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6 February 2026

This study analyzes how the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan has converted structural vulnerability into diplomatic capital through the strategic practice of niche diplomacy. Despite its limited material power, Jordan has emerged as a resilient middle pow...

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103 Views
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5 February 2026

Climate change is transforming industrial systems globally, both by exposing them to increasing environmental risks and by positioning them as key players in worldwide mitigation and adaptation efforts. This study offers a comprehensive review of how...

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155 Views
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Creation of an Integrated Conceptual Model of Sustainable Education: A University Student’s Perspective from Spain

  • Dolores Gallardo-Vázquez,
  • Cristina Nuevo-Gallardo,
  • José Alberto Becerra-Mejías and
  • Juan Vega-Cervera

4 February 2026

Sustainability has become a central pillar of public policy and higher education, with university students playing a key role both as recipients of knowledge and as agents of change toward more responsible practices. Existing literature shows that st...

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293 Views
13 Pages

2 February 2026

This paper examines the critical role of youth engagement in building urban climate resilience in secondary cities of West Africa, with a specific focus on Bo City, Sierra Leone. As one of the world’s most climate-vulnerable countries, Sierra L...

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248 Views
33 Pages

30 January 2026

Visual Impression in Architectural Space (VIAS) plays a central role in user response to environments, yet designer-controlled spatial variables often produce uncertain perceptual outcomes across cultural contexts. This study develops a multi-modal f...

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332 Views
15 Pages

Relationship Between Disaster Declarations and Wheat Crops in the Yaqui Valley, Sonora, Mexico

  • José P. Vega-Camarena,
  • Luis Brito-Castillo,
  • Jaime Edzael Mendivil-Mendoza,
  • Alejandro García-Ramírez,
  • Martina Hilda Gracia-Valenzuela and
  • Felipe de Jesús Reynaga-Franco

28 January 2026

Sonora state in Mexico, leads the nation in wheat production affected by various hydrometeorological phenomena, which can result in considerable economic losses. This research evaluates the potential relationship between emergency or disaster declara...

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372 Views
14 Pages

From Practice to Territory: Experiences of Participatory Agroecology in the AgrEcoMed Project

  • Lucia Briamonte,
  • Domenica Ricciardi,
  • Michela Ascani and
  • Maria Assunta D’Oronzio

26 January 2026

The environmental and social crises affecting global agri-food systems highlight the need for a profound transformation of production models and their territorial relations. In this context, agroecology, understood as science, practice, and movement,...

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156 Views
21 Pages

Mapping Inclusive Development: A Global Bibliometric Performance Analysis

  • Dwayne Shorlon Renville,
  • Netra Chhetri,
  • Linda Francois,
  • Bunnel Bernard and
  • Neha Chhetri

23 January 2026

The growing prominence of inclusive development reflects persistent dissatisfaction with traditional growth-centric paradigms that failed to integrate social equity and environmental sustainability. However, the literature discourse of inclusive deve...

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847 Views
24 Pages

20 January 2026

This study examines how corporate social responsibility (CSR) influences sustainable finance outcomes (SFO) in the Ethiopian Insurance industry through environmental, social, and governance (ESG) practices and institutional challenges (IC). Using cov...

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242 Views
27 Pages

19 January 2026

This study examines the relationship between perceived employee environmental, social, and governance (ESG) behavior and consumer meaningfulness by exploring the mediating role of moral elevation and perceived authenticity, as well as the moderating...

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331 Views
22 Pages

Dual Water–Energy Investments for Resilient Agriculture: A Case Study from Irrigation in Italy

  • Sofia Galeotti,
  • Veronica Manganiello,
  • Luca Cacchiarelli,
  • Chiara Perelli,
  • Michela Baldi and
  • Raffaella Zucaro

19 January 2026

This study investigates a water–energy investment in the Consorzio di Bonifica della Romagna Occidentale (Northern Italy) over the period 2015–2022, analysing how integrated irrigation and energy infrastructures can support agricultural r...

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209 Views
16 Pages

Potential Productivity Model (M3P) as a Planning Tool for Degraded Pastures in the Amazon Deforestation Arc, Brazil

  • Pedro Guerreiro Martorano,
  • Carlos Simões Pereira,
  • Lucietta Guerreiro Martorano,
  • Leila Sheila Silva Lisboa,
  • Nelson Ken Narusawa Nakakoji,
  • Carlos Emílio Rocha-Pereira,
  • Carlos Tadeu dos Santos Dias and
  • João Fernandes da Silva-Júnior

16 January 2026

The Amazon Deforestation Arc remains a critical region for environmental governance, where land-use strategies must consider distinct legal and institutional frameworks across the Amazon and Cerrado biomes. This study applies the Potential Productivi...

