item: #1 of 273 id: consilience-10000 author: Olsen, McKenna; Farrel, Franklin; Kuznetsov, German; Nolan, Donielle; Yasa, Venkat; Peixoto, Nathalia title: Recording Humidity, Temperature, and Moisture in a Hydroponic Greenhouse date: 2023 words: 3530 flesch: 51 summary: Sensor-based irrigation systems have been implemented in hydroponic greenhouses before (Tatas et al., 2022). Humidity and temperature sensors were tested in the greenhouse and reported that temperature rises, and humidity falls significantly during the day. keywords: data; greenhouse; humidity; hydroponic; moisture; prototype; sensors; system; temperature cache: consilience-10000.pdf plain text: consilience-10000.txt item: #2 of 273 id: consilience-10142 author: Saha, Aryan title: Comparing Sodium-ion Battery Electrode Materials in the Scope of Grid-Scale Batteries supporting Renewable Energy Sources and Future Electrification Demands date: 2023 words: 8014 flesch: 47 summary: Commonly used in laboratories, metallic sodium is not optimal as a production-level anode due to its dendrite-formation causing safety and cycling issues (Li et al., 2017). Figure 6: (Left) P2 formation (Right) O3 formation (Li et al., 2017) keywords: batteries; battery; capacity; carbon; cathode; density; electrode; energy; et al; grid; ion; ion batteries; lithium; materials; sodium; storage; systems cache: consilience-10142.pdf plain text: consilience-10142.txt item: #3 of 273 id: consilience-10153 author: Mouchrek, Najla; Cullen, Charlotte; Ganino, Alyssa; Gliga, Vera; Kramer, Paige; Mahesh, Rohith; Maunder, Lauren ; Murray, Sean; Scott, Kiara; Shaikh, Taha title: Investigating environmental values and psychological barriers to sustainable behaviors among college students date: 2023 words: 6060 flesch: 36 summary: It indicates that, if pro-environmental behaviors are not occurring, it is likely due to psychological barriers as opposed to a lack of pro-environmental values. Many understand that climate change is a major issue, they are aware that changes must be made to address this issue, and even have pro-environmental values – however, many are reluctant to change their behavior patterns so that their actions are more sustainable. keywords: action; barriers; behavior; change; paradigm; students; sustainability; values cache: consilience-10153.pdf plain text: consilience-10153.txt item: #4 of 273 id: consilience-10158 author: Afobunor, Aforfem; Oyatoye, E. O; Mojekwu, J. N; Adebiyi, S. O title: Gender Marketing and the Consumption of Family Planning Methods date: 2023 words: 6330 flesch: 43 summary: We hypothesize that masculinization of birth control marketing induces consumption in men. 1.5 Research Hypothesis H0: masculinization of birth control marketing induces consumption in men 1.6 Significance of the study There has been little research done on how vasectomy and other more effective birth control techniques for men can be reinforced in Nigeria to increase family planning. keywords: birth; birth control; consumption; contraception; control; et al; family; gender; male; marketing; men; planning; research; respondents; study; women cache: consilience-10158.pdf plain text: consilience-10158.txt item: #5 of 273 id: consilience-10217 author: Chen, Xu; Shea, Ryan; Di, Xuan title: Travel Pattern Analysis on Switching Behavior in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic date: 2023 words: 4292 flesch: 55 summary: Mobility trends in New York City during covid-19 pandemic: Analyses of transportation modes throughout May 2020. Respondents’ information, including travel mode, travel frequency, trip purpose and demographics, is gathered to study switching behavior regarding travel patterns during the pandemic. keywords: behavior; home; order; pandemic; respondents; stay; transportation; travel cache: consilience-10217.pdf plain text: consilience-10217.txt item: #6 of 273 id: consilience-10936 author: Negre, Laura title: The World of Coffee: 21st Century Solutions for A Commodity Facing Climate Change Risks date: 2023 words: 4111 flesch: 39 summary: Since coffee farmers are mostly from very low-income countries, trading beans into global markets has exposed millions of small producers in developing countries to exploitation, initially from colonialists and eventually from multinational trading firms. Activism on behalf of coffee producers began as early as the 19th century when campaigners publicly opposed the financial abuse of coffee farmers by Dutch colonists in the East Indies. keywords: certification; climate; coffee; fairtrade; farmers; farms; smallholder; social; sustainability cache: consilience-10936.pdf plain text: consilience-10936.txt item: #7 of 273 id: consilience-12004 author: Liu, E Jen title: Homeownership and Environmental Attitudes date: 2025 words: 10635 flesch: 44 summary: An additive index was created for neighborhood environmental risk exposure using the variables airpollu, wtrpollu, and exweathr. In other words, homeowners’ levels of environmental concern are hypothesized to be more sensitive to increased levels of neighborhood environmental risk exposure than those of renters. keywords: attitudes; change; climate; concern; environment; exposure; homeowners; homeownership; neighborhood; people; policies; renters; research; risk; value; variables cache: consilience-12004.pdf plain text: consilience-12004.txt item: #8 of 273 id: consilience-12100 author: Prime, Lillian title: Blocking Oil Development in Yasuní National Park: Ecuador’s Unprecedented Strides Towards Environmental Justice date: 2025 words: 3224 flesch: 47 summary: Yasuní ITT Initiative and the reinventing sovereignty over natural resources. This paper seeks to address what allowed for the protection of Yasuní Block 43 and how this case of environmental justice supports climate change mitigation. keywords: block; development; ecuador; initiative; itt; justice; oil; yasuní cache: consilience-12100.pdf plain text: consilience-12100.txt item: #9 of 273 id: consilience-12156 author: Yoo, Jung Ha title: Motivators and Hindrances of Consuming Reusable Water Bottles: An Exploratory Case Study at Columbia University date: 2025 words: 5814 flesch: 44 summary: The primary focus was on how students used reusable water bottles in public spaces, including: ● Usage Patterns: Noting the frequency of reusable water bottle usage among students in the libraries. Choosing reusable water bottles over single-use plastics is a pro-environmental behavior that can reduce plastic production and waste. keywords: bottles; columbia; environmental; plastic; students; tap; tap water; university; use; water; water bottles cache: consilience-12156.pdf plain text: consilience-12156.txt item: #10 of 273 id: consilience-12172 author: Zulfiqar, Fasih title: Beyond Income and Education: Unveiling the True Catalysts of Green Behavior in Pakistan and South Asia: A Demand-Side Analysis date: 2025 words: 8316 flesch: 47 summary: The paper shows Pakistan’s education system does not instill environmental values in people like other South Asian systems. Keywords: Green alternatives Pakistan, Sustainable practices adoption, Gender sustainability gap, South Asian sustainability, Sociodemographic factors, Environmental values Consilience Zulfiqar: keywords: alternatives; asia; consilience; education; environment; global; income; pakistan; people; south; sustainability; values; variables cache: consilience-12172.pdf plain text: consilience-12172.txt item: #11 of 273 id: consilience-12406 author: Kersey, Jessica title: A User-Centered Account of Urban Energy Transitions in Kampala, Uganda date: 2025 words: 6018 flesch: 53 summary: This essay contributes to a growing body of research that aims to center users within discussions of urban energy transitions and sustainable development broadly. The conventional model of urban energy transitions holds that people transition to cleaner fuel sources (especially electricity) over time as their incomes increase and as these sources become more available and affordable (Price, 2021). keywords: access; charcoal; communities; consilience; electricity; energy; kampala; kersey; photo; uganda; urban; user cache: consilience-12406.pdf plain text: consilience-12406.txt item: #12 of 273 id: consilience-12431 author: Shaham, Adam title: Evaluating a Decade of Mangrove Restorations in Mumbai: Success or Failure? date: 2025 words: 9456 flesch: 47 summary: Sentinel 2 data were used for mangrove restoration sites with start years from 2016-2022. In Mumbai, the outcomes of more than a decade of mangrove restoration have yet to be assessed. keywords: analysis; clearance; coastal; cover; data; extent; forest; india; maharashtra; mangrove; mangrove restoration; monitoring; mumbai; projects; restoration; restoration sites; sensing; sites cache: consilience-12431.pdf plain text: consilience-12431.txt item: #13 of 273 id: consilience-12557 author: Sachs, Claudia title: A Looming Crisis: Exploring the Precarious Legal Status of ‘Climate Refugees’ Under International and Human Rights Law date: 2025 words: 3956 flesch: 32 summary: This ruling underscores that the Refugee Convention’s application remains narrow and excludes the broader concept of ‘climate refugees.’ While the Refugee Convention does not currently apply to climate refugees, judicial interpretations in Ioane hint that climate refugee status may become relevant as climate impacts escalate. In recent years, individuals displaced by climate change have sought legal recognition as 'climate refugees' under the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1951. keywords: change; climate; convention; displacement; international; refugee; status cache: consilience-12557.pdf plain text: consilience-12557.txt item: #14 of 273 id: consilience-3754 author: Benesch, Ambria title: Note from the Editor-in-Chief date: 2019 words: 560 flesch: 40 summary: Please enjoy Volume XXI, with articles and ideas both old and new. We believe that Consilience has always pushed the boundaries of sustainable development, and this section of highlighted articles embodies that fully. keywords: consilience; volume cache: consilience-3754.pdf plain text: consilience-3754.txt item: #15 of 273 id: consilience-3755 author: Medoff, David title: Note from the Editor date: 2017 words: 488 flesch: 41 summary: Beyond the international playing field, other polity levels and private entities increasingly assume responsibility for driving sustainable policy and practices. Together, the pieces form a patchwork of potential leaders, leaving the reader’s approbation free to identify the most convincing approach to the ever-complex task of sustainable development. keywords: development; leadership cache: consilience-3755.pdf plain text: consilience-3755.txt item: #16 of 273 id: consilience-3756 author: Medoff, David title: Note from the Editor-in-Chief date: 2017 words: 327 flesch: 48 summary: The optimism accompanying 2015’s SDGs and Paris Agreement encountered a sobering 2016, in which many sustainable development issues suffered significant momentum-checks. Dear readers, I am pleased to present Issue XVII of Consilience: The Journal of Sustainable Development. keywords: issue cache: consilience-3756.pdf plain text: consilience-3756.txt item: #17 of 273 id: consilience-3757 author: Benesch, Ambria title: Note from the Editor-in-Chief date: 2018 words: 653 flesch: 34 summary: In Issue XX, the editing board of Consilience has chosen six carefully curated articles, which come together to deliver a truly global and interdisciplinary look at contemporary problems and solutions in sustainable development. Dr. Yasuko Kusakari, Dominique Chiu, Lillian Muasa, Kyoko Takahashi, and Dr. Shogo Kudo show with images and from interviews how civic pride and a sense of belonging can facilitate rural sustainability and can encourage population stability to preserve culture, tradition, and the environment. keywords: development; issue cache: consilience-3757.pdf plain text: consilience-3757.txt item: #18 of 273 id: consilience-3760 author: Benesch, Ambria title: Note from the Editor-in-Chief: Note from the Editor-in-Chief date: 2018 words: 698 flesch: 32 summary: In a foundational study of peace and sustainable development, Maria Fontecha-Tiraldo explores the interactions of small Colombian Editor’s Note: Issue XIX, January 2018 communities with the FARC, the now-active national government and environmentally-focused goals. As always, Issue XIX of Consilience continues to push the boundaries of sustainable development. keywords: development; issue; xix cache: consilience-3760.pdf plain text: consilience-3760.txt item: #19 of 273 id: consilience-3761 author: Ellis, S. Peyton title: Historic Preservation as a Tool for Sustainable Community Development date: 2019 words: 6403 flesch: 26 summary: Perhaps the most pressing challenge is how to incentivize sustainable community development while maintaining local integrity. Although the fields of community development and historic preservation are independently successful, there is an increasing need for professionals from each field to collaborate for efficient urban development. keywords: building; community; community development; developers; development; historic; new; online; pittsburgh; preservation; preservationists; sdg; urban cache: consilience-3761.pdf plain text: consilience-3761.txt item: #20 of 273 id: consilience-3762 author: Bachan, Anna title: An Exploration of the Gender-Migration-Development Nexus: The Impact of Labor Migration on Women’s Empowerment date: 2018 words: 8967 flesch: 47 summary: Though not often center stage of migration policy and debate, migrant women have become powerful agents of change as well key actors in influencing social and economic development in their countries of origin. I even had the opportunity to contribute to migration related projects with local NGO’s, including in organizing an entrepreneurship workshop for returning migrant women. keywords: communication; countries; development; female; gender; government; ibid; international; labor; labor migration; migrant; migration; nations; remittances; return; senegal; senegalese; united; web; women cache: consilience-3762.pdf plain text: consilience-3762.txt item: #21 of 273 id: consilience-3763 author: Arogyaswamy, Bernard title: Energy Sustainability and Pope Francis’ Encyclical on Care for our Common Home: National Policies and Corporations as Change Agents date: 2017 words: 9597 flesch: 49 summary: In fact, recent reports suggest that despite a brief dip in carbon emissions in 2009, carbon pumped into the atmosphere exceeded 40 gigatonnes in 2013 with CO2 added at a rate of almost 2ppm per year (Plait, 2014), a tonnage and rate which makes a damaging temperature increase of over two degrees Celsius all but inevitable (Harvey, 2011). However, the tax only kicks in when a preset limit on carbon emission (which differs by industry and type of firm) has been reached. keywords: arogyaswamy; carbon; change; china; climate; consilience; countries; emissions; encyclical; energy; firms; growth; laudato; nations; new; pope; power; sustainability; united; world cache: consilience-3763.pdf plain text: consilience-3763.txt item: #22 of 273 id: consilience-3764 author: Brown, Hillary title: Towards A Circular Energy Economy: Cross-Sector Successes in Brazil and India date: 2018 words: 6817 flesch: 33 summary: By cascading (passing along) waste energy and processing waste nutrients for reuse in the cycle, such a closed-loop, complex system reduces new resource inputs while eliminating waste, pollution, and emission outputs.1 Optimized by design this way, a human-engineered system of goods and services may be considered restorative or regenerative. Governments at all levels are often most able to create progressive policies which coordinate the many entities involved in creating circular energy systems. keywords: belo; biogas; brazil; brown; consilience; development; economy; electricity; energy; india; infrastructural; july; new; omc; plant; power; production; solar; waste; water cache: consilience-3764.pdf plain text: consilience-3764.txt item: #23 of 273 id: consilience-3767 author: Smith, Colton; Driver, David; Michaud, Gilbert title: The Solar and Wind Economy in Ohio: Industry Analysis and Policy Implications date: 2018 words: 6828 flesch: 37 summary: Overall, understanding the trends and projections for Ohio energy jobs and capacities has numerous implications for policymakers and economic development practitioners alike, which are highlighted in our conclusions. Initially, this requirement was set to 12.5% by 2024, with 0.5% (the ‘carve-out’ or ‘set-aside’) required to be solar energy specifically (DSIRE 2017a). keywords: capacity; data; employment; energy; generation; growth; impact; industry; jobs; net; ohio; policy; solar; state; wind cache: consilience-3767.pdf plain text: consilience-3767.txt item: #24 of 273 id: consilience-3769 author: Mosko, Sadi title: Stepping Sustainably: The Potential Partnership Between Dance and Sustainable Development date: 2018 words: 10007 flesch: 50 summary: Vertigo Dance Company Vertigo, an Israeli contemporary dance company, incorporates both the operations and artistic approaches of dance sustainability into its work.3 Based in the Eco-Arts Village built by artistic directors Noa Wertheim and Adi Sha’al, Vertigo is known for its social and environmental activism (“Biographies,” n.d.). As explained in the Arts Council’s 2015 environmental report, Sustaining Great Art, the program “was designed to do what the talks had failed to achieve: to activate and inspire the arts community to make environmental sustainability a major priority” (Julie’s Bicycle, 2015). keywords: arts; beauchesne; carbon; climate; company; consilience; council; dance; development; eiko; england; environmental; kidd; koma; new; organizations; pivot; river; sustainability; work cache: consilience-3769.pdf plain text: consilience-3769.txt item: #25 of 273 id: consilience-3771 author: Mouchrek, Najla title: Engaging College Students in the Transition to Sustainability Through Design-Based Approaches date: 2018 words: 5640 flesch: 36 summary: Considering potential design-based strategies for engaging youth in sustainability, our research (Mouchrek 2017) shows that: • Participatory design processes can provide spaces for experimentation, inviting youth to enact and reflect on their choices in a non-serious, playful environment. • From the perspective of development, participatory design processes can offer opportunities for peer interaction, equal participation with adults, exploration of diverse identities, and elaboration of possible futures. keywords: action; change; culture; design; development; education; engagement; people; social; strategies; sustainability; youth cache: consilience-3771.pdf plain text: consilience-3771.txt item: #26 of 273 id: consilience-3772 author: Kusakari, Yasuko; Chiu, Dominique; Muasa, Lillian; Takahashi, Kyoko; Kudo, Shogo title: Entrusting the Future of Rural Society through Nurturing Civic Pride: Endeavors in Gojome Town, Akita Prefecture of Japan date: 2018 words: 3188 flesch: 41 summary: Based on our learning in Gojome town we conclude that, in the wake of rural depopulation, nurturing “civic pride” could potentially contribute to rural sustainability through entrusting the future of rural society to next generations. Inspired by the endeavors of Gojome locals, we hope our findings will further support the future of rural sustainability in various regions around the world. keywords: akita; depopulation; future; gojome; japan; pride; sustainability; town cache: consilience-3772.pdf plain text: consilience-3772.txt item: #27 of 273 id: consilience-3875 author: Schroeder, Jon title: Phosphorus Impacts from Meat-, Dairy-, and Plant-Based Diets date: 2018 words: 5336 flesch: 56 summary: A comparative life cycle assessment of plant-based foods and meat foods. An additional postulation was that the procedure modeled meat items within the context of either Netherlands or Ireland. keywords: diet; fao; food; kilograms; meat; phosphorus; plant; simapro; stat; study; use cache: consilience-3875.pdf plain text: consilience-3875.txt item: #28 of 273 id: consilience-3879 author: Fernandes, Caroline; Flores, Claudia; Montalbano, Gabrielle; Sekhon, Harveen; Pierce, Dr. Gregory title: Evaluation of WASH Implementation in Nama Sub-County date: 2017 words: 8810 flesch: 58 summary: Figure 2: Time to Walk to Water Source in Control and WASH villages Figure 2 shows the average time to walk to the water source in WASH villages (12 minutes) and in Control Villages (17 minutes). The blue bars represent the weighted averages of Yes replies from the eight WASH villages. keywords: consilience; control; control villages; handwashing; latrine; sanitation; source; user; villages; wash; wash villages; water cache: consilience-3879.pdf plain text: consilience-3879.txt item: #29 of 273 id: consilience-3882 author: Goldman, Jonas Philip title: A New Deal for Refugees: How Land Restoration and Infrastructure Modernization Can Help Solve the Refugee Crisis date: 2017 words: 7838 flesch: 52 summary: Economically, it makes sense to offer refugees work in areas in need of labor. Future avenues of research could consist of analyzing the feasibility of other forms of refugee work relief that address sustainability issues. keywords: agriculture; areas; carbon; ccc; commission; consilience; deal; energy; european; infrastructure; land; paper; program; refugees; tree; work cache: consilience-3882.pdf plain text: consilience-3882.txt item: #30 of 273 id: consilience-3883 author: Iyalomhe, Felix O; Cirella, Giuseppe T; Russo, Alessio; Jensen, Anne; Idogho, Philipa title: Environmental Management System for Nigeria’s Higher Education: Two-Year Pilot Analysis date: 2017 words: 8537 flesch: 35 summary: Key disciplines taught include engineering, sciences, environmental management and art and design. This campus plan was not specific to environmental management; however, it did include aspects that relate to transportation and environmental planning and, if desired, could be upgraded to current standards (S. Jimoh, personal communication, 22 September 2015). keywords: auchi; awareness; consilience; drivers; education; ems; environment; implementation; lack; management; nigeria; polytechnic; staff; table; universities; university cache: consilience-3883.pdf plain text: consilience-3883.txt item: #31 of 273 id: consilience-3887 author: Lempert, David title: Testing the Global Community’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Against Professional Standards and International Law date: 2017 words: 24793 flesch: 44 summary: While there are several SDG goals for “sustainable use” of resources, there are few goals focusing on pollution/toxins and the major concerns of the “brown environment”. 1 point, given the benefit of the doubt of SDG’s calling for social investments such as SDG 4 (Quality Education) and concerns for health in SDGs 3 and 6. keywords: agenda; approach; community; consilience; consumption; countries; cultures; development; development goals; elements; french; global; goals; growth; human; international; law; lempert; mdgs; measures; new; points; poverty; rights; sdgs; sustainability; term; treaties; u.n; world cache: consilience-3887.pdf plain text: consilience-3887.txt item: #32 of 273 id: consilience-3889 author: Sutton, Matt title: Discourses of the Alberta Oil Sands: What Key Stakeholders Really Think About Sustainability date: 2017 words: 6740 flesch: 46 summary: Alberta oil sands industry quarterly update. Keywords: sustainability, sustainable development, oil sands, stakeholders Consilience Sutton: Stakeholders and the Alberta Oil Sands I. Introduction The third largest oil reserve in the world after Saudi Arabia and Venezuela, the Alberta oil sands hold 170 out of Canada’s 173 billion barrels of oil reserves, 168 billion of which are recoverable from bitumen (Government of Alberta, 2016). keywords: alberta; development; government; industry; media; oil; oil sands; sands; stakeholders; sustainability; term cache: consilience-3889.pdf plain text: consilience-3889.txt item: #33 of 273 id: consilience-3890 author: Zambakari, Dr. Christopher title: Land Grab and Institutional Legacy of Colonialism: The Case of Sudan date: 2017 words: 3996 flesch: 51 summary: Land and Power: The growing scandal surrounding the new wave of investments in land. Land and Power: The growing scandal surrounding the new wave of investments in land. keywords: africa; communities; development; dispossession; land; south; state; sudan; zambakari cache: consilience-3890.pdf plain text: consilience-3890.txt item: #34 of 273 id: consilience-3892 author: Ghent, Carleigh title: Mitigating the Effects of Transport Infrastructure Development on Ecosystems date: 2018 words: 4229 flesch: 44 summary: Green infrastructure development at European Union’s eastern border: Effects of road infrastructure and forest habitat loss. mailto:ghentcc@miamioh.edu Consilience Ghent: Mitigating Transport Infrastructure Mitigating the effects of transport infrastructure development on ecosystems Infrastructure provides the basic framework for moving goods and providing services such as energy, housing, healthcare, and education—essential components for the economic and societal health of a nation (Skorobogatova & Kuzmina- Merlino, 2017). keywords: corridors; ecosystem; effects; et al; green; infrastructure; services; transport; wildlife cache: consilience-3892.pdf plain text: consilience-3892.txt item: #35 of 273 id: consilience-3893 author: Steele, Anna Lee title: Investigating the Global and Local in Wangchuck Centennial National Park: A Case for the Bhutanese Conservation Actors In-Between date: 2018 words: 5272 flesch: 50 summary: Abstract Bhutan is world famous for its approach to both environmental conservation and development, despite being classified as “least developed” by the World Bank as recently as 2016. As Bhutan continues to develop, it has increasingly encountered the colloquially known, but statistically unproven phenomena: that development standards and conservation goals are often in conflict with the needs of rural communities. keywords: actors; bhutan; bhutanese; civil; conservation; development; government; local; national; park; wcnp; world cache: consilience-3893.pdf plain text: consilience-3893.txt item: #36 of 273 id: consilience-3894 author: Zemskova, Kateryna; Belofsky, Nathan title: Bringing Earthbags to the People – A New, Democratic Approach to Sustainable Building date: 2018 words: 5522 flesch: 42 summary: For decades, official hostility to Earthbag technology has led to the rejection of building licenses and permits, resulting in a dearth of Earthbag structures worldwide. PP bags have a tensile strength higher than steel • Reinforcements: In Nepal and other regions with high seismic activity vertical rebars, buttresses and corner reinforcements are added to increase strength Outside of Nepal, Earthbag buildings have weathered all sorts of trauma, surviving various natural disasters that doomed structures built of brick, cement, wood, and other conventional materials. keywords: building; cement; consilience; construction; earth