Legume consumption and sustainability - The minority goes green.

The current food systems and the dominating dietary patterns in most EU countries contribute to climate change and are not sustainable. Legumes have the potential to make consumption patterns more sustainable, especially if they come from local or organic production systems. Yet, legume consumption in Germany is low.

Social valuation of biodiversity relative to other types of assets at risk in wildfire.

Environmental crises, such as wildfires, can cause major losses of human life, infrastructure, biodiversity, and cultural values. In many such situations, incident controllers must make fateful choices about what to protect-and hence what to abandon. With an online representative survey of >2000 adult Australians, we investigated social attitudes to this dilemma.

Circular economy, environmental quality and tourism receipts in Europe: A time series data analysis.

The study examines how progress towards a circular economy (CE), patents related to recycling and secondary raw materials as a proxy for innovation, affect tourism receipts. The study uses Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) and Error Correction Method (ECM) to analyse time series data from EU countries from 2000 to 2020. Our estimates show that there exist long-run and short-run equilibrium relationships.

Eastern Australian Farmers Managing and Thinking Differently: Innovative Adaptation Cycles.

The uncertainty of climate change is a significant challenge prompting Australian farmers to create different thinking and different management systems that ensure sustained farm business viability and continuity, particularly in extreme environments. The purpose of this study was to explore the conditions and adaptive processes for managing farm resilience and cyclic adaptation pathways, in response to climate change. A positive deviance sample of farmers was interviewed, and data was collected from a cohort of twenty-two climate change innovators across Eastern Australia.

Current and projected heatwave-attributable occupational injuries, illnesses, and associated economic burden in Australia.

Introduction: The costs of global warming are substantial. These include expenses from occupational illnesses and injuries (OIIs), which have been associated with increases during heatwaves. This study estimated retrospective and projected future heatwave-attributable OIIs and their costs in Australia.