Some lessons learned and still to be learned about the role of forests and urban green areas during the COVID-19 pandemicDiscover Sustainability - Tập 4 - Trang 1-9 - 2023
Giuseppe Bonanno, Vincenzo Veneziano
Forests and green areas proved to be crucial and unexpected allies in the struggle against the COVID-19 pandemic. Indeed, urban and suburban green areas acted as propelling centers of public health during the most severe periods of lockdown. The exploitation of forested areas also contributed to mitigating the economic impact of job losses during the pandemic. This study specifically focused on th...... hiện toàn bộ
A review of the knowledge base for the development of natural ingredients value chains for a sustainable biobased economy in ColombiaDiscover Sustainability - Tập 4 - Trang 1-23 - 2023
Ricardo Vargas-Carpintero, Felipe Romero-Perdomo, Juan F. Martínez, Iris Lewandowski
Natural ingredients (NIs) from plant biodiversity represent a value creation strategy in the transition to a sustainable biobased economy, especially in biodiversity rich countries. A necessary action to achieve this purpose is to orientate research and strengthen the knowledge base of NIs following a value chain (VC) approach. Although the promotion of NIVCs has gained increasing attention in the...... hiện toàn bộ
Analysis and prioritization of risk factors in the management of Halal supply chain managementDiscover Sustainability - - 2021
Adnan Sarwar, Aqsa Zafar, Alia Qadir
In the competitive globalized market, risk management is an important aspect of the supply chain, but it becomes crucial to the management of a faith-based supply chain. The halal supply chain is an emerging research era at an early stage. To retain the halalness from procurement to end customer, this research was aimed to identify and prioritize the important risk elements for managing the HSC. F...... hiện toàn bộ
Farmers’ agricultural tractor preferences in Ethiopia: a choice experiment approachDiscover Sustainability - Tập 2 - Trang 1-15 - 2021
Wubamlak Ayichew Workneh, Kiyokazu Ujiie, Shusuke Matsushita
Unless supported by agricultural mechanization, achieving sustainable development goals is generally challenging in sub-Saharan African countries, specifically so in Ethiopia. Animal power is the dominant mode for plowing, threshing, and transportation in Ethiopia and yet, at the same time little effort was employed to assess subsistence farmer’s tractor demand in the study area. This study was co...... hiện toàn bộ
COVID-19 and lockdown schooling: how digital learning environments influence semantic structures and sustainability knowledgeDiscover Sustainability - Tập 2 - Trang 1-13 - 2021
Sonja T. Fiedler, Thomas Heyne, Franz X. Bogner
Promoting sustainable lifestyles through Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) is part of the UN’s Agenda 2030. Earlier empirical studies proved direct interactions with and in natural environments to be effective ESD methods. Pandemic-related lockdowns rendered such courses nearly impossible, which raised concerns about achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in general. To evalu...... hiện toàn bộ
Statistical analysis on egalitarian land redistribution in Ethiopia: policy evaluation using repeated cross-sectional dataDiscover Sustainability - Tập 3 - Trang 1-13 - 2022
Jun Takada, Wubamlak Ayichew Workneh, Shusuke Matsushita
Rural livelihood in Ethiopia is dependent on subsistence agriculture that has been challenged by farmland shrinkage as a result of rapid population growth. The Amhara regional state government has implemented egalitarian farmland redistribution in 1997 in the region for small-scale and landless farmers. This study aimed to seek new insights from the perspective of equity, rather than efficiency su...... hiện toàn bộ