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  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,906 Views
27 Pages

Associative Blockchain for Decentralized PKI Transparency

  • Xavier Boyen,
  • Udyani Herath,
  • Matthew McKague and
  • Douglas Stebila

The conventional public key infrastructure (PKI) model, which powers most of the Internet, suffers from an excess of trust into certificate authorities (CAs), compounded by a lack of transparency which makes it vulnerable to hard-to-detect targeted s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,996 Views
14 Pages

Monitoring Key Pair Usage through Distributed Ledgers and One-Time Signatures

  • Lucas Mayr,
  • Lucas Palma,
  • Gustavo Zambonin,
  • Wellington Silvano and
  • Ricardo Custódio

26 September 2023

Private key management is a complex obstacle arising from the traditional public key infrastructure model. However, before any related security breach can be addressed, it must first be reliably detected. Certificate Transparency (CT) is an example o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
524 Views
18 Pages

4 November 2025

Projects continue to fail approximately half the time, both before and after the COVID-19 pandemic. While prior studies highlight the influence of project leadership and individual competencies, little is known about whether team members’ willi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
999 Views
29 Pages

17 September 2025

Diplomas and academic transcripts issued at the conclusion of a university cycle have been the subject of numerous studies focused on developing secure methods for their registration and access. However, in the context of high school teachers, these...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,484 Views
26 Pages

Long-Lived Sustainable Products through Digital Innovation

  • Raul Carlsson,
  • Tatiana Nevzorova and
  • Karolina Vikingsson

2 November 2022

Digitalization is key for an organization to achieve sustainability leadership, to be able to conform with sustainability objectives, support claims, and inform consumers and consecutive stakeholders. However, there is no impartial, credible, and uni...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2,331 Views
24 Pages

Artificial Intelligence Standards in Conflict: Local Challenges and Global Ambitions

  • Zeynep Orhan,
  • Mehmet Orhan,
  • Brady D. Lund,
  • Nishith Reddy Mannuru,
  • Ravi Varma Kumar Bevara and
  • Brett Porter

11 October 2025

This article examines the global efforts to govern and regulate Artificial Intelligence (AI) in response to its rapid development and growing influence across many parts of society. It explores how governance takes place at multiple levels, including...

  • Article
  • Open Access
93 Views
19 Pages

Challenges and Weaknesses of Myanmar Forest Certification Sector

  • May Zun Phyo,
  • Thant Sin Aung and
  • Xiaodong Liu

14 January 2026

Forest certification in developing countries faces significant challenges due to weak institutions, limited market incentives, and complex trade conditions. This study investigates the status and key constraints of the Myanmar forest certification se...

  • Review
  • Open Access
464 Views
62 Pages

Blockchain-Based Certification in Fisheries: A Survey of Technologies and Methodologies

  • Isaac Olayemi Olaleye,
  • Oluwafemi Olowojuni,
  • Asoro Ojevwe Blessing and
  • Jesús Rodríguez-Molina

22 December 2025

The integrity of certification processes in the agrifood and fishing industries is essential for combating fraud, ensuring food safety, and meeting rising consumer expectations for transparency and sustainability. Yet, current certification systems r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,109 Views
23 Pages

BRT: An Efficient and Scalable Blockchain-Based Revocation Transparency System for TLS Connections

  • Qianqian Xing,
  • Xiaofeng Wang,
  • Xinyue Xu,
  • Jiaqi Lin,
  • Fei Wang,
  • Cui Li and
  • Baosheng Wang

30 October 2023

Log-based public key infrastructure(PKI) refers to a robust class of CA-attack-resilient PKI that enhance transparency and accountability in the certificate revocation and issuance process by compelling certificate authorities (CAs) to submit revocat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
357 Views
15 Pages

31 October 2025

Background: Centralization and certification mark constant processes in everyday clinical routine. Despite the continuously rising number of certified pancreatic cancer (PAC) centers in recent years, fewer than 40% of PAC resections are still perform...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,079 Views
22 Pages

Role of Certifications and Labelling in Ensuring Authenticity and Sustainability of Fermented Milk Products

  • Magdalena Ankiel,
  • Michał Halagarda,
  • Agnieszka Piekara,
  • Sylwia Sady,
  • Paulina Żmijowska,
  • Stanisław Popek,
  • Bogdan Pachołek,
  • Bartłomiej Jefmański,
  • Michał Kucia and
  • Małgorzata Krzywonos

19 September 2025

The increasing demand for sustainably produced food has intensified interest in fermented milk products, such as yoghurt, which combine nutritional value with environmental and ethical considerations. However, the authenticity of sustainability claim...

