This paper addresses rural development and farm level action in Finland by posing the following main questions: What is the pioneering potential of small-scale entrepreneurship in enhancing rural sustainability? What are the specialisations feasible for such entrepreneurship in the present...

Community resilience refers to a community’s capacity to actively adapt and evolve by balancing internal and external driving forces in a sustainable way. In this paper, emerging local food supply networks are analysed in terms of social capital and community resilience. Firstly, the...

Community resilience refers to a community’s capacity to actively adapt and evolve by balancing internal and external driving forces in a sustainable way. In this paper, emerging local food supply networks are analyzed in terms of social capital and community resilience. Firstly, the links...

pt. 1. Food supply chains : actors, products and relationships -- pt. 2. Local vs. regional vulnerabilities and opportunities -- pt. 3. Sustainable livelihood, community and farm resilience -- pt. 4. Climate-resilient supply chain management : upstream and downstream.

Policies governing forest ecosystems can mitigate climate change in many ways, making use of various ecosystem services. Although identification of ecosystem service trade-offs has received increasing analytical attention, the policies and mixes of policies generating the trade-offs have...

This groundbreaking handbook leads the way in accelerating the transition to a sustainable circular economy by introducing the concept of a catalyst as a positive and enhancing driving force for sustainability. Catalysts create and maintain favourable conditions for complex systemic...