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Sociology | Applied Sociology, Program Evaluation And Social Impact Assessment | Studies In Human Society Not Elsewhere Classified | Environmental Science and Management | Other Studies in Human Society | Environment And Resource Economics | Natural Resource Management | Museum Studies | Research, Science And Technology Policy | Other Policy And Political Science | Education And Extension | Social And Cultural Geography | Sociology And Social Studies Of Science And Technology |
Other social development and community services | Technological and organisational innovation | Ownership of the land | Studies in human society | Political science and public policy | Heritage not elsewhere classified | Rights to environmental and natural resources | Environmental education and awareness | Institutional arrangements | Other environmental aspects | Health status (e.g. indicators of “well-being”) | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander heritage
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2012
DOI: 10.1016/J.JENVMAN.2012.09.016
Abstract: Although the Australian forest plantation industry acknowledges that there is a role for corporate social responsibility (CSR) in forest management, there is confusion as to what this constitutes in practice. This paper describes the conflicts between internal and external stakeholder views on CSR in plantation forestry. We conducted in-depth interviews with key informants across three plantation management regions in Australia: Tasmania, the Green Triangle and south-west Western Australia. We interviewed a range of stakeholders including forest company employees, local councils, Indigenous representatives, and environmental non-government organisations. CSR-related initiatives that stakeholders believed were important for plantation management included the need for community engagement, accountability towards stakeholders, and contribution to community development and well-being. Although there was wide support for these initiatives, some stakeholders were not satisfied that forest companies were actively implementing them. Due to the perception that forest companies are not committed to CSR initiatives such as community engagement, some stakeholder expectations are not being satisfied.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2014
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 30-06-2021
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2014
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2017
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2015
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 07-02-2020
DOI: 10.3390/LAND9020044
Abstract: To make regions more resilient, a useful idea is that of synergy between tourism and landscape (i.e., a win-win situation). To help policymakers manage for synergy, we provide practical recommendations. Using the case of Terschelling (the Netherlands), an island that is part of the UNESCO World Heritage listed Wadden Sea, we analyzed how policy and public opinion have been changing, and how multilevel governance is arranged. We recommend that: policymakers seek to understand the historical institutional context of a region strive for integrated policy aimed at synergetic interactions gain an overview of all stakeholders in the decision-making process include all stakeholders develop a shared story co-create a clear vision for the future but also allow flexibility in local implementation and dare to experiment. Overall, we conclude that synergy is a promising concept that requires a different approach to decision-making.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2011
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2010
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 28-01-2019
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 1998
DOI: 10.5172/RSJ.8.2.109
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-12-2021
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 27-03-2014
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2013
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-2007
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2013
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2013
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2013
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-1996
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 29-03-2015
Abstract: We argue that for scientists and science communicators to build usable knowledge for various publics, they require social and political capital, skills in boundary work, and ethical acuity. Drawing on the context of communicating seasonal climate predictions to farmers in Australia, we detail four key issues that scientists and science communicators would do well to reflect upon in order to become effective and ethical intermediaries. These issues relate to (1) the boundary work used to link science and values and thereby construct public identities, (2) emplacement, that is, the importance of situating knowledge in relation to the places with which people identify, (3) personal and organizational processes of reflexivity, and (4) the challenges of developing and maintaining the social and political capital necessary to simultaneously represent people’s identities and lifeworlds and the climate systems that affect them. Through a discourse analysis of in-depth interviews with Australian agro-climatologists, we suggest that three distinct “modes of extension” are apparent, namely, discursive, conceptual, and contextual. Our participants used these three modes interdependently to create knowledge that has salience, credibility, and legitimacy. They thereby generated new narratives of place, practice, and identity for Australian agriculture.
