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Sustainable Energy Pathways in Ageing Societies: Heterogeneous Effects of Socioeconomic and Climate Factors

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how population ageing shapes sustainable energy pathways and introduces a novel multidimensional index to measure sustainable energy performance. The index is constructed using an entropy weighting method and measures progress across the main pillars of SDG7.
Ramez Abubakr Badeeb, Ziqing Lin
wiley   +1 more source

Achieve Sustainability by Easing Population to 4 Billion by 2200

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The past century of massive increases in human population and resource use has seen many undesirable environmental effects, ranging from biodiversity loss to climate change. But a research gap exists, as the ultimate causes are often not described with precision or mentioned at all.
Mark Keegan   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

What Management Control Practices Do Electric Utilities Rely on When It Comes to Fostering the Social Pillar of Sustainability? A Comparative Analysis of the European Union and the United States

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Electric utilities are expected to implement measures to improve their performance in all three dimensions of sustainable development—environmental, social, and economic. While several studies have investigated the environmental dimension, measures related to the social pillar have hardly been researched to date.
Shekerta Aliu   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Genetic histories of individuals from multi-faith medieval Sicily. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS One
Monnereau A   +10 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Environmental Impacts of the Bioeconomy: A Systematic Review of Variables, Methods, Sectors and Policy Relevance

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The bioeconomy has become a component of sustainability strategies addressing climate change, resource scarcity and economic transformation. Despite a growing body of literature, evidence on the environmental impacts of the bioeconomy remains fragmented, heterogeneous and distributed across sectors and regions. This paper provides a systematic
Javier Coca, Valeria Ferreira, Laia Pié
wiley   +1 more source

Sustainability Assessment: The Role of Entropy‐Based Indicators for Reconnecting Human' Subjectivity and Civilization With Natural Tendency of Ecosystems

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainability represents a complex issue in which scientific knowledge inevitably coexists with the subjective perception of humans in its turn influenced by civilization, cultural but also unconscious aspects. These results emerge with evidence from a critical analysis of the main definitions of sustainability delivered by credited entities (
Francesco Di Maria, Hamid Safarzadeh
wiley   +1 more source

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