Sustainable care comes in two ways to its fullest

Ook de zorgsector kan zijn bijdrage leveren aan het terugdringen van de uitstoot van broeikasgassen. Dat levert naast klimaatwinst ook gezondheidswinst o

Identifying change agent types and its implications for Corporate Sustainability Integration based on worldviews and contextual factors

Change agents for Corporate Sustainability (CS) play an important role for companies when integrating CS into their business activities. While change agents can be differentiated by their worldviews, little is known about the contextual factors influencing their success in supporting CS integration. By proposing and illustrating an analytical model based on contextual factors of CS integration and change agents´ worldviews, this paper contributes to the understanding of their influence on CS integration. Through a case study we find that change agents show a worldview profile rather than a specific worldview and that whether a worldview is supportive for CS integration depends on the specific context. We conclude that the analytical model contributes to the understanding of the individual and group level of CS integration. When discussed with company representatives, the outcomes of the application of the model could contribute to improve the identification of key individuals to support CS integration activities

A Strategic Research Agenda for Oceans and Human Health: Identifying priority research areas towards establishing an oceans and human health research capacity in Europe

Kellett, Paula ... et al.-- Seas, Oceans & Public Health in Europe (SOPHIE) Liking Oceans and Health Research.-- 55 pages, figures, 1 annexOceans and Human Health (OHH) is a meta-discipline exploring the complex and inextricable links between the health of the ocean and that of humans. It is our vision that OHH will be recognized as a core component of the Planetary Health concept, with OHH awareness spreading through all relevant fields and communities. This will help build the required OHH research capacity to understand the links between ocean health and human health, in order to optimize the outcomes for both. [...]This Strategic Research Agenda is Deliverable 6.2 of the EU Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme-Funded Coordination and Support Action (CSA) Project SOPHIE (Seas, Oceans and Public Health in Europe), Grant Agreement No. 77456

Identification and ranking of environmental threats with ecosystem vulnerability distributions

Responses of ecosystems to human-induced stress vary in space and time, because both stressors and ecosystem vulnerabilities vary in space and time. Presently, ecosystem impact assessments mainly take into account variation in stressors, without considering variation in ecosystem vulnerability. We developed a method to address ecosystem vulnerability variation by quantifying ecosystem vulnerability distributions (EVDs) based on monitoring data of local species compositions and environmental conditions. The method incorporates spatial variation of both abiotic and biotic variables to quantify variation in responses among species and ecosystems. We show that EVDs can be derived based on a selection of locations, existing monitoring data and a selected impact boundary, and can be used in stressor identification and ranking for a region. A case study on Ohio's freshwater ecosystems, with freshwater fish as target species group, showed that physical habitat impairment and nutrient loads ranked highest as current stressors, with species losses higher than 5% for at least 6% of the locations. EVDs complement existing approaches of stressor assessment and management, which typically account only for variability in stressors, by accounting for variation in the vulnerability of the responding ecosystems

Identifying change agent types and its implications for corporate sustainability integration based on worldviews and contextual factors

Change agents for Corporate Sustainability (CS) play an important role for companies when integrating CS into their business activities. While change agents can be differentiated by their worldviews, little is known about the contextual factors influencing their success in supporting CS integration. By proposing and illustrating an analytical model based on contextual factors of CS integration and change agents' worldviews, this paper contributes to the understanding of their influence on CS integration. Through a case study we find that change agents show a worldview profile rather than a specific worldview and that whether a worldview is supportive for CS integration depends on the specific context. We conclude that the analytical model contributes to the understanding of the individual and group level of CS integration. When discussed with company representatives, the outcomes of the application of the model could contribute to improve the identification of key individuals to support CS integration activities

Definition and Applications of a Versatile Chemical Pollution Footprint Methodology

Because of the great variety in behavior and modes of action of chemicals, impact assessment of multiple substances is complex, as is the communication of its results. Given calls for cumulative impact assessments, we developed a methodology that is aimed at expressing the expected cumulative impacts of mixtures of chemicals on aquatic ecosystems for a region and subsequently allows to present these results as a chemical pollution footprint, in short: a chemical footprint. Setting and using a boundary for chemical pollution is part of the methodology. Two case studies were executed to test and illustrate the methodology. The first case illustrates that the production and use of organic substances in Europe, judged with the European water volume, stays within the currently set policy boundaries for chemical pollution. The second case shows that the use of pesticides in Northwestern Europe, judged with the regional water volume, has exceeded the set boundaries, while showing a declining trend over time. The impact of mixtures of substances in the environment could be expressed as a chemical footprint, and the relative contribution of substances to that footprint could be evaluated. These features are a novel type of information to support risk management, by helping prioritization of management among chemicals and environmental compartments

Duurzame zorg komt dubbel tot zijn recht

Ook de zorgsector kan zijn bijdrage leveren aan het terugdringen van de uitstoot van broeikasgassen. Dat levert naast klimaatwinst ook gezondheidswinst o

Species sensitivity distributions for use in environmental protection, assessment, and management of aquatic ecosystems for 12 386 chemicals

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