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
Date: 2006
DOI: 10.1071/EA05037
Abstract: Research on the adoption of rural innovations is reviewed and interpreted through a cross-disciplinary lens to provide practical guidance for research, extension and policy relating to conservation practices. Adoption of innovations by landholders is presented as a dynamic learning process. Adoption depends on a range of personal, social, cultural and economic factors, as well as on characteristics of the innovation itself. Adoption occurs when the landholder perceives that the innovation in question will enhance the achievement of their personal goals. A range of goals is identifiable among landholders, including economic, social and environmental goals. Innovations are more likely to be adopted when they have a high ‘relative advantage’ (perceived superiority to the idea or practice that it supersedes), and when they are readily trialable (easy to test and learn about before adoption). Non-adoption or low adoption of a number of conservation practices is readily explicable in terms of their failure to provide a relative advantage (particularly in economic terms) or a range of difficulties that landholders may have in trialing them.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2016
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-2011
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2023
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2003
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 02-08-2019
DOI: 10.3390/SU11154178
Abstract: It is necessary to mobilize households so that they make changes to their everyday activities to address climate change. However, in the academic literature, there has been little focus on the perceived barriers to climate change action at the household level. Previous research has also highlighted a need for more studies in Latin America. This study contributes to the literature by filling these gaps. In a face-to-face and online survey administered in Nuevo Leon, Mexico, we asked participants what barriers impede their household from taking action to address climate change. Using thematic analysis, seven main barriers were identified: (i) everyday life (ii) awareness of climate change (iii) lack of perceived locus of control (iv) physical limitations of the dwelling (v) social, (vi) regulatory and (vii) economic. Given the significant potential effects of climate change in the Nuevo Leon region, a better understanding of the barriers that prevent households from addressing climate change will inform the development of targeted guidelines and strategies to address changing climate.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2012
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 24-06-2020
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 28-05-2019
DOI: 10.3390/CLI7060074
Abstract: Household-level mitigation and adaptation actions are important because households make a significant contribution to greenhouse gas emissions and are severely affected by climate change. However, there is still very little understanding of the factors that influence household-level mitigation and adaptation action. From a review of literature, we identified the factors that potentially influence climate mitigation and adaptation actions of households, which we then tested using survey data from 622 households in Nuevo Leon, Mexico. Nuevo Leon is a major emitter of greenhouse gasses and is a state where climate-related disasters are recurrent and expected to increase in frequency and severity. Results from ordinal regression analyses showed that perceived knowledge and financial self-efficacy greatly influenced the extent of household-level action taken. To a lesser extent, the age and educational level of the respondent also affected action. Respondents pointed out the need to know about different aspects of climate change. An implication of our study is the value of recognizing the importance of perceptions, as mitigation and adaptation actions are shaped by perceptions of climate change alongside socio-demographic characteristics. This may have significant implications for policies and c aigns promoting household-level action to increase resilience to climate change.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2012
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-12-2017
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 16-10-2015
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2018
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 27-09-2023
Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt
Date: 12-2004
DOI: 10.1142/S1464333204001791
Abstract: The Australian "Committing to Place" Research Project investigates the potential of outreach activities and educational programmes to increase community commitment to natural resource management. New communication technologies offer tools for enhancing participation — in terms of a deeper commitment from communities and participation of a wider range of groups — through their interactive qualities and capacity to link people in different places. The research project evaluates the piloting, by the National Museum of Australia, of several innovative outreach activities which use information and communication technologies specifically for community capacity building and developing platforms for change. With an understanding of evaluation as research to inform decision-making at all phases of project design, the Research Team is evaluating: (1) the effectiveness of each outreach activity in meeting stakeholder objectives, including community participants (2) the potential each activity has to increase participation in the activity and other activities associated with cultural heritage or natural resources and (3) progress towards "the higher purpose", that is, the potential for such activities to affect natural resource management outcomes in the long run. The research project is an Australian Research Council Linkage Grant involving the University of Tasmania, the National Museum of Australia, and the Murray–Darling Basin Commission.