nepal; earthbag; earthbag building; earthbag technology; earthquake; figure; good; materials; nepal; structures; technology; training cache: consilience-3894.pdf plain text: consilience-3894.txt item: #37 of 273 id: consilience-3895 author: Fan, Kevin; Greco, Jamie title: Accelerating Geothermal Development in Indonesia: A Case Study in the Underutilization of Geothermal Energy date: 2018 words: 9335 flesch: 39 summary: However, significant roadblocks impede geothermal development in Indonesia, primarily in the geoscientific, financial, and political spheres. Financial issues also deter investment in geothermal development by private companies due to the high up-front cost of preliminary resource exploration. keywords: change; climate; consilience; country; data; development; electricity; energy; exploration; flow; geothermal; government; heat; indonesia; law; ministry; new; power; resources; world cache: consilience-3895.pdf plain text: consilience-3895.txt item: #38 of 273 id: consilience-3896 author: Espina, Nicasio B title: Planning for Climate Resilient Barangays in the Philippines: The Case of Barangay Tumana in Marikina City, Metro Manila date: 2018 words: 6182 flesch: 51 summary: Consilience: The Journal of Sustainable Development Vol. 19, Iss. 1 (2018), Pp. 130–162 Planning for Climate Resilient Barangays in the Philippines: The Case of Barangay Tumana in Marikina City, Metro Manila Nicasio B. Espina, Jr* Mr. Nick Espina is an Architect, Urban Planner and a Senior Lecturer from the University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU) Faculty of Management and Development Studies and the University of the Philippines – Diliman (UPD) School of Urban and Regional Planning. This paper presents the case of Barangay Tumana in Marikina City, Philippines, the second most populated barangay in the city and the most devastated when Typhoon Ondoy (international name: Ketsana) hit the country in 2009. keywords: barangay; capacity; change; city; climate; consilience; espina; high; marikina; population; resilience; risk; tumana cache: consilience-3896.pdf plain text: consilience-3896.txt item: #39 of 273 id: consilience-3897 author: Fontecha-Tirado, Maria M title: Building Trust and Collaborating with Others: Challenges For A Sustainable Peace in Caquetá, Colombia date: 2018 words: 6948 flesch: 51 summary: Its mission is to build new skills and share knowledge within local communities in order to strengthen governance and participation. Implementation requires unprecedented levels of participation and consultation with local communities, as decisions over economic, environmental, and social development will have to originate from the bottom up. keywords: acción; agreement; building; capacity; caquetá; colombia; communities; community; conflict; consilience; development; farc; fondo; participants; peace; program cache: consilience-3897.pdf plain text: consilience-3897.txt item: #40 of 273 id: consilience-3902 author: Booth, Laura title: Identifying Conservation Strategies for Group-Spawning Coral Reef Fish in the Indo-Pacific, Using a Case Study of a Protogynous Giant Wrasse date: 2017 words: 4805 flesch: 45 summary: In Papua New Guinea, access to the fish is gendered— women are not permitted to consume it—and it has had a role in defining gender roles in Guam, where spearing a humphead wrasse was once a rite of passing into manhood (Sadovy et al. 2004). Group spawning and, more generally, spawning aggregations, are interesting phenomena worthy of scientific inquiry for a variety of reasons. keywords: conservation; domeier; et al; fish; group; sadovy; sadovy et; spawning; species; wrasse cache: consilience-3902.pdf plain text: consilience-3902.txt item: #41 of 273 id: consilience-3904 author: El-Kamel Bakari, Mohamed title: Mapping the ‘Anthropocentric-Ecocentric’ Dualism in the History of American Presidency: the Good, the Bad, and the Ambivalent date: 2017 words: 13019 flesch: 41 summary: Describing the side effects of the Reaganomics’ wave of deregulation, Michael E. Kraft and Norman J. Vig wrote: Budget cuts and loss of capacity in environmental institutions took a serious toll during the 1980s, […] the determined efforts of a popular president (namely Ronald Reagan) could not halt the advance of environmental policy. Further unveiling Obama’s ‘anthropocentrism’ was his huge focus on economic and national security benefits as independent benefits, instead of as associated with environmental policies, when using the presidential bully pulpit. keywords: administration; american; anthropocentrism; concept; conservation; consilience; development; ecocentrism; environmental; growth; human; nature; new; obama; policies; president; press; reagan; roosevelt; sustainability; theodore cache: consilience-3904.pdf plain text: consilience-3904.txt item: #42 of 273 id: consilience-3905 author: Sivakumaran, Nikita title: Note from the Editor-in-Chief date: 2016 words: 279 flesch: 33 summary: Our mission remains to promote dialogue and understanding of issues in sustainable development that affect not only individual communities, but the greater collective well-being of our planet. If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact us at contact@consiliencejournal.org. keywords: development cache: consilience-3905.pdf plain text: consilience-3905.txt item: #43 of 273 id: consilience-3906 author: Ojonimi Onoja, Anthony; Ogali, T. U. title: Economic Survey of Oil Palm Products’ Processing and Marketing in Kogi State, Nigeria date: 2015 words: 3727 flesch: 60 summary: Keywords: Oil palm, gross margin, oil palm processing and marketing. Majority of the farmers obtained their Fresh Fruit Bunches for processing from the village or open market (50%); oil palm processing and marketing is profitable business in the area with a gross margin of N603,320.00K (USD 4,695.10) and gross margin ratio of 2.72 from an average enterprise; problems identified in the enterprises included fluctuating prices, lack of basic infrastructure and inputs such as capital and processing machines. keywords: agricultural; kogi; marketing; nigeria; oil; palm; processing; products; state; study cache: consilience-3906.pdf plain text: consilience-3906.txt item: #44 of 273 id: consilience-3907 author: Sing, Alexandra title: Note from the Editor-in-Chief date: 2013 words: 425 flesch: 36 summary: Our mission remains to promote dialogue and understanding of issues in sustainable development that affect not only individual communities, but the greater collective well- being of our planet. Dear Readers, It is my great pleasure to announce the official publication of our 10th Issue. keywords: development; issue cache: consilience-3907.pdf plain text: consilience-3907.txt item: #45 of 273 id: consilience-3908 author: Sivakumaran, Nikita title: Note from the Editor-in-Chief date: 2016 words: 658 flesch: 38 summary: Finally, the articles in this issue’s Field Notes deliver primary data for issues of pastoral livelihoods and the economic and environmental impacts of private conservation efforts. Microsoft Word - Editor's Note.docx Dear readers, It is my great pleasure to announce the official publication of Issue XV of Consilience: The Journal of Sustainable Development. keywords: articles; development; issue cache: consilience-3908.pdf plain text: consilience-3908.txt item: #46 of 273 id: consilience-3909 author: Goh, Jia Chen Judy title: Carbon Accounting in Local-Scale Land Use and Land Cover Change date: 2017 words: 7489 flesch: 59 summary: The relationship between carbon ecosystem services and LULCC at the local scale has been understudied due to complex urban dynamics; ‘urbanisation’ in the literature is defined as an expansion of both urban populations and areas (Heilig, 2012). N um be r o f T re es Tree Species Number of Trees Carbon Consilience Goh: Carbon Accounting and LULCC Discussion Baseline values on carbon ecosystem services The modelled results from i-Tree Eco on Punggol Forest’s structure, composition and carbon services are specific to this case study and thus must not be extrapolated to characterize deforestation in Singapore in other historical and spatial contexts. keywords: carbon; change; consilience; cover; eco; ecosystem; forest; land; lulcc; punggol; sequestration; services; species; tree; urban cache: consilience-3909.pdf plain text: consilience-3909.txt item: #47 of 273 id: consilience-3911 author: Booth, Laura; Breen, Catherine; Gullickson, Cricket title: Variations in Elephant (Loxodanta africana) Diet Along a Rainfall Gradient: The Effect of Latitude, Grass Reserves, and Proximity to Water date: 2015 words: 2452 flesch: 60 summary: We used elephant dung as a means to analyze the woody content of elephant diet. In this study, we sought to identify the factors that predict woody percentage of elephant diet along a rainfall gradient at the Mpala Research Centre in central Kenya. keywords: diet; elephant; grass; rainfall; site; woody cache: consilience-3911.pdf plain text: consilience-3911.txt item: #48 of 273 id: consilience-3912 author: Jhansi, Dr. Seetharam Chittoor; Mishra, Dr. Santosh Kumar title: Emerging Technology in Urban Areas of Developing Countries for Sustainable Wastewater Treatment and Reuse date: 2013 words: 5447 flesch: 43 summary: This paper will discuss sustainable wastewater treatment systems including: a) Lagoons/wetlands, b) USAB (anaerobic digesters), and c) SAT technologies. Urban wastewater treatment has received less attention compared to ‘water supply & treatment.’ keywords: areas; consilience; countries; groundwater; management; population; processes; reuse; sanitation; systems; technology; treatment; wastewater; wastewater treatment cache: consilience-3912.pdf plain text: consilience-3912.txt item: #49 of 273 id: consilience-3915 author: Jayawardhan, Shweta title: Vulnerability and Climate Change Induced Human Displacement date: 2017 words: 15678 flesch: 45 summary: Furthermore, some scholars suggest that climate change can exacerbate pre-existing violence and tensions in climate vulnerable countries because it puts a strain on resources. A significant consequence of the effects of climate change is human displacement due to climate effects such as hurricanes, sea level rise, and drought. keywords: adaptation; bangladesh; climate change; consilience; countries; cyclone; displacement; drought; edps; environmental; human; hurricane; international; katrina; law; migration; new; people; population; protection; u.s; vulnerability cache: consilience-3915.pdf plain text: consilience-3915.txt item: #50 of 273 id: consilience-3916 author: Burr, Andrea title: Wild Bees in the City: Reimagining Urban Spaces for Pollinator Health date: 2016 words: 7622 flesch: 53 summary: Ecology of urban bees: a review of current knowledge and directions for future study. Examples of native planting spaces to support pollinator health in St. Louis urban community gardens. keywords: bee; bees; city; community; conservation; consilience; health; land; louis; native; research; spaces; urban; use cache: consilience-3916.pdf plain text: consilience-3916.txt item: #51 of 273 id: consilience-3917 author: Bernard, Miranda; Booth, Laura; Kielar, Abraham title: The Effects of Mega-Herbivore Extinctions on Seed Dispersal and Community Structure in An East African Savanna date: 2015 words: 4196 flesch: 55 summary: Extinction of large mammalian herbivore species that selectively consume seeds and fruits may reduce the overall abundance of fleshy-fruited plant species by limiting the dispersal of seeds and, in turn, lowering rates of recruitment and establishment (Pringle et al. 2014, Janzen et al. 1984). To assess the effects of large herbivore exclosure treatments on plant abundance, we sampled three blocks (three types of herbivore exclosure treatment and one control each) in the UHURU sites, yielding three replicates for each treatment and for the control. keywords: abundance; effects; exclusion; herbivore; species; stricta cache: consilience-3917.pdf plain text: consilience-3917.txt item: #52 of 273 id: consilience-3918 author: Oyinbo, Oyakhilomen; Zakari, Abdulsalam; Rekwot, Grace Zibah title: Agricultural Budgetary Allocation and Economic Growth in Nigeria: Implications for Agricultural Transformation in Nigeria date: 2013 words: 3901 flesch: 42 summary: Review of Empirical Studies on Government Expenditure and Economic Growth Several cross-country (Ghura, 1995., Devarajan et al., 1996., Guseh, 1997., Kelly, 1997., Alexious, 2009) and country-specific (Knoop, 1999., Alexiou, 2007, Irmen and Kuehnel, 2008., Hussain, 2011, Dandan, 2011) studies have been carried out across the globe to examine the relationship between government expenditure 18 Consilience and economic growth, but their data periods, methodologies and findings differ from some studies indicating that government expenditure has a negative impact on economic growth and others positing that government expenditure has a positive impact on economic growth. Abstract The objective of this paper is to investigate the link between agricultural budgetary allocation and economic growth in Nigeria from an econometric perspective. keywords: agriculture; economics; expenditure; government; growth; nigeria; relationship; term; variables cache: consilience-3918.pdf plain text: consilience-3918.txt item: #53 of 273 id: consilience-3919 author: Ahmed, Zahra; Booth, Laura; Njagi, Loise; Stephanou, Elleni title: The Warrior’s Dilemma: Can Maasai Culture Persist in a Changing World? date: 2015 words: 4237 flesch: 44 summary: When Maasai communities shift from group ownership of land to private ownership of subdivided plots, new owners often erect fences to denote their property. Maasai culture and its accompanying traditions compose one of the most well-studied anthropological systems in the world. keywords: challenges; change; conservation; culture; kenya; land; maasai; pastoralism; traditions; wildlife cache: consilience-3919.pdf plain text: consilience-3919.txt item: #54 of 273 id: consilience-3920 author: Oyedepo, Joseph title: Performance Analysis of Off-Street Parking around the Central Business District of Akure Southwest Nigeria date: 2016 words: 3486 flesch: 44 summary: They also recommended the use of benefit districts, where parking areas are shared within neighbourhoods, not only for maximizing the use of parking, but also in improving the efficiency of land use. On-street parking constitutes one major problem that makes the traffic situation chaotic in Nigerian cities. keywords: akure; development; nigeria; parking; street; traffic; transportation; urban; use cache: consilience-3920.pdf plain text: consilience-3920.txt item: #55 of 273 id: consilience-3921 author: Hounshell, Tyler title: Disaggregated cost-benefit analysis incorporating ecosystem services and disservices: A case from SAI Sanctuary date: 2016 words: 7011 flesch: 47 summary: SAI Sanctuary, as an ecosystem, provides services in the surrounding areas for various stakeholders; however, the impact of ecosystem services from privately protected areas has not been thoroughly evaluated even though many cost-benefit analyses and ecosystem valuations have been conducted on federally protected areas. Opportunity costs were also included in the CBA because the Hounshell: Ecosystem services and disservices Consilience owners could convert SAI Sanctuary and its remnant forests to coffee-agroforests like the majority of other households in the surrounding area. keywords: areas; benefits; biodiversity; carbon; conservation; costs; damages; ecosystem; sai; sanctuary; services; stakeholders; wildlife cache: consilience-3921.pdf plain text: consilience-3921.txt item: #56 of 273 id: consilience-3922 author: Mathende, Takudzwa Leonard; Nhapi, Tatenda Goodman title: Business and Society: Determinants and Experiences of Corporate Social Responsibility Practices in Zimbabwean Extractive Industries from 2000-2015 date: 2017 words: 7522 flesch: 38 summary: Firstly, CSR literature development has been well advanced in Global North (Weber 2001: 251). It will further examine at least two communities in which each sector/company is implementing CSR programs. keywords: africa; business; chiadzwa; communities; community; companies; company; consilience; country; csr; development; environmental; government; mining; poverty; responsibility; sector; social; zimbabwe cache: consilience-3922.pdf plain text: consilience-3922.txt item: #57 of 273 id: consilience-3923 author: Winters, Olivia Jane title: The Botswana Bushmen’s Fight for Water & Land Rights in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve date: 2015 words: 6764 flesch: 55 summary: In recent years, due to claims from the Botswana government that the Bushmen needed to ‘develop’, extreme efforts have been made to force the Bushmen from the reserve originally allotted to them in the 1960s. The Bushmen in particular are an incredible example of the endurance of mankind in the most trying of environments. keywords: botswana; bushmen; ckgr; cook; development; gob; government; human; land; reserve; rights; sarkin; water cache: consilience-3923.pdf plain text: consilience-3923.txt item: #58 of 273 id: consilience-3924 author: Abate, Teshome title: Indigenous Ecological Knowledge and Pastoralist Perception on Rangeland Management and Degradation in Guji Zone of South Ethiopia date: 2016 words: 10222 flesch: 47 summary: Possible cause of rangeland degradation in Guji zone of south Ethiopia (n=211) Causes Wadera % Gorodola % Liban % Mean % Recurrent drought 47.3[1] 36.7[1] 35.0[3] 40.8[1] Shift to crop land 23.1[2] 56.7[3] 41.7[1] 37.9[3] Overgrazing 26.4[4] 46.7[6] 36.7[5] 12.8[4] Settlement 23.0[6] 30.0[4] 46.7[2] 12.8[6] Population pressure 25.3[3] 48.3[2] 53.3[4] 22.3[2] Bush encroachment 38.5[5] 56.7[5] 41.7[6] 34.1[5] Lack of burning 23.1[7] 36.7[7] 45.0[8] 19.0[8] Poor soil status 3.3[8] 16.7[8] 46.7[7] 17.1[7] Limited knowledge of rangeland management 14.3[9] 68.3[9] 43.3[9] 37.9[9] Reduced livestock mobility 6.6[10] 13.3[10] 10[10] 9.5[10] Number in bracket shows ranking order Table 9. Possible impact of rangeland degradation in Guji zone of south Ethiopia (n=211) Impact of land degradation Wadera % Gorodola % Liban % Mean % Poor livestock output and holding 88 81.7 100.0 93.4 Soil deterioration 88 91.7 95.0 94.8 Decline of biodiversity 82 80.0 81.7 84.8 Deforestation 87.9 100.0 75.0 82.9 Increase income diversification (Petty trade, sale of charcoal an fire wood 96.7 81.7 83.3 88.6 Introduce and use of camel 82.0 80.0 76.7 80. keywords: borana; bush; communities; degradation; ethiopia; grazing; guji; knowledge; livestock; management; oba; pastoralists; rangeland; respondents; study; system; use; zone cache: consilience-3924.pdf plain text: consilience-3924.txt item: #59 of 273 id: consilience-3925 author: Chang, Hubert; Morgan, Ryan; Aziz, Umed; Herfellner, Simon; Ho, Kenneth title: Performance of Low-Quality Concrete as Recycled Aggregate date: 2013 words: 4433 flesch: 53 summary: Another noteworthy phenomenon is the indication that tensile strength of RCA concrete suffers more detrimental effects than compressive strength. Whereas most of the compression test specimens surpassed 4000 psi in compression and were comparable to the control sample, none of the tensile tests reached the threshold of virgin aggregate concrete strengths. keywords: aggregate; cement; concrete; mixing; quality; ratio; rca; strength; tensile; water cache: consilience-3925.pdf plain text: consilience-3925.txt item: #60 of 273 id: consilience-3926 author: Roy, Sayan title: A Critique on Current Paradigms of Economic ‘Growth’ and ‘Development’ in the Context of Environment and Sustainability Issues date: 2016 words: 6480 flesch: 37 summary: Unfortunately, or rather predictably, this has not been the case with many nations who have instituted economic reforms focused on industrial and manufacturing based economic growth over the past two-three decades. It also attempts to understand and analyse the performance of the economic tools and frameworks that are implemented to steer the nation towards economic growth. keywords: capital; climate; consilience; development; economy; growth; india; institutions; issues; market; nations; paper; state cache: consilience-3926.pdf plain text: consilience-3926.txt item: #61 of 273 id: consilience-3928 author: Al-Sabah, Meshaal Jaber Al-Ahmad; Palliam, Ralph title: Sustaining Investment in Innovation in Oil Rich Gulf Countries Amidst Falling Oil Prices date: 2017 words: 7551 flesch: 38 summary: An investment in market-driven innovation and sustainable development innovation should ideally consider the exogenous future generation’s economic, social and environmental pressures. The first issue, product innovation, involves a good or service that is new or significantly improved. keywords: capita; consilience; countries; curse; development; economic; economy; gdp; governance; government; growth; gulf; innovation; investment; oil; resource cache: consilience-3928.pdf plain text: consilience-3928.txt item: #62 of 273 id: consilience-3929 author: Evans, Will title: Doing Better Than Divestment date: 2015 words: 8587 flesch: 48 summary: The rest of this paper argues why student divestment campaigns should recontextualize their arguments as part of a broader conversation on SRI. The movement has since galvanized campus support around the objective of convincing colleges and universities to cleanse their endowments of fossil fuel investments. keywords: campaign; change; climate; coal; consilience; divestment; energy; evans; fossil; fuel; industry; reinvestment; september; students; u.va; university cache: consilience-3929.pdf plain text: consilience-3929.txt item: #63 of 273 id: consilience-3930 author: Davis, Zachary Evan title: The Need for a New, Clear Option: An In-Depth Analysis of Nuclear Energy date: 2015 words: 13391 flesch: 48 summary: In addition, growing concerns over contaminated wildlife caught along the American west coast and rising rates of thyroid cancer on both sides of the Pacific Ocean have led to an increased global awareness of the effects that nuclear power plants can have on regions remote from them. The construction costs associated with nuclear power plants increased worldwide after the Fukushima accident, driven by the public’s demand for additional safety measures (Hayashi and Hughes, 2013). keywords: adoption; area; benefits; consilience; costs; davis; electricity; energy; fukushima; industry; japan; need; nuclear; option; plant; power; production; public; world; years cache: consilience-3930.pdf plain text: consilience-3930.txt item: #64 of 273 id: consilience-3931 author: Williams, Jonah M. title: The Convoluted Nature of the African Ivory Trade: Possible Solutions for Curbing the Destructive Nature of Poaching and Promoting Elephant Conservation date: 2016 words: 4339 flesch: 47 summary: The international conservation organizations, however, failed to recognize the voice of the Sub-Saharan African nations who, for the most part, argued for legal ivory trade as a mechanism to generate revenue for conservation efforts which would support parks and their anti-poaching campaigns. Keywords: African elephant, conservation biology, ivory trade, post-imperialism, westernized conservation, Community Based Natural Resource Management Consilience 182 Author’s Note As a student and scholar, I am personally very interested in ecological and geographical issues revolving around the conservation of diverse flora and fauna. keywords: african; conservation; elephant; ivory; ivory trade; nations; poaching; trade; world cache: consilience-3931.pdf plain text: consilience-3931.txt item: #65 of 273 id: consilience-3932 author: Williams, Jonah title: A Systematic Evaluation of Environmental Discrimination with Sustainability Initiatives in India date: 2016 words: 3434 flesch: 39 summary: Keywords: environmental discrimination, South Asia, India, environmental sustainability, equal access, Community Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) Consilience Williams: Sustainability Initiatives in India Author’s Note: In India, the issue of disproportionate access to environmental sustainability has become an extreme problem. keywords: communities; conservation; energy; india; initiatives; new; pollution; programs; sustainability cache: consilience-3932.pdf plain text: consilience-3932.txt item: #66 of 273 id: consilience-3933 author: El-Kamel Bakari, Mohamed title: Sustainability and Contemporary Man-Nature Divide: Aspects of Conflict and Alienation date: 2015 words: 9652 flesch: 37 summary: Keywords: Sustainability, sustainable development, consumerism, man- nature divide, alienation, ecologism. Introduction Engendering a radically different vision of development, nature, and society, sustainable development emerged as a real challenge to the current socio-economic paradigm of growth based mainly on neoliberal capitalism. keywords: capitalism; consumption; contemporary; development; divide; environment; global; globalization; growth; man; nature; nature divide; new; society; sustainability cache: consilience-3933.pdf plain text: consilience-3933.txt item: #67 of 273 id: consilience-3935 author: Schipani, Samantha title: Green Talk: Comparing the Discourse on Climate Change and Sustainable Development between Environmental NGOs and the State in Vietnam and Bolivia date: 2015 words: 7012 flesch: 33 summary: The specific limitations of the research included language barriers and discrepancies in translation, particularly in Vietnam; inability to speak candidly with government employees about their perceptions of state environmental discourse in relation to ENGOs; and a relatively non-random sample of ENGOs, all of which were selected to present for the IHP Climate Change program this semester. Such differences could also speak to the legacies of civil society in the two nations, or the ways in which the government is handling climate change and sustainable development issues specifically. keywords: bolivia; change; climate; climate change; development; discourse; engos; government; issues; society; state; vietnam cache: consilience-3935.pdf plain text: consilience-3935.txt item: #68 of 273 id: consilience-3936 author: Ging-Dwan Boyd, Ginger title: The Girl Effect: A Neoliberal Instrumentalization of Gender Equality date: 2016 words: 13360 flesch: 46 summary: 15 The Economic Opportunities and Obstacles for Women and Girls in Northern Nigeria report (Taylor et al. 2014) was meant to provide an “evidence base on economic participation of women and adolescent girls in Northern Nigeria including an analysis of the socio cultural and economic constraints adolescent girls face and an understanding of how these shape and constrain the livelihood and economic opportunities of adolescent girls” (2014 ,10) Commissioned by DFID, it aimed to “…use the research to inform and to complement the gender analysis and pilot interventions being undertaken elsewhere in DFID Northern Nigeria, especially in relation to programmes such as the Growth and Employment in States (GEMS) Programme and PropCom Mai-karfi, a rural market development programme focused on northern Nigeria, and upcoming income generation projects. Adolescent girls economic opportunities study in Rwanda (Calder et al. 2013), Economic Opportunities and Obstacles for Women and Girls in Northern Nigeria (Taylor et al. 2014) and Girls and Income Growth in Ethiopia (Gable 2013) 13 illuminate the broader enabling environment. keywords: april; bank; capital; consilience; development; economic; education; effect; employment; empowerment; equality; ethiopia; foundation; gender; gender equality; girl; girl effect; girl hub; global; growth; hub; human; international; market; nike; opportunities; poverty; report; rwanda; women; world cache: consilience-3936.pdf plain text: consilience-3936.txt item: #69 of 273 id: consilience-3937 author: Butler, Lauren title: Dance and Mixed-Media Performance for Building Scientific Understanding and Environmental Respect date: 2018 words: 6068 flesch: 54 summary: Art about science Further proposed by Ede (2005) is that art cannot be directly about science. Art can be inspired by science, but few recognize that art has something to offer science, and even fewer practice it. keywords: art; artists; audience; change; dance; development; interactions; science; scientific; scientists; work cache: consilience-3937.pdf plain text: consilience-3937.txt item: #70 of 273 id: consilience-3938 author: Overbeek, Ashley title: Examining the Efficacy of Fair Trade Eco-Labeling on Environmental Sustainability and Human Rights in Developing Countries date: 2015 words: 5431 flesch: 41 summary: Inherently, alternative consumption subscribes to neo- liberal systems and capitalistic culture, yet given we all must consume and alternative consumption captures a large audience and corporations with considerable purchasing power, Fair Trade certification and alternative consumption may be an effective means of consumptive change within the system. 