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A contrario     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 2)
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 8)
About Performance     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 9)
Academic Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies     Open Access   (Followers: 4)
Access     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 27)
ACCESS: Critical Perspectives on Communication, Cultural & Policy Studies     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 13)
Accountability in Research: Policies and Quality Assurance     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 19)
Acta Scientiarum. Human and Social Sciences     Open Access   (Followers: 7)
Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica     Open Access   (Followers: 3)
Actes de la Journée des Sciences et Savoirs     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Adelphi series     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 13)
Administrative Science Quarterly     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 241)
Administrative Theory & Praxis     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 8)
Adultspan Journal     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 2)
Advances in Appreciative Inquiry     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 1)
Advances in Southeast Asian Studies     Open Access  
Advocate: Newsletter of the National Tertiary Education Union     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 1)
Africa Spectrum     Open Access   (Followers: 18)
African Affairs     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 69)
African Research Review     Open Access   (Followers: 5)
Akademik Hassasiyetler     Open Access  
Aleph : UCLA Undergraduate Research Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences     Open Access   (Followers: 3)
Aletheia : Revista de Desarrollo Humano, Educativo y Social Contemporáneo     Open Access  
Algarrobo-MEL     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Ambigua : Revista de Investigaciones sobre Género y Estudios Culturales     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
American Communist History     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 21)
Anais Eletrônicos do Congresso Epistemologias do Sul     Open Access  
Anales de la Universidad de Chile     Open Access  
Análisis     Open Access  
Analysis     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 3)
Andamios. Revista de Investigacion Social     Open Access  
Anduli : Revista Andaluza de Ciencias Sociales     Open Access  
Ankara University SBF Journal     Open Access   (Followers: 2)
Annals of Humanities and Development Studies     Open Access   (Followers: 8)
Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 45)
Anthropocene Review     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 9)
Apuntes : Revista de Ciencias Sociales     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Arbejdspapirer : Professionshøjskolen Metropol     Open Access  
Arbetsliv i omvandling     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Arbor     Open Access  
Argomenti. Rivista di economia, cultura e ricerca sociale     Open Access   (Followers: 4)
Argumentos : Revista do Departamento de Ciências Sociais da Unimontes     Open Access  
Around the Globe     Full-text available via subscription  
Articulo - Journal of Urban Research     Open Access   (Followers: 7)
Asia Pacific Journal of Sport and Social Science     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 4)
Asian Journal of Quality of Life     Open Access   (Followers: 3)
Asian Journal of Social Science     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 19)
Asian Journal of Social Sciences and Management Studies     Open Access   (Followers: 6)
Asian Research Journal of Arts & Social Sciences     Open Access  
Asian Social Science     Open Access   (Followers: 5)
Astrolabio, Nueva Época     Open Access  
Australasian Review of African Studies, The     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 2)
Australian Aboriginal Studies     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 10)
Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand Psychodrama Association Journal     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 5)
Australian Journal of Emergency Management     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 19)
Australian Journal on Volunteering     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 1)
Australian Population Studies     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Bandung : Journal of the Global South     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
BARATARIA. Revista Castellano-Manchega de Ciencias sociales     Open Access  
Basic and Applied Social Psychology     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 47)
Bayero Journal of Pure and Applied Sciences     Open Access  
Behavioural Sciences Undergraduate Journal     Open Access   (Followers: 3)
Big Data & Society     Open Access   (Followers: 43)
Bingöl Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi     Open Access  
Black Sea Journal of Public and Social Science     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Black Women, Gender & Families     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 22)
BMC Medical Ethics     Open Access   (Followers: 19)
Bodhi : An Interdisciplinary Journal     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Body Image     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 18)
BOGA : Basque Studies Consortium Journal     Open Access   (Followers: 2)
Border Crossing : Transnational Working Papers     Open Access   (Followers: 3)
Borderlands Journal : Culture, Politics, Law and Earth     Open Access   (Followers: 4)
Brain and Cognition     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 42)
British Review of New Zealand Studies     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 2)
Bulletin de l’Institut Français d’Études Andines     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Caderno CRH     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Cadernos de Saúde     Open Access  
Cahiers Jean Moulin     Open Access   (Followers: 22)
California Italian Studies Journal     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 7)
California Journal of Politics and Policy     Open Access   (Followers: 3)
Cambio : Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Campos en Ciencias Sociales     Open Access  
Canadian Journal of Educational and Social Studies     Open Access   (Followers: 4)
Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 1)
Canadian Social Science     Open Access   (Followers: 11)
Caradde : Jurnal Pengabdian Kepada Masyarakat     Open Access  
Carbon Capture Science & Technology     Open Access   (Followers: 7)
Caribbean Studies     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 12)
Catalyst : A Social Justice Forum     Open Access   (Followers: 10)
Challenges     Open Access   (Followers: 2)
Changing Societies & Personalities     Open Access   (Followers: 2)
Children & Young People Now     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 4)
China Journal of Social Work     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 2)
Chinese Journal of Social Science and Management     Open Access  
Chinese Studies     Open Access   (Followers: 6)
Ciência ET Praxis     Open Access  
Ciencia y Sociedad     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Ciencia, Cultura y Sociedad     Open Access  
Ciencias Sociales y Educación     Open Access   (Followers: 2)
Circular Economy and Sustainability     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 5)
Ciudad Paz-ando     Open Access  
Civilizar Ciencias Sociales y Humanas     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Claroscuro     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
CLIO América     Open Access   (Followers: 3)
Cogent Social Sciences     Open Access   (Followers: 2)
Cognitive and Behavioral Practice     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 13)
Communication, Politics & Culture     Open Access   (Followers: 16)
Communities, Children and Families Australia     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 4)
Community Empowerment     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Comprehensive Results in Social Psychology     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 3)
Comuni@cción     Open Access  
Connections     Open Access  
Contemporary Journal of African Studies     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 4)
Contemporary Social Science     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 10)
Contribuciones desde Coatepec     Open Access  
Corporate Reputation Review     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 4)
Creative and Knowledge Society     Open Access   (Followers: 10)
Critical Psychology     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 7)
Critical Studies on Terrorism     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 57)
CTheory     Open Access  
Cultura Latinoamericana     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Cultural Trends     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 15)
Culturas. Revista de Gestión Cultural     Open Access  
Culture Scope     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 2)
Current Research in Social Sciences     Open Access  
Debats. Revista de cultura, poder i societat     Open Access  
Demographic Research     Open Access   (Followers: 15)
Derecho y Ciencias Sociales     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Desenvolvimento em Questão     Open Access  
Developing Practice : The Child, Youth and Family Work Journal     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 16)
Development     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 20)
Didáctica de las Ciencias Experimentales y Sociales     Open Access  
DIFI Family Research and Proceedings     Open Access  
Digital Geography and Society     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Discourse & Society     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 59)
Discover Social Science and Health     Open Access   (Followers: 18)
Distinktion : Scandinavian Journal of Social Theory     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 10)
Divulgatio : Perfiles Académicos de Posgrado     Open Access  
Drustvena istrazivanja     Open Access  
Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 13)
Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict: Pathways toward terrorism and genocide     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 13)
E-l@tina : Revista Electrónica de Estudios Latinoamericanos     Open Access  
Eastern Africa Social Science Research Review     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 5)
Eat, Sleep, Work     Open Access   (Followers: 3)
EAU Heritage Journal Social Science and Humanities     Open Access   (Followers: 2)
Economic and Regional Studies / Studia Ekonomiczne i Regionalne     Open Access  
Educación, Lenguaje y Sociedad     Open Access  
Education, Business and Society : Contemporary Middle Eastern Issues     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 1)
EFB Bioeconomy Journal     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Égypte - Monde arabe     Open Access   (Followers: 4)
Éire-Ireland     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 8)
Electoral Studies     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 47)
Emotions : History, Culture, Society     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 1)
Émulations : Revue de sciences sociales     Open Access  
Encuentros Multidisciplinares     Open Access  
Enfoques     Open Access  
Entramado     Open Access  
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion : An International Journal     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 26)
Equidad y Desarrollo     Open Access  
Espace populations sociétés     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Estudios digital     Open Access  
Estudios Sociales     Open Access  
Etcétera : Revista del Área de Ciencias Sociales del CIFFyH     Open Access  
Ethics and Social Welfare     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 24)
Ethnic and Racial Studies     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 49)
Ethnobotany Research & Applications : a journal of plants, people and applied research     Open Access   (Followers: 3)
Études canadiennes / Canadian Studies     Open Access   (Followers: 3)
Études rurales     Open Access   (Followers: 2)
EUREKA : Social and Humanities     Open Access  
Eureka Street     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 4)
European Journal of Futures Research     Open Access  
European Journal of Social Psychology     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 48)
European Online Journal of Natural and Social Sciences     Open Access   (Followers: 4)
European Review     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 20)
European Review of Social Psychology     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 17)
European View     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 1)
European Yearbook of Minority Issues Online     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 5)
Exchanges : the Warwick Research Journal     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
ExT : Revista de Extensión de la UNC     Open Access  
Fa Nuea Journal     Open Access  
Family Matters     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 9)
Family Process     Partially Free   (Followers: 11)
Family Relations     Partially Free   (Followers: 12)
Family Science     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 1)
Fields: Journal of Huddersfield Student Research     Open Access  
Finnish Journal of Social Research      Open Access   (Followers: 6)
Flaubert     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Formation emploi     Open Access  
FORO. Revista de Ciencias Jurídicas y Sociales, Nueva Época     Open Access   (Followers: 2)
Forskning & Forandring : Research and Change     Open Access  
Forum Ilmu Sosial     Open Access  
Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research     Open Access   (Followers: 9)
Fourth World Journal     Full-text available via subscription  
Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 2)
Funes. Journal of Narratives and Social Sciences     Open Access  
Future Times     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 1)
Ganesha Journal     Open Access  
Genocide Studies and Prevention     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 9)
Genocide Studies International     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 10)
Géographie et cultures     Open Access   (Followers: 3)

