Sustainability

The resilience of electricity networks to extreme weather is an essential component of sustainable energy systems, as power interruptions can affect essential services, economic activities, public safety, and the integration of renewable energy sources. However, this assessment can be challenging due to the inherent differences and complexities between weather and grid data. To address this issue…

Low-cost adsorbents derived from agricultural and livestock waste offer a sustainable approach to wastewater remediation. In this study, a material derived from cow dung ash (SMCDA) was prepared through a simple waste-valorization route without chemical activation and evaluated for the removal of methylene blue (MB) from aqueous solution. X-ray diffraction, Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy…

The growing demand for CO2 emission reduction and efficient waste management has created a need for the development of sustainable construction materials. This study presents a comparative investigation of geopolymer and cement-based composites modified with bio-based additives originating from two abundant and underutilized waste streams: apple-processing waste and biomass collected during lake …

Financial development can influence carbon emissions through capital allocation, technological support, and policy transmission. To investigate the inherent association between grassroots inclusive financial institutions and territorial green transformation, this study establishes a city-level panel dataset of the Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration covering the period from 2010 to 2022. With…

Sustainable Digital Infrastructure plays an increasingly important role in strengthening regional economic resilience and promoting inclusive growth. However, its dynamic effects on nascent entrepreneurship remain underexplored. Treating China’s smart city pilot policy as a quasi-natural experiment, this study uses data on newly registered enterprises in 288 Chinese cities from 2005 to 2019 and a…

Soil acidity is one of the most serious constraints limiting crop productivity in regions with high rainfall in Ethiopia. To address this issue, field experiments were conducted during the 2024 main cropping season in farmers’ fields in two distinct ecological locations. This study aimed to explore the response of soil chemical properties and wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) to organic and inorganic …

Sustainable consumption has become a central pillar of Sustainable Development Goal 12 (SDG 12), as current consumption patterns continue to generate significant environmental impacts. Although environmental awareness has increased, understanding the factors that drive sustainable consumption behavior remains an important challenge, particularly among university students in emerging economies. Th…

Urban form profoundly influences the effectiveness of coordinated management of carbon emissions and air pollution, which is of great significance for sustainable urban development. This study took 336 Chinese cities as research samples and used carbon emissions, PM2.5, and nighttime light datasets from 2000 to 2020 to investigate the contribution of urban form to the degree of coordination betwe…

The successful implementation of Brazil’s National Solid Waste Plan depends on identifying municipal solid waste management strategies that are both environmentally effective and fiscally realistic for replication at scale. This study develops and tests a multidimensional framework that evaluates the performance of Brazilian municipalities across five indicators: environmental recovery quality (Y…

Sustainable forest governance requires fiscal instruments responsive to community preferences for ecosystem services, yet compensation standards are rarely checked against those preferences. China’s ecological public welfare forest program, which covers 120 million hectares, sets graded provincial compensation rates across internally differentiated communities. Using contingent valuation data fro…

Desertification represents a critical environmental challenge in arid and semi-arid regions, driven by the combined impacts of climate change and unsustainable land-use practices. This review provides a comparative assessment of desertification dynamics, mitigation strategies, and ecological restoration approaches in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region (China) and Egypt. Both regions are characteri…

Mine ecological restoration involves multiple tasks, including ecological problem identification, restoration measure selection, and restoration effect evaluation. Relevant knowledge is widely scattered across academic literature and policy and regulatory documents, making it difficult to directly support structured queries, knowledge association, and measure screening. To address the insufficien…

This article presents a novel use case of the deployment of agent-based modeling (ABM) to explore developers’ decision-making along a spectrum of reuse in the built environment. This research project used ABM to model multiple pathways to realizing circularity at the community scale through the reuse of existing buildings and adoption of deconstruction as alternatives to demolition in Ithaca, New…

The total commercial logging ban on natural forests is a critical regulation for ecological conservation and long-term sustainable development, while it generates substantial impacts on China’s forest product manufacturing sector. This policy has caused a drastic decline in domestic natural timber output, and inferior plantation timber further exacerbates raw material constraints, driving firms t…

Transport decarbonization through electric mobility depends not only on how many charging stations are deployed but where, and whether expansion balances accessibility, grid readiness, land-use protection and regional equity. Türkiye, targeting net-zero by 2053 with electric car sales exceeding 10% of the market in 2024, shows a highly uneven charging network: provincial provision ranges from 9.0…

Power outages pose a significant challenge to the operational continuity of businesses and infrastructure that rely on critical loads. In this context, hybrid photovoltaic systems with energy storage represent a sustainable alternative for improving energy resilience and reducing dependence on conventional backup sources. The objective of this research was to design, implement, and experimentally…

Rapid urbanization is reshaping land-use patterns and threatening regional ecological security, with different functional zones facing distinct pressures and ecological requirements. Existing studies predominantly apply conventional ecological source-corridor methods to formulate regional ecological network, overlooking the heterogeneity in ecological network and its resilience across functionall…

Green Production and Lifestyles (GPL) are essential for advancing green development and sustainable development. However, limited attention has been paid to their integrated transformation and the combined effects of social governance-oriented and environmental technology-oriented policies. This study examines the effects of the Dual Pilot Policy (DP) of the National Civilized City Program and th…

Organizations increasingly face the challenge of integrating sustainability into strategic planning and governance systems while ensuring stakeholder participation, accountability, and long-term value creation. This study develops a stakeholder-based governance model by examining how strategic planning processes contribute to the integration of sustainability within organizational management. A m…

Biophilic design connects people to nature through direct, indirect, and spatial experiences, yet how systematically LEED v5 and WELL v2 represent these dimensions remains insufficiently understood. This study examines how and to what extent LEED v5 BD+C and WELL v2 optional scoring components represent biophilic design, using 14 Patterns of Biophilic Design as a common analytical framework. Opti…