Article
Energy & Fuels
Jamil Khan, Bengt Johansson
Summary: Carbon pricing has been implemented as a key policy instrument for climate change mitigation in many countries globally. However, the design of these systems varies significantly, resulting in challenges that can be overcome by adapting the system's design to meet different societal interests. Therefore, carbon pricing needs to be combined with other policies to ensure both rapid mitigation and long-term decarbonization.
ENERGY STRATEGY REVIEWS
(2022)
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Forestry
Diana Carolina Huertas-Bernal, Miroslav Hajek
Summary: This research analyzes the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) of economic instruments by examining forest policy documents from the EU, Austria, and the Czech Republic. It finds that the EU effectively channels resources through funding programs to align with its environmental objectives. The SWOT analysis reveals significant differences in the application and management of economic instruments and the performance of financial instruments across the EU, influenced by national strategies and action plans.
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Nutrition & Dietetics
SeeHoe Ng, Bridget Kelly, Heather Yeatman, Boyd Swinburn, Tilakavati Karupaiah
Summary: The mandatory nutrition labeling policy introduced in Malaysia in 2003 faced implementation challenges. Historical mapping showed that international directions influenced policy processes, but policy inertia led to implementation gaps. Barriers to the policy process included lack of resources, governance complexity, technical challenges, while facilitators included resource maximization, leadership, industry engagement.
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
A. Michalke, L. Stein, R. Fichtner, T. Gaugler, S. Stoll-Kleemann
Summary: Current food systems are unsustainable and put large pressure on planetary boundaries. Consumers are interested in true food pricing and would be willing to pay 'true prices', but the implementation of True Cost Accounting (TCA) faces challenges regarding transparency and wealth distribution.
SUSTAINABILITY SCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Food Science & Technology
Piotr Romaniuk, Krzysztof Kaczmarek, Katarzyna Brukalo, Elzbieta Grochowska-Niedworok, Karolina Lobczowska, Anna Banik, Aleksandra Luszczynska, Maartje Poelman, Janas M. Harrington, Stefanie Vandevijvere
Summary: This study assessed the healthy food environment policies in Poland and found that most aspects were weak. In the policy domain, there were low scores for many indicators, while the infrastructure had slightly better scores.
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Environmental Studies
David W. Poulton, Eran S. Kaplinsky
Summary: The Canadian province of Alberta experienced rapid economic and demographic growth in the first decade of the twenty-first century. In response to concerns about the impact on the landscape and conflicts among users, the provincial government introduced policies to promote regional planning and market-based instruments for land stewardship. However, the implementation of these policies has encountered obstacles and deviated from the initial enthusiasm.
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Environmental Studies
Andreas Hengstermann, Vera Gotze
Summary: Planning has a significant impact on land values and can influence the management and decision-making of land use and spatial development. This study demonstrates the connection between planning-induced land value changes and value capture instruments in Switzerland, contributing to a better understanding of redistributive mechanisms in planning.
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Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Cui Huang, Chao Yang, Jun Su
Summary: This paper proposes a method using a network framework and structural holes theory to identify core policy instruments implied in policy documents, as well as analyze the policy mix system. The method is useful for quantitatively analyzing complex policy systems and understanding the measures taken by government organizations to achieve specific goals.
JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS
(2021)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Amanda Maria Edmonds, Gerrit J. Carsjens
Summary: This study investigates whether markets have been codified into law, revealing that they are highly underrepresented in municipal policy, rarely defined in code, and mostly absent from zoning ordinances. Despite a potential link to historically operated markets, the absence of markets from codified food policy raises questions and underscores the importance of documenting the market sector and considering historical perspectives in evaluating current food policy efforts.
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Jeanine Ammann, Andreia Arbenz, Gabriele Mack, Thomas Nemecek, Nadja El Benni
Summary: The current food system is unsustainable and contributes to the climate crisis. Consumers face challenges in making sustainable food decisions, making policy action necessary. A literature review of 160 studies was conducted to assess the effectiveness of consumer-targeted policy instruments, revealing that less intrusive instruments are more popular but more intrusive instruments are more effective. Additionally, consumers rely on information-based instruments and sociodemographic characteristics play a role in sustainable food choices.
SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION
(2023)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Nan Wang, Li Zhu, Yuanhao Bing, Liwei Chen, Shulang Fei
Summary: Urban agriculture is increasingly valued in China, with efforts to incorporate it into urban planning and agricultural strategies. However, there is still a lack of clear definitions and holistic approaches to assess and monitor local urban agriculture. This study focused on Chengdu, conducting a thorough assessment and developing an indicator framework tailored to the city's conditions for in-depth evaluation and monitoring.
Article
Construction & Building Technology
Eliza Kalbarczyk, Robert Kalbarczyk
Summary: This study aims to evaluate the credibility of 44 municipal adaptation plans developed by the largest Polish cities from 2015 to 2019, while identifying the strengths and weaknesses of adaptation planning and explaining the differences in assessment results among cities. The study found that institutional support has a highly positive effect on the credibility of adaptation planning, although the quality of plans varied. Weaknesses in Polish city planning include regulatory issues, past performance, funding, consistency, equity and public opinion. On the other hand, strengths include network membership, adaptation options, and consideration of uncertainty. Future research should focus on developing a method to assess the implementation of planned actions.
