Global emissions beyond 44 gigatonnes of carbondioxide equivalent (GtCO2e) in 2020 can potentially lead the world to an irreversible climate change. Employing a novel dynamical system modeling approach, we predict that in a business-asusual scenario, it will reach 61 GtCO2e by 2020. Testing...

Economic growth and increasing population impose long-term risks to the environment and society. Approaches to address the impact of consumption and production on bio-diversity loss, resource availability, climate change, and mounting waste problems on land and in seas have yet not proven to be...

Circular economy principles are driving to overcome the challenges of today's linear take-make-dispose production and consumption patterns through keeping the value of products, materials, and resources circulating in the economy as long as possible. Sustainable Consumption and Production,...

Chapter 1. An introduction to the sustainable consumption and production: transitioning into circular economy -- Chapter 2. From business models to modes of provision: framing sustainable consumption and production -- Chapter 3. Histories and futures of circular economy -- Chapter 4. Critical...

1. An Introduction to the Challenges and Development in Sustainable Challenges and Development -- 2. Sustainable Production and Consumption: Mapping the Conceptual Terrain -- 3. An Analysis of Sustainability Index -- 4. Completing the Cycle: An Inclusive Capitalism approach linking sustainable...

The Sustainable Development Goals promise / Ranjula Bali Swain and Peter Dobers -- Multidimensional poverty indices and SDGs / Sabina Alkire -- Exploring Agenda 2030 through the 5P lens : energy beyond prosperity / Matheus Gobbato Leichtweis, and Raiana Schirmer Soares -- Challenges and the way...