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{"title":"Attitude towards risk and preferences for low-carbon energy sources: Findings from two preregistered studies","authors":"Stepan Vesely,&nbsp;Christian A. Klöckner","doi":"10.1016/j.crsust.2026.100349","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.crsust.2026.100349","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Risk attitudes are an important determinant of energy efficiency investments, but little is known about their role in shaping preferences for energy sources, and low-carbon energy sources specifically. In two large preregistered studies conducted in Germany and Spain (combined <em>n</em> = 2864) we therefore test whether risk attitudes predict preferences for solar, wind, hydro, and nuclear energy. We find little support for this hypothesis overall. Exploratory analyses of the Spanish data, nevertheless, indicate that in case of environmentally concerned individuals, preferences for hydropower become stronger as risk aversion increases. This research contributes to a stream of recent investigations mapping when risk attitudes may influence energy-related decisions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34472,"journal":{"name":"Current Research in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"11 ","pages":"Article 100349"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147740091","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Why climate adaptation technologies fail to scale: Governance barriers and mid-readiness stagnation","authors":"Aprijanto,&nbsp;M. Irfani,&nbsp;M. Alfan Santoso,&nbsp;Cahyarsi Murtiaji,&nbsp;Eny Cholishoh,&nbsp;Alin Fithor,&nbsp;Arif hidayat","doi":"10.1016/j.crsust.2026.100368","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.crsust.2026.100368","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Climate adaptation increasingly relies on technological innovation, yet many technologies remain trapped between pilot demonstration and large-scale deployment despite proven technical feasibility. This study examines why adaptation technologies often stagnate at intermediate readiness levels in climate-vulnerable coastal regions. Using a systematic literature synthesis of 52 peer-reviewed studies, the research develops an integrated readiness–governance perspective linking technological maturity with institutional alignment, regulatory coherence, and financing continuity. The findings show that regulatory misalignment, fragmented coordination, and discontinuous financing create mid-readiness stagnation. The study advances technological forecasting by reframing readiness as a governance-conditioned trajectory for accelerating climate adaptation deployment.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34472,"journal":{"name":"Current Research in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"12 ","pages":"Article 100368"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148501521","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Life cycle assessment of rice farming in Indian Punjab: Balancing environmental sustainability and economic profitability across farm sizes","authors":"Arshdeep Singh ,&nbsp;Poonam Kataria","doi":"10.1016/j.crsust.2026.100350","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.crsust.2026.100350","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The present study examined the environmental and economic aspects of rice farming across diverse farm sizes in Punjab, India. Utilizing primary data from 196 rice farmers collected via multi-stage sampling and direct interviews during the 2021–22 crop season, the analysis assessed carbon emissions and economic outcomes. Results indicated that the Farm Carbon Footprint (FCF) escalated with farm size, averaging 8,695.7 ± 617.4 kg carbon dioxide equivalent (CO₂e) per ha for small farms, 9,300.8 ± 792.4 kg CO₂e/ha for medium farms, and 10,601.2 ± 849.5 kg CO₂e/ha for large farms. Similarly, the Product Carbon Footprint (PCF) rose from 144.6 ± 11.1 kg CO₂e/q on small farms to 161.8 ± 13.1 kg CO₂e/q on large farms, driven by resource-intensive practices, especially in irrigation. Economic assessments revealed higher production costs per unit on large farms, indicating reduced economic efficiency. Carbon Efficiency Ratio (CER) and the Carbon Sustainability Index (CSI) emphasized the advantages of small and medium farms in balancing emissions with productivity. Notably, production, gross and net return-scaled carbon metrics demonstrated that small and medium farms generated lower emissions per monetary unit earned. The findings advocate for sustainable interventions, including reduced crop residue burning, methane mitigation, efficient irrigation, optimized fertilizer application, and mechanization, to curtail emissions while enhancing profitability. Small and medium farms emerged as pivotal to sustainable agricultural practices, highlighting the potential for collective strategies that integrate eco-friendly inputs and technologies to achieve environmental and economic harmony in rice cultivation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34472,"journal":{"name":"Current Research in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"11 ","pages":"Article 100350"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147797953","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"An indigenous knowledge-based weather