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The Power to Change: Conceptualising Systemic Change Towards Sustainability in Business Networks

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainability advancement requires systemic changes in business networks of interconnected firms. Given the rapid need and complexity of instigating such transitions, the power to influence the networked actors emerges as a central concept.
Eini Haaja   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bottom-up analysis for carbon emissions from passenger and freight transport sectors in Xi’an: a city-level study using MOVES and LMDI models

open access: yesEnvironmental Research Communications
Road transportation is identified as one of the primary contributors to urban carbon emissions. This study employed a localized MOVES model, integrating high-resolution urban vehicle data, along with a categorical LMDI decomposition model, to conduct a ...
Ya’nan Bo   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Financing and Deploying Automated Freight Systems [PDF]

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New technologies are bringing Automated Freight Systems (AFS), which aim to reduce congestion, mitigate environmental impacts and enhance public safety, to fruition.
Xi Zou, David Levinson
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Advancing Gender Equality Through Decent Work: An Adapted Systematic Review

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Gender disparities in employment continue to be a significant worldwide issue despite policy commitments to sustainability. This study systematically examines the relationship between decent work and gender equality using bibliometric qualitative review methodologies.
Reshma C, Aruna Polisetty
wiley   +1 more source

The value of time and forecasting of flowsin freight transportation [PDF]

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This paper gives an overview of the current state of research and present own results in some areas regarding cost benefit analysis (CBA) for road infrastructure investments.
Erik Bergkvist
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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

Who Knows, Cares and Acts for Sustainability in Times of Uncertainty? Demographic Differences in Perceived Knowledge, Concerns, and Pro‐Environmental Behaviors

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 2026, some years after the Covid‐19 pandemic and the related economic crisis, the global landscape remains profoundly unsettled. Geopolitical conflicts, such as the war between Russia and Ukraine and the Middle East conflicts, continue to drive instability, reshaping global priorities and challenges.
Rosa Maria Dangelico   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Underground Freight Transportation for Package Delivery in Urban Environments

open access: yesNetworks
ABSTRACT The use of underground freight transportation (UFT) is gaining attention because of its ability to quickly move freight to locations in urban areas while reducing road traffic and the need for delivery drivers. Since packages are transported through the tunnels by electric motors, the use of tunnels is also environmentally ...
Sarah Powell   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Analyzing the determinants of freight shipper's behavior: own account versus purchased transport [PDF]

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Previous work in the demand for freight transportation has focused in the rail-truck substitution problem, leaving aside the prior own-account versus third-party trade-off, often found in transportation decision-making.
Cristina Borra, Luis Palma
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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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