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 13-05-2022
DOI: 10.3390/LAND11050733
Abstract: Protected Areas are the most widely applied policy tool for bio ersity conservation. In Europe, protected areas are expected to significantly increase as the new EU Bio ersity strategy sets an ambitious target of 30% of land and 30% of water to be protected by 2030. Despite the popularity of this environmental policy, understanding variations in the level of public support for protected areas remains underexplored. This is an important area of research, considering that, in order for protected areas to be effective, they need to be supported by most users, including local communities and visitors. In this paper, we reviewed theoretical and empirical evidence explaining the level of support for protected areas and proposed a new approach when designing and designating protected areas in Europe. This approach models the process of the introduction of a new protected area as a policy intervention within a socio-ecological system. Specifically, it models how protected area social outcomes or impacts are conditioned and contextualised by numerous intervening factors relating to the social context and governance and management system to influence local actors’ attitude and active support for the protected area. This new approach aims to assist policy makers, conservation practitioners and scientists to plan actions that assist in increasing the level of public support for protected areas in the context of the post 2020 Bio ersity Strategy of the European Union.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 07-03-2022
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2013
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 24-02-2022
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-12-2016
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 04-12-2018
Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to reflect on what can be learned about disaster risk reduction (DRR) from the L’Aquila trial of scientists. The court case was initiated because of a controversial meeting on 31 March 2009 of the Major Risks Committee (MRC), held under the auspices of the Italian Department of Civil Protection. The purpose of the meeting was to consider (prior to the fatal earthquake of 6 April 2009) disaster risk in the L’Aquila area, which was being affected by an earthquake swarm since October 2008. The authors undertook a document analysis of trial materials, and a review of academic and media commentary about the trial. The legal process revealed that disaster governance was inadequate and not informed by the DRR paradigm or international guidelines. Risk assessment was carried out only in a techno-scientific manner, with little acknowledgement of the social issues influencing risks at the local community level. There was no inclusion of local knowledge or engagement of local people in transformative DRR strategies. Most previous commentary is inadequate in terms of not considering the institutional, scientific and social responsibilities for DRR as exposed by the trial. This paper is unique in that it considers the contents of the MRC meeting as well as all trial documents. It provides a comprehensive reflection on the implications of this case for DRR and the resilience of peoples and places at risk. It highlights that a switch from civil protection to community empowerment is needed to achieve sustainable outcomes at the local level.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 16-10-2014
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2019
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2013
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 13-10-2021
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 14-07-2009
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 25-05-2018
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 30-07-2019
DOI: 10.3390/LAND8080116
Abstract: We examine collaborations between the state and civil society in the context of land grabbing in Argentina. Land grabbing provokes many governance challenges, which generate new social arrangements. The incentives for, limitations to, and contradictions inherent in these collaborations are examined. We particularly explore how the collaborations between the provincial government of Santiago del Estero and non-government organizations (NGOs) played out. This province has experienced many land grabs, especially for agriculture and livestock production. In response to protest and political pressure, two provincial agencies were established to assist communities in relation to land tenure issues (at different stages). Even though many scholars consider state–civil society collaborations to be introduced by nation states only to gain and maintain political power, we show how rural communities are actually supported by these initiatives. By empowering rural populations, active NGOs can make a difference to how the negative implications of land grabbing are addressed. However, NGOs and government agencies are constrained by global forces, local political power plays, and stakeholder struggles.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2016
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2016
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2017
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-2013
DOI: 10.1080/07481187.2011.641137
Abstract: A visual content analysis of photos of 2176 roadside memorials in The Netherlands was undertaken together with 24 interviews with the people who constructed them to understand how they deal with traumatic death. Friends urgently need to memorialize the deceased and establish spontaneous memorials. They place meaningful objects at the place of death, not necessarily indicating the deceased's identity. In contrast, permanent memorials identify who died and re-embody that person and are primarily established by parents. By transforming the death site into a place of care, parents continue their role as nurturers. Differences in types of memorials are discussed.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 1998
DOI: 10.5172/RSJ.8.2.85
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-2005
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 1997
