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Research ABSTRACT 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 globe, and others have directly discussed the structural aspects of places, the sustainable transitions literature has not fully reconciled place specifics with

Publication date: May 2023 Source: Ecological Economics, Volume 207 Author(s): Carmelo J. León, Anastasia Hernández-Alemán, Carlos Fernández-Hernández, Jorge E. Araña

More than 60 US scientists, including James Hansen, renowned former Nasa climate researcher, sign open letter The controversial concept of purposely deflecting the sun’s rays to cool down an overheating Earth should be further studied, according to a group of scientists headed by James Hansen, the renowned former Nasa climate researcher. An open letter from

Draft plan addresses inflated claims about products’ environmental credentials Companies will have 10 days to justify green claims about their products or face “effective, proportionate and dissuasive” penalties, under a draft EU crackdown on greenwashing seen by the Guardian. Inflated claims by firms about their products’ environmental bona fides have grown along with public awareness

Insight, part of a special feature on Deeper Water: Exploring Barriers and Opportunities for the Emergence of Adaptive Water Governance ABSTRACT The Yangtze River Basin faces unprecedented challenges in harmonizing competing interests in its ecological and social systems. The central government of China, in response to the need for change in governance arrangements and cooperation,

Changing habitats and behaviours lead to interactions with a negative outcome for wildlife and humans From blue whales colliding with ships to African elephants raiding crops in villages, the climate crisis is causing a rise in conflicts that lead to injury or death for humans and wildlife, new research shows. The climate crisis is making