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Development Studies
Maryam Aslany, Shannon Brincat
Summary: This article explores how class structure in agrarian societies shapes local adaptation responses to climate change, highlighting the importance of understanding the class nature of climate change for developing effective adaptation strategies at the village-community level. The study finds that adaptation practices are class specific and vary considerably among different classes within the same village.
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
(2021)
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Aneela Qadir, Muhammad Arshad, Muhammad Rafique, Aadil Hameed Shah
Summary: In Pakistan, poverty has remained a core problem due to low per capita income and weak socio-economic policies. This study empirically addresses the issue of multidimensional poverty among agrarian and non-agrarian communities in agricultural regions of Pakistan. The findings reveal that multidimensional poverty is primarily an issue in agrarian communities, with residents facing higher poverty rates compared to their non-agrarian counterparts.
ENVIRONMENT DEVELOPMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY
(2023)
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Environmental Studies
Lone Kornov, Sanne Vammen Larsen, Ivar Lyhne, Ida Engman Puibaraud, Anne Merrild Hansen, Sara Bjorn Aaen, Helle Nedergaard Nielsen
Summary: This article explores the development and value creation of an Environmental Assessment (EA) network in Denmark, focusing on an annual conference called EA-Day. The results show that EA-Day plays a crucial role in promoting collaboration between researchers and practitioners, as well as inspiring and qualifying research and practice in the field of EA.
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT REVIEW
(2022)
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Fenfen Ma, Shah Fahad, Shuxi Yan, Yapeng Zhang
Summary: This study explores the impact of the digital transformation of commercial banks (DTCB) on environmental green innovation in companies based on the data of listed companies from 2010 to 2019. The findings show that DTCB significantly promotes environmental green innovation in enterprises. Mechanism analysis reveals that DTCB achieves this by increasing R&D expenditures and reducing agency costs. However, the promotion effect is different for private enterprises and state-owned enterprises, as well as for enterprises with different degrees of digital transformation.
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Christine Wamsler, Luis Mundaca, Gustav Osberg
Summary: Despite the availability of technological solutions and policy approaches, effective action towards a fossil-free society is lacking. This paper explores citizens' political agency in influencing transport policy and the factors that encourage or hinder engagement at individual and collective levels. The findings highlight the importance of perceived influence and trust in authorities, as well as the complex interplay between engagement, perceived influence, trust, and factors such as environmental effectiveness, climate change awareness, and sociodemocratic issues. The study emphasizes the role of perceptions and emotions at individual, cultural, and structural levels, and calls for an expanded view of political agency that recognizes individual capacity for transformative change. Structural and personal factors need to be addressed to enhance engagement, perceived contribution possibilities, and trust, in order to transform transport and climate policy more broadly.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2022)
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Anthropology
Henry Peller, Filiberto Penados, Joel Wainwright
Summary: Environmental and agrarian changes in southern Belize are happening rapidly, but little research has studied the class processes involved. This study examines the transformation of household reproduction over the past four decades, focusing on commercialization of land use and labor force education. The emerging class processes in Maya communities undermine subsistence agriculture, increase inequality, and intensify conflicts over land, complicating struggles for communal land rights and class solidarity.
JOURNAL OF PEASANT STUDIES
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Sarah E. O. Schwartz, Laelia Benoit, Susan Clayton, McKenna F. Parnes, Lance Swenson, Sarah R. Lowe
Summary: Climate change anxiety (CCA), negative responses associated with concerns about climate change, has been a focus of research. This study explores the association between CCA, psychiatric symptoms, and engagement in individual and collective action. Results showed that CCA was associated with symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) and major depressive disorder (MDD), but collective action attenuated the relationship between CCA and MDD symptoms.
CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Ecology
Sareh Moosavi, Anna Hurlimann, Josh Nielsen, Judy Bush, Georgia Warren Myers, Alan March
Summary: If we want to meet the needs of society and address climate change without harming the earth's ecological boundaries, we need to transform how we plan and design our landscapes, infrastructure, and cities. Landscape architects, known as environmental stewards, are trained to create a balance between the built and natural environments. However, their ability to lead climate change actions is limited. This study explores the barriers and facilitators to climate change action in landscape architectural practice, based on in-depth interviews with 24 professionals in Australia. The findings highlight the limited agency and influence perceived by the participants and identify barriers related to design implementation, structures and systems, and socio-cultural aspects. Key facilitators include creating awareness, active involvement in planning and policy creation, and closer collaborations with other sectors in the built environment.
LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING
(2023)
Article
Communication
Jing Meng, Yu-Peng Lin, Hui-Ju Tsai
Summary: This article investigates the exercise of data and spatial agency by digital maps, using the case of the environmental mobile mapping application water refill map (WRM) in Taiwan. The study examines how the app leverages the power of digital mapping to encourage participation in environmental activities and argues that digital maps enable placemaking at cognitive and hermeneutic levels, transforming closed spaces into public ones. It also explores the contestation and negotiation between agency and structure, apps and infrastructural platforms, collective action and individual power, and environmentalism and commercialism in this digital environmental activism.
NEW MEDIA & SOCIETY
(2023)
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Economics
Jiri Blazek, Viktor Kveton
Summary: This paper investigates the role of agency in regional industrial path development using an integrated framework that combines three recent conceptualizations of agency: firm- and system-level agency; trinity-of-change agency; and reproductive and change agency. It finds that the substantial differences in the nature and vigour of system-level agency contribute to the divergences in the evolutionary trajectories of two coal regions. However, most actors exert both organizational- and system-level agency, although at significantly different intensities and scales.
Article
Anthropology
William Thomson, Cynthia Gharios, Rami Zurayk
Summary: This paper examines the landscape change in two neighboring villages in Southwest Asia North Africa region, and discusses the influence of capital flows and changing modes of production and livelihoods. It emphasizes the significance of studying the Agrarian Question in understanding rural landscapes and their role in capitalist development.
JOURNAL OF PEASANT STUDIES
(2023)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Hoil Lee, Jin-Young Lee, Seungwon Shin
Summary: This study investigated sedimentary changes in Deukryang Bay on the southwest coast of Korea in response to sea level changes during the Holocene period. The hydrological and climate changes during the mid-Holocene were influenced by El Nino and La Nina conditions, as well as the weakening of the East Asian Summer Monsoon and changes in sea surface temperature of the Western Pacific Ocean. The study suggests that freshwater input events at 4000-3000 cal yr BP were related to the weakening EASM on the southwest coast of Korea.
APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Bernhard Lehner, Mathis L. Messager, Maartje C. Korver, Simon Linke
Summary: The LakeAT LAS dataset provides a wide range of hydro-environmental characteristics for over 1.4 million lakes and reservoirs globally, and its standardized format allows for versatile applicability in hydro-ecological assessments from regional to global scales.
Article
Sociology
Amani Hassani
Summary: This article presents an ethnographic analysis of how young middle-class Muslims in Copenhagen create convivial narratives of their city. The sociological imagination is expanded by combining phenomenological and critical theory in urban analysis. Middle-class Muslims' convivial narratives serve as an agency to navigate Islamophobia and racism in everyday life, enabled by their spatial mobility and class positioning. Understanding the intersectionality of racialization, gender, and socio-economic position is crucial in appreciating socially mobile Danish Muslims' construction of convivial narratives to evade racism and Islamophobia.
SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW
(2023)
Article
Anthropology
Ram Chhetri, Phanwin Yokying, Alexander Smith, Jamon Van den Hoek, Kaspar Hurni, Sumeet Saksena, Jefferson Fox
Summary: Nepal has seen rapid transitions in forest and agricultural practices, with a significant increase in forest cover and decreased reliance on forests and forest products by farmers. The occupational multiplicity within households may offer stability for the future of these villages.
JOURNAL OF PEASANT STUDIES
(2023)