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2018
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2003
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2006
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Date: 2011
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 24-02-2020
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-2012
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 31-10-2020
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2013
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 31-07-2014
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-12-2019
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2012
Publisher: Inderscience Publishers
Date: 2007
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-1998
DOI: 10.5172/RSJ.8.1.39
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2009
Publisher: Pluto Journals
Date: 1993
DOI: 10.1080/08109029308629356
Abstract: Biotechnology has the potential to impact significantly upon agriculture. However, although biotechnology is being promoted by the Australian Government and the National Farmers’ Federation, there are growing concerns about the environmental and social impacts of biotechnological applications. A survey of representatives of rural producer organisations was undertaken to assess the policy positions of those groups who will be most affected by the new developments. It was found that few groups had actually developed a policy and that many representatives were personally uncertain and unclear about the position of the members. A major difference was observed between organic farming organisations — which form a small proportion of the total number of groups surveyed (and which are opposed to further biotechnological development) — and conventional farming organisations which express widespread and largely uncritical support of agrobiotechnological research and development in Australia.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2013
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 06-2007
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2019
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2017
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2013
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 31-10-2023
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 04-04-2020
DOI: 10.3390/LAND9040109
Abstract: Land acquisition often involves power and displacement and can be carried out on a large scale. There are many forms of land acquisition, including for environmental and conservation purposes as well as for production activities. While green grabbing has joined land grabbing as an environmental justice issue of concern, it is not necessarily the case that all green land acquisition is large scale, done by powerful outsiders, or leads to displacement and exclusion. The outcomes of green land acquisition are dependent on the mechanisms used, the adequacy of resettlement and/or compensation, and the social and environmental context in which it happens. We discuss the outcomes of community-led land acquisition for conservation purposes in Costa Rica. We considered a special case of green land acquisition done by local civil society to defend the forest and water resources of the Juan Castro Blanco National Water Park in Costa Rica. We used the literature on green grabbing, social ecological systems, and social innovation to discuss local environmental governance and regional sustainable development. This paper makes a fresh contribution to environmental planning and environmental governance by bringing in aspects of green land acquisition that have not been previously explored.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2017
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2009
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2014
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2018
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2012
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 30-07-2011
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2017
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
Date: 2004
DOI: 10.1071/EA02139
Abstract: An understanding of social issues, the social nature of farming, and the social basis of adoption is needed if agricultural extension is to be effective in addressing natural resource management issues, and in promoting sustainability in its triple bottom line conceptualisation. Twenty-seven principles are presented here, with the key principles being: awareness of farming as a social activity recognition of the social ersity of farmers and the social drivers in agriculture and the socio-cultural basis of adoption.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 2006
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 27-04-2011
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 29-07-2003
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-1992
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 29-07-2003
Publisher: CRC Press
Date: 24-05-2004
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2011
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2012
DOI: 10.1016/J.JENVMAN.2012.06.003
Abstract: This paper examines the theoretical underpinnings of the adoption of innovations, and applies this knowledge to the uptake of Environmental Management Systems (EMS) amongst Australian farmers. We examine the specific features of the EMS process that might encourage or inhibit EMS adoption. We also consider elements of the EMS process to assess their utility in promoting adoption of various other innovations. We evaluate the EMS process in the light of two characteristics previously found to influence adoption of improved natural resource management practices - 'relative advantage' and 'trialability'. Drawing on literature, and our research and experience with farmers, we conclude that there are inherent features of EMS that promote the adoption of new practices, and that the elements of the EMS process actually create an on-going process of culture change as it is implemented. We believe that the EMS process offers significant advantages to farmers seeking to improve production whilst simultaneously meeting societal expectations for enhanced natural resource management.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2021
