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A Method for Assessing the Risks to Sustainability Posed by Process Operations

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We present a framework for assessing the risks to sustainability posed by any given set of processes. The objective is to improve sustainability by enabling better decision‐making in policy and business contexts. The framework can be applied to any system of processes where available information supports discovery and quantification of ...
Richard C. Darton, Colin J. Axon
wiley   +1 more source

Between Emancipation and Domination? A Critical Analysis of Empowerment in a Women‐Only Development Program in Costa Rica's Coffee Sector

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Female empowerment and its use in development contexts has histories in coloniality. Gender programs typically imply an individualistic, depoliticized concept. This article examines whether such initiatives can be supportive for empowerment. We apply an embedded qualitative case study of Bean Voyage's program to support female coffee producers
Annelie M. Gütte   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Blue‐Prints for Ocean Governance: Analyzing Resource Sustainability in International Blue Economic Frameworks

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Championed as a pathway for sustainable growth, the “blue economy” (BE) has garnered increasing interest in recent decades. International organizations like the World Bank and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) increasingly point to marine resources and activities as a “new frontier” for economic growth ...
Flora St. Pier   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Developing Sustainable Urban Agriculture in Research and Innovation Smart Specialisation Strategy to Implement the Quintuple Helix

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ABSTRACT This study aims to analyse how regions benefit from developing urban agriculture into the research and innovation smart specialisation strategy (RIS3). To this end, the socio‐economic structural variables employed by the EU to design regional RIS3s were analysed from a sample of 100 European regions.
Ana María Bartolome   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tropical Forests and Sustainability: The Role of Multilateral Financing in Latin America

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The challenge of slowing deforestation and degradation in the tropical regions of Latin America requires financing mechanisms (public and private) that can enable actions to preserve and sustainably manage forest integrity. This paper begins by examining the strategy implemented by the World Bank to protect forest cover in tropical countries ...
Ángela Andrea Caviedes Conde   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Climate-Smart Agriculture:

Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) represents an innovative and holistic framework designed to address the multidimensional challenges posed by climate change. By integrating traditional agricultural practices with modern technologies, CSA enhances resilience, mitigates environmental impacts, and ensures food security. Central to CSA is a systems-thinking
Sanjeev Kumar   +4 more
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Climate Smart Sustainable Agriculture

2021
Careful management of agricultural ecosystems is considered a vital procedure to ensure both environmental health and the sustainability of this sector, particularly when, besides all the argumentative used by farmers, there are no globally accepted sustainable management solutions for agriculture.
Luis Loures   +3 more
openaire   +1 more source

Harmonizing climate-smart and sustainable agriculture

Nature Food, 2021
Developing new modelling tools to support better design of climate change adaptation strategies offers an opportunity to harmonize crop production, climate change mitigation and environmental sustainability.
Bin Peng, Kaiyu Guan
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Climate smart agriculture for Africa: the potential role of conservation agriculture in climate smart agriculture.

2022
Abstract To achieve the challenges raised in Agenda 2063 and the Malabo Declaration, new agricultural techniques need to be promoted. Practical approaches to implement climate smart agriculture and sustainable agriculture, able to deliver at field level, are required. These include sustainable soil and land management that allows different user
Emilio J. González-Sánchez   +10 more
openaire   +1 more source

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