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  • Challenges, Vol. 15, Pages 33: Indigenous Strategies for Managing Bush
           Encroachment in Rural Areas of South Africa

    • Authors: Tshidi Mokgatsane Baloyi, Thabang Maphanga, Benett Siyabonga Madonsela, Qolani Golden Mongwe, Karabo Concelia Malakane, Xolisiwe Sinalo Grangxabe, Babalwa Gqomfa
      First page: 33
      Abstract: The integration of indigenous knowledge systems into the discussion of bush encroachment management is of paramount importance. Indigenous knowledge and formal monitoring may be mutually beneficial, and using both approaches can improve natural resource management. Savannah rangeland landscapes hold deep cultural and spiritual significance for indigenous communities, and their perceptions can provide valuable insights into creating more effective, community-driven conservation initiatives. This study was aimed at filling the existing knowledge and research gap on bush encroachment control by focusing on the integration of indigenous knowledge systems. To achieve this, the current research included three distinct non-probability sampling strategies: (1) Purposive, (2) Snowball, (3) Convenience sampling methods. The results showed that 90.3% of the participants indicated that the main encroaching species of concern was sickle bush (Dichrostachys cinerea) and it is therefore perceived as a problem in the rangeland. The majority of farmer respondents indicated that they cut the encroacher plant down, uproot all root systems, then burn the remaining roots. This is reported to be a more effective way of managing sickle bush as an encroacher plant. Both genders generally believe in the efficacy of these systems, with variations in levels of agreement. However, a gender disparity emerges in opinions on incorporating communal-based approaches, emphasizing the need to consider gender perspectives in environmental management initiatives. Therefore, considering this, the study concludes that a holistic approach, integrating both formal and informal knowledge systems, may be crucial for sustainable and effective management strategies. Given that, recognizing the diversity of perspectives within the community, particularly regarding gender differences, is essential for developing inclusive and community-driven environmental management initiatives.
      Citation: Challenges
      PubDate: 2024-06-26
      DOI: 10.3390/challe15030033
      Issue No: Vol. 15, No. 3 (2024)
       
  • Challenges, Vol. 15, Pages 34: Eco-Anxiety and Morita Therapy—A
           Review and Illustrative Case Report

    • Authors: Paolo Raile
      First page: 34
      Abstract: Eco-anxiety, a growing psychological concern, affects an increasing number of individuals distressed about environmental degradation and climate change. Morita therapy, a psychological approach developed in Japan, that emphasizes acceptance and action has potential applicability for treating modern anxieties such as eco-anxiety. An illustrative case report focusing on Waltraud M., a 29-year-old legal professional experiencing eco-anxiety is used as an example for the basis of exploring eco-anxiety in general and Morita therapy more specifically. The therapeutic intervention was conducted over several months, and the progress was documented through therapeutic diary entries, which detailed her emotional state and actions. Waltraud reported significant improvements in managing her anxiety. Initially overwhelmed by her ecological concerns, she learned to channel her anxieties into positive actions, such as making lifestyle adjustments that align with her environmental values. Notably, her ability to focus on immediate actions rather than future uncertainties helped reduce her anxiety symptoms. Morita therapy proved beneficial in managing Waltraud’s eco-anxiety by facilitating a shift from passive worry to active engagement with life’s challenges. The therapy’s focus on accepting emotions as they are, without trying to change them, and prioritizing meaningful action was effective in reducing the psychological distress associated with eco-anxiety. While promising, these findings are based on a single case report, and further research involving diverse populations and control groups is necessary to generalize the results and fully ascertain the therapy’s efficacy across different cultural and clinical settings.
      Citation: Challenges
      PubDate: 2024-06-27
      DOI: 10.3390/challe15030034
      Issue No: Vol. 15, No. 3 (2024)
       
  • Challenges, Vol. 15, Pages 35: From Life-Skills Research and Training to
           Sustainability: A Case Study from a Spanish University

    • Authors: Pilar Posadas de Julián, Carmen Verdejo Lucas, Belén de Rueda Villén, María del Mar Haro-Soler, José Gijón-Puerta, Elvira Cámara Aguilera, Mercedes García de Quesada
      First page: 35
      Abstract: We are currently facing a potential ‘polycrisis’, a critical inflection point that requires a holistic response aimed at building collective foresight and preparedness for short-, medium-, and long-term risks. The role of higher education institutions and social stakeholders is decisive for sustainability goals. This paper presents a case study where academia, governance, and industry have aligned to challenge, inspire, and encourage universities to enhance student growth and bind macro-scale measures leading to a sustainable future. A teaching innovation project has served as a transforming lever, in combination with the private sector, to create a platform that reaches more than 50,000 undergraduate students and teaching staff. This structure, rooted in the 2031 Strategic Plan of the University of Granada, has also served to channel local and regional initiatives, establish effective partnerships with broad social members, raise awareness, and promote actions to advance in the pursuit of Sustainable Development Goals. A comprehensive overview is provided, which details its chronology, materials, results, challenges, impact, and descriptions of the various courses, programs, and actions. The paper concludes with recommendations for future research, policy and cooperation among stakeholders.
      Citation: Challenges
      PubDate: 2024-07-08
      DOI: 10.3390/challe15030035
      Issue No: Vol. 15, No. 3 (2024)
       
  • Challenges, Vol. 15, Pages 36: Safe Space for Dialogue—A Practice
           for Connected Consciousness and Compassion

    • Authors: Bianca Briciu, Sergio Michel, Rosario Chavez
      First page: 36
      Abstract: This paper analyzes Safe Space for Dialogue as a group practice for accessing connected consciousness through the safe expression of emotional experience, empathic listening, and compassionate witnessing. It highlights the importance of connected consciousness to overcome architectures of separation that breed fear, isolation, domination, and instrumentalization of relationships. Connected consciousness is an intersubjective, relational experience that makes possible connection, compassion, and empathic and generative dialogue. This article offers an outline of the main qualities of connected consciousness—safety, empathy and compassion, attunement, and resonance; it analyzes how the practice of Safe Space for Dialogue develops expanded awareness and compassion, supporting participants’ access to the connected consciousness.
      Citation: Challenges
      PubDate: 2024-07-10
      DOI: 10.3390/challe15030036
      Issue No: Vol. 15, No. 3 (2024)
       