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2016
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 11-03-2016
DOI: 10.1111/SORU.12124
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 27-01-2000
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 29-07-2003
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 08-05-2021
DOI: 10.3390/LAND10050500
Abstract: Although companies have many direct and indirect impacts on the lives of children, discussion of the responsibility of business to respect the rights of children has primarily focused on child labor. Using UNICEF’s Children’s Rights and Business Principles as a framework for our analysis, we considered the activities of oil palm plantation companies operating in Indonesia. Our data come from key informant interviews and reflection on two programs established to promote respect for children’s rights in the Indonesian palm oil industry: one by Pusat Kajian Perlindungan Anak (PKPA) (Center for Child Study and Protection) and one by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) in conjunction with UNICEF. We considered: how plantation company activities impacted children’s lives how companies demonstrated respect for children’s rights and how observance of children’s rights can be improved. We discuss four problematic issues: getting company commitments to children’s rights into policy and practice having a strong business case for respecting human rights and children’s rights contradictory objectives within companies and complexities around children in the workplace. We argue that a children’s rights based approach should be applied to the activities of all organizations. This children’s rights lens is needed to overcome the invisibility of children in society and industry, and to address the root causes of human rights harms. We note that respecting children’s rights will likely contribute to getting a social license to operate and grow.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 1995
DOI: 10.5172/RSJ.5.1.20
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2001
Publisher: WORLD SCIENTIFIC
Date: 09-2009
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-06-2020
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2015
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 17-02-2022
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2008
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 1994
DOI: 10.5172/RSJ.4.1.10
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 06-2009
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-2011
DOI: 10.5172/RSJ.20.2.112
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-03-2020
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 26-04-2019
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 27-07-2023
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2016
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-1992
DOI: 10.5172/RSJ.2.2.2
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 27-03-2019
DOI: 10.3390/LAND8040053
Abstract: We consider the different types of rent-seeking practices in emerging oil economies, and discuss how they contribute to social conflict and a local resource curse in the Albertine Graben region of Uganda. The rent-seeking activities have contributed to speculative behavior, competition for limited social services, land grabbing, land scarcity, land fragmentation, food insecurity, corruption, and ethnic polarization. Local people have interpreted the experience of the consequent social impacts as a local resource curse. The impacts have led to social conflicts among the affected communities. Our research used a range of methods, including 40 in-depth interviews, focus group discussions, participant observation, and document analysis. We argue there is an urgent need by all stakeholders—including local and central governments, oil companies, local communities, and civil society organizations—to address the challenges before the construction of oil infrastructure. Stakeholders must work hard to create the conditions that are needed to avoid the resource curse otherwise, Uganda could end up suffering from the Dutch Disease and Nigerian Disease, as has befallen other African countries.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2019
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 29-07-2003
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2011
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2013
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 02-08-2023
DOI: 10.1002/SD.2675
Abstract: This special issue contributes to building an integrated social science perspective on resilience and resilience‐building. The articles in this issue provide theoretical reflections and empirical insights on two dimensions that characterize resilience in society. The first (local community dimension) comprises the set of community resources, services, adaptive, transformative and coping capacities, processes, actions and behaviors that enable communities to learn from crises, disasters and past failures and transform toward sustainability in localities (community resilience). The second (governance dimension) comprises the set of adaptive and transformative governance strategies and assessment frameworks that enable social learning and sustainability transformation to be strengthened in localities and scaled up across multiple governance levels (social resilience). This special issue provides a theoretical common‐ground and practical pathways to define resilience and to support recovery and development planning to enhance resilience in society in order to achieve effective disaster risk reduction and climate action for sustainable development.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2023
Publisher: Inderscience Publishers
Date: 2014
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 05-02-2022
DOI: 10.3390/LAND11020237
