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Sustainability, Volume 17, Issue 15

August-1 2025 - 515 articles

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Cover Story: While boreal forests constitute 30% of the Earth’s forested area and are responsible for 20% of the global carbon sink, there is concern about their sustainability. This paper examines whether wood volume in these forests has responded to increased CO2. Experimental studies have found almost no effect of elevated CO2 in boreal forests. However, our study, which uses observational data and doubly robust econometric techniques, finds that a 1.0% increase in lifetime exposure to CO2 leads to a 1.1% increase in aboveground volume. This showcases the value of research designs that use natural settings to better account for the effects of prolonged exposure to elevated CO2. In addition, the results should aid policymakers in boreal regions in designing approaches to offset carbon emissions and meet net-zero sustainability targets. View this paper

Articles (515)

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  • Open Access
827 Views
31 Pages

Exploring Imperatives in Generation Z’s Approach to the Future of the Environment

  • Piotr Daniluk,
  • Radoslaw Wisniewski,
  • Aneta Nowakowska-Krystman,
  • Tomasz Kownacki and
  • Dawid Wiśniewski

7 August 2025

Environmental protection is one of the key challenges facing mankind today. Finding out what young people, referred to as Generation Z, think about this issue is extremely important, as they will be the first to experience the negative effects of env...

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  • Open Access
784 Views
20 Pages

7 August 2025

As agricultural land continues to expand, the conversion of forests to farmland has intensified, significantly altering the structure and function of agroecosystems. However, the dynamic ecological responses and their interactions with economic outco...

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  • Open Access
804 Views
20 Pages

Sustainable Management of Fruit By-Products Through Design Thinking: Development of an Innovative Food Product

  • Sylwia Sady,
  • Alfred Błaszczyk,
  • Bogdan Pachołek,
  • Anna Muzykiewicz-Szymańska,
  • Anna Nowak,
  • Justyna Syguła-Cholewińska,
  • Tomasz Sawoszczuk,
  • Stanisław Popek,
  • Małgorzata Krzywonos and
  • Agnieszka Piekara
  • + 1 author

7 August 2025

Sustainable development and the circular economy have become key challenges in the modern food sector, calling for innovative solutions that reduce waste and promote the efficient use of resources. The aim of this study was to develop a functional fo...

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  • Open Access
633 Views
18 Pages

7 August 2025

Soil environmental quality in arid oases is crucial for regional ecological security but faces multi-source heavy metal (HM) contamination risks. This study aimed to (1) characterize the spatial distribution of soil HMs (As, Cd, Cr, Cu, Hg, and Zn) i...

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  • Open Access
647 Views
16 Pages

Simulation and Control of Water Pollution Load in the Xiaoxingkai Lake Basin Based on a System Dynamics Model

  • Yaping Wu,
  • Dan Chen,
  • Fujia Li,
  • Mingming Feng,
  • Ping Wang,
  • Lingang Hao and
  • Chunnuan Deng

7 August 2025

With the rapid development of the social economy, human activities have increasingly disrupted water environments, and the continuous input of pollutants poses significant challenges for water environment management. Taking the Xiaoxingkai Lake basin...

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  • Open Access
942 Views
45 Pages

7 August 2025

Barn districts—ensembles of agricultural buildings situated at the edges of rural settlements—once played a key role in the spatial and economic organization of agrarian communities in Central Europe. Today, many of these structures remai...

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  • Open Access
1,595 Views
23 Pages

How Do Government Subsidies Affect Innovation? Evidence from Chinese Hi-Tech SMEs

  • Dong Xiang,
  • Roman Matousek,
  • Andrew C. Worthington and
  • Yue Jiang

7 August 2025

This paper examines the effectiveness of government subsidies in fostering innovation among small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), with a particular focus on additionality, crowding-out, and cherry-picking effects. Using the latest national surve...

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  • Open Access
808 Views
28 Pages

7 August 2025

Driven by the need for sustainable and efficient energy systems, the optimal management of distributed generation, including photovoltaic systems and battery energy storage systems within prosumer households, is of crucial importance. This requires a...

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  • Open Access
562 Views
23 Pages

7 August 2025

To evaluate water pollution status and sustainable development potential in the Huai River Basin, this study focused on the spatiotemporal evolution and influencing factors of the grey water footprint (GWF) across 35 cities in the basin from 2005 to...

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  • Open Access
839 Views
19 Pages

7 August 2025

This study examines the adverse environmental impacts of solar photovoltaic parks located in established protected areas, aiming to determine the level of landscape fragmentation through the calculation of relevant landscape metrics. For this purpose...

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