44 research outputs found
Sustainable Consumption Communication: A Review of an Emerging Field of Research
Communication plays an important role in promoting sustainable consumption. Yet how the academic literature conceptualizes and relates communication and sustainable consumption remains poorly understood, despite growing research on communication in the context of sustainable consumption. This article presents the first comprehensive review of sustainable consumption communication (SCC) research as a young and evolving field of scholarly work. Through a systematic review and narrative synthesis of N = 67 peer-reviewed journal articles, we consolidated the research conducted in this field into four distinct types: communication as an approach to (1) behavior change, (2) self-empowerment, (3) systems change, and (4) reflection on current discourses and practices around sustainable consumption. Our findings reveal that most journal articles focus on incremental changes in individual consumer behavior (âweakâ sustainable consumption) and employ communication as an intervention tool with little reference to communication science and theory. They also reveal integration challenges arising from the disciplinary diversity and fragmentation characteristic of the research field. Future research should develop shared frameworks and terminology, diversify its foci, synthesize relevant evidence, and innovate critical perspectives that go beyond one-way business-to-consumer communication. The results of our review can serve researchers engaged in sustainable consumption communication to better systematize their efforts and contribute more effectively to changing systems of consumption in the future
Strong convergence and stability of Picard iteration sequences for a general class of contractive-type mappings
Ăber Toeplitzsche Iterationsverfahren und einige ihrer Anwendungen in der konstruktiven Fixpunkttheorie
Nachhaltigkeitsberichterstattung zwischen Programm und Produktion: Ăber die doppelte Verantwortung von Medienunternehmen
Spatial scaling in bedâsite selection by roe deer fawns: Implications for mitigating neonatal mortality during mowing
Abstract When habitat use by fieldâdwelling animals coincides in space and time with agricultural practices such as spring mowing of meadows, humanâwildlife conflicts can have deadly consequences for wildlife. Roe deer (Capreolus capreolus L.) fawns are particularly vulnerable because they hide in meadows during the rearing phase. Thus, a better understanding of the habitat drivers of bedâsite selection is critical to mitigating fawn mortality during mowing. Here, we tease apart the amongâfield (presumably driven by maternal behaviour) and withinâfield (driven by fawn behaviour) components of bedâsite selection of roe deer during the spring mowing season. We collected over 600 fawn bed sites across an environmentally diverse study region. At the amongâfield scale, we implemented a used versus available design and employed a twoâpart statistical model (GAMLSS) to identify habitat characteristics that were linked to either fawn presence (vs. absence) or abundance on a given field. At the withinâfield scale, we compared habitat characteristics at fawn bedâsites with paired random sites using a conditional logistic regression model. At the amongâfield scale, fawns were more likely to be present, and were more abundant, in fields within more diverse, rural landscapes, with nearby woodland. Surprisingly, fawns were more often present in fields that were near roads and had lower vegetation productivity. At the withinâfield scale, however, fawns preferred bedâsites which were further from both roads and woodland, but that provided the best visual cover to minimise predation risk. Our findings revealed substantial and novel scaleâdependent differences in the drivers of habitat selection of mothers and fawns, which, together, determine the precise locations of bedâsites between and within meadows. These results may aid wildlife managers in identifying areas where there is a high probability of encountering a roe deer fawn so as to initiate targeted searches prior to mowing and, ultimately, mitigate fawn mowing mortality