Abstract: Ex situ poverty alleviation relocation (ESPAR) is a Chinese government program created to address rural poverty and land management issues. Affecting around 10 million people, the process involves encouraging smallholder farmers to leave their rural homesteads and move to new housing. By consolidating people into medium density accommodation, the amount of land available for other purposes can be increased. However, some farmers were reluctant to move, and many of those who accepted new housing failed to demolish their homestead and rehabilitate the land as required. This paper applies the ‘extended theory of planned behavior’ to examine the factors that influence farmers’ exit intention and behavior. Face-to-face interviews were carried out in Southern Shaanxi Province, China. Data relating to 830 farmers were analyzed using Structural Equation Modelling. Our most important finding is that farmers had a poor perception of the post-relocation support, and this retarded their exit intention and behavior. We conclude that it is essential to improve post-relocation support, enhance the autonomy of farmers, and formulate relocation plans according to people’s age and likely future occupation.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 03-2010
DOI: 10.1051/AGRO/2009028
Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt
Date: 09-2013
DOI: 10.1142/S1464333213500129
Abstract: In response to the establishment of universally-accepted principles about sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR), corporations are now producing Sustainability Reports (SRs). Corporations are expected to document their positive and negative impacts on society. However, the veracity of the information in these reports is being questioned. To what extent is it greenwashing? While the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) provides a framework for reporting, effective mechanisms to evaluate reports are lacking. We propose a Sustainability Reporting Assessment Checklist of 10 questions as a functional tool for use by stakeholders to evaluate the content of SRs. For a demonstration of the effectiveness of the checklist, it is applied to a real but anonymous company. The questions cover: accessibility readability the use of an established framework (e.g. GRI) incorporation of CSR and sustainability into long-term strategy consideration of all relevant aspects of operations use of evidence to support claims documented stakeholder engagement supply chain responsibility documented impacts on all stakeholders (including vulnerable groups and negatively affected groups) and assurance assessment.
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
Date: 2006
DOI: 10.1071/EA05103
Abstract: Fourteen styles of viticulture are defined: Astute Business Grower Experimentalist Grower Industry-Endorsed Early Adopter Professional Scientific Manager Experienced Manager Labour-Efficient Grower Low-Input Sustainable Agriculture Grower Traditional Grower Ethnic Grower Conventional Grower Retiree Grower Hobby Grower Sea-Change Grower and Marginal Grower. The methodology to identify these farming styles included 6 focus groups in Mildura, Victoria, a face-to-face interview with 142 grape-growers in the Sunraysia region of Victoria, and qualitative interviewing with industry personnel and extension staff. Problems of social desirability response bias, the lack of self-identification by growers with styles, and literacy and other methodological issues meant that qualitative, participatory (emic) methods for identifying styles were not reliable. Following considerable immersion in the field, the researchers identified, on the basis of expert judgment (etic classification), the 14 farming styles in viticulture which they regard as a typology of ideal types. Benefits of the identification of farming styles in viticulture in terms of extension are discussed.
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 16-03-2021
DOI: 10.3390/SU13063259
Abstract: Increasingly common methods for financing public infrastructure in developing economies are Resources-for-Infrastructure (R4I) and Resource-Financed Infrastructure (RFI), usually involving Chinese financial institutions and Chinese construction companies. Although there are advantages to the borrowing country from these project financing arrangements, there are also various issues and governance challenges. In Uganda, expectations around future revenue from oil extraction have led to many infrastructure projects being commissioned, mostly funded by RFI arrangements. To consider the appropriateness of these arrangements and to reflect on whether they are likely to contribute to positive development outcomes or be ex les of the resource curse, we examined four public infrastructure projects: K ala–Entebbe Expressway Karuma Hydroelectric Dam Isimba Hydroelectric Dam and the Malaba to K ala section of the East Africa Standard Gauge Railway. Although R4I/RFI arrangements are viewed positively by some commentators, others (especially local companies) consider they lack transparency, create unsustainable debt, promote China’s interests over the borrowing country, increase unemployment, unfairly compete with local business, deal in corruption, have poor working conditions, and result in substandard construction. Nevertheless, we conclude that Uganda and other developing countries have generally benefited from Chinese-funded infrastructure, and there is more myth trap than debt trap. However, to ensure positive development outcomes, governments and construction companies should ensure compliance with international standards, especially relating to: environmental and social impact assessment human rights benefit-sharing arrangements livelihood restoration and project-induced displacement and resettlement.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 24-08-2022
DOI: 10.1177/10283153221121394
Abstract: Transnational higher education is big business. However, it is unclear what transnational universities must do to behave in a responsible way or to gain a social licence to operate. Examining the University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC) and Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU), we discuss what universities could do to gain approval from host communities. They have to meet home and host country regulations, and the expectations of local communities and other stakeholders. Consideration of their social licence and of the negative and positive social impacts they create will contribute to their reputation and ability to access local knowledge. To earn a social licence to operate and grow, universities must understand and respond to their local context, share benefits with local communities, and have effective community engagement practices. In the universities we studied, there was limited information provided to community stakeholders and poor stakeholder engagement. However, high levels of trust from residents existed, partly because of the good reputation of universities generally.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2016
