Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Hossein Azadi, Saghi Movahhed Moghaddam, Stefan Burkart, Hossein Mahmoudi, Steven Van Passel, Alishir Kurban, David Lopez-Carr
Summary: Climate-Smart Agriculture aims to improve agricultural output and protect the environment, but often overlooks small-scale farmers. This study proposes enhancing agricultural intelligence by adding elements of small-scale farmers and introducing the concept of Vulnerable-Smart Agriculture. The research emphasizes the importance of hearing farmers' voices in decision-making and suggests developing a new framework to further enhance intelligent agriculture.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Vittal Hari, Suman Dharmasthala, Akash Koppa, Subhankar Karmakar, Rohini Kumar
Summary: In recent decades, India has seen a rapid influx of migrants from agricultural areas to densely populated megacities, which are increasingly vulnerable to climate hazards. There is a need for more attention to be paid to vulnerable new migrants lacking necessary resources when crafting adaptation and mitigation policies.
NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE
(2021)
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Davood Moshir Panahi, Veit Blauhut, Tayeb Raziei, Bagher Zahabiyoun
Summary: Current approaches to identify vulnerability to drought lack ground-truthing and transparency, and are often biased by expert subjectivity. This study presents a transparent method for selecting effective vulnerability factors based on historical drought impacts, and highlights the vulnerability of social and economic systems to drought. Socioeconomic factors such as infrastructure development, health conditions, and industrialization play a crucial role in reducing vulnerability and should be prioritized in vulnerability reduction programs.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DISASTER RISK REDUCTION
(2023)
Article
Agronomy
Simona Tarra, Giampiero Mazzocchi, Davide Marino
Summary: The research found that Solidarity Purchasing Groups (SPGs) in Rome served as an important food supply channel during the lockdown period, mainly due to their greater flexibility and agility in moving and handling goods, as well as the ability to compensate local farms, contributing to the resilience of the local agri-food fabric.
Review
Food Science & Technology
E. F. Okpala, L. Manning, R. N. Baines
Summary: This narrative review paper explores the connection between poverty and food security in urban and rural Nigeria, focusing on economic, social, and environmental implications. The study suggests the importance of establishing appropriate governance mechanisms when developing strategies and policies to address poverty and food insecurity. It also highlights the significance of improving infrastructure, mitigating the impact of population growth and income inequality, and identifying educational opportunities in developing food security policies and strategies for the Nigerian people.
FOOD REVIEWS INTERNATIONAL
(2023)
Article
Agronomy
Ingunn Y. Gudbrandsdottir, Gudrun Olafsdottir, Gudmundur Valur Oddsson, Hlynur Stefansson, Sigurdur G. Bogason
Summary: This study aims to facilitate research on fairness in food systems by defining the social construct of fairness in model operational terms. Seven groups of factors related to fairness perceptions were identified during the conceptualization phase, leading to the identification of five indicators of fairness that are operational in a quantitative model.
Article
Agriculture, Multidisciplinary
Dario Lucantoni, Jonathan Domarle
Summary: This study explores the transformative potential of an agroecological project in Ethiopia, which positively impacted smallholder farmers' food security and livelihoods. The project improved productivity, reintroduced livestock, and marketed fodder to local markets, breaking the vicious cycle of food insecurity and establishing a virtuous cycle of improved livelihoods and resilience. The study also highlights the important role of traditional organizations in successful agroecological transitions.
AGROECOLOGY AND SUSTAINABLE FOOD SYSTEMS
(2023)
Article
Food Science & Technology
Andrew Allee, Lee R. Lynd, Vikrant Vaze
Summary: The second UN Sustainable Development Goal emphasizes the importance of food security and examines the relationship between national-level food security performance indicators and various potential drivers.
Article
Computer Science, Information Systems
Jonathan M. Spring
Summary: The vulnerability management strategy depends on the supply of undiscovered vulnerabilities. If the number of undiscovered vulnerabilities is small, focus on finding and removing them; if it is large, focus on quick patch dissemination and engineering resilient systems. This paper examines the paradigm that the number of undiscovered vulnerabilities is small and finds little support for it. It recommends an approach favoring quick patch dissemination and engineering resilient systems, while continuing good software engineering practices.
