The main report provides an integrated narrative, examining the central and vital role that the climate and natural environment play in ensuring health, resilience and prosperity for people, anchored in the EU’s vision for a sustainable Europe by 2050.

Achieving and managing economic sustainability is one of the crucial tasks for our globalized world. One of the most ambitious economic projects known to humankind claims to stand for long-term global economic sustainability including ecological, social, and cultural aspects: the Belt and Road...

China actively fosters practical green cooperation to advance global sustainable development, and strengthens global environmental governance initiatives, including the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, this approach has often positioned China as more of a doer...

This open access book focuses on the issue of sustainability standards from the perspective of both global governance frameworks and emerging economies. It stems from the recognition that the accelerated pace of economic globalization has generated production and consumption patterns that are...

Introduction / Daniel McFadden and Kenneth Train -- 1. Response to cost prompts in stated preference valuation of environmental goods / Jim Burrows, Powell Dixon, and Hiu Man Chan -- 2. Fat tails and truncated bids in contingent valuation : an application to an endangered shorebird species /...

"Attention is increasingly being paid to the conceptualization of the sustainable development agenda that should guide global development efforts beyond 2015. New trends are shaping the international environment, suggesting that the world emerging from the recent economic and financial crisis...

The primary objective of this study is to delve into transnational projects conducted between 2014 and 2020, with a strong emphasis on environmental quality. Our focus is directed toward projects that encompass either eco-innovation or feature elements intrinsic to a circular economy. To achieve...

Megaprojects have a huge contribution to the built environment and development of nations, and they are a key contribution economically and socially. However, we can only seek to mitigate the unavoidable environmental impacts that accompany megaprojects, particularly in the construction...

Background Medical research is increasingly interdisciplinary. However, not all projects are successful and cooperation is not always sustained beyond the end of funding. This study empirically assesses the efect of control and trust on the sustainability of interdisciplinary medical research in...

The energy transition (ET) has emerged as a complex and interdisciplinary research domain central to addressing global sustainability challenges. However, a significant gap remains in systematically linking scientific knowledge evolution in ET with graduate-level curricula design. This study...