Blar i Department of Geography på forfatter "Kopainsky, Birgit"
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Addressing the resilience of tomato farmers in Ghana facing a double exposure from climate and market
Benabderrazik, Kenza; Jeangros, Laurence; Kopainsky, Birgit; Dawoe, Evans; Joerin, Jonas; Six, Johan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Ghanaian tomato farmers are severely impacted by changing climate and related more frequent and extreme weather events such as drought and heavy rainfall. Furthermore, tomato production represents one of the main sources ... -
Afterword
Kopainsky, Birgit (Journal article, 2020)Every European System Dynamics Workshop (EuSDW) is a highlight for me. It is an honour to be invited, it is a wonderful opportunity to be able to present, it is a fantastic forum to discuss and it is a treat to be part of ... -
Agricultural intensification can no longer ignore water conservation – A systemic modelling approach to the case of tomato producers in Morocco
Benabderrazik, Kenza; Kopainsky, Birgit; Tazi, L.; Jörin, Jonas; Six, Johan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Agricultural-food production systems are facing the challenging task to provide food and socio-economic welfare while preserving natural resources in the long-term. In Morocco, the Green Moroccan Plan steered the promotion ... -
Application of the Malaria Management Model to the Analysis of Costs and Benefits of DDT versus Non-DDT Malaria Control
Pedercini, Matteo; Blanco, Santiago Movilla; Kopainsky, Birgit (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2011-11-30)Introduction: DDT is considered to be the most cost-effective insecticide for combating malaria. However, it is also the mostenvironmentally persistent and can pose risks to human health when sprayed indoors. Therefore, ... -
Applying a systems perspective to understand the mechanisms of the European School Fruit and Vegetable Scheme
Zolfaghari, Mahshid; Meshkovska, Biljana; Banik, Anna; Kamphuis, Carlijn B.M.; Kopainsky, Birgit; Luszczynska, Aleksandra; Murrin, Celine M.; Lien, Nanna (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Background For the past two decades, the percentage of European children who consume fruit daily has remained at around 40%, despite numerous school-based policy efforts and interventions. This study aimed to apply a ... -
Can organic farming reduce vulnerabilities and enhance the resilience of the European food system? A critical assessment using system dynamics structural thinking tools
Brzezina, Natalia; Kopainsky, Birgit; Mathijs, Erik (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-09-24)In a world of growing complexity and uncertainty, food systems must be resilient, i.e., able to deliver sustainable and equitable food and nutrition security in the face of multiple shocks and stresses. The resilience of ... -
Can sustainability certification enhance the climate resilience of smallholder farmers? The case of Ghanaian cocoa
Thompson, William D.; Blaser-Hart, Wilma; Jörin, Jonas; Krütli, Pius; Dawoe, Evans; Kopainsky, Birgit; Chavez, Erik; Garrett, Rachael D.; Six, Johan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Sustainability certification has been posited as a key governance mechanism to enhance the climate resilience of smallholder farmers. Whilst many certifications now include climate resilience in their standards, their ... -
Climate change adaptation processes seen through a resilience lens: Norwegian farmers’ handling of the dry summer of 2018
Beitnes, Synnøve S.; Kopainsky, Birgit; Potthoff, Kerstin (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Climate change and more frequent extreme weather events are expected to significantly challenge food production and food security worldwide, underlining the need for adaptation within the agricultural sector. Although ... -
Climate resilience and the human-water dynamics. The case of tomato production in Morocco
Benabderrazik, Kenza; Kopainsky, Birgit; Monastyrnaya, Elena; Thompson, William; Tazi, L.; Jörin, Jonas; Six, Johan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)In Morocco, droughts are an increasing threat affecting water availability, agricultural production and producers' livelihoods. Moreover, water demand for irrigation has led to overexploitation of the groundwater table ... -
Closing the mineral construction material cycle – An endogenous perspective on barriers in transition
Kliem, Daniel; Scheidegger, Alexander; Kopainsky, Birgit (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Construction and demolition waste (CDW) constitutes a highly voluminous urban waste stream with significant potential for circular mineral construction material usage. This paper uses participatory system dynamics modeling ... -
