Mohammad Hossein Zarei  Ruth Carrasco‐Gallego  Stefano Ronchi 《Sustainable Development》2019,27(5):846-859

In spite of strong commitment of humanitarian and development communities with the protection of our planet, expressed through the Sustainable Development Goals in the Agenda 2030, environmental sustainability still remains an overlooked aspect in humanitarian supply chains (HSCs). Using a collaborative mixed‐methods research with an international humanitarian organization, this paper sheds light on the causes of unsustainable operations in HSCs and investigates the impact of regional hubs on the environmental sustainability. First, an in‐depth focus group was conducted involving the organization's employees and the research team to identify the main causes contributing to unsustainable HSC in the organization. Five categories of causes were identified, namely, supply chain configuration (SCC), transportation, donors, material and waste, and humanitarian specificities. Then, based on respondents' prioritization, SCC was selected as the most important category. Carbon footprinting for three SCC scenarios was conducted: the current SCC and two conceptual SCC with two hubs in East and West Africa with different replenishment windows. The results reveal that the SCCs with hubs outperform the current SCC in terms of carbon footprint. Finally, the challenges of implementing the conceptual SCCs and possible solutions to address them were discussed through follow‐up individual interviews.  相似文献   

    

Satu Parjanen  Mirva Hyypi  Suvi‐Jonna Martikainen  Lea Hennala 《Sustainable Development》2019,27(3):281-288

The purpose of this article is to study socially sustainable innovation processes in urban development. Which elements can be identified to support socially sustainable innovation processes in urban development and how were the elements realized in urban innovation processes in Finland in 2013 and 2015 are the research questions. According to the literature review, socially sustainable innovation processes include an open and interactive development approach, resident and user‐driven involvement, communication, learning and feedback, and impact assessment. To track the elements in practice a qualitative approach using case‐based research was conducted. The results reveal that urban development processes in Finland could not be considered socially sustainable because the elements are realized differently. Although many current processes include resident participation, impact assessment is lacking. The study also presents a strategy for how to create more socially sustainable urban innovation processes.  相似文献   

    

Khatab Abdalla  Matthew Dickey  Trevor Hill  Bruce Scott‐Shaw 《Natural resources forum》2019,43(4):241-252

Soil erosion from agricultural land use runoff is a major threat to the sustainability of soil composition and water resource integrity. Sugarcane is an important cash and food security crop in South Africa, subjected to an intensive soil erosion, and consequently, severe land degradation. This study aimed to investigate soil erosion and associated soil and cover factors under rainfed sugarcane, in a small catchment, KwaZulu‐Natal, South Africa. Three replicated runoff plots were installed at different slope positions (down, mid and upslope) within cultivated sugarcane fields to monitor soil erosion during the 2016–2017 rainy season. On average, annual runoff (RF) was significantly greater from 10 m² plots with 1163.77 ± 2.63 l/m/year compared to 1 m² plots. However, sediment concentration (SC) was significantly lower in 10 m² (0.34 ± 0.04 g/l) compared to 1 m² (6.94 ± 0.24 g/l) plots. The annual soil losses (SL) calculated from 12 rainfall events was 58.36 ± 0.77 and 8.84 ± 0.20 t/ha from 1 m² and 10 m² plots, respectively. The 1 m² plot, SL (2.4 ± 1.41 ton/ha/year) in the upslope experienced 33% more loss than the midslope and 50% more loss than the downslope position. SL was relatively lower from the 10 m² plots than the 1 m² plots, which is explained by high sediment deposition at the greater plot scale. SL was negatively correlated with the soil organic carbon stocks (r = ?0.82) and soil surface cover (r = ?0.55). RF decreased with the increase of slope gradient (r = ?0.88) and soil infiltration rate (r = ?0.87). There were considerable soil losses from cultivated sugarcane fields with low organic matter. These findings suggest that to mitigate soil erosion, soil organic carbon stocks and vegetation cover needs to be increased through appropriate land management practices, particularly in cultivated areas with steep gradients.  相似文献   

    

Su‐Jung Nam  Hyesun Hwang 《Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management》2019,26(2):388-395

Creating shared value is a strategic approach for sustainable development connected to social value that moves away from a corporation's profit and competition‐oriented strategies. This study examines consumers' responses, including attitudes and intentions to participate in a strategy creating shared value by applying the persuasion knowledge model. Results reveal that consumers formed positive attitudes mainly through persuasive knowledge, which led to higher intentions to participate in creating the shared value strategy. This study also provides evidence for the role of consumers' propensity for socially responsible consumption, and intentions became stronger when consumers had a strong propensity for socially responsible consumption. This study elaborates on the discussion around corporations' strategies for achieving a sustainable society through social‐centric corporate strategies that can be developed by reconciling corporate and consumer morality in the marketplace.  相似文献   

    

Nadeem Khan  Nada Korac‐Kakabadse  Antonis Skouloudis  Andreas Dimopoulos 《Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management》2019,26(1):170-185

