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Where believer, seller, and beneficiary come together: A typology of eco‐innovators
Authors: Peters Anna , Schuster Andreas S. , Kanbach Dominik K. , Kraus Sascha , Meyer Natanya 
Published: March 2024

AbstractIn response to escalating environmental concerns and the imperative for sustainable development, corporations have turned to eco‐innovation (EI) to enhance competitiveness and reduce ecological footprints. This study scrutinizes 17 European Commission EI‐awarded companies from 1990 to 2021, uncovering pivotal dimensions and archetypes that drive successful EI implementation. Internal drivers, including management commitment and agile work structures, are paramount for “Believers” who champion sustainability as a core value. “Sellers” strategically respond to market demands, while “Beneficiaries” follow regulatory mandates. The academic implications are profound, providing a robust foundation for future research. This typology contributes to the discourse surrounding EI development and diffusion while offering corporate managers tangible guidance for tailored EI strategies. It illuminates how distinct motives lead to nuanced combinations of internal and external drivers. This empirical study fills a critical research gap, providing best‐practice insights for companies seeking to integrate EI effectively.
Revitalization of Diluent Amide‐Based Electrolyte for Building High‐Voltage Lithium‐Metal Batteries
Authors: Ma Shunchao , Cong Lina , Fu Fang , Rumesh Madhusanka Suwanda Arachchige Don , Wang Hongyu , Xie Haiming 
Published: March 2024

AbstractHitherto, highly concentrated electrolyte is the overarching strategy for revitalizing the usage of amide ‐ in lithium‐metal batteries (LMBs), which simultaneously mitigates the reactivity of amide toward Li and regulates uniform Li deposition via forming anion‐solvated coordinate structure. However, it is undeniable that this would bring the cost burden for practical electrolyte preparation, which stimulates further electrolyte design toward tailoring anion‐abundant Li+ solvation structure in stable amide electrolytes under a low salt content. Herein, a distinct method is conceived to design anions‐enriched Li+ solvation structure in dilute amide‐electrolyte (1 m Li‐salt concentration) with the aid of integrating perfluoropolyethers (PFPE‐MC) with anion‐solvating ability and B/F‐involved additives. The optimized electrolyte based on N,N‐Dimethyltrifluoroacetamide (FDMAC) exhibits outstanding compatibility with Li and NCM622 cathode, facilitates uniform Li deposition along with robust solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) formation. Accordingly, both the lab‐level LMB coin cell and practical pouch cell based on this dilute FDMAC electrolyte deliver remarkable performances with improved capacity and cyclability. This work pioneers the feasibility of diluted amide as electrolyte in LMB, and provides an innovative strategy for highly stable Li deposition via manipulating solvation structure within diluent electrolyte, impelling the electrolyte engineering development for practical high‐energy LMBs.
Direct Synthesis of CuPd Icosahedra Supercrystals Studied by In Situ X‐Ray Scattering
Authors: Derelli Davide , Frank Kilian , Grote Lukas , Mancini Federica , Dippel Ann‐Christin , Gutowski Olof , Nickel Bert , Koziej Dorota 
Published: March 2024

AbstractNanocrystal self‐assembly into supercrystals provides a versatile platform for creating novel materials and devices with tailored properties. While common self‐assembly strategies imply the use of purified nanoparticles after synthesis, conversion of chemical precursors directly into nanocrystals and then supercrystals in simple procedures has been rarely reported. Here, the nucleation and growth of CuPd icosahedra and their consecutive assembly into large closed‐packed face‐centered cubic (fcc) supercrystals are studied. To this end, the study simultaneously and in situ measures X‐ray total scattering with pair distribution function analysis (TS‐PDF) and small‐angle X‐ray scattering (SAXS). It is found that the supercrystals' formation is preceded by an intermediate dense phase of nanocrystals displaying short‐range order (SRO). It is further shown that the organization of oleic acid/oleylamine surfactants into lamellar structures likely drives the emergence of the SRO phase and later of the supercrystals by reducing the volume accessible to particle diffusion. The supercrystals' formation as well as their disassembly are triggered by temperature. The study demonstrates that ordering of solvent molecules can be crucial in the direct synthesis of supercrystals. The study also provides a general approach to investigate novel preparation routes of supercrystals in situ and across several length scales via X‐ray scattering.
Enhancing Ultraviolet Stability and Performance of Wide Bandgap Perovskite Solar Cells Through Ultraviolet Light‐Absorbing Passivator
Authors: Dai Yao , Ge Xin , Shi Biao , Wang Pengyang , Zhao Ying , Zhang Xiaodan 
Published: March 2024

