Estimating scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions through the shareholder network of publicly traded firms
AbstractAccounting for scope 3 emissions from investments remains a challenge due to a lack of adequate data and guidelines that do not accommodate the systemic role of firms in the financial chain. Here, we use network analysis to estimate investment-associated scope 3 carbon emissions of public firms. Using shareholder data from publicly traded firms listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, we identified the most influential firms by their ownership share values. Environmental responsibility can then be assigned by distributing the carbon footprint in the network to each of these influential firms. The industrial services, in...
Source: Sustainability Science - February 22, 2024 Category: Science Source Type: research
At the intersections of influence: exploring the structure –agency nexus across sufficiency goals and time frames
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Source: Sustainability Science - February 22, 2024 Category: Science Source Type: research
Unveiling global sustainability boundaries: exploring inner dimensions of human critical determinants for sustainability
AbstractGreater global awareness and action to implement sustainable development are underway. However, global progress towards sustainability has been slow. Advancing towards some form of sustainability requires greater attention and analysis of the role played by the human inner world. While the scientific analytic tools have focused on external aspects, we present a scientific methodology to identify human critical determinants (HCDs) acquired during the human biological and cultural evolution, which, although crucial for survival, well-being, and economic prosperity, may also currently act as human sustainability bound...
Source: Sustainability Science - February 19, 2024 Category: Science Source Type: research
An organizing framework to break down Western-centric views of knowledge in North –South research
AbstractGlobal challenges, such as climate change, persistent poverty, and food insecurity are complex problems. These societal, environmental, and economic challenges cross scientific disciplines, communities, and geographies, requiring interdisciplinary, North –South solutions. Nevertheless, prevailing sustainability science responses are Western-centric. Some seminal studies have attempted to understand and engage with diverse knowledge systems. These include decolonial and Indigenous methodologies, such as “Two-Eyed Seeing”, which emphasizes the i mportance of using both Western and Indigenous knowledge to gain a...
Source: Sustainability Science - February 17, 2024 Category: Science Source Type: research
Centring Indigenous peoples in knowledge exchange research-practice by resetting assumptions, relationships and institutions
AbstractKnowledge exchange is a broad and consequential undertaking, analysed by diverse scholars, and rapidly growing as a field of academic practice. Its remit is to strengthen ties between research generators and users to support better material outcomes for society. This review paper considers how this increasingly codified academic field might engage with the research-practice concerns identified in the Indigenous and decolonial literature. We do so by bringing the two literature sets together for analysis, noting they are not mutually exclusive. We reveal how addressing discrimination towards Indigenous peoples fromw...
Source: Sustainability Science - February 17, 2024 Category: Science Source Type: research
Inter- and transdisciplinary reasoning for action: the case of an arts –sciences–humanities intervention on climate change
This article investigates howinter- and transdisciplinary reasoning (or ITD reasoning) unfolded in a collaboration involving experts from the natural sciences, humanities, and the arts. We studied how collaborators reasoned through different understandings and experiences of climate change as well as through multiple ways of fostering motivation to take action via two co-designed artworks, HOMONEXUS (a participatory textile and acoustic installation) and GLACIER NEX US (a performance staging a dialogue between a melting glacier and a glaciologist). Our conclusions are threefold: (i) ITD reasoning can increase participants ...
Source: Sustainability Science - February 17, 2024 Category: Science Source Type: research
Assessing the relevance of different proximity dimensions for knowledge exchange and (co-)creation in sustainability-oriented innovation networks
AbstractInnovations incorporating environmental and social considerations can address many sustainability challenges. Such sustainable innovations emerge in networks often comprising actors from business, academia, civil society, and government. The crucial interactions here are the (co-)creation and transfer of knowledge, mutual learning, and experimentation in different environments. To better understand these knowledge processes and hence the eventual outcome of sustainable innovations, we analyze the actors ’ relationships with the help of proximity and its five dimensions, namely geographical, cognitive, institution...
Source: Sustainability Science - February 16, 2024 Category: Science Source Type: research
Social acceptance of district heating: evidence from the Netherlands
AbstractThe Netherlands Climate Change Agreement aims to reduce CO2 emissions and seismic events by halting natural gas usage by 2050. This will require widespread societal acceptance by 90% of households. The study investigates the social acceptance of a district heating network (DHN) among social housing tenants in Haarlem, Netherlands. The findings of a survey administered to ninety-five tenants revealed a substantial level of support for the DHN project. A significant portion of respondents, 75%, expressed their approval for the DHN, surpassing the legally required threshold of 70% for implementing building retrofits. ...