  • Article
  • Open Access
61 Citations
6,756 Views
17 Pages

22 November 2021

Sustainability standards have not yet been commonly adopted by the whole wine chain, and indicator assessments are not widely spread. A deep understanding of how embedding sustainability into business while controlling costs related to the adoption o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
6,233 Views
16 Pages

Forest Management Certification in Romania: Motivations and Perceptions

  • Aureliu Florin Halalisan,
  • Ioan Vasile Abrudan and
  • Bogdan Popa

15 July 2018

Forestland privatization and transition to a market economy triggered important changes in the Romanian forest sector, imposing challenges for forest management structures. Voluntary forest management certification has been considered a possible solu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
8,634 Views
19 Pages

10 May 2019

Addressing sustainability in urban planning has led to an increasing number of certification systems to support such processes. Nevertheless, there is no commonly recognised framework listing what is important to consider when developing such systems...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
6,127 Views
19 Pages

26 November 2021

This work presents how a digital identity management system can support food supply chains in guaranteeing the quality of the products marketed and the compliance of the several supply-chain’s nodes to standards and technical regulations. Speci...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,206 Views
16 Pages

20 June 2023

Background: Based on the increasing evidence of forest on health, a research project assessed the structural certification criteria of recreational and therapeutic forests in 15 Bavarian pilot sites. The main project objectives were (1) to develop a...

  • Review
  • Open Access
22 Citations
24,297 Views
31 Pages

16 January 2025

Hotel certifications have become increasingly vital in promoting sustainability within the hospitality industry, providing frameworks that guide hotels toward reducing their environmental footprint, enhancing operational efficiency, and gaining a com...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,558 Views
12 Pages

20 September 2022

Sustainable aspects of wine tourism have become very important in recent years. The environmental sustainability of wineries, in the form of organic certification, is not a direct component of wine tourism but can nevertheless play a significant role...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,444 Views
19 Pages

19 September 2025

The deployment of Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAFs) is central to decarbonizing aviation. However, diverse regulatory frameworks create complexity for SAF market deployment. Differing greenhouse gas (GHG)-reduction thresholds, feedstock eligibility r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,744 Views
11 Pages

8 January 2022

Despite the socioeconomic and ecological significance of the 10.4 million acres of forestland owned by nonindustrial private forest (NIPF) landowners across Arkansas (approximately 58% of forestland in the state), only 5% of this land is certified th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
134 Citations
14,595 Views
14 Pages

Blockchain in Energy Efficiency: Potential Applications and Benefits

  • Asma Khatoon,
  • Piyush Verma,
  • Jo Southernwood,
  • Beth Massey and
  • Peter Corcoran

28 August 2019

Blockchain technology is ready to disrupt nearly every industry and business model, and the energy sector is no exception. Energy businesses across the world have already started exploring the use of blockchain technology in large-scale energy tradin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,109 Views
22 Pages

30 May 2020

This paper describes the development of Citylab Post-Construction, a Swedish certification system for evaluating the sustainability performance of urban areas in a post-construction phase once the area is inhabited. The process design was based on tr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
6,173 Views
12 Pages

16 April 2016

The majority of Finnish forests (95%) are certified by the Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC). It is a worldwide leading forest certification scheme. The aim of this study is to analyze the Finnish National Standard of PEFC...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,084 Views
26 Pages

A Data-Driven Energy Platform: From Energy Performance Certificates to Human-Readable Knowledge through Dynamic High-Resolution Geospatial Maps

  • Tania Cerquitelli,
  • Evelina Di Corso,
  • Stefano Proto,
  • Paolo Bethaz,
  • Daniele Mazzarelli,
  • Alfonso Capozzoli,
  • Elena Baralis,
  • Marco Mellia,
  • Silvia Casagrande and
  • Martina Tamburini

12 December 2020

The energy performance certificate (EPC) is a document that certifies the average annual energy consumption of a building in standard conditions and allows it to be classified within a so-called energy class. In a period such as this, when greenhouse...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
10,779 Views
11 Pages