7. Conclusion The most difficult aspect surrounding the efficacy of Fair Trade certification on environmental sustainability and human rights in developing countries is the variability between different countries, sizes and locations of farming co-operatives, and the crops being produced. keywords: alternative; certification; coffee; consumers; consumption; countries; efficacy; global; market; north; producers; trade cache: consilience-3938.pdf plain text: consilience-3938.txt item: #71 of 273 id: consilience-3939 author: Menz, Alyssa title: A Means to Alleviate the Bushmeat Crisis? The Feasibility of Establishing Sustainable Grasscutter Farms in Kenya date: 2015 words: 9291 flesch: 48 summary: I performed an extensive literature review and consulted with grasscutter and sustainable livestock farm experts located in sub-Saharan Africa to determine physical and socio-political geographic factors most likely to constrain the development of sustainable grasscutter farms in Kenya, before using ArcGIS to map these criteria and a weighted overlay analysis to identify potentially favorable locations for establishing future farms. Before sustainable grasscutter farms can be implemented in Kenya, however, a strategic analysis of the efficacy of such a project is required. keywords: africa; areas; bushmeat; consilience; crisis; data; et al; farms; figure; food; grasscutter; grasscutter farms; kenya; livestock; locations; means; menz cache: consilience-3939.pdf plain text: consilience-3939.txt item: #72 of 273 id: consilience-3940 author: Tyler, Jenna title: Sustainable Hazard Mitigation: Exploring the Importance of Green Infrastructure in Building Disaster Resilient Communities date: 2016 words: 3779 flesch: 39 summary: In light of the devastation caused by these events and others, there is a need for communities to adopt sustainable hazard mitigation measures to build disaster resilient communities. Recommendations Implementing sustainable hazard mitigation measures presents significant challenges to the public sector. keywords: communities; disaster; environment; green; hazard; hazard mitigation; infrastructure; measures; mitigation; water cache: consilience-3940.pdf plain text: consilience-3940.txt item: #73 of 273 id: consilience-3941 author: Dale, Lisa; Held, Jonathan; Ratte, Stephanie; Zaman, Farrukh title: Anticipate, Absorb, Reshape (A2R): A Baseline Study of Climate Resilience in Developing Countries date: 2018 words: 7381 flesch: 37 summary: Climate risk insurance is broadly divisible into direct and indirect insurance. Climate risk insurance for the poor: Success factors and enabling conditions for “InsuResilience” - the Initiative on Climate Risk Insurance. keywords: a2r; action; climate; countries; data; development; disaster; hfa; indicator; insurance; national; report; resilience; risk; systems; warning; yes cache: consilience-3941.pdf plain text: consilience-3941.txt item: #74 of 273 id: consilience-3942 author: Mbaga, Msafiri Daudi title: The Prospects of Sustainable Desert Agriculture to Improve Food Security in Oman date: 2015 words: 4934 flesch: 53 summary: Dates have been growing in Oman desert oasis for many years and therefore can be said to be very well adapted to arid weather conditions. Perrier and Salkini (1991) defined water harvesting as a water- management technique for growing crops in arid (desert) and semi-arid areas where rainfall is inadequate for rainfed production and where irrigation water is lacking. keywords: agriculture; consilience; countries; desert; food; land; mbaga; oman; production; technology; water cache: consilience-3942.pdf plain text: consilience-3942.txt item: #75 of 273 id: consilience-3943 author: Puaschunder, Julia title: On the Emergence, Current State, and Future Perspectives of Socially Responsible Investment date: 2016 words: 9873 flesch: 34 summary: Analyzing financial social considerations on a global scale through a prism of legal setting and institutional customs will help in finding mutually shared contents of financial social investment. Financial social responsibility attributes the consideration of CSR in investment decisions (Puaschunder, 2010). keywords: conduct; conscientiousness; consilience; crisis; development; economic; finance; financial; funds; future; global; governance; investment; investors; market; new; practices; puaschunder; responsibility; sri; trends; world cache: consilience-3943.pdf plain text: consilience-3943.txt item: #76 of 273 id: consilience-3944 author: Carty, Monica title: The Role of Training Programs in the Sustainability of Potable Water Projects date: 2015 words: 18611 flesch: 58 summary: The evolution of community water governance in Uchira, Tanzania: The implications for equality of access, sustainability and effectiveness. This is best exemplified by an excerpt from one of the survey responses: With respect to water committee trainings, we can gauge how much water committee members have learned by observing if they are able to manage finances, keep accurate records, and follow their constitutions. keywords: carty; community; consilience; figure; instances; knowledge; m m; management; members; ngo; overlaps; people; programs; relationship; responses; role; senegal; survey; sustainability; themes; training; training programs; water cache: consilience-3944.pdf plain text: consilience-3944.txt item: #77 of 273 id: consilience-3945 author: Cantor, Tal; Hadziosmanovic, Maida; Kim, Harriet; Marsh, Elizabeth; Secules, Chiara; Wright, Kirk; Zastavniouk, Carol title: A Technical and Behavioural Energy Efficiency Assessment of McGill Cafeteria Operations at Bishop Mountain Hall and Royal Victoria College date: 2015 words: 15364 flesch: 56 summary: Energy input is used as one of the parameters for determining appliance energy efficiency. 5.3.7 Energy Input versus Frequency of Use Analysis Figures and results of appliance energy input vs. frequency of use are shown in Appendix A: keywords: appliances; assessment; bmh; cafeteria; cantor; consilience; electricity; energy; energy efficiency; energy star; food; gas; input; mcgill; mcgill cafeteria; mcgill energy; project; rvc; savings; staff; steam; university; use cache: consilience-3945.pdf plain text: consilience-3945.txt item: #78 of 273 id: consilience-3946 author: Kelbaugh, Douglas title: The Environmental Paradox of the City, Landscape, Urbanism, and New Urbanism date: 2015 words: 6232 flesch: 48 summary: NUist principles are based on millennia of city design, updated and methodically refined over 25 years of frequent conferences, writings, debates, and built projects. Any visitor to or resident of these cities can attest to the many ways that the merits of these and other cities compensate for their intrusion into local ecological systems. keywords: cities; city; consilience; design; diversity; kelbaugh; l l; landscape; landscape urbanism; like; new; species; urbanism cache: consilience-3946.pdf plain text: consilience-3946.txt item: #79 of 273 id: consilience-3947 author: Elivo, Ryan title: Note from the Editor-in-Chief date: 2015 words: 758 flesch: 35 summary: Issue 13 features a variety of topics spanning myriad subjects and geographical regions, all unified around three questions that have implications for the future of sustainable development: (1) How have the economic and technocratic rationalities that have thus far defined development changed, and how must they continue changing to reflect the realities of our world? As always, we welcome all feedback and hope that our work inspires you to engage with issues trending across the discipline of sustainable development. keywords: chief; development; editor cache: consilience-3947.pdf plain text: consilience-3947.txt item: #80 of 273 id: consilience-4091 author: Shumba, Dorcas title: Risk, Resilience, and Sustainability: How Governance in Zimbabwe Countervails this Nexus date: 2017 words: 9891 flesch: 50 summary: Table 1: Zimbabwe Governance and Sustainable Development Indicators and Ranking Concept (attribute) Variables Indicators of Variable Zimbabwe Global Ranking Governance Corruption Freedom Corruption Perception Index as given by Transparency International 2013 Human Freedom Index as given by the CATO 150/168 countries 149/152 countries 25 Ribot (2009). To demonstrate this premise using Zimbabwe as a case study, the paper draws on the trajectory of crisis from independence till the present day highlighting how issues of governance have played a big role towards heightening situations of risk, decreasing the resilience of the people, subsequently stalling sustainability. keywords: africa; consilience; country; development; economic; economy; environment; good; governance; government; growth; health; independence; land; people; resilience; risk; sustainability; zimbabwe cache: consilience-4091.pdf plain text: consilience-4091.txt item: #81 of 273 id: consilience-4092 author: Lempert, David Howard; Nguyen, Hue Nhu title: Accounting for Threats to Sustainable Development: An Indicator for Holding NGOs and International Organizations Accountable to Creating the Context for Sustainable Development date: 2017 words: 10373 flesch: 33 summary: In the next sub-section, we begin to generate a list of these new risks to sustainable development before considering how to incorporate them into global disaster risk management systems that can offer the “insurance” to protect resources of countries and communities so that they may then move to plan for sustainable development. Theoretical Context Expanding and strengthening the approach to sustainable development by communities and countries and development agencies requires placing the concepts of disaster risk management and systems for supporting disaster risk management functions within the context of sustainable development and within the context of government functions. keywords: countries; cultures; development; disaster; disaster risk; human; lempert; management; nguyen; points; resources; risk; sustainability; system; threats cache: consilience-4092.pdf plain text: consilience-4092.txt item: #82 of 273 id: consilience-4093 author: Harjanne, Atte; Rajakangas-Tolsa, Johanna; Häyhtiö, Markus title: Sustainable New Service Development – How to Use Wastage Data to Increase Efficiency and Effectiveness of Sustainable New Service Operations date: 2017 words: 9170 flesch: 49 summary: This figure includes preparation waste, service waste and plate waste. Several studies have shown that poorly managed sustainability requirements have a drastic effect on the development process and, most of all, on the end result of service development (Almefelt et al., 2006; Aurum and Wohlin, 2005; Barney and Aurum and Wohlin, 2008; Hull et al., 2011). keywords: 0,00; case; consilience; data; development; energy; figure; food; management; new; process; production; research; results; service; service development; snsd; study; vol; waste cache: consilience-4093.pdf plain text: consilience-4093.txt item: #83 of 273 id: consilience-4094 author: Cachelin, Adrienne; Schott, Willem title: Promotion vs. Education in Choosing “Real Food” date: 2017 words: 3727 flesch: 45 summary: To address this question, we collected data regarding the factors that motivate student food choice, and students’ perceived self-effiacacy toward systemic change. Given the Consilience 186 increasing interest in Real Food on college campuses, and the importance of student food choice in the food movement overall, this data may have a significant impact on the Real Food Movement and beyond. keywords: behavior; choice; education; factors; food; marketing; participants; students; sustainability cache: consilience-4094.pdf plain text: consilience-4094.txt item: #84 of 273 id: consilience-4095 author: Porter, John R; Howden, Mark; Stokholm, Michaela Schiller; Smith, Pete title: Recasting Economics As If the Climate and Global Ecology Really Mattered date: 2017 words: 4625 flesch: 47 summary: Of course this would require development of effective, unbiased, transparent and cheap monitoring and evaluation systems, as well as a way to deal with changes in carbon stocks that are not under management and policy influence (e.g. wildfires or warming that reduces soil carbon or a pathogen that wipes out a species – like the Dutch elm disease). Keywords: climate change, carbon standard, global economy, global ecology, carbon stocks, carbon sequestration Consilience 222 Introduction Both economy and ecology share the same ancient Greek language root or prefix: ‘oikos’, which means house or home. keywords: carbon; change; climate; economics; emissions; energy; food; fossil; soil; stocks; system; value cache: consilience-4095.pdf plain text: consilience-4095.txt item: #85 of 273 id: consilience-4429 author: Martínez, Simón Uribe title: The Winding Ways of Development: A Historical Journey of a Road in the Putumayo Region of Colombia date: 2011 words: 2718 flesch: 50 summary: This is particularly true for natural resource-rich regions such as the Amazon, where the development of roads has been directly associated with rampant deforestation and resource extraction, uncontrolled colonization and dispossession of indigenous lands. In many places of the world, roads have a strong evocative power, as they represent spaces that materially and symbolically embody ideas such as „modernity,‟ „progress,‟ „backwardness‟ and „development.‟ Combining multi-sited ethnography and historical analysis, this photo essay attempts to document the past, present, and likely future of a road in Putumayo, a region of southwest Colombia that has been traditionally considered a marginal frontier, and which has also become internationally known for the production of cocaine and the violence that has come with it. keywords: author; capuchin; consilience; development; government; putumayo; region; road cache: consilience-4429.pdf plain text: consilience-4429.txt item: #86 of 273 id: consilience-4430 author: Rojas, Natali title: The Art of Development: Images Promoting Dialogue and Alternatives to Poverty and Violence in Local Communities of Colombia date: 2011 words: 1409 flesch: 39 summary: Consilience: The Journal of Sustainable Development Vol. 5, Iss. 1 (2011), Pp. 190-200 The Art of Development Images Promoting Dialogue and Alternatives to Poverty and Violence in Local Communities of Colombia Natali Rojas Development and International Cooperation-Faculty of Social Sciences University of Jyvaskyla, Finland natalirojas07@gmail.com Abstract Sueños Films Colombia is a grassroots organization based in Ciudad Bolivar, southern Bogotá-Colombia. 192 Consilience 2. Ciudad Bolivar’s audiovisual revolution Sueños Films Colombia is a grassroots organization that has led an audiovisual ‘revolution’ in Ciudad Bolivar, Bogotá for over ten years. keywords: bolivar; ciudad; colombia; community cache: consilience-4430.pdf plain text: consilience-4430.txt item: #87 of 273 id: consilience-4431 author: Stancioff, Charlotte Eloise title: An Exploration of Community Health date: 2011 words: 4730 flesch: 67 summary: To assess the accessibility of SUS health programs for remote populations, I lived in the Nova Suiça settlement, a part of the larger social movement, the Movimento Sem Terra (MST), or the Landless Workers Movement. In the Brazilian health system, the PSF is a relatively new development in community health. keywords: brazil; care; clinic; community; health; land; medicine; mst; psf; rosa; settlement; settlers cache: consilience-4431.pdf plain text: consilience-4431.txt item: #88 of 273 id: consilience-4432 author: Jue, Diana title: Development For Tibetans, But By Whom? date: 2011 words: 3354 flesch: 49 summary: The goal was to apply and transfer MIT students‟ engineering and scientific know-how to local Tibetan development workers so that projects can be carried out in the absence of OED members. It is in these gaps where organizations like One Earth Designs can play an important role by building the capacity of local Tibetan development workers and introducing new technologies that are co-created with local users. keywords: china; chinese; development; education; etp; program; qinghai; students; tibetans cache: consilience-4432.pdf plain text: consilience-4432.txt item: #89 of 273 id: consilience-4434 author: Moore, Frances C title: Toppling the Tripod: Sustainable Development, Constructive Ambiguity and the Environmental Challenge date: 2011 words: 4834 flesch: 45 summary: It is suggested that an emphasis on the shifting, contextualized and relative term ―needs‖ in the definition of sustainable development has led to paralysis at the international level in addressing environmental problems, particularly climate change. Abstract Discussions of global environmental governance seem to have gotten nowhere in the last thirty years despite environmental problems that continue to grow in scope and magnitude. keywords: ambiguity; capital; climate; conference; development; needs; problems; sustainability; years cache: consilience-4434.pdf plain text: consilience-4434.txt item: #90 of 273 id: consilience-4436 author: Ha, Mai-Lan title: The Role of Regional Institutions in Sustainable Development: A Review of the Mekong River Commission First 15 Years date: 2011 words: 6619 flesch: 43 summary: Public Participation in the Context of the MRC. Retrieved March 15, 2010, from Mekong River Commission: http://www.mrcmekong.org/download/programmes/Public_Participation _Mrc_context.pdf Mekong Water Resources Assistance Strategy: As development organizations, such as the ADB, promote public-private partnerships, private entities play an increasing role in determining development projects. keywords: basin; commission; development; mekong; mekong river; mrc; organization; projects; public; river; role; water cache: consilience-4436.pdf plain text: consilience-4436.txt item: #91 of 273 id: consilience-4454 author: Wilson, E. O. title: A Note to Consilience Readers date: 2008 words: 176 flesch: 42 summary: We find ourselves in the early steep climb of exponential change: per capita consumption of materials and energy; the demand for shrinking natural resources, most critical of which is fresh water; climate change with an impact on virtually every aspect of human welfare; the cost of war; and the destruction of ecosystems and species, which have hitherto sustained us scot free. A Note to Consilience Readers. keywords: consilience cache: consilience-4454.pdf plain text: consilience-4454.txt item: #92 of 273 id: consilience-4455 author: Board, Editorial title: Note from Editors date: 2008 words: 566 flesch: 45 summary: The diversity of methodologies employed parallels the variety of academic disciplines in which this inaugural issue is rooted. https://doi.org/10.7916/consilience.v0i1.4455 The concept of consilience, “the joining together of knowledge and information across disciplines to create a unified framework of understanding,” runs through each article. keywords: consilience; note cache: consilience-4455.pdf plain text: consilience-4455.txt item: #93 of 273 id: consilience-4456 author: Sanchez, Pedro; Palm, Cheryl; Sachs, Jeffrey; Denning, Glenn; Flor, Rafael; Harawa, Rebbie; Jama, Bashir; Kiflemariam, Tsegazeab; Konecky, Bronwen; Kozar, Raffaela; Lelerai, Eliud; Malik, Alia; Mutuo, Patrick; Niang, Amadou; Okoth, Herine; Place, Frank; Sachs, Sonia Erlich; Said, Amir; Siriri, David; Teklehaimanot, Awash; Wang, Karen; Wangila, Justine; Zamba, Colleen title: The African Millennium Villages date: 2008 words: 7718 flesch: 52 summary: UN Millennium Project, Investing in development. UN Millennium Project, Halving Hunger - it can be done. keywords: africa; crop; development; farmers; food; health; interventions; maize; malaria; millennium; mvp; poverty; project; sauri; scale; soil; villages; yields cache: consilience-4456.pdf plain text: consilience-4456.txt item: #94 of 273 id: consilience-4457 author: Chin, Curtis D. title: Biotechnology for Global Health: Solutions for the Developing World date: 2008 words: 5150 flesch: 44 summary: 5 Daar, A.S., et al., Top ten biotechnologies for improving health in developing countries. Daar, A.S., et al., Top ten biotechnologies for improving health in developing countries. keywords: biotechnology; chip; cost; countries; delivery; february; health; lab; microfluidic; vaccines; vol cache: consilience-4457.pdf plain text: consilience-4457.txt item: #95 of 273 id: consilience-4458 author: Holdway, Aaron title: Reducing Uncertainty: The Need to Clarify the Key Elements of the Precautionary Principle date: 2008 words: 6944 flesch: 46 summary: Precautionary principle, precautionary practice: Lessons and insights. Between precautionary principle and ‘sound science’: keywords: action; decision; environmental; international; level; making; policy; principle; risk; science cache: consilience-4458.pdf plain text: consilience-4458.txt item: #96 of 273 id: consilience-4459 author: Onda, Chikara title: The Effect of the Spatial Resolution of Conflict Data on the Analysis of Drought As a Local Determinant of Civil War Onset: Africa, 1980 – 2001 date: 2008 words: 4395 flesch: 51 summary: Looking at Figure 4, it is apparent that the difference in conflict data resolution has some effect on the outcome of the logistic regression analysis, though the nature of this effect remains unclear. Thus, this study aims to explore the effect a change in the spatial level of resolution of conflict data has on our ability to analyze geographic determinants of war outbreak. keywords: analysis; conflict; data; outbreak; resolution; study; war cache: consilience-4459.pdf plain text: consilience-4459.txt item: #97 of 273 id: consilience-4461 author: Pinkovskiy, Maxim L. title: Growth, Productivity, and Policy Instruments During the Lost Decade: A Replication of Beason and Weinstein (1996) for the Period 1992-1998 date: 2008 words: 5136 flesch: 46 summary: Overall, the data is much more consistent with a theory of Japanese industrial policy as a product of political economy than industrial policy as a response to growth and productivity. Beason and Weinstein (1996) argue that such a view of Japanese industrial policy is mistaken; in particular, that 1) there is, if any, a negative association between Japanese sectoral productivity growth and the amount of targeting a sector receives, and 2) application of industrial policy tools is heavily skewed to politically influential sectors. keywords: beason; growth; policy; productivity; sectors; tax; weinstein cache: consilience-4461.pdf plain text: consilience-4461.txt item: #98 of 273 id: consilience-4462 author: Ruben-Samala, Celene title: Thirsty for Change: Considering Water Privatization in Developing Countries date: 2008 words: 4450 flesch: 43 summary: Proponents of water privatization believe these challenges can in fact become lucrative business opportunities. What opportunities do water privatization projects actually present? keywords: development; january; manila; privatization; public; sanitation; services; system; water; world cache: consilience-4462.pdf plain text: consilience-4462.txt item: #99 of 273 id: consilience-4463 author: Bohl, Daniel title: The Ethics of Physician Migration and Their Implications for the United States date: 2008 words: 3834 flesch: 54 summary: Impending Physician Shortage The last major debate over physician shortages took place in the 1950s and 1960s. Both the American Medical Association (AMA) and the Association of American Medical Colleges have stated their belief that the previously feared surpluses are not likely to materialize17,18 and the Council on Graduate Medical Education (COGME) has reversed its stance entirely, declaring instead that physician shortages are imminent.19 The Response of Other Developed Nations Predictions of shortages are not unique to the situation in the United States. keywords: association; health; medical; nations; physician; united; workforce cache: consilience-4463.pdf plain text: consilience-4463.txt item: #100 of 273 id: consilience-4464 author: Yeow, Daniel title: The Race for Sustainable Development date: 2008 words: 2461 flesch: 57 summary: Foremost among these are climate change, world poverty, and the many forces which are inextricably linked to these such as population growth, economic development, and the spread of technology. Climate shocks have a long and well- documented history of precipitating social upheaval and have already been found to be an important factor in several current world conflicts. keywords: globalization; information; way; world cache: consilience-4464.pdf plain text: consilience-4464.txt item: #101 of 273 id: consilience-4465 author: Bonds, Matt; Fraden, Max title: Notes from the Millennium Villages Project date: 2008 words: 4656 flesch: 58 summary: Over time, our informal conversations led to a short household survey on ownership of a collection of household assets (i.e., table, bench, mattress, radio, etc.) that we used to determine eligibility for health insurance. We analyzed the data with a pattern recognition technique called principle components analysis, and correlated the results with previous ownership of health insurance. keywords: development; february; health; millennium; mvp; people; poverty; rwanda; vol; year cache: consilience-4465.pdf plain text: consilience-4465.txt item: #102 of 273 id: consilience-4466 author: Halperin, Michael title: Safe Drinking Water in Kuna Yala: Field Notes from Panama date: 2008 words: 2483 flesch: 