The role of industrial ecology in food and agriculture's adaptation to climate change

Kendall, Alissa; Spang, Edward S.

doi:10.1111/jiec.12851

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“…It is worth noting that cooperation of businesses at the meso-level could be so explained from a systems theory perspective. Several scholars suggest that cooperation of businesses in an industrial ecology context plays a critical role in resilience capacity building against environmental change [70,71]. This viewpoint also lends support to the theoretical connection between institutional theory and systems theory to further clarify how business participatory and multi-stakeholder actions can be a meaningful planning endeavor to address EWEs.…”

Section: Systems Theorymentioning

confidence: 69%

Small & Medium-Sized Enterprises, Organizational Resilience Capacity and Flash Floods: Insights from a Literature Review

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From a managerial standpoint, sustainability poses numerous challenges for the business community. One of the prominent concerns in the context of organizational sustainability is the impact of climate change and extreme weather events (EWEs), which create discontinuity and damages to business operations. In this respect, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are particularly vulnerable to EWEs, such as flash floods, having disastrous consequences to SMEs that tend to be ill-prepared. Taking into consideration that these negatives effects are also transferred into the local communities in which SMEs are located, it is crucial to create appropriate mechanisms that will enable these enterprises to build relevant capacities and acquire necessary resources in order to deal with relevant disruptive events. With this in mind, this paper attempts to delineate the emerging literature in relation to strategic approaches in dealing with high impact/low probability EWEs. With this analysis, we aim to provide insights for enhancing the robustness of SMEs against such natural hazards through effective resilience and adaptation strategies. The paper reveals that resilience to EWEs is indeed a multifaceted issue posing numerous challenges to SMEs. Taking into account their intrinsic characteristics, there is a need for a holistic management approach that will assist SMEs to safeguard their assets against extreme weather.

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Section: Systems Theorymentioning

confidence: 69%

Small & Medium-Sized Enterprises, Organizational Resilience Capacity and Flash Floods: Insights from a Literature Review

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“…He goes on to catalogue industrial ecology tools and concepts, describing their limitations and usefulness in supporting climate risk assessment. Bleischwitz (2019), Bristow and Mohareb (2019), and Kendall and Spang (2019) focus on particular systems (mineral resource, urban, and agriculture, respectively) to explore unique challenges related to industrial ecology and adaptation. Bleischwitz describes how climate adaptation is a two‐way challenge for mineral resource systems in that resources will be needed to support adaptation strategies, and how resource use has implications for adaptation.…”

Section: Emerging Perspectives For Industrial Ecology and Climate Adamentioning

confidence: 99%

Industrial ecology in support of climate change adaptation

Chester

2020

J of Industrial Ecology

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Industrial ecology in support of climate change adaptation"This special issue was developed to advance thinking on how industrial ecology can support climate adaptation. The articles show ways in which established industrial ecology approaches can shift from the mitigation to adaptation realms." TOWARD CLIMATE ADAPTATION AND RESILIENCEThere appears to have been a recent tipping of the scales in terms of how we discuss climate change. Whereas in the past the conversation seemed to largely focus on greenhouse gas mitigation, recently climate adaptation has become a major part of the discussion (Wang, Zhao, & Wang, 2018). Making sense of climate adaptation is now common discourse among cities, infrastructure agencies, private industry, and the military. What caused the increased emphasis on climate adaptation is an important question. Global climate is changing rapidly compared to natural variation that has occurred throughout Earth's history, and extreme events such as hurricanes, flooding, wildfires, and heatwaves appear to be exacerbated by a warming world (USGCRP, 2018). Or maybe it is pessimism about our inability to quickly and significantly decrease greenhouse gas emissions, despite decades of research showing us how decreases can happen (Ge, Lebling, Levin, & Friedrich, 2019). Whatever the cause, what is clear is that the global community is rightfully trying to figure out how climate impacts, big or small, should be prepared for, and what they mean for the future of the planet.As the scale, scope and complexity of climate change becomes clearer, concepts around resilience have also come to the forefront of discourse.Whether climate adaptation and resilience are synonymous, or partially overlapping, remains a subject of debate (Nelson, 2011). Resilience principles have been studied for many topics beyond climate adaptation and often have a commonality of capabilities for adaptive capacity and transformation under foreseen and unforeseen conditions (Béné et al., 2018;Meerow, Newell, & Stults, 2016;Woods, 2017). Adaptive capacity is a function of many variables related to sociological, ecological, and technological systems and the relationships between those systems. Resilience frameworks describe a system's ability to thrive when confronted by hazards that it was designed to address and, maybe more importantly, hazards that were not considered (Woods, 2017). The current interest in climate adaptation and resilience is likely not coincidental and transcends climate change concerns. Resilience is becoming a popular concept in many fields at a time when the acceleration and uncertainty of human and natural systems is growing, producing complexities that we are just beginning to recognize (

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“…The field of industrial ecology has taken this interfacing/integration to another level by integrating the influences of economic, political, regulatory, and social factors on the material, energy, monetary and information flows through our agro-industrial-societal systems. 239 Industrial ecology is a systems science framework that is a marriage of the industrial dynamics of Forrester with our understanding of ecological systems. The philosophical foundation for this approach was introduced by Robert A. Frosch in 1992.…”

Section: A Systems Engineering/industrial Ecology Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…240 The industrial ecology community has published a diverse set of material and energy flows, life cycle analyses, industrial symbiose, and climate change studies focused on agriculture and ABBI systems and several are cited here to provide illustrative examples. 239,[241][242][243][244] Harnessing Natural Phenomena and Advanced Technology for a Mission…”

Section: A Systems Engineering/industrial Ecology Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%