COMPUTERS & SECURITY
(2023)
Article
Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
Adebayo Isaiah Ogunniyi, Samuel Opeyemi Omotoso, Kabir Kayode Salman, Abiodun Olusola Omotayo, Kehinde Oluseyi Olagunju, Adeyemi Oladapo Aremu
Summary: The study in Nigeria found that a certain percentage of maize farming households face food insecurity, which is influenced by factors such as output value, education, credit access, and participation in government safety net programs. Therefore, efforts should be made to improve land productivity, increase farmer awareness, and allocate sufficient government funds to improve the livelihood outcomes of farming households.
SOCIAL INDICATORS RESEARCH
(2021)
Review
Food Science & Technology
Sabreen Wahbeh, Foivos Anastasiadis, Balan Sundarakani, Ioannis Manikas
Summary: Food security is a global priority, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. This research highlights the drivers and policies that contribute to sustainable food production and addresses chronic food insecurity. The recommended policies, such as food security policies and reducing food loss and waste, play a crucial role in improving food security. The findings offer policy implications and propose additional dimensions for future assessments of global food security.
Article
Engineering, Mechanical
Mehmet Hamarat, Mayorkinos Papaelias, Sakdirat Kaewunruen
Summary: Twists in modern railways can indicate track quality, but excessive twists can lead to faults and safety risks. Ballasted tracks are prone to twist faults due to poor endurance and vulnerability to extreme events. Flood-induced damage can critically impact turnout structures and lead to train derailments, emphasizing the need for precautionary measures in railway operations.
ENGINEERING FAILURE ANALYSIS
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Neil J. Rowan
Summary: Safeguarding the seafood industry is crucial to protect human health. However, eliminating enteric viruses, especially in live shellfish, is challenging. Current disinfection methods are effective against bacteria but have limited effectiveness against enteric viruses. Therefore, alternative non-thermal technologies and novel diagnostic approaches are needed to ensure the safety of shellfish. Risk management planning and real-time ecosystem monitoring are also important for mitigating potential contaminant threats.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Mayumi C. M. Hirye, Diogenes Salas Alves, Angelo Salvador Filardo Jr, Timon McPhearson, Fabien Wagner
Summary: Urban landslides are increasing worldwide due to human-induced changes in hillsides. These events mainly result in low-intensity damages to housing and infrastructure. A study in Sao Paulo, Brazil, used a social-ecological-technological system approach to model landslide occurrence, considering dynamic socioeconomic and infrastructural conditions along with climatic and geophysical factors. Antecedent rainfall and terrain slope were found to be the most important variables, while factors such as informal settlements and the number of households also contributed. The study highlights the importance of local ordinances and public policies to prevent urban landslides and addresses the future risk of increased rainfall.
Article
Food Science & Technology
Tesfamicheal Wossen, Abebe Menkir, Arega Alene, Tahirou Abdoulaye, Sam Ajala, Baffour Badu-Apraku, Melaku Gedil, Wendie Mengesha, Silvestro Meseka
Summary: Maize production and area expansion in Nigeria have transformed maize from a backyard crop to a dominant staple and commercial crop. Government policies and institutional arrangements, as well as the increased adoption of modern inputs and demand for maize grain, have played major roles in this transformation.
GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY-AGRICULTURE POLICY ECONOMICS AND ENVIRONMENT
(2023)
Article
Agriculture, Multidisciplinary
Teea Kortetmaki, Markku Oksanen
Summary: Climate change has prompted a reevaluation of the ethics behind dietary choices, with advocates of veganism finding a new reason to promote their cause due to the high greenhouse gas emissions of animal-based foods. The 'climatic argument(s) for veganism' may persuade individuals concerned about climate change to adopt a plant-based diet, even if they are not initially motivated by animal welfare. This new approach adds to the traditional arguments for veganism based on moral considerations for nonhuman animals, and raises questions about the broader implications of dietary choices on agriculture and food ethics.
AGRICULTURE AND HUMAN VALUES
(2021)
Article
Agricultural Economics & Policy
Ari Paloviita
Summary: This study proposes a matrix framework to understand the interdependencies of protein transition towards diets based on plants and alternative sources of proteins. It highlights the interactions between public and private governance activities at different scales, domains, and governed levels, showing how micro-level activities are linked with broader governance activities.
