PLOS Sustainability and Transformation

2022 - 2025

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Volume 4, issue 10, 2025

Mapping hydrogen-related employment patterns: A multi-sectoral analysis of recruitment data in three Scandinavian countries pp. 1-23

Hans Hellsmark, Viktor Rosenberg, Tuukka Mäkitie and Elin Folkesson

Comparative analysis of monetary transaction cost of human-wildlife conflict in Mt. Kenya and Amboseli ecosystems, Kenya pp. 1-11

David Owino Manoa and Francis Mwaura

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 pp. 1-18

Jungyoon Jang, Jin-Woo Park and Sukhoon Chung

Volume 4, issue 9, 2025

Fifty shades of sustainability? A new five-dimensional framework for assessing sustainability of wild species use pp. 1-5

Dilys Roe, Anastasiya Timoshyna, Patrick Aust, James Compton, Osman Dar, John Donaldson, Nigel Dudley, Tiggy Grillo, Christina Hiller, Rachel Hoffmann, John-Mark Kilian, Christine Lippai, Nik Long, James MacGregor, Simon Marsh, Daniel Natusch, Mohammad Khalid Sayeed Pasha, Andrew Taylor, Francis Vorhies and Olivia Wilson-Holt

Corporate emissions and climate targets: Insights from high-emitting firms in Brazil’s transition to sustainability pp. 1-18

Daniel Silva, Caroline Prolo, Pedro Braga, Amanda Witzke, Tiago Gomes and Laura Velez

Volume 4, issue 8, 2025

One Belt, Many Roads: Investigating China’s foreign investment and land-use impacts in Southeast Asia pp. 1-19

Xuewei Wang, Evan Johnson, Diego Manya, Julia Cardwell and Angel Hsu

Volume 4, issue 7, 2025

MO-SAM: Testing the reliability and limits of mine feature delineation using Segment Anything Model to democratize mine observation and research pp. 1-25

Qitong Wang, Emmanuel Chinkaka, Romain Richaud, Mehrnaz Haghdadi, Coryn Wolk, Kopo V Oromeng, Kyle Frankel Davis, Federica B Bianco, Xi Peng and Julie Michelle Klinger

The impact of reading a synthesis report on perceptions of palm oil in the global conservation community pp. 1-24

Patricia S LaPorte, Erik Meijaard and Kimberly M Carlson

A renewed meeting point to foster a sustainability transformation agenda pp. 1-2

Unai Pascual

Volume 4, issue 6, 2025

Identifying intervention areas to shape healthier urban development in the United Kingdom pp. 1-17

Geoff Bates, Daniel Black, Sarah Ayres, Krista Bondy, Neil Carhart and Judi Kidger

The cost of fungicide resistance evolution in multi-field plant epidemics pp. 1-24

Alexey Mikaberidze, Chaitanya S Gokhale, Maria Bargués-Ribera and Prateek Verma

Doing conferences differently: A decentralised multi-hub approach for ecological and social sustainability pp. 1-22

Alexandra Corneyllie, Trudie Walters, Anne-Sophie Dubarry, Xun He, Thomas Hinault, Vanja Ković, Takfarinas Medani, Annalisa Pascarella, Svetlana Pinet, Manuela Ruzzoli, Natalie Schaworonkow, Anđela Šoškić, Katarina Stekić, Konstantinos Tsilimparis, José Luis Ulloa, Ruijie Wang and Maximilien Chaumon

Volume 4, issue 5, 2025

The role of water insecurity in influencing water and sugar-sweetened beverage choices: A scoping review pp. 1-22

Laina Ewoldt, Ana Clara Duran, Checkna Diawara, Carolina Batis, Deshira D Wallace, Paul Taillie, Joshua D Miller, Shu Wen Ng, Ryan Cronk and Lindsey Smith Taillie

Volume 4, issue 4, 2025

Material circularity of pre-consumer textile solid waste: Learning from Bangladesh pp. 1-16

Maeen Md. Khairul Akter, Upama Nasrin Haq, Abul Kalam Azad, Mohammed Kamrul Hassan, Fahim Montaser, Arman Hossain Rajib, Md Akib Hasan Khan and Mohammad Abbas Uddin

Volume 4, issue 3, 2025

Predicting adoption of agri-environmental schemes by farmers in the European Union pp. 1-18

Josie McCulloch and Jiaqi Ge

Volume 4, issue 1, 2025

SDG-nexus and spillovers at the heart of Agenda 2030 pp. 1-7

Jorge Gómez-Paredes, Arunima Malik and Guillaume Lafortune

Volume 3, issue 12, 2024

Multidisciplinary collaborations are necessary toward sustainability in health sector pp. 1-4

