eprintid: 10082795 rev_number: 20 eprint_status: archive userid: 608 dir: disk0/10/08/27/95 datestamp: 2019-10-02 17:16:32 lastmod: 2020-03-17 12:28:49 status_changed: 2019-10-02 17:16:32 type: article metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Asokan, VA creators_name: Yarime, M creators_name: Onuki, M title: Bridging practices, institutions, and landscapes through a scale-based approach for research and practice: A case study of a business association in South India ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: A01 divisions: B04 divisions: C05 divisions: J39 keywords: Sustainability science, Corporate responsibility, Scale-based approach, Ecosystems, Business association note: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. abstract: There is a need for enterprises to incorporate information on the environment into decision making and to take action on ecological restoration. Within academia, a comprehensive understanding of the impacts on how business can serve sustainability transformation is still lacking as diverging holistic approaches and reductive approaches cloud academic thinking. The authors take a science-policy interface perspective to cover the role of cognitive proximity, matching and coordination of scientific knowledge from diverse stakeholders for effective policy making and implementation. We show through a literature review that temporal and spatial scales, soil and land degradation, institutions and ecosystem, and the role of human behavior and narrative are not adequately emphasized in sustainability research. A scale-based picture, focusing on landscapes, institutions and practices is proposed which can be used to align diverse fields by acting as “bridge” for improved science policy interface and decision making, facilitated through cognitive proximity, matching, and coordination. A case study on a business association from South India is used to demonstrate the scales based approach in practice. A scale-based approach can play a key role in connecting human behaviour, a social science thematic topic, with ecosystems, a natural science thematic topic. date: 2019-06 date_type: published publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV official_url: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2019.02.022 oa_status: green full_text_type: other language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 1643701 doi: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2019.02.022 lyricists_name: Yarime, Masaru lyricists_id: MYARI69 actors_name: Allington-Smith, Dominic actors_id: DAALL44 actors_role: owner full_text_status: public publication: Ecological Economics volume: 160 pagerange: 240-250 pages: 11 issn: 1873-6106 citation: Asokan, VA; Yarime, M; Onuki, M; (2019) Bridging practices, institutions, and landscapes through a scale-based approach for research and practice: A case study of a business association in South India. Ecological Economics , 160 pp. 240-250. 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2019.02.022 <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2019.02.022>. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10082795/8/Yarime_ASOBPIv1.pdf