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Small-ruminant fallow grazing (SRFG) in rainfed crop fields is a traditional practice among many indigenous farmer communities. However, its implementation is often unprofitable and unsustainable due to a lack of experimental data. The ‘Fusion...

Architecture and urbanism, as academic disciplines and professions, have endorsed the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), but implementation in education lags behind. Sustainability continues to be assured through metrics, certification, validation...

In appropriated basins, reduced diversions do not necessarily conserve water because return flows can sustain downstream supply. This study compared the crop water use of sprinkler- and flood-irrigated corn using Landsat-based AgroET retrievals for 1...

High-frequency monitoring networks raise an alarm whenever a measured value crosses a regulatory threshold, and each alarm consumes scarce investigative capacity; unreliable alarms spend that capacity chasing non-events, yet how reliably these alarms...

This study examines whether annual changes in national innovation performance are associated, within the same year, with changes in or levels of five selected indicators aligned with the sustainable development pillars of People, Planet, Prosperity,...

Endorheic lakes are sensitive indicators of climate variability and water-management pressure, yet their response in data-scarce Central Asian basins remains poorly quantified. This study examines long-term climate trends (1981–2020) and satell...

Valorization of by-products originating from processing agricultural produce into food products is considered an important factor in transforming the food industry toward a circular economy that stays in line with the concept of sustainable developme...

The use of Rubberized Geopolymer Concrete (RGC) represents a sustainable solution that can reduce reliance on Portland cement and make use of the potential uses of waste-tire rubber in construction. This review paper critically evaluates the constitu...

Public hospitals need supply chains that keep working under disruption, yet little is known about how digital governance relates to that outcome. This study examines a serial mediation model linking digital governance, digital capability, supply chai...

The transition toward circular and resource-efficient industrial systems requires effective strategies for recovering secondary raw materials, reducing resource losses, and improving the environmental and economic performance of industrial processes....

The service sector accounts for a growing share of economic activity, yet relatively slow productivity growth leaves firms facing wage-driven cost pressures that constrain long-term investment. From an economic sustainability perspective, alleviating...

Extreme weather events pose a growing threat to agricultural production and food security. Using a panel of 221 prefecture-level cities in China with annual observations from 2010 to 2023, the study develops an agricultural economic resilience index...

Despite mandatory sustainability disclosure regimes such as the CSRD and IFRS S1/S2, a structural gap persists between reported ESG commitments and the internal management control systems that govern organizational behavior. The purpose of this conce...

This study develops and empirically validates a methodology for transitioning from the diagnosis of rural settlements’ resource profiles to evidence-based scenario selection in development policy. Based on a mixed-methods study of 12 rural sett...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the way hotels and restaurants operate, while at the same time, the hospitality industry is under increasing pressure to become more sustainable. This study examines how these two trends intersect through...

Industrial heritage-led urban regeneration depends not only on conserving and adaptively reusing former industrial sites but also on involving communities in identifying heritage values and shaping decisions about reuse and long-term management. This...

North China is a major production base for winter wheat and one of the regions most severely affected by meteorological droughts. However, the stage-specific characteristics of drought variability and their response to large-scale atmospheric telecon...

Against the backdrop of the coordinated advancement of digital village construction and the common prosperity strategy, the widespread improvement in rural households’ digital literacy is emerging as a key force in reshaping rural income distri...

This study examines how first-sale market organization, realized producer returns, and harvesting-related fuel consumption are jointly associated in Vietnam’s offshore skipjack tuna gillnet fishery. Using 242 vessel observations from repeated c...

Virtual agglomeration expands firms’ external knowledge and resource connections through digital networks, while its innovation benefits depend on firm capabilities and local industrial conditions. Using Chinese A-share listed firms from 2004 t...

To reduce CO${}_2$ emissions from the transportation process, logistics companies are beginning to purchase electric vehicles (EVs) to replace fuel vehicles (FVs). To fully leverage the advantages of various vehicles, this study introduces three models: t...

Global climate change has led to frequent and intensified extreme high-temperature disasters, severely challenging the operational resilience and sustainable operation of urban power energy systems. Extreme heat triggers a dual risk of surging coolin...

The sustainable transformation of manufacturing industries requires a better understanding of risk linkages between high-carbon and low-carbon sectors, particularly under changing low-carbon policy conditions. This paper employs the TVP-VAR-BK model...

Environmental alterations arising from restoration, land-use modification, and climate change alter the physical and chemical conditions of freshwater ecosystems, ultimately driving ecological responses. Yet, a wide range of modelling frameworks has...

The service reliability of urban public transit is closely linked to sustainable socioeconomic development and low-carbon urban mobility. Despite extensive studies on transit reliability, existing research predominantly evaluates bus bunching as an i...