prediction platform using fuzzy logic for fishing communities along Lake Victoria","authors":"Paul Rabala ,&nbsp;Christopher Chepken ,&nbsp;Christopher Oludhe","doi":"10.1016/j.crsust.2026.100356","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.crsust.2026.100356","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The indigenous fishing community along Lake Victoria relies on traditional knowledge methods for weather forecasting. This study utilized Mamdani-type fuzzy logic to preserve the continuity of indigenous knowledge while also seeking ways to enhance its effectiveness. The research began by examining 17 indigenous knowledge indicators and later employed Random Forest regression and proportional Piling methods, identifying Nimbus Clouds, Wind Circulation, Moon Phases, and Body Feel indicators as the main indicators for daily forecasting. Data collected during this period represented both the dry and rainy seasons, which were the primary seasons of interest. The daily predictions generated by the system were compared with actual weather conditions, yielding an accuracy rate of 63.5% for the fuzzy-logic-based indigenous knowledge weather predictions after thorough redundancy and inconsistency checks on the fuzzy rules. However, the method had drawbacks, including insufficient training datasets and the qualitative nature of IK indicators, which relied on standard scientific scales to generate fuzzy-logic rules. Despite the challenges, fuzzy logic-based indigenous knowledge enhanced the dissemination of weather predictions in a local language and in an accessible format, thereby improving the community's access to weather and climate interventions and ability to adapt to climate risks. The method offers a practical and economical an ICT-based delivery that enhances the functionality, storage, and application of traditional knowledge for future use. This research, therefore, establishes a strong foundation for further exploration of integrating indigenous knowledge with modern climate science methodologies to improve outcomes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34472,"journal":{"name":"Current Research in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"11 ","pages":"Article 100356"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148167857","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Urban Living Labs Longevity: Strategies, lessons learned, and development mechanisms to foster long-term urban experimentation and sustainability transitions","authors":"Laura Quadros Aniche ,&nbsp;Elena Marie Enseñado ,&nbsp;Charmae Pyl Wissink-Nercua ,&nbsp;Marta Irene DeLosRíos-White ,&nbsp;Rochelle Caruso ,&nbsp;Casey Borklund ,&nbsp;Elina Makousiari ,&nbsp;Jurian Edelenbos ,&nbsp;Alberto Gianoli","doi":"10.1016/j.crsust.2026.100357","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.crsust.2026.100357","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Experimentation is crucial for cities to test and prototype new solutions that address complex societal challenges, such as climate change. Urban Living Labs are open ecosystems that promote innovation and learning in real-life settings, engaging multiple stakeholders to co-create, prototype, implement, and evaluate solutions to different societal issues. Mainstreaming this approach into regular policymaking, moving from pilot projects, which usually have limited funding and duration, towards continuous programmes of local innovation, is a challenge with an empirical gap to understand further. Our study contributes to science, policymaking, and practice by investigating the mechanisms that foster development pathways for Living Labs' longevity within ten Coastal City Living Labs under the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation project, ‘SCORE: Smart Control of the Climate Resilience in European Coastal Cities’. We reveal the key strategies and lessons learned on sustaining the Living Labs and their initiatives beyond a project. We developed the Living Lab Longevity Framework as a result of a thorough literature review of both academic articles and Living Lab practical methodologies and frameworks, leading to seven steering mechanisms for development pathways: Learning by doing, Partnering, Embedding, Stabilizing, Professionalizing, Sharing knowledge, and Engaging. Our findings demonstrate that Living Labs sustain themselves by reinforcing these mechanisms in combination, rather than in isolation. Our study highlights important interlinks among sets of mechanisms and explores the strategies empirically used by Urban Living Labs to advance from short-term experiments to enduring ecosystems for urban innovation and transformation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34472,"journal":{"name":"Current Research in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"11 ","pages":"Article 100357"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148167853","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Toward net-zero: How energy productivity and renewable energy shape Turkey's CO2 emissions: Evidence from nonlinear ARDL and frequency domain causality methods","authors":"Seyed Alireza Athari ,&nbsp;Dervis Kirikkaleli ,&nbsp;James Karmoh Sowah Jr","doi":"10.1016/j.crsust.2026.100359","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.crsust.2026.100359","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Energy prices and supply security