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2004
Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt
Date: 03-2015
DOI: 10.1142/S1464333215500039
Abstract: Over 150 forms of impact assessment can be identified using Google searches, with several new forms appearing since 2003. Since then, the popularity of the various members of the impact assessment family has changed, partly in response to legislative and regulatory changes, and general trends in society. The information explosion and expansion of the internet has resulted in a 32 fold increase in the number of hits for "impact assessment", now over 12 million. The conventional methods most frequently mentioned in 2003 had relatively low proportional change over the last 10 years but remain amongst the most frequently mentioned in 2014: risk assessment, public participation, cost-benefit analysis, public involvement, environmental monitoring, and project evaluation. The terms with highest proportional change (i.e. the super-hot topics) were primarily social concerns, including: equality impact assessment, welfare impact assessment, mental health impact assessment, disability impact assessment, human impact assessment, social impact assessment, and social risk assessment. Other terms that had high proportional change included life cycle impact assessment. Information about the relative popularity of the various forms of impact assessment is used in this paper to discuss issues and trends in the broad field of impact assessment.
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 22-07-2020
DOI: 10.3390/SU12155907
Abstract: This paper investigates how social outcomes from urban transport projects typically play out by reflecting on multi-scale spatial changes induced by projects over time, and the extent to which such changes meet varied interests in project outcomes. We use a multi-methods case study approach using two exemplars, a metro project in London and Seoul, which established extensive public transport networks to support urban growth. Our study highlighted that urban transport network expansion does not always enhance life opportunities for all due to intermediate and cumulative impacts of spatial changes induced by projects. Immediate benefits such as enhanced accessibility were often undermined by long-term consequences of incremental spatial changes at local scales. This study also indicated that differential patterns of spatial changes around nodes between centre and periphery could be attributed to multiple negative impacts on people living in the most deprived areas. To enhance social outcomes, we suggest an integrated approach to urban transport and spatial development that focuses on scale and temporal dimensions of spatial transformation enacted by projects. In conclusion, achieving sustainable and equitable effects from urban transport infrastructure requires careful examination of broader societal consequences of long-term spatial changes and locational contexts, especially function and socio-economic conditions.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2013
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 18-06-2014
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2014
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 21-05-2020
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 26-02-1988
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2012
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 05-07-1995
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2002
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 25-02-2020
DOI: 10.3390/LAND9030061
Abstract: Through the lenses of community development and social licence to operate, we consider the complex relationships between local communities and forest plantation and oil palm companies. We examine the practical challenges in implementing socially-sustainable community development (SSCD) by analyzing two corporate social investment community development projects located in West Kalimantan, Indonesia: Desa Makmur Peduli Api (integrated fire management) and Pertanian Ekologi Terpadu (ecological farming). Our study scrutinized: (i) What were the practice challenges faced by the companies in establishing SSCD? Along with (ii) what should be done to improve how SSCD is undertaken, especially in Indonesia? We identified five challenges: (1) unresolved land conflict (2) determining the right program (3) building community capacity rather than providing irrelevant training (4) a shortage of company field staff and government facilitators and (5) managing community expectations. Better governance of SSCD will reduce conflict between affected communities and companies.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2021
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2017
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 22-03-2020
Publisher: Inderscience Publishers
Date: 2009
Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt
Date: 09-2004
DOI: 10.1142/S1464333204001729
Abstract: Triple bottom line (TBL) reporting is a concept that is sweeping across the business sector, government and NGOs. However, many of the issues faced by consideration of the social in TBL are very similar to issues faced by social impact assessment (SIA) in its connections with biophysical environmental impact assessment (EIA) and the financial considerations associated with projects including economic and fiscal impact assessment, and cost-benefit analysis. It would appear that the advocates of TBL and the institutions that have adopted TBL are ignorant of SIA and other forms of impact assessment. The view presented here is that TBL is a fad that presents little that is new, and that TBL would learn a great deal by considering the experience of SIA.
