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Challenges, Volume 17, Issue 4

2026 December - 10 articles

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Articles (10)

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Views
30 Pages

Student-Reported Green Chemistry Implementation Capability and Sustainability-Related Competencies Among Pre-Service Natural Science Teachers: A Bayesian Multilevel Modeling Study

  • María Clarisa Tovar-Torres,
  • Angelica Norma Taipe-Poma,
  • Luis Alberto Núñez-Lira,
  • Yurfa Carolina Medina-Bedón and ,
  • Edith María Llerena-Espinoza,
  • Cesar Castañeda-Campos,
  • José Carlos Ayuque-Rojas and
  • Russbelt Yaulilahua-Huacho
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

4 November 2026

Green chemistry education is essential for preparing future science teachers to address environmental sustainability and planetary health challenges. This cross-sectional study examined student-reported Green Chemistry Implementation Capability (GCIC...

  • Viewpoint
  • Open Access
107 Views
16 Pages

31 October 2026

The optimistic approach to science and progress that is associated with positivism is questioned as we face up to the environmental consequences of an industrial civilization that compromises the sustainable basis of our continued survival. As planet...

(This article belongs to the Topic Studies in the Nexus Between Energy, Environment and Economic Growth)
  • Review
  • Open Access
250 Views
43 Pages

20 October 2026

Although South Africa has achieved near-universal grid electrification, many connected households experience inadequate, unreliable, and unaffordable energy. This review asks why energy poverty persists despite improved access, a question at the inte...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
215 Views
14 Pages

16 October 2026

Malnutrition in Nepal’s Eastern Terai is shaped by food access, caregiving, water and sanitation, agricultural livelihoods, and local institutions. This mixed-methods evaluation describes the implementation patterns and endline nutrition, WASH,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Planetary Health: Urgency and Agency for Systems Change. Including Submissions Associated with the 2025 Planetary Health Annual Meeting (PHAM2025))
  • Article
  • Open Access
228 Views
27 Pages

13 October 2026

Peer-to-peer finance is usually dated to the platform lending experiments of the mid-2000s, a dating that inverts the actual chronology. Rotating savings associations, burial societies, tontines and village pools have carried the risk of illness, dea...

(This article belongs to the Section Climate Change, Air, Water, and Planetary Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
237 Views
10 Pages

3 October 2026

Introduction: North Atlantic hurricanes have intensified over recent decades, contributing to excess mortality, particularly among lower-income populations residing in coastal regions. However, the differential impact of hurricane intensity on mortal...

  • Review
  • Open Access
204 Views
20 Pages

2 October 2026

This paper explores the integrated effect of operational food waste practices and pro-environmental consumer behavior on sustainable performance in branded food outlets. A dual-pathway framework was developed, based on the theory of planned behavior...

(This article belongs to the Topic AI for Sustainable Development: Innovations, Challenges, and Real-World Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
322 Views
12 Pages

28 September 2026

Planetary health depends partly on reducing the scale and impacts of material extraction, yet headline circular-economy indicators can reward different processes. This study asks whether the circular material use rate (CMUR), which describes the shar...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Planetary Health and the Role of Regenerative Economies, Regenerative Business and Wellbeing Economies in the Symbiosene)
  • Viewpoint
  • Open Access
584 Views
14 Pages

25 September 2026

A growing number of jurisdictions have granted rights to nature. Scholarship on these frameworks has been mainly legal and philosophical and has rarely asked whether legal recognition improves the condition of ecosystems. This paper takes up that que...

(This article belongs to the Section Ethics, Values, Culture and Spirituality)
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