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Challenges, Volume 16, Issue 3

2025 September - 15 articles

Cover Story: A growing body of scholarship recognizes the importance of inner dimensions in transformations to sustainability and their influence on behavior, collective action, and institutions. This review synthesizes research on the inner dimensions of regeneration—a process of rebuilding or renewing an asset, resource, ecosystem, individual, family, organization, community, or place. It enables the expression of nature’s capacity for self-organization and empowers social–ecological systems to revive themselves through positive reinforcing cycles. The review clarifies the characteristics and meanings of regenerative mental models, mindsets, and cultures, outlining how they develop, interact, and scale within broader systems. View this paper
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Articles (15)

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,437 Views
17 Pages

4 September 2025

Nepal, like its South Asian neighbours, is exploring Circular Economy (CE) as a pathway to Green Economy and Net Zero commitments. Current studies focus primarily on sector-specific 3R (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle) waste management strategies. However, th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Planetary Health and the Role of Regenerative Economies, Regenerative Business and Wellbeing Economies in the Symbiosene)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,963 Views
24 Pages

4 September 2025

The reclaimed water sector is poised for significant growth driven by urbanization, technological advancements, and increasing demand for alternative water sources, with an emphasis on improving treatment capacities and promoting water reuse for vari...

(This article belongs to the Section Climate Change, Air, Water, and Planetary Systems)
  • Retraction
  • Open Access
907 Views
1 Page

2 September 2025

The journal retracts the review article “The Value of Community Capitals in Sustainable Urban Development: A Qualitative Exploration of Urban Informal Workers” [...]

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
8,701 Views
33 Pages

30 August 2025

This study investigates the factors influencing green purchase behavior in emerging economies, focusing on Indonesian consumers’ preferences for organic food products. While sustainability awareness is growing globally, limited research has exa...

(This article belongs to the Section Food Solutions for Health and Sustainability)
  • Essay
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,641 Views
16 Pages

26 August 2025

Mozambican traditional healing is a longstanding, community-embedded practice grounded in local knowledge systems and biodiversity. Despite its resilience, it has been persistently marginalized—from colonial impositions to enduring legal ambigu...

(This article belongs to the Section Ethics, Values, Culture and Spirituality)
  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,114 Views
17 Pages

15 August 2025

A growing body of scholarship recognizes the importance of understanding the inner dimensions of transformations to sustainability at individual, collective, and system levels and their influence on the behavior of individuals and groups and the type...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Relationship between Sustainability and Inner Development: Towards More Integrative Worldviews, Paradigms, and Actions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,205 Views
13 Pages

Piloting a Virtual Mindful Eating Program to Improve Eating Behaviors and Reduce Food Waste

  • Michael F. Royer,
  • Afton Kechter,
  • Dara L. James,
  • Margaret Moeller and ,
  • Maricarmen Vizcaino and
  • Christopher Wharton
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

4 August 2025

Introduction: The wellbeing of humans and the planet is negatively impacted by unhealthy eating behaviors and excessive food waste. Mindfulness approaches have the potential to help people modify their behavior to achieve healthier outcomes. Pilot te...

(This article belongs to the Section Food Solutions for Health and Sustainability)
  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,187 Views
24 Pages

4 August 2025

Tuberculosis (TB) remains a leading cause of death in Bangladesh, disproportionately affecting low socio-economic status (SES) populations. This review, guided by the WHO Social Determinants of Health framework and Rockefeller-Lancet Planetary Health...

(This article belongs to the Section Human Health and Well-Being)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3,082 Views
14 Pages

Into the Blue: An ERC Synergy Grant Resolving Past Arctic Greenhouse Climate States

  • Jochen Knies,
  • Gerrit Lohmann,
  • Stijn De Schepper,
  • Monica Winsborrow and ,
  • Juliane Müller,
  • Mohamed M. Ezat and
  • Petra M. Langebroek
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

The Arctic Ocean is turning blue. Abrupt Arctic warming and amplification is driving rapid sea ice decline and irreversible deglaciation of Greenland. The already emerging, substantial consequences for the planet and society are intensifying and yet,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,164 Views
16 Pages

The climate crisis poses profound risks to present and future generations. Nonetheless, the perspectives of children and young people internationally, and more specifically in Brazil, remain underexplored. Based on a multi-discipline literature revie...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Planetary Health: From Evidence to Action–Confronting Reality (Including Submissions Associated with the 2024 Planetary Health Summit (PHAM2024))
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,673 Views
20 Pages

Increasing temperatures associated with climate change will lead to (periodic) temperature-induced reductions in food intake in human and other mammal populations. Human adults, however, are both tolerant and resilient to periodic nutritional deficit...

(This article belongs to the Section Human Health and Well-Being)
  • Viewpoint
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,717 Views
10 Pages

Dietary choices and patterns have enormous consequences along the lines of individual, community, and planetary health. Excess meat consumption has been linked to chronic disease risk, and at large scales, the underlying industries maintain a massive...

  • Essay
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,402 Views
17 Pages

Uniquely rooted in regenerative leadership and complemented by Complexity Leadership Theory (CLT), this conceptual essay offers a theoretical exploration of how educational institutions can act as dynamic systems that catalyze adaptive, community-led...

(This article belongs to the Section Planetary Health Education and Communication)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,482 Views
21 Pages

This study investigates the empowering role of public–private partnerships (PPPs) in the economic sustainability of waste management (ESW) and the circular industry economy (CIE), specifically in the small, rapidly industrialising Emirate of Aj...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,623 Views
27 Pages

Climate scientists, systems theorists, and policymakers increasingly suggest that global sustainability challenges stem from dysfunctional worldviews and values that drive individual and collective behaviors, undermining both human flourishing and pl...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Relationship between Sustainability and Inner Development: Towards More Integrative Worldviews, Paradigms, and Actions)
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