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Community perceptions on land and water acquisitions in the Okavango Delta: implications for rural livelihoods

Ecosystems and People
Large-scale land acquisitions in Africa are increasing, reported often as the transfers of land for food and biofuel crop production. Only reporting agricultural acquisitions underplays potential impacts of other forms of acquisitions like tourism and ...
Nametso Dorothy Phonchi-Tshekiso, Nadia Sitas, Odirilwe Selomane   +2 more
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A strategic niche management approach for shaping bio-based economy in Europe [PDF]

, 2018
The goal of this paper is to investigate the transition towards a bio-based economy as part of a broader sustainable transition in Europe. To analyse the challenges and opportunities associated with the bio-based economy, we applied the Strategic Niche ...
Tani, Almona
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The transition to agricultural sustainability [PDF]

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 1999
The transition to sustainable growth in agricultural production during the 21st century will take place within the context of a transition to a stable population and a possible transition to a stable level of material consumption. If the world fails to successfully navigate a transition to sustainable growth in agricultural production, the failure
openaire   +2 more sources

The evolution of social-ecological systems (SES) research: a co-authorship and co-citation network analysis

Ecology and Society
Social-ecological systems (SES) research has gained substantial momentum, as witnessed by the growth in SES publications, theories, and frameworks, and the traction these concepts have gained in development and policy arenas.
Amanda Manyani, Reinette Biggs, Lloyd Hill, Rika Preiser   +3 more
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Local understandings and global challenges: exploring sense of place in sustainability transitions

Ecology and Society, 2023
The sustainability transitions literature acknowledges the importance of place for building a more sustainable world. Although some researchers have studied place analytically and made contributions toward developing sustainable communities across the ...
Carson Balestreri, Elizabeth C. Kurucz, Thomas McIlwraith, Shoshanah Jacobs   +3 more
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Exploring relationality in African knowledge systems as a contribution to decoloniality in sustainability science

Ecosystems and People
The current solutions offered by Western sustainability science to address prevailing global environmental destruction and social injustice are still largely embedded in the Western knowledge system established by colonisation, limiting the efficacy of ...
Melanie Carstens, Rika Preiser
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COVID-19 and school teachers in South Africa: Interfacing SDG3 (Health and Wellbeing) and SDG4 (Quality Education)

Social Sciences and Humanities Open
The COVID-19 pandemic destabilised the education sector worldwide exposing teachers to significant health risks, while disrupting their core responsibilities.
Godwell Nhamo, Hlengiwe Precious Kunene, Nthabiseng Mashula   +2 more
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Exploring the transformative potential of urban food

npj Urban Sustainability, 2021
Urban food is a key lever for transformative change towards sustainability. While research reporting on the urban food practices (UFPs) in support of sustainability is increasing, the link towards transformative potential is lacking.
A. Hebinck, O. Selomane, E. Veen, A. de Vrieze, S. Hasnain, M. Sellberg, L. Sovová, K. Thompson, J. Vervoort, A. Wood   +9 more
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Predicting priority management areas for land use/cover change in the transboundary Okavango basin based on machine learning

Heliyon, 2023
Remote sensing and modelling of land use/land cover (LULC) change is useful to reveal the extent and spatial patterns of landscape changes at various environments and scales.
Blessing Kavhu, Zama Eric Mashimbye, Linda Luvuno   +2 more
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Contextualising Urban Experimentation: Analysing the Utopiastadt Campus Case with the Theory of Strategic Action Fields

Urban Planning, 2021
Practices of urban experimentation are currently seen as a promising approach to making planning processes more collaborative and adaptive. The practices develop not only in the context of ideal-type concepts of urban experiments and urban labs but also ...
Matthias Wanner, Boris Bachmann, Timo von Wirth   +2 more
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