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- Köhlin, Gunnar, 1963, et al.
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The SDG 8 Dilemma: How the School of Business, Economics and Law at University of Gothenburg is taking action on this front
- 2022
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Ingår i: Global Focus: the E F M D business magazine. - 1784-2344. ; 16:2, s. 78-81
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- SDG 8 concerns a core controversy of sustainable development – the link between environment and economy. The School of Business, Economics and Law (SBEL) has a key role in the university’s assignment as leader of SGD 8 in the International Association of Universities’ global cluster on Higher Education and Research for Sustainable Development. The ambition is to engage and support a global community of researchers and to mobilize academic work and policy interaction in support of sustainable economic growth with good conditions for employees. In practice, it means transdisciplinary, applied action research and policy interaction that focus on solutions to growth and work related challenges, through collaboration among researchers and practitioners in local and global contexts. The work is done in cooperation with other faculties. Importantly, there is also collaboration with seven universities in the Global South, facilitated by the research network Environment for Development and its global hub, located at SBEL, At present, a good number of SBEL scholars are engaged in compiling and writing systematic literature reviews on SDG 8 themes. Drafts have been presented and discussed at workshops and conferences. In a second step, targets and indicators of SDG 8 will be critically scrutinized in order to reveal inherent biases, contradictions and links to other SDGs. In the third step, researchers and policy makers will be engaged in dialogue and following-up on selected indicators for inclusion in Voluntary National Reviews to the UN High Level Political Forum. This assigned engagement with SDG 8 started in 2019 and has, in many respects, successfully worked out this far. There are, however, also challenges and obstacles that merit reflections, eg. related to administrative structures as well as interest and capabilities among staff when it comes to interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary cooperation.
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- Morf, Andrea, 1968, et al.
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Remissyttrande: Sveriges nationella havsplaner 2018
- 2018
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Havsmiljöinstitutet lämnar härmed synpunkter på dokumenten Förslag till Havsplan, Miljökonsekvensbeskrivning (MKB) samt Hållbarhetsbedömning (HB) för havsplanområdena Bottenviken, Östersjön och Västerhavet, utarbetade av Havs- och Vattenmyndigheten (HaV). Havsmiljöinstitutets (och ingående universitets) experter har tolkat sin uppgift bredare än att svara på remissfrågorna om planernas innehåll och kunskapsbas. Institutet kommenterar ur ett brett tvärvetenskapligt perspektiv följande: 1. rollen som akademin och institutet har spelat i havsplaneringen hittills, 2. kust- och havsplanerings¬systemet och processen, samt 3. dokumenten och kunskapsbasen. Här ingår förslag hur allt kunde utvecklas vidare, inklusive Institutets egen roll som länk mellan forskning och förvaltning, både på kortare och längre sikt.
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- Asah, Stanley T, et al.
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Value exclusion in social–scientific approaches for assessing and valuing ecosystem features: Implications for behavioral compliance
- 2023
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Ingår i: BioScience. - 0006-3568. ; 73:9, s. 663-670
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Value inclusion is critical for effective ecosystem science policy and largely emerged from critiques of the value-exclusionary attributes of ecological and economic approaches to value assessments and valuations. But whether and how value is excluded during social–scientific approaches to the assessments and valuations of ecosystem features has not received adequate attention. We identify and discuss instances of when and how value is excluded during social–scientific approaches to the assessments and valuations of ecosystem features to which people ascribe value. We illustrate the implications of value exclusion on social compliance with ecosystem management and policy recommendations, a vital overlooked aspect of policy effectiveness. We also extend the meaning of value exclusion beyond value omission to include misidentification and misattribution of salience to valued ecosystem features. We offer suggestions for enabling value inclusion where ways to minimize exclusion are inapparent.
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- Beery, Thomas H, et al.
