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Due to the relentless exploitation of nonrenewable resources, humanity is faced with a resource depletion crisis in the coming decades and serious environmental issues. Achieving efficient removal and upcycling of pollutants (ERUP) may become a potential strategy to address these issues. Wastewater, characterized by its large production volume and fluidity, can easily cause widespread environmental pollution through natural water networks. Due to solubility constraints, pollutants in wastewater typically exhibit low concentrations and complex compositions, thereby impeding effective recovery. Therefore, achieving ERUP in wastewater is both highly significant and extremely challenging. Unlike conventional wastewater treatment strategies that are focused on removing pollutants, ERUP strategies can not only realize the efficient removal of pollutants from water but also convert pollutants into valuable and functional products. Herein, we enumerated the latest research progress on ERUP in wastewater and highlighted studies that demonstrate the simultaneous achievement of pollutant removal and the direct conversion of these contaminants into high-efficiency catalysts, hydrogen energy, electrical energy, and other high-value chemicals. Finally, we identified the problems and challenges in the development of ERUP in wastewater and outlined potential research directions for future studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Financial threat refers to fear, unease, and uncertainty regarding an individual’s present or forthcoming financial state. Despite consistent findings indicating that financial threats are harmful to individuals’ behaviors and mental health, their impacts remain largely unexplored in the context of organizational behaviors. This study examined whether and how financial threats are detrimental to various aspects of employees’ performance, including task, contextual, and counterproductive performance. A sample of 165 working adults in Malaysia responded to an online survey consisting of the Financial Threat Scale, Perceived Stress Scale, and Individual Work Performance Questionnaire. Confirmatory factor analysis supported the structure of the measurements, although some items were eliminated. Pearson correlation analysis showed that financial threats had a positive relationship with perceived stress and counterproductive performance. Meanwhile, perceived stress was negatively related to task performance and positively associated with counterproductive performance. Finally, structural equation modeling revealed that perceived stress mediates the relationship between financial threats and counterproductive performance. These findings illuminate the underlying mechanisms by which financial threats impact employees’ job performance. They also highlight the importance of addressing resource depletion’s effects on the mental health of working adults. The implications of these findings for organizational management and employee well-being are discussed.

Global warming has become a big problem around the world, and it is because of what people do. As a possible answer, countries are looking for ways to keep their economies growing and invest in technologies that use clean energy. Therefore, the notion of carbon neutrality has emerged as a crucial policy strategy for nations to attain sustainable development. This study expands the existing discussions on carbon neutrality by investigating the influence of key factors, including green innovation, financial development, natural resources depletion, trade openness, institutional quality, growth, and urbanization on the progress made towards attaining a carbon neutral state in the BRICS nations. This study considers the Method of Moment Quantile-Regression (MM-QR) and Prais–Winsten correlated panel corrected standard errors (PCSEs) estimators to investigate the study objectives over the period of 1990–2021. Under the investigated outcomes, this study validated the significant role of urbanization and growth in carbon neutrality. On the other hand, this study finds the positive role of openness, green innovation, resource depletion, institutional quality, and financial development on environmental deterioration. However, under a systematic analysis, this study utilizes different proxies of the financial sector, for instance, financial complexity, financial efficiency, financial stability, and domestic credit by financial sector, and provides interesting outcomes. Based on these outcomes, this study also provides suggestions to attain desired levels of sustainability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Lack of access to resources is a "fundamental cause" of poor HIV outcomes across the care cascade globally and may have the greatest impact on groups with co-existing marginalized identities. In a sample of people living with HIV (PWH) who inject drugs and were not on antiretroviral therapy (ART), we explored associations between access to resources and HIV severity. Fundamental Cause Theory (FCT) sees socioeconomic status/access to resources as a root cause of disease and emphasizes that individuals with limited resources have fewer means to mitigate health risks and implement protective behaviors, which ultimately generates disparities in health outcomes. Guided by the FCT, we hypothesized that resource depletion (primary aim) and lower income (secondary aim) were associated with increased HIV severity. Using baseline