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Article 24 Aug 2024
Duanhong Ding and Yishuang Xu
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Article 23 Aug 2024
Gulnara N. Nabiyeva and Stephen M. Wheeler
Highlights of Sustainability
Volume 3 (2024), Issue 3, pp. 294–307
Volume 3 (2024), Issue 3, pp. 294–307
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Article 26 Mar 2024
Clint T. Lewis
Small Island Developing States have been identified as some of the most vulnerable countries to the impacts of climate change due to inherent environmental, economic, and demographic characteristics. The cross-cutting reach of climate change impacts has
Small Island Developing States have been identified as some of the most vulnerable countries to the impacts of climate change due to inherent environmental, economic, and demographic characteristics. The cross-cutting reach of climate change impacts has led to the conversation of mainstreaming and its practicality. The study uses a qualitative research design that focuses on interviews with senior officials in the Caribbean at the national and regional levels. The study aims to identify the drivers of, barriers to adaptation mainstreaming into national policies and development plans in the Caribbean, and to derive actions needed to achieve mainstreaming at a national level. The main drivers of mainstreaming are the region’s vulnerability, institutional arrangement, and the government budget, while the major barriers include poor planning and governance, insufficient human resources, and competing development priorities. The paper proposes several key initiatives and actions needed at a national level that can help the region to achieve adaptation mainstreaming. To this end, mainstreaming adaptation at the national level is an essential strategy for building resilience to the impacts of climate change within the region. It cannot be a “one size fits all” approach but one that is tailored by countries to fit the countries’ circumstances and cultures.
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Highlights of Sustainability
Volume 3 (2024), Issue 2, pp. 104–115
Volume 3 (2024), Issue 2, pp. 104–115
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Article 27 Feb 2024
Afonso Delgado, Paulo Caldas and Miguel Varela
Highlights of Sustainability
Volume 3 (2024), Issue 1, pp. 84–103
Volume 3 (2024), Issue 1, pp. 84–103
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Article 7 Feb 2024
Tsz Hin Hui, Nadine Itani and John F. O’Connell
Highlights of Sustainability
Volume 3 (2024), Issue 1, pp. 61–75
Volume 3 (2024), Issue 1, pp. 61–75
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Article 29 Jan 2024
Manuel Rodeiro
Environmentalists have long claimed it is unjust for the state to prioritize economic interests over environmental ones by sacrificing ecosystem integrity and functioning to unsustainably expand the economy. Recently, mainstream environmentalists have moved to a more
Environmentalists have long claimed it is unjust for the state to prioritize economic interests over environmental ones by sacrificing ecosystem integrity and functioning to unsustainably expand the economy. Recently, mainstream environmentalists have moved to a more conciliatory approach highlighting the common ground between environmental and economic goals. They today claim processes of economic growth and development can be made just if they become green. This paper explores the question: should states pursue “green growth”? Although some critics claim green growth is impossible, I maintain it is. I theorize three conditions that must be met for an instance of growth to be truly considered green. That a development project is green, however, does not automatically ensure it is just. Justice considerations remain in adjudicating the competing interests of different groups of stakeholders. I then examine four reasonable approaches to resolving controversies over the pursuit of green growth: cost-benefit analysis, sufficientarianism, democracy, and pluralism. I conclude a liberal pluralist form of decision-making is best for ensuring fairness.
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Highlights of Sustainability
Volume 3 (2024), Issue 1, pp. 33–45
Volume 3 (2024), Issue 1, pp. 33–45
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Article 15 Nov 2023
Irina Di Ruocco
Highlights of Sustainability
Volume 2 (2023), Issue 4, pp. 259–282
Volume 2 (2023), Issue 4, pp. 259–282
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Article 11 Nov 2023
Sevasti Malisiova and Stella Kostopoulou
Highlights of Sustainability
Volume 2 (2023), Issue 4, pp. 241–258
Volume 2 (2023), Issue 4, pp. 241–258
4276 Views1102 Downloads1 Citations
Article 25 Jul 2023
Anastasia-Alithia Seferiadis, Sarah Cummings and George Essegbey
The article considers the extent to which social entrepreneurship of young women is contributing to sustainable development in Ghana, based on field research conducted between October 2018 and April 2019. Data collection involved a review of
The article considers the extent to which social entrepreneurship of young women is contributing to sustainable development in Ghana, based on field research conducted between October 2018 and April 2019. Data collection involved a review of the literature and a questionnaire survey of actors within the social entrepreneurship ecosystem in Ghana but is primarily based on the life histories of 13 women entrepreneurs collected using in-depth semi-structured interviews. Social entrepreneurship is undergoing a boom in Ghana which is characterized as having the most entrepreneurs as a proportion of the population globally and with women outnumbering men. Critical discourse analysis was employed to highlight the potential difference between grand narratives of entrepreneurship for development—how it is supposed to work, and how it is working in practice for young women social entrepreneurs in Ghana. The life histories demonstrate that the social entrepreneurship of young women in Ghana does not appear to be contributing to sustainable development because the enterprises yielded small or non-existent economic benefits for the entrepreneurs, demonstrating the limitations of this framework in the Ghanaian context. Indeed, most of the enterprises do not go beyond the ideation stage while the fame of winning social entrepreneurship competitions is used by individuals to build social and symbolic capital for employment by the public sector and the United Nations. In this way, young women are “hacking” social entrepreneurship for their own purposes as it is one of the opportunities open to them but it does not lead to sustainable enterprises. While the social entrepreneurship sector in Ghana is booming, it appears in reality to be a survival activity for women who are subject to gender inequalities and social-cultural harassment.
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Highlights of Sustainability
Volume 2 (2023), Issue 3, pp. 157–170
Volume 2 (2023), Issue 3, pp. 157–170
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Article 17 Jun 2023
Wan-Ju Chen, Rong-Ho Lin and Chun-Ling Chuang
Highlights of Sustainability
Volume 2 (2023), Issue 2, pp. 110–137
Volume 2 (2023), Issue 2, pp. 110–137
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Volume 3 (2024), Issue 3, pp. 308–337