62 summary: This story chronicles a two-year process of considering, rejecting, and finally developing the most workable solution for safe water: solar water purification. Months later Melvin and I learned of the possibility of solar water purification. keywords: melvin; tank; ustupu; water cache: consilience-4466.pdf plain text: consilience-4466.txt item: #103 of 273 id: consilience-4467 author: Singh, Kartikeya title: In India’s Sea of Darkness: An Unsustainable Island of Decentralized Energy Production date: 2008 words: 2722 flesch: 58 summary: “In the past, we provided free solar home lighting systems and people refused to pay the monthly Rs. 100-200 for the new battery their system would require within two years.” Instead, integrated renewable energy systems, a method of development which employs various renewable energy technologies in combination to provide for the various energy needs of a community, might not only pave the way for sustainable development, but rather represent the entire leap into sustainable energy independence for remote areas in India and other parts of the world. keywords: energy; home; india; lighting; system; village cache: consilience-4467.pdf plain text: consilience-4467.txt item: #104 of 273 id: consilience-4468 author: Lee, Thomas title: The Story of Hope date: 2008 words: 987 flesch: 67 summary: 11 PH O TO E SS AY 152 Afghan men of Shash Pul, a weaver village, gather for a meeting with Arzu workers, Bamiyan, Afghanistan, June 2006. Arzu, meaning hope in Dari, is a Chicago-based non-profit organization that has worked in Afghanistan since 2004 to help employ and educate women through sourcing and selling rugs that they weave. keywords: afghanistan cache: consilience-4468.pdf plain text: consilience-4468.txt item: #105 of 273 id: consilience-4469 author: Laso, Francisco title: Challenges to the Conservation of River Turtles (spp. Podocnemis) in the Peruvian Amazon date: 2009 words: 2013 flesch: 59 summary: The most important factor to determine the extent to which Podocnemis turtles fulfill their role as one of the flooded forest’s key seed dispersers is the density of turtle populations. There is no available room to house confiscated river turtles. keywords: iquitos; laso; podocnemis; river; species; turtles cache: consilience-4469.pdf plain text: consilience-4469.txt item: #106 of 273 id: consilience-4470 author: Nyasimi, Mary; Okang'a, Joseph title: Images and Voices of Change: Engaging Local Community in Assessing Impact of Millennium Villages Project in their Lives in Sauri Village, Western Kenya date: 2009 words: 4490 flesch: 61 summary: CHW also keep minimum records and information they discuss with Sauri people in notebooks and report back to the MVP health team (Photo and story by Paul Omondi, 2008). Community Health workers are doing excellent work sensitizing Sauri people about AIDs and everyone is openly talk about sexual behaviors and how we can change. keywords: clinic; community; health; millennium; mvp; nyasimi; okang’a; people; project; sauri; village cache: consilience-4470.pdf plain text: consilience-4470.txt item: #107 of 273 id: consilience-4472 author: Batkhishig, Dulguun title: Sustainable Living and Mongolian Nomads: Is There Development? date: 2009 words: 2092 flesch: 62 summary: Reliant on the vacillating seasons and the well-being of their livestock, nomadic herder families have developed a unique mode of living. For many children of herder families, this career path is the only way to make a living that does not depend on the seasons. keywords: batkhishig; development; families; herder; mongolia cache: consilience-4472.pdf plain text: consilience-4472.txt item: #108 of 273 id: consilience-4473 author: Bachhuber, Daniel title: India, Water and Sustainable Development date: 2009 words: 1734 flesch: 60 summary: Keywords: India, Ganges, Water Supply Bachhuber 3 India, Water and Sustainable Development Introduction In February 2008, I took a break from academic studies for three months of real-life study: trying to understand India's cultural, social and religious constraints to clean water access. Bachhuber 2 Author’s Note India faces tremendous developmental challenges, both in water and other sectors, in the next couple of decades. keywords: bachhuber; february; india; water cache: consilience-4473.pdf plain text: consilience-4473.txt item: #109 of 273 id: consilience-4474 author: Schapper, Andrea title: From the Global to the Local: How International Children’s Rights in Bangladesh Reach the Grassroots Level date: 2009 words: 5094 flesch: 54 summary: Apart from this rather antiquated national legislation, there are few national laws and policies that promote child rights. The two most important principles in global child rights are 1) the right to education and the right to health, as anchored in the Convention on the Rights of the Child; and 2) protection from economic exploitation and hazardous work as codified in the ILO Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention. keywords: bangladesh; child; child labour; children; education; international; labour; program; project; rights; school cache: consilience-4474.pdf plain text: consilience-4474.txt item: #110 of 273 id: consilience-4475 author: Cummings, Matthew title: Communicable Disease Surveillance and Response in Uganda date: 2009 words: 3320 flesch: 48 summary: Conclusion: VHTs and Community-Based Control of Communicable Diseases While communicable disease outbreaks have long presented an ongoing challenge in the developing world, within recent years the frequency of such outbreaks has risen sharply. It must be noted that in many cholera outbreaks, inadequate treatment is frequently found to be the basis behind an unusually high amount of fatalities. keywords: cholera; disease; health; response; surveillance; uganda; vhts cache: consilience-4475.pdf plain text: consilience-4475.txt item: #111 of 273 id: consilience-4476 author: Perez, Franz Xavier title: How to Get Beyond the Zero-Sum Game Mentality between State and Non-State Actors in International Environmental Governance date: 2009 words: 8486 flesch: 30 summary: International environmental governance is thus the international regime that has been developed to identify, address and solve environmental problems.12 International environmental governance is relatively young and dynamic. After a short discussion of the main functions and challenges of environmental governance the paper addresses the issue of stakeholder participation and the claim of “democratic deficits” in international environmental governance. keywords: actors; csd; development; environmental; governance; international; law; ngos; participation; perrez; processes; stakeholder; state cache: consilience-4476.pdf plain text: consilience-4476.txt item: #112 of 273 id: consilience-4477 author: Leung, A.; O'Donnell, E.; Moore, S.; Travis, H. title: Social Responses to Environmental Degradation in Northwest Rural China date: 2009 words: 9733 flesch: 42 summary: Sustainable Futures in Rural China This research offers a number of suggestions for the development of a sustainable future in rural China. From this brief survey of major recent literature on rural China, it becomes apparent that most studies have taken a state/institution-first approach in analyzing various rural and environment-related issues, primarily because the state has so thoroughly penetrated society under communist rule. keywords: analysis; china; chinese; correlation; development; environmental; farming; government; impact; information; leung; moore; o’donnell; respondents; rural; travis; village; women cache: consilience-4477.pdf plain text: consilience-4477.txt item: #113 of 273 id: consilience-4478 author: Dare, Kolawole, Oluwatoyin title: Situating Local Knowledge Within Development Agenda: Some Reflections date: 2009 words: 8373 flesch: 44 summary: Consilience: The Journal of Sustainable Development Kolawole: Situating local knowledge 2009: Issue 2, Scholarly Article No. 5 Situating local knowledge within development agenda: Some reflections Dr. Oluwatoyin Dare, Kolawole i E-mail: toyinkolawole@oauife.edu.ng or T.Kolawole@ids.ac.uk Or toyin_kolawole@yahoo.com mailto:toyinkolawole@oauife.edu.ng mailto:Kolawole@ids.ac.uk mailto:toyin_kolawole@yahoo.com 2 |Consilience Kolawole: Situating keywords: development; grassroots; human; knowledge; knowledge systems; kolawole; paper; people; power; production; research; systems; university; way; |consilience cache: consilience-4478.pdf plain text: consilience-4478.txt item: #114 of 273 id: consilience-4479 author: King, Richard title: An Institutional Analysis of the Resource Curse in Africa: Lessons for Ghana date: 2009 words: 6745 flesch: 50 summary: Nevertheless, the extent of economic inequality is apparent to any observer in the major cities of both countries where the expensive houses and cars of the rich 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 Ghana Gabon Angola Figure 1: Country Rankings for GDP per capita and HDI GDP per capita The experience of oil producing countries in Africa has largely been a negative one, with development indicators suffering as a resource curse takes effect. keywords: angola; countries; curse; development; gabon; ghana; government; king; oil; page; resource; society; state cache: consilience-4479.pdf plain text: consilience-4479.txt item: #115 of 273 id: consilience-4480 author: Freeman, Scarlet Lopez; Lee, Seung Bok; Ngo, Katrina; Vasudevan, Veena; Wu, Diana title: Evaluation of the NZAID Project date: 2009 words: 16490 flesch: 39 summary: As mentioned, the “Institutionalizing Integrated Community-based Watershed Management” project is managed as part of the broader IIRR BICOL Program. Community-Managed Projects: With IIRR’s guidance, Watershed Networks have initiated a number of community projects. keywords: activities; barangay; bicol; bicol program; communities; community; development; evaluation; field; government; iirr; information; lagonoy; lagosan; level; local; management; maquiwasa; members; networks; opportunities; philippines; program; projects; region; rural; staff; stakeholders; team; watershed cache: consilience-4480.pdf plain text: consilience-4480.txt item: #116 of 273 id: consilience-4481 author: Brenner, Alletta title: GAD and Gender Mainstreaming: A Pathway to Sustainable Development? date: 2009 words: 7615 flesch: 55 summary: Using the emancipation of Afghan women as a means of justifying the war,22 the Bush Administration began to insist “the Brenner 7 fight against terrorism is also a fight for the rights and dignity of women. As one NGO worker has noted: “In 2001, after the fall of the Taliban, improving the rights of Afghan women was at the top of the international agenda; [Now], despite many well-intentioned programs for women, women’s human rights appears to be more of an afterthought. keywords: afghanistan; aid; approach; brenner; development; gad; gender; gender mainstreaming; human; international; mainstreaming; new; politics; rights; women cache: consilience-4481.pdf plain text: consilience-4481.txt item: #117 of 273 id: consilience-4482 author: Abu-Madi, Maher; Al-Sa'ed, Rashed title: Towards Sustainable Wastewater Reuse in the Middle East and North Africa date: 2009 words: 7649 flesch: 60 summary: These efforts have been undermined by the lack of vision towards integration of wastewater reuse within water resources management. Thus, to maximize the contribution of wastewater reuse to the total water availability, the generated wastewater needs to be collected, treated, and used: three “pillars” of wastewater utilization. keywords: collection; countries; irrigation; reuse; treatment; wastewater; wastewater reuse; wri cache: consilience-4482.pdf plain text: consilience-4482.txt item: #118 of 273 id: consilience-4483 author: Daniel Greenberg, Chikara Onda, Adriana Akers, Winston Christie-Blick, Madeline Dangerfield-Cha, title: Senior Editors’ Notes date: 2009 words: 2701 flesch: 37 summary: Acknowledging this lack of political will to address critical environmental issues on the international scale, Dr. Franz Perrez offers a unique and illuminating glimpse into the inner workings of international environmental governance, stressing the valuable role that non-state actors like non government organizations can play in international governance despite the limitations often put on their involvement. Given the capacity of non-state actors to supply expert knowledge on localized issues, assist in implementation of policies, increase the quality of environmental governance by influencing agenda-setting, and galvanize political will as public advocates for environmental reforms, Dr. Perrez is surely justified in claiming that NGOs ought not be overlooked as key allies in addressing critical and time-sensitive issues of global environmental degradation. keywords: development; gender; governance; mainstreaming; note; program; state; university cache: consilience-4483.pdf plain text: consilience-4483.txt item: #119 of 273 id: consilience-4484 author: Lee, Hannah title: Editor-in-Chief Note date: 2009 words: 943 flesch: 38 summary: With this second issue ofConsilience: The Journal of Sustainable Development, I am eager to share with you the view that I wholeheartedly support and credit to Ismail Serageldin, the Director of the Library of Alexandria in Egypt and author of dozens of academic essays on sustainability: sustainable development as the sustainability of opportunity. Editor-in-Chief Note Dear Readers, I am often asked to define sustainable development and its broad relevance today. keywords: authors; consilience; development; issue cache: consilience-4484.pdf plain text: consilience-4484.txt item: #120 of 273 id: consilience-4521 author: Gombiner, Joel title: Carbon Footprinting the Internet date: 2011 words: 1942 flesch: 57 summary: With one billion Google searches occurring every day, there are one billion grams of CO2 being emitted into the atmosphere due to Google searches alone. Of course, Google searches are only a single component of Internet activity. keywords: carbon; emissions; energy; google; internet cache: consilience-4521.pdf plain text: consilience-4521.txt item: #121 of 273 id: consilience-4522 author: Virtanen, Pekka; Palmujoki, Eero; Gemechu, Dereje Terefe title: Global Climate Policies, Local Institutions and Food Security in a Pastoral Society in Ethiopia date: 2011 words: 10299 flesch: 41 summary: Abstract This paper explores climate change adaptation within national policy priorities in a least developed country (LDC). Therefore, the donor community is suggesting that a stakeholder model based on broad participation replace the shareholder model for governance in climate change adaptation. keywords: activities; adaptation; borana; change; climate; climate change; development; ethiopia; food; government; institutions; interviews; level; napa; national; pastoral; poverty; projects; security; study; water cache: consilience-4522.pdf plain text: consilience-4522.txt item: #122 of 273 id: consilience-4524 author: Victor, Britta title: Sustaining Culture with Sustainable Stoves: The Role of Tradition in Providing Clean-Burning Stoves to Developing Countries date: 2011 words: 13281 flesch: 57 summary: Consilience: The Journal of Sustainable Development Vol. 5, Iss. 1 (2011), Pp. 71-95 Sustaining Culture with Sustainable Stoves: The Role of Tradition in Providing Clean-Burning Stoves to Developing Countries Britta Victor Department of Anthropology Princeton University, Princeton, NJ brittavictor@gmail.com Ramanathan describes the extent of black carbon‟s effect: it may have as much as 60 percent the warming effect as that of CO2 and the particles originally Consilience Victor: Sustainable Stoves produce a haze around the area in which they were emitted travel fast, covering an entire ocean or subcontinent in as little as a week. keywords: black; carbon; change; climate; communities; community; cooking; cooks; countries; culture; development; food; health; power; programs; stoves; time; use; women; women‟s; world cache: consilience-4524.pdf plain text: consilience-4524.txt item: #123 of 273 id: consilience-4526 author: Lamb, Jennifer title: Health or Agricultural Development: Boundary Objects and Organizations in a Soya Project in Western Kenya date: 2011 words: 7030 flesch: 43 summary: While the Ministry of Agriculture in Kakamega had reported the Bukura project to be an example of significant success in soya bean processing in Western Kenya, a field visit revealed that the nearly year-old Vitagoat system was operated at a quarter of its daily capacity and was utilized actively by a sole soya farmer, who operated a mildly successful soya yoghurt business by selling door to door in the surrounding area. As one of the few crops to simultaneously answer to the demands of both fields, an analysis of soybeans (commonly known in the development context as soya beans) and their use in aid and development projects provides an interesting entry point into this boundary management discussion. keywords: agriculture; aid; beans; boundary; card; development; farmers; food; health; kenya; local; nutrition; processing; production; project; soya; wfp cache: consilience-4526.pdf plain text: consilience-4526.txt item: #124 of 273 id: consilience-4527 author: Kumar, Chandan; Prakash, Ravi title: Public-Private Dichotomy in Utilization of Health Care Services in India date: 2011 words: 10472 flesch: 59 summary: The real victims of this unregulated spread of private health services in India are the poor, who need better and cheaper services but are not able to afford high priced private health care. People, especially women—the focal point of country’s reproductive and child health care services—switch over to private health services once they get their first treatment in public care. keywords: areas; care services; child health; health care; health services; india; percent; public; sources; states; treatment; utilization; women cache: consilience-4527.pdf plain text: consilience-4527.txt item: #125 of 273 id: consilience-4528 author: Hufty, Marc; Haakenstad, Annie title: Reduced Emissions for Deforestation and Degradation: A Critical Review date: 2011 words: 9410 flesch: 52 summary: Still, many questions remain, such as who should certify REDD schemes, on what basis, with which techniques, and whether the capacity of developing countries to undertake the program‟s technical requirements and enforce restrictions is sufficient, even with capacity- building activities (Westholm et al., 2009). Ebeling & Yasue correlate Human Development Indicators (HDIs) with areas likely to benefit from REDD schemes and find that the program will most likely not target the regions with the direst human development needs (2008). keywords: biodiversity; carbon; change; climate; conservation; consilience; countries; deforestation; degradation; development; emissions; et al; forest; governance; international; issues; land; policy; redd; services cache: consilience-4528.pdf plain text: consilience-4528.txt item: #126 of 273 id: consilience-4529 author: Varman, Monica title: Note from the Editor in Chief date: 2011 words: 586 flesch: 41 summary: This issue preserves and furthers the journal’s mission to further solutions-oriented, open access discourse through a balance of scholarly articles, opinion pieces, field notes, and photo essays. In our ongoing effort to facilitate the exchange of information and perspectives, we have partnered with Field Actions Science Reports (FACTS), an open-access, peer reviewed journal of field actions at Institut Veolia Environnement, to share content and scholarship. keywords: development; journal cache: consilience-4529.pdf plain text: consilience-4529.txt item: #127 of 273 id: consilience-4545 author: Shealy, Shaina title: Her Hands: Images of Craftswomen in Uganda, Bolivia and India date: 2011 words: 2590 flesch: 67 summary: “ In Uganda, Many women, when they fail to make money, they go and smoke the wind pipe to charm men to give them money. Abstract Throughout the world, women employ their craft skills to contribute to their economies and gain financial independence. keywords: art; consilience; hands; photo; shealy; women cache: consilience-4545.pdf plain text: consilience-4545.txt item: #128 of 273 id: consilience-4546 author: Radulescu, Angela title: Sustainable Trade in the Ixil Triangle, Guatemalan Highlands date: 2011 words: 1034 flesch: 62 summary: She has made a living traveling like many other Ixil women to work on the coffee plantations near the coast, but the harsh conditions affected her health and she was forced to return to San Juan Cotzal. Figure 3: Local Ixil trade their goods in the marketplace in San Juan Cotzal. keywords: consilience; figure; women cache: consilience-4546.pdf plain text: consilience-4546.txt item: #129 of 273 id: consilience-4547 author: Abreu, Alexandre title: Livelihood and Conservation in Guinea-Bissau’s National Parks: A Photographic Essay date: 2011 words: 1836 flesch: 36 summary: Photo 3: Felupe celebration in Bolor, Tarrafes do Rio Cacheu Natural Park 268 Consilience The Tarrafes do Rio Cacheu Natural Park constitutes a part of the homeland of the Felupe (also known as Diola) ethnic group, which straddles Northern Guinea-Bissau and Southern Senegal. keywords: bissau; conservation; guinea; natural; park cache: consilience-4547.pdf plain text: consilience-4547.txt item: #130 of 273 id: consilience-4548 author: Swindle, Jeffrey title: The Tough Realities Small NGOs Face When Evaluating Their Efforts: Observations from Guatemala and Mexico date: 2011 words: 5445 flesch: 47 summary: Based on my personal experiences as an evaluator in Guatemala and Mexico for NGO1, I argue that the participatory approach to development evaluation, as explicated in the passage just mentioned, is ideal. NGOs commonly implement the same development projects over and over again, regardless of the data obtained in project evaluations, if such evaluations are conducted at all (Ferguson, 1990). keywords: development; evaluation; guatemala; headquarters; mexico; ngo1; ngos; project; results; staff cache: consilience-4548.pdf plain text: consilience-4548.txt item: #131 of 273 id: consilience-4549 author: Prescott, Nathalie title: Towards Improving Sustainability in Nags Head, North Carolina Through Increasing Social Capital date: 2011 words: 4167 flesch: 52 summary: This report explores the disintegration of social capital in Nags Head, North Carolina over time and how improving the transfer of local knowledge in the town can help to generate sustainable growth in the future. 240–250 Towards Improving Sustainability in Nags Head, North Carolina Through Increasing Social Capital Nathalie Prescott Institute for the Environment University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, NC Prescott.nathalie@gmail.com Abstract Maintaining bodies of knowledge specific to coastal towns can be crucial to maintaining environmental sustainability. keywords: beach; capital; community; development; head; information; knowledge; nags; residents; summer cache: consilience-4549.pdf plain text: consilience-4549.txt item: #132 of 273 id: consilience-4550 author: Bell, Dr Simon; Morse, Professor Stephen title: Sustainable Development Indicators: The Tyranny of Methodology Revisited date: 2011 words: 7334 flesch: 57 summary: The human brain and our senses are „hard wired‟ to look for such indicators routinely as we try to make sense of a complex world, even if for the most part we are unaware that it is happening. They raised various concerns, some of which are well known such as the dominance of economic indicators in framing policy instruments and other ideas such as the notion of a „natural selection‟ process amongst indicators where fitness for survival is not necessarily related to technical excellence of the indicator but to its „appeal.‟ An example of one of the outputs from the workshops is provided as Figure 2. keywords: bell; consilience; development; economy; gdp; gpi; indicators; information; measure; morse; policy; public; society; tyranny cache: consilience-4550.pdf plain text: consilience-4550.txt item: #133 of 273 id: consilience-4551 author: Fox, Benjamin title: Why Taiwan‘s Sustainable Energy Policy Matters date: 2011 words: 5149 flesch: 46 summary: The modest success of Taiwan‘s sustainable energy policy demonstrates the importance of setting short-term and mid-term goals, even if they initially generate sub- optimal outcomes. Thus, Taiwan‘s sustainable energy policy is the beginning of a process of reorienting Taiwan‘s economy towards the energy technology sector, enhancing its economic competitiveness, environmental health, and contribution to global climate change initiatives. keywords: carbon; co2; economic; electricity; emissions; energy; investment; legislation; march; percent; policy; taiwan; taiwan‘s; u.s cache: consilience-4551.pdf plain text: consilience-4551.txt item: #134 of 273 id: consilience-4555 author: Buonsanti, Fabio title: Promoting Renewable Energy in Longyearbyen: A Sustainable Means to Prevent Svalbard’s Environmental Degradation date: 2011 words: 6983 flesch: 44 summary: An earlier version of this article was submitted as part of coursework completed for the class „SUM4000- Development and Environment: Theory and Policy Challenges‟. Keywords: Norway, Svalbard, Longyearbyen, renewable energy, coal mining, wind energy, solar energy. Yet, developing wind energy on Svalbard, might be a demanding task. keywords: climate; coal; consilience; dahl; energy; environmental; longyearbyen; norway; norwegian; online].