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2. Quelques postulats relatifs aux indicateurs de développement durable: l'exemple de l'aquaculture.

Author

Rey-Valette, Hélëne, Clement, Olivier, Mathé, Syndhia, Lazard, Jerome, and Chia, Eduardo

Subjects
*SUSTAINABLE development, *ENVIRONMENTAL policy, *AQUACULTURE, *BIOINDICATORS, *LOCAL finance -- Accounting
Abstract

Some postulates about sustainable development indicators: the example of aquaculture. Firstly, the authors illustrate the abundance of references and initiatives enabling to implement sustainable development in aquaculture. They develop a chart to assess such initiatives with regards to the main features of sustainable development. Secondly, this paper outlines the co-construction approach of principles, criteria and indicators, selected in reference to the assumption that implementing sustainable development requires a stakeholder commitment and a collective learning process. The construction of indicators is based on criteria which refer to principles accounting for local issues and stakeholder representations of sustainable development. Finally, the third part of the paper provides a reflexive analysis of the protocol which is proposed so as to develop a more general inventory of conditions and procedures for the appropriation of sustainable development. Focusing on these conditions and procedures outlines the need for collective learning regarding the appropriation of a new value system. They also emphasize on the organizational and institutional conditions of this learning process; this implies defining a co-construction system and taking into account intermediate elements. Consequently, the proposed approach underlines the multiplicity of indicator functions. As a result, criteria and indicators are "facilitating" and "mediating" tools for stakeholders, employed in the deconstruction/construction process for implementing sustainable development. Thus the authors agree with the recent observations stemming from the evaluation of sustainable development indicators' construction approaches. These approaches demonstrate the significance of their supporting role in the consultation process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2010
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3. Evaluating Health Co-Benefits of Climate Change Mitigation in Urban Mobility

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Bernhard Mittelbach, Robert Griebler, Brigitte Wolkinger, Gabriel Bachner, Jennifer Delcour, Hans-Peter Hutter, Willi Haas, Raphael Jakob Reifeltshammer, Karl W. Steininger, Ulli Weisz, and Philipp Maier

Subjects
Computable general equilibrium, urban mobility, health co-benefits, physical activity, air pollution, climate change mitigation, interdisciplinary approach, Natural resource economics, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Climate Change, Cost-Benefit Analysis, Climate change, Transportation, Health Promotion, 010501 environmental sciences, 01 natural sciences, Article, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Economics, Humans, 030212 general & internal medicine, Exercise, Health policy, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Vehicle Emissions, Air Pollutants, Cost–benefit analysis, business.industry, Health Policy, Public sector, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Urban Health, Environmental Exposure, Models, Theoretical, Transport economics, Environmental Policy, Climate change mitigation scenarios, Climate change mitigation, Austria, business
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There is growing recognition that implementation of low-carbon policies in urban passenger transport has near-term health co-benefits through increased physical activity and improved air quality. Nevertheless, co-benefits and related cost reductions are often not taken into account in decision processes, likely because they are not easy to capture. In an interdisciplinary multi-model approach we address this gap, investigating the co-benefits resulting from increased physical activity and improved air quality due to climate mitigation policies for three urban areas. Additionally we take a (macro-)economic perspective, since that is the ultimate interest of policy-makers. Methodologically, we link a transport modelling tool, a transport emission model, an emission dispersion model, a health model and a macroeconomic Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model to analyze three climate change mitigation scenarios. We show that higher levels of physical exercise and reduced exposure to pollutants due to mitigation measures substantially decrease morbidity and mortality. Expenditures are mainly born by the public sector but are mostly offset by the emerging co-benefits. Our macroeconomic results indicate a strong positive welfare effect, yet with slightly negative GDP and employment effects. We conclude that considering economic co-benefits of climate change mitigation policies in urban mobility can be put forward as a forceful argument for policy makers to take action.