data from the Linking Infectious and Narcology Care (LINC-II) trial of ART-naive PWH who inject drugs in St. Petersburg, Russia (n = 225), we examined the association between "past year resource runout" (yes vs. no) and "low-income (< 300 USD a month)" and the outcome HIV severity (CD4 count, continuous). We fit two separate linear regression models adjusted for gender, age, time since HIV diagnosis, and prior ART use. Participants had a mean age of 37.5 years and were 60% male. Two thirds (66%) reported resource depletion, and 30% had income below 300 USD a month. Average CD4 count was 416 cells/mm3 (SD 285). No significant association was identified between either resource depletion or low-income and HIV severity (adjusted mean difference in CD4 count for resource depletion: − 4.16, 95% CI − 82.93, 74.62; adjusted mean difference in CD4 count for low-income: 68.13, 95% CI − 15.78, 152.04). Below-average income and running out of resources were common among PWH who inject drugs and are not on ART in St. Petersburg, Russia. Resource depletion and low-income were not significantly associated with HIV disease severity as captured by CD4 count. The nuanced relationship between socioeconomic status and HIV severity among people with HIV who inject drugs and not on ART merits further examination in a larger sample. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: We investigated secondary–task–based countermeasures to the vigilance decrement during a simulated partially automated driving (PAD) task, with the goal of understanding the underlying mechanism of the vigilance decrement and maintaining driver vigilance in PAD. Background: Partial driving automation requires a human driver to monitor the roadway, but humans are notoriously bad at monitoring tasks over long periods of time, demonstrating the vigilance decrement in such tasks. The overload explanations of the vigilance decrement predict the decrement to be worse with added secondary tasks due to increased task demands and depleted attentional resources, whereas the underload explanations predict the vigilance decrement to be alleviated with secondary tasks due to increased task engagement. Method: Participants watched a driving video simulating PAD and were required to identify hazardous vehicles throughout the 45-min drive. A total of 117 participants were assigned to three different vigilance-intervention conditions including a driving-related secondary task (DR) condition, a non-driving-related secondary task (NDR) condition, and a control condition with no secondary tasks. Results: Overall, the vigilance decrement was shown over time, reflected in increased response times, reduced hazard detection rates, reduced response sensitivity, shifted response criterion, and subjective reports on task-induced stress. Compared to the DR and the control conditions, the NDR displayed a mitigated vigilance decrement. Conclusion: This study provided convergent evidence for both resource depletion and disengagement as sources of the vigilance decrement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

ABSTRACTConventional GDP measurements often overlooks the significant contribution of the environment to a country’s long-term economic performance, leading to inaccurate assessments and the concealment of important environmental and economic benefits. The aim of this study is to estimate the level of environmental capital and sustainable income. To determine the contribution of environmental capital to GDP, the concept of the neoclassical growth model was used. This analytical approach begins by defining the two types of capital inputs, such as: human capital and environmental capital used in the production of final goods and services. The study found that the total share of environmental capital in GDP was 32% over the study period, while the contribution of environmental capital to gross national production fell from 39% in 2000 to 29% in 2018. The gap between GDP and sustainable GDP estimate also widened between 2003 and 2011. A comparison between GDP and sustainable GDP shows that environmental resource damage can account for up to 15.5% of GDP, leading to an overestimation of GDP. The decline in the share of environmental capital may have long-term implications for the potential of low-income countries to grow sustainably. Therefore, policymakers need to pay adequate attention to environmental capital investments to ensure the long-term sustainability of the economy. Institutions directly involved in GDP estimation also should have been transformed to a more comprehensive and environmental integrated GDP measurement.

AbstractPrior research has examined the relationship between workplace ostracism with various work-related outcomes. However, relatively little is known about the mechanisms that link ostracism to work outcomes. This study uniquely contributes to the body of knowledge by examining the mechanisms through which workplace ostracism harms employees’ affective commitment. The study examines the roles of resource depletion and psychological safety as underlying psychological mechanisms that link workplace ostracism to affective commitment. A three-wave time-lagged data collected from employees (N = 271) of the service industry in Pakistan indicates that workplace ostracism may reduce employees’ psychological safety and contribute to resource depletion. Moreover, workplace ostracism reduces affective commitment by depleting employees’ psychological resources and psychological safety.