-url; polar; power; research; ssb; svalbard; wind cache: consilience-4555.pdf plain text: consilience-4555.txt item: #135 of 273 id: consilience-4556 author: Siegel, Elana Joelle title: Resistance to Artemisinin-based Combination Therapies in Uganda: An Impending Threat date: 2011 words: 5726 flesch: 49 summary: It should be noted that both regions have experienced significant population movements, a risk factor for the spread of malaria resistance: approximately 200 000 people cross from Cambodia into Thailand on average per annum, and in Uganda, civil conflict forced 2 million people into Internally Displaced Persons, or IDP, camps – 1 million have returned home since. Although, at this moment, there is no hard evidence of any ACT resistance within the Ugandan population, this paper will explore, through published and unpublished sources, and a baseline survey conducted in July 2008 by AMREF (African Medical and Research Foundation, an international medical organisation based in Kenya), how this resistance will soon emerge in Uganda, what the precipitating factors are, and through a careful evaluation of these causes, offer courses of action so as avoid the devastating consequences of ACT resistance. keywords: act; consilience; drug; health; kiboga; level; malaria; medical; resistance; study; treatment; uganda cache: consilience-4556.pdf plain text: consilience-4556.txt item: #136 of 273 id: consilience-4565 author: Mirza, Bilal; Kemp, Rene title: Why Rural Rich Remain Energy Poor date: 2011 words: 9352 flesch: 57 summary: Household energy in South Asia. Survey of rural household energy consumption in China. keywords: animal; communities; energy; energy source; firewood; group; households; income; income group; lpg; plant; source; waste cache: consilience-4565.pdf plain text: consilience-4565.txt item: #137 of 273 id: consilience-4566 author: Hutniczak, Barbara; Kronbak, Lone Grønbæk title: The Two-sector Economic Problem Of Persistent Organic Pollution and Baltic Sea Salmon Fisheries date: 2011 words: 6057 flesch: 58 summary: Salmon fishery sector Polluting sector (7a) )/)(( )/)(()(' h xxF ∂•∂ ∂•∂+= π πβδ (7b) )/)()(1( )/)(()(' YU ppG ∂•∂− ∂•∂−−= β πβδ )/)()(1( )/)(()(' )/)(( )/)(()(' YU ppG h xxF ∂•∂− ∂•∂−−= ∂•∂ ∂•∂+= β πβ π πβδ (8) The right side of equation (7a) is defined as “resource internal rate of return” (Conrad, 1999) where the sum of the marginal net growth rate and marginal value of the stock with weight of the sector in relation to marginal value of harvest is equal to the discount rate. Data analysis to support the development of a Baltic Sea salmon action plan; Annex 1: Baltic Sea salmon fisheries and results of the socio-economic impact assessment. keywords: baltic; dioxin; fisheries; fishery; function; harvest; level; model; pollution; rate; salmon; sea; sector; state; stock cache: consilience-4566.pdf plain text: consilience-4566.txt item: #138 of 273 id: consilience-4567 author: Fuleihan, Layan title: Urban Nomads of Petra: An Alternative Interpretation of the Bedoul Bedouin’s Relationship with History and Space date: 2011 words: 9838 flesch: 44 summary: Perhaps in response to this international attitude, or to make the transition to sedentarism more appealing and thus reduce conflict, Jordan has also created programs to bring the benefits of urbanity to Bedouin communities, providing greater access to education, healthcare centers, and even computers (Trombly, 200). Consequently, the sedentary Bedouin communities increasingly experience health problems arising from malnutrition and vitamin deficiency. keywords: bedouin; bedoul; city; communities; consilience; contemporary; desertification; development; international; jordan; land; new; nomadic; nomadism; nomads; petra; state; world cache: consilience-4567.pdf plain text: consilience-4567.txt item: #139 of 273 id: consilience-4568 author: Derrington, Erin title: Drinking Water in the United States: Are We Planning For a Sustainable Future? date: 2011 words: 10436 flesch: 39 summary: Yale University, CT erin.derrington@yale.edu Abstract Maintaining drinking water quality and quantity is a resource management challenge worldwide. This growth will have negative 64 Consilience impacts on water quality and availability, posing amplified resource management challenges (Fitzhugh, 2004). keywords: act; agency; consilience; development; drinking; drinking water; environmental; epa; health; infrastructure; land; management; national; new; nrdc; planning; protection; public; quality; standards; states; states environmental; united; use; water; water quality; watershed cache: consilience-4568.pdf plain text: consilience-4568.txt item: #140 of 273 id: consilience-4569 author: Conrad, Katie; Danoff-Burg, James title: Lobster Houses as a Sustainable Fishing Alternative date: 2011 words: 5977 flesch: 43 summary: However, one method, lobster houses, shows particular promise for alleviating these negative effects, but only under certain environmental and socioeconomic conditions and using the recommended management practices. However, one method, lobster houses, shows particular promise for reducing these negative effects, but only if certain conditions are met. keywords: argus; bay; caribbean; fisheries; fishery; fishing; houses; lobster; lobster houses; management; regulations cache: consilience-4569.pdf plain text: consilience-4569.txt item: #141 of 273 id: consilience-4570 author: Bbaale, Edward; Mpuga, Paul title: Female Education, Contraceptive Use, and Fertility: Evidence from Uganda date: 2011 words: 10770 flesch: 56 summary: However, huge challenges remain in ensuring gender parity in secondary education, reducing infant and child mortality, and improving maternal health. Secondary education increases the probability of using contraceptives in the range of 14-17%, and post-secondary education increases the probability to the range 16-20% 4 keywords: age; children; contraceptives; education; family; fertility; health; method; planning; region; uganda; use; women; years cache: consilience-4570.pdf plain text: consilience-4570.txt item: #142 of 273 id: consilience-4571 author: Bbaale, Edward; Mutenyo, John title: Export Composition and Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Panel Analysis date: 2011 words: 8161 flesch: 47 summary: Additionally, Verdoorn (1949) dwells on the argument that export growth may generate specialization in the production of export commodities. Some authors Consilience Bbaale and Mutenyo: Export Composition adduce evidence supporting the fact that export growth precedes economic growth hence giving a stance to the export-led-growth (ELG) hypothesis (Arnade et al., 1995; Fosu 1996; Thornton 1996). keywords: capital; countries; country; development; economic; effect; enhancing; exports; gdp; goods; growth; imports; increase; knowledge; productivity cache: consilience-4571.pdf plain text: consilience-4571.txt item: #143 of 273 id: consilience-4572 author: Subramanyan, Vighnesh title: Note from the Editor-in-Chief date: 2011 words: 335 flesch: 44 summary: It is also a very international issue, as we published submissions from five continents, from Norway to Uganda, on topics as diverse as fisheries management, malarial vaccination resistance and the validity of economic measures. Impressive statistics aside, we are proud to remain a student-run journal that showcases work by a range of authors, including undergraduate and graduate students, scholars and members of the broader sustainable development community, on a wide array of topics. keywords: editor cache: consilience-4572.pdf plain text: consilience-4572.txt item: #144 of 273 id: consilience-4573 author: Fredenburg, Julia; Fredenburg, Robert title: Looking At A New Strategy to Save the Sacramento – San Joaquin Delta date: 2012 words: 1804 flesch: 47 summary: Exploring The Sacramento – San Joaquin Delta System The Sacramento – San Joaquin Delta is the heart of California’s water source, an 837,594-acre area where the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers join before entering the San Francisco Bay and then the Pacific Ocean at the Golden Gate Bridge. The Sacramento – San Joaquin Delta (the Delta) is the heart of California’s water source and the center of the transfer system. keywords: california; delta; joaquin; sacramento; san; water cache: consilience-4573.pdf plain text: consilience-4573.txt item: #145 of 273 id: consilience-4574 author: Bower, Erica title: Striving Towards a Sustainable Solution: Water and Community in Veron, Dominican Republic date: 2012 words: 1129 flesch: 49 summary: This photo essay seeks to outline an example of such circumstances in Domingo Maiz, shed light on the potential for a sustainable solution, and embody the cultural beauty of the local community. Nowhere is this disparity more evident than in Domingo Maiz, Veron, a neighborhood community just 9 miles inland from Punta Cana resort area. keywords: community; domingo; photo; water cache: consilience-4574.pdf plain text: consilience-4574.txt item: #146 of 273 id: consilience-4575 author: Boehr, Rachel title: The Mysterious Bloom date: 2012 words: 10770 flesch: 56 summary: However, huge challenges remain in ensuring gender parity in secondary education, reducing infant and child mortality, and improving maternal health. Secondary education increases the probability of using contraceptives in the range of 14-17%, and post-secondary education increases the probability to the range 16-20% 4 keywords: age; children; contraceptives; education; family; fertility; health; method; planning; region; uganda; use; women; years cache: consilience-4575.pdf plain text: consilience-4575.txt item: #147 of 273 id: consilience-4576 author: Ramos, Camille; Vicentini, Adriana; Ortega, Daniela title: Challenges and Opportunities of Waste Collection in Caracas: Sucre Municipality Case Study date: 2012 words: 8161 flesch: 47 summary: Additionally, Verdoorn (1949) dwells on the argument that export growth may generate specialization in the production of export commodities. Some authors Consilience Bbaale and Mutenyo: Export Composition adduce evidence supporting the fact that export growth precedes economic growth hence giving a stance to the export-led-growth (ELG) hypothesis (Arnade et al., 1995; Fosu 1996; Thornton 1996). keywords: capital; countries; country; development; economic; effect; enhancing; exports; gdp; goods; growth; imports; increase; knowledge; productivity cache: consilience-4576.pdf plain text: consilience-4576.txt item: #148 of 273 id: consilience-4577 author: Jung, Jaehyun title: Male Circumcision Pilot Program in Lilongwe, Malawi date: 2012 words: 5018 flesch: 53 summary: The municipality wants to both improve garbage collection and the perception of the process. rg an ic w as te P ap e r/ ca rd b o a rd P la st ic s Te xt ile s G la ss M e ta ls D an ge ro u s m at e ri al s O th e r Comparison of the components found in garbage Sucre and Petare Sucre Petare 128 Consilience industry. keywords: caracas; collection; community; containers; garbage; municipality; petare; recycling; sucre; venezuela; waste; waste collection cache: consilience-4577.pdf plain text: consilience-4577.txt item: #149 of 273 id: consilience-4578 author: Smith, Ida Dokk title: Exploring the Source of Green Gold date: 2012 words: 1804 flesch: 47 summary: Exploring The Sacramento – San Joaquin Delta System The Sacramento – San Joaquin Delta is the heart of California’s water source, an 837,594-acre area where the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers join before entering the San Francisco Bay and then the Pacific Ocean at the Golden Gate Bridge. The Sacramento – San Joaquin Delta (the Delta) is the heart of California’s water source and the center of the transfer system. keywords: california; delta; joaquin; sacramento; san; water cache: consilience-4578.pdf plain text: consilience-4578.txt item: #150 of 273 id: consilience-4579 author: Alamillo, Daniel; Diaz, Lilia title: Disability is Not Inability: Grassroots Participatory Development and Collective Action in the Iganga District of Uganda date: 2012 words: 2646 flesch: 60 summary: Today, approximately six kilos of Oro Verde gold reaches the market. Keywords: gold mining, FLO Fairtrade and Fairmined certification, sustainable development, environment. keywords: chocó; gold; miners; mining; oro; verde cache: consilience-4579.pdf plain text: consilience-4579.txt item: #151 of 273 id: consilience-4580 author: Pearse-Smith, Scott William David title: The Impact of Continued Mekong Basin Hydropower Development on Local Livelihoods date: 2012 words: 1129 flesch: 49 summary: This photo essay seeks to outline an example of such circumstances in Domingo Maiz, shed light on the potential for a sustainable solution, and embody the cultural beauty of the local community. Nowhere is this disparity more evident than in Domingo Maiz, Veron, a neighborhood community just 9 miles inland from Punta Cana resort area. keywords: community; domingo; photo; water cache: consilience-4580.pdf plain text: consilience-4580.txt item: #152 of 273 id: consilience-4581 author: Anton, Donald K title: The 2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development and the Future of International Environmental Protection date: 2012 words: 5683 flesch: 52 summary: However, a number of environmental changes created by hydropower development have recently reduced the supply of fish stocks in the Mekong Basin. People claim to have observed declining fish populations in the Mekong Basin since construction began on the Yunnan cascade (ICEM, 2010a). keywords: basin; dams; development; fish; hydropower; icem; mekong; mekong basin; mrc; productivity; resources; river cache: consilience-4581.pdf plain text: consilience-4581.txt item: #153 of 273 id: consilience-4582 author: Ricci, Liana title: Peri-Urban Livelihood and Adaptive Capacity: Urban Development in Dar Es Salaam date: 2012 words: 1676 flesch: 58 summary: Reviving Lake Atitlán. Abstract Central America’s deepest lake, Lake Atitlán, is located in the department of Sololá, just 50 miles from the famous old city of Antigua. keywords: algae; atitlán; bloom; consilience; guatemala; lake cache: consilience-4582.pdf plain text: consilience-4582.txt item: #154 of 273 id: consilience-4583 author: Odaro, Esohe Denise title: Causes of Poor Service Delivery in Africa and Their Impact on Development date: 2012 words: 8255 flesch: 32 summary: Wards are divided into villages in the case of rural areas and Streets in the case of urban areas. Abstract This research focuses on the interactions between urban development and global environmental change processes as crucial for reducing the impacts of climate change. keywords: adaptation; areas; capacity; change; cities; climate; dar; development; land; management; peri; planning; resources; rural; salaam; strategies; urban; vulnerability cache: consilience-4583.pdf plain text: consilience-4583.txt item: #155 of 273 id: consilience-4584 author: Kinda, Ousséni; Achonu, Audrey title: Building a Credit Scoring Model for the Savings and Credit Mutual of the Potou Zone date: 2012 words: 4409 flesch: 52 summary: In Malawi, however, male circumcision is not the predominant practice. Project Malawi conducted a pilot program of male circumcision for villagers with fully subsidized operation costs. keywords: aids; circumcision; hiv; hospital; malawi; male; operation cache: consilience-4584.pdf plain text: consilience-4584.txt item: #156 of 273 id: consilience-4585 author: Hemmes, Frank; Papyrakis, Elissaios; van Beukering, Pieter title: Waste Not, Want Not: How Utilities Can Help Consumers Save Energy date: 2012 words: 6290 flesch: 50 summary: Elissaios Papyrakis is a Senior Researcher in This content downloaded from �������������24.184.95.106 on Wed, 30 Dec 2020 16:13:22 UTC������������� All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms 2 Consilience environmental economics at the Institute for Environmental Studies at the VU University, Amsterdam in the Netherlands and an Assistant Professor in economics at the School of International Development at the University of East Anglia in the UK. This content downloaded from �������������24.184.95.106 on Wed, 30 Dec 2020 16:13:22 UTC������������� All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms Consilience Hemmes: Waste keywords: behavior; consumption; customers; electricity; energy; experiment; feedback; group; participants; use; utc �; � � cache: consilience-4585.pdf plain text: consilience-4585.txt item: #157 of 273 id: consilience-4586 author: Subramanyan, Vighnesh title: Note from the Editor-in-Chief date: 2012 words: 363 flesch: 38 summary: Yet it is important to note that sustainable development is not just a concept to be applied to developing countries by those in developed countries, but should be used to critically analyze the current situation and trajectory of the developed world as well. We have endeavoured to form more and deeper connections with academic institutions and networks around the world dealing with sustainable development issues. keywords: chief; editor cache: consilience-4586.pdf plain text: consilience-4586.txt item: #158 of 273 id: consilience-4588 author: Currie, Laura Peñaranda title: From Colonial Port to Post-Revolution: Urban Planning for 21st Century Havana – Photo Essay date: 2012 words: 3646 flesch: 40 summary: Despite advances made in international environmental law over the last 40 years, progress in abating global greenhouse gas continues to be slow, and predictions about global average temperature increases remain disturbing. Some of the challenges facing the advancement of international environmental law can be largely attributed to inefficiencies associated with treaty congestion; however, there is a more fundamental reason why international environmental law remains ineffective. keywords: conference; development; environmental; global; international; law; nations; protection cache: consilience-4588.pdf plain text: consilience-4588.txt item: #159 of 273 id: consilience-4589 author: Lima, Leandro title: Rocinha: Twenty-nine years of witnessing contrasts – Photo Essay date: 2012 words: 4918 flesch: 52 summary: This paper explores the factors affecting service delivery in SSA and compares public services provision to private sector service delivery, as well as the impact of both on development. The current state of public sector services and the push towards privatisation through public-private partnerships will then be evaluated, prior to briefly touching on other factors affecting delivery and my conclusions. keywords: africa; bank; d.c; delivery; development; infrastructure; public; sanitation; sector; service; washington; water; world cache: consilience-4589.pdf plain text: consilience-4589.txt item: #160 of 273 id: consilience-4590 author: Fique, Simon title: Ciudad de la Cultura: Modernity and Architecture in Santiago de Compostela – Photo Essay date: 2012 words: 5856 flesch: 52 summary: Credit scoring: Theoretical framework The goal of credit scoring for microfinance and other financial purposes is to discriminate between bad and good loans (Gool et al., 2009). Keywords: credit scoring model, late reimbursement, savings, credit mutual. keywords: borrower; credit; credit scoring; loan; model; probability; reimbursement; risk; scoring model; variables cache: consilience-4590.pdf plain text: consilience-4590.txt item: #161 of 273 id: consilience-4592 author: McCornack, Andrew title: Strengthening Local Governance Through Effective Waste Management: The “Sustainable Environmental Practices and Policies” Program in South Lebanon and the Bekaa Valley date: 2012 words: 4829 flesch: 50 summary: Havana Urban Design Charrette: Cuba 19-25 February 2012 Consilience Currie: Planning for 21st Century Havana 14 Richard Wilkinson (2008), “Follow Cuba's emissions standard”, The Guardian, October 30, 2008 15 Regula Modlich (2012), Master Plan for Havana: An Encounter with Julio César Pérez Hernández, Planner’s Network, March 2012 16 Mario Coyula (1998)Havana Forever, Forever Havana, Sustain Vol. 2 Succeeding the balanced growth policies, only one-third of Havana housing was state-built, while the remainder was self-built. keywords: century; city; consilience; coyula; cuba; development; government; havana; housing; master; neighborhood; planning; pérez; urban cache: consilience-4592.pdf plain text: consilience-4592.txt item: #162 of 273 id: consilience-4594 author: Zambakari, Christopher title: Underdevelopment and Economic Theory of Growth: Case for Infant Industry Promotion date: 2012 words: 540 flesch: 64 summary: We also started a photography club where people from different favelas come to learn photography. The settlers from Brazil’s northeastern region who came to live in Rocinha were known to be people who tried to improve their living conditions, even though they were in an unknown territory and had left their families behind. keywords: people; rocinha cache: consilience-4594.pdf plain text: consilience-4594.txt item: #163 of 273 id: consilience-4597 author: Theis, Sophie; Swette, Briana title: Between Discourses of Extreme Pressure and Modernization: Small Farmers’ Diverse Perceptions of Vulnerability to Soy in Santarém, Pará date: 2012 words: 2946 flesch: 54 summary: 9 “Roberto Varela dice que la Ciudad de la Cultura es una inversión «imprescindible» para el conjunto de Galicia” in La Voz de Galicia, April 15, 2011. 8 Roberto Varela: «La Ciudad de la Cultura keywords: city; consilience; culture; figure; galicia; santiago cache: consilience-4597.pdf plain text: consilience-4597.txt item: #164 of 273 id: consilience-4598 author: Vasi, Ion Bogdan title: Public Support for Sustainable Development: A Mile Wide, but How Deep? date: 2012 words: 7537 flesch: 48 summary: While both sides agree that small farmers are selling their land to soy farmers and migrating to other farmsteads or to urban Santarém, there is disagreement over the extent of this displacement and the degree of smallholder volition. Of more than 9,000 farmers in the region, 400 are soy farmers, planting in 2010 an estimated 27,000 hectares – only 10% of total area in agriculture in Santarém (IBGE, 2010; Personal Communication, Cargill). keywords: agriculture; amazon; cargill; communities; community; discourse; farmers; farming; land; production; region; rural; santarém; smallholders; soy; soy farmers; vulnerability cache: consilience-4598.pdf plain text: consilience-4598.txt item: #165 of 273 id: consilience-4599 author: Pepper, Analee title: Sexual Divisions of Labor in Export-Oriented Manufacturing Sectors: The Reconstruction of Gender and the Urbanization of Production in the Global South date: 2012 words: 3777 flesch: 42 summary: The YMCA targeted the areas of implementation and focused on basic information about waste treatment and its links to environmental and public health. Water waste treatment plants sit idle as pollution problems mount. keywords: development; environment; lebanon; management; municipalities; project; treatment; waste; wastewater; ymca cache: consilience-4599.pdf plain text: consilience-4599.txt item: #166 of 273 id: consilience-4610 author: Singh, Alok Chauhan title: High Dependency on Quacks – Is There a Gap in the Public Health Care Delivery System? Reflections from a District Located in the Thar Desert (India) date: 2012 words: 5490 flesch: 59 summary: It has been assessed in relation to socio-economic and demographic characteristics of the interviewees which exert significant influence on the utilization of health care facilities. The results recommend improving the availability and accessibility of health care facilities in the area under study. keywords: area; care; facilities; health; phcs; quacks; respondents; study; table cache: consilience-4610.pdf plain text: consilience-4610.txt item: #167 of 273 id: consilience-4612 author: Onoja, Anthony O; Idoko, Ojochenemi title: Econometric Analysis of Factors Influencing Fuel Wood Demand in Rural and Peri-Urban Farm Households of Kogi State date: 2012 words: 4694 flesch: 56 summary: Abstract This study was designed to determine variables influencing fuelwood demand in rural areas of Kogi State. The most significant determinants of fuelwood demand in the study area are the price of fuelwood, kerosene’s price, household size and personal incomes of the household heads. keywords: demand; development; economics; equation; fuelwood; household; kogi; model; nigeria; price; resources; state cache: consilience-4612.pdf plain text: consilience-4612.txt item: #168 of 273 id: consilience-4613 author: Mullaney, Emma Gaalaas title: Countertopographies of Agriculture Gender, Food Production, and Development in a Globalizing World date: 2012 words: 6736 flesch: 48 summary: A geographic framework may be more suitable to recognize and address the disempowerment of rural women in a globalizing world. . At stake in the countertopography presented here is the process of agricultural globalization, and its impact on the empowerment of rural women around the world. keywords: 2004; agricultural; central; costa; cultivation; development; farm; food; gender; labor; rica; sudan; united; women; work; world cache: consilience-4613.pdf plain text: consilience-4613.txt item: #169 of 273 id: consilience-4614 author: Jerome, Orji Uchenna title: Enhancing the Implementation of Sustainable Development in Nigeria through Legal Strategies date: 2012 words: 5942 flesch: 37 summary: This article suggests legal routes for supporting Nigerian sustainable development, including the establishment of a constitutional right to sustainable development alongside intergenerational rights; public interest litigation; and the recognition of the public trust doctrine and budget analysis. As such, the inclusion of measures to ensure the continuity of sustainable development policies is necessary. keywords: citizens; constitution; court; development; environmental; government; information; law; nigeria; rights; state cache: consilience-4614.pdf plain text: consilience-4614.txt item: #170 of 273 id: consilience-4615 author: Angassa, Ayana; Oba, Gufu; Stenseth, Nils Chr. title: Community-based Knowledge of Indigenous Vegetation in Arid African Landscapes date: 2012 words: 6464 flesch: 43 summary: Regarding local ecological knowledge, we focus on three aspects: (a) knowledge and experiences of local people in the management and conservation of indigenous vegetation resources; (b) dependency of local livelihood systems on indigenous vegetation and socio-economic status, and (c) local perception of land degradation. Thus, local ecological knowledge of climate change must be integrated with the scientific approach in order to understand the causes and consequences of land degradation. keywords: angassa; arid; degradation; grazing; herders; indicators; knowledge; land; landscapes; livestock; management; oba; resources; species; use; vegetation cache: consilience-4615.pdf plain text: consilience-4615.txt item: #171 of 273 id: consilience-4617 author: Sing, Alexandra; Subramanyan, Vighnesh title: Note from the Editors-in-Chief date: 2012 words: 569 flesch: 43 summary: Our three photo essays concerning urban development capture the essence of this section, approaching the urban from different, yet complementary, perspectives. In a time when it may appear that the thinking on urban development is haphazard and disconnected, in both the developed and developing worlds, these essays serve as a heartening reminder of the true human scale and impact of these issues. keywords: consilience; development cache: consilience-4617.pdf plain text: consilience-4617.txt item: #172 of 273 id: consilience-4622 author: Armstrong, Mira title: Sustainable Development in Rural Ghana date: 2013 words: 1720 flesch: 57 summary: Steve Forbes, right, has been working in Obodan with his NGO SuDeX (Sustainable Development Extension Services) and as a mentor for EWB Columbia students. Obodan would have more difficulty addressing their sanitation needs without the skills and resources of EWB Columbia engineers, and EWB Columbia engineers could not have built any latrines without the guidance and local knowledge of Sammy and Steve. keywords: columbia; ewb; ghana; obodan; water cache: consilience-4622.pdf plain text: consilience-4622.txt item: #173 of 273 id: consilience-4623 author: Patterson, Angelica E title: Warming Climates, Changing Forests: Temperature Tolerances of Trees and Carbon Dynamics in Northeastern Temperate Forests date: 2013 words: 3964 flesch: 50 summary: However, fossil records and molecular evidence show that tree species may be moving slower than what current models predict (Pearson, 2006). The transition from the Younger Dryas to the Holocene occurred over 50- 70 years with average July temperatures increasing 3-4°C (Peteet, 2000) provoking the establishment and the expansion of tree species that make up our current northern hardwood-conifer forests. keywords: carbon; change; climate; forest; new; patterson; plant; species; temperatures; tree; warming cache: consilience-4623.pdf plain text: consilience-4623.txt item: #174 of 273 id: consilience-4624 author: Fessel, Melanie title: The Extraterritoriality Nexus: Manifestation of Extraterritoriality as Natural Phenomenon in Urban Context date: 2013 words: 3127 flesch: 45 summary: Nexus on Extraterritoriality to Challenge a Discourse on Post-Sustainability One catalyst to reimagine the good city is based on the establishment of a patently new field that trumps the outmoded agenda of urban design. Kevin Lynch originally conceived urban design as “City Design” in the late 1950’s at MIT.4 keywords: architecture; cities; city; extraterritoriality; new; nuclear; world; york; zones cache: consilience-4624.pdf plain text: consilience-4624.txt item: #175 of 273 id: consilience-4625 author: Isar, Sarajuddin title: Was the Highly Indebted Poor Country Initiative (HIPC) a Success? date: 2013 words: 5503 flesch: 39 summary: The debt relief of HIPC initiative has cost its creditors an estimated amount of US$75 billion in 2010 present value terms (IMF, 2011, p. 2–5). 