BRITISH FOOD JOURNAL
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Teea Kortetmaki, Marja Jarvela
Summary: This article introduces a matrix tool for assessing social vulnerability to climate policies, emphasizing the importance of addressing social vulnerability in climate policy design and research. The tool is flexible and adaptable to different policy contexts and governance levels, as demonstrated in the Nordic welfare states that serve as the test bed for the tool.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY
(2021)
Article
Geography
Antti Puupponen, Annika Lonkila, Anni Savikurki, Kaisa Karttunen, Suvi Huttunen, Anna Ott
Summary: This study examines the experiences and perceptions of dairy farmers in Finland in transitioning to carbon-neutral agriculture. The results indicate that three key justice issues - profitability of farming, blaming of farmers, and use of agricultural peatlands - need consideration from the farmers' perspective.
JOURNAL OF RURAL STUDIES
(2022)
Article
Nutrition & Dietetics
Liisa M. Valsta, Heli Tapanainen, Teea Kortetmaki, Laura Sares-Jaske, Laura Paalanen, Niina E. Kaartinen, Peppi Haario, Minna Kaljonen
Summary: This study evaluated the differences in nutritional adequacy of diets among Finnish adults in different population groups based on education, income, and urbanization levels. The results showed that about half of the studied nutrients had adequate intake levels, but deficiencies were observed in folate and vitamins A, D, B1, B2, and C for almost all groups. Higher education and income, living in urban areas, and being female were associated with closer adherence to recommended food consumption and nutrient intake. However, the challenges posed by the Finnish diet were common to all groups, and only certain dietary features were associated with socioeconomic differences in terms of nutritional adequacy.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Theresa Tribaldos, Teea Kortetmaki
Summary: This article proposes a framework for just transitions in food systems, which addresses the potential side effects and justice issues of transitions. The article also reflects on the future development of this framework.
ENVIRONMENTAL INNOVATION AND SOCIETAL TRANSITIONS
(2022)
Article
Environmental Studies
Teea Kortetmaki, Suvi Huttunen
Summary: Low-carbon transitions in industrialized societies will have significant impacts on social, economic, and environmental aspects, raising concerns about justice. It is crucial to understand the responsibilities and roles of different actors in advancing low-carbon transitions and ensuring their fairness.
ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS
(2023)
Article
Business
Teea Kortetmaki, Anna Heikkinen, Ari Jokinen
Summary: Stakeholder theory, a common approach to organizational sustainability, often treats nonhuman nature as a unified and ambiguous entity. This article introduces the concept of "recognition" to provide a normative foundation for stakeholder theorizing on nonhuman nature, enabling a more comprehensive understanding of the stakeholder status and particularization of nonhuman entities. By reducing anthropocentric bias, this approach enhances stakeholder theorizing's capacity to address ecological crisis challenges.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS ETHICS
(2023)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Gonzalo Cortes-Capano, Anna Hausmann, Enrico Di Minin, Teea Kortetmaki
Summary: Addressing the global biodiversity crisis requires recognizing and navigating the ethical landscape, by acknowledging multiple legitimate values and ethical perspectives. However, the ethical pluralism in biodiversity conservation has not been fully considered, which overlooks the importance of diverse ethical positions.
BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION
(2022)
Article
Agriculture, Multidisciplinary
Ellen Huan-Niemi, Suvi Huttunen, Ari Paloviita, Antti Puupponen, Heikki Lehtonen, Jyrki Niemi
Summary: Unsustainable changes in land use with the usage of peatlands for food production in Finland contribute to climate change. Multistakeholder and participatory approaches to policy development, implementation, and evaluation are necessary for managing peatlands sustainably and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The study integrates qualitative and quantitative methods to produce action-oriented knowledge for supporting sustainable peatland management and greenhouse gas reduction. It emphasizes the need for shared understanding among relevant actors and stakeholders, as well as the identification of incentives from both the public and private sectors to remove peatlands from food production.
AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD SCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Agriculture, Multidisciplinary
Teea Kortetmaki, Markku Oksanen
Summary: Climate change poses serious risks to food security, and current actions to mitigate and adapt have been insufficient to reduce the risk of climate-induced violations of the right to food. This article explores the potential justification for certain forms of geoengineering in safeguarding the right to food. The study reveals that different forms of geoengineering have varied impacts on the components of food security, with some failing to respect the right to food while others may become necessary for its protection.
JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL & ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS
(2023)
Editorial Material
Environmental Sciences
Minna Kaljonen, Teea Kortetmaki, Theresa Tribaldos
Summary: This special issue examines specific dynamics in food system transitions to enhance the understanding of just transitions. The articles emphasize a multi-dimensional understanding of justice, highlighting the importance of not only distributional matters but also recognition and procedural justice. The existing injustices in the food system underscore the interconnectedness of these dimensions. With case studies from Finland to Brazil and from farm-level decision-making to the UN food system summit, the papers demonstrate the centrality of recognition justice in interpreting contestations around sustainability transitions and draw attention to power imbalances that impact alternative visions of sustainability and require procedural justice. In the future, power analysis and normative frameworks are needed to identify trade-offs and blind spots in just transition.
ENVIRONMENTAL INNOVATION AND SOCIETAL TRANSITIONS
(2023)
Letter
Food Science & Technology
Irina Herzon, Rachel Mazac, Maijaliisa Erkkola, Tara Garnett, Helena Hansson, Minna Kaljonen, Teea Kortetmaki, Annika Lonkila, Malin Jonell, Mari Niva, Anne-Maria Pajari, Theresa Tribaldos, Marjaana Toivonen, Hanna L. Tuomisto, Kari Koppelmaki, Elin Roos
Article
Humanities, Multidisciplinary
Teea Kortetmaki, Mikael Puurtinen, Miikka Salo, Riikka Aro, Stefan Baumeister, Remi Duflot, Merja Elo, Panu Halme, Hanna-Mari Husu, Suvi Huttunen, Katriina Hyvonen, Sanna Karkulehto, Saana Kataja-aho, Kirsi E. Keskinen, Inari Kulmunki, Tuuli Makinen, Annukka Nayha, Mari-Anne Okkolin, Tommi Perala, Jenna Purhonen, Kaisa J. Raatikainen, Liia-Maria Raippalinna, Kirsi Salonen, Katri Savolainen, Janne S. Kotiaho
Summary: Tensions between the well-being of present humans, future humans, and nonhuman nature have led to the current ecological crisis, prompting the proposal of the concept of planetary well-being to address the crisis and promote societal and cultural transformation. This concept shifts focus from individuals to Earth system and ecosystem processes underlying all well-being, aiming to ensure the integrity of these processes for species and populations to persist into the future.
HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCES COMMUNICATIONS
(2021)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Lars odegaard Bentsen, Narada Dilp Warakagoda, Roy Stenbro, Paal Engelstad
Summary: This study investigates uncertainty modeling in wind power forecasting using different parametric and non-parametric methods. Johnson's SU distribution is found to outperform Gaussian distributions in predicting wind power. This research contributes to the literature by introducing Johnson's SU distribution as a candidate for probabilistic wind forecasting.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2024)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Xing Liu, Qiuchen Wang, Yunhao Wen, Long Li, Xinfang Zhang, Yi Wang
Summary: This study analyzes the characteristics of process parameters in three lean gas ethane recovery processes and establishes a prediction and multiobjective optimization model for ethane recovery and system energy consumption. A new method for comparing ethane recovery processes for lean gas is proposed, and the addition of extra coolers improves the ethane recovery. The support vector regression model based on grey wolf optimization demonstrates the highest prediction accuracy, and the multiobjective multiverse optimization algorithm shows the best optimization performance and diversity in the solutions.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2024)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Cairong Song, Haidong Yang, Xian-Bing Meng, Pan Yang, Jianyang Cai, Hao Bao, Kangkang Xu
Summary: The paper proposes a novel deep learning-based prediction framework, aTCN-LSTM, for accurate cooling load predictions. The framework utilizes a gate-controlled multi-head temporal convolutional network and a sparse probabilistic self-attention mechanism with a bidirectional long short-term memory network to capture both temporal and long-term dependencies in the cooling load sequences. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness and superiority of the proposed method, which can serve as an effective guide for HVAC chiller scheduling and demand management initiatives.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2024)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Zhe Chen, Xiaojing Li, Xianli Xia, Jizhou Zhang
Summary: This study uses survey data from the Loess Plateau in China to evaluate the impact of social interaction on the adoption of soil and water conservation (SWC) technology by farmers. The study finds that social interaction increases the likelihood of farmers adopting SWC, and internet use moderates this effect. The positive impact of social interaction on SWC adoption is more pronounced for farmers in larger villages and those who join cooperative societies.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2024)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Chenghua Zhang, Yunfei Yan, Kaiming Shen, Zongguo Xue, Jingxiang You, Yonghong Wu, Ziqiang He
Summary: This paper reports a novel method that significantly improves combustion performance, including heat transfer enhancement under steady-state conditions and adaptive stable flame regulation under velocity sudden increase.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2024)