Employees all around the world are affected by the problem of workplace mistreatment. However, little is known about how people of different nationalities and cultural backgrounds react to mistreatment. Adopting an ego-depletion theory, the current study aimed to investigate how a supervisors' mistreatment leads to next-morning instigated incivility against supervisors via increased subordinates' self-regulatory resource depletion between Chinese and Pakistani employees. A snowball technique was employed to collect data, involving 90 Chinese and 95 Pakistani employees across 2 work weeks. Measurement invariance analysis revealed that both groups were significantly different in experiencing workplace mistreatment and its outcome. Findings from multigroup path analysis revealed that Chinese employees showed a greater positive direct effect of supervisors' mistreatment on subordinates' instigated incivility against supervisors via subordinates' resource depletion as compared to Pakistanis. Additionally, the positive relationship between supervisors' mistreatment and the subordinates' resource depletion was mitigated by a higher level of trait mindfulness. Furthermore, the positive association between the subordinates' resource depletion and instigated incivility was also buffered by a higher level of trait mindfulness. These effects were also stronger in Chinese than in Pakistani employees. It was concluded by the study that employees' cultural values may either render them more or less vulnerable to the effects of workplace rudeness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Moods and emotions are an important influence on creativity at work, and recent developments point to emotional complexity as a particularly relevant influence in this respect. We develop this line of research by shifting focus from emotional complexity as an intrapersonal influence to emotional complexity as an interpersonal influence between leader and subordinate. Specifically, we integrate the social-functional approach to emotions with theory on self-regulation to shed light on the effects of leader emotional complexity (LEC), operationalized as alternations between leader displays of happiness and anger, on follower creativity. Three studies, two video experiments (Studies 1 and 2) and a multisource experience sampling study (Study 3), revealed that, on one hand, LEC stimulated creativity by enhancing the cognitive flexibility of followers; on the other hand, LEC led to heightened self-regulatory resource depletion, which compromised follower creativity. Our results also showed that trait epistemic motivation strengthened the positive effects of LEC on creativity via cognitive flexibility, the negative effects via self-regulatory resource depletion were also stronger for followers with higher trait epistemic motivation. Combined, results suggest that leader displays of emotional complexity can be tiring but are even more inspiring. Supplemental Material: The online appendices are available at https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2019.13152. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sponges (Spongia and Hippospongia) have been harvested in the Mediterranean basin for thousands of years, with demand sharply increasing during the industrial revolution in the nineteenth century. However, since the mid-1980s outbreaks of epizootic events that regularly destroy sponge populations have brought this resource to the brink of extinction and annihilated sponge fisheries of several countries. Using statistical data from a wide variety of sources, we provide a comparative approach to the historical development of the Greek and Tunisian sponge fishing communities including fishing techniques, capitalisation rates, and the place of the sponge in collective representations. While the Tunisian sponge fishery landed large and regular quantities of sponges until the last third of the twentieth century, the tonnages landed by the Greek fleets have been very irregular over the last 150 years. We highlight the importance of small-scale coastal fishing as an adaptive response to global impacts of climate and environmental change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Although previous research has shown that both trait and state conscientiousness are positively associated with a wide range of positive life and work outcomes, some studies indicate that acting in a conscientious way is effortful, and that behaving outside one's conscientiousness related comfort zone (i.e., acting counterhabitual) may lead to cognitive or affective cost. Because these costs are not likely to be evident immediately, we examine how within-person fluctuations in conscientiousness relate to within-person fluctuations in emotional exhaustion, resource depletion, and negative affect, not only concurrently, but also in a delayed fashion and cumulated over time. In two experience sampling studies, we found that higher levels of conscientiousness are concurrently related to lower levels of emotional exhaustion, resource depletion, and negative affect. When looking at delayed effects, no conclusive evidence was found for affective or cognitive costs of (counterhabitual) conscientiousness. Finally, analyzing cumulative effects revealed that repeated negative deviations from one's typical level of conscientiousness were positively associated to exhaustion, depletion, and negative affect, while repeated positive deviations were negatively associated with depletion and unrelated to exhaustion and negative affect. Altogether, our findings suggest that self-rated conscientious behavior is generally beneficial, even if this behavior goes against one's typical behavior. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Temperature plays an important role in winter diapause of temperate insects. Its effects can cause problems for biological control programs, both for the establishment of insects in novel climates and for the mass rearing of insects in the laboratory. Hypena opulenta (Christoph) (Lepidoptera: Erebidae), a biological control agent for invasive swallow‐wort species in North America, has been observed to enter diapause in mid‐summer in its introduced range. Additionally, H. opulenta has proved complicated to mass‐rear, in part because individuals sometimes enter diapause unexpectedly, meaning that diapausing pupae may need to be stored over winter for varying lengths of time. We conducted pupal storage experiments to determine the effects of high pre‐winter temperatures, like those experienced by early diapausing individuals in the field, on lipid store depletion. We conducted a second experiment to compare the effects of cold treatments of different lengths (1, 3, and 6 months), during diapause, on pupal mortality, development times, and the synchrony of adult emergence. Exposure to warm periods ranging from 25 to 75 days during early diapause did not affect pupal weight, adult emergence rates, or lipid store depletion in H. opulenta. Conversely, the length of cold exposure (between 1 and 6 months) during diapause clearly affected moth mortality, and the timing and consistency of adult emergence. Longer cold periods (3 and 6 months) resulted in earlier, more synchronous adult emergence, and lower diapause mortality, than shorter cold periods (1 month). Our results indicate that in terms of energy depletion, early diapause will not affect the fitness of emerging adults, which is important for the viability of univoltine populations in the southernmost part of the introduced range. Additionally, our results will assist with the H. opulenta mass rearing program, indicating the timing required to synchronize adult emergence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Green GDP represents the net positive effect of national economic growth. The positive effect of national economic growth will be enhanced if there is a higher percentage of green GDP in GDP. From the perspective of resources and environment, this paper introduces SEEA-2012 accounting system with indirect calculating methods of green GDP in China, within which the value of natural resource depletion, environmental pollution damage and environmental quality degradation are included. In order to reasonably select valid indicators and data so as to get accurate accounting results, different valuation methods and operational formulas in economics are adopted to construct a new accounting system model, and the green GDP of Chongqing City in 2018-2020 is accounted for. Results show that the green GDP of Chongqing in recent three years is 1,838.889 billion Yuan, 1,964.724 billion Yuan and 2,111.2 billion Yuan, respectively, and proportions of green GDP in traditional GDP are 90.30%, 91.01% and 89.44% respectively. By studying and analyzing the dependence of Chongqing on natural resources and the ecological environment in the process of economic development, this paper provides theoretical support for the sustainable development of the urban economy and environment, provides a reference basis for the local government to formulate economic development planning, and also provides a reference for the construction of green GDP accounting system in similar ecological areas.

The pressing impacts of human activities on environmental sustainability made economists and environmentalists think about identifying indicators responsible for the degradation of environmental quality. Accordingly, this study brings a novel analysis adopting Pakistan’s Load Capacity Factor (LCF) as the significant environmental sustainability indicator between 1990 and 2022 for empirical analysis. The study applied the novel Dynamic Autoregressive Distributed Lags (ARDL) framework and offered the policymakers compelling insights. It highlights the positive influence of nuclear energy on Pakistan’s environmental sustainability by mitigating environmental degradation. In contrast, agriculture expansion and energy depletion remain contributing factors of environmental degradation in the country, signaling significant attention towards them. The results contributed to the fact that expansion in economic activities raises environmental deterioration in Pakistan. Kernel-based Regularized Least Squares (KRLS) was applied to re-affirm these findings. The outcomes obtained from the complex synergy between nuclear energy expansion, agriculture, and energy depletion with environmental sustainability make it critical to strengthen environmental quality by not harming the country's economic growth.