  • Challenges, Vol. 15, Pages 37: The Impacts of Narcissistic Leadership on
           Achieving the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals—A
           Scoping Review

    • Authors: Amir Khorram-Manesh, Krzysztof Goniewicz, Frederick M. Burkle
      First page: 37
      Abstract: The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (UN’s SDG) are a set of actionable frameworks, which can be achieved through collaboration among nations, emphasizing the significant role of leadership. Recent geopolitical trends have spotlighted leaders with pronounced sociopathic narcissistic characteristics, opposing any collaborative approach to achieving the UN’s SDGs. This study used a mix method (a scoping review and action research), to critically investigate the impact of leadership, narcissistic leadership in particular, on achieving the UN’s SDGs. The results showed that publications discussing the impacts of narcissism on achieving interconnected SDGs are scarce. The systemic negative factors enabling narcissistic leaders to rise above and keep power, and potential strategies to inhibit such leadership styles were critically discussed. The loss of the Sustainable Development Goals remains the best indicator of the global negative impact of narcissistic leadership and its influence on global health systems. It is not country-specific and is the only legitimate global measure available. Preventing the rise of such leadership, particularly in low- and middle-income countries may avert wars, conflicts, and their deadly outcomes from national and global perspectives. Novel global policies are urgently needed to safeguard global peace, health, and security.
      Citation: Challenges
      PubDate: 2024-08-07
      DOI: 10.3390/challe15030037
      Issue No: Vol. 15, No. 3 (2024)
       
  • Challenges, Vol. 15, Pages 18: Prevention Science Can’t Wait: An
           Interview with Dr. Diana H. Fishbein

    • Authors: Alan C. Logan, Diana H. Fishbein
      First page: 18
      Abstract: In an ongoing series of interviews, Challenges Advisory Board member and Nova Institute for Health Fellow Alan C. Logan meets with thought leaders, scientists, scholars, healthcare professionals, artisans, and visionaries concerned about health at the scale of persons, places, and the planet. Here, Dr. Diana H. Fishbein responds to a set of questions posed by Challenges. For over forty years, Dr. Fishbein, a neuroscientist and criminologist by training, has been at the forefront of research examining the intersections of biological, environmental, social, and physical factors as they relate to brain development, functioning, risky behavior, and life outcomes. Within this broad-ranging career, Dr. Fishbein was among the very first to conduct a dietary intervention study (eliminating refined carbohydrate foods) examining behavioral outcomes (i.e., nutritional psychiatry). This, combined with related research endeavors and experiences, led to a wider-lens view of prevention research, a desire to understand the physiological mechanisms that explain heterogeneity in positive and/or unfavorable outcomes in prevention programs, and a dynamic career devoted to the science of prevention. Here, Dr. Fishbein reflects on her career and its many twists and turns through a range of interdisciplinary work. Shediscusses prevention science through the lens of future possibilities and the need for scientists to lean toward advocacy and supporting evidence-based policy changes. Prevention science, as Dr. Fishbein explains, is at the heart of the many interconnected challenges of our time.
      Citation: Challenges
      PubDate: 2024-03-26
      DOI: 10.3390/challe15020018
      Issue No: Vol. 15, No. 2 (2024)
       
  • Challenges, Vol. 15, Pages 19: How Constructionist Perspectives on
           Learning Can Improve Learning and Prevent Accidents in High-Risk
           Industries

    • Authors: Thomas Wold
      First page: 19
      Abstract: Management systems containing procedures, checklists, and descriptions for how various tasks should be conducted are often used in high-risk industries. Much has been written about the judicial and technological concerns of management systems, but less has been written on how to train staff in the use of them. Through a cognitive-constructionist perspective combined with social constructivism, this paper discusses how staff training can be designed to fit the characteristics of the workers. This paper focuses on how people learn in different ways, and how this is related to perspectives on knowledge. The method used is semi-structured interviews with twenty-seven workers in two different companies operating in the oil and gas-producing industry. The workers got only a short web-based theory course on the management system, with no practical exercises, repetitions, or other types of follow-ups. This is a signal that the management system is of less importance, and many of the workers thought they did not need it. Training must be designed to fit the workers, with practical exercises, repetition, and possibilities for on-the-job training. Accidents in this sector can cause human losses and great environmental harm, and this paper argues that better training of staff can prevent such accidents and reduce harm to the environment.
      Citation: Challenges
      PubDate: 2024-04-05
      DOI: 10.3390/challe15020019
      Issue No: Vol. 15, No. 2 (2024)
       
  • Challenges, Vol. 15, Pages 20: The Socio-Spatial Distribution and Equity
           of Access to Urban Parks: A Case Study of Bengaluru, India

    • Authors: Nilanjan Bhor, Dhananjayan Mayavel
      First page: 20
      Abstract: Given the effect of urbanization on land use and the allocation and implementation of urban green spaces, this paper attempts to analyze the distribution and accessibility of public parks in India’s Bengaluru city (previously known as Bangalore). Availability, accessibility, and utilization—the key measures of Urban Green Spaces (UGS)—are mostly used in health research and policy and are important components of Planetary Health Equity in the context of studying UGSs and health. A geo-spatial method was used for mapping the park’s distribution and measuring its accessibility, using road network data. To understand equitable access to the parks, four socio-economic parameters—population density, the percentage of the population below 6 years of age, the proxy wealth index, and scheduled caste population—were correlated with the parks’ accessibility. This spatial distribution revealed that 19 of 198 wards did not have a single park and that 36 wards only had one park. About 25–29% of wards did not have accessibility to neighborhood-level and community-level parks within a 400–800 m distance. These parks must be accessible within a walking distance of 400–800 m but were found to most likely be inaccessible on the periphery of the city where the population density is low and the children population is high, in comparison to the central part of the city. Similarly, parks were found to be inaccessible in the eastern part of the city where the scheduled caste population is high and also found to be inaccessible for the low-income neighborhoods residing in the western part and southern periphery of the city, indicating the uneven distribution of and inequitable access to public parks. Our study proposes a reshaping of both neighborhood parks and community parks in an attempt to look beyond biodiversity, through the planetary health equity approach, by noting that, while biodiversity indirectly has a positive effect on health, public parks should not only be considered as advancing environmental sustainability and climate resilience, but also as improving the health and wellbeing of the population. Affirmative action in terms of the availability of public parks with adequate area requirements and essential services at a neighborhood scale is required to redress the inequity of access; in addition, the accessibility of parks must be considered important during urban planning.
      Citation: Challenges
      PubDate: 2024-04-16
      DOI: 10.3390/challe15020020
      Issue No: Vol. 15, No. 2 (2024)
       
  • Challenges, Vol. 15, Pages 21: The Folly of Food Waste amidst Food
           Insecurity in the United States: A Literature Review

    • Authors: Michael F. Royer
      First page: 21
      Abstract: Food insecurity is an economic and social condition that involves individuals having limited or uncertain access to healthy food. Despite the well-intentioned efforts of both governmental and not-for-profit organizations in addressing food insecurity, well over one-in-ten households in the U.S., the wealthiest nation in the world, experience food insecurity every year. The objective of this literature review was to identify and explicate the methods and outcomes of food insecurity interventions that have been conducted among U.S. adults. This literature review identified 38 studies detailing several government programs and research interventions designed to address food insecurity. Results from the review highlight how the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP), and not-for profit food banks have demonstrated success in improving food insecurity. However, the prevalence of food insecurity among U.S. households has fluctuated without any sustained decreases that achieve a food insecurity rate that remains below 10 percent of the population. Food waste, which refers to food that is edible yet discarded at the retail or consumption phases, is rampant in the U.S., as approximately 30 percent (66.5 million tons) of edible food is wasted after leaving the farm every year. Food waste prevention efforts that involve rescuing edible, nutritious food and redistributing it to individuals who are food insecure can promote both environmental- and public health through simultaneous reductions in food waste and food insecurity.
      Citation: Challenges
      PubDate: 2024-04-18
      DOI: 10.3390/challe15020021
      Issue No: Vol. 15, No. 2 (2024)
       
