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The bicycle is globally recognised as a symbol of sustainable transport. However, a systematic evaluation of the sustainability indicators applied to the bicycle industry in the academic literature is lacking. This study...

Evaluations in community forestry, such as Indonesia's Social Forestry program, commonly rely on stand-alone economic, social, or environmental indicators. Return on Investment (ROI) is useful for economic but insufficie...

Social aspects are an integral part of sustainable building alongside environmental and economic aspects. While current Green Building Rating Systems such as LEED, BREEAM, and SBToolCZ address primarily technically quant...

Decelerating climate change requires a shift away from conventional production practices across industries, including agriculture, to meet the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Agricultural sustainabil...

This study advances indicator-based sustainability assessment by examining structural interdependencies among the four dimensions of the 2024 Green Growth Index—resource efficiency, natural capital protection, green ec...

Agricultural production necessitates sustainable practices to ensure long-term and sustained food security. Water is a key ingredient for food production. Ensuring sustainable water management in agriculture is thus esse...

Linking Bees, Biodiversity, and Breadwinners highlights the complex and essential relationship between Bees and the survival of rural livelihoods. Although the role of bees in advancing sustainable development objectives...

The three pillars of the energy trilemma (ET) framework are frequently at odds when fossil fuel subsidies (FFSs) remain intact in emerging economies. Although intended to enhance energy availability, these subsidies can ...

The intensification of agricultural practices to meet rising food demand is a major driver of environmental degradation. Current dietary patterns exacerbate these pressures, favoring foods that are economically accessibl...

The rising demand for food, escalating water security, the impact of climate change, and global policy initiatives have heightened research focus on sustainability in agricultural water management. However, the field suf...

This paper examines the interrelationship between environmental sustainability practices, human capital formation, and economic vulnerability within the Chikankari Washermen sector in Lucknow, India, with a particular fo...

The green economy spans interrelated domains—climate change and social equity, sectoral decarbonization, markets and ESG investment, and environmental health. Understanding how these dimensions interact is critical for...

Communities are central to social-ecological systems where environmental dynamics, development pressures, and human well-being intersect. Yet, infrastructure planning often overlooks this complexity, leading to unintende...

Organisations are under increasing pressure today to provide proof of responsible performance in environmental, social, ethical, operational, customer, and financial facets. Despite the huge research effort on Green Huma...

Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has been widely used as a proxy for economic success. Over time, GDP has prioritised economic expansion at the expense of sustainability, failing to distinguish between activities that enhanc...

The Comprehensive Environmental Design and Evaluation System (CEDES) is based on a general taxonomic and conceptual framework that allows it to function both as a building sustainability assessment system and as a flexib...

This study analyzes the temporal synchronization and spillover impacts of China's green growth on African Regional Economic Communities (RECs) from 1996 to 2019, emphasizing emissions dynamics and environmental externali...

The Indo-Gangetic Plains (IGP) remain highly climate vulnerable, where farmers experience limited access to timely, trusted, and contextualized risk information necessary for adaptation. This study examines how exposure ...

Agricultural innovation represents a critical pathway for achieving land ecological security under intensifying environmental pressures, yet how agricultural innovation drives land ecological security across spatial scal...

Market-based instruments such as agricultural carbon credit programs are being encouraged as a way of mitigating climate change, and at the same time, encouraging farm-level sustainability. The review paper consolidates ...

In a time where sustainability is paramount, evaluating and optimizing energy retrofit projects in historic buildings is essential. This study introduces Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) as part of a new Life Cycle Asse...

Water Resources Carrying Capacity (WRCC) embodies the fundamental constraint relationship between water resource sustainability and regional economic growth as well as social development, serving as a key indicator for a...

China's karst ecosystems represent a global hotspot of rocky desertification and ecological vulnerability, posing significant challenges for balancing ecological preservation with socioeconomic development. However, pers...

Cucurbita ficifolia is an underutilised cucurbit with recognised nutritional, enzymatic and bioactive properties that could support circular strategies in agri-food systems. This study systematically reviewed Scopus and ...