LibGuides: Sustainability : A Guide to Environment, Economy, and Equity: Articles

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Articles: Environment, Economy, Equity

Jorge, Grenha T., Andrew S. Gallan, and Hugh N. Wilson. "SDG Commentary: Service Ecosystems with the Planet - Weaving the Environmental SDGs with Human Services." The Journal of Services Marketing, vol. 38, no. 2, 2024.
Humanity and all life depend on the natural environment of Planet Earth, and that environment is in acute crisis across land, sea and air. One of a set of commentaries on how service can address the UN’s sustainable development goals (SDGs), the authors focus on environmental goals SDG 13 (climate action), SDG 14 (life below water) and SDG 15 (life on land). This paper aims to propose a conceptual framework that incorporates the natural environment into transformative services.

Ghormare, Ruchira R. N., et al. “Exploring the Paradigm Shift towards Sustainability: A Systematic Literature Review on Circular Economy and Eco-Innovation.” AIMS Environmental Science, vol. 11, no. 6, Nov. 2024.
This research indicated that while developed countries have shifted to a circular economy, developing countries need to transition to a circular economy for sustainable benefits. A correlation was also found between the circular economy and some SDGs. The results emphasized that the incorporation of eco-innovations can help in mitigating the environmental consequences of production and consumption activities. It also sheds light on notable instances of eco-innovations that have been developed for deployment in the circular economy.
Sohail, Muhammad Tayyab, et al. “Greening the Economy: How Forest-Product Trade and Bioenergy Shape the Framework for Green Growth.” Forests (19994907), vol. 15, no. 11, Nov. 2024.
Green growth aims to foster economic development while ensuring environmental sustainability by optimizing resource use and reducing pollution. Despite growing attention, the nexus between forest trade, bioenergy, and green growth remains underexplored. Therefore, the main aim of this study is to investigate the impact of forest trade and bioenergy on green growth. To that end, we apply cross-sectional autoregressive distributed lag (CS-ARDL) using 33 global economies.
Dahlmann, Frederik. "Conceptualising Sustainability as the Pursuit of Life: JBE." Journal of Business Ethics, vol. 196, no. 3, 2025, pp. 499-521.
Complex and urgent challenges including climate change and the significant decline in biodiversity provide a broad agenda for interdisciplinary scholars interested in the implications facing businesses, humanity, and other species. Within this context of sustainability, persistent conflicts between key paradigms create substantial barriers against—but also opportunities for— developing new conceptual approaches and theoretical models to understand and respond to these critical issues. Here, the author revisits paradigmatic tensions to assess their impact on research and debate on sustainability, ethics, and business.

Butts, Tom,M.Sc R.E.H.S. "The Scope of Work for Environmental Public Health should Evolve." Journal of Environmental Health, vol. 86, no. 7, 2024.
The author discusses the need to expand the scope of work for environmental public health. He states that maintaining quality regulatory programs while working to build proactive, upstream environmental public health capacity is something that should be considered as foundational regulatory programs also evolve. Considering the value of various environmental health programs as they relate to the activities that have the potential to change community health outcomes involves a variety of factors in organizations as they each play a unique role in promoting and protecting environmental public health.

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