  • Challenges, Vol. 15, Pages 22: Participatory System Mapping for Food
           Systems: Lessons Learned from a Case Study of Comox Valley, Canada

    • Authors: Mohaddese Ghadiri, Robert Newell, Tamara Krawchenko
      First page: 22
      Abstract: Food systems are complex and multifaceted, comprising a diverse range of actors, processes, and interactions. Participatory system mapping can be employed to help understand this complexity and support the development of sustainable and resilient food systems. This article shares a participatory mapping approach that has been developed as part of the Climate–Biodiversity–Health (CBH) Nexus project in the Comox Valley, British Columbia, Canada. This research pursues two main aims: (1) to ground truth in the CBH system map of food systems, developed with the participation of stakeholders; and (2) to explain how participatory system mapping can be employed to clarify the complexity of food systems in a clear and concise manner for all stakeholders. This research contributes to the literature on participatory system mapping, including critiques of its practical utility, by employing participatory approaches to visualize multi-dimensional and multi-level system maps with an emphasis on verifying that they are clear, understandable/useful, and reliable for diverse stakeholder audiences.
      Citation: Challenges
      PubDate: 2024-04-28
      DOI: 10.3390/challe15020022
      Issue No: Vol. 15, No. 2 (2024)
       
  • Challenges, Vol. 15, Pages 23: Book Review: Climate, Psychology, and
           Change: Reimagining Psychotherapy in an Era of Global Disruption and
           Climate Anxiety; Bednarek, S., Ed.; North Atlantic Books: Berkeley, CA,
           USA, 2024; ISBN: 979-8889840817

    • Authors: Andrew Haddon Kemp
      First page: 23
      Abstract: “Climate, Psychology and Change” offers a profound exploration of the psychological ramifications of the climate and ecological emergency (CEE), proposing a paradigm shift in psychotherapy to better support individuals and communities grappling with environmental distress. The book critiques the prevailing hyper-individualized and neoliberal societal framework, advocating for a decolonized, systemic psychotherapeutic approach that emphasizes interconnectedness across species and that challenges human exceptionalism. It outlines four psychological phases that individuals may experience in their environmental consciousness journey, epiphany, immersion, crisis, and resolution, highlighting their non-linear and systemic nature. This work underscores the importance of understanding distress within its broader social and ecological contexts and addresses the profound inequalities and injustices exacerbated by the CEE. With contributions from diverse psychological and non-traditional backgrounds, it introduces concepts like ‘ubuntu’, advocating for community-focused resilience practices. The book calls for a re-evaluation of psychotherapeutic practices to include communal and nature-connected approaches, offering innovative solutions like climate cafes and social dreaming. It presents a critical yet hopeful vision for the role of psychotherapy in navigating the challenges of the CEE, urging a rethinking of our relationship with the planet and each other, making it an essential read for those seeking to align psychotherapeutic practice with the realities of our changing world.
      Citation: Challenges
      PubDate: 2024-04-30
      DOI: 10.3390/challe15020023
      Issue No: Vol. 15, No. 2 (2024)
       
  • Challenges, Vol. 15, Pages 24: The Case for Multidisciplinary Frameworks
           for Developing Effective Solutions to Complex Human Problems: An
           Illustration Based on Development Education, Corporate Social
           Responsibility and Social Marketing

    • Authors: Fourali
      First page: 24
      Abstract: Education, especially development education (DE), and a number of socially focused disciplines, including corporate social responsibility (CSR) and social marketing (SM), have long been targeted by policy makers for deriving advice on the ‘wisdom’ of levelling up differences and addressing sources of disadvantages at individual, group and/or regional levels. Additionally, the combined wisdom of such disciplines can also be a great source of advice to effectively address perennial universal problems. This paper is conceptual in nature with a multidisciplinary outlook. It contrasts DE, CSR and SM, with the view to deriving common grounds as well as strengths and areas for further development that can produce more comprehensive explanations and solutions to social problems. Such inclusive, more comprehensive explanations would help advise social-cause-focused workers, including researchers, learners and policy makers, about how each discipline can contribute to the resolution of multifaceted problems, the so-called ‘wicked problems’, that each discipline may not be fully equipped to address. The method of analysis used is an adjusted version of critical discourse analysis. It is used to explore the disciplines at four levels, namely definitional, philosophical, methodological and performance levels, thus giving a comprehensive view of each discipline’s nature, philosophical outlook, methodology and perceived efficacy in achieving its aims. The derived arguments also benefitted from comments provided by seven experienced representatives from the three disciplines. Overall, the outcomes suggest a relative maturity of critical ability in DE but also more effective and efficient methodological and evaluative perspectives in CSR and SM. Although the outcome of the analysis is open for debate, it nevertheless suggests several opportunities for mutual learning at all four levels. The paper suggests a novel integrated ‘supra-level’ framework that may help workers, in these three areas of knowledge, gain valuable insights from each of the three disciplines and highlight valuable opportunities for capitalising on their respective strengths.
      Citation: Challenges
      PubDate: 2024-05-08
      DOI: 10.3390/challe15020024
      Issue No: Vol. 15, No. 2 (2024)
       
  • Challenges, Vol. 15, Pages 25: Unlocking the Transformative Potential of
           Outdoor Office Work—A Constructivist Grounded Theory Study

    • Authors: Charlotte Petersson Troije, Ebba Lisberg Jensen, David Redmalm, Lena Wiklund Gustin
      First page: 25
      Abstract: White-collar workers around the world are reconfiguring their ways of working. Some have found their way out, performing office work outdoors, through walk-and-talks, outdoor meetings, or reading sessions. Working outdoors has proved both invigorating and challenging. This qualitative interview study aims to develop a conceptual framework concerning the implications of white-collar workers incorporating the outdoors into their everyday work life. Applying a constructivist grounded theory approach, 27 interviews with a total of 15 participants were systematically analyzed. Findings evolved around the following categories: practicing outdoor office work, challenging the taken-for-granted, enjoying freedom and disconnection, feeling connected and interdependent, promoting health and well-being, enhancing performance, and finally adding a dimension to work. These categories were worked into a conceptual model, building on the dynamic relationship between the practice of working outdoors on one hand, and how this challenges the system in which office work traditionally takes place on the other. Interviews reflected the profound learning process of the employees. Drawing on the concepts of free space and resonance, we demonstrate how performing office work outdoors may unlock a transformative potential by opening up connectedness and interdependence and contribute to a sustainable work life as well as overall sustainable development.
      Citation: Challenges
      PubDate: 2024-05-09
      DOI: 10.3390/challe15020025
      Issue No: Vol. 15, No. 2 (2024)
       
  • Challenges, Vol. 15, Pages 26: A New Vision for Challenges: A
           Transdisciplinary Journal Promoting Planetary Health and Flourishing for
           All

    • Authors: Susan L. Prescott, David Webb
      First page: 26
      Abstract: Since its inception in 2010, Challenges has had a strong interdisciplinary focus on sustainability and global challenges, including many important contributions to advances in renewable energies, biodiversity, food security, climate change, urban and rural development, green design, and the interrelated implications for human and environmental health [...]
      Citation: Challenges
      PubDate: 2024-05-17
      DOI: 10.3390/challe15020026
      Issue No: Vol. 15, No. 2 (2024)
       
  • Challenges, Vol. 15, Pages 27: Supporting Ageing Populations in Developing
           Countries: A Comparative Analysis of Pension Schemes and Policy Insights

