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Achieving Sustainable Development Goals Through Social Life Cycle Assessment: A Case Study of Portuguese Forest Wood Supply Chains

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Social considerations are often overlooked in efforts to achieve sustainable development, despite being critical for building equitable and resilient global value chains. This study addresses this gap by applying a social life cycle assessment to three key Portuguese forest wood supply chains—uncoated woodfree paper, natural cork stoppers, and
Andreia Santos, Madalena Veloso, Ana Barbosa‐Póvoa, Ana Carvalho   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Operationalizing the Metaverse for Urban Sustainability: Evidence From an Expert Panel and the Seoul Metaverse City Case Study

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Smart cities and urban digital twins have fostered the emergence of immersive environments, such as the metaverse. While contemporary scholarlship has increasingly examined the integration of the metaverse within smart city infrastructures, the critical nexus between urban sustainability and the metaverse remains largely under‐researched. This
Jose Manuel Diaz‐Sarachaga, Ayyoob Sharifi   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

THE EUROPEAN UNION AS A PEACE-BUILDER IN THE WESTERN BALKAN COUNTRIES

Iustinianus Primus Law Review, 2017
After the Cold War, the Western Balkan countries have become an important so-called “laboratory for the EU”, able to exert its EU crises management and transformative power.
Tanja Karakamisheva Jovanovska
doaj  

Enhancing Tea Agrifood System Resilience Amid Geopolitical Tensions: A Resource Nexus‐Based System Dynamics Analysis

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Geopolitical conflicts are increasingly threatening global food security, economic stability, and peace, impacting Tanzania's tea agrifood system. This study develops a quantitative Resource Nexus‐based system dynamics simulation model assessing the feedbacks and interdependencies among key environmental and socioeconomic resources shaping ...
Ally Mkumbukiy, Daniel Mgori, Edeltraud Guenther, Kaveh Madani   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

National Policy Coherence Counts for Reducing Inequality in Global Climate and Development Agendas

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT International institutions promote policy coherence as crucial to the effective and fair implementation of global sustainability agendas, though the evidence for its benefits is slim. We present here the first systematic cross‐country dataset on the consequences of national government efforts to promote policy coherence for vulnerable groups ...
Katherine Browne, Adis Dzebo, Zoha Shawoo, Mario Cardenas, Pierrick Chalaye, Alexia Faus Onbargi, Cassilde Muhoza, Patricia Nicdao, Nokwethaba Makhanya, Navam Niles, Priyatma Singh   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

The African Union Role in Peacebuilding

African Journal of Political Science
Peacebuilding is an approach to a complete lay down of interconnected efforts that sustain peace. It aims to transform beliefs, attitudes and behaviours to change the short- and long-term dynamics between individuals and groups toward a more stable and ...
Sunday Aboumbeng Asumbeng
doaj   +1 more source

How Climate Change Shapes Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Performance in the MENA Countries

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Climate change, political stability, and sustainability are three central factors that interact and serve as key drivers of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region. Accordingly, this paper aims to fill a vital research gap by examining the impacts of climate change, natural resource ...
Hicham Ayad, Alanoud Al‐Maadid, Mohamed Sami Ben Ali   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Democratic Peace Theory

, 2012
Democratic peace is the proposition that democracies are more peaceful in their foreign relations. This idea dates back centuries, at least to Immanuel Kant and other 18th-century Enlightenment thinkers. In recent decades it has constituted a major research agenda, competing with and arguably supplanting other research agendas such as neo-realism.
openaire   +2 more sources

PRAGMATIC DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF RELIGIOUS LANGUAGES FOR PEACE BUILDING AND SUSTAINABLE DEMOCRACY IN NIGERIA

International Studies Journal
The role of religious languages in promoting peace and supporting sustainable democracy cannot be over-emphasised. However, the language-specific strategies used by religious leaders to foster peace or democracy in the previous scholarships require a ...
ESTHER OLASUMBO OYEBANJO, PETER ADELAJA OYEBANJO   +1 more
doaj  

Embedding Climate Action: Policy Integration and Semantic Coherence in Ireland's SDGs Policy Mix

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Achieving the EU's 2050 target of climate neutrality requires embedding climate action (SDG13) within national sustainable development strategies. While inter‐governmental coordination and policy linkages are central to policy integration and coherence, existing studies rarely examine them in tandem.
Paul M. Wagner, Florence Metz, Aminu Bature   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source