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The expansion of the online food services (collectively referred to as ‘OFS’) sector has been accelerating at high rates worldwide over the last few years. This sector is widely acknowledged, especially by urban consumers, for making life more convenient. During the strict lockdown following the breakout of the COVID-19 pandemic, the OFS sector saw...

This study evaluates the gaps between urban and rural linkages within the corridor of Hoi An city and suggests potential solutions utilizing the circulating and ecological sphere principles for further strengthening these linkages and gradually promoting sustainable development of the city and surrounding area. A face-to-face interview method and...

The circulating and ecological sphere (CES) concept promotes a self-reliant decentralised society by utilising regional resources to achieve decarbonisation. The concept is particularly relevant to depopulated areas across Japan facing a continuous increase of underutilised agricultural land that brings environmental, social and economic challenges...

Groundwater is crucial for agriculture, domestic use, and industry. This study represents groundwater potential zones in the Amravati district, Maharashtra, India, using the analytical hierarchy process (AHP) and multi-influencing factor (MIF) techniques. These techniques are employed for a detailed spatial analysis, which is essential for...

This presentation was to set the scence for the session "SEPLS Management as Integrated, Inclusive and Localised Actions towards a Nature Positive Society". In the face of the environmental crises, we are required to take urgent actions. To move towards a nature positive society, this session aimed to discuss how the integrated, inclusive and...

The presentation provided the global trend of the environmental crises and the preliminary research results on the current recognition and awareness on the environmental issues among the tourism industry and tourists in Mauritius and the potential changes towards a sustainable society. It also aimed to inform the usefulness of the sustainable...

This is presented at the Fifth Science-policy Forum For Biodiversity on 12 December, COP15 in Montréal. It aimed to apply the Tourism and Sustainable Transformation Framework, while integraing the recent findings from the IPBES assessments, to the case of coastal communities in Mauritius where the majority of the local communities are artisanal...

This is to frame the session, "Transformative Actions for a Nature-positive Society from SATOYAMA Initiative towards 2030. It emphasizes the need of transformative change and the potential contributions by the Satoyama Initiative towards a nature positive society to be realized by 2030.

Overview of the contributions made by the Satoyama Development Mechanism, a seed funding programme under the International Partnership for Satoyama Initiative, in the past and way forward to the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework.

Globally, urbanization constitutes one of the major underlying drivers of global ecological degradation. Hence, deurbanization, i.e., demographic shift from urban to distant rural areas in a way that increases quality of life (QoL), can be one of the key pathways to address this global challenge. In this study, we investigated the contribution of...