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Editorial: Nature's Contributions to People: On the Relation Between Valuations and Actions
- 2021
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Ingår i: Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. - : Frontiers Media SA. - 2296-701X .- 1540-9309. ; 9
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In line with other bodies and a manifold of researchers addressing contemporary environmental challenges, the Global Assessment of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, published by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES),concludes that a fundamental reorganization across technological, economic, and social factors, including values, is needed to achieve goals for conserving and sustainably using nature (IPBES,2019). This reorganization implies transformative changes, for example, in the production and consumption of energy, food, and fiber.While scientists and decision-makers increasingly acknowledge the need for transformative change, we lack specific definitions of the details of transformative change and agreement on how such change is ensured. However, by clarifying and assessing the multiple values of nature and its benefits, we understand what is at stake, for whom, and the tools for making priorities (Díaz et al., 2018, 2019). Valuation is, though, a means to an end. Likewise, increased awareness of the values of biodiversity is also a means to an end. The links between valuation, increasing awareness, and concrete actions, among policymakers and other decision-makers, including individuals, are crucial for transformative changes to start and proceed.These considerations reverse the established approach in economic valuation, according to which one uses observations about actual actions to infer the values the actor holds (“revealed preferences”). In line with this economic paradigm, the currently observed societal actions and resulting biodiversity change reveals a lack of societal valuation of nature’s contributions to people.If we would “transform our world,” as the UN’s Agenda 2030 demands, and with it the way societies act toward nature, this would reveal a new social valuation of nature’s contributions to people.Either way, there is a close relationship between actions and valuations.The articles in this Research Topic present insights from various perspectives and theoretical and methodological approaches on the connections between valuations of nature’s contributions to people, including ecosystem services, awareness, and concrete actions. The articles concern perceptions and actions among individuals and groups of people and aspects related to governance ranging from local to global scales, based on cases from various parts of the world.
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- Beery, Thomas H., et al.
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Fostering incidental experiences of nature through green infrastructure planning
- 2017
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Ingår i: Ambio. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 0044-7447 .- 1654-7209. ; 46:7, s. 717-730
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Concern for a diminished human experience of nature and subsequent decreased human well-being is addressed via a consideration of green infrastructure’s potential to facilitate unplanned or incidental nature experience. Incidental nature experience is conceptualized and illustrated in order to consider this seldom addressed aspect of human interaction with nature in green infrastructure planning. Special attention has been paid to the ability of incidental nature experience to redirect attention from a primary activity toward an unplanned focus (in this case, nature phenomena). The value of such experience for human well-being is considered. The role of green infrastructure to provide the opportunity for incidental nature experience may serve as a nudge or guide toward meaningful interaction. These ideas are explored using examples of green infrastructure design in two Nordic municipalities: Kristianstad, Sweden, and Copenhagen, Denmark. The outcome of the case study analysis coupled with the review of literature is a set of sample recommendations for how green infrastructure can be designed to support a range of incidental nature experiences with the potential to support human well-being.
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- Beilin, Ruth, et al.
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Analysing how drivers of agricultural land abandonment affect biodiversity and cultural landscapes using case studies from Scandinavia, Iberia and Oceania
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Ingår i: Land use policy. - : Elsevier BV. - 0264-8377 .- 1873-5754. ; 36, s. 60-72
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Agricultural land abandonment (ALA) is widespread in many countries of the global north. It impacts rural communities, traditional landscapes, biodiversity and ecosystem services. It is an opportunity for ecosystem restoration or new landscape functions. We explored ALA in study areas in Australia, Portugal and Sweden. In each, we assessed plant species diversity, historical trajectories of land cover change; and the socioeconomic past, present and future in interviews with farmers. The ALA data was integrated and analysed by identifying the drivers of change. The relative importance of each driver and its scale of action was estimated, both in the past (1950-2010) and in the future (2010-2030). ALA has transformed rural landscapes in the study areas of Portugal and Sweden. It is at a much earlier stage with potential to increase in the Australian case. We identified a set of driving forces, classified into pressures, frictions and attractors that clarify why ALA, noting its temporal and spatial scale, occurs differently in each study area. The effect of the drivers is related to social and historical contexts. Pressures and attractors encouraging agricultural abandonment are strongest in Portugal and Sweden. Generally more (institutionalized) frictions are in place in these European sites, intended to prevent further change, based on the benefits assumed for biodiversity and aesthetics. In Australia, the stimulation of driving forces to promote a well-managed abandonment of some cleared areas could be highly beneficial for biodiversity, minimally disruptive for current dairy farming operations and would bring opportunities for alternative types of rural development.
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- Bladh, Gabriel, 1959-, et al.
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Friluftsliv och naturvård - En komplicerad relation
- 2013
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Ingår i: Friluftsliv i förändring. Resultat från ett forskningsprogram, Slutrapport. Naturvårdsverket Rapport 6547. - Stockholm : Naturvårdsverket. - 9789162065478 ; , s. 229-250
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