Source: Sustainability Science - February 15, 2024 Category: Science Source Type: research
A methodological framework for capturing marine small-scale fisheries' contributions to the sustainable development goals
AbstractSmall-scale fisheries (SSF) receive increasing international attention for landing around 40% of global marine fisheries catches and employing millions of people globally. Their contributions to food security and poverty alleviation, especially in developing countries, make it relevant to consider them when discussing sustainable development goals (SDGs). Achieving SDGs by supporting SSF means understanding fisheries in their broader context, from the health of marine ecosystems to social and economic features such as employment, public health, culture, and the effects of global change. Social –ecological relatio...
Source: Sustainability Science - February 14, 2024 Category: Science Source Type: research
Correction: Processes of sustainability transformation across systems scales: leveraging systemic change in the textile sector
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Source: Sustainability Science - February 12, 2024 Category: Science Source Type: research
Multifunctionality benefits of small-scale urban agriculture
AbstractDue to the scarcity of land, small-scale agriculture farming is more suitable in the urban context. But there are significant knowledge gaps that remain regarding small-scale urban food production systems, especially, in developing countries. Hence, this study was carried out to investigate the farmers ’ perception of the multifunctional benefits of small-scale urban agriculture activities in Sri Lanka and the factors determining (demographic, farm management, and economic) those perceptions. A perception survey was conducted for 402 small-scale farmers in Colombo District, Sri Lanka. Ordinal re gression was appl...
Source: Sustainability Science - February 8, 2024 Category: Science Source Type: research
Design principles for sustainable community currency projects
AbstractCommunity currencies (CCs) are alternative forms of money usually issued and managed by citizens, NGOs and companies as well as local public administrations. Used to trade goods and services in limited territories or among a certain community, CCs are composed of symbolic, cultural, and social dimensions and fully immersed in particular economic and institutional contexts. Despite the increasing adoption of CCs, the discussion on guiding principles and values to address their purposes, particularly in relation to environmental sustainability issues is still scarce in the literature. Given this gap, this paper relie...
Source: Sustainability Science - February 5, 2024 Category: Science Source Type: research
Teaching –learning environmental conflicts through case studies and experiential immersion: introducing students to transdisciplinary research
This article analyzes the relevance of a transdisciplinary approach applied to case studies coupled with what we have called “experiential immersion”, as a pedagogical strategy to better understand the complexity associated with environmental conflicts, which are a key challenge to achieve sustainability. We analyzed and compared two pedagogical experiences—one in Argentina and another one in Mexico—that we developed in undergraduate courses to teach about environmental conflicts. We used transdisciplinary approaches, situated cognition and different strategies of pedagogy for sustainability, promoting the experi...
Source: Sustainability Science - February 4, 2024 Category: Science Source Type: research
Understanding the mechanisms of meaning-making for transformations toward sustainability: contributions from Personal Knowledge Theory
AbstractThe concept of meaning-making is increasingly identified as a crucial process and an entry point for sustainability transformations in a wide range of contexts and approaches, but it has not yet been studied in this field as an independent concept. In other literature, meaning-making has recently been focused on, yielding valuable information on how to better conceptualize and design events to trigger transformations. Furthermore, that study indicated the presence of underlying mechanisms of meaning-making, which might provide further design insights and theoretical underpinning. Here we investigate those underlyin...
Source: Sustainability Science - February 4, 2024 Category: Science Source Type: research
A practical tool to enable Indigenous enterprise planning and development grounded in culture
AbstractGlobally, Indigenous people seek to develop sustainable livelihood options that enable them to practice their culture, look after their traditional estates and generate economic development outcomes for their wider community. Enterprise development can and may provide one such pathway. However, challenges can arise with regard to reconciling the core drivers of ‘economic development’ with aspirations to practice and preserve culture. Current enterprise development approaches and models do not always suit Indigenous contexts. In this paper, we present a practical tool to enable Indigenous leaders, their partners...
Source: Sustainability Science - February 3, 2024 Category: Science Source Type: research