146-154 Roy S. (2000), Globalization, Debt Relief and Poverty Reduction: Concepts and Policies, Paper Based on the First Millennium Lecture/Seminar of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London University, available at http://www.eldis.org/vfile/upload/1/document/0708/DOC8359.pdf Sachs J.D. (2000), The Charade of Debt Sustainability – The World Bank and IMF Fail the World’s…, Financial Times, 26 September, Spratt S. (2007), External Debt and the Millennium Development Goals: A New Sustainable Framework, Expert Paper commissioned by United Nations Development Program (UNDP) http://www.unu.edu/hq/library/new_arrival/..%5CCollection%5CPDF_files%5CWIDER%5CWIDERdp2001.100.pdf http://www.unu.edu/hq/library/new_arrival/..%5CCollection%5CPDF_files%5CWIDER%5CWIDERdp2001.100.pdf http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/118955759/PDFSTART http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/118955759/PDFSTART http://www.imf.org/external/np/exr/facts/hipc.htm http://www.sti.ch/fileadmin/user_upload/Pdfs/swap/swap177.pdf http://www.springerlink.com/content/g421713662313321/fulltext.pdf http://www.eldis.org/vfile/upload/1/document/0708/DOC8359.pdf Consilience Isar: HIPC Success Spratt S. (2009), Development Finance: Debates, Dogmas and New Directions, Routledge, ch. 6-7 Teunissen J.J. and Akkerman A. (2004), HIPC Debt Relief: Myths and Reality, (ed.), FONDAD Trotsenburg A.V. and MacArthur A. (1999), The HIPC Initiative: Delivering Debt Relief to Poor Countries, IMF and World Bank, available at http://www.imf.org/external/np/hipc/art0299.pdf United Nations, (1999), Finding Solutions to the Debt Problems of Developing Countries, Report of the Executive Committee on Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations, UN, available at http://www.eclac.org/publicaciones/xml/6/4306/lcl1230i.pdf United Nations, (2005), The Millennium Development Goals Report 2005: keywords: bank; countries; debt; development; hipc; imf; initiative; point; relief; world cache: consilience-4625.pdf plain text: consilience-4625.txt item: #176 of 273 id: consilience-4626 author: Walker, Grady title: Climate Change Oppression: Media Production as the Practice of Freedom date: 2013 words: 3948 flesch: 51 summary: The importance of climate change adaptation cannot be overemphasized. The participatory approach to adaptation is essential because it engages the community, rather than just the individual, and it is at the community level that climate change adaptation will be most successful. keywords: adaptation; change; climate; education; media; participatory; video; world cache: consilience-4626.pdf plain text: consilience-4626.txt item: #177 of 273 id: consilience-4627 author: FAIA, Douglas Kelbaugh title: The Environmental Paradox of Cities: Gridded in Manhattan vs. Gridless in Dubai date: 2013 words: 5195 flesch: 55 summary: Like many large cities, it has this parallel transportation system, which is untethered from the surface grid when it tunnels underground and relatively aligned when on or above grade. Manhattan’s blocks are too long (and they lack services alleys common in other cities). keywords: cities; city; consilience; dubai; grid; manhattan; network; new; paradox; roads; traffic; urban cache: consilience-4627.pdf plain text: consilience-4627.txt item: #178 of 273 id: consilience-4628 author: Onoja, Anthony O; Usoroh, B. B.; Adieme, D. T.; Deedam, N. J. title: Determinants of Market Participation in Nigerian Small-Scale Fishery Sector: Evidence from Niger Delta Region date: 2013 words: 5717 flesch: 47 summary: Then, in each state, one agricultural zone each was purposively selected based on availability of fisheries and fish markets in the area. The result shows that, among the ten covariates (age, household size, education, income, distant to the nearest market, market information, price of the commodity, credit access, marketing experience and household head sex) considered for the model, participation in fish market is influenced to a great extent by the following four covariates: household size, distant to the nearest marketing channel, price of the commodity and sex of the fish farmer/marketer. keywords: delta; development; farmers; fish; market; marketing; model; niger; nigeria; participation; probability; region; study; variables cache: consilience-4628.pdf plain text: consilience-4628.txt item: #179 of 273 id: consilience-4629 author: Meyer, Courtney title: Aiding Development or Aiding Politics? How Politics in Sub-Saharan Africa Impact the Efficacy of Official Development Assistance in Ethiopia date: 2013 words: 8776 flesch: 52 summary: Development aid at a glance: Statistics by region. Development aid at a glance: Statistics by region. keywords: africa; aid; august; consilience; database; development; economic; ethiopia; governance; growth; institutions; jstor; online; politics; regime; state; studies; world cache: consilience-4629.pdf plain text: consilience-4629.txt item: #180 of 273 id: consilience-4630 author: Kinda, Ousséni title: The Monitoring and Evaluation System of the Millennium Villages Project-Potou/Senegal: Close Look at the Mid-term Evaluation Report date: 2013 words: 5292 flesch: 48 summary: This will also help assess how learning and the use of findings can enhance project interventions. There is also a pessimism that has grown around the millennium villages due to previous unsatisfactory results from other forms of village projects. keywords: data; development; evaluation; interventions; millennium; millennium villages; monitoring; mvp; potou; project; villages cache: consilience-4630.pdf plain text: consilience-4630.txt item: #181 of 273 id: consilience-4631 author: Ekpe, Edem Kodzo title: A Review of Economic Instruments Employed for Biodiversity Conservation date: 2013 words: 6749 flesch: 40 summary: Consilience: The Journal of Sustainable Development Vol. 9, Iss. 1 (2012), Pp. 16 – 32 A Review of Economic Instruments Employed for Biodiversity Conservation Edem Kodzo Ekpe Department of Biology University of Central Florida 4000 Central Florida Boulevard, Orlando Florida, USA email: edemekpe@knights.ucf.edu Abstract Globally, the use of economic instruments for biodiversity conservation has gained a lot of support. A major trend observed is the relatively low investments in economic instruments used for biodiversity conservation in developing countries, even though such countries tend to be rich in biodiversity. keywords: biodiversity; biodiversity conservation; conservation; development; incentives; instruments; iucn; land; markets; resources; services; species; tax; use cache: consilience-4631.pdf plain text: consilience-4631.txt item: #182 of 273 id: consilience-4632 author: Olawuyi, Damilola S title: Legal and Sustainable Development Impacts of Major Oil Spills date: 2013 words: 6643 flesch: 39 summary: Oil spillages most times result in damage to residential and commercial properties located along the coastal zones and small islands offshore where major oil spills occur. This paper provides a summary of the legal and sustainable development principles at play where oil spills occur. keywords: convention; delta; development; environmental; example; health; international; law; niger; oil; pollution; rights; spillage; spills cache: consilience-4632.pdf plain text: consilience-4632.txt item: #183 of 273 id: consilience-4633 author: Sing, Alexandra title: Note from the Editor-in-Chief date: 2013 words: 456 flesch: 39 summary: Our editorial and managing teams have worked diligently over the past few months to compile a collection of articles we believe effectively address topics trending in sustainable development today. In addition to several provocative opinion pieces, Issues IX also features several scholarly articles, photo essays, and a field note. keywords: editor; note cache: consilience-4633.pdf plain text: consilience-4633.txt item: #184 of 273 id: consilience-4634 author: Riasi, Arash; Aghdaie, Seyed Fathollah Amiri title: Effects of Hypothetical Iranian Accession to WTO on Iran’s Flower Industry Development: Industry Opinions date: 2013 words: 3914 flesch: 49 summary: Iran accession to WTO and its effects on textile industries. The biggest foreign customers of Iranian flowers are the United Arab Emirates, the Netherlands, Iraq, Azerbaijan, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Turkmenistan, China, Japan, and Vietnam. keywords: accession; export; flower; industry; international; iran; iranian; marketing; world; wto cache: consilience-4634.pdf plain text: consilience-4634.txt item: #185 of 273 id: consilience-4635 author: Davies, George Randal title: Appraising weak and strong sustainability: searching for a middle ground date: 2013 words: 4836 flesch: 42 summary: This section discusses a hybrid approach, attempting to merge deep ecology (a common worldview of strong sustainability) and cornucopian views (a common view of weak sustainability), therefore arguing for a middle-of-the-road approach. Weak sustainability is based on the work of two neoclassical economists: Solow (1974; 1986; 1992; 1993) and Hartwick (1977; 1978; 1990). keywords: approach; barr; capital; consilience; development; economics; environment; nature; sustainability cache: consilience-4635.pdf plain text: consilience-4635.txt item: #186 of 273 id: consilience-4637 author: Nilsson, Patricia title: Gender and Development: The Challenge of Mainstream date: 2013 words: 3121 flesch: 44 summary: The Dangers of Treating Women as a Homogenous Group The term “sisterhood” appears frequently in feminist discourse as a signifier of the unification of women for a common cause. Women have a higher rate of return to education than men (Psacharapoulos and Patrinos, 2004), and studies show that gender-based violence decreases with the education of women (See figure 1: DHS, 2005, as cited in Simister, 2011). keywords: development; education; gender; kabeer; policy; women; world cache: consilience-4637.pdf plain text: consilience-4637.txt item: #187 of 273 id: consilience-4638 author: Wu, Andrew; Singh, Jaaved; Tikasz, Peter title: Independent Study on Changing Student Behaviour to Increase Energy Sustainability and Efficiency at the Macdonald Campus of McGill University date: 2013 words: 6156 flesch: 45 summary: Furthermore, there was broad agreement regarding the inaccessibility of information on energy use on campus, suggesting that this was a primary leverage point for enacting social change. With a planned implementation date of Fall 2012, these initiatives are expected to have a significant impact on environmental awareness, leading to a decrease in energy use on campus and a reduction in environmental impact. keywords: campus; community; energy; figure; macdonald; mcgill; question; section; sustainability; use cache: consilience-4638.pdf plain text: consilience-4638.txt item: #188 of 273 id: consilience-4639 author: Anane, Edward Twum title: Environmental Challenges Facing a Growing City: Sunyani Case Study date: 2013 words: 1830 flesch: 55 summary: Figure 4: Polluted city water body. City authorities must therefore pay attention to the infrastructural needs of these flood risk areas if future disaster is to be averted. keywords: areas; city; ghana; sunyani; waste; water cache: consilience-4639.pdf plain text: consilience-4639.txt item: #189 of 273 id: consilience-4640 author: Shigematsu, Jorge; Sadowski, Sylvia Garcia title: Sustainable Indigenous Orchards: An Agroforestry Project in the Colombian Amazon date: 2013 words: 2042 flesch: 45 summary: Jorge Shigematsu, who had been involved in social work with indigenous communities in this region since 2007, witnessed how lands in the area were being subjected to indiscriminate tree cutting and light-burn agriculture resulting in land degradation, loss of biodiversity, food scarcity, and displacement of agricultural activities for illegal hunting and animal trafficking. Maikov Dumas had been developing and implementing similar agroforestry models with indigenous communities in Iquitos, Peru. keywords: amazon; communities; figure; green; project cache: consilience-4640.pdf plain text: consilience-4640.txt item: #190 of 273 id: consilience-4642 author: Dhakai, Subas P title: Glimpses of Sustainability in Perth, Western Australia: Capturing and Communicating the Adaptive Capacity of Activist Groups date: 2014 words: 3348 flesch: 46 summary: Today, millions of sustainability activist groups (SAGs) are actively engaged in various social and environmental initiatives around the world. Hawken (2007) estimates that there are millions of sustainability activist groups (SAGs) around the world. keywords: australia; bsw; consilience; dhakal; figure; group; perth; sustainability; wetlands cache: consilience-4642.pdf plain text: consilience-4642.txt item: #191 of 273 id: consilience-4643 author: Baldinelli, Guilia Mari title: Agrobiodiversity Conservation as a Coping Strategy: Adapting to Climate Change in the Northern Highlands of Bolivia date: 2014 words: 2756 flesch: 48 summary: My thesis aims to explore the connections between on-farm conservation of local crop varieties and migration of Aymara people away from their communities of origin in the Altiplano to urban areas. During my fieldwork in the Northern Highlands of Bolivia, I observed how indigenous farmers adapt to climate change through their strategic use of local crop varieties. keywords: agrobiodiversity; andes; conservation; farmers; municipio; paz; varieties cache: consilience-4643.pdf plain text: consilience-4643.txt item: #192 of 273 id: consilience-4644 author: Harfouche, Caroline Damienne; Jung, Diane title: The Effect of Sedimentation Levels on Tarebia graniferain Freshwater Lagoons in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic date: 2014 words: 4266 flesch: 50 summary: Every day, for each site, there were three types of data: 1) three weight measurements for morning daily sediment accumulations 2) three weight measurements for afternoon daily sediment accumulations 3) one weight measurement of cumulative sediment accumulations collected in the morning. Lastly, the 144 Consilience   completely dry filter papers with sediment accumulations were weighed on a scientific scale that measures in grams to one decimal point. keywords: accumulations; closed; consilience; lagoons; levels; sediment; sedimentation; snails; water cache: consilience-4644.pdf plain text: consilience-4644.txt item: #193 of 273 id: consilience-4645 author: Pearse-Smith, Scott W.D. title: The Return of Large Dams to the Development Agenda: A Post-Development Critique date: 2014 words: 3700 flesch: 55 summary: Each of these biases is illustrated in reference to the Mekong River Basin’s experience with large dam development. The arguments presented are illustrated in reference to the Mekong River Basin’s experience with large dam development. keywords: basin; dams; development; hydropower; mekong; projects; river; world cache: consilience-4645.pdf plain text: consilience-4645.txt item: #194 of 273 id: consilience-4646 author: Generous, Rochanya A title: Environmental Threats to the Symbiotic Relationship of Coral Reefs and Quorum Sensing date: 2014 words: 2797 flesch: 43 summary: The importance of the symbiotic relationship between the microbial colonies and coral reefs are not well known but have the potential to become a vital part in determining how to promote reef health and sustain current reefs in poor conditions. Additionally, coral reefs protect shores from the impact of waves, Consilience Generous: Coral Reefs and Quorum Sensing provide food and medicines, and economic benefits to local communities through tourism. keywords: colonies; coral; ocean; quorum; reefs; sensing; temperature cache: consilience-4646.pdf plain text: consilience-4646.txt item: #195 of 273 id: consilience-4648 author: Westskog, Hege; Winther, Tanja title: Electricity Consumption: Should There Be a Limit? Implications of People’s Attitudes for the Forming of Sustainable Energy Policies date: 2014 words: 8227 flesch: 53 summary: Keywords: Electricity consumption, savings, attitudes, market, norm 98 Consilience   1. In all cases we covered general questions on energy behaviour, as well as if, how and to what extent the interviewees try to save electricity, and how they regard electricity consumption in a societal context. keywords: consumption; electricity; energy; focus; logics; market; norway; norwegian; people; policy; price; savings; system; use cache: consilience-4648.pdf plain text: consilience-4648.txt item: #196 of 273 id: consilience-4649 author: Tiller, Rachel; Richards, Russell; Salgado, Hugo; Strand, Hilleveli; Moe, Espen; Ellis, John title: Assessing Stakeholder Adaptive Capacity to Salmon Aquaculture in Norway date: 2014 words: 16006 flesch: 46 summary: Policy makers’ a priori knowledge of these variables can lessen conflicts that may arise as a result of stakeholder discontent with top-down approaches to aquaculture management, and give managers a better understanding about what they propose could have negative repercussions with stakeholder groups. Finally, the respective stakeholder groups and their scenario development sessions are introduced, and the future political consequences of a ten-fold increase in aquaculture production are discussed. keywords: aquaculture; aquaculture industry; aquaculture production; bbn; community; consilience; development; et al; fisheries; fishermen; fishing; frøya; future; group; increase; industry; issue; norway; norwegian; priority; production; salmon; salmon aquaculture; scenarios; stakeholder; variables; workshop cache: consilience-4649.pdf plain text: consilience-4649.txt item: #197 of 273 id: consilience-4650 author: Mishra, Dr. Pallabi; Dash, Dr. Debiprasad title: Rejuvenation of Biofertiliser for Sustainable Agriculture Economic Development (SAED) date: 2014 words: 5079 flesch: 47 summary: Nature Education Knowledge 3(10):2 Patrick Jr., W. H. and Reddy, C.N. (1978) Chemical changes in rice soils. Soil nitrogen and Biological Nitrogen Fixation (BNF) by associated organisms are major sources of nitrogen for low land rice. keywords: agriculture; azolla; biofertilizer; chemical; consilience; crop; growth; manure; nitrogen; plant; rice; soil; zinc cache: consilience-4650.pdf plain text: consilience-4650.txt item: #198 of 273 id: consilience-4651 author: Lin, Fanyuan title: A Comparative Study on Payment Schemes For Watershed Services in New York City and Beijing date: 2014 words: 4389 flesch: 52 summary: Overview of Beijing Watershed Program Consilience Lin: Payment for Watershed Services China is a water stressed country with per capita water resources less than a third of the world average (FAO 2003). Recommendations This paper only discusses two cases of watershed PES programs, but some lessons can be drawn from the comparison and be potentially applied to other localities where a watershed PES program is being considered. keywords: beijing; city; government; new; pes; program; protection; services; watershed; york cache: consilience-4651.pdf plain text: consilience-4651.txt item: #199 of 273 id: consilience-4652 author: Chirisa, Innocent title: Building and Urban Planning in Zimbabwe: Putting Needs, Costs and Sustainability in Focus date: 2014 words: 10621 flesch: 41 summary: Figure 1 is a framework for implementing sustainability in building construction adapted from Akadiri, Chinyio and Olomolaiye (2012:131). They are also the major reason why urban construction remains low when demand for the buildings is high. keywords: building; city; consilience; construction; costs; country; development; environment; government; harare; housing; industry; land; new; november; order; planning; plans; policy; sector; sustainability; urban; zimbabwe cache: consilience-4652.pdf plain text: consilience-4652.txt item: #200 of 273 id: consilience-4653 author: Rehaut, Lucas title: Editor’s Note date: 2014 words: 502 flesch: 38 summary: Consilience celebrated the publication of its tenth issue in May of 2013, and Issue XI represents another strong step forward for the journal, as well as another great contribution to the expanding body of sustainable development research. In his opinion piece, Ranu Dhillon looks at America’s obesity epidemic through the lens of sustainable development and comes to some interesting conclusions. keywords: development; editor cache: consilience-4653.pdf plain text: consilience-4653.txt item: #201 of 273 id: consilience-4655 author: Mubazi, John Kigongo E. title: Interdependency of Aid Effectiveness and Good Governance date: 2016 words: 5195 flesch: 40 summary: The government can establish such to keep an eye on corruption activities and report to it when anything is detected so that action can be taken. It can be argued that corrupt officials work harder because they are often in their offices in order to exploit corruption opportunities. keywords: aid; consilience; corruption; development; good; governance; government; instruments; market; policy; regulation; state cache: consilience-4655.pdf plain text: consilience-4655.txt item: #202 of 273 id: consilience-4657 author: Al Sabah, Khaleefah Jabar; Palliam, Ralph; Salem, Athmar Al title: Sustaining Standard of Living Amidst Volatile Oil Prices – Lessons from the Gulf Countries date: 2016 words: 6138 flesch: 49 summary: In addressing the impact of oil prices on the Indian economy, Aparna (2014) argues that an understanding of the peculiar nature of oil trade, the nature of price determination, and the uncharacteristic application of supply and demand are necessary prerequisites to explain the events that trigger major political reactions worldwide. In analyzing the consequences of oil price volatility on energy security, Bordoff and Stock (2014) contend that there is an arguably urgent need to address the concerns associated with major swings in oil prices, and furthermore it is necessary to identify those individual countries that are responsible for the staggering collapse. keywords: countries; economic; economy; gdp; growth; gulf; inflation; living; oil; oil prices; price; standard; study cache: consilience-4657.pdf plain text: consilience-4657.txt item: #203 of 273 id: consilience-4663 author: Lie, Jon Harald Sande title: Reproducing Development’s Trusteeship and Discursive Power date: 2016 words: 9087 flesch: 45 summary: Inspired by post-development theory, and drawing on both a review of development theory and fieldwork within the World Bank, this article argues that the lopsided aid-relations are continuously being reproduced through the formation of development expert knowledge within authoritative donor communities. Trusteeship and Discursive Power Legible Planning Despite just about all Bank-staff emphasis the importance of the social aspects of development knowledge, people engaged in this sector express difficulties of achieving any substantial influence whereas those working in PREM acknowledge that the Bank is “mainly concerned with growth and economic management” – as an economist at the Bank’s Uganda country office expressed it. keywords: aid; bank; consilience; development; discourse; knowledge; lie; post; power; practice; process; recipient; theory; world; world bank cache: consilience-4663.pdf plain text: consilience-4663.txt item: #204 of 273 id: consilience-4664 author: Hollender, Rebecca title: Capitalizing on Public Discourse in Bolivia – Evo Morales and Twenty-first Century Capitalism date: 2016 words: 10253 flesch: 33 summary: This paper will explore Morales’ neglect of longer-term political goals for economic independence, self- sufficiency, and sustainability by considering competing theories of social movements, political parties, and the state that provide different lenses for understanding MAS’ abandonment of its original political platform for change, Twenty-First Century Socialism (Socialismo del Siglo XXI). It will examine a number of competing theories of social movements, political parties, and the state that provide different lenses for understanding MAS’ abandonment of its original radical political platform for change, known as Twenty- First Century Socialism (Socialismo del Siglo XXI). keywords: alternatives; bolivia; change; consilience; development; evo; government; hollender; latin; mas; morales; movements; new; pact; party; policy; power; processes; state; term; unity cache: consilience-4664.pdf plain text: consilience-4664.txt item: #205 of 273 id: consilience-4665 author: Ndubueze-Ogaraku, Mercy Ebere; Onoja, Anthony; Monsi, Blessing title: A Comparative Analysis of Productivities in Shellfish Collection in Oil Spill and Non-Oil Spill Communities of River State, Nigeria date: 2016 words: 4901 flesch: 54 summary: Table 2: cost and returns of shellfish collection in oil spill community in Gokana Local Government Area Items Amount in Naira (N) Cost of Labor 35,800 Cost of Transportation 7,008.00 Packaging Materials 539.08 Miscellaneous Expenses 4,696.00 Total variable cost 48,043.08 Revenue Periwinkle 78600.1 Consilience Ndubueze-Ogaraku: Comparative Productivities of Shellfish Collection Dog-winkle 182,485.74 Total revenue from Periwinkle and Dog- winkle 182,485.74 GROSS MARGIN 134,442.66 Total Fixed Costs 3,074.50 Total Cost 51,117.58 NET PROFIT 131,368.16 Field survey, 2013 The alternative hypothesis that the mean profit from non-oil spill community was higher than the mean profit from oil spill community was accepted. keywords: area; collection; community; cost; government; nigeria; oil; profit; shellfish; spill cache: consilience-4665.pdf plain text: consilience-4665.txt item: #206 of 273 id: consilience-4666 author: Adewumi, James Rotimi; Oguntuase, Abiose Matthew title: Planning of Wastewater Reuse Programme in Nigeria date: 2016 words: 9948 flesch: 34 summary: As wastewater treatment is relatively expensive (far more than water supply treatment) pilot programs and projects must first be established after detailed feasibility studies are conducted in selected locations