Paola Galozzi, Michele Modesti, Francesca Pazzaglia and Daniela Basso

Disturbance effects on timberland returns pp. 1-13

Petri P Kärenlampi

Nature Positive mining: Guidance for a critical transition pp. 1-17

Ray Victurine, Stuart Anstee, Kendall R Jones, Hugo Rainey, Alfred DeGemmis and Helen Crowley

Volume 3, issue 11, 2024

Applications of marine microbial community models in the nature-based economy pp. 1-15

Semidán Robaina-Estévez and Jay Gutiérrez

Growth and globalization of the Central African wildlife economy: Insights from a 23-year study of wild meat markets on Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea pp. 1-34

Dana Venditti Mitchell, Stephen Woloszynek, Matthew W Mitchell, Drew T Cronin, Zhengqiao Zhao, Gail R Rosen, Michael P O’Connor, Maximiliano Fero Meñe and Mary Katherine Gonder

Volume 3, issue 10, 2024

Comprehensive carbon footprint of Earth, environmental and space science laboratories: Implications for sustainable scientific practice pp. 1-25

Odin Marc, Maialen Barret, Sylvain Biancamaria, Karin Dassas, Antoine Firmin, Laure Gandois, François Gheusi, Sylvain Kuppel, Marion Maisonobe, Arnaud Mialon, Loïs Monnier, Florian Pantillon and Florence Toublanc

Negligible impact of supermarkets on food security (so far) in low-income neighborhoods of Accra, Ghana pp. 1-19

Daniel Fobi, Kurt B Waldman, Michael B Dwyer, Scott M Robeson and Jordan P Blekking

Volume 3, issue 8, 2024

Transforming the rhetoric of Just Energy Transition Partnerships into reality: The devil lies in the details pp. 1-22

Aparajita Banerjee

Volume 3, issue 7, 2024

Holistic approaches to assess the sustainability of food systems in low- and middle-income countries: A scoping review pp. 1-14

Estelle Fourat, Eric Blanchart, Miriam Cué Rio, Maria J Darias, Arona Diedhiou, Isabelle Droy, Frédéric Jacob, Pierre Janin, Marjorie Le Bars, Alissia Lourme-Ruiz, Insaf Mekki, Philippe Méral, Pascale Moiti-Maizi, Josiane Seghieri and Eric O Verger

Rainforest Alliance-UTZ cocoa certification scheme adoption: Determinants and financial implications for cocoa production in the Centre region of Cameroon pp. 1-19

Boris D Soh Wenda, Hugues Nken, Hubert N T. Takam, Christian E Eloundou and Dorothy E Fon

Tackling the complex web of sustainability challenges requires transformative, cross-cutting science: A new chapter for PLOS Sustainability and Transformation pp. 1-2

Lian Pin Koh

Volume 3, issue 5, 2024

Media narratives on (Ecological) sustainability: A topic modeling analysis of entrepreneurship news in the MENA region pp. 1-25

Malte Hager, Khaled Alzafari and Lubna Rashid

Volume 3, issue 4, 2024

Disposable diaper consumption in sub-Saharan Africa: Estimating the risks of associated unsafe waste pp. 1-21

Mair L H Thomas-Possee, Peter J Shaw, Robert E S Bain, Allan G Hill, Joseph Okotto-Okotto, Lorna G Okotto, Mawuli Dzodzomenyo and Jim A Wright

Circular bioeconomy practices and their associations with household food security in four RUNRES African city regions pp. 1-22

Haruna Sekabira, Shiferaw Feleke, Victor Manyong, Leonhard Späth, Pius Krütli, Guy Simbeko, Bernard Vanlauwe and Johan Six

Volume 3, issue 3, 2024

Strategic styles of hardware product development could accelerate commercialization in cleantech startups pp. 1-18

Erin Looney, André Buscariolli, Maria C Yang, Geoffrey Raymond, Tonio Buonassisi and Ian Marius Peters

Volume 3, issue 2, 2024

To trust or not to trust? Trust landscape of organic animal husbandry: Mapping consumer attitudes and information demands in Germany pp. 1-23

Elisa Bayer and Sarah Kühl

Ecological economics as the science of sustainability and transformation: Integrating entropy, sustainable scale, and justice pp. 1-18

Brent M Haddad and Barry D Solomon

Urban demand for cooking fuels in two major African cities and implications for policy pp. 1-21

Ipsita Das, Leonard le Roux, Richard Mulwa, Remidius Ruhinduka and Marc Jeuland

Volume 3, issue 1, 2024

Rules get in the way of farmer cooperation: How Digital Agriculture could change the nature of the game in the Food-Energy-Water-Climate Nexus pp. 1-4

Ben Tirrell, Neville Millar and Bruno Basso

The macroeconomic money-nature nexus: Are growing money supplies a relevant obstacle on the way to an ecologically sustainable global economy? pp. 1-29

Stefan Möckel

Volume 2, issue 12, 2023

Does ESG privilege climate action over social and governance issues? A content analysis of BlackRock CEO Larry Fink’s annual letters pp. 1-16

Nela Mrchkovska, Nives Dolšak and Aseem Prakash

Volume 2, issue 11, 2023

The “healthy = sustainable” heuristic: Do meal or individual characteristics affect the association between perceived sustainability and healthiness of meals? pp. 1-20

Gudrun Sproesser, Ulrike Arens-Azevedo and Britta Renner

Finding hope and fulfillment in meaningful work: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of conservation and stewardship practitioners’ experience, values, and motivations pp. 1-25

Alyssa R Soucy, Sandra De Urioste-Stone, Parinaz Rahimzadeh-Bajgiran, Jessica Jansujwicz, Karla Eitel and Matthew Brownlee

Volume 2, issue 10, 2023

An evidence-based approach to national Sustainable Development Goal assessment: The case of Ireland pp. 1-16

Enda Murphy, Patrick Walsh and Ethan Murphy

Global UN 2030 agenda: How can Science, Technology and Innovation accelerate the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals for All? pp. 1-19

Ademola A Adenle, Hans De Steur, Caroline Mwongera, Fay Rola-Rubzen, Marcia Dutra de Barcellos, David F Vivanco, Govinda R Timilsina, Cristina Possas, Robyn Alders, Marian Chertow, Simon Poons and Bob Scholes

Low-carbon lifestyle revolution: China’s recent progress toward a personal carbon market pp. 1-8

Wensha Xu, Kaiwen Zhou, Sifan Hu, Yang Yang, Pinghan Liang, Rong Pan, Yan Sun and Tien Ming Lee

Volume 2, issue 8, 2023

Towards a Mission-oriented Innovation Systems (MIS) approach, application for Dutch sustainable maritime shipping pp. 1-28

Joeri Wesseling and Nick Meijerhof

Volume 2, issue 7, 2023

Environmental education in the light of Paulo Freire’s pedagogy of the oppressed pp. 1-3

Hélder Spínola

Volume 2, issue 6, 2023

Tracking worldwide interest in sustainable development goals using culturomics pp. 1-14

Ricardo A Correia and Enrico Di Minin

How to achieve the net-zero target? Lessons learned from past transformations pp. 1-27

Annina Guthauser, Marco Pütz, Irmi Seidl and Roland Olschewski

Volume 2, issue 5, 2023

Optimization and decision support models for deploying negative emissions technologies pp. 1-17

Maria Victoria Migo-Sumagang, Kathleen B Aviso, Dominic C Y Foo, Michael Short, Purusothmn Nair S Bhasker Nair and Raymond R Tan

Assessing risks and opportunities for tropical forests in the face of sustainable development pp. 1-31

Jamie A Carr, Dominick V Spracklen, Daisy Brasington, Ivan V Canosa, Luana Fagundes, Tainan Messina and Susannah M Sallu

Volume 2, issue 4, 2023

Applicability of Hubbert model to global mining industry: Interpretations and insights pp. 1-27

Lucas Riondet, Daniel Suchet, Olivier Vidal and José Halloy

Volume 2, issue 3, 2023

Supporting science-based decision-making for a sustainable future pp. 1-2

Lian Pin Koh

Four economic principles of just sustainability transition pp. 1-17

Mihály Dombi, Aldebei Faisal Mohammad Fahid, Piroska Harazin, Andrea Karcagi-Kováts and Zhi Cao

Volume 2, issue 2, 2023

Temporal and inter-farm variability of economic and environmental farm performance: A resilience perspective on potato producing regions in the Netherlands pp. 1-24

Wim Paas, Miranda P M Meuwissen, Martin K van Ittersum and Pytrik Reidsma

Volume 2, issue 1, 2023

Farmers’ willingness to adopt sustainable agricultural practices: A meta-analysis pp. 1-22

Sawssan Boufous, Darren Hudson and Carlos Carpio