Publication date: February 2021 Source: Ecological Economics, Volume 180 Author(s): Beatrice Petrovich, Stefano Carattini, Rolf Wüstenhagen
Publication date: February 2021 Source: Ecological Economics, Volume 180 Author(s): Beatrice Petrovich, Stefano Carattini, Rolf Wüstenhagen
For a century, humans high up in fire towers have sounded the alarm. But breakthroughs in technology may offer something more Perched in his fire tower high above the pine trees, Nick Dutton leans back and nods to the cascading hills and mountains behind him. “I love being out here, just away from stuff,” he
Credit: KMP in the Philippines, supported by the Agroecology Fund By Elena L. PasquiniROME, Oct 23 2020 (IPS) Producing food and ensuring nutrition security, protecting the environment and restoring biodiversity, building sustainable and fair food systems: That’s the promise of agroecology. It is a dream? Or an economically feasible model that can feed a growing
We explore opportunities for climate adaptation in the context of water governance. We focus on opportunities linked to the provision of climate information, raising the question of whether they are limited to incremental adaptation, or can also bring about transformational adaptation. We address this question through an archetype analysis based on 26 peer-reviewed articles. In
Publication date: February 2021 Source: Ecological Economics, Volume 180 Author(s): L. Bakker, J. Sok, W. van der Werf, F.J.J.A. Bianchi
Impact evaluations in North America are required to examine not only the economic, environmental, and health effects of activities but also their social and cultural impacts. In practice, however, many important social and cultural effects are often neglected as part of court-sponsored negotiations and decisions by government regulators because they are not represented in terms
Water tanks installed in homes in a Bulawayo suburb. The city has been facing a decades long water crisis. Credit: Ignatius Banda/IPS By Ignatius BandaBULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, Oct 21 2020 (IPS) Dotted across the Zimbabwean city of Bulawayo, the water tanks installed in private residences is evidence that years of a water crisis, that has seen
Survey suggests the corporate community is increasingly at odds with the Morrison government’s gas-led recovery Company directors want a more radical policy reset to recover from the Covid-19 recession including bigger investments in infrastructure, reforms of industrial relations and a Green New Deal. The Australian Institute of Company Directors’ sentiment index, released on Thursday, found
Publication date: February 2021 Source: Ecological Economics, Volume 180 Author(s): Frederick Chen, Michael ’t Sas-Rolfes
Thailand’s COVID-19 response cited as an example of resilience and solidarity. Credit: UNDP By Gita GopinathWASHINGTON DC, Oct 20 2020 (IPS) The COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread with over 1 million lives tragically lost so far. Living with the novel coronavirus has been a challenge like no other, but the world is adapting. As a