystem.
While researchers in the natural sciences have studied the impact of rising salinization on soil composition and plant health, its effects on the lives and livelihoods of Sundarbans communities are less discussed in the social sciences. Instead, social science research has subsumed these issues within the wider body of climate scholarship thereby reducing its far-reaching effect on coastal communities in the Sundarbans and beyond. Yet, salinization is a critical issue for communities at risk and has led to barriers to food access, lower agricultural productivity, economic uncertainties, loss of homes and cultural identities. This paper aims to synthesize diverse strands of interdisciplinary scholarship about the extent, pattern, and adaptation mechanisms to soil salinization in the Sundarbans. We further argue that social scientific research on salinization will help communities address climate change and propose a few potential research pathways for future studies. [Word Limit: 207]
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Pub Date : 2025-10-15DOI: 10.1016/j.envdev.2025.101377
Guannan Cui , Wenchao Li , Yihao Meng , Liming Dong
In Chinese terrestrial ecosystems, above-ground carbon (AGC) and surface soil organic carbon (SOC) constitute critical components of vegetation carbon stocks. This study offers a more comprehensive analysis of the mechanisms that influence carbon sequestration. Through a meta-analysis of 173 peer-reviewed studies, the research examined three major natural ecosystems: trees, shrubs, and grasses. Key findings reveal: (1) The trees exhibited the highest carbon sequestration capacity (AGC = 4.73, SOC = 2.34), followed by shrubs (AGC = 1.07, SOC = 2.66) and grasses (AGC = −1.07, SOC = 1.37), with all values compared to control farmland. (2) Regional divergence: Tree AGC was highest in Northeast (13.29) and North China (6.87); Grass AGC was lower than farmland in Inner Mongolia (−7.94), Southeast (−3.56), and Northwest China (−2.21); SOC was most prominent for trees and shrubs in Southwest China (3.77 and 4.48, respectively); Grass SOC peaked in Central China (4.24); Comparative analysis showed tree AGC generally exceeded SOC, while grasses exhibited the opposite pattern; Shrubs demonstrated higher AGC than SOC in northern regions, with the reverse pattern in southern regions. (3) Climatic thresholds: High precipitation (>1500 mm) maximally enhances AGC and SOC capacities for trees and shrubs, with SOC further enhanced at >15 °C; Grasses demonstrate optimal carbon sequestration under moderate conditions (5–15 °C and 1000–1500 mm). These findings emphasize the critical importance of considering vegetation type, regional heterogeneity, and climatic thresholds in developing forest management strategies for enhanced carbon sink optimization. The study provides valuable insights for ecosystem-specific carbon management approaches in China's diverse terrestrial environments.
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Pub Date : 2025-10-15DOI: 10.1016/j.envdev.2025.101376
Manob Das , Arijit Das
Green spaces offer vital cultural ecosystem services (ES), and these ES are essential for human health and well-being. But the green spaces in cities are increasingly threatened by rapid urbanization, particularly in developing countries. This study aims to explore the use and perception of cultural ES from green spaces in Kolkata Megacity Region (KMR). A number of statistical analyses such as Kruskal-Wallis test, Correlation Analysis, Hierarchical Cluster Analysis, and Principal Component Analysis (PCA), were applied to assess patterns of ES use and perceptions from green spaces. The results showed that green spaces were primarily valued for recreation, social interactions, aesthetics, and health benefits. Recreation ES showed strong correlations with social relations (0.868, 0.775), inspiration (0.878, 0.751), aesthetics (0.896, 0.83), sense of place (0.987, 0.851), and health (0.78, 0.853). Hierarchical clustering revealed that 58.33% of ES in Rabindra Sarabor fell into Cluster 2, while Eco Park had the highest share in Cluster 1 (37.50 %). PCA indicated that PC1 and PC2 explained 69 % and 31 % of the variance in Rabindra Sarabor, while Eco Park showed 54% total variance. The findings highlight the importance of integrating cultural ES into urban planning for enhanced human well-being. Strategic landscape management can ensure the sustainability of these spaces, fostering community engagement and environmental resilience.
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The “Nexus” concept has emerged as an effective approach to natural resources management, that integrates management and governance across sectors and scales, emphasizing the need to consider interconnections and interdependencies among multiple sectors and dimensions. Research over the past decade has contributed to developing tools and methods for effectively mapping and analyzing these interdependencies, and the use of mixed qualitative/quantitative modeling of the Nexus is seen as a relevant opportunity. Stakeholder engagement in Nexus modeling remains crucial to ensure that policy-relevant messages are produced. Focusing on the Tarquinia plain (Italy), where a strong interdependency (and conflict) exists between agriculture and the state of the environment, this study applies both a participatory Causal Loop Diagram (CLD) and a agro-hydrological model (SWAT) to analyze a Nexus system. The combination of these tools is mainly functional: the CLD facilitates participatory Nexus mapping and helps stakeholders identify key challenges, while SWAT provides an in-depth analysis of those challenges, quantifying the impacts of drivers (e.g., climate change) and the potential effectiveness of measures. Attention is given to soil loss assessment and erosion rates, as an effect of irrigated agriculture. The study highlights the potential of the proposed approach to support finding suitable strategies to guarantee a balanced and sustainable development of areas where a strong Nexus among societal and environmental needs exists.
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Pub Date : 2025-10-15DOI: 10.1016/j.envdev.2025.101373
Vida Mantey , Arnold Missiame , Christine Bosch , Regina Birner , Athena Birkenberg , Viviane Guesbeogo Yameogo , John Mburu
The development and implementation of smallholder agricultural carbon projects offer opportunities for sustainable dairy production. Understanding the role of institutions such as cooperatives and the efficient use of resources by farmers in carbon projects is crucial to achieving sustainable agriculture and reduced greenhouse gas emissions. The main objective of this study is to explore the role that cooperatives can play in agricultural carbon projects and to understand the efficient use of resources by participating farmers, using a pioneering project as a case study. A mixed methods approach was used. Ten focus group discussions and in-depth interviews were conducted in addition to a household survey with 153 participants. A participatory and visual mapping tool (Net-Map) was used to understand the interaction between cooperatives and other actors including project developers in the project. Stochastic frontier and endogenous switching regression models were used to analyse the impact of cooperative membership on technical efficiency. The results show that dairy cooperatives promote the adoption of sustainable practices and support carbon monitoring and reporting. While cooperative membership is positively related to technical efficiency, non-members in our study had slightly higher technical efficiency. This finding suggests the need for cooperatives to go beyond promoting environmentally sustainable practices to enhancing farmers efficient use of input. The results also reveal information asymmetries in voluntary carbon markets which limits the capacity of cooperatives to promote sustainable agriculture. The study highlights the important role of cooperatives in promoting sustainable dairy farming in the face of climate change. It serves as a guide not only for carbon project managers, but also for other development project developers to strengthen the participation of cooperatives in climate change mitigation and sustainable agriculture.
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