November 13, 2025

PLOS Sustainability and Transformation

As climate change intensifies, escalating droughts are exposing the profound fragility of our global food system. Yet drought is just the leading edge of a deeper crisis. Built on the Green Revolution’s paradigm of simplified monocultures, the dominant industrial model is brittle by design—highly susceptible not only to water scarcity but also to catastrophic floods, widespread soil...

The deployment of a technology typically follows an S-shaped curve, characterized by an initial phase of exponential growth, followed by a saturation phase where deployment slows and stabilizes at a maximum level. While existing literature has primarily focused on modeling and theorizing this growth pattern—particularly the early exponential phase...

Micro and small enterprises (MSEs) are essential for economic and social development globally, as they represent a significant proportion of employment and production. Nonetheless, these enterprises confront substantial difficulties in incorporating sustainable practices, largely attributable to their limited financial resources and capacity, difficulties in accessing relevant information, scarcity of operational resources, and the lack of regulatory frameworks to facilitate...

The influence of environmental knowledge, awareness, and concern on corporate sustainability performance by the mediating variable of ecological behavior—A case study of airlines in Korea

Mapping hydrogen-related employment patterns: A multi-sectoral analysis of recruitment data in three Scandinavian countries

Comparative analysis of monetary transaction cost of human-wildlife conflict in Mt. Kenya and Amboseli ecosystems, Kenya

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