to determine the efficacy of nation-wide programs for wastewater reuse. Levels of wastewater treatment are generally classified as preliminary, primary, secondary, and advanced. keywords: adewumi; city; consilience; environmental; groundwater; health; industrial; irrigation; management; potential; public; quality; recharge; reuse; risk; supply; systems; tertiary; treatment; treatment irrigation; uses; wastewater; wastewater reuse; wastewater treatment cache: consilience-4666.pdf plain text: consilience-4666.txt item: #207 of 273 id: consilience-4671 author: Oyakhilomen, Oyinbo title: Technical Efficiency-Food Security Nexus in Kaduna State, Nigeria: A Case Study of Poultry Egg Farmers date: 2015 words: 5393 flesch: 47 summary: estimate the determinants of technical efficiency of poultry egg production in the study area; iii. estimate the food security status of poultry egg farmers in the study area; 3.2.1 Distribution of Technical Efficiency of Poultry Egg Farmers The distribution of poultry egg farmers technical efficiency presented in Table 3 shows that the majority (35.3%) of the respondents were operating at a technical efficiency of 0.0-1.0, with a mean technical efficiency level of 0.23%. keywords: efficiency; egg; farmers; food; nigeria; poultry; production; security; study cache: consilience-4671.pdf plain text: consilience-4671.txt item: #208 of 273 id: consilience-4672 author: Owusu-Boateng, G.; Gadogbe, M. K. title: Domestic Rainwater Harvesting in a Water-Stressed Community and Variation in Rainwater Quality from Source to Storage date: 2015 words: 6826 flesch: 53 summary: There are several points along the DRWH chain where contaminants can enter and compromise water quality. Consilience Owusu-Boateng and Gadogbe: Domestic Rainwater Harvesting     Table 1: Water quality parameters measured in the poorly-maintained system (S1) and the well-maintained system (S2)   Parameters Range of values 5% LSD Free-fall Roof catchment Storage tank S1 S2 S1 S2 S1 S2 S1 S2 pH 6.0–6.4 6.0–6.1 6.0–7.0 6.0–6.4 keywords: catchment; coliform; fall; harvesting; quality; rainwater; roof; samples; storage; system; tank; total; values cache: consilience-4672.pdf plain text: consilience-4672.txt item: #209 of 273 id: consilience-4673 author: Krisel, Rebecca Salima title: Gentrifying a Superfund Site: Why Gowanus, Brooklyn is Becoming a Real Estate Hot Spot date: 2015 words: 4942 flesch: 57 summary: Gowanus Canal Gentrification Figure 3: Map of Gowanus Canal (Source: Google Maps) Keywords: Superfund site, Gowanus Canal, gentrification, residential development, industrial displacement, super-gentrification, affordable housing, urban sustainable development. keywords: affordable; avenue; brooklyn; canal; estate; gentrification; gowanus; housing; new; percent; york cache: consilience-4673.pdf plain text: consilience-4673.txt item: #210 of 273 id: consilience-4674 author: Bernard, Miranda; Menz, Alyssa; Booth, Laura title: The Longevity of the Magnet Effect: Fire-Herbivory Interactions in Central Kenya date: 2015 words: 2354 flesch: 62 summary: While the process of the magnet effect has been described, neither its longevity nor the manner through which fire intensity affects its strength is understood. In this study, we explored whether the increase in herbivory pressure predicted by the magnet effect is maintained over long periods after a fire, how fire intensity influences the strength of the magnet effect, and which feeder types are most influenced by the magnet effect. keywords: effect; fire; herbivory; magnet; year cache: consilience-4674.pdf plain text: consilience-4674.txt item: #211 of 273 id: consilience-4675 author: Park, Jonathan T title: Climate Change and Capitalism date: 2015 words: 8588 flesch: 47 summary: Global climate change has been the most severe consequence of our society’s excessive atmospheric pollution. Any viable solution to climate change will therefore require a global agreement to drastically inhibit the extraction, production, and consumption of natural resources. keywords: capitalism; carbon; change; climate; climate change; cost; demand; fossil; market; people; products; resources; tax; value cache: consilience-4675.pdf plain text: consilience-4675.txt item: #212 of 273 id: consilience-4676 author: Onoja, Anthony O; Achike, Anthonia I title: Large-Scale Land Acquisitions by Foreign Investors in West Africa: Learning Points date: 2015 words: 7643 flesch: 48 summary: Farming Matters noted that, in Africa, large tracts of agricultural land are being bought or leased by foreign investors for far below-market prices (2011). Response indicators show that the value of agricultural production per hectare of agricultural land is highest in South Asia, at I$ 720.6, while Sub-Saharan Africa trailed behind, globally ranking lowest with a value of I$ 71.8. keywords: achike; acquisitions; africa; countries; development; fao; food; investment; investors; land; nigeria; scale; scale land; water; west; world cache: consilience-4676.pdf plain text: consilience-4676.txt item: #213 of 273 id: consilience-4677 author: Oginni, Simon Oyewole; Moitui, Joash Ntenga title: Social Media and Public Policy Process in Africa: Enhanced Policy Process in Digital Age date: 2015 words: 6349 flesch: 47 summary: Thus, social media tools can also have an adverse effect: its use by state actors could lead to completely opposite outcomes called the “dyadic nature of social media.” Citizens’ engagement through social media lends policy process too much flexibility as indicated by the open space with dotted arrows (Figure 1). keywords: africa; citizens; development; digital; engagement; governments; internet; media; online; policy; policy process; process; public; use cache: consilience-4677.pdf plain text: consilience-4677.txt item: #214 of 273 id: consilience-4678 author: Mutami, Cephas title: Smallholder Agriculture Production in Zimbabwe: A Survey date: 2015 words: 7817 flesch: 46 summary: On the effectiveness of each scheme, the subsidized voucher input scheme (AIS) by the government in the 2010/2011 and 2011/2012 agricultural seasons was highly regarded, especially by small scale communal farmers. This crop mix of communal farmers has a direct impact on poverty alleviation and rural development for smallholder farmers in communal areas. keywords: agriculture; areas; crop; development; entitlement; farmers; government; households; inputs; production; scale; scheme; smallholder; smallholder agriculture; study; zimbabwe cache: consilience-4678.pdf plain text: consilience-4678.txt item: #215 of 273 id: consilience-4679 author: Mullenite, Joshua title: Historical Repetition and Development Narratives in Guyana’s Coastal Drainage and Irrigation System date: 2015 words: 6176 flesch: 56 summary: ‘The Political Ecology of Flood Hazard in Urban Guyana.’ The seacoast is protected from intrusion by a large sea wall broken up by water management control devices, which drain the canals via gravity 2 It is possible that there had been some settlement on the coast in prehistoric Guyana and settlement upstream, but what were to become the most populated areas were seemingly uninhabited. keywords: agriculture; british; coast; d&i; development; drainage; guyana; history; mullenite; press; projects; system; university cache: consilience-4679.pdf plain text: consilience-4679.txt item: #216 of 273 id: consilience-4680 author: Moyer, Liz title: An Impact Assessment Model for Web-Based Time Banks – A Thought-Experiment in the Operationalization of Social Capital date: 2015 words: 8542 flesch: 42 summary: Are levels of trust higher among time bank members than among members of the general community? Time banks hold particular interest to me because the model goes beyond offering an alternative system of currency, and provides a new framework for community interaction. keywords: assessment; bank; capital; community; data; development; impact; members; model; moyer; network; participation; research; social; survey; time; time bank cache: consilience-4680.pdf plain text: consilience-4680.txt item: #217 of 273 id: consilience-4682 author: Deedam, Nua J; Onoja, Anthony O title: Impact of Poverty Alleviation Programmes on Indigenous Women’s Economic Empowerment in Nigeria: Evidence from Port Harcourt Metropolis date: 2015 words: 4980 flesch: 50 summary: This development is a salvo to poverty alleviation programmes and underlies the need to put women in the forefront of poverty alleviation programme designs. identify the level of participation of indigenous women in poverty alleviation programmes in the study area; and 2.) assess the impact of participation in poverty alleviation programmes on selected economic empowerment indices among Port Harcourt metropolis indigenous women. keywords: alleviation; cent; development; impact; income; nigeria; pap; poverty; poverty alleviation; programmes; women cache: consilience-4682.pdf plain text: consilience-4682.txt item: #218 of 273 id: consilience-4683 author: Caytas, Joanna Diane title: Legal Aspects of Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis in Sustainable Urban Development date: 2015 words: 9638 flesch: 34 summary: Technology and innovation (avoidance of waste by planned obsolescence) • Legal and regulatory framework (international, national, state and municipal levels) • Public education, information and compliance • Supraregional influences (war, migration, large-scale natural disasters) Consilience Caytas: Legal Aspects in Sustainable Urban Development 2. Technology Assessment as a Tool and as a Process “All of science is nothing more than refinement of everyday thinking.” – Thomas Jefferson, Letter to James Madison, 1789 Consilience Caytas: Legal Aspects in Sustainable Urban Development 1. keywords: accounting; analysis; aspects; assessment; caytas; consilience; cost; development; future; human; international; int’l; law; life; policy; population; principle; public; research; resources; rev; science; society; system; technology; technology assessment; time cache: consilience-4683.pdf plain text: consilience-4683.txt item: #219 of 273 id: consilience-4685 author: Berry, Megan Nicole title: Sustainability As: An Analysis of the Alberta Oil Sands Industry’s Metaphorical Discourse date: 2015 words: 9585 flesch: 48 summary: This paper begins with a brief overview of the literature on sustainability metaphors, followed by an examination of what a systematic process for metaphor analysis should entail. The corpus in question will be briefly discussed, the precise methodology presented, and some key highlights of the research findings of sustainability metaphors in the oil sands industry dialogue put forth. keywords: alberta; analysis; consilience; energy; environmentalism; industry; journey; metaphor; nature; oil; sands; sustainability; understanding cache: consilience-4685.pdf plain text: consilience-4685.txt item: #220 of 273 id: consilience-4686 author: Beck, Gregor; Ditzel, Cora; Ganter, Sofia; Perov, Olga title: Mind the Gap – The Discrepancy between the Normative Debate and the Actual Use of Human Rights Language in International Climate Negotiations date: 2015 words: 9935 flesch: 46 summary: Both expert question guidelines contained broad questions about the general role of human rights in climate negotiations as well as more specific questions on human rights articulations by states. The civil society experts addressed two further potential reasons for human rights articulations which seemed substantiated given the submission analysis results: Human rights are articulated among other things for political reasons or as a strategy especially of left-leaning South American states which use them embedded in their general political orientation (Sterk 2013: 2-3). keywords: adp; articulations; change; climate; climate change; climate negotiations; ecuador; experts; gap; group; international; lmdc; negotiations; parties; rights; state; submissions cache: consilience-4686.pdf plain text: consilience-4686.txt item: #221 of 273 id: consilience-4687 author: Badichek, Gregg title: Resolving Conflicts Between Endangered Species Conservation and Renewable Energy Siting: Wiggle Room for Renewables? date: 2015 words: 10235 flesch: 37 summary: 123 “The DRECP will encompass development of solar thermal, utility-scale solar photovoltaic (PV), wind, and other forms of renewable energy and associated infrastructure such as electric transmission lines necessary for renewable energy development within the Mojave and Colorado desert regions of California.” As described supra, renewable energy projects often disagree with certain listed species. keywords: act; action; badichek; consilience; development; endangered; energy; esa; infrastructure; land; projects; service; solar; species; u.s; wildlife; wind cache: consilience-4687.pdf plain text: consilience-4687.txt item: #222 of 273 id: consilience-4688 author: Elivo, Ryan title: Note from the Editor-in-Chief date: 2015 words: 742 flesch: 38 summary: 2015 will be a crucial turning point for sustainable development and international governance, with meaningful policy solutions in the pipeline. 2015 will be a turning point for sustainable development, with the rollout of the Sustainable Development Goals and the convening of the 21st Conference of Parties at the end of the year. keywords: development; discourse; issue cache: consilience-4688.pdf plain text: consilience-4688.txt item: #223 of 273 id: consilience-4689 author: Olawuyi, Domilola title: Ontario’s Climate Change Mitigation and Low Carbon Economy Act: Pious Aspirations or New Dawn? date: 2016 words: 4113 flesch: 33 summary: By extending its reach to a wide range of activities and sectors, the proposed Ontario Climate Act arguably meets the requirement of effectiveness and has strong potentials to adequately regulate key emission sources in Ontario. This article assesses the potentials and pitfalls of the Ontario Climate Act. keywords: act; cap; carbon; change; climate; emissions; ontario; program; trade; trading cache: consilience-4689.pdf plain text: consilience-4689.txt item: #224 of 273 id: consilience-4690 author: Mohtadi, Tara title: The Complementarity of Improving Quality of Life and Reducing Environmental Footprints in Urban Spaces: The Argument for ‘Hedonistic Sustainability’ date: 2016 words: 4346 flesch: 43 summary: Urban green spaces such as parks, green roofs, gardens, etc. can provide benefits ranging from storm water management, to diminishing the urban heat island effect, and improving biodiversity. In other words, urban greening can create a localized wave of gentrification, which over time will leave socially vulnerable populations without access to urban green space. keywords: benefits; bogotá; cities; city; consilience; design; life; space; sustainability cache: consilience-4690.pdf plain text: consilience-4690.txt item: #225 of 273 id: consilience-4691 author: Garten, Lindsay title: The Coastal Zone Management Act: A Mixed Success date: 2016 words: 4267 flesch: 50 summary: Consilience 10 living along coastal zones it expected to increase by 11 million over the next seven years, which will further stress surrounding ecosystems.50 Projections indicate that coastal zones will only face more stress in the coming years, which puts increased importance on coastal zone management. The ecosystem services that coastal zones provide will be compromised if we follow the current management path. keywords: act; april; areas; coastal; management; national; pollution; states; zone; zone management cache: consilience-4691.pdf plain text: consilience-4691.txt item: #226 of 273 id: consilience-5723 author: Choptiany, John Michael Humphries; Graeub, Benjamin Ernst; Hatik, Sinan; Conversa, Daniele; Ledermann, Samuel Thomas title: Participatory Assessment and Adaptation for Resilience to Climate Change date: 2019 words: 4971 flesch: 45 summary: The ‘one-off’ snapshot produced by existing tools gives a picture of resilience but requires outsiders (often a development project or organization) to support changes following from the assessment. While existing tools use individual segments of these approaches, the time is ripe to integrate them for a comprehensive and holistic farm-level assessment which provides recommendations for improvement of resilience using locally and globally sourced solutions presented in a farmer-centric approach. keywords: approach; apr; climate; content; development; farmer; fri; resilience; solutions; subject; tool; use; utc cache: consilience-5723.pdf plain text: consilience-5723.txt item: #227 of 273 id: consilience-5727 author: Karsch, Nicole Marie title: Examining the Validity of the Environmental Kuznets Curve date: 2019 words: 9447 flesch: 40 summary: UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms Consilience Karsch: Environmental Kuznets Curve environmental sustainability. UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms Consilience Karsch: Environmental Kuznets Curve keywords: countries; country; curve; development; economic; ekc; emissions; environmental; growth; iceland; income; kuznets; use; utc; world cache: consilience-5727.pdf plain text: consilience-5727.txt item: #228 of 273 id: consilience-5728 author: Koshiba, Michikazu title: Strategies to Promote the International Private Sector’s Contribution to Global Health Beyond an “Established” Community date: 2019 words: 6847 flesch: 39 summary: If we re-map the contributors working on global health issues and establish another index for related industries, estimates of global health investment also shift. Of course, this is not the only approach that could encourage more engagement from private sector on global health issues; however, a holistic new framework would encompass many new industries and introduce new interest in global health investment. keywords: countries; development; esg; global; health; index; industries; investment; issues; procurement; products; use; 〇 △; 〇 〇 cache: consilience-5728.pdf plain text: consilience-5728.txt item: #229 of 273 id: consilience-5729 author: Bhattacharya, Sayan title: Environmental Crisis in the Eastern Himalayan Landscapes in India date: 2019 words: 4802 flesch: 44 summary: This photo essay aims to discuss the nature of the challenges in the Eastern Himalayas which pose a palpable threat to the local ecology and environment, and to establish how a more sustainable approach is necessary to salvage this ecologically unique region. Keywords: Eastern Himalayas, biodiversity, ecology, sustainable development This content downloaded from 68.61.68.201 on Fri, 17 Apr 2020 04:25:55 keywords: apr; areas; bhattacharya; consilience; content; eastern; fri; himalayas; https://about.jstor.org/terms; india; subject; use; utc cache: consilience-5729.pdf plain text: consilience-5729.txt item: #230 of 273 id: consilience-6178 author: Shinall, Vivian title: Expendable Bodies: Examining the Connection Between Ecoracism and Embodied Toxicity to Advance Eco-Social Justice Activism date: 2021 words: 4299 flesch: 52 summary: The speed at which toxic contamination occurs is in itself an obstacle to its visibility. In applying this concept to toxic contamination on the body, one can more clearly understand how a violence that takes place slowly and increases gradually may not capture the public’s attention. keywords: bodies; ecoracism; environmental; kettleman; land; people; standing; sze; toxicity cache: consilience-6178.pdf plain text: consilience-6178.txt item: #231 of 273 id: consilience-6226 author: Margulies, Morgan title: Eco-Nationalism: A Historical Evaluation of Nationalist Praxes in Environmentalist and Ecologist Movements date: 2021 words: 5015 flesch: 31 summary: While ethnic eco-nationalist movements successfully realized the goals of ecologism, the typical problems of ethnic nationalism prevailed when ecological narratives were interwoven with genocidal violence. The assumed spiritual, organic, and naturalistic connection between community and nature has been continuously evoked in ethnic nationalist movements through history. keywords: change; civic; climate; eco; environmentalist; ethnic; movements; nationalism; nuclear cache: consilience-6226.pdf plain text: consilience-6226.txt item: #232 of 273 id: consilience-6354 author: Elliott, Christian title: When Nature Invades: Resident Perceptions of the Austerity-Driven “Re-Wilding” of an Urban Park in Rock Island, Illinois date: 2021 words: 12325 flesch: 56 summary: Basketball hoops dismantled in response to crime at Rock Island city park. Yet, while urban parks are being asked to provide these increasingly important services for cities, parks departments across the country are facing significant cuts to funding and staffing—investment in public space tends to be “disproportionately subject to tight fiscal pressures” (Dempsey & Burton 2012). keywords: areas; basketball; cities; city; department; development; island; journal; lincoln; lincoln park; management; naturalization; nature; park; parks department; people; prairie; public; residents; rock; rock island; urban; use cache: consilience-6354.pdf plain text: consilience-6354.txt item: #233 of 273 id: consilience-6619 author: Consilience Board title: Consilience Author Submission Guidelines date: 2010 words: 2266 flesch: 46 summary: - The Consilience Editorial Team Scope of the Journal Consilience publishes scholarly articles, opinion pieces, field notes, editorial columns and photo essays. Given the rigor of the research, scholarly articles contain technical language and use of appropriate terminology. keywords: articles; author; consilience; development; journal cache: consilience-6619.pdf plain text: consilience-6619.txt item: #234 of 273 id: consilience-6670 author: Baker, Patrick title: Government Subsidization and the Reduction of Enteric Emissions in the United States: Is implementing a policy of national enteric emissions standards a feasible national policy option to reduce methane emissions in the United States? date: 2021 words: 3643 flesch: 42 summary: DSM, a health and wellness company headquartered in the Netherlands, has created Bovaer, a feed additive that promises to reduce enteric methane emissions by 30% (DSM, n.d.). What distinguishes the two countries with regard to agriculture and methane emissions are their plans and successes in reducing enteric methane emissions while maintaining solid economic growth and cattle yields. keywords: agriculture; climate; emissions; livestock; methane; new; states; subsidization; united cache: consilience-6670.pdf plain text: consilience-6670.txt item: #235 of 273 id: consilience-6729 author: Sachs, Jeffrey title: COVID-19 and Multilateralism date: 2020 words: 3979 flesch: 54 summary: All of this means that we must redouble our efforts to choose a path out of this crisis built on public health, sustainable development, and most importantly, the View Journal | View Issue COVID-19 and MultilateralismCOVID-19 and Multilateralism Jeffrey D. Sachs Center for Sustainable Development, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, United States ABSTRACT: The United States was by far the world’s largest economy in the Interwar period, but America was not yet prepared for global leadership. keywords: america; china; global; states; u.s; united; united states; world cache: consilience-6729.pdf plain text: consilience-6729.txt item: #236 of 273 id: consilience-6730 author: Bhardwaj, Amar; Ahmed, Sophia title: Note from the Editors date: 2020 words: 426 flesch: 39 summary: Consilience confronts such challenges in Issue XXII by continuing to uphold fact-based research and incorporating diverse voices. Dear Reader, We are pleased to present Issue XXII of Consilience: The Journal of Sustainable Development. keywords: consilience; issue cache: consilience-6730.pdf plain text: consilience-6730.txt item: #237 of 273 id: consilience-6731 author: Tatro, Kaitlyn title: Light Energy: Our Wasted Resource date: 2020 words: 5509 flesch: 63 summary: As society continues to advance, more light follows. Isolated in a petri dish, the cells react strongest to blue light—wavelengths approximately between 420 and 480 (Figure 2). keywords: bogard; consilience; consumption; electricity; energy; health; journal; light; lighting; pollution; sky; sleep; u.s cache: consilience-6731.pdf plain text: consilience-6731.txt item: #238 of 273 id: consilience-6732 author: Sugihara, Risa title: Reuse of Human Excreta in Developing Countries: Agricultural Fertilization Optimization date: 2020 words: 5012 flesch: 44 summary: Improper fecal management results not only in water pollution but also the transmission of infectious diseases through person- to-person interaction, water, and food due to pathogens found in human excreta. Although many efforts have been made to remedy this issue, illegal dumping of human excreta still persists, and there is still a lack of adequate and safe disposal of human excreta into the environment which prevents developing nations from attaining proper fecal sludge management (Goal 6 Sustainable Development Knowledge Platform, 2019). keywords: countries; excreta; fertilizer; food; human; journal; management; sanitation; sludge; use; waste cache: consilience-6732.pdf plain text: consilience-6732.txt item: #239 of 273 id: consilience-6737 author: Manteaw, Bob Offei title: Mindscapes and Landscapes: Learning to Adapt in Transnational Climate Adaptation Collaborative in Africa date: 2020 words: 8838 flesch: 42 summary: My works in climate change adaptation emerged out of my research interest in the social dimensions of global environmental change which eventually saw me move from academia in the United States to lead the province of Alberta’s Climate Adaptation program in Canada. From this perspective, some of the current flawed assumptions and understandings of climate change and the role of learning in climate change adaptation and socio-ecological systems change processes become under- standable. keywords: adaptation; change; change adaptation; climate; climate adaptation; climate change; development; environmental; impacts; journal; learning; processes; programs; resilience; socio; systems cache: consilience-6737.pdf plain text: consilience-6737.txt item: #240 of 273 id: consilience-6738 author: Kelly, Jared title: The City Sprouted: The Rise of Brasília date: 2020 words: 10599 flesch: 57 summary: Individuals living in rural Brazil had little to no ability to engage in collective action movements to address the problems facing them. “School quality and achievement in rural Brazil.” keywords: areas; brasília; brazil; brazilian; capital; cities; city; consilience; construction; country; de janeiro; development; favelas; government; janeiro; journal; land; new; paulo; public; rio; rio de; state; são; urban; world cache: consilience-6738.pdf plain text: consilience-6738.txt item: #241 of 273 id: consilience-6739 author: Bessette, Jonathan; Niblock, Eric title: Water Quality Pilot Study for Traditional Water Structure Revitalization Potential in the Deccan Plateau of India date: 2020 words: 7977 flesch: 47 summary: One example is View Journal | View Issue Water Quality Pilot Study for Traditional Water Structure Water Quality Pilot Study for Traditional Water Structure Revitalization Potential