    • Authors: Tual Sawn Khai, Jacob Oppong Nkansah, Abdul Wali Khan, Muhammad Asaduzzaman
      First page: 27
      Abstract: The rapid growth of the elderly population is a major global demographic and social issue. Unfortunately, there is a shortage of pension plans and social security programmes for this population in developing countries, which has severe consequences for their quality of life and well-being. In this article, we aim to better understand the pension systems in developing country contexts such as Ghana, Pakistan, and Myanmar by reviewing official government materials (for example, pension reports) and the published literature to suggest relevant policy recommendations. We observed several policy implementation gaps and inequities in pension schemes for older people, specifically for informal and private sector workers. Considering the size of formal versus informal economies and the level of development index of each country, we suggest a wide variety of options for pension policies, financing, designing cash benefits, and pension payments to cover all older citizens. This article addresses the unmet needs of the elderly and their wider economic sustainability to ensure social justice and resource utilisation. Governments in developing countries should embrace and establish unique, inclusive, and friendly policies encompassing the informal sector to warrant older adults’ functional and social well-being with dignity and honour.
      Citation: Challenges
      PubDate: 2024-05-23
      DOI: 10.3390/challe15020027
      Issue No: Vol. 15, No. 2 (2024)
       
  • Challenges, Vol. 15, Pages 28: Advancing Sustainability through Higher
           Education: Student Teachers Integrate Inner Development Goals (IDG) and
           Future-Oriented Methodologies

    • Authors: Birgitta Nordén
      First page: 28
      Abstract: Methodologies for future-oriented research are mutually beneficial in highlighting different methodological perspectives and proposals for extending higher-education didactics toward sustainability. This study explores how different augmented-reality applications can enable new ways of teaching and learning. It systematically investigates how student teachers (n = 18) in higher education experienced ongoing realities while designing learning activities for a hybrid conference and interconnecting sustainability knowings via didactic modeling and design thinking. This qualitative study aims to develop a conceptual hybrid framework concerning the implications of student teachers incorporating design thinking and inner transition into their professional work with future-oriented methodologies on didactic modeling for sustainability commitment. With a qualitative approach, data were collected during and after a hackathon-like workshop through student teachers’ reflections, post-workshop surveys, and observation field notes. The thematic analysis shed light on transgressive learning and a transition in sustainability mindset through the activation of inner dimensions. Findings reinforcing sustainability commitment evolved around the following categories: being authentic (intra-personal competence), collaborating co-creatively (interpersonal competence), thinking long-term-oriented (futures-thinking competence on implementing didactics understanding), relating to creative confidence (values-thinking competence as embodied engagement), and acting based on perseverant professional knowledge-driven change (bridging didactics) by connecting theory-loaded empiricism and empirically loaded theory. The results highlight some of the key features of future-oriented methodologies and approaches to future-oriented methodologies, which include collaboration, boundary crossing, and exploration, and show the conditions that can support or hinder methodological development and innovation.
      Citation: Challenges
      PubDate: 2024-05-29
      DOI: 10.3390/challe15020028
      Issue No: Vol. 15, No. 2 (2024)
       
  • Challenges, Vol. 15, Pages 29: Communicating for Sustainability in the
           Digital Age: Toward a New Paradigm of Literacy

    • Authors: Ott
      First page: 29
      Abstract: Efforts to create a sustainable future require careful and complex thinking, interdisciplinary and cross-organizational collaboration, and effective and ethical communication. However, the structural biases of digital communication technologies foster modes of thought and expression that undermine or impede these necessities. While one possible solution to this problem is digital literacy, the two prevailing paradigms of digital literacy both reproduce the myth of technological neutrality. This myth further inhibits sustainability by wrongly suggesting that digital technologies are appropriate to all communication goals and tasks. As a corrective to these models, I propose a new paradigm of digital literacy, one rooted in media ecology. The adoption of this model, I maintain, allows us to consciously co-create our social world rather than merely inhabit it.
      Citation: Challenges
      PubDate: 2024-06-03
      DOI: 10.3390/challe15020029
      Issue No: Vol. 15, No. 2 (2024)
       
  • Challenges, Vol. 15, Pages 30: Voices from the North: Exploring
           Sámi People’s Perspectives on Environmental Change and Mental
           Well-Being: A Systematic Literature Review

    • Authors: Valesca S. M. Venhof, Carolyn Stephens, Pim Martens
      First page: 30
      Abstract: Circumpolar Indigenous People, such as the Sámi, confront significant challenges stemming from environmental shifts and interrelated issues, profoundly affecting their mental health. Nonetheless, they possess invaluable knowledge and capabilities to navigate and adapt to these transformations. This review aims to investigate peer-reviewed scientific literature, exploring the nexus between environmental changes and mental well-being within the broader Circumpolar Indigenous community, with a special focus on the Sámi People. Conducting a systematic literature review with two arms, one encompassing the broader Circumpolar Indigenous population and the other focusing specifically on the Sámi, followed by thematic analysis, we delved into their experiences of environmental changes, perceptions regarding the intertwining of environmental shifts and mental well-being, and insights into protective factors and resilience-promoting elements. By engaging with Indigenous perspectives, public health initiatives can pinpoint and leverage existing strengths within Indigenous communities and families to bolster their ability to navigate environmental shifts and safeguard mental well-being. However, our review highlighted a lack of scientific investigation of ’strength-based’ factors fostering mental resilience among Indigenous populations inhabiting the Circumpolar North, such as the Sámi. Future qualitative research can address this gap, incorporating the viewpoints of individual Circumpolar Indigenous groups to explore both their distinctiveness and interconnectedness.
      Citation: Challenges
      PubDate: 2024-06-05
      DOI: 10.3390/challe15020030
      Issue No: Vol. 15, No. 2 (2024)
       
  • Challenges, Vol. 15, Pages 31: Planetary Health Education: Exploring
           Students’ Perceptions of Climate Change in a School in Southern
           Amazonas

    • Authors: Paula Regina Humbelino de Melo, Péricles Vale Alves, Vandoir Bourscheidt, Tatiana Souza de Camargo
      First page: 31
      Abstract: The Brazilian Legal Amazon, crucial for ecosystem services such as biodiversity, carbon sequestration, and climate regulation, has declined over time in its capacity to absorb carbon dioxide. In response, global policies are being developed to mitigate climate change, which has emerged as a central issue in the planetary health approach. The objective of this study was to investigate how elementary school students in a rural school in the Southern Amazonas state perceive climate change and understand its implications for the health of the planet. Understanding the phenomenon’s complexity, we conducted research with students from riverside communities in the Southern Amazon region. The data were analyzed using relative, absolute and percentage frequency tables, with a Fisher’s test applied at a 5% significance level. A significant finding was the predominant difficulty students had in accurately conceptualizing climate change, highlighting notable gaps in their understanding of these wide-ranging issues. In the context of the global climate crisis we are experiencing, the integration of concepts related to climate change in basic education becomes indispensable. This study emphasizes not only the existing knowledge gap but also the urgency of educational approaches that prepare children and young people for the challenges of mitigation, adaptation, and understanding the complexities of climate change and its planetary implications.
      Citation: Challenges
      PubDate: 2024-06-05
      DOI: 10.3390/challe15020031
      Issue No: Vol. 15, No. 2 (2024)
       
  • Challenges, Vol. 15, Pages 32: Innovating in an Uncertain World:
           Understanding the Social, Technical and Systemic Barriers to Farmers
           Adopting New Technologies

