Agriculture plays a crucial role in meeting the Sustainable Development Goals, with organic farming being one important potential contributor to environmental, economic, and social sustainability. Despite a national goal of 20% organic agriculture, c...
A community’s water supply is one of its most important infrastructures, as sufficient quality and quantity of water are as much prerequisites for human life as economic development. The rapid urbanization predicted for developing countries will caus...
As a newly built city and the new capital of Indonesia, Ibu Kota Nusantara (IKN), is expected to become known worldwide as an economic driver, a symbol of national identity, and a sustainable city. As the nation’s capital, IKN will become the l...
Bank performance depends not only on capital strength but on the governance environment in which that capital operates. Yet existing studies treat capital buffers and institutional quality as parallel, additive drivers, thereby underexploiting their...
Ecologically fragile regions face the dual challenge of environmental conservation and improving rural livelihoods. Forest-dependent households are especially exposed to ecological restoration constraints, market fluctuations, and limited institution...
14 October 2022
Pro-environmental behavior can promote the optimization of the living environment and sustainable social development. This paper constructs a theoretical analysis framework of “environmental consciousness, habitat environment-social capital- pr...
Social capital is a widely used concept in the social sciences. Although the quality of social relationships is an important dimension of social capital, most empirical studies primarily focus on its structural dimensions. The aim of this article is...
An important way to realize urban–rural integration and regional coordinated development is to attract labor forces back to rural areas. Most of the existing studies consider the impact of individual factors on population migration, they lack a...
In this article, we operationalized a sustainability framing based on the Sustainable Rural Livelihood Resources Framework (SLF), which consists of five capitals—human, physical, social, financial, and natural. We proposed a sustainability inde...
Developing the economic welfare of smallholder dairy farmers is an important strategy for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in regions such as Pujon District, a major dairy producer in the Malang Regency. Enhancing the economic stabi...
System Innovation (SI) is a critical approach in driving individual and collective actions towards sustainable development (SD). This article presents the validation process of the Climate-KIC Professional Competence Framework (CF) for SI. This frame...
The deterioration of grassland ecology is threatening the livelihood of herdsmen and increasing their rates of poverty. This study aims to explore the characteristics of herdsmen’s livelihood and the impact of livelihood capital and environmental per...
Resource-based cities in Northwest China face increasing ecological, geotechnical, and socio-economic challenges caused by long-term mining, including subsidence, slope instability, waste rock accumulation, soil erosion, industrial decline, and settl...
Sustainable human resource management requires leadership that generates mutual gains by building relational resources while maintaining leaders’ own adaptation. We examined how human capital sustainability leadership (HCSL) is configured in pr...
Herders’ living strategy is a function of the capitals at their disposal which also serve as a buffering mechanism when shocks arise. An insight into the connection between livelihood strategies and capitals owned by herders provides guidance t...
21 February 2023
The contradiction between environmental protection and livelihood development is becoming increasingly serious for most protected areas in developing countries. Livelihood diversification is an efficient way to increase household income to alleviate...
Global health experts use a health system perspective for research on social health protection. This article argues for a complementary actor perspective, informed by the social resilience framework. It presents a Saving4Health initiative with women...
This study maps the development of research on AI-driven productivity in Kazakhstan’s economy through a bibliometric analysis of publications indexed in Scopus. The analysis covers the period 2008–2024 and includes 386 articles and review...
This paper examines how artificial intelligence (AI) can act as a co-creation partner to foster social equity leading to social sustainability by addressing persistent barriers faced by women and minority entrepreneurs. We develop a theoretical frame...
The urban water supply system environment is becoming more complicated and unpredictable than ever before in the context of global climate change and expanding urbanization. Existing studies have adopted either static or dynamic approaches to assess...
Urban regeneration is an important issue in urban development, in which the regeneration of historic districts is a frontier and sensitive field. In this study, the regeneration process of Zhongshan Road Historic District in Qingdao, China, spanning...
Smallholder farmers, key actors in agri-food supply chains, still face persistent challenges in applying sustainability strategies due to limited resources, context variability, and weak-performance monitoring systems. Their multidimensional needs, a...
Greenwashing in environmental, social, and governance reporting poses a significant threat to corporate accountability and stakeholder trust. This article provides a comprehensive synthesis of existing research to evaluate the role and effectiveness...
Understanding community resilience remains a persistent challenge, particularly in Arabian Gulf cities such as Riyadh, which is characterized by diverse social ties among various Saudi tribes. Dramatic population growth, immigration, and the influx o...
Despite extensive research on smartphone phubbing among youth, its manifestation among older adults remains overlooked in digital sustainability frameworks. This study challenges pathological framings by examining phubbing as potential compensation f...