Published
2018

4. A social and ecological assessment of tropical land uses at multiple scales: the Sustainable Amazon Network

Author

Alexandre Camargo Coutinho, Phil Kaufmann, Thiago Moreira Cardoso, Emilie Coudel, Vívian Campos de Oliveira, Adriano Venturieri, Carla Daniele Furtado da Costa, Paulo Santos Pompeu, Troy Patrick Beldini, Luiz E. O. C. Aragão, Jansen Zuanon, Sébastien Marchand, Plínio Barbosa de Camargo, Ana Carolina Fiorini, Danielle L. Braga, Alexander C. Lees, Ederson da Conceição Jesus, Victor H. F. Oliveira, Déborah Reis de Carvalho, José Benito Guerrero, Fernando Z. Vaz-de-Mello, Patricia Carignano Torres, Maria de Fátima Lopes Almeida, Nicola Savério Holanda Tancredi, Erika Berenguer, Williams Souza de Ávila, Rodrigo Fagundes Braga, Carlos Souza Junior, Robert M. Hughes, Dênis Antônio da Cunha, Amanda Cardoso Nunes Cordeiro, Felipe Rossetti, Fernando A. Schmidt, Fabiane Campos dos Santos, Alexandre Aleixo, Cecilia Fadigas Viana, Mateus Batistella, Reinaldo Lourival, Danilo Carmago Igliori, Joelma Dezincourt, João V. Siqueira, Joice Ferreira, Alessandra dos Santos Gomes, Lenise Vargas Flores da Silva, Juliana M. Silveira, Ruan Carlo Stulpen Veiga, Fábio S. Frazão, Mariana Regina Durigan, Julio Louzada, Márcia Motta Maués, Rodrigo Ferreira da Silva, Álvaro de Oliveira D'Antona, Regina Célia Viana Martins da Silva, Leandro Juen, Karina Dias-Silva, Ivanei S. Araujo, Ronald Zanetti, Sâmia Nunes, Vanesca Korasaki, Christian B. Andretti, Rafael P. Leitão, Rodrigo Anzolin Begotti, Júlio César Dalla Mora Esquerdo, Cecília Gontijo Leal, José Gustavo Féres, Toby A. Gardner, Silvio Frosini de Barros Ferraz, Luke Parry, Jos Barlow, Carlos Eduardo Pellegrino Cerri, Ralph Charles Mac Nally, Thiago Fonseca Morello Ramalho da Silva, Ricardo Abramovay, Janaina Gomes de Brito, Miércio Júnior, James Robertson Thomson, Raimundo Cosme de Oliveira Junior, Amanda Estefânia de Melo Ferreira, Francisco de Assis Costa, Natália Lima, Heloisa Correia Pereira, Ricardo R. C. Solar, Carla R. Ribas, Teotonio Soares de Carvalho, Diana Weinhold, Nárgila G. Moura, Sergio Castelani, Richard D. Bardgett, Karoline da Silva Gonçalves, Neusa Hamada, Júlio C M Chaul, Fatima Maria de Souza Moreira, José Max Barbosa de Oliveira Junior, Carla Morsello, Renata Pardini, Jorge Luiz Nessimian, Rachel Garrett, Driss Ezzine de Blas, Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira, Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa), Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi [Belém, Brésil] (MPEG), Programa de Pos Graduasçao Cienca ambiental (PROCAM), Universidade de São Paulo = University of São Paulo (USP), National Institute for Space Research [Sao José dos Campos] (INPE), School of Earth and Environmental Sciences [Manchester] (SEES), University of Manchester [Manchester], Lab Ecol Isotop, CENA USP, Gestion des ressources renouvelables et environnement (UPR GREEN), Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad), Instituto de Pesquisa Económica Aplicada (IPEA), Programa de Pos-graduacao em Zoologia, Federal University of Para - Universidade Federal do Pará - UFPA [Belém, Brazil] (UFPA), Universidade Federal de Lavras = Federal University of Lavras (UFLA), Escola de Artes, Ciências e Humanidades, Universidade de São Paulo, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, Federal University of Western Para, Universidade de Brasilia [Brasília] (UnB), Coordenacao Biodiversidade, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Federal University of Para - Universidade Federal do Para [Belem - Brésil], and Universidade Federal de Lavras (UFLA)

Subjects
0106 biological sciences, Economics, Tropical Environment, Cost-Benefit Analysis, Land-use Change, Trade-off, 010501 environmental sciences, Procedures, Corrections, 01 natural sciences, Tropic Climate, Réseau de recherche, E14 - Économie et politique du développement, Multidisciplinary approach, 11. Sustainability, Land use, land-use change and forestry, Human Activities, Conservation Of Natural Resources, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, Utilisation des terres, 0303 health sciences, Ecology, Amazon rainforest, Environnement socioéconomique, Environmental resource management, 1. No poverty, Cost-benefit Analysis, Forestry, Biodiversity, Articles, Sustainable Development, Sol tropical, Variety (cybernetics), Environmental Policy, E11 - Économie et politique foncières, Policy, Geography, Sustainability, Research Design, jel:Q15, Social Planning, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Brazil, Zone tropicale, Human, Interdisciplinary Approach, Conservation of Natural Resources, Amazonas, 010603 evolutionary biology, General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, 12. Responsible consumption, 03 medical and health sciences, Tropical Forest, Humans, Environmental Planning, Ecosystem, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, 030304 developmental biology, Sustainable development, Tropical Climate, Land use, business.industry, Brasil, Impact sur l'environnement, Methodology, Ecological assessment, 15. Life on land, [SDE.ES]Environmental Sciences/Environmental and Society, interdisciplinary research, land use, social-ecological systems, sustainability, trade-offs, tropical forests, Socioeconomic Conditions, Socioeconomic Factors, Développement durable, Socioeconomics, [SHS.ENVIR]Humanities and Social Sciences/Environmental studies, HD100 Land Use, [SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology, business, Environmental Protection
Abstract

Science has a critical role to play in guiding more sustainable development trajectories. Here, we present the Sustainable Amazon Network ( Rede Amazônia Sustentável , RAS): a multidisciplinary research initiative involving more than 30 partner organizations working to assess both social and ecological dimensions of land-use sustainability in eastern Brazilian Amazonia. The research approach adopted by RAS offers three advantages for addressing land-use sustainability problems: (i) the collection of synchronized and co-located ecological and socioeconomic data across broad gradients of past and present human use; (ii) a nested sampling design to aid comparison of ecological and socioeconomic conditions associated with different land uses across local, landscape and regional scales; and (iii) a strong engagement with a wide variety of actors and non-research institutions. Here, we elaborate on these key features, and identify the ways in which RAS can help in highlighting those problems in most urgent need of attention, and in guiding improvements in land-use sustainability in Amazonia and elsewhere in the tropics. We also discuss some of the practical lessons, limitations and realities faced during the development of the RAS initiative so far.

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