eprintid: 10082795
rev_number: 20
eprint_status: archive
userid: 608
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datestamp: 2019-10-02 17:16:32
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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   
 
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