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Extension, the Land-Grant Mission, and Civic Agriculture: Cultivating Change

Journal of Extension, 2009
Criticisms claiming the land-grant system has failed its mission and recent restructuring in the food system have together challenged the role played by Extension. This article explores whether a framework of southeast Michigan's Food System Economic Partnership (FSEP) fosters civic participation in the agrifood re-localization movement.
Colasanti, Kathryn, Wright, Wynne, Reau, Brenda   +2 more
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Botanic and heritage gardens as living laboratories in the age of the polycrisis

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Societal Impact Statement Cities face intertwined crises of climate, biodiversity loss and social disconnection. We show how botanic and heritage gardens can help address these challenges as living laboratories to generate place‐based evidence and public engagement.
Kevin Frediani
wiley   +1 more source

Examining the relationship between civic agriculture participation and civic engagement in South Texas

Agriculture and Human Values
Abstract Civic agriculture is often credited with strengthening democratic life by encouraging civic and political engagement, yet this claim has scarcely been tested in socioeconomically marginalized regions. Using original survey data collected through a combination of random and purposive sampling, this study assesses that ...
Allison Kaika, Dongkyu Kim, William Donner, Alexis Racelis, Owen Temby   +4 more
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The Transformational STEM Consciousness Scale: A QuantCrit Measure of a Liberatory STEM Outcome

Science Education, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Guided by QuantCrit, we introduce and validate the Transformational STEM Consciousness (TSC) scale, which fuses students' motivation to pursue racial and social justice through STEM with a critique of STEM's historic complicity in inequity. Surveying 255 undergraduate and graduate students in 18 justice‐integrated STEM courses across 11 US ...
Juan C. Garibay, Lindsay Wheeler
wiley   +1 more source

In This Issue: Adapting to Change: A Challenge for Producers and Consumers

Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2016
First paragraph: Change is always in the wind, but the pace at which change is taking place in many aspects of human endeavor is clearly hastening — and leading to a socioeconomic bifurcation that includes some good, and some not so good, trends ...
Duncan L. Hilchey
doaj   +1 more source

Social Sustainability in Circular Bioeconomy Business Models: Insights From Argentina

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Research on circular bioeconomy business models (CBEBM) has largely prioritised environmental and economic aspects, leaving out the social pillar. To address this gap, this paper analyses to what extent and in what ways social sustainability is integrated into CBEBM, based on 12 cases from northern Argentina, a region with high potential for ...
Celina N. Amato, Mónica Buraschi, Karen M. Siegel   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Participatory Value Co‐Creation in Sustainable Market Systems: A Framework for Systemic Marketing Redesign

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Achieving global sustainability requires rethinking marketing beyond firm centred strategies and towards systemic approaches that engage diverse stakeholders in value co‐creation. This paper proposes a conceptual framework for participatory value co‐creation in sustainable market systems, drawing on stakeholder theory, systems thinking ...
Ahmet Küçükuncular
wiley   +1 more source

Sustainability and Corporate Performance in the Global South: The Influence of the Environmental Pillar and Institutional Quality

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Corporate sustainability in the Global South unfolds under heterogeneous institutional conditions, where firms face simultaneous pressures from global ESG standards and local governance constraints. This study examines the relationship between ESG‐aligned environmental practices and corporate financial performance, considering the moderating ...
Paulo Sérgio Reinert, Tércio Pereira, Fernando Cesar Lenzi, Nicole Cristina Rodrigues   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

In This Issue: A Good Late Winter's Read

Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2016
First paragraph: What a long winter this has been in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York — so much so that the weather might, in fact, be affecting my judgment and sense of humor. We'd normally use a more earnest cover related to a topical theme
Duncan L. Hilchey
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Operationalizing the Metaverse for Urban Sustainability: Evidence From an Expert Panel and the Seoul Metaverse City Case Study

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Smart cities and urban digital twins have fostered the emergence of immersive environments, such as the metaverse. While contemporary scholarlship has increasingly examined the integration of the metaverse within smart city infrastructures, the critical nexus between urban sustainability and the metaverse remains largely under‐researched. This
Jose Manuel Diaz‐Sarachaga, Ayyoob Sharifi   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source