Sustainable development opportunities in small island nations: A case study of the Cook Islands

Tyedmers, Elijah; Malik, Arunima; Fry, Jacob; Geschke, Arne; Yousefzadeh, Moslem; Lenzen, Manfred

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.123045

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“…The purpose of this research was to improve the sustainability of Kinmen County in Taiwan, which consists of the major island of Kinmen and its associated islets, and to generate ideas for reducing waste and energy use. We intend to use the unique resources of the island-its extensive unused military facilities-to achieve the sustainable goal of combining environmental protection and education [2]. There are various approaches to reactivating and reusing old military facilities to develop Kinmen into a low-carbon demonstration island.…”

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The Carbon Inventory of the Reuse Phase’s Life Cycle: The Example of the Reconstruction of a Zero-Carbon Campus on an Unused Military Camp

Liu

Lee

2022

Sustainability

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Quemoy University has taken over Cemetery 2 region after it was released by the military. It became the school’s other campus, with plans to change the site from an unused military camp to a sustainable campus. The finished project will include a carbon inventory of the buildings and landscape of the original camp, and overall campus planning and design. Incorporating the concept of applying GIS, the planning and survey data mentioned above will be used as the basis for the future research design and implementation. Aerial maps will be combined with cadastral and topographic maps to establish a basic evaluation resource map: a site plan map, data point map, building carbon footprint map, and route carbon footprint map. The main carbon hotspot of each building’s life cycle total carbon footprint is 549,293.14 kgCO2e/30 yr. Through putting solar panel systems on the buildings’ rooftops and the 30 year landscape carbon inventory principle of no disturbance as the carbon offset, the unused military campus will become a zero-carbon campus. The maps above will act as carbon diagnostics for future campus operation carbon footprint analysis and provide the current situation of the campus’s environmental sustainability and future visual scenario simulations, helping decision makers to build a sustainable campus environment strategy.

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The Carbon Inventory of the Reuse Phase’s Life Cycle: The Example of the Reconstruction of a Zero-Carbon Campus on an Unused Military Camp

Liu

Lee

2022

Sustainability

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“…Beach tourists have also been associated with unsustainable practices and littering (Eastman et al, 2013), further aggravating the waste issue. In the island context, it creates an additional burden where solid wastes are already poorly managed, characterized by low recycling rate and insufficient reuse of items, under-developed infrastructures, insufficient law enforcement, small market sizes and dis-economies of scale (Eckelman et al, 2014;Fuldauer et al, 2019;Tyedmers et al, 2020).…”

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Tackling Single-Use-Plastic in small touristic islands to reduce marine litter: co-identifying the best mix of policy interventions

Guittard,

Akinsete,

Demian

et al. 2023

Front. Environ. Econ.

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Marine litter is a worldwide issue affecting local communities with increasing environmental and economic impacts, with Single-Use-Plastic (SUP) pollution being of specific concern. The tourism industry has been identified as one of the major sector contributing to marine plastic pollution therefor in need to take urgent actions. Small islands are particularly vulnerable and need locally adapted strategies to effectively tackle this issue. This study proposes the use of a participative system-based approach to co-design, with local stakeholders, a roadmap tackling Single-Use-Plastic (SUP) in the hospitality industry of small Greek touristic islands. Policy, industry, civil society and academia representatives were involved in a participative co-creation process to co-identify the best mix of policy instruments and innovations (social and technological) adapted to the local island context, capable of reducing plastic consumption and littering in the island while fostering behavioural change (from consumers and local businesses perspective). Results show the lack of knowledge and awareness, the limited financial resources and expertise, and the low efficiency of the waste management system as the main challenges. A roadmap of short and mid-term actions, based on the Circular Economy reduce, reuse, recycle principles was co-developed, including raising awareness campaigns across stakeholder groups, positive economic incentives, development of capacity building and partnerships within the quadruple helix (academia, business, public authorities and civil society representatives), forming the basis of the municipal island free SUP strategy. The active involvement of public and private actors as well as the civil society, empowering local actors and developing trust across stakeholder groups are key factors to develop a successful strategy able to tackle plastic pollution locally. Pilot experiments also proved to be a determinant for the adoption of sustainable solutions in the context of small islands.

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“…Tras lo antes señalado, en los últimos años las personas y organizaciones han desarrollado un rol activo en búsqueda de un crecimiento armónico integral y justo, desde una perspectiva social, económico y medioambiental (Petillion et al, 2019), la que pretende mitigar la crisis económica, ambiental, social y política que impera en diversos países del planeta. Dicho rol ha motivado al despliegue de manifestaciones sociales cuyos propósitos han sido la lucha contra las desiguales, inequidades y, los estragos que ha ocasionado el cambio climático (Tyedmers et al, 2020). Sobre este último aspecto, desde 1960 se han incrementado las iniciativas ambientales lideradas por organizaciones sociales y políticas; incentivando su institucionalización a nivel global, nacional y comunitario, buscando la creación de mecanismos ambientales que fecundan el desarrollo humano en su plenitud (Mensah, 2019).…”

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Consumo sustentable socialmente responsable: el caso de estudiantes universitarios de una ciudad de Perú

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La presente investigación explora las diferencias en prácticas de consumo sustentable socialmente responsable según características sociodemográficas de estudiantes universitarios en una ciudad de Perú. Se suministra un instrumento a 318 futuros profesionales constituyendo una muestra no probabilística por conveniencia y se estiman estadísticos descriptivos y de dispersión. Los resultados muestran diferencias estadísticamente significativas según las variables sociodemográficas; encontrándose el valor mayor en la dimensión "respeto a las personas y animales", mientras que el menor valor se encuentra en la dimensión "compra informada". La participación en comunidad, el desarrollo de voluntariado y los años de permanencia en la universidad aumentan la valoración expresada por los estudiantes. En consecuencia, es imprescindible indagar sobre la influencia de los niveles de ingreso familiar como represor o estimulador de conductas que evidencian un comportamiento de consumo sustentable socialmente responsable. Se concluye que es preciso promover a través de las funciones sustantivas de las universidades la integración de acciones socialmente responsables y ambientalmente conscientes.

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Sustainable development opportunities in small island nations: A case study of the Cook Islands

Cited by 8 publications

References 36 publications

The Carbon Inventory of the Reuse Phase’s Life Cycle: The Example of the Reconstruction of a Zero-Carbon Campus on an Unused Military Camp

The Carbon Inventory of the Reuse Phase’s Life Cycle: The Example of the Reconstruction of a Zero-Carbon Campus on an Unused Military Camp

Tackling Single-Use-Plastic in small touristic islands to reduce marine litter: co-identifying the best mix of policy interventions

Consumo sustentable socialmente responsable: el caso de estudiantes universitarios de una ciudad de Perú

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