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293 Views
20 Pages

Digital Footprint and Firm Performance: Evidence from Organic and Paid Traffic

  • Darko B. Vukovic,
  • Lubov Spitsina,
  • Vladislav Spitsin,
  • Ivan Lyzin and
  • Moinak Maiti

15 January 2026

This study examines the influence of a firm’s digital footprint (organic and paid traffic) on its performance, assessing a sample of 151 Russian firms between 2017 and 2020. It shows a curvilinear association between a firm’s digital foot...

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449 Views
29 Pages

Geospatial Assessment of Agricultural Sustainability Using Multi-Criteria Analysis: A Case Study of the Grocka Municipality, Serbia

  • Ljiljana Mihajlović,
  • Dragan Petrović,
  • Danijela Vukoičić,
  • Miroljub Milinčić and
  • Nikola Milentijević

14 January 2026

Agricultural land represents a fundamental production resource and one of the key factors of ecological and economic stability in rural and peri-urban areas. In the municipality of Grocka, the impacts of urbanization, demographic decline, and changes...

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213 Views
28 Pages

Leveraging Marketing Analytics to Promote Sustainable Destinations: A Study Across Multiple Continents

  • Dimitrios P. Reklitis,
  • Nikolaos T. Giannakopoulos,
  • Marina C. Terzi,
  • Damianos P. Sakas,
  • Maria Salamoura and
  • Christina Konstantinidou Konstantopoulou

13 January 2026

In an era where environmental consciousness increasingly shapes consumer behaviour, the tourism industry faces the dual challenge of promoting destinations while ensuring ecological sustainability. This study explores how web analytics and big data c...

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249 Views
33 Pages

13 January 2026

This study investigates thermal stress and energy-related anxiety as lived, multidimensional manifestations of energy poverty in Western Macedonia, Greece, a coal phase-out region undergoing just transition. Using a 261-household survey, we construct...

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386 Views
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9 January 2026

This paper conceptualizes institutional resilience as a core condition of democratic sustainability in post-transition Europe. Building on neo-institutionalist approaches and recent scholarship on democratic resilience, we argue that democracies endu...

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1 Citations
473 Views
20 Pages

7 January 2026

Urban tree canopy is increasingly recognized as a health-protective form of green infrastructure, yet its distribution remains uneven across socioeconomically stratified neighborhoods. This study quantifies fine-scale tree-canopy inequity across Cens...

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286 Views
18 Pages

The Influence of Family Directors on Internationalization Strategies in Family Businesses

  • María de los Ángeles Aguirre Landa,
  • Karen Watkins Fassler and
  • Jorge Adalberto López Gutiérrez

6 January 2026

This study analyzes the relationship between family control and the internationalization of family firms in Mexico. Grounded in the resource-based view and socioemotional wealth theory, it addresses the theoretical problem of how familiness and gover...

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569 Views
22 Pages

Smart Hospitality in the 6G Era: The Role of AI and Terahertz Communication in Next-Generation Hotel Infrastructure

  • Vuk Mirčetić,
  • Aleksandra Vujko,
  • Martina Arsić,
  • Darjan Karabašević and
  • Svetlana Vukotić

3 January 2026

This study investigates how next-generation digital infrastructures—terahertz (THz) communication and AI-driven network orchestration—shape perceived service quality, luxury perception, and loyalty within the context of luxury hospitality...

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1,677 Views
30 Pages

31 December 2025

The Russo–Ukrainian conflict (RUC) escalated on 24 February 2022 with Russia’s large-scale military operation in Ukraine. Our review aims to present the impact of the RUC on Ukrainian water resources and infrastructure. Its primary object...

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453 Views
39 Pages

31 December 2025

This study identifies key determinants shaping countries’ Sustainable Development Goals performance and develops classification models for predicting country group membership based on the SDG Index. The research addresses the urgent need to opt...

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563 Views
23 Pages

Education for Sustainability: Knowledge, Attitudes and Behaviors of Secondary School Teachers

  • Efstathios Loupas,
  • George Zafeiropoulos,
  • Aristotelis Martinis,
  • Magdalini Mallinou and
  • Aikaterini Kouveli

26 December 2025

This study attempts to analyze the environmental knowledge, attitudes and behaviors of secondary school teachers, as well as the factors influencing these dimensions. It also investigates the extent to which teachers prioritize Environmental Educatio...