Initiation and Dissemination of Organic Rice Cultivation in Bali, Indonesia

  • Fumitaka Shiotsu,
  • Nobuo Sakagami,
  • Naomi Asagi,
  • Dewa Ngurah Suprapta,
  • Nurwulan Agustiani,
  • Youji Nitta and
  • Masakazu Komatsuzaki

28 April 2015

Organic farming has attracted attention in Indonesia because consumers increasingly prefer the putative safety and health benefits of organic farm products. Although national standards for organic farm products were established in 2002, some products...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
8,633 Views
17 Pages

25 November 2014

Since the 1990s, national green building certification indices have emerged around the globe as promising measurement tools for environmental-friendly housing. Since 2008, tools for countries in the Northern “colder” hemisphere have been adapted to t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,666 Views
21 Pages

5 August 2021

Organic farming is an agricultural production system that combines tradition, innovation, and science to provide high-quality food, benefit the shared environment, and promote fair relationships and a good quality of life for all involved. It is a su...

  • Article
  • Open Access
53 Citations
7,973 Views
32 Pages

Individual Green Certificates on Blockchain: A Simulation Approach

  • Fangyuan Zhao,
  • Xin Guo and
  • Wai Kin (Victor) Chan

11 May 2020

Distributed renewable energy offers an exciting opportunity for sustainable transition and climate change mitigation. However, it is overlooked in most of the conventional tradable green certificates programs. Blockchain shows an advantage of incorpo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
176 Citations
10,554 Views
22 Pages

26 November 2017

The installed capacity of distributed generation (DG) based on renewable energy sources has increased continuously in power systems, and its market-oriented transaction is imperative. However, traditional transaction management based on centralized o...

  • Review
  • Open Access
29 Citations
5,119 Views
45 Pages

Green Certificates Research: Bibliometric Assessment of Current State and Future Directions

  • Stamatios K. Chrysikopoulos,
  • Panos T. Chountalas,
  • Dimitrios A. Georgakellos and
  • Athanasios G. Lagodimos

29 January 2024

In recent years, sustainability initiatives and the prominence of renewables have emerged as pivotal priorities in addressing environmental, ecological, and socioeconomic challenges. Within this context, green certificates—representing proof of...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,941 Views
24 Pages

Technology of Microclimate Regulation in Organic and Energy-Sustainable Livestock Production

  • Zbynek Havelka,
  • Radim Kunes,
  • Yevhen Kononets,
  • Jessica Elizabeth Stokes,
  • Lubos Smutny,
  • Pavel Olsan,
  • Jan Kresan,
  • Radim Stehlik,
  • Petr Bartos and
  • David Roztocil
  • + 2 authors

27 September 2022

The control of climatic conditions where cattle are kept is one of the challenges in the livestock sector regarding the digital automation of the process. (1) Background: The main purpose of this study is to define the optimal foundations for automat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
7,229 Views
16 Pages

Consumers’ growing interest in the environmental and social impacts of products has increased demand for sustainable fashion items, particularly denim. Emerging technologies such as blockchain technology and labeling certifications have been de...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Views
33 Pages

Codify, Condition, Capacitate: Expert Perspectives on Institution-First Blockchain–BIM Governance for PPP Transparency in Nigeria

  • Akila Pramodh Rathnasinghe,
  • Ashen Dilruksha Rahubadda,
  • Kenneth Arinze Ede and
  • Barry Gledson

16 January 2026

Road infrastructure underpins Nigeria’s economic competitiveness, yet Public–Private Partnership (PPP) performance is constrained not by inadequate legislation but by persistent weaknesses in enforcement and governance. Transparency defic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,709 Views
23 Pages

20 January 2025

Efficient cattle healthcare management is vital for ensuring productivity and welfare in dairy production, yet traditional record-keeping methods often lack transparency, security, and efficiency, leading to challenges in livestock product quality an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,038 Views
18 Pages

5 January 2023

ML-based applications already play an important role in factories in areas such as visual quality inspection, process optimization, and maintenance prediction and will become even more important in the future. For ML to be used in an industrial setti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,674 Views
10 Pages

To account for the many challenges of increasingly global industries, remote regulation measures such as sustainability standards have become continuously more important as a means to ensure global accountability and transparency. As standard certifi...