Within China’s target-oriented governance framework, energy intensity targets constitute an important binding instrument through which local governments pursue energy conservation. Using city-level energy intensity target data for China from 20...

Port expansion strengthens trade connectivity and economic growth, but its socio-ecological costs are often concentrated in fishing communities dependent on coastal space and locally embedded livelihoods. Existing research documents the impacts of po...

As universities assume increasingly important roles in responding to climate change and advancing sustainable development, little is known about how sustainability is integrated across rapidly expanding higher education systems in underrepresented re...

Electroluminescence (EL) imaging reveals internal defects in photovoltaic (PV) cells, but supervised inspection depends on costly defect annotation. This study presents a structure-aware anomaly detector built on a frozen DINOv2 ViT-S/14 backbone. A...

Quinoa, kiwicha and cañihua are strategic Andean grains for Peru, yet whether Peru’s revealed comparative advantage in them has translated into export performance remains poorly documented. Using official MINCETUR/SUNAT and International...

This study assesses carbon-emissions disclosure quality (CDQ) and its drivers among Egyptian-listed firms. Using longitudinal content analysis, we examine EGX100 companies from 2020 to 2024, comprising an unbalanced panel of 442 firm-year observation...

Urban wetland parks combine ecological functions with everyday opportunities for recreation and perceived restoration, and researchers have increasingly examined how landscape sequences are associated with restorative evaluations during walking expos...

This study identifies the key competencies considered important for construction professionals and examines differences in their perceived importance across work-experience groups. A literature review and expert review informed a questionnaire compri...

Does the Internet replace guanxi as a source of economic opportunity? Using 13,273 household-year observations from four waves of the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS, 2014–2020), this study examines whether Internet use conditions the marginal...

The selection of restoration areas in large river basins is a technical and socioeconomic challenge due to the environmental and socioeconomic complexities involved, particularly in data-scarce tropical basins. To address this challenge, multi-criter...

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This systematic review examines advances in economic dispatch (ED) and demand-side management (DSM) in power systems with wind and photovoltaic (PV) generation. Peer-reviewed journal articles published from 2018 to 2024 were identified through system...

Air pollution is a major global health threat, with Southeast Asia experiencing some of the highest PM_2.5 levels worldwide. In Thailand, annual haze seasons cause severe exposure, yet little is known about ambient air pollution health literacy (AAPHL...

The fisheries and aquaculture sector is of strategic importance to European Union (EU) countries regarding food security, economic value added, employment, and the sustainability of marine ecosystems. However, sectoral performance is multidimensional...

Fine particulate matter (PM₁) is regarded as one of the most hazardous atmospheric aerosol fractions because of its ability to penetrate deeply into the respiratory system and its high contribution of secondary inorganic and organic components. Despi...

Historic urban landscapes face development pressures that often shift beyond protected heritage boundaries. This study evaluates the spatial redirection of urban development pressure around the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Safranbolu, Türkiye (...

Microplastics (MPs) in high-altitude and ecologically sensitive areas in Pakistan remain unknown and have become a pervasive global issue. This study investigated the occurrence, potential sources, and spatial variability of microplastics across the...

Education for sustainable development (ESD) in higher education increasingly emphasises competency development, yet evidence remains fragmented regarding how combinations of teaching methods relate to particular sustainability competency profiles. Ac...

Biophilic design improves environmental quality, user well-being, and sustainability in office buildings, yet its long-term structural evolution remains significantly understudied. This study examines 15 office buildings in Warsaw, Poland, spanning o...

Sustainable plant disease management is essential for maintaining agricultural productivity, environmental health, and global food security. Climate change has increased crop vulnerability to emerging and re-emerging plant diseases, posing significan...

The nonlinear associations and scale dependence of yellow–green–gray spatial patterns with atmospheric CO₂ and vegetation productivity remain insufficiently understood in cold-region cities characterized by mixed cropland–forest lan...

The study investigates the association between sustainability reporting practices and the development of revenue per employee and profitability over a prolonged period, relative to companies that are less committed to reporting their sustainability p...

This paper examines the determinants of carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions across the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries over the period 2000–2022. The GCC region presents a distinctive empirical setting, characterized by high fossil fuel dep...

Accessible emergency information supports inclusive urban resilience. This study examines public perceptions of emergency language services (ELS) in Xi’an Chanba International Port, China. A cross-sectional convenience sample of 318 respondents...

Improving the resilience of the agricultural industry chain to frequent external shocks and the intertwined agricultural production risks is critical for ensuring national food security and sustainable agricultural development. Taking the 16 prefectu...