dominated headlines in 2022, prompting government initiatives to curb price hikes. A robust and resilient policy is needed to mitigate energy vulnerabilities. Despite existing literature, empirical research remains limited. This study examines the effects of energy productivity (EPRO) and renewable energy consumption (REC) on environmental degradation (CO2 emissions) in Turkey from 1990 Q1 to 2019 Q4, using GDP and FDI as control variables and applying structural break tests and nonlinear ARDL methods. Results indicate long-run cointegration among GDP, FDI, REC, EPRO, and CO2 emissions. Specifically, a 1% increase in FDI, REC, and EPRO results in reductions of 0.0149%, 0.4250%, and 0.8482% in CO2 emissions, respectively. Conversely, both positive and negative GDP shocks lead to increases in CO2 emissions. Frequency-domain causality tests corroborate the nonlinear ARDL findings. The results indicate that FDI, REC, and EPRO can improve Turkey's energy efficiency and inform a policy platform to advance green living and achieve SDG7 and SDG13.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34472,"journal":{"name":"Current Research in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"11 ","pages":"Article 100359"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148167854","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Claws, laws, and coexistence: The paradox of decentralization in carnivore conservation governance in two federal countries","authors":"Nimisha Srivastava ,&nbsp;John D.C. Linnell ,&nbsp;Claudia Sattler ,&nbsp;Janina Kleemann ,&nbsp;Hannes J. Koenig ,&nbsp;Ramesh Krishnamurthy ,&nbsp;Christine Fuerst","doi":"10.1016/j.crsust.2026.100361","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.crsust.2026.100361","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The success of large carnivore conservation is unfortunately often associated with increased negative interactions between humans and predators. In cases where conflicts are increasing, a pressing need to reform wildlife governance mechanisms is often recommended. However, comprehensive understanding of existing governance practices remains limited. This study addresses this gap with a systematic comparative analysis of multi-level governance effectiveness in carnivore conservation by examining tiger conservation in India and wolf management in Germany. We developed an analytical framework grounded in multi-level governance theory with a review of 42 legal policy documents and 46 expert interviews. The data was collected between years 2022–2025. Our analysis reveals a critical paradox: decentralized systems exhibit different degrees of operational centralization<strong>,</strong> fundamentally altering outcomes. India's ‘centralized decentralization’ achieves policy coherence through federal oversight but limits an effective bottom-up management, while Germany's ‘fragmented decentralization’ enables inclusiveness but creates policy inconsistencies. Key findings demonstrate that formal stakeholder participation mechanisms do not guarantee effective governance. Both countries show challenges in translating participatory frameworks into meaningful decision-making, creating collaborative gridlock where institutions seem to limit rather than facilitate consensus-building. Results challenge prevailing assumptions about decentralized conservation governance revealing that success depends on governance coherence, i.e., alignment between vertical coordination through polycentric structure and horizontal integration with network governance features. We suggest a hybrid multi-level governance model as empirically motivated, combining central coordination with meaningful local authority. Findings have immediate implications for carnivore conservation globally. This study advances multi-level governance theory and provides evidence-based recommendations for institutional innovations navigating the complex political ecology of human-carnivore coexistence.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34472,"journal":{"name":"Current Research in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"11 ","pages":"Article 100361"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148230587","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Editorial: Reinterpreting sustainability discourses around the globe","authors":"Sjors Witjes ,&nbsp;Elizabeth Deborah Martínez Aguilar ,&nbsp;Shoko Yamada","doi":"10.1016/j.crsust.2026.100334","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.crsust.2026.100334","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34472,"journal":{"name":"Current Research in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"11 ","pages":"Article 100334"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147421244","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"From innovation to impact: A systems approach to scaling agricultural innovations for coral reef protection","authors":"Edoardo Bertone,&nbsp;Hiua Daraei,&nbsp;Enayat A. Moallemi,&nbsp;Juliane Wolf","doi":"10.1016/j.crsust.2026.100364","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.crsust.2026.100364","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Coral reef ecosystems, including Australia's Great Barrier Reef, face intensifying pressure from diffuse agricultural pollution, particularly nutrient runoff. While emerging agricultural innovations, such as microalgae