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641 Views
27 Pages

Multi-Objective Optimization of Socio-Ecological Systems for Global Warming Mitigation

  • Pablo Tenoch Rodriguez-Gonzalez,
  • Alejandro Orozco-Calvillo,
  • Sinue Arnulfo Tovar-Ortiz,
  • Elvia Ruiz-Beltrán and
  • Héctor Antonio Olmos-Guerrero

16 December 2025

Socio-ecological systems (SESs) exhibit nonlinear feedback across environmental, social, and economic processes, requiring integrative analytical tools capable of representing such coupled dynamics. This study presents a quantitative framework that i...

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695 Views
30 Pages

16 December 2025

Our world is rapidly urbanizing, while 2.5 billion people are projected to shift from rural to urban areas by 2050, with close to 90% occurring in Asia and Africa. In Southeast Asia, particularly, the Phnom Penh capital city of Cambodia is experienci...

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1,111 Views
29 Pages

15 December 2025

In many jurisdictions, property registration and transfers remain constrained by inefficient, paper-based processes that depend on multiple intermediaries and bureaucratic approvals. This paper proposes a decentralized, blockchain-based property plat...

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1,067 Views
24 Pages

Gender, Vulnerability, and Resilience in the Blue Economy of Europe’s Outermost Regions

  • Silvia Martin-Imholz,
  • Erna Karalija,
  • Dannie O’Brien,
  • Corina Moya-Falcón,
  • Priscila Velázquez-Ortuño and
  • Tania Montoto-Martínez

15 December 2025

This review explores the intersection of gender, geography, and sustainability by examining the role of women in the blue economy across Europe’s Outermost Regions (ORs). Despite growing recognition of the blue economy’s role in sustainab...

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1 Citations
938 Views
20 Pages

Global Perspectives on Riparian Ecosystem Restoration: A Systematic Literature Review

  • Jorge Mario Becoche Mosquera and
  • Diego Jesús Macías Pinto

12 December 2025

Riparian ecosystems provide key ecosystem services, yet their degradation is accelerating under growing human pressures. This study performs a systematic and bibliometric assessment to identify global trends in riparian restoration, specifying three...

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1,095 Views
17 Pages

11 December 2025

Sustainable livelihoods remain a vital part of health and can significantly influence overall health outcomes. In sub-Saharan Africa, where HIV continues to affect household economic stability, small-scale but sustainable livelihood interventions hav...

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1,039 Views
13 Pages

11 December 2025

Using survey data from five countries in the Southeast Europe (SEE) region, we examine the factors that contribute to the green career intention. As expected, the prior pro-environmental orientation, as measured by the New Ecological Paradigm scale,...

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541 Views
27 Pages

9 December 2025

Transformations in HEIs (Higher Education Institutions) in recent years have positioned education alongside research, development, and innovation, creating the necessary framework for achieving a positive impact on society and economies. A Principal...

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1,012 Views
15 Pages

8 December 2025

This study investigates the challenges faced by small- and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises (SMEs) as they attempt to respond to decarbonization demands and expand into renewable-energy markets. Drawing on three waves of free-response surveys c...

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1,400 Views
24 Pages

24 November 2025

The creative economy includes the processes involved in producing, sharing, and using goods and services that depend on creativity, cultural understanding, entrepreneurship, and intellectual property as essential factors for economic value. This stud...

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943 Views
30 Pages

Rethinking Coastal Areas Through Youth Perceptions and the Coastality Gap Index: A Case Study of the Island of Mallorca

  • Christian Esteva-Burgos,
  • Janire Salazar,
  • Begoña Vendrell-Simón,
  • Josep Maria Gili and
  • Maurici Ruiz-Pérez

24 November 2025

Coastality, the degree to which a place or community is functionally, spatially, or symbolically oriented toward the ocean, has received limited attention in Ocean Literacy research. This study introduces perceived coastality as a youth-centered cons...

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1,093 Views
24 Pages

Transforming COVID-19 Research Priorities for Sustainable Development in Africa

  • Mmamudi Anna Makhafola,
  • Clarissa Marcelle Naidoo and
  • Nqobile Monate Mkolo

21 November 2025

This study provides a bibliometric analysis of African COVID-19 research outputs from 2019 to 2025, exploring trends in original research articles, citation performance, funding patterns, partnership networks, thematic areas, and alignment with the U...

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698 Views
27 Pages

20 November 2025

We investigate the impact of a country’s population happiness level and happiness inequality on the level of entrepreneurship engagement pursued by individual entrepreneurs in that country. Entrepreneurship engagement broadly captures ambitions...

