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Socio-Environmental-Economic Transformations Towards Sustainable Development
This chapter gives short description of the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development “Transforming our world”, 17 goals, and the Global Sustainable...
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Global peak water limit of future groundwater withdrawals
Over the past 50 years, humans have extracted the Earth’s groundwater stocks at a steep rate, largely to fuel global agro-economic development. Given...
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Global change effects on biogeochemical mercury cycling
Past and present anthropogenic mercury (Hg) release to ecosystems causes neurotoxicity and cardiovascular disease in humans with an estimated...
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Finding feasible action towards urban transformations
While innovative approaches to urban transformations are increasingly proposed, scholars often overlook challenges faced by endogenous actors (e.g....
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Local collective action for sustainability transformations: emerging narratives from local energy initiatives in The Netherlands
The phrase “local collective action” is increasingly being used to describe how civil society engages with, and acts upon, sustainability...
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A global assessment of actors and their roles in climate change adaptation
An assessment of the global progress in climate change adaptation is urgently needed. Despite a rising awareness that adaptation should involve...
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Is Environmental Contamination a Concern in Global Technosols? A Bibliometric Analysis
Technosols represent the group of soils whose properties and functions were defined by human action, formed from technogenic diagnostic materials. In...
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Chinese Cultural Treasures as Contributions to a Mindset of Interconnectedness for Global Transformations
This chapter elaborates how the cultural perspective of Chinese philosophy supports an interconnectedInterconnectedness worldview. The author...
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Sustainability in the global value chain—a scientometric analysis
For its promise in enhancing sustainability, the global value chain (GVC) has grown in relevance and sparked many studies. Due to different value...
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Empowering Deans for Sustainability Transformations at Academic Departments: Obstacles, Strategies and Roadmaps
Embedding sustainability in the education and research portfolios of higher education institutions requires a process of transformational change at...
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Sources and transformations of nitrate in Qixiangcuo Lake and its inflow rivers in the northern Tibetan Plateau
Human activities and climate change input more reactive nitrogen into alpine lakes. Alpine saline lakes are usually located in endorheic watersheds...
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Can Integrate a Sustainable Business Model and Global Value Chains Revive the Value Chain’s Sustainable Growth?
Traditional value chains link factors of production and production to final consumption, adding economic value. To reduce the negative effects of the...
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Artisanal and small-scale gold mining and biodiversity: a global literature review
Artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) is crucial to the livelihoods of close to 20 million people in over 80 countries, including 4-5 million...
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Transformation archetypes in global food systems
Food systems are primary drivers of human and environmental health, but the understanding of their diverse and dynamic co-transformation remains...
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Can democracy accelerate sustainability transformations? Policy coherence for participatory co-existence
The 2030 Agenda envisages a world “in which democracy, good governance and the rule of law […] are essential for sustainable development”...
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Unraveling the consequences of nitrogen addition on soil phosphorus fractions in alpine grasslands: insights from field experiments and global analysis
PurposeThe escalation of nitrogen (N) deposition has resulted in phosphorus (P) limitation in alpine grasslands on the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau (QTP)....
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Fostering Global Partnerships for Sustainable Development
The formation of global partnerships for sustainable development, starting from adoption of the Millennium Development Goals to implementation of...
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Creative, embodied practices, and the potentialities for sustainability transformations
This paper argues for an integrative approach to sustainability transformations, one that reconnects body and mind, that fuses art and science and...