Previous research has almost universally shown that forgiveness is a beneficial virtue that can generate a series of positive outcomes. We challenge this prevailing view by proposing that employee forgiveness is a mixed blessing. Setting off from distinguishing the motives behind forgiveness, we integrated the relational perspective and ego depletion theory to explore the beneficial and detrimental consequences of employee forgiveness. Specifically, our study investigated when and how employee forgiveness leads to interpersonal citizenship behaviors (ICBs) and interpersonal deviance. Using a sample of 349 supervisor–employee dyads, we found that employee forgiveness driven by strong relationship‐oriented motives could foster high‐quality relationships with coworkers and facilitate ICBs. In contrast, employee forgiveness driven by strong self‐oriented motives could cause more resource depletion and increase interpersonal deviance. Furthermore, we discuss the theoretical and practical implications of our study as well as future research directions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Ecosystem-based management is mandated by international legislation, including the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) in the EU. This introduces a requirement for marine environments to achieve “Good Environmental Status” or GES, implying that the ecosystem is in a healthy and biodiverse state which does not limit the management options of future generations. Indicators of GES typically refer to the current or past state; however, an alternative approach that defines GES in terms of being able to recover to the appropriate reference unperturbed state within 30 years if human activities cease has been suggested. In this study we evaluate this “longest recovery timescales” (LRT) approach using the StrathE2E2 “big picture” model, an end-to-end ecosystem model designed to evaluate both top-down and bottom-up effects at an ecosystem level. We ask whether the approach is enough to prevent severe depletion as well as ensuring recovery at some future time. We also ask whether implementation is practical given uncertainties in defining appropriate baselines for recovery, defining what recovery looks like relative to this baseline, and taking account of natural variability. We find that the main issues with implementation of LRT are a) defining the appropriate baseline for recovery in a changing environment, and b) ensuring that there is stakeholder acceptance of any recommended actions in the event that they differ substantially from current policy. Subject to these two issues, we conclude that the LRT method is a valuable addition to management in support of achieving GES alongside existing methods that focus on current or near-future states.

Plastic waste is the most challenging type of waste because its generation rate (consumption rate) is high, and the current recycling rate is low. The increase in the production and disposal of plastics has led to significant environmental problems including greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, microplastic pollution, and resource depletion. The study aimed at quantifying the potential environmental effects reduction achieved by recycling the most widely consumed polymers. One approach to establishing a circular economy for plastics is recycling. Plastic recycling as a strategy to reduce life cycle GHG emissions, microplastic emissions, and resource depletion was investigated. Life cycle assessment methodology was employed, considering cradle-to-gate as a system boundary. The results showed that recycling can significantly reduce life cycle GHG emissions and resource depletion. Replacing the virgin material with recycled material reduces the emission to −67 MtCO2e. Recycling could have saved 56.8 million microplastic emissions per year. However, mechanical recycling, which is commercialised nowadays, contributed to an increase in microplastics as much as 2.4 × 109 million particles per year. Recycling will also save about 50 million tonnes of resources from depletion worldwide by recycling around 20 Mt plastics. However, microplastic emissions reduction in the present scenario of mechanical recycling is not possible unless other mechanisms to capture the emitted microplastics are introduced or other recycling methods, such as chemical recycling, are employed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Research Summary: The isolating mechanisms of strategic resources ensure their robustness against external factors. However, resources are also internally dynamic: Natural resources are depleted, employees retire, and patents expire. We develop a theoretical framework about the limitations to the sustainability of resource‐driven competitive advantage and posit that most strategic resources endogenously lose their value‐creating potential due to two factors, time and deployment, through what we label "strategic resource decay." Our typology links resource characteristics to the mechanisms of decay and replenishment. We then examine the relationship between strategic resource decay and firm performance and explore its boundary conditions. We conclude that the firm can mitigate the negative effects of decay if it synchronizes its resource management actions with the temporal properties of its strategic resources. Managerial Summary: To sustain a competitive advantage, managers need to understand not only the competitive dynamics of the industry but also the lifespans of the firm's strategic resources. Decay limits the useful lives of strategic resources temporally and/or in the resources' potential extent of deployment. Because firms can potentially prevent the exhaustion of their non‐tradable strategic resources through replenishment, the decay of tradable strategic resources poses a greater challenge for managers. We also posit that strategic resource decay is a more salient threat in industries that are not characterized by rapid change. To counter the threat posed by strategic resource decay, firms need to engage in resource management activity, the timing and extent of which should be aligned with the temporal properties of the strategic resources. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Survival is the only priority of refugees and the hosting nations are often bound to address the problem of refugee crises within a short period of time without any proper planning. As a result, related environmental aspects remain overlooked until the refugees and host population begin to suffer from the consequences of the resultant degradation. The present review is the first-ever attempt to develop comprehensive insights into the environmental impacts of refugees in South Asia, Middle East, and Sub-Saharan Africa. This has been done through the survey of secondary information obtained from peer-reviewed publications, e-media portals, and websites of humanitarian agencies. It was found that that the influx of refugees and their activities lead to the degradation of land, air, and water; depletion of land and water resources; forest destruction; waste generation; and several other environmental problems in host countries. Any initiative or policy to support refugees in host countries should always take environmental aspects into account. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article places two Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) films, Avengers: Infinity War (Russo and Russo 2018) and Avengers: Endgame (Russo and Russo 2019), in dialogue with the Marvel comic books on which they are based. As this article demonstrates, in their depiction of Thanos and the partial species extinction event, the films deviate substantially from their source material to reflect a contemporary cultural interest and growing anxiety over the real-world threat of species extinction. However, as this article argues, Avengers: Infinity War's and Avengers: Endgame's ecocritical potential are limited, owing partly to the villain's role in superhero films and comic books more broadly. Limits also owe to the anthropocentric viewpoint that underwrites much of superhero fiction. Superheroes may serve a conservative function as an upholder of the social order, but, as this article shows, in Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame, as well as films and television series in the MCU set thereafter, this function often comes at the detriment of the conservation of nature and species-other-than-human. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The idea of managing and recycling electronic waste is getting broad acceptance because it is a resource that is rapidly available in bulk, contains various hazardous substances and has a low recycling rate. Meanwhile, increasing industrialization and urbanization has increased concrete production and consumption, resulting in environmental problems via resource depletion. As a result, the utilization of aggregates prepared from e-waste is a viable solution to different conservation and environmental issues caused by e-waste and concrete production. This article discusses the types of e-waste and types and production techniques of e-waste aggregates (e-waste plastic and cathode ray tube (CRT) glass). The primary focus of this article is the influence of e-waste aggregates on the properties of concrete, including workability, fresh and dry density, compressive strength, flexural strength, splitting tensile strength, and thermal resistance. Moreover, this study also discusses the suitable percentages of e-waste aggregates that can be incorporated as natural coarse aggregates to prepare sustainable concrete for structural and nonstructural purposes. It can be concluded that e-waste modified concrete provide a glimmer of hope for the safe and sound disposal of increasing quantity of e-waste. However, more comprehensive experimental studies are required to explore full potential of e-waste aggregates as natural coarse aggregates replacement for the large-scale production of concrete.

Companies need to reduce the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and waste from their value chains in order to minimize the climate change and resource depletion that are caused by their business operations. However, it is difficult for companies to assess their current state and to plan and keep track of improvements. This paper will discuss how life cycle assessment (LCA) can be used to develop a value chain assessment (VCA) method that supports companies with their ambition to assess and neutralize the environmental impacts of their value chains. The 6-step VCA method was developed and evaluated through a case study regarding the realization of large-scale solar parks. The method incorporates the guidelines and reporting requirements of the GHG Protocol standard for accounting and reporting emissions and the ISO standards for LCAs. Similar to LCAs, the developed VCA method is highly dependent on the level of detail and quality of gathered data, but also on the competency of the assessor. The VCA method does however provide suggestions for considering data gaps and inaccuracies. The method already presents a simplified and organized way of structuring, estimating, analyzing, reporting, and reducing a value chain's emissions and waste. The