SUSTAINABLE CITIES AND SOCIETY
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Yuling Gao, Arshad Ahmad Khan, Sufyan Ullah Khan, Muhammad Abu Sufyan Ali, Jianjun Huai
Summary: China's dependence on well-crafted public policies and effective implementation at the local level is crucial for achieving the goals of peak CO2 emissions and carbon neutrality. This study investigates the policy instruments related to peak CO2 emissions across 29 provinces in China and identifies factors such as political feasibility, regional coordination, and attributes of low-carbon initiatives that influence policy effectiveness. The study also highlights the importance of policy enhancements in advancing the path toward carbon neutrality.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
(2023)
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Geography, Physical
Leandro Ismael de Azevedo Lacerda, Jose Augusto Ribeiro da Silveira, Celso Augusto Guimaraes Santos, Richarde Marques da Silva, Alexandro Medeiros Silva, Thiago Victor Medeiros do Nascimento, Edson Leite Ribeiro, Paulo Vitor Nascimento de Freitas
Summary: This study analyzes the loss of urban forests and changes in land use in Joao Pessoa, Brazil. The use of instruments for integrated urban planning is discussed, showing significant shifts in land use with major impacts on urban areas and herbaceous vegetation, particularly in the loss of arboreal/shrub vegetation. The study highlights the potential application of the proposed framework in other parts of the world to better understand urban-related problems.
JOURNAL OF GEOGRAPHICAL SCIENCES
(2021)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Shengyue Fan, Chenxi Zhao, Shuai Zha
Summary: This study finds that policy instruments have a significant impact on the implementation of payment for grassland ecosystem services and play an important guiding role in farmers' participation, providing a theoretical basis for improving the performance of payment for grassland ecosystem services.
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Thomas Krikser, Ingo Zasada, Annette Piorr
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Ehsan Tavakoli-Hashjini, Annette Piorr, Klaus Muller, Jose Luis Vicente-Vicente
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Environmental Sciences
Jose Luis Vicente-Vicente, Annette Piorr
Summary: Qatar has a high carbon footprint per capita due to its increasing population and food demand. Shifting diets to organic products and regionalized diets can reduce greenhouse gas emissions significantly. These findings should be integrated into environmental and food security policies for a sustainable solution.
CARBON BALANCE AND MANAGEMENT
(2021)
Article
Agronomy
Jose Luis Vicente-Vicente, Esther Sanz-Sanz, Claude Napoleone, Michel Moulery, Annette Piorr
Summary: The study proposes a method that combines the Metropolitan Foodshed and Self-sufficiency Scenario model to address the shortcomings of foodshed methods, considering crop diversity and soil conditions to support urban food strategies. The research shows that expansion of the foodshed radius is necessary to achieve higher self-sufficiency for animal products when specific soil conditions are taken into account.
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Environmental Studies
Kati Hafner, Annette Piorr
Summary: The study found that the willingness of peatland farmers to participate in agricultural environmental measures is influenced by farm types and farmers' characteristics. Part-time farmers and those without formal agricultural training tend to support cooperation, while more professional farmers are more likely to reject support for cooperation.
Article
Agronomy
Carmen Schwartz, Mostafa Shaaban, Sonoko Dorothea Bellingrath-Kimura, Annette Piorr
Summary: This paper evaluates the use of participatory geographic information system (PGIS) methods for demand assessment in agricultural land use management, identifying spatially explicit demand patterns for ecosystem services (ES) and demonstrating poor correlation between stakeholder groups and demands for ES.
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Environmental Studies
Katrin Martens, Sebastian Rogga, Jana Zscheischler, Bernd Polling, Andreas Obersteg, Annette Piorr
Summary: This conceptual paper elaborates, extends, and evaluates a classification approach for new hybrid cooperation models in the agri-food sector, aiming to discover their sustainability and challenges, as well as their potential for replication in other regions.
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Environmental Studies
Mostafa Shaaban, Carmen Schwartz, Joseph Macpherson, Annette Piorr
Summary: This research focuses on motivating cooperation among different beneficiaries in agricultural landscapes to reduce conflicts due to supply-demand mismatches, and to evaluate the impact of various scenarios on Sustainable Development Goals. Using an integrated model combining different methodological tools, the simulation aims to identify and manage spatial trade-offs, providing decision support for stakeholders to shift from competitive to cooperative behavior in achieving SDGs.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Fabrizio Ungaro, Carmen Schwartz, Annette Piorr
Summary: The dataset of ecosystem services provided by the agricultural areas of the Markisch-Oderland District in Germany includes six standardized indicators, covering provisioning, regulating, and cultural services. These indicators were mainly built from public data sources.
Article
Geography
Ina Opitz, Felix Zoll, Ingo Zasada, Alexandra Doernberg, Rosemarie Siebert, Annette Piorr
JOURNAL OF RURAL STUDIES
(2019)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Meike Weltin, Ingo Zasada, Jana-Maria Plogmann, Fee-Nanett Trau, Annette Piorr
Article
Environmental Studies
Lena Schaller, Stefano Targetti, Anastasio J. Villanueva, Ingo Zasada, Jochen Kantelhardt, Manuel Arriaza, Tufan Bal, Valerie Bossi Fedrigotti, F. Handan Giray, Kati Haefner, Edward Majewski, Agata Malak-Rawlikowska, Dimitre Nikolov, Jean-Christophe Paoli, Annette Piorr, Macario Rodriguez-Entrena, Fabrizio Ungaro, Peter H. Verburg, Boris van Zanten, Davide Viaggi
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Environmental Studies
Stefan Sieber, T. S. Amjath-Babu, Pytrik Reidsma, Hannes Koenig, Annette Piorr, Irina Bezlepkina, Klaus Mueller
Article
Environmental Studies
I Zasada, M. Weltin, M. Reutter, P. H. Verburg, A. Piorr