AbstractUltraviolet light (UV) has caused tremendous damage to perovskite solar cells (PSCs), degrading the perovskite and shortening their lifetime. Defects act as non‐radiative recombination sites, accelerate the degradation process, reduce the efficiency of the device and weaken the stability of solar cell. In this work, to realize efficient and stable p–i–n wide bandgap solar cells under UV, a synergetic strategy utilizing UV light‐absorbing passivator, (Trifluoroacetyl) benzotriazole (TFABI), enhance UV photostability and regulate the defect passivation is proposed. By using TFABI, the degradation of the perovskite absorption layer under UV light is suppressed, spectral response is enhanced and the Pb vacancy defects are passivated. As a result, the target device achieves an efficiency of 21.54%, exhibiting excellent long‐term stability under 365 nm UV irradiation. After 60 h of irradiation, it retains 85% of its initial value (60 mW cm−2, RH 25–30%, 25 °C).
Four-Color ImmunoSpot® Assays Requiring Only 1–3 mL of Blood Permit Precise Frequency Measurements of Antigen-Specific B Cells-Secreting Immunoglobulins of All Four Classes and Subclasses
Authors: Yao Lingling , Becza Noémi , Maul-Pavicic Andrea , Chepke Jack , Kirchenbaum Greg A. , Lehmann Paul V. 
Published: March 2024

AbstractThe B lymphocyte response can encompass four immunoglobulin (Ig) classes and four IgG subclasses, each contributing fundamentally different effector functions. Production of the appropriate Ig class/subclass is critical for both successful host defense and avoidance of immunopathology. The assessment of an antigen-specific B cell response, including its magnitude and Ig class/subclass composition, is most often confined to the antibodies present in serum and other biological fluids and neglects monitoring of the memory B cell (Bmem) compartment capable of mounting a faster and more efficient antibody response following antigen reencounter. Here, we describe how the frequency and Ig class and IgG subclass use of an antigen-specific Bmem repertoire can be determined with relatively little labor and cost, requiring only 8 × 105 freshly isolated peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC), or if additional cryopreservation and polyclonal stimulation is necessary, 3 × 106 PBMC per antigen. To experimentally validate such cell saving assays, we have documented that frequency measurements of antibody-secreting cells (ASC) yield results indistinguishable from those of enzymatic (ELISPOT) or fluorescent (FluoroSpot) versions of the ImmunoSpot® assay, including when the latter are detected in alternative fluorescent channels. Moreover, we have shown that frequency calculations that are based on linear regression analysis of serial PBMC dilutions using a single well per dilution step are as accurate as those performed using replicate wells. Collectively, our data highlight the capacity of multiplexed B cell FluoroSpot assays in conjunction with serial dilutions to significantly reduce the PBMC requirement for detailed assessment of antigen-specific B cells. The protocols presented here allow GLP-compliant high-throughput measurements which should help to introduce high-dimensional Bmem characterization into the standard immune monitoring repertoire.
Toward a Restorative Planning Ethic: Race, History, and Food Planning in Albany, Georgia
Authors: Hall Enjoli , Sherrod Shirley , Raja Samina 
Published: March 2024

AbstractContemporary discussions of equity in planning for urban agriculture remains incomplete when decoupled from the history of racialized food systems in the United States. This chapter documents the decades-long experiences and practices of community-based food systems actors in the small southern city of Albany, Georgia. Through a case study of the Southwest Georgia Project for Community Education. a nonprofit organization that focuses on food systems and community empowerment, we explore the practices of community actors against a complex history of racial dispossession and discrimination that they resist and strive to transform. Community food actors engage in transformative work in order to improve the city’s food system and promote self-determination. The experiences of community actors in Albany, Georgia offer insights into Black people in the United States as producers of food and makers of place. Additionally, the example of Albany examines the potential for urban agriculture as a tool for racial justice, and offers a paradigm for local government public policy to support racial healing in deeply divided communities. The longer history of community-led food planning presented here illuminates the thin line between the past and the present and surfaces a restorative planning ethic, a planning framework that is simultaneously future-oriented and historically-informed and demands that planners engage with and enhance the self-determination of communities that act as storehouses of history and memory in order to acknowledge and account for past harms and wrongs.
The Relational Infrastructure of Food System Policy Development
Authors: Irish Aiden , Clark Jill , Hodgson Kimberley , Raja Samina 
Published: March 2024

AbstractThe process of developing food system policies (FSP) that comprehensively address systemic issues requires the inclusion of a diverse array of actors from all parts of the food system. Drawing on literature on collaborative governance, we argue that interpersonal relationships, and the factors that facilitate their development and maintenance, are essential to FSP development. Based on this assertion, we ask: how do interpersonal relationships shape collaborative food systems policy processes? Specifically, we explore: (1) what motivates the emergence of interpersonal relationships in FSP; (2) what are the characteristics of social environments that foster such interpersonal relationships; and (3) what traits/activities foster interpersonal relationships in food systems policy processes.This research draws on qualitative analysis of 26 semi-structured interviews in four preeminent examples of FSP development in the United States identified by Growing Food Connections (GFC), an FSP research group: Seattle, WA; Lawrence/Douglas County, KS; a five-county region in Minnesota; and Marquette County, MI. Following an inductive description of key cross-case themes responding to the previous questions, we discuss the implications of these findings for equity and ethics in FSP development. This discussion highlights that, while equity did not appear as an explicit motivation for developing interpersonal relationships, practices of humble listening by policy practitioners foster inclusive engagement as a basis for equitable collaboration.
Fertile Ground: Reflections on the Impacts and Implications of an Early University Food System Plan
Authors: Born Branden , Herbach Geoff , Allan Majid 
Published: March 2024

AbstractSince the mid-1990s, food systems planning has gone from virtually nonexistent as a concept in the field to an accepted component of the planning field. The third-ever community food systems plan done by a university was conducted in 1997 by graduate students in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, under the direction of professors Jerry Kaufman and Kami Pothukuchi. This chapter, written by the three compiling editors/writers of the final document, Fertile Ground: Planning for the Madison/Dane County Food System (1997), is a deliberation on the history and creation of the document, and offers personal reflections on the impact of an early food systems planning class. Using a semi-structured interview as a tool to elicit both memories and current personal and professional impacts, the authors look backward and forward to contextualize the relevance and importance of the class and final report almost 25 years after it was written.
“Farming Inside Cities” – A Look Back After Two Decades
Authors: Bailkey Martin , Greenstein Rosalind 
Published: March 2024

AbstractFarming Inside Cities: Entrepreneurial Urban Agriculture in the United States (2000) by Jerry Kaufman and Martin Bailkey, was one of three concurrent research studies on for-market urban agriculture as a viable reuse of vacant land in major US cities. It was commissioned by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and its Land Markets program director, Rosalind Greenstein. For Greenstein, the report was part of an effort to direct Lincoln Institute resources into formerly industrial cities. For Kaufman, it represented a late-career integration of his commitment to social justice, his interest in central city revitalization, and a new belief in food systems planning as a legitimate area of professional practice. Farming Inside Cities did advance a domestic urban agenda within the Lincoln Institute, and was welcomed by urban farmers and representatives of the then-new community food movement as an academic recognition of their actions as change agents. Today, the report’s practical nature, a result of Kaufman’s influence, and its description of the opportunities and challenges of urban agriculture still hold up. In its practicality, however, it does not make explicit the value of farming as a symbolic and often-effective vehicle for social equity and food justice in urban communities of color.
Practical Ethics: Urban Agriculture in US Cities
Authors: DeMarsh Nick , Morales Alfonso 
Published: March 2024

AbstractUrban agriculture provides the opportunity to challenge the status quo within our current urban and food systems. The increased number and density of people in a city creates opportunities and challenges for urban agriculture. Howe and Kaufman’s ethical framework of means and ends is one way to frame urban agriculture. An emphasis on both means and ends is useful given the tendency for ethical ends (or outcomes, economic or otherwise) to preempt considerations for ethical means or processes. Using this framework, we suggest three key ideas to frame ethics of urban agriculture: a place-based historical perspective, a bridge between cities and regions, and a nested approach to reimagining healthy socio-ecological systems. Urban agriculture practitioners must understand the broader history of urban places and agricultural processes as both consequences of national historical processes, in contemporary place specific contexts, and with respect to future goals and orientations to society. The contribution of urban agriculture to environmentally sustainable futures recognizes that food production and consumption is an essential component of human life. The transformative potential of urban agriculture stems from its significant role in two systems that affect everyday life: urban and food systems. This potential for change does not imply that change through urban agriculture practice is inevitable. In this case, change requires that urban agriculture participants and stakeholders critically examine their own practices and expectations. We illustrate how this ethical framework provides an important perspective on the past, present, and future of urban agriculture.
Codification and Inclusivity of Landmark Urban Agriculture Initiatives in Madison and Dane County, Wisconsin
Authors: Lipman Micaela F. , Caton Campbell Marcia 
Published: March 2024

AbstractMadison and Dane County, Wisconsin, are known for progressive politics and early support for community gardening, urban agriculture, and agricultural land preservation. Despite this history of regulatory innovation, the city and county have been slow to address food injustices in local food systems planning and policy development. This chapter covers the local government food systems policy and planning landscape, highlighting local government collaboration with the nonprofit sector to achieve food systems goals, and examining how codification of those goals supports or hinders urban agriculture. The COVID-19 pandemic presented both local governments with a unique opportunity to further collaborations that are more deeply inclusive of community food sovereignty.
Conclusion: Social Accountability Initiatives as Sites of Relational Power
Authors: Vloeberghs Ward , Bergh Sylvia I. 
Published: March 2024

AbstractIn this chapter, we first summarise the findings from the country chapters on the multiple meanings of SA, documenting terms, translations and contrasting understandings between citizens and public officials. Second, we highlight how civil mobilisation tends to be cyclical over time and is often mediated by brokers. Strategies to spur stakeholders into action rely on a delicate balance of both collaboration and confrontation. Third, we examine the responses from authorities to SAIs, finding that reactions are uneven and that all civic innovators fear appropriation or co-optation by officials. Fourth, we assess overall outcomes of Arab SAIs and highlight that the transformative potential of SAIs exists especially at municipal level, if four conditions for success are present (trust, proximity, endorsement, evaluation). We also point out that the actual outcomes of SAIs in Arab societies have, so far, been limited due to design deficiencies (emphasising short-term objectives and limited context sensitivity) or because of officials’ resistance in active or passive forms. We characterise SAIs as a discursive action format that is best understood with a relational approach to power. In a final section, we formulate recommendations for activists, officials and donors on how to make SAIs more effective.
Assessing the Effectiveness of Building Renovation Policies and Decarbonization Progress: A Review of European Legislation
Authors: López-Mesa Belinda , Hernández-Minguillón Rufino J. , Gómez-Gil Marta , Arbulu Markel 
Published: March 2024

AbstractIndicators to evaluate the progress and effectiveness of building renovation policies prove essential for evidence-based decision-making, accountability, and achieving long-term goals towards the decarbonization of the building sector, while also promoting public awareness and engagement. This chapter studies the efforts over time in European legislation relating to building decarbonization and the evolution of requirements for monitoring the effectiveness of building renovation policies and decarbonization progress. The results show that the use of indicators for monitoring building renovation policies is a newly legislated activity in Europe that commenced in 2019 and is expected to become more demanding with the approval of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive revision. This will require significant efforts from European Union Member States to monitor and evaluate their national building renovation policies. Additionally, this underscores the need for new research directions, such as data source evaluation, open big data technologies, and advanced data collection methods, among others.
Analysis of Institutional Frameworks of Indicators to Measure the Effectiveness of Building Renovation Policy and Decarbonization Progress in Europe
Authors: Beltrán-Velamazán Carlos , Gómez-Gil Marta , López-Mesa Belinda 
Published: March 2024

AbstractThe Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) establishes that Member States (MSs) should define a long-term renovation strategy (LTRS) which shall set out a roadmap with measures and measurable indicators, with a view to the long-term 2050 goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the European Union by 80–95% compared to 1990. The EPBD is currently under review and the European Commission suggests strengthening the LTRSs towards National building renovation plans (NBRPs). NBRPs will be much more complete than LTRSs and will make easier to compare the national decarbonization targets and their progress between MSs since a set of mandatory indicators is being established. On the contrary, this will involve important amount of policy monitoring and evaluation work for MSs. The objective of this chapter is to analyze the indicator frameworks included in the currently in force EPBD and in its on-going revision, in order to identify the most important subjects the MSs should focus their data collection on, so that they can get prepared for the important monitoring and evaluation work they will have to do.
Indicators and Data in Spain for an Overview of Deep Renovation of Buildings
Authors: Arbulu Markel , Gómez-Gil Marta , González-González Francisco J. , Espinosa-Fernández Almudena 
Published: March 2024

AbstractIndicators are necessary to measure whether the European Union Member States’ long-term renovation strategies deliver the necessary progress towards the transformation of the building stock into a decarbonized one. Deep renovation of buildings has been identified as a key issue to be addressed in the decarbonization of the building sector. In this chapter, we propose progress indicators to measure the evolution in Spain of the deep renovation of buildings following the European Commission recommendations and directives. We also studied the sources of information available in Spain for the development of these indicators and developed them when there were data. This study allowed us to conclude that in this country, there are not enough sources of data to develop an overview of deep renovation of buildings. The consulted data sources do not categorize renovations based on energy savings depth, creating challenges in distinguishing between deep renovations and other types. Moreover, there is a need to centralize data collection to prevent discrepancies among sources.
Indicators and Data in Spain Regarding an Overview of the Capacities in the Construction, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Sector
Authors: Gómez-Gil Marta , Arbulu Markel , Rueda-Esteban Markel , Monzón-Chavarrías Marta , Beltrán-Velamazán Carlos , González-González Francisco J. 
Published: March 2024

AbstractCapacities of the construction sector are an important vector for a transition towards improving energy efficiency and the broader use of renewable energy in buildings. This affects not only the conventional renovation activity, but also the design and maintenance of buildings with advanced digital features to control their energy behavior. The present study aims to assess the data available on this topic in Spain at the national and regional scales (taking the regions of Aragon and the Basque Country as case studies) in order to be able to develop indicators to assess the building renovation policies effectiveness. The results show that Spain possesses ample data to assess the professional capacity of its sector, and the rough estimates shows existing skills are aligned with requirements, although it is crucial to ensure that university studies adapt to evolving sector needs. Yet emphasis on gathering data on smart technology adoption, engagement with energy communities, and administrative capacity is needed.