performed case study proved that the method could improve through more detailed evaluation and application in more case studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Can cost-benefit analyses change the terms of debate over resource utilisation - in political and civil society and the state, among environmentalists, in the courts, and especially with respect to community, grassroots-feminist, labour and youth activists opposed to extractive industries and in particular, fossil fuels? Since late 2021, hundreds of protests against gas exploration along the coastline of KwaZulu-Natal, the Eastern Cape, Western Cape and Northern Cape, which is the site of debate in this paper, have helped society better consider fossil fuel costs and benefits. There are revealing controversies regarding the application of natural capital accounting (especially the Gaborone Declaration), overdue reforms to Gross Domestic Product national accounts, the 'Social Cost of Carbon' (and related carbon taxation and liability accounting), and intergenerational sustainable development calculations (such as the Hartwick Rule). In some cases, Environmental Impact Assessments allow for such narratives, but more important was a court case in 2022, Sustaining the Wild Coast et al. versus Shell et al., initially won by community critics of offshore gas (although subsequently being considered on appeal). On all these terrains, dangers of technicism and legalism abound, but if conceptualised with care, the merits of a broader, multi-scale environmental-economic consideration of the extractive industries could ultimately be foundational in resistance narratives and practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract Perfectly operating markets only exist in theory. Market failures are known to not only inhibit the proper functioning of the market, but also affect sustainability and thus a sustainability transition. In this regard, much attention has been paid to externalities or missing markets, even though these are not the only market failures. In this paper, we argue that market power and its relationship with sustainability has been neglected, despite the fact that, back in 1931, Hotelling indicated the connection between the two concepts. However, research that has been dealing with this connection has not been comprehensive and has only looked at one aspect of sustainability and market power. Due to the rising relevance of market power as well as of sustainability concerns, the connection between the two deserves thorough attention. Accordingly, we propose initiating a new interdisciplinary research agenda to comprehensively analyze the complex relationship between market power and sustainability.

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a decision-making tool that assesses the environmental status, production activities, and processes during the useful life of a crop. It should be borne in mind that the LCA uses a variety of techniques for economic, social, and environmental estimates of crops, as well as their activities, processes, and the consumed energy efficiency.The present study evaluates the LCA in corn seed and corn stover production systems in Karaj by the use of two cropping systems: corn produced for seed only, without collecting corn stover (CRN) (seed corn production system) and corn produced to harvest stover (CSR) (corn stover production system). Which were investigated during the years of 2011-2016. Environmental indices were calculated for the CRN and CSR based on six impact categories under Karaj climatic conditions. The highest pollutant index, after resource depletion, was found in acidification impact category (0.90 and 0.34 for the CRN and CSR, respectively), followed by the highest environmental impacts for global warming or climate change impact categories (0.51 and 0.18 for the CRN and CSR, respectively). Therefore, it seems that different methods of farming system management can be utilized based on the use of low-input principles, such as using various organic inputs, planting nitrogen-fixing and perennial plants, the use of crop rotation, utilizing different planting patterns such as intercropping, minimum tillage, and decreased use of chemical inputs, to reduce the environmental impact of this production system, particularly the CRN, on fossil fuel depletion, acidification, and climate change impact categories, thereby reducing the shares of these environmental impacts.

IntroductionBurnout complaints are high for Dutch police officers. According to Hobfoll’s Conservation of Resources theory, resources such as coping self-efficacy can play an important role in the burnout process. The aim of this study was to investigate the buffering effect of coping self-efficacy on burnout, as well as a possible depletion effect of burnout on coping self-efficacy.MethodsAs such, this research consists of two studies namely, a two-wave study (N = 166) and three-wave study (N = 95) on Dutch police officers. They expand on previous research regarding coping resources and police burnout.ResultsBoth studies show that the chronic stressor, work scheduling, was positively associated with burnout. Also, coping self-efficacy weakened the effect of work scheduling (Study 1) and workload (Study 2) on burnout. Moreover, there was a direct negative relationship between burnout and coping self-efficacy.DiscussionThe results indicate that burnout can lead to lower coping resources, initiating a potential cycle of resource loss and burnout. Further investigation into this depletion effect is required to provide police officers and organisations with tools to prevent burnout.

