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The energy transition patterns of low-income households in South Africa: An evaluation of energy programme and policy

Journal of Energy in Southern Africa, 2018
The transition to modern energy carriers like electricity is an important way to achieve to eradicate energy poverty. This study investigated energy transition patterns and trends in low-income South African households.
Sylvia Olawumi Israel-Akinbo, Jen Snowball, Gavin Fraser   +2 more
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Isolation, Insularity and Resilience: A Review of the Geophysical, Socioeconomic, and Environmental Vulnerabilities of Gran Canaria and Lesvos Islands for Policy Interventions to Global Change

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The dynamic nature of small islands being geographically isolated and their perceived connectedness with global networks complicates research attempts to draw general conclusions on whether insularity leads to marginalization or strengthens their resilience for sustainable development.
Toheeb Lekan Jolaosho, Mazen Marouani, Takwa Boughanmi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mathematical literacy examination items and student errors: An analysis of English Second Language students’ responses

Per Linguam : A Journal of Language Learning, 2012
Mathematical literacy is a real-world practical attribute yet students write a high-stakes examination in order to pass the subject Mathematical Literacy in the National Certificates (Vocational) (NC(V)). In these examinations, all sources of information
Vale, Pamela , Murray, Sarah , Brown, Bruce   +2 more
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Understanding Interactions Between Sustainable Development Goals Within and Between Policy Programmes: The Case of Kenya's Dairy Sector

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Achieving Agenda 2030 depends on addressing interactions between the sustainable development goals (SDGs). In this paper, we conceptualize SDG interactions as synergies or trade‐offs, incoming or outgoing, and internal or external, and analyze how SDG 2 (Zero Hunger) interacts with other SDGs within and across policy programmes that support ...
Annita Jepchirchir Kirwa, Sylvia Karlsson‐Vinkhuyzen, Todd Andrew Crane, Art R. P. J. Dewulf   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Role of Global Political Economy in Community‐Based Adaptation to Climate Change—Practitioners' Experience and Opinions

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Community‐based adaptation scholars and practitioners acknowledge that power asymmetries pose significant barriers to project impact. Nevertheless, there is little research on the role of the global political economy as the root cause of vulnerability.
Tom Selje, Alexandra Klepp, Boris Heinz
wiley   +1 more source

Position effect variegation (PEV) as an aging clock: visualization of age-dependent loss of heterochromatin and longevity associated with enhanced heterochromatin

Scientific Reports
The heterochromatin loss model of aging suggests there is an age-dependent reduction in epigenetic factors that form and maintain the heterochromatin state of chromosomes.
Sesley Tedeschi, Talia Takahashi, Yash Vyavahare, Emma Clark, Logan Deutschmann, Raynord Leung, Kat Stanley, Liam C. Hunt   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Tourism and Sustainable Development in the Mediterranean: Evidence From Robust Panel CS‐ARDL Analysis

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite the Mediterranean region's critical dependence on tourism, the empirical relationship between tourism development and multidimensional sustainable development remains underexplored. Existing studies predominantly rely on unidimensional sustainability proxies, failing to capture the holistic nature of sustainability. This study examines
Emin Ahmet Kaplan, Tufan Sarıtaş, Yasin Büyükkör, Alper Aslan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Theory of Interpersonal Behaviour Applied to the Mediating Influence of Habit on Recycling Behaviour in South African Townships

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recycling rates in South African townships remain critically low, undermining progress towards sustainable development and the transition to a circular economy. This study applies the theory of interpersonal behaviour (TIP) to examine how recycling habits mediate the relationship between key drivers—past behaviour, environmental concern ...
Thomas Dobbelstein, K. Mercy Makhitha
wiley   +1 more source

Experimentation on a leash: How stakeholder influence shapes entrepreneurial experimentation across the venture lifecycle

Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary Prior studies have often conceptualized entrepreneurial experimentation as an activity over which founders exert a high amount of discretion in decision‐making. However, the locus of control over experimentation programs is dynamic, shifting with varying external stakeholder influence and venture growth. This paper proposes an
Hyeonsuh Lee, Gianluigi Viscusi, Christopher L. Tucci   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Leverage Points for Meaningful Participation: A 5‐Point Framework From a Rural South African Landscape

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Alternative forms of natural resource management are required. Participation of local actors is necessary but not sufficient, for moving away from the conventional top‐down approaches. This paper develops a 5‐point framework for enabling meaningful participation in rural landscape governance.
Anthony S. Fry, Jai K. Clifford‐Holmes, Carolyn G. Palmer   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source