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Journal of Sustainability
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ISSN 3052-3761 · DSRPT UG · 91 articles in the index
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Assessing Vulnerability to Poverty for Households in Western African Countries: Evidence from Rural Gambia
This study assesses household vulnerability to poverty in rural Gambia using the Vulnerability as Expected Poverty (VEP) approach, based on cross-sectional data. This approach provides a forward-looking measure of welfare, moving beyond static poverty headcounts to identify households at risk of…
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Gendered Food Insecurity: Achieving SDG 2 for Climate-Affected Women in Rural Economies
This article examines systemic and structural governance barriers to achieving Sustainable Development Goal 2 (SDG 2) for rural women in climate-affected regions of the Global South, using Ghana and Bangladesh as focal countries. While the centrality of women's roles in food systems is acknowledged…
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Mainstreaming Nature-based Solutions for Climate-induced Disaster Risk Reduction in the Philippines’ Build Better More Project: From Vicious to Virtuous Cycles
The Philippines confronts an escalating climate crisis, with annual disaster losses projected to reach 7.6% of GDP by 2030. Despite the proven efficacy of nature-based solutions (NbS), their integration into national development planning remains marginal, as epitomised by the flagship “Build Better…
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Effective Communication in Alternative Food Networks: A Scoping Review and Implications for Scottish Food Systems
This study conducts a scoping review of primarily European literature (2015-2025) to synthesise reported communication strategies within Alternative Food Networks (AFNs) and derive implications for enhancing local food systems in Scotland. The synthesis indicates that the literature most frequently…
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Determinants of Building-Sector CO2 Emissions in the EU: A Combined Econometric and Machine Learning Approach
The research aims to explore the structural, environmental, and climatic factors that influence carbon dioxide emissions in the building sector across the 27 member states of the European Union between 2005 and 2023. It is evident that higher activity in the primary sector, along with higher forest…
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Economic Growth, Energy Consumption, and Environmental Quality in Sub‑Saharan Africa: Testing the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) Hypothesis
This paper empirically tests the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis for sub-Saharan Africa, using CO₂ emission as a proxy for environmental quality. The analysis employs panel pooled data for 39 countries from 1990 to 2019. We find evidence of an inverted U-shaped relationship between…
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Weighing on the Capabilities of Big Data Analytics for Sustainable Supply Chain Management in Construction Projects
The construction industry faces significant challenges in implementing sustainable Supply Chain Management (SSCM) practices. This study explores the capability of big data analytics in enhancing SSCM in construction projects. A comprehensive literature review was conducted to identify the benefits…
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Reframing Clean Beauty: Governance, Transparency, and Biodiversity-Related Practices in the Global Cosmetics Sector with Implications for Japan
The rapid global expansion of clean beauty, which relies extensively on natural capital, raises questions about its environmental impact, particularly in relation to biodiversity conservation. While the industrial demand for natural ingredients continues to rise, empirical assessments linking clean…
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Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Potential of Biogas in Boarding Secondary Schools: An Exploratory Multiple-Case Study in Dar es Salaam and Pwani, Tanzania
Biogas offers a potential pathway for improving institutional cooking-energy systems, organic-waste management and greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation. This exploratory study assessed the theoretical biogas potential and modelled GHG-emission reductions in ten boarding secondary schools in two coastal…
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A Generative AI-Based Learning and Teaching Model for Sustainable Higher Education: Rethinking the Teaching Role in the AI Era
Generative AI (GenAI) is transforming education, particularly in disciplines where teaching has traditionally relied on lectures, tutorials, presentations, discussions, and laboratory-based activities. This transformation raises an important question: Do university instructors continue to play a…
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Governance-Based Clean Beauty: An Industry-Specific Sustainability Governance Framework
Clean beauty has emerged as a prominent category in the cosmetics industry, often associated with sustainability, ethical consumption, and environmental responsibility. However, its definition remains fragmented and is largely based on ingredient-focused claims, sustainability narratives, and…
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Governing Sustainable Digital Transformation: An Adaptive Architecture for Embedding Sustainability in Transformation Decisions
Digital transformation creates opportunities for sustainable value creation but also generates complex governance challenges. This paper conceptualises Sustainability-Embedded Digital Transformation (SEDT) as a governance perspective and develops an Adaptive Transformation Governance Architecture…
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Rethinking Education for Sustainable Development: Ontological Fragmentation and the Case for Situated Non-Dual Alternatives
Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) is extensively theorised as pedagogy and policy, but the ontological assumptions of the traditions informing it remain largely unexamined. This paper derives three ontological requirements from sustainability's own internal logic — interdependence…
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How Brands Communicate Sustainability to Consumers: A Comparison Between Luxury and Fast Fashion Brands
This study aimed to investigate the ways in which luxury and fast fashion brands were communicating sustainability to consumers via their e-commerce websites. Ten luxury and seven fast fashion brands were included in the research and Voyant Tools was utilized in the text analysis. There existed no…
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Beyond Single-Theory Explanations: A Dual-Capacity Model of Carbon Disclosure Effectiveness in Sustainable Finance
Carbon disclosure has emerged as a central mechanism of sustainable finance, yet its effectiveness in influencing investor decision-making remains theoretically fragmented across legitimacy, signaling, stakeholder, and institutional theory. Applied in isolation, these frameworks generate…
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Measuring What Matters: Why European Cities Need Bottom-Up Consumption-Based Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventories
The EU has actively invested in climate change mitigation in recent decades, successfully reducing territorial greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. However, consumption-based emissions have been largely overlooked. In particular, local climate action has excluded significant upstream emissions…
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Trade Efficiency and Environmental Quality in Sub-Saharan Africa
Trade efficiency facilitates transactions and economic activities that flourish due to tariff relaxations. However, climate change has been exacerbated from excessive extractions, trade flaws and spatial redistribution of emissions. This research examined the influence of trade efficiency on…
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Antecedents of Fashion Consciousness and Their Impact on Sustainable Apparel Consumption: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach
This study examines the determinants of fast fashion organic apparel consumption by integrating the Value-Attitude-Behavior (VAB) framework and the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB). The research investigates the influence of fashion involvement, importance of being well dressed, shopping enjoyment…
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Investigating Coastal Tourism Governance: A Bibliometric Analysis Using Biblioshiny and Vosviewer
This study aimed to investigate trends, patterns, and contributions in the academic literature on coastal tourism governance using bibliometric analysis. Bibliometric method was used with software RStudio (particularly Biblioshiny) and VOSviewer. These tools were specifically used to analyze, map…