    • Authors: Louise Manning
      First page: 32
      Abstract: The current geopolitical and socioeconomic landscape creates a difficult and uncertain operating environment for farming and agri-food businesses. Technological innovation has not been suggested to be a “silver bullet” but is one of the ways organizations can seek to reduce environmental impact, deliver net zero, address the rural skills and labor deficit and produce more output from fewer resources and as a result, make space for nature. But what barriers limit this promissory narrative from delivering in practice' The purpose of the paper is to firstly explore the reported social, technical and systemic barriers to agri-technology adoption in an increasingly uncertain world and then secondly identify potential research gaps that highlight areas for future research and inform key research questions. Socio-technical and infrastructural barriers have been identified within the context of the complex hollowing out and infilling of rural communities across the world. These barriers include seventeen factors that emerge, firstly those external to the farm (economic conditions, external conditions including bureaucracy, market conditions, weather uncertainty and the narratives about farmers), those internal to the farm business (farming conditions, employee relations, general finance, technology and time pressures) and then personal factors (living conditions, personal finances, physical health, role conflict, social isolation and social pressure). Adaptive resilience strategies at personal, organizational and community levels are essential to address these barriers and to navigate agri-technology adoption in an uncertain and dynamic world.
      Citation: Challenges
      PubDate: 2024-06-11
      DOI: 10.3390/challe15020032
      Issue No: Vol. 15, No. 2 (2024)
       
  • Challenges, Vol. 15, Pages 4: Investigating Terrestrial and
           Extraterrestrial Bioremediation through Microbial Action Using Raman
           Spectroscopy

    • Authors: Daniel Keaney, Venkata V. B. Yallapragada, Liam O’Faolain, Ganga Chinna Rao Devarapu, Karen Finn, Brigid Lucey
      First page: 4
      Abstract: Sodium perchlorate is a toxic salt-based compound found both terrestrially, (due to pollution) and extraterrestrially on the surface of Mars. Perchlorate pollution poses a risk to agricultural-based activities as once it enters soils/waterways it can be passed through the food chain via bioaccumulation. The purpose of the current study was to observe the perchlorate reduction potential of putative candidate bioremediation strains; Escherichia coli 25922 and E. coli 9079, Paraburkholderia fungorum, Deinococcus radiodurans and Dechloromonas aromatica both independently and in co-cultures, when exposed to 3000 mg/L (0.3%) sodium perchlorate. This was carried out in both a minimal medium environment and within an environment void of nutrients, using Raman spectroscopy to assess their potential for the bioremediation of Martian soils. The perchlorate reducing potential of all strains was 16% higher in reverse osmosis deionised water than in minimal medium, the former having a total absence of Nitrate. It was found that E. coli 25922 is a perchlorate reducer, which has not been previously described. Additionally, co-culturing of bacterial strains was found to have a higher bioremediation potential than individual strains. These findings suggest that not only could perchlorate pollution be remediated, but that the perchlorate composition of the Martian surface may support bioremediation microbial life, aiding in future colonisation.
      Citation: Challenges
      PubDate: 2024-01-11
      DOI: 10.3390/challe15010004
      Issue No: Vol. 15, No. 1 (2024)
       
  • Challenges, Vol. 15, Pages 5: A Review of Environmental Challenges Facing
           Martian Colonisation and the Potential for Terrestrial Microbes to
           Transform a Toxic Extraterrestrial Environment

    • Authors: Daniel Keaney, Brigid Lucey, Karen Finn
      First page: 5
      Abstract: Mars is a focus of New Space Age exploration and colonisation, but there are significant challenges to successful colonisation by humankind. Environmental microbes play a key role in supporting the ecosystems of Earth, especially within the biodegradation and bioremediation sectors. However, the repurposed roles of microbes on Mars and their associated uses to colonists remain incompletely defined. The aim of this review was to examine the key roles of microbes on Earth and how they have been employed by humans to tackle four pivotal environmental challenges associated with the colonisation of Mars, namely the physical environment, the creation of a hospitable environment via terraforming, environmental sustainability and life support, and finally, renewable processing technologies. Some species of microbes were found to be tolerant of the ever-changing physical environment on Mars (freeze–thaw and UVC exposure) making them useful for bioremediation applications. Employing perchlorate-remediating microbes for their ability to bioremediate the soils of sodium perchlorate, which is present in Martian soils, in addition to their innate ability to cycle nutrients through the biosphere showed promise in establishing sustained crops to support colonists. The employment of terrestrial environmental microbes is a necessary part of overcoming key environmental challenges to successfully colonise Mars. Without this, future New Space exploration is unlikely to be successful.
      Citation: Challenges
      PubDate: 2024-01-12
      DOI: 10.3390/challe15010005
      Issue No: Vol. 15, No. 1 (2024)
       
  • Challenges, Vol. 15, Pages 6: Food Systems and Planetary Health Nexus
           Elective: A Novel Approach to A Medical Education Imperative for the 21st
           Century

    • Authors: Modan Goldman, Aditya Vaidyam, Sindhu Parupalli, Holly Rosencranz, Davendra Ramkumar, Japhia Ramkumar
      First page: 6
      Abstract: This is a report on an inaugural medical student elective, Microbiomes Matter: The Path to Regenerative Systems of Farm, Food, and Health, from the perspective of the student participants. Recognizing food as medicine is gaining support across many settings. However, little is known about how medical schools engage in this holistic approach. Integrating food systems and the connections to soil and human health through microbiomes into medical education represents a transformative shift towards more holistic healthcare practices. We describe the course content and impact of a medical school elective in food systems. This elective employed a systems lens and planetary health perspective to explore the impact of climatic factors and environmental degradation on farms, nutrition, and non-communicable lifestyle diseases. Through the two-week course, medical students gained insights into sustainable food systems, supply chains, and the importance of regenerative agriculture. The course also provided a comprehensive overview of the gut microbiome, nutrition, technologies, and the economics of food systems, including their impact on lifestyle diseases. By fostering a systems-oriented mindset, this elective better equips medical students to address the complex challenges of human and planetary health and promote regenerative, sustainable, culturally sensitive, and robust systems of farm, food, and health.
      Citation: Challenges
      PubDate: 2024-01-18
      DOI: 10.3390/challe15010006
      Issue No: Vol. 15, No. 1 (2024)
       
  • Challenges, Vol. 15, Pages 7: Theory of Constraints and Bitcoin:
           Introducing a New Fulcrum

    • Authors: Rupert L. Matthews
      First page: 7
      Abstract: Much of the attention on bitcoin relates to its ability to store value over time or whether you will one day by able to buy a cup of coffee with it. Much less attention is given to bitcoin’s potential role as a unit of account. This opinion piece proposes that bitcoin has potential to provide a consistent unit of account for organisations to adopt, but also to assist them in making and measuring meaningful business developments. The paper draws from the business improvement philosophy of Theory of Constraints to propose that unit of account, particularly within high inflation environments, is critical to consider. An illustrative case of a well-known publicly traded company, Microstrategy, provides an example and logic for a company choosing to integrate bitcoin into a business. The paper also gives attention to how the adoption of bitcoin can promote the development of renewable energy infrastructure and provide staff with opportunities for personal development to support their well-being. Opportunities for further research are identified to explore the integration of bitcoin within a business as well as with Theory of Constraints.
      Citation: Challenges
      PubDate: 2024-01-30
      DOI: 10.3390/challe15010007
      Issue No: Vol. 15, No. 1 (2024)
       
  • Challenges, Vol. 15, Pages 8: Re-Imagining Alternative Futures through
           Empowerment

    • Authors: Claudia Milena Adler
      First page: 8
      Abstract: The physical conquest of European powers on the rest of the world for the imposition of an accumulation of wealth monopoly and the destruction of native societies remains the foundation of the current global economy. Despite concepts of human flourishing, a term connected to empowerment that acts as an architectural structure within the development and sustainability discourse, the destruction of our planet and collective human wellbeing is not at the forefront of international political agendas. Scholars argue that the development agenda is maldevelopment due to the unrequested interventions delivered to communities, mainly in the Global South. Thus, despite the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the implementation of inner dimensions that facilitate empowerment and are an integral part of development is missing from these sophisticated global frameworks. This research article repositions empowerment and compassion at the centre of the sustainable development discourse by drawing on the Inner Development Framework, particularly goal one—Being—‘Relationship to Self’ and goal three—Relating—‘Caring for others and the World’ and the Capabilities Theory as a guiding theoretical underpinning. On this basis, this article presents a qualitative interpretative study that examines the lived experience of women and their journeys to empowerment. The key findings indicate an intricate relationship between wellbeing and empowerment and the realisation of inner development as a tool to re-imagine alternative futures. In addition, industries are profiteering from a sustainability and development agenda that is failing to address the disablement of communities by a paternalistic approach to empowerment.
      Citation: Challenges
      PubDate: 2024-02-20
      DOI: 10.3390/challe15010008
      Issue No: Vol. 15, No. 1 (2024)
       
