1493 papers
This paper critiques the SDG Index for conflating development with sustainability by allowing economic progress to offset environmental failures, arguing that a "strong sustainability" approach with non-negotiable environmental thresholds would fundamentally reorder global rankings to better reflect true sustainable development.
Through a systematic integrative review of literature from 1990 to 2025, this paper analyzes how climate hazards interact with socio-economic vulnerabilities and governance fragmentation in Southern Africa to create cumulative disaster risks, ultimately proposing the SADC Climate Resilience Implementation Framework (SCRIF) to transition from fragmented adaptation to coordinated regional risk reduction.
This study presents the first long-term satellite-based assessment of thermal stress at Cairo International Airport (2013–2025), revealing a significant warming trend and extreme summer surface temperatures that exceed 45°C across nearly the entire airport, thereby establishing a new operational framework for managing heat-related aviation risks in semi-arid environments.
This paper retrospectively compares the statistical seismicity signatures of the 2023 Kahramanmaraş tectonic earthquake doublet and the reservoir-triggered seismicity at Aswan, Egypt, using standard seismological tools to highlight their distinct mechanisms while cautioning that such retrospective anomaly detection does not equate to validated short-term earthquake prediction.
This study quantifies deadwood carbon stocks in Iran's semi-arid Zagros forests, revealing that elevation is the primary driver of carbon distribution and that long-term warming trends since 1988 have likely intensified drought stress and tree mortality, thereby increasing deadwood accumulation at lower elevations.
This study demonstrates that in Hyrcanian temperate forests, the decay stage, diameter, and type of coarse woody debris significantly regulate localized soil nutrient dynamics and carbon-nitrogen cycling, with medium-diameter logs showing the strongest coupling between deadwood decomposition and soil enrichment.
Using the global CoCiP model, this study demonstrates that the COMBINES strategy of seeding controlled ice nuclei to drastically reduce contrail ice crystal formation can nonlinearly decrease aviation's net radiative forcing by up to 111%, potentially reversing contrail-induced warming, with the highest mitigation potential observed in winter and varying significantly by region.
This study utilizes Material Stock Analysis to reveal that while Mauritius's infrastructure faces relatively low exposure to future sea-level rise, it is significantly threatened by pluvial flooding and storm surges, necessitating adaptive strategies like nature-based defenses and improved spatial planning to mitigate economic risks and material losses.
This paper demonstrates that an integrated hydro-economic-environmental modeling framework applied to Iran's Kashafrud River Basin reveals how a nexus-based adaptation policy combining optimized crop allocation and improved irrigation efficiency can simultaneously reverse climate-induced agricultural losses, increase farmer profits, and significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
This study integrates environmental input-output analysis with complex network theory to reveal that China's tourism-driven carbon emission network has evolved into a scale-free structure dominated by a few key hub sectors, suggesting that effective decarbonization policies must target these specific "receiver" and "carrier" sectors based on their distinct structural roles.