  • Review
  • Open Access
47 Citations
9,103 Views
14 Pages

Blockchain and Higher Education Diplomas

  • Renato Q. Castro and
  • Manuel Au-Yong-Oliveira

Due to added mobility and the increase in international students worldwide, as well as the current problem regarding the counterfeiting of diplomas and the selling of fraudulent certificates, we propose a technological solution. Namely, to ally block...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,819 Views
26 Pages

Towards the Concept of Smart Municipality: Agribusiness Model Integrating Rural and Urban Areas for Organic Food Production: A Review

  • Clayton Pereira de Sá,
  • Regina Negri Pagani,
  • André Luiz Przybysz,
  • Fabiane Florencio de Souza,
  • David Nunes Resende and
  • João Luiz Kovaleski

26 January 2025

Smart cities leverage information and communication technologies to enhance urban life quality, essential in densely populated environments requiring comprehensive planning. A critical area in urban settings is food production and delivery, where eff...

  • Review
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,846 Views
16 Pages

23 December 2022

Corporations increasingly consider sustainability as an important goal and set net zero carbon emissions targets, consequently looking towards their electricity procurement to achieve them. Guarantees of Origin (GOs) are widely used as insurances for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,944 Views
20 Pages

30 April 2022

This work presents a Self Sovereign Identity based system proposal to show how Blockchain, Building Information Modeling, Internet of Thing devices, and Self Sovereign Identity concepts can support the process of building digitalization, guaranteeing...

  • Abstract
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,291 Views
1 Page

4 September 2024

The European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) poses significant challenges for the global coffee industry. All the stakeholders involved, from smallholder farmers to global farming, trading and production corporations, are struggling with compli...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,292 Views
18 Pages

Digital Brick: Enhancing the Student Experience Using Blockchain, Open Badges and Recommendations

  • Luca Mainetti,
  • Roberto Paiano,
  • Matteo Pedone,
  • Marco Quarta and
  • Elton Dervishi

19 August 2022

The main purpose of this work is to describe the process of design and implementation of a novel e-Learning platform, named Digital Brick, intended to enhance the students’ experience in obtaining formal certifications of their competencies. Th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,857 Views
23 Pages

A Dynamic Trading Approach Based on Walrasian Equilibrium in a Blockchain-Based NFT Framework for Sustainable Waste Management

  • Ch Sree Kumar,
  • Aayushman Bhaba Padhy,
  • Akhilendra Pratap Singh and
  • K. Hemant Kumar Reddy

5 February 2025

It is becoming harder to manage the growing amounts of waste generated daily at an increasing rate. These problems require an efficient solution that guarantees effectiveness and transparency and maintains trust within the community. To improve the p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,280 Views
16 Pages

This study investigates the inconsistencies in ESG scores assigned by different rating agencies. Focusing on two Indonesian palm oil companies, this paper examines the link between their reported sustainability performance and the resulting ESG score...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,867 Views
18 Pages

16 July 2025

Accurate and transparent Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) datasets are essential for reliable sustainability evaluations, particularly in the complex and varied textile industry. Historically, the ecoinvent database has been a foundational source for LCA...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,580 Views
23 Pages

9 September 2024

To achieve sustainable development of social systems, it is necessary to modernize the legal system, which is the foundation of any society, to increase the efficiency of resources and simultaneously optimize the performance of the environment and so...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,285 Views
19 Pages

30 September 2025

Greenwashing threatens both consumer trust and the integrity of planetary health initiatives. Transparency in sustainability claims is therefore critical for promoting ecological wellbeing, strengthening food security, and fostering equitable develop...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,028 Views
17 Pages

25 October 2019

Environmental practices are often considered external to the business, and the impacts of self-regulation and other CSR company practices on environmental practices are important but not fully understood—especially in transitional and developin...

  • Review
  • Open Access
231 Citations
35,858 Views
26 Pages

Blockchain Technology in the Food Industry: A Review of Potentials, Challenges and Future Research Directions

  • Abderahman Rejeb,
  • John G. Keogh,
  • Suhaiza Zailani,
  • Horst Treiblmaier and
  • Karim Rejeb

26 October 2020

Blockchain technology has emerged as a promising technology with far-reaching implications for the food industry. The combination of immutability, enhanced visibility, transparency and data integrity provides numerous benefits that improve trust in e...

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