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889 Views
29 Pages

The Adoption of Telework in Organizations and Its Effects on the Colombian Energy System and CO2 Emissions

  • Alejandro Silva-Cortés,
  • Jorge L. Gallego,
  • Heidy Rodríguez-Ramos,
  • Sergio Botero-Botero and
  • Iván Alonso Montoya-Restrepo

14 November 2025

The adoption of telework increased as a sustainable strategy after the COVID-19 pandemic. However, its impact on transportation and energy consumption are controversial, emphasizing the need for context-specific analysis. This research developed a Sy...

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1,633 Views
19 Pages

13 November 2025

Within the circular economy, repair is increasingly recognised as a crucial yet underexplored strategy that extends product lifespans and reduces waste. Service design offers approaches to support this transition by addressing technical, social, and...

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1,547 Views
29 Pages

11 November 2025

A design science framework integrates sustainability into business development across sectors. The framework embeds sustainability, reflected in environmental, social, and governance (ESG) dimensions, within a structured process that links drivers, e...

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644 Views
17 Pages

Universal Accessibility and Engineering: A 21st Century Bibliometric Review and SDG Links

  • Diego Vergara,
  • Antonio del Bosque,
  • Eduardo García-Sardón and
  • Pablo Fernández-Arias

11 November 2025

Over the 21st century, the confluence between engineering and universal accessibility has emerged as a key research domain, reflecting the growing awareness of the importance of inclusive layout in technological innovation. Despite the growing number...

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635 Views
17 Pages

Towards Sedentarization of Cattle Farming Systems in Sudanian and Sudano-Guinean Zones of Benin: A Typological Analysis of Conflicts Between Farmers and Herders

  • Massourou Tidjani,
  • Alassan Assani Seidou,
  • Christophe Iwaka,
  • Abdel Raouf Adjib Agballa-Belrou,
  • Maximilien Azalou,
  • Erick Virgile Bertrand Azando,
  • Jacob Yabi and
  • Ibrahim Alkoiret Traore

11 November 2025

Conflicts between farmers and herders are a persistent challenge in Sudanian and Sudano-Guinean zones of Benin, largely driven by competition over access to pastoral resources. This study aimed to characterize the prevalence, causes, and typology of...

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1 Citations
1,261 Views
40 Pages

The Role of Pressure Groups in Greek Economic Structure

  • Constantinos Challoumis,
  • Nikolaos Eriotis and
  • Dimitrios Vasiliou

9 November 2025

This study investigates the influence of pressure groups on the structure of the Greek economy, emphasizing their function as intermediaries between civil society and policymaking institutions. The significance of this research lies in revealing how...

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2,036 Views
43 Pages

7 November 2025

Agrivoltaic (AV) systems are increasingly recognized as a strategy to enhance sustainable land management, yet their application in post-conflict settings remains underexplored. This study addresses this gap by evaluating AV deployment in two Colombi...

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2,466 Views
23 Pages

Digital Twins in Smart Tourist Destinations: Addressing Overtourism, Sustainability, and Governance Challenges

  • Tijana Ljubisavljević,
  • Aleksandra Vujko,
  • Martina Arsić and
  • Vuk Mirčetić

6 November 2025

Digital twins are emerging as promising yet underexplored tools for addressing overtourism, sustainability, and governance challenges in tourism. This study assessed their acceptance using a mixed-methods design that combined a large-scale survey of...

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  • Open Access
799 Views
17 Pages

Migration, Corruption, and Economic Drivers: Institutional Insights from the Balkan Route

  • Bojan Baškot,
  • Ognjen Erić,
  • Dalibor Tomaš and
  • Bogdan Ubiparipović

1 November 2025

This study investigates factors influencing migrants’ decisions to enter Europe via Bulgaria or Greece along the Balkan route, using logistic regression and machine learning models on data from the International Organization for Migration (IOM)...

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1,989 Views
22 Pages

The Relationship Between Migration Background and Career Benefits in the Lives of Hungarian Mobile Workers in German-Speaking Countries

  • Judit T. Nagy,
  • Eszter Balogh,
  • Károly Tamás Cziráki,
  • Jázmin Szonja Ábrahám and
  • Zsuzsanna Szvetelszky

28 October 2025

Labour migration from Central and Eastern Europe plays a significant role in the labour market of the European Union, yet few studies examine the direction and extent of occupational mobility triggered by migration. This study introduces a new analyt...

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1 Citations
2,221 Views
20 Pages

24 October 2025

The digital transition is a major contemporary challenge that unevenly impacts the life chances of occupational classes and the well-being of individuals. The decline of the working class, driven by skill-based technological change, further provides...

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1,253 Views
20 Pages

21 October 2025

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) constitute the backbone of the EU economy, yet their uneven digital transformation raises challenges for competitiveness and territorial cohesion. This article examines the organizational and spatial aspects...

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