  • Challenges, Vol. 15, Pages 9: Untangling the Processes of Bitcoin: An
           Organizational Learning Perspective

    • Authors: Rupert L. Matthews
      First page: 9
      Abstract: Bitcoin is a complex phenomenon, whether in terms of the macro factors affecting its price or its role in the global energy infrastructure. However, extant literature pays too little attention to exploring the internal mechanisms of the protocol to be able to link them to how they affect the visible characteristics of Bitcoin. This paper uses secondary data from highly reputable Bitcoin-focused sources to systematically map the processes that enable Bitcoin to function as a peer-to-peer cash system. Novelty is achieved by applying the established and versatile “4I” organisational learning framework to provide a new lens through which to understand how the processes within Bitcoin enable and facilitate different types of changes to the protocol. Further insights are provided to organisational learning from Bitcoin, in relation to managing mission-critical changes to organisational systems. In addition, it presents an option for dealing with irreconcilable internal differences to “hard-fork” part of the organisation. While the scope of this paper is limited to secondary data, opportunities for further research, including primary data collection, are outlined to explore how Bitcoin knowledge disseminates within communities or companies.
      Citation: Challenges
      PubDate: 2024-02-21
      DOI: 10.3390/challe15010009
      Issue No: Vol. 15, No. 1 (2024)
       
  • Challenges, Vol. 15, Pages 10: Cultivating Pearls of Wisdom: Creating
           Protected Niche Spaces for Inner Transformations amidst the Metacrisis

    • Authors: Kira Jade Cooper, Don G. McIntyre, Dan McCarthy
      First page: 10
      Abstract: The impetus for this paper emerges from the growing interest in leveraging inner transformations to support a global shift in ways of seeing and being. We caution that without sufficient individual and systemic maturity, inner transformations will be unable to hold the whole story and that attempts to drive paradigmatic shifts in ill-prepared systems will lead to insidious harms. As such, interventions for inner change will not have sufficient protected niche space to move beyond the boundaries of best practices towards wise practices. Drawing on Indigenous trans-systemics, we offer the metaphor of pearls as an invitation to recontextualize how inner transformations are conceived and approached in the metacrisis. To further develop this notion, we share a story of Wendigo and Moloch as a precautionary tale for the blind pursuit of inner and outer development. Weaving together metaphor, story, and scientific inquiry, we bring together Anishinaabe and Western knowledge systems for the purposes of healing and transformation. We hope that this paper will create space for wise practices—gifts from Creator to help sustain both Self and the World—to emerge, establish, and flourish. We invite readers on an exploration into the whole system of systems that are endemic to Anishinaabe cosmology, and a journey of reimagining new stories for collective flourishing amidst the metacrisis.
      Citation: Challenges
      PubDate: 2024-02-22
      DOI: 10.3390/challe15010010
      Issue No: Vol. 15, No. 1 (2024)
       
  • Challenges, Vol. 15, Pages 11: Cultivating Resilience in Chaos:
           Localisation as a Mechanism for Sustainability and Inner Development in
           Syria’s Humanitarian Crisis

    • Authors: Jo Rose, Eslam Elbaaly
      First page: 11
      Abstract: This article explores localisation in humanitarian settings as an example of sustainability and inner development. Through a case study from Syria, we discuss how localisation and remote management can lead to the mutual flourishing of individuals, communities and planetary health in the most challenging settings. Through localisation, we can rethink and reframe humanitarianism and integrate sustainability and personal development. Learning from these collaborations that highlight the importance of trust and interpersonal relations, the humanitarian and global health communities can reflect on how local individuals and communities can be further supported in their personal development and the sustainability of interventions that promote planetary health.
      Citation: Challenges
      PubDate: 2024-02-23
      DOI: 10.3390/challe15010011
      Issue No: Vol. 15, No. 1 (2024)
       
  • Challenges, Vol. 15, Pages 12: Access to Human Health Benefits of Forests
           in Rural Low and Middle-Income Countries: A Literature Review and
           Conceptual Framework

    • Authors: Ranaivo A. Rasolofoson
      First page: 12
      Abstract: Forests are increasingly recognized for their beneficial roles in human health. However, there is a debate on how forest health benefits can be accessed equitably, particularly by vulnerable forest-dependent rural communities in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Access to forest health benefits is determined by a range of interconnected means, including property rights, as well as natural, physical, human, social, and financial capital. This paper presents a literature review of the roles of means of access in shaping human health effects of forests. Evidence suggests that variations in these means of access are associated with varying ability to access forest health benefits. However, existing evidence is thin, mixed, and weak. A conceptual model is then developed to provide a framework for understanding how means of access moderate the effects of forests on health in rural LMICs to guide the generation of strong evidence. The multiple interconnected factors moderating the health effects of forests at the core of the conceptual framework promote the multisectoral and transdisciplinary approaches needed to enhance equitable access to forest health benefits.
      Citation: Challenges
      PubDate: 2024-02-29
      DOI: 10.3390/challe15010012
      Issue No: Vol. 15, No. 1 (2024)
       
  • Challenges, Vol. 15, Pages 13: A Framework for Effective Collaboration
           with Crisis-Affected Communities

    • Authors: Jo Rose, Claudia Milena Adler
      First page: 13
      Abstract: In 2016, a localisation agenda was set across the international aid industry with the understanding that humanitarian interventions need to be led by local actors and local communities. Despite international agreements, the localisation efforts are largely failing. This paper demonstrates the challenges that prevent effective collaboration between international humanitarian agencies and crisis-affected communities. It draws on evaluation reports to highlight an inability to learn lessons or follow recommendations from previous crises. Based on the authors’ experiences, we present a novel framework for effectively collaborating with crisis-affected communities. The Communities Framework provides a pathway to establishing effective community collaboration and locally owned and led humanitarian interventions. The importance of local leadership, trust building, and local context are at the heart of the framework. In light of the need for a more localised and decolonial humanitarian response, this framework supports humanitarian actors and the affected communities in moving from a charity-led approach to one of mutual aid. The paper draws on alternative notions of compassion from the Global South of contemporary humanitarian interventions as a philosophical foundation for the framework. Caring for others and the world is central to implementing an appropriate and effective humanitarian response. There remains a largely unexplored scope regarding the outcome of resolving crises when both humanitarian actors and affected communities work as equal partners and how that will shape modern humanitarianism as we understand it today.
      Citation: Challenges
      PubDate: 2024-03-09
      DOI: 10.3390/challe15010013
      Issue No: Vol. 15, No. 1 (2024)
       
  • Challenges, Vol. 15, Pages 14: Beneficial Properties and Sustainable Use
           of a Traditional Medicinal Plant: Griffonia simplicifolia

