Tomato production is a strategic horticultural sector in Europe, yet it is increasingly exposed to climate variability, input-price volatility, and structural heterogeneity among national production models. This study provides a macro-level, cross-co...
A pluralist approach to farm animal welfare, combining animal welfare legislation with market-driven initiatives, has developed in many countries. To enable cross-country comparisons of pig welfare, a number of welfare dimensions, covering the featur...
Previous research has pointed out that Industry 4.0 will lead to more sustainable production; however, it may have profound effects on European competitiveness. Today, firms in the CEE countries face a limited scope for continued economic expansion,...
Sustainability performance varies significantly across countries, yet global assessments overlook the underlying structural trends. This study bridges this gap using machine learning to uncover meaningful clustering in global sustainability outcomes...
This study examines how climate change and vegetation are integrated into teacher education curricula across 26 countries, addressing a critical gap in understanding how future teachers are prepared to respond to the climate and biodiversity crises....
This study investigates the environmental dimension of sustainable development across fifteen post-Soviet republics in 2022. While sustainability is generally understood as a triadic construct—economic, social, and environmental—this pape...
The rapid adoption of generative AI raises questions not only about its transformative potential but also about its cognitive and societal risks. This study contributes to the debate by presenting cross-country experimental data (n = 150; Germany, Sw...
The building sector accounts for one third of the global energy consumption and it is expected to grow in the next decades. This evidence leads researchers, engineers and architects to develop innovative technologies based on renewable energies and t...
This study explores a possible risk of overseas investment in long cross-national distance host countries using the foreign direct investment (FDI) data in Japan. We expect that increasing cross-national distance would relate to the less sustainable...
A data envelopment analysis (DEA) has yet to be chosen to assess countries’ financial inclusion levels. We introduce an application of the DEA methodology to compute aggregate performance measures regarding the financial inclusion of economies....
Condiments are a significant source of sodium in the diets of Chinese residents. This study aimed to analyze the nutrient content of China’s major condiments and to provide support for setting the reference intake for condiments in order to tak...
This study presents a comparative benchmarking analysis of G20 nations’ agri-food competitiveness across five critical pillars: food security and nutrition, trade and geopolitics, environmental sustainability, fiscal regimes, and entrepreneursh...
The disparity in labour productivity between agriculture and non-agricultural sectors is a widespread and persistent phenomenon, and its effects are detrimental to all three pillars of sustainable development. Efforts to reduce this disparity require...
This study aims to evaluate the environmental performance of G7 countries using the Environmental Performance Index. To do this, we introduce a novel ranking multi-criteria method, Alternative Prioritization and Assessment System, for the first time...
Construction waste management (CWM) has received worldwide attention for some time. As a result, a plethora of research, investigating a wide array of CWM issues such as their profiles, practices, and performance, has been reported in individual econ...
Processed and ultra-processed foods (PF/UPFs) are becoming a significant public health concern because of their concerningly high nutrient content, including sodium, and rapidly increasing consumption, especially in low- and middle-income countries....
The share of biofuels has increased significantly over the last decade, which has lead to several negative impacts on the environment. As a solution, several governments worldwide have promoted the use of certification systems, which have been implem...
In the present study, we compare energy transition scenarios from a new set of integrated assessment models, the suite of MEDEAS models, based on a systems dynamic modeling approach, with scenarios from two already well know structurally and conceptu...
Renewable energy (RE) is pivotal to achieving both environmental sustainability and long-term energy security, yet systematic evidence on the efficiency of RE investment across South and Southeast Asia remains sparse. This study introduces a rejoice&...
Evaluating the extent of implementation and variation of typical school provision of physical education, physical activity and sports in the Republic of Ireland is a public health priority. Therefore, a national audit into the different levels of typ...
The drive to expand renewable energies is often in direct conflict with sustainable development goals. Thus, it is important that energy policies account for potential trade-offs. We assess the interlinkages between energy, food, water and land, for...
Current low COVID-19 vaccination rates in low- and middle-income countries reflect an inequitable global vaccine distribution; however, local attitudes towards the COVID-19 vaccine are an important factor to meet vaccination benchmarks. We describe a...
Innovation-driven labor markets play a pivotal role in economic development, yet significant disparities exist in how efficiently countries transform innovation inputs into labor market outcomes. This study addresses the critical gap in benchmarking...
In a fast-growing global economy, there is much debate in the socio-economic models about the sharing economy, which is a digital platform that benefits society and improves people’s quality of life. A significant benchmark of the sharing econo...
This study develops and operationalizes a multi-dimensional framework for sustainable building retrofit that aligns with national 2050 net-zero objectives. First, we conduct a scoping review of international standards (e.g., ISO), sustainability repo...
National Payment Switches (NPSs) and International Payment Switches (IPSs), including major players such as SWIFT, Mastercard, and CHIPS, have become vital to the financial infrastructure, facilitating secure and efficient transactions among local fi...
This paper focuses on the following two key research questions in the context of the change in allocation rules in the move from Phase I/II (2005–2012) to Phase III (2013–2020) of the European Emission Trading Scheme (EU ETS): First, how...
Nonlinear estimation of the gravity model with Poisson-type regression methods has become popular for modelling international trade flows, because it permits a better accounting for zero flows and extreme values in the distribution tail. Nevertheless...
Educational admission systems, particularly in developing countries, often suffer from opaque decision processes, unstructured data, and limited analytic insight. This study proposes a novel methodology that integrates structural causal models (SCMs)...
Phytoremediation has emerged as a sustainable and cost-effective strategy for mitigating contamination in soil and water systems, utilizing plants and their associated microbial consortia to uptake, degrade, or immobilize pollutants. This review synt...
Accurate and timely forecasting of cross-regional tourist flows is essential for sustainable destination management, yet existing models struggle with sparse data, complex spatiotemporal interactions, and limited interpretability. This paper presents...
Against the backdrop of the “dual circulation” development pattern and the in-depth advancement of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), the interconnection between China and global financial markets has significantly in...
Poultry bio-mapping helps identify microbial contamination and process optimization opportunities such as sanitary dressing procedures, equipment adjustments, cross-contamination controls, and chemical intervention applications in commercial poultry...
Extent ecosystems of crypto financial assets (crypto-assets) lack parity and coherence across the globe. This asymmetry is further heightened with a knowledge gap in operational risk management, wherein the global landscape of crypto-assets is charac...
Background/Objectives: Adherence to the EAT-Lancet Planetary Health Diet (PHD) may promote human health and environmental sustainability, yet evidence regarding adherence and nutritional adequacy in Australia is limited. Globally, no research to date...
Background: Acute ischemic stroke (AIS) is a leading cause of mortality and long-term disability worldwide, with upper-middle-income countries (UMICs) facing a disproportionate burden due to systemic inefficiencies in healthcare delivery. Kazakhstan...