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Policy-Driven Changes in Rural Waste Separation: Evidence from a Quasi-Experimental Study
by Zhaoyun Yin and Jing Ma
Sustainability 2025, 17(11), 4747; https://doi.org/10.3390/su17114747 (registering DOI) - 22 May 2025
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Waste management plays a crucial role in sustainable development efforts in a national context. However, waste separation in rural areas has received limited research attention, restricting the generalizability of the urban-focused findings to these regions. Furthermore, the influence of policy interventions on waste [...] Read more.
Waste management plays a crucial role in sustainable development efforts in a national context. However, waste separation in rural areas has received limited research attention, restricting the generalizability of the urban-focused findings to these regions. Furthermore, the influence of policy interventions on waste separation behavior among rural residents remains poorly understood. Therefore, sustainability in rural areas is challenging. Here, we used a quasi-experimental design to examine the causal relationship between policy and rural residents’ waste separation behavior. We identify policy information perception as the key explanatory factor mediating this relationship and validate information dissemination as a robust instrumental variable for policy information perception. Furthermore, we explore the urban–rural disparities in policy information perception and provide recommendations to enhance policy effectiveness. These findings enhance the understanding of the behavioral mechanisms driving rural waste separation, explain how policy information influences ecological behavior from a perceptual perspective, and provide practical guidance for optimizing environmental policy implementation. Full article
(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Urban and Rural Development)
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Correction: Hu et al. Research on High-Speed Railway Pricing and Financial Sustainability. Sustainability 2022, 14, 1239
by Xiaoyi Hu, Jianqiang Duan and Ran Li
Sustainability 2025, 17(11), 4746; https://doi.org/10.3390/su17114746 (registering DOI) - 22 May 2025
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The journal’s Editorial Office and Editorial Board are jointly issuing a resolution and update of the academic editor linked to this article [...] Full article
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Sustainable Production Systems in the Brazilian Amazon: A Systematic Review
by Matheus de Miranda Ribeiro Borges, Liliane Marques de Sousa and Giovana Ghisleni Ribas
Sustainability 2025, 17(11), 4745; https://doi.org/10.3390/su17114745 (registering DOI) - 22 May 2025
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The integration of the Amazon into the global commodities market requires ensuring the rational use of resources to meet market and socio-political demands, such as the UN’s 2030 Agenda. Responsible production practices are essential to address the current demand for sustainable land use [...] Read more.
The integration of the Amazon into the global commodities market requires ensuring the rational use of resources to meet market and socio-political demands, such as the UN’s 2030 Agenda. Responsible production practices are essential to address the current demand for sustainable land use and resource management. This study reviewed the literature (2004–2024) on the opportunities and challenges of implementing and consolidating sustainable production systems in the Amazon. It found a low distribution of studies across Brazilian Amazon states and a surge in publications since 2015, focusing on agroforestry systems and forest management. Challenges include socio-political limitations that hinder public decision-making, leading to inefficient policies, as well as economic issues, lack of know-how, inadequate infrastructure, poor logistics, and cultural resistance. Nevertheless, these systems offer opportunities such as intensified and diversified production, carbon sequestration, and soil and forest conservation. Finally, future research should consider political, social, and economic aspects to facilitate the transition from traditional to sustainable models, supporting strategies for consolidating these systems in the Amazon. Full article
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