Co-creating obesity prevention policies with youth: Policy ideas generated through the CO-CREATE project
Conway-Moore, Kaitlin; Cecile, Knai; Finegood, Diane; Johnston, Lee; Brinsden, Hannah; Aguiar, Anaely; Kopainsky, Birgit; Onal, Furkan; Helleve, Arnfinn; Klepp, Knut-Inge; Lien, Nanna; Luszczynska, Aleksandra; Rito, Ana Isabel; Mestad Rønnestad, Alfred; Ulstein, Madeleine; Blanchard, Laurence; Savona, Natalie; Rutter, Harry (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Despite growing recognition of the importance of applying a systems lens to action on obesity, there has only been limited analysis of the extent to which this lens has actually been applied. The CO-CREATE project used a ... -
Conceptual frameworks linking agriculture and food security
Nicholson, Charles F.; Kopainsky, Birgit; Stephens, Emma; Parsons, David; Jones, Andrew D.; Garrett, James H.; Phillips, Erica (Journal article, 2020)Many conceptual frameworks have been developed to facilitate understanding and analysis of the linkages between agriculture and food security. Despite having usefully guided analysis and investment, these frameworks exhibit ... -
Cournot markets in the field: Dynamic decision- making in non-standard markets
Lara-Arango, David; Gerber, Andreas; Nyanga, Progress; Kopainsky, Birgit (Conference lecture, 2017)The Cournot economic model is very useful for representing atomized markets in laboratory experiments. Ideally, such experiments are designed following a set of conditions in order to use the model properly. However, ... -
Development of organic farming in Europe at the crossroads: Looking for the way forward through system archetype lenses
Brzezina, Natalia; Biely, Katharina; Helfgott, Ariella; Kopainsky, Birgit; Vervoort, Joost; Mathijs, Erik (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017-05-15)Over the last several decades, policymakers and stakeholders in the European Union (EU) have put considerable effort into increasing the adoption of organic farming, with the overall objective of its sustainable development. ... -
Do you bend or break? System Dynamics in resilience planning for food security
Herrera de Leon, Hugo Jose; Kopainsky, Birgit (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-02-03)This paper discusses our experience in using system dynamics to facilitate resilience planning for food security in rural communities that are exposed to ever‐increasing climatic pressures in Guatemala. The social–ecological ... -
A dynamic systems analysis of factors affecting success of identity-preserved products: the case of high-oleic soybeans
Nicholson, Charles; McRoberts, Keenan; Suleyman Öz, Besir; Kopainsky, Birgit (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)The factors contributing to success of identity-preserved (IP) products are understood conceptually, but are rarely quantified. A combination of system dynamics modeling and group modeling building with value chain ... -
The effect of prior exploration as an instructional strategy in system dynamics learning environments
Kopainsky, Birgit; Alessi, Stephen M.; Pedercini, Matteo; Davidsen, Pål (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015)In complex simulation-based learning environments, participants’ learning and performance may suffer due to demands on their cognitive processing, their struggle to develop adequate mental models, failure to transfer what ... -
Effects of structural transparency in system dynamics simulators on performance and understanding
Kopainsky, Birgit; Alessi, Stephen M. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-10-01)Prior exploration is an instructional strategy that has improved performance and understanding in system-dynamics-based simulators, but only to a limited degree. This study investigates whether model transparency, that is, ... -
Enabling Mobility: A Simulation Model of the Health Care System for Major Lower-Limb Amputees to Assess the Impact of Digital Prosthetics Services
Rajah, Jefferson Karthikeyan; Chernicoff, William; Hutchison, Christopher J.; Paulo, Gonçalves; Kopainsky, Birgit (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The World Health Organization estimates that 5 to 15% of amputees in any given population have access to a prosthesis. This figure is likely to worsen as the amputee population is expected to double by 2050, straining the ... -
Food provision and environmental goals in the Swiss agri-food system: System dynamics and the social-ecological systems framework
Kopainsky, Birgit; Huber, Robert; Pedercini, Matteo (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-07)An important challenge for the Swiss agri-food system is how to align food provision with environmental goals in the context of increasingly complex conditions. This paper describes a system dynamics model that analyses ...