The study explores how gender affects the relationships linking work-to-family conflict to job and life satisfaction among dual-earner spouses. Data were collected from 157 paired Chinese managers and their spouses. Our findings supported a pattern of gender asymmetry in both the within-person effect and the crossover effect. For the within-person effect, we found the relationship between work-to-family conflict and job satisfaction was negative for wives, but null for husbands, the relationship between work-to-family conflict and life satisfaction was negative for husbands, but null for wives. As for the crossover effect, husbands' work-to-family conflict was negatively related to wives' life satisfaction, but wives' work-to-family conflict had a null relationship with husbands' life satisfaction. Theoretical implication and future research directions are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Aim: Although normative and ethical procedures are extremely critical for health care providers, during this unique time, when the pandemic suddenly increased job requirements and workloads, maintaining a morally appropriate working style became an increasingly difficult challenge for nurses. Few previous studies have examined whether these highly increased job demands influence nurses' resource condition, in turn affecting their deviance and task mastery. Designs: In the current study, we proposed a theoretical model examining whether nurses' job demands (the predictor) will affect task mastery and deviance (the outcomes) by increasing resource depletion. Methods: A multiwave field study of 172 nurses from two comprehensive hospitals was conducted to test the proposed theoretical model from April to August 2020. Descriptive statistics, confirmatory factor analyses, correlation coefficients and linear regressions were used to test the hypotheses. Results: The results suggested that even though job demands may temporarily increase nurses' task mastery and decrease their organizational deviance, they ultimately have a negative influence since resource depletion acts as a side effect that suppresses the two direct effects. Conclusion: The theoretical contributions and practical implications of our findings were discussed. Specifically, we suggested that healthcare institutions should provide abundant support for nurses to supplement their resource reserves to avoid the risk of potential medical malpractice. Impact: Practically, this study tried to emphasize the important role of nurses' resource condition. Especially we aimed to remind managers and leaders cannot just improve nurses' job demand to deal with the public health crises. They also need to focus on their resource condition during pandemics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Research indicates that a customer's service experience is shaped by their past experiences with the firm. However, the extent to which past experiences with customers shape frontline service employees' delivery of services has not been examined. We propose that the analysis of service encounters as discrete, independent units ignores possible linkages between customer experiences via frontline employees. Adopting a resource spill-over perspective across two studies, we find that employees' experience of customer mistreatment compromised their subsequent service delivery. Using an experiment in Study 1, we find that these effects are mediated by changes in the employee's self-control capacity. Using a field sample in Study 2, we find that these effects are moderated by the employee's dispositional self-control capacity and their motivation to commit to display rules. Our findings show how service encounter outcomes can be shaped by distal service events and call for a more holistic understanding of the forces that shape service encounter outcomes. In particular, by highlighting the potential consequences, our findings challenge conventional work protocols that compel employees to persevere despite their experience of mistreatment. By detailing the mediating and moderating mechanisms of mistreatment spill-over in service organizations, we highlight the recovery mechanisms and practices that enable FLEs to remain resilient despite negative encounters with customers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The transport sector is responsible for several environmental impacts, including contributions to climate change through greenhouse gas emissions and depleting natural resources. A strategy to reduce these issues goes towards the application of a circular economy, a concept that offers a response to increasing concerns about resource scarcity and the associated impacts from their use. Thus, this paper aims to fill a gap in the literature that consists of the scarcity of studies that consider the circular economy application on a micro, meso, and macro level in road transport, including all stages as well as the 7 Rs of the reverse cycle. Therefore, an approach is presented to meet road transport needs, highlighting best practices obtained through a literature review, to promote climate change mitigation and resource depletion. Qualitative data were presented for each circular economy stage with 46 best practices identified, providing invaluable guidance to transport decision-makers. Thus, public policies focusing on all of the CE stages should be taken into consideration, not only those responsible for closing the cycle, such as waste and recycling or disposal and treatment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Disasters (e.g., natural catastrophes, pandemics/epidemics, mass violence events, and human/technological errors) are becoming increasingly common due to factors such as growing population density and accelerated climate change. Exposure to any type of disaster is damaging for both individuals and organizations. Disasters deprive individuals of their livelihoods, alter how employees perform their work, and harm individual well-being. For organizations, disasters compromise functioning and profitability, often resulting in organizational failure. As a result, there is growing interest in research linking disaster events to the workplace. Based on an analysis of 260 disaster articles, we offer a comprehensive, systematic, interdisciplinary review of the disaster literature with organizational implications. Employing a resource-based perspective, embedded within an ecological systems framework, we suggest that disaster exposure depletes (or prompts investment of) individual, team, and organizational resources and subsequently impacts organizational outcomes. This theoretical framework can be used to identify the critical research gaps that exist in the literature and offers a promising agenda for future research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]