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 22-01-2020
DOI: 10.3390/LAND9020033
Abstract: Normative guidelines for addressing project-induced displacement and resettlement have been successful in coercing companies and practitioners to comply with international standards and local requirements. However, good practice has not always been effectively implemented, leading to reduced social wellbeing of people in local communities. We assess how the reciprocal relationships between institutional norms and practitioners’ situated perspectives about company-community interactions can improve social management practice. Drawing on Hajer and Versteeg’s method of environmental discourse analysis, discussions and storylines about a mining project in Mpumalanga in South Africa were assessed against contextualised discursive conventions in the mining industry. It was found that practitioners learn to manipulate legislative requirements, which ultimately perpetuates the impoverishment of project affected communities. The question is not whether or not practitioners understand the requirements of environmental and social management, but the extent to which such understandings are manipulated for corporate gain as opposed to social good. We consider practitioner rationalities about the purpose and function of environmental and social management, and how it is implemented. We suggest that practitioners and companies should construct positive aspirational identity perspectives about social management that would transcend from their current limited view (that achieving minimum compliance is sufficient) to aspiring to achieve better social development outcomes for all, especially the most disadvantaged. This requires a genuine commitment to obtaining and maintaining a social licence to operate, perspective transformation, a commitment to inclusiveness, and increased capacity for critical reflection.
Publisher: International Mountain Society (IMS) and United Nations University
Date: 11-2016
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 14-07-2014
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 1994
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 1994
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 14-08-2018
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2015
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 08-07-2019
DOI: 10.3390/LAND8070109
Abstract: Uganda’s oil and gas sector has transitioned from the exploration phase to the development phase in preparation for oil production (the operations phase). The extraction, processing, and distribution of oil require a great deal of infrastructure, which demands considerable acquisition of land from communities surrounding project sites. Here, we examine the social impacts of project land acquisition associated with oil production in the Albertine Graben region of Uganda. We specifically consider five major oil related projects that have or will displace people, and we discuss the consequences of this actual or future displacement on the lives and livelihoods of local people. The projects are: Tilenga Kingfisher the East African Crude Oil Pipeline the Kabaale Industrial Park and the Hoima–K ala Petroleum Products Pipeline. Our findings reveal both positive and negative outcomes for local communities. People with qualifications have benefited or will benefit from the job opportunities arising from the projects and from the much-needed infrastructure (i.e., roads, health centres, airport) that has been or will be built. However, many people have been displaced, causing food insecurity, the disintegration of social and cultural cohesion, and reduced access to social services. The influx of immigrants has increased tensions because of increasing competition for jobs. Crime and social issues such as prostitution have also increased and are expected to increase.
Start Date: 2006
End Date: 12-2009
Amount: $148,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 09-2002
End Date: 09-2006
Amount: $272,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
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End Date: 03-2004
Amount: $10,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 2005
End Date: 12-2010
Amount: $1,500,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 01-2004
End Date: 12-2004
Amount: $10,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
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