    • Authors: Amirhossein Nazhand, Alessandra Durazzo, Massimo Lucarini, Fabrizia Guerra, Angélica Gomes Coêlho, Eliana B. Souto, Daniel Dias Rufino Arcanjo, Antonello Santini
      First page: 14
      Abstract: Since ancient times, medicinal plants have been a universal source of biologically active substances with high potential for the treatment of various diseases and disorders. For centuries, traditional communities have often relied on medicinal plants to treat health problems. Therefore, accurate information is required and knowledge about traditional medicinal plants requires evaluation, and great attention should be given to the possible integration of these plants as therapeutic agents or as complements to conventional pharmacological therapies in the healthcare system. Recently, Griffonia simplicifolia (DC.) Baill., initially used as a holistic remedy, has attracted attention from many researchers and consumers because of its multiple health-promoting effects. This growing interest prompted us to give an updated review of the botanical, geographical, historical, and therapeutic potentials of Griffonia simplicifolia (DC.) Baill. in terms of its in vitro and in vivo health effects, nutritional uses, and possible applications in line with biodiversity and sustainability concepts. This paper also presents a quantitative research analysis of the published studies related to this plant that are available in the literature. To retrieve the publications related to this plant, a bibliographic search was carried out using the Scopus database. The bibliometric data were extracted and processed using VOSviewer software (v.1.6.16, 2020). Technological possible applications in terms of patents request presented was also performed. A total of 1386 publications, from the year 1970 to the year 2021, were obtained by the literature search, and these had been collectively cited 38,805 times. The large amount of literature data available documents the interest in this plant’s use as a tool for integrating traditional holistic healing approach, e.g., using plants, herbs, and holistic remedies, into the healthcare system as supporting tools and/or therapeutic agents, which is a current worldwide challenge.
      Citation: Challenges
      PubDate: 2024-03-12
      DOI: 10.3390/challe15010014
      Issue No: Vol. 15, No. 1 (2024)
       
  • Challenges, Vol. 15, Pages 15: Bitcoin Use Cases: A Scoping Review

    • Authors: Emma Apatu, Poornima Goudar
      First page: 15
      Abstract: This scoping review examines individual and societal use cases of Bitcoin in the peer-reviewed literature. Arksey and O’Malley’s scoping review methodology was used, and a comprehensive search strategy was employed using Web of Science and Engineering village databases. Articles were screened at the title and abstract and full-text levels by the authors. One author conducted data extraction to summarize the data. In total, 17 relevant articles were included in this review. Investment and savings were the most widely reported use cases at an individual level, with payments and international transfers less frequently reported in the studies. Only two studies reported on societal use cases of legal tender; however, only one country, El Salvador, executed its intention. Our study suggests that Bitcoin is being used by individuals around the world with little report of societal (e.g., country adoption) uses cases. For example, there is evidence on the internet and on a grass-roots level that Bitcoin is being used in circular economies; however, the peer-reviewed literature may not yet capture the extent and full benefits and challenges. As such, we provide ideas for future research to more comprehensively explore Bitcoin uses and its impacts on individuals and society.
      Citation: Challenges
      PubDate: 2024-03-14
      DOI: 10.3390/challe15010015
      Issue No: Vol. 15, No. 1 (2024)
       
  • Challenges, Vol. 15, Pages 16: Low-Cost Non-Contact Forest Inventory: A
           Case Study of Kieni Forest in Kenya

    • Authors: Cedric Kiplimo, Ciira wa Maina, Billy Okal
      First page: 16
      Abstract: Forests are a vital source of food, fuel, and medicine and play a crucial role in climate change mitigation. Strategic and policy decisions on forest management and conservation require accurate and up-to-date information on available forest resources. Forest inventory data such as tree parameters, heights, and crown diameters must be collected and analysed to monitor forests effectively. Traditional manual techniques are slow and labour-intensive, requiring additional personnel, while existing non-contact methods are costly, computationally intensive, or less accurate. Kenya plans to increase its forest cover to 30% by 2032 and establish a national forest monitoring system. Building capacity in forest monitoring through innovative field data collection technologies is encouraged to match the pace of increase in forest cover. This study explored the applicability of low-cost, non-contact tree inventory based on stereoscopic photogrammetry in a recently reforested stand in Kieni Forest, Kenya. A custom-built stereo camera was used to capture images of 251 trees in the study area from which the tree heights and crown diameters were successfully extracted quickly and with high accuracy. The results imply that stereoscopic photogrammetry is an accurate and reliable method that can support the national forest monitoring system and REDD+ implementation.
      Citation: Challenges
      PubDate: 2024-03-18
      DOI: 10.3390/challe15010016
      Issue No: Vol. 15, No. 1 (2024)
       
  • Challenges, Vol. 15, Pages 17: The Natural World in Western Thought

    • Authors: Mazhar Ali Jarwar, Stefano Dumontet, Vincenzo Pasquale
      First page: 17
      Abstract: The Western approach to the natural world, considering “nature” as an object of scientific scrutiny and of exploitation for economic purposes, results in a separateness and subsequent alienation from nature. The overarching aim of this paper is to emphasize the limitations and consequences of this approach, including how nature is perceived, the value attributed to nature, and the substantial denial of cultural contributions from non-Western philosophical and scientific backgrounds. We also consider the Western attempt at balancing industrial and technological endeavors, aimed at preserving ecological equilibria. In this framework, we argue that the current ever-increasing concern about sustainability cannot be decoupled from the perception of nature and natural values, whether material, aesthetic, or spiritual. Therefore, modern sustainability challenges, mainly attributable to Western overexploitation of nature and natural resources, need to be considered in the context of the limited Western paradigms, which often leave the very definition of nature unanswered. We argue that efforts to ease the anthropogenic pressure on natural ecosystems, leading to their degradation, cannot be uniquely bounded by Western science and its technological appendices.
      Citation: Challenges
      PubDate: 2024-03-20
      DOI: 10.3390/challe15010017
      Issue No: Vol. 15, No. 1 (2024)
       
 
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About Performance     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 9)
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Desenvolvimento em Questão     Open Access  
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Development     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 20)
Didáctica de las Ciencias Experimentales y Sociales     Open Access  
DIFI Family Research and Proceedings     Open Access  
Digital Geography and Society     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Discourse & Society     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 59)
Discover Social Science and Health     Open Access   (Followers: 18)
Distinktion : Scandinavian Journal of Social Theory     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 10)
Divulgatio : Perfiles Académicos de Posgrado     Open Access  
Drustvena istrazivanja     Open Access  
Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 13)
Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict: Pathways toward terrorism and genocide     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 13)
E-l@tina : Revista Electrónica de Estudios Latinoamericanos     Open Access  
Eastern Africa Social Science Research Review     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 5)
Eat, Sleep, Work     Open Access   (Followers: 3)
EAU Heritage Journal Social Science and Humanities     Open Access   (Followers: 2)
Economic and Regional Studies / Studia Ekonomiczne i Regionalne     Open Access  
Educación, Lenguaje y Sociedad     Open Access  
Education, Business and Society : Contemporary Middle Eastern Issues     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 1)
EFB Bioeconomy Journal     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Égypte - Monde arabe     Open Access   (Followers: 4)
Éire-Ireland     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 8)
Electoral Studies     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 47)
Emotions : History, Culture, Society     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 1)
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Encuentros Multidisciplinares     Open Access  
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Equality, Diversity and Inclusion : An International Journal     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 26)
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Espace populations sociétés     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
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Estudios Sociales     Open Access  
Etcétera : Revista del Área de Ciencias Sociales del CIFFyH     Open Access  
Ethics and Social Welfare     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 24)
Ethnic and Racial Studies     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 49)
Ethnobotany Research & Applications : a journal of plants, people and applied research     Open Access   (Followers: 3)
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European Journal of Social Psychology     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 48)
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European Review of Social Psychology     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 17)
European View     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 1)
European Yearbook of Minority Issues Online     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 5)
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ExT : Revista de Extensión de la UNC     Open Access  
Fa Nuea Journal     Open Access  
Family Matters     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 9)
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Finnish Journal of Social Research      Open Access   (Followers: 6)
Flaubert     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Formation emploi     Open Access  
FORO. Revista de Ciencias Jurídicas y Sociales, Nueva Época     Open Access   (Followers: 2)
Forskning & Forandring : Research and Change     Open Access  
Forum Ilmu Sosial     Open Access  
Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research     Open Access   (Followers: 9)
Fourth World Journal     Full-text available via subscription  
Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 2)
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Future Times     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 1)
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Genocide Studies and Prevention     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 9)
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