Journal: Sustainable Development

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Sustain. Dev.

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Wiley

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0968-0802
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  • Minimum requirements for sustainable use of forests in national forest programmes
    Item type: Journal Article
    Bisang, Kurt; Zimmermann, Willi (2003)
    Sustainable Development
  • Perceived Contribution of Indicator Systems to Sustainable Development in Developing Countries
    Item type: Journal Article
    Krank, Sabrina; Wallbaum, Holger; Grêt-Regamey, Adrienne (2013)
    Sustainable Development
  • Ecotourism benefits and livelihood improvement for sustainable development in the nature conservation areas of Bhutan
    Item type: Journal Article
    Gurung, Dhan Bahadur; Seeland, Klaus (2011)
    Sustainable Development
  • Are social justice and sustainability interdependent? If so, how and under what conditions?
    Item type: Journal Article
    Törnblom, Kjell Y.; Popa, Răzvan-Gabriel; Krütli, Pius (2025)
    Sustainable Development
    Sustainability often entails dealing with issues of justice in the distribution of goods and bads, such as resources and restrictions. Applications of justice to concrete situations, including what is deserved and entitled, call for specifications of several issues, like the meaning of "deservingness" and "entitlement" and how justice should be accomplished. This is a key aspect for sustainability, as social arrangements that are not experienced as fair may not be long-lived. Conversely, justice may be an empty notion unless it is sustainable. With this in mind, we provide an inventory of factors to analyze the relationship between (un)sustainability and social (in)justice from a social psychological perspective. We (a) clarify the gist of the two subjective notions, (b) discuss their interdependences, (c) provide a list of factors for analyses, and (d) illustrate how they may be applied to two cases, one at a global level (food accessibility) and the other at a local level (distribution of renewable energy resources in communities). The proposed framework forms the basis of empirical analyses of the social dimension of sustainability.
  • Is the Implementation of Cocoa Companies' Forest Policies on Track to Effectively and Equitably Address Deforestation in West Africa?
    Item type: Journal Article
    Addoah, Thomas; Lyons-White, Joss; Cammelli, Federico; et al. (2025)
    Sustainable Development
    Tropical forests play a crucial role in achieving the sustainable development goals by contributing to climate stability, conserving biodiversity and sustaining livelihoods. However, forests are disappearing due to agricultural expansion. In West Africa, cocoa production is a major driver of deforestation. This study examines the design and implementation of forest-focused supply chain policies (FSPs) in cocoa supply chains in C & ocirc;te d'Ivoire and Ghana, the world's two leading cocoa producers. FSPs are voluntary policies of companies to combat deforestation, restore forests, and improve farmers' livelihoods. Drawing on 91 stakeholder interviews, we developed a conceptual framework to examine FSPs' theory of change, implementation and potential effectiveness and equity. Our findings reveal shortcomings in FSPs' design and implementation. FSPs are mostly narrowly focused on preventing illegal deforestation and only target farmers in companies' 'direct' supply chains, neglecting important landscape-scale approaches and processes. Companies also fail to include smallholder farmers sufficiently in policy design and implementation. Lastly, FSPs prioritise productivity enhancement but overlook the importance of addressing farmers' social norms and values. We provide recommendations on how to address the shortcomings to achieve sustainable cocoa production.
  • Towards an Ecological Economics of Sustainable Development
    Item type: Journal Article
    Hediger, Werner (1997)
    Sustainable Development
  • Using Q-methodology for policy research and stakeholder engagement to strengthen public health in large-scale mining in Mozambique
    Item type: Journal Article
    Proksik, Joschka J.; Brugger, Fritz; Cossa, Hermínio; et al. (2025)
    Sustainable Development
    Mining projects can have adverse effects on public health, potentially impacting the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda. While environmental impacts are typically addressed through mandatory environmental impact assessments, public health consequences often receive inadequate attention, despite being a major concern for affected communities. Policy instruments for mitigating these public health issues, including health impact assessment (HIA), remain underutilized, particularly in Africa. We conduct a Q-methodology study in Mozambique to (1) identify policy preferences of government, private sector, and civil society stakeholders for regulating public health in large-scale mining projects; and (2) to actively engage local stakeholders in a national-level dialogue on strengthening public health in impact assessment practise. The findings were successfully used to initiate and inform a policy dialogue in cooperation with local public health professionals and public health institutions, as well as policymakers in the respective ministries.
  • Freezing Economies, Melting Futures: The Impact of Sanctions on Climate Adaptation Readiness-Panel Evidence From 68 Targeted Developing Countries
    Item type: Journal Article
    Ko, Jeremy; Leung, Chun Kai; Ridwan, Mohammad (2026)
    Sustainable Development
    This study is the first to empirically link international sanctions to climate change adaptation readiness in developing countries from a cross-national time-series perspective, providing systematic evidence of the geopolitical determinants of climate resilience. Using panel data for 68 developing countries (1995-2020) from the Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative (ND-GAIN) and a two-way fixed-effects (2WFE) model, the analysis finds that sanctions significantly undermine adaptation readiness. UN sanctions reduce readiness by about 2.2%, followed by EU (1.3%) and US (0.9%) measures. Economic and high-intensity sanctions impose the strongest institutional and fiscal constraints, eroding governance and financial systems essential for adaptation planning. These results reveal that sanctions-though intended for political or security objectives-carry unintended environmental costs by weakening adaptive capacity in vulnerable economies. The study integrates institutionalist and climate-justice perspectives, calling for climate-sensitive exemptions in sanction regimes and stronger regional cooperation to safeguard adaptation under geopolitical constraints.
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