Through a systematic, holistic and transdisciplinary approach and by proposing five phases of “goal information”, “system analyzing”, “scenario construction”, “multi-criteria assessment” and “stra...
Social capital influences community disaster preparedness, response, and recovery. In 2020, Kyne and Aldrich introduced the Social Capital Index (SoCI), a pioneering, publicly available county-level measure capturing bonding, bridging, and linking so...
This study introduces the concept of contextuality in sustainable livelihood support, shaped by destination characteristics. In cultural tourism, support is most pronounced for human and social capital, reflecting the importance of knowledge, skills,...
This study addresses a gap in hospitality research by investigating how employees’ perceptions of green intellectual capital (GIC) influence their satisfaction with both career and life. Although sustainability has become increasingly relevant...
This study focuses on cultural and urban development policies under China’s 14th Five-Year Plan, exploring the content and semantic structure of discussions on the “East Asian Cultural Capital” project on the Weibo platform. It anal...
Real estate valuation increasingly requires methodologies that combine predictive accuracy, economic interpretability, and model transparency. This study proposes a Generalized Explainable Hybrid Econometric–Machine Learning Framework integrati...
The Chinese government aims to deal with poverty by 2020 for people living in ethnic and rural regions, including mountainous ethnic regions with the highest concentration of poverty and chronic poverty. Based on a sustainable livelihood Framework, f...
The act of land transfer in rural areas is an important decision-making mechanism for farmers, to enhance resource allocation efficiency and promote capital mobility, and this act is of strategic importance in promoting the level of agricultural scal...
This study examines the association between corporate governance and firm-level financial outcomes across the BRICS economies from 2013 to 2023. A multidimensional Corporate Governance Index (CGI), comprising five sub-indices and thirty-one attribute...
Human capital is a key driver of sustainable growth, yet subnational assessments in Central Asia remain limited. This study presents a reproducible Regional Human Capital Index for Kazakhstan’s 17 regions and tracks its dynamics over 2000&ndash...
Rural development is central to achieving global sustainability goals through its contributions to economic well-being, social inclusion, and environmental protection, yet its measurement remains fragmented. In South Africa, for instance, weak alignm...
20 January 2021
Background: Across countries, young people are not sufficiently physically active. The evidence confirms that beyond demographic and individual agents, individuals participate within their social and physical environment. The ecological model enables...
The rapid proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies is transforming the role of human capital in value creation, generating both new developmental opportunities and substantial risks. This study addresses the following research quest...
Critical Zone Science (CZS) provides an integrated understanding of interactions among soil, water, rock, atmosphere and biota, while Soil Security offers a complementary framework for evaluating soils through the dimensions of Capability, Condition,...
Bioenergy is an important renewable energy source in the UK, but the bioenergy industry and in particular the wood fuel sub sector, is relatively under-developed. Socioeconomic factors have been identified as critical for facilitating deployment leve...
The Solvency II regulatory framework (Directive 2009/138/EC) defines the Solvency Capital Requirement (Solvency Capital Requirement, SCR) using a value-at-risk (VaR) approach, with a confidence level of 99.5% and a one-year time horizon. This structu...
Supply chain control requires balancing operational performance and financial efficiency when decisions are made using delayed and imperfect demand information. Although fixed heuristics, adaptive policies, and reinforcement learning approaches have...
Mega-sport events are powerful catalysts for urban transformation, yet their long-term success and sustainability depend heavily on their locations. However, site-selection frameworks for such events in the case of emerging host cities remains under-...
Background/Objectives: Oral health literacy (OHL) and oral health outcomes are socially patterned. This article proposes the Model of Stratified Oral Health Literacy (MELSO) to specify how educational resources and service conditions may shape the de...
This article examines the territorial production and resource structures in the territory of Asian Russia, which include natural, economic, and social elements. The objective of this study is to assess, typologize, and zone the territorial production...
Reviewing both conceptual and empirical studies on climate vulnerability and adaptation assessment, this paper offers an analytical framework to help better understand how context-specific adaptation strategies could be developed. The framework syste...
A multi-tier enterprise software system, the 3-4-5 framework, was designed to optimize workforce allocation and streamline training pipelines in vocational engineering education. The system decouples workflows into four interoperable platforms, rangi...
In the innovative research area of the psychology of sustainability and sustainable development, Intrapreneurial Self-Capital (ISC) constitutes a promising core of resources to face the challenges of the 21st century. This article presents two studie...
Defined-benefit pension funds face simultaneous exposure to longevity risk and financial market volatility, yet most regulatory frameworks assess these risks in isolation using deterministic methods. This paper examines how their joint occurrence aff...
Background and Motivation: Foreign direct investment (FDI) has been widely examined as a potential driver of economic growth, yet empirical evidence for Morocco remains inconclusive due to methodological limitations and endogeneity concerns. This stu...
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