People with disabilities (PWDs) defined as the world's largest minority stakeholder group continue to face significant barriers to labor market entry and corporate inclusion. The associated social and economic costs of supporting non‐working PWDs can be high and long term. Yet, their potential contribution and impact on human capital, firm productivity, and the innovative capacity of business entities are valuable but underutilized. The employment of PWDs has institutional and managerial implications for equitable opportunities, social mobility, and workplace diversity. This study assesses the quality of corporate disclosure on disability issues by firms in the United Kingdom, as a stepping stone for mainstreaming integration of PWDs into labor markets under the scope of corporate social accountability. We benchmark 274 UK sustainability reports against PWDs‐adapted indicators of the Global Reporting Initiative guidelines, highlighting trends pertaining to disability employment. The findings suggest that corporate disclosures on the employment of PWDs are lacking. The implications for PWDs are highlighted considering firm employee and managerial policies and national and transnational regulatory frameworks, towards more meaningful reporting for better alignment between PWD expectations and firm practices.  相似文献   

    

Ching‐Hsun Chang 《Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management》2019,26(2):330-340

This empirical study tests hypotheses using a questionnaire survey to explore the positive effect of green motives on green product innovation performance through the mediator of a novel construct, green value co‐creation, in Taiwanese manufacturing companies. In this study, three green motives are examined: instrumental, relational, and moral motives. Green value co‐creation is divided into two parts: green co‐production and green value‐in‐use. This research reveals that moral motives are a much stronger driver than instrumental and relational motives. This study also determines that instrumental and moral motives have positive effects on green product innovation performance. However, no positive associations are observed among relational motives green co‐production, green value‐in‐use, and green product innovation performance. This study suggests that Taiwanese manufacturing companies should invest more resources to enhance moral motives, because they are positively associated with green value co‐creation and green product innovation performance.  相似文献   

    

Taís Pentiado Godoy  Maria Carolina Martins‐Rodrigues  Luciana Aparecida Barbieri da Rosa  Luana Inês Damke  Clandia Maffini Gomes 《环境质量管理》2019,29(1):101-111

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Awoke Dagnew  Donald Scavia  Yu‐Chen Wang  Rebecca Muenich  Colleen Long  Margaret Kalcic 《Journal of the American Water Resources Association》2019,55(5):1288-1305

A large international watershed, the St. Clair‐Detroit River System, containing both extensive urban and agricultural areas, was modeled using the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) model. The watershed, located in southeastern Michigan, United States, and southwestern Ontario, Canada, encompasses the St. Clair, Clinton, Detroit (DT), Sydenham (SY), Upper, and Lower Thames subwatersheds. The SWAT input data and model resolution (i.e., hydrologic response units, HRUs), were established to mimic farm boundaries, the first time this has been done for a watershed of this size. The model was calibrated (2007–2015) and validated (2001–2006) with a mix of manual and automatic methods at six locations for flow and water quality at various time scales. The model was evaluated using Nash–Sutcliffe efficiency and percent bias and was used to explore major water quality issues. We showed the importance of allowing key parameters to vary among subwatersheds to improve goodness of fit, and the resulting parameters were consistent with subwatershed characteristics. Agricultural sources in the Thames and SY subwatersheds and point sources from DT subwatershed were major contributors of phosphorus. Spatial distribution of phosphorus yields at HRU and subbasin levels identified locations for potential management targeting for both point and nonpoint sources and revealed that in some subwatersheds nonpoint sources are dominated by urban sources.  相似文献   

    

Isabel María García‐Snchez  María‐Elena Gmez‐Miranda  Ftima David  Lazaro Rodríguez‐Ariza 《Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management》2019,26(6):1392-1406

Aware of the information needs of stakeholders, and of the important deficiencies often present in corporate social responsibility (CSR) reports on economic, social, and environmental issues, companies leading in sustainability have initiated a new communication strategy in which their CSR reports take into account both the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) guidelines and the International Finance Corporation (IFC) Performance Standards, in an approach termed the GRI‐IFC disclosure strategy. We examine whether this innovative practice provides a better reflection of a firm's social and environmental dimensions and therefore improves the forecasts made by financial analysts, who are significant stakeholders in this respect. Our analysis of an unbalanced sample of 750 international companies, located in 19 countries and operating in 22 business sectors during the years 2011–2016, in which a logistic regression is applied to the panel data, reveals the existence of a two‐way relationship between the adoption of the GRI‐IFC disclosure strategy and the level of analyst coverage. Moreover, the use of this strategy, and the resulting increase in coverage, has a positive impact on the accuracy of analysts' forecasts.  相似文献   

    

Antonio Chamorro‐Mera  María Manuela Palacios‐Gonzlez 《Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management》2019,26(6):1423-1434

Ethical and charity financial products can be considered as a tool that drives the corporate social responsibility of the financial institutions and, indirectly, that of the companies that try to capture financial resources through them. The objective of this study is to identify the structure of preferences of savers to identify the relative importance of those attributes linked to socially responsible investment. The results allow for an estimation of the market potential of a socially responsible savings deposit and ethical banking. A survey was conducted on 415 Spanish savers, and the analysis has been carried out using conjoint analysis technique. Taking into account the characteristics of their preferences, four groups of savers have been identified: “potential socially responsible savers,” “charitable savers,” “savers focused on financial return,” and “conventional savers based on availability.” Some socio‐demographic variables are relevant when describing segments of savers: age, educational level, and income level.  相似文献