Despite the last decades have seen a progressive increase in environmental consciousness worldwide, market shares of green products are still rather low and a deep understanding of eco-friendly purchasing behaviour seems still a long way off. Adopting the Theory of Planned Behaviour and the...

The expression Land Degradation (LD) refers to a reduction in the productivity of land and in the provision of ecosystem services. By linking trajectories of Land Use and Land Cover (lulc) and LD processes, the paper evaluates degradation ‘syndromes’ in the past, and develops future...

The author’s reflections on the concept of sustainability move within a historicalsociological frame, and it is in this context that the author arises a fundamental question: is the world able to sustain other wars and mass destructions or, instead, it is necessary to listen to a new need the...

Aspirare ad un benessere effimero, di breve periodo o puramente economico non può essere un progetto di futuro sostenibile per la società. È necessario dare nuova centralità alla sostenibilità del benessere. È una questione complessa, caratterizzata non solo dalle molteplici dimensioni del...

L’attuale scenario internazionale, anche a seguito della crisi globale, si caratterizza per una crescente attenzione della società, dei policy makers e delle imprese, ai temi della sostenibilità dello sviluppo. In tale contesto è cresciuto il ruolo della misurazione della sostenibilità,...

La "reputazione" di un territorio è elemento decisivo in ordine alla garanzia della qualità dei suoi prodotti e alla loro differenziazione, perché capace di renderli unici e difficilmente replicabili. L’identificazione del prodotto con il territorio può essere fortificata, e con essa la...

Quantity and quality food production is a key component of well-being in its most modern and complete meaning. In this view, it has a significant impact on all aspects of social, cultural, environmental and economic development. For the future, the great challenge of agri-food sector is to carry...

The paper suggests that the diverse livelihoods could properly be taken into account to endeavour the effort for more sustainable, flexible and adaptive small-scale fisheries. Diversification contributes to increase income and well-being, thereby providing an adaptive model that is consistent...

Drawing on historical research in the northern highlands of Ecuador, the authors summarize how 75 years of state-supported agricultural modernization and subsequent food policies have led to diverse, wide-scale socio-environmental decline. Despite this global trend, they find considerable...

The present work is a literature review on the short food supply chain, interpreted as a concrete example of sustainability, in which various economic, social and environmental topics are linked in a way that interprets the short food supply chain as a new form of dynamism in the market for...