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Green Transition, Extractive Continuities: Lithium Mining and the Environmental Contradictions of Sustainability

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Global decarbonization has positioned lithium as a strategic mineral for electric vehicles, battery storage, and low‐carbon development. Yet its extraction raises serious environmental, political, and justice concerns that complicate dominant narratives of clean energy progress.
Jacob Kwakye
wiley   +1 more source

Blue Economy Research (2011–2025): A Longitudinal Bibliometric Review and Its Alignment With Global Ocean Governance

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Blue Economy has emerged as a key framework for promoting sustainable development in marine and coastal systems. This study provides a longitudinal bibliometric review of peer‐reviewed Blue Economy research published between 2011 and 2025.
Álvaro J. Rojas‐Lamorena   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

City Diplomacy as a Green Strategy? International Sister City Partnerships and Urban Decarbonization

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The establishment of international sister city partnerships (ISCPs) has expanded since the postwar era, developing from cultural exchanges into strategic diplomatic channels for sustainable development. While their socioeconomic benefits are well‐documented, their potential as instruments for global environmental governance and urban ...
Fubin Luo   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Spatial Dynamics of Tourism Sustainability in EU Member States

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study introduces a synthetic indicator of tourism sustainability for the EU, bridging the gap between institutional monitoring and academic research. By applying the PROMETHEE II method to rank the 27 Member States in 2019 and 2023, the research transforms static data into a dynamic roadmap of post‐pandemic recovery. The findings reveal a
M. Rosario González‐Rodríguez   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

When Norms Meet Markets: Environmental Governance and Digital Fast‐Fashion Platforms in Brazil

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Environmental governance increasingly relies on consumer‐based mechanisms that assume that sustainability awareness translates into purchasing behaviour. This article investigates whether such mechanisms remain effective when consumption is organised through transnational digital platforms in contexts characterised by socioeconomic inequality.
Giovana Santa Rosa Lana   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Carbon Trap: Fragmentation, Accounting Hegemony, and Justice in Global Carbon Governance

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Carbon accounting is increasingly treated as the technical foundation of global climate action, yet the rules through which emissions are measured, converted, attributed, and disclosed remain fragmented across national inventories, corporate reporting standards, supply‐chain boundaries, and trade‐related policy instruments.
Jilong Pan, Haoxuan Yu
wiley   +1 more source

Operationalising Circular Economy Through Social Innovation: A Systems Thinking‐Based Model for Sustainability Transitions

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Social innovation (SI) is increasingly recognised as an important enabler of circular economy (CE) transitions. However, existing research offers limited explanation of the processes through which SI operationalises CE principles, as SI and CE have largely evolved in parallel and existing conceptualisations remain predominantly descriptive ...
Souresh Cornet   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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