in the Deccan Plateau of IndiaRevitalization Potential in the Deccan Plateau of India Jonathan Bessette1 and Eric Niblock2 1School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 2College of Arts and Sciences, University at Buffalo, SUNY, Buffalo, NY 14260, United States, Email: jbessett@buffalo.edu, ericnibl@buffalo.edu Keywords:Keywords: water structures, Deccan Plateau, water quality, revitalization ABSTRACT:ABSTRACT: Traditional water structures such as stepwells and canal systems historically function as sustainable water sources. In this case, a government body aided in the maintenance of these revi- talization sites in an indirect way; searching for similar symbiotic relationships between government entities and water structures could aid in sustainable development. keywords: bidar; consilience; deccan; development; india; journal; karez; plateau; pollution; potential; quality; sites; sources; structures; systems; water; water quality; water structures cache: consilience-6739.pdf plain text: consilience-6739.txt item: #242 of 273 id: consilience-6740 author: Cilk, Madison title: National Culture and Urban Resilience: A Case Study of Resilient Cities date: 2020 words: 7761 flesch: 50 summary: Table 3: Urban resilience plan coding scores for national cultural dimensions Table 4: National cultural dimension scores* from Cultures and Organizations (2010) With more and more cities designing urban resilience plans, it is highly relevant to assess the role that national culture plays in the creation of these plans. keywords: cities; city; consilience; countries; cultural; culture; dimensions; hofstede; journal; low; national; plans; research; resilience; scores; strategy; urban; values cache: consilience-6740.pdf plain text: consilience-6740.txt item: #243 of 273 id: consilience-6741 author: Mascia, Raphaella title: Complications of the Climate Change Narrative within the Lives of Climate Refugees: Slow Causality and Apocalyptic Themes date: 2020 words: 6409 flesch: 40 summary: I contend that the dominant narrative of climate change complicates the narratives of climate change refugees through specific characteristics of climate change discourse, specifically, the temporal characteristics of slow causality and apocalyptic themes as evinced in two case studies, one in the small town of Shishmaref, Alaska and the other in the Maldives. And, as the consequences of climate change on humans become more evident, climate change refugees are often deemed the “human face of climate change” (Piguet, 2013; Bettini, 2013). keywords: causality; change narrative; climate; climate change; climate refugees; discourse; lyotard; maldives; narrative; refugees cache: consilience-6741.pdf plain text: consilience-6741.txt item: #244 of 273 id: consilience-6742 author: Drepaul, Nicole title: Sustainable Cities and the Internet of Things (IOT) Technology: IOT technology improves the development of smart cities’ infrastructures and reduces over-population stresses date: 2020 words: 6325 flesch: 37 summary: The definition of IOT technology has been re-written and conceptualized by various scholars. According to Haller, IOT technology is “a world where physical objects are seamlessly integrated into the information networks, and where the physical objects can become active participants in the business process” (Zhang, 2014, pp.1). keywords: cities; cloud; computing; data; development; environmental; information; iot; iot technology; journal; sector; sustainability; system; technology; urban; waste cache: consilience-6742.pdf plain text: consilience-6742.txt item: #245 of 273 id: consilience-6745 author: Morley, Sarah title: Do young people in Australian educational systems receive adequate support to feel empowered in engaging with Sustainable Development Goals? date: 2020 words: 4809 flesch: 31 summary: However, as has also been acknowl- edged, there exists a number of Australian school teachers who have identified flaws in the CCPs and are eager to initiate change in order to make sustainability education more effective. The first tier is evident in the capacity that Australian school teachers are deprived of adequate training and education regarding effective delivery of sustainability education in classrooms. keywords: change; climate; education; people; school; support; sustainability; teachers; youth cache: consilience-6745.pdf plain text: consilience-6745.txt item: #246 of 273 id: consilience-6746 author: Porreca, Zachary title: Environmental Sustainability and Human Capital Development date: 2020 words: 6288 flesch: 44 summary: The effect of carbon emissions on human capital development may have been better repre- sented functionally by a parabolic form (visually taking the shape of the “Kuznet Curve”). An investigation into the quan- tification of the interplay between reliance on renewable combustible energies, human capital levels, and quality of life as gauged by food security levels seems ripe for a similar instrumental variable approach. keywords: air; capital; development; emissions; factors; human; index; journal; model; pollution cache: consilience-6746.pdf plain text: consilience-6746.txt item: #247 of 273 id: consilience-6748 author: Herbert, Eti; Odeniyi, Omolara Olateju title: The Impact of World Bank-Assisted Projects on Poverty Alleviation date: 2022 words: 11658 flesch: 48 summary: 8 Consilience World Bank Assisted Projects In Nigeria Nigeria became a signatory to the World Bank Articles of Agreement in 1961, one year after the country’s independence and 17 years after the creation of the World Bank.10 Since then, Nigeria has continued to enjoy over 120 World Bank assisted projects and over 121 IBRD and IDA credit facilities.11 Below is the list of subsisting World Bank projects in Nigeria: 1. On the second perspective, it is doubtful whether poor citizens are taken into consideration in the execution of World Bank projects. keywords: alleviation; august; bank group; consilience; corruption; countries; country; development; government; impact; income; industries; international; loans; nigeria; oil; participation; people; percent; policy; poverty; projects; reduction; stakeholders; world bank cache: consilience-6748.pdf plain text: consilience-6748.txt item: #248 of 273 id: consilience-7100 author: Scheuch, Eric title: Green Evolution: Lessons from British Climate Policy, 1979-2020 date: 2021 words: 7312 flesch: 54 summary: Such consensus is most easily accomplished when politicians consider supporting climate policy to be in their interest, when public pressure is applied both during and after elections, when the business community recalculates the value of climate policies into its bottom line, and when progress is accomplished in steps rather than an overnight period. Durable cross-party support for climate change policies is possible, provided that politicians view supporting climate policy to be in their interest; 2.) keywords: action; britain; british; carbon; change; climate; climate change; climate policy; european; government; policies; policy; public cache: consilience-7100.pdf plain text: consilience-7100.txt item: #249 of 273 id: consilience-7198 author: Belletti, Elena; McBride, Milo title: Against the Tide: Potential for Marine Renewable Energy in Eastern and Southern Africa date: 2021 words: 8340 flesch: 50 summary: Keywords Tidal energy, marine renewable energy, Eastern and Southern Africa, policy design, sustainable development, democratizing energy access Against the Tide: Potential for Marine Renewable Energy in Eastern and Southern Africa Elena Belletti* and Milo McBride Consilience: The Journal of Sustainable Development Belletti & McBride: Against the Tide I. INTRODUCTION As a global push for decarbonization takes center stage in today’s energy policy, bringing renewable electrification to low-income countries is essential to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). While South Africa has early developments of wave energy, the following sections will focus on tidal energy, which has more regional applications and potential for market penetration. keywords: africa; development; electricity; energy; esa; generation; geothermal; kenya; mre; n.d; potential; power; projects; river; scale; technology; tidal; wind cache: consilience-7198.pdf plain text: consilience-7198.txt item: #250 of 273 id: consilience-7411 author: Findling, Hannah title: A Regional Energy Market to Achieve California’s Renewable Energy Goals date: 2021 words: 5487 flesch: 44 summary: This option is feasible because regional energy markets have been successful in the rest of the United States. Abstract The intermittency of renewable energy poses challenges for California’s energy stability and reliability as the state pushes towards its goal of reaching 100% renewable electricity by 2045. keywords: caiso; california; change; climate; electricity; energy; energy market; grid; market; power; state; system cache: consilience-7411.pdf plain text: consilience-7411.txt item: #251 of 273 id: consilience-7533 author: Rehaut, Lucas title: Editor's Note date: 2014 words: 459 flesch: 48 summary: While sustainable development can sometimes seem to focus on the problems our society faces, Consilience strives to advance perspectives and policy solutions that can point us towards a more hopeful, sustainable world. From ecological agriculture to health care policy to psychosocial approaches to poverty reduction, our authors have continually helped us reassess what pursuing sustainable development truly entails. keywords: development cache: consilience-7533.pdf plain text: consilience-7533.txt item: #252 of 273 id: consilience-7544 author: Lempert, David title: Universal Development Goals for This Millennium date: 2014 words: 9342 flesch: 39 summary: The author has worked through the details of codifying the principles of international development in a recent peer review article (Lempert, 2014) as one of a series of steps that are codifying international development law in a treatise. For community development, one can consider personal and community. keywords: community; cultures; development; development goals; goals; human; international; iss; journal; lempert; mdgs; principles; rights; vol; war; world cache: consilience-7544.pdf plain text: consilience-7544.txt item: #253 of 273 id: consilience-7545 author: Ho, Ezra title: Unsustainable Development in the Mekong: The Price of Hydropower date: 2014 words: 5106 flesch: 49 summary: Thus, the MRC is unable to craft a coherent vision for Mekong development. The end result is that Mekong development has been appropriated by neoliberal forces that have succeeded in framing the river system for certain privileged groups of actors, at the expense of local communities. keywords: basin; communities; countries; development; doi; energy; governance; hydropower; mekong; mekong river; river; systems; water cache: consilience-7545.pdf plain text: consilience-7545.txt item: #254 of 273 id: consilience-7546 author: Rand, Marcus title: The “Necessity” of Democracy for Sustainable Development: A Comparison between the USA and Cuba date: 2014 words: 6292 flesch: 40 summary: Cuba�s and the U.S.�s participation in this convention suggests 186 Consilience    186   that they are concerned about preserving the environment and pursuing a path of sustainable development. The results of the comparison indicate that, to promote sustainable development on a wider scale, it is necessary to focus on the values embedded in the dignity of humankind. keywords: consilience; convention; cuba; democracy; development; energy; environmental; government; policy; states; u.s; united cache: consilience-7546.pdf plain text: consilience-7546.txt item: #255 of 273 id: consilience-7547 author: Cain, Nicholas title: A Different Path: The Global Water Crisis and Rainwater Harvesting date: 2014 words: 3679 flesch: 41 summary: Despite these positives, there are some potential environmental risks, especially in rural areas where large-scale adoption of water harvesting for agriculture could reduce environmental flows.28 25 Lantagne, 2005 26 Awulachew, 2005 27 Gupta and Deshpanade, 2004 28 Gould, 1999 155 Consilience   Climate change also presents a challenge to rainwater harvesting. In Mumbai, India's most populous city, the Rainwater Club is educating residents of all income levels about the benefits of rainwater harvesting and the nuts- and-bolts issues of how to create a system.17 The city and the state of Gujarat have recently passed laws to mandate the installation of rainwater harvesting infrastructure in new construction. keywords: approach; communities; harvesting; projects; rainwater; rainwater harvesting; scale; systems; world cache: consilience-7547.pdf plain text: consilience-7547.txt item: #256 of 273 id: consilience-7550 author: Altmann, Philipp title: Good Life As a Social Movement Proposal for Natural Resource Use: The Indigenous Movement in Ecuador date: 2014 words: 5429 flesch: 45 summary: One part of this program was called `Good Life´ (Suma Qamaña) and, in collaboration with the Federation of Municipal Associations (Federación de Asociaciones Municipales), inspired a great quantity of publications on indigenous concepts of Good Life and their different aspects that could spread through the whole country. Keywords: Ecuador, indigenous movement, Good Life 1. keywords: conaie; concept; development; discourse; ecuador; indigenous; kawsay; life; movement; sumak cache: consilience-7550.pdf plain text: consilience-7550.txt item: #257 of 273 id: consilience-7551 author: Dhillon, Ranu title: America’s Other Growth Rate: What the U.S. Obesity Epidemic and Healthcare Cost Crisis Mean for the Rest of the World date: 2014 words: 4209 flesch: 57 summary: This content downloaded from �������������24.184.95.106 on Wed, 06 Jan 2021 20:06:57 UTC������������� All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms Consilience Dhillon: America’s Other Growth Rate     159   While prospects for American economic growth appear thin, the U.S. obesity epidemic continues to grow. This content downloaded from �������������24.184.95.106 on Wed, 06 Jan 2021 20:06:57 UTC������������� All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms keywords: american; countries; food; growth; health; healthcare; new; obesity; u.s; use; utc �; � � cache: consilience-7551.pdf plain text: consilience-7551.txt item: #258 of 273 id: consilience-7552 author: Bargout, Remy title: Ecological Agriculture and Sustainable Adaptation to Climate Change: A Practical and Holistic Strategy for Indian Smallholders date: 2014 words: 10733 flesch: 39 summary: However, regardless of the mutual viability these two systems have on a small farm, it is the explicit resilience of holistic, practical, and efficient farming practice – not the pious prohibition of certain technologies – that is most relevant for Indian smallholder adaptation. Having said this, there has been some government action in support Consilience Bargout: Ecological Agriculture and Sustainable Adaptation    114   of ecological agriculture for sustainable climate change adaptation. keywords: adaptation; agriculture; agro; biodiversity; change; climate; climate change; consilience; crop; food; india; millet; moisture; plant; resilience; rice; smallholders; soil; species; system; water cache: consilience-7552.pdf plain text: consilience-7552.txt item: #259 of 273 id: consilience-7553 author: Burgess, Rochelle title: Supporting Capabilities: Using Psychosocial Concepts to Guide a Sennian Approach to Escaping Urban Poverty date: 2014 words: 3403 flesch: 45 summary: Keywords: urban poverty, capabilities approach, social identity, social representations, stigma, poverty alleviation, favelas. Neo-liberal doctrine has long placed the roots of poverty within the individual and his inability to capitalize on life circumstances to achieve economic success.i,ii Urban poverty is a unique experience, however, which ties in a host of social factors such as high levels of crime, substandard housing conditions, and violence.iii Unsurprisingly, this changing face of poverty has prompted a reconfiguration of poverty philosophies, led by Amartya Sen‟s capabilities approach. keywords: favela; identity; individuals; poverty; psychosocial; representations; self; stigma cache: consilience-7553.pdf plain text: consilience-7553.txt item: #260 of 273 id: consilience-7555 author: Schipani, Samantha title: The Red Zone: Why Beijing’s Air Pollution Crisis is More Complicated than You Think date: 2014 words: 2860 flesch: 59 summary: 76–81   The Red Zone: Why Beijing’s Air Pollution Crisis is More Complicated than You Think Samantha Schipani Columbia University email: ss4121@columbia.edu Keywords: Air pollution, China, urban development The air pollution crisis in Beijing is an immediately pressing issue, as particulate concentrations have reached unprecedented levels and photographs of a smog-filled city with masked citizens fill international news. But the issue of air pollution in Beijing is much more complicated than media often portrays. keywords: air; beijing; carbon; china; emissions; pollution; urban cache: consilience-7555.pdf plain text: consilience-7555.txt item: #261 of 273 id: consilience-7556 author: Bernhardt, Thomas title: North-South Imbalances in the International Trade Regime: Why the WTO Does Not Benefit Developing Countries as Much as it Could date: 2014 words: 8469 flesch: 43 summary: 16 Examples include the Agreement on Agriculture (which required developed countries to cut their tariffs by 36% over six years whereas developing countries were given 10 years to lower their tariffs by only 24% while LDCs were exempted from tariff reductions altogether), the TRIPS Agreement (which gave industrial countries one year to implement its provisions, but developing countries five and LDCs eleven years), and the Agreement on SCM (which has implementation provisions similar to TRIPS). Consequently, after the implementation of Uruguay Round commitments, trade-weighted developed-country tariffs against imports from developing countries are on average more than four times higher than against goods produced by other developed countries (3.4% vs. 0.8%) (Hertel/Martin 2000: 464). keywords: access; countries; development; economic; international; negotiations; north; round; south; subsidies; tariff; trade; world; wto cache: consilience-7556.pdf plain text: consilience-7556.txt item: #262 of 273 id: consilience-7557 author: Gumbo, Trynos title: Scaling Up Sustainable Renewable Energy Generation from Municipal Solid Waste in the African Continent: Lessons from eThekwini, South Africa date: 2014 words: 7203 flesch: 46 summary: For instance, the municipality of Abidjan, in Côte d’Ivoire, has been working since 2009 to generate about 30 MW of electricity from landfill waste. Africa is home to many renewable energy sources, ranging from sun and water to municipal solid waste and wind. keywords: africa; cities; countries; energy; gas; generation; landfill; management; msw; municipality; site; south; urban; waste; world cache: consilience-7557.pdf plain text: consilience-7557.txt item: #263 of 273 id: consilience-7559 author: Young, Walker title: Rio Conventions Redux: An Argument for Merging the Trio into a Single Convention on Environmental Management date: 2010 words: 6967 flesch: 40 summary: The DAC Guidelines: Integrating Rio Conventions into Development Co-operation. Each Rio Convention was signed into law with the explicit acknowledgement that the document was sovereign and not subject to alteration or modification. keywords: cbd; cem; change; climate; conventions; desertification; development; management; rio; rio conventions; unccd; unfccc cache: consilience-7559.pdf plain text: consilience-7559.txt item: #264 of 273 id: consilience-7560 author: Ramirez, Byron title: Improving Sustainable Development Outcomes Through Best Management Practices date: 2014 words: 7273 flesch: 41 summary: Nonetheless, we have an opportunity to improve the leadership, planning, implementation, and monitoring of sustainable development projects. This paper addresses a few critical aspects of strategic management and some resulting challenges faced by policy makers, managers, and implementers of sustainable development projects who come from the private sector, public sector and NGOs. keywords: challenges; consilience; development; environment; individuals; leadership; management; organization; people; planning; projects; world cache: consilience-7560.pdf plain text: consilience-7560.txt item: #265 of 273 id: consilience-7644 author: Kirchhof, Erica title: Carbon Sinks of Steel: Using Bamboo to Combat Climate Change date: 2021 words: 3711 flesch: 51 summary: Article headlines across the world, from Jamaica (“Gov’t Targeting Value-Added Production From Bamboo”) to India (“Bamboo Wood Industry: Dark Horse in NE Economy”), to Florida (“Why Bamboo Might Be Worth the Climb for Florida Farmers”) all suggest that interest in bamboo cultivation is growing. Moreover, these results provide further support for involving smallholder farmers and rural communities in participatory systems that integrate their existing knowledge with bamboo cultivation and management. keywords: bamboo; carbon; change; climate; cultivation; growth; nath; sequestration cache: consilience-7644.pdf plain text: consilience-7644.txt item: #266 of 273 id: consilience-7645 author: Boughton, Carolanne title: Effects of and Potential Interventions to Combat Climate Change Impacts on Groundwater Resources in Long Island and Shelter Island date: 2021 words: 5013 flesch: 43 summary: Groundwater temperatures are expected to increase alongside surface temperature increases (Taylor & Stefan 2009). Consilience: The Journal of Sustainable Development Iss. 24, 2021 Effects of and potential interventions to combat climate change impacts on groundwater resources in Long Island and Shelter Island Carolanne Boughton1 1 Columbia University in the City of New York Abstract Climate change is predicted to increase the temperature, precipitation, and sea level in the northeastern United States. keywords: change; climate; groundwater; island; long; new; precipitation; recharge; resources; shelter; temperature; york cache: consilience-7645.pdf plain text: consilience-7645.txt item: #267 of 273 id: consilience-7877 author: Gandhi, Smiti; Liu, Andrew title: Living Energy: A Novel Approach to Using Biofluorescent Bacteria in Solar Concentrators date: 2021 words: 6189 flesch: 48 summary: In 2018, solar energy generated 2.2% of the United States’ electricity, compared to only 0.7% in 2014 (Lawson, Sherlock, Platzer, Clark, & Cowan, 2020). Unfortunately, solar energy heavily depends on the availability of sunlight and is only 15 to 21 percent efficient (Johnson, 2013), a problem researchers hope to solve through technological development. keywords: bacteria; biofluorescent; concentrator; december; energy; light; output; panels; power; solar; units cache: consilience-7877.pdf plain text: consilience-7877.txt item: #268 of 273 id: consilience-7880 author: Thornberg, Agnes; Chioffi, Olivia title: Note from the Editors date: 2021 words: 414 flesch: 49 summary: Note from the Editors Dear Readers, We are pleased to present Issue XXIII of Consilience: The Journal of Sustainable Development. The focus of the articles in Issue XXIII varies widely, from a global consideration of eco-nationalism to a local analysis of naturalization in an urban park in Rock Island, Illinois. keywords: consilience; journal cache: consilience-7880.pdf plain text: consilience-7880.txt item: #269 of 273 id: consilience-7952 author: Lindgren, Samantha title: Sustainability Education for Namibian Youth to Advance Efficient Cookstoves and Energy Development date: 2021 words: 5878 flesch: 50 summary: From cookstoves to cooking systems: the integrated program on sustainable household energy use in Mexico. Establishing and developing relationships with educational institutions strengthen the community and the project by preparing the next generation of household energy users to use healthier and more efficient means of cooking, thereby supporting the project’s desired outcomes, without waiting until they are adults. keywords: centre; children; cooking; cookstoves; development; energy; health; households; nadeet; parents; town; youth cache: consilience-7952.pdf plain text: consilience-7952.txt item: #270 of 273 id: consilience-8090 author: Fryett, Oliver title: Sharing the Burden: Climate responsibility beyond the nation-state date: 2022 words: 6925 flesch: 45 summary: Sharing the Burden: Climate responsibility beyond the nation-state Oliver Fryett Department of Geography, Planning and Spatial Sciences University of Tasmania omfryett@utas.edu.au Abstract Crafting an adequate and cohesive global response to climate change has presented a monumental challenge. Traditionally, climate responsibility has focused on the nation- state, yet these methods of responsibility allocation have failed in their key goal; to drive effective action to respond to the social and environmental consequences of climate change. keywords: action; carbon; change; climate; climate change; climate responsibility; emissions; equinor; ghg; global; nation; oil; production; responsibility; wealth cache: consilience-8090.pdf plain text: consilience-8090.txt item: #271 of 273 id: consilience-8249 author: Zhu, Nicholas title: Using Spatial Context and Demographic Analysis to Assess Surface Permeability in Philadelphia date: 2022 words: 5344 flesch: 42 summary: This paper explores how spatial and demographic research can be combined to provide a holistic assessment of surface permeability across one of America’s largest cities. For example, surface permeability was correlated with household income . keywords: analysis; city; consilience; income; medium; permeability; philadelphia; rent; surface; surface permeability; value cache: consilience-8249.pdf plain text: consilience-8249.txt item: #272 of 273 id: consilience-8447 author: Chen, Jocelyn; Thornberg, Agnes title: Note From the Editors date: 2021 words: 516 flesch: 48 summary: In Issue XXIV, we selected a collection of articles that examine the state of the planet and climate change with scientific rigor and objectivity. We encourage you to further engage with us and take a look at our Briefings column, which publishes shorter opinion pieces on hot-button topics. keywords: issue; pandemic cache: consilience-8447.pdf plain text: consilience-8447.txt item: #273 of 273 id: consilience-8794 author: Duong, Iris Wan Wan title: Redefining Shareholder Value Maximization: Identifying key sustainable investment strategies and their role in rehabilitating corporate purpose date: 2022 words: 11761 flesch: 38 summary: A guide for impact investment fund managers. One reason why impact investment may be financially profitable is the thematic growth underlying impact industries. keywords: activist; capital; companies; company; consilience; energy; esg; factors; funds; hedge; impact; impact investing; investing; investment; investors; management; market; maximization; new; pension; return; risk; shareholder; sustainability; term; value cache: consilience-8794.pdf plain text: consilience-8794.txt