PLOS Sustainability and Transformation

2022 - 2025

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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

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

Disturbance effects on timberland returns pp. 1-13

Petri P Kärenlampi

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Enda Murphy, Patrick Paul 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

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

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

Annina Guthauser, Marco Pütz, Irmi Seidl and Roland Olschewski

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

Ricardo A Correia and Enrico Di Minin

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

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

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

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

Lian Pin Koh

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

Volume 1, issue 12, 2022

Narrative explorations of the role of the informal food sector in food flows and sustainable transitions during the COVID-19 lockdown pp. 1-14

Sandra Boatemaa Kushitor, Shawn Alimohammadi and Paul Currie

Trade, GDP value adding activities and income inequality in the East African community pp. 1-25

Reuben M J Kadigi

Volume 1, issue 10, 2022

Lost in translation: Challenges in creating new transformative innovation policy practices pp. 1-23

Johanna Ulmanen, Anna Bergek and Hans Hellsmark

Volume 1, issue 9, 2022

Business models of energy cooperatives active in the PV sector—A statistical analysis for Germany pp. 1-27

August Wierling, Jan Pedro Zeiss, Constantin von Beck and Valeria Jana Schwanitz

Volume 1, issue 7, 2022

Investment needs to achieve SDGs: An overview pp. 1-15

Shridhar Kulkarni, Andries Hof, Geanderson Ambrósio, Oreane Edelenbosch, Alexandre C Köberle, Jeroen van Rijn and Detlef van Vuuren

A meta-analysis of the adoption of agricultural technology in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 1-17

Aslihan Arslan, Kristin Floress, Christine Lamanna, Leslie Lipper and Todd S Rosenstock

A critical review of information asymmetry in the business cycle: How digital ledger technology can transform and sustain the business cycle pp. 1-18

Enyang Besong Susan and Manases Mbengwor Natu

Volume 1, issue 5, 2022

Can economic development be a driver of food system sustainability? Empirical evidence from a global sustainability index and a multi-country analysis pp. 1-25

Christophe Béné, Jessica Fanzo, Harold A Achicanoy and Mark Lundy

Reconceptualizing conservation pp. 1-16

S J Cooke, S Michaels, E A Nyboer, L Schiller, D B R Littlechild, D E L Hanna, C D Robichaud, A Murdoch, D Roche, P Soroye, J C Vermaire, V M Nguyen, N Young, J F Provencher, P A Smith, G W Mitchell, S Avery-Gomm, C M Davy, R T Buxton, T Rytwinski, L Fahrig, J R Bennett and G Auld

Volume 1, issue 4, 2022

Social–ecological systems approaches are essential for understanding and responding to the complex impacts of COVID-19 on people and the environment pp. 1-14

Andrew N Kadykalo, Christine Beaudoin, Diana M Hackenburg, Nathan Young and Steven J Cooke

Volume 1, issue 3, 2022

Evaluating systemic innovation and transition programmes: Towards a culture of learning pp. 1-6

Matthijs J Janssen, Anna Bergek and Joeri H Wesseling

Identifying beneficiaries for sustainable development in low- and middle-income countries pp. 1-3

Arindam Roy

PLOS Sustainability and Transformation, empowering immediate actions for a sustainable future pp. 1-2

Lian Pin Koh

Are carbon offsets the key to green cryptocurrencies? pp. 1-4

Aakash Lamba