Archaeological, Written, and Palaeoecological Evidence for Environmental Change in the Wake of Settlement in Iceland: Two Case Studies

2013 ◽  
Vol 11 (sp1) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Guðrún Sveinbjarnardóttir
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Change ◽  
Case Studies

scholarly journals Evaluative tools in impact investing: Three case studies on the use of theories of change

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Noel B. Verrinder ◽  
Kagiso Zwane ◽  
Debby Nixon ◽  
Sara Vaca
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Change ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Impact Investing ◽  
Informed Decisions ◽  
Evaluation Community ◽  
The World ◽  
Social And Environmental Change ◽  
Theories Of Change ◽  
The Impact

Impact investing is becoming one of the largest forces in driving social and environmental change globally. However, how one defines, measures and communicates this impact is not well defined or consistently implemented. This can prevent investors from making well-informed decisions and allows for ‘impact washing’. The evaluation community has many tools that could be adapted and used in the world of impact investing. Theories of change allow for the better communication of impact, identification of indicators to be measured and critical interrogation of logic. The attributes of theories of change could assist in steering the growing force of impact investing towards gathering more investment and achieving greater impact. This paper is exploratory and examines the development and use of theories of change as a tool for impact investing and seeks to identify the benefits of the tool. We qualitatively review three case studies of organisations that have implemented theories of change and identify common key themes. We find that theories of change are a useful tool for the communication of impact, identification of indicators to be measured and for the critical interrogation of logic. However, theories of change do not provide a panacea to the impact challenge; the need to rigorously measure impact is not fulfilled by merely identifying what needs to be measured. Regardless, the use of theories of change adds an advantage in a space where others have not gone to the same length to show their commitment to driving change.

scholarly journals Co-operatives and climate protection: housing co-operatives in Germany

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolin Schröder ◽  
Heike Walk
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Environmental Change ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Climate Protection ◽  
Political Economic

This chapter focuses on the role of the co-operative model in promoting environmental protection, focusing on the experience of German housing co-operatives. It offers case studies of three housing co-operatives: Spar-und Bauverein Hannover eG (Hanover); Weiberwirtschaft eG (Berlin) and Möckernkiez eG (Berlin). The chapter argues that co-operatives offer great potential for climate protection activities at the local level, because their democratic structures facilitate participation and solidarity, and should be viewed as potential partners in pursuing environmental change by political, economic, and civil society groups.

GEOSITES AND GEOSYSTEMS IN QUATERNARY AND DYNAMIC LANDSCAPES – CASE STUDIES FROM A CRATONIC SETTING AND THEIR WIDER SIGNIFICANCE

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
MICHAEL F. THOMAS
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Environmental Change ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Central Africa ◽  
Geological Heritage ◽  
Rural Land ◽  
Rural Land Use ◽  
Essential Components ◽  
Dynamic Landscapes ◽  
Key Sites

The rapidly expanding literature on the related subjects of geodiversity, geosites and their place in understanding and conserving our geoheritage has produced several proposed protocols for defining and valuing key sites and landscapes. Distinctions between geosites as well-defined features of our geological heritage and geodiversity sites as landscapes or geomorphosites have been proposed, while many subdivisions of the criteria for geosite recognition are also recognised. This paper uses two areas in central Africa to illustrate the realities of many landscapes, termed geosystems in this study. Largely Quaternary and present-day dynamic geosystems are considered as essential components of geodiversity and equally aspects of our geoheritage. To understand these geosystems requires detailed fieldwork including their relationships to ecology, rural land use and sensitivity to environmental change.

scholarly journals Supplemental Material: Eolian stratigraphic record of environmental change through geological time

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grace I.E. Cosgrove ◽  
et al.
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Change ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Geological Time ◽  
Architectural Elements ◽  
Stratigraphic Record ◽  
Location Map

Figure S1 (location map of the 55 ancient eolian case studies), Table S1 (list of case studies and associated source literature), Table S2 (definitions of architectural elements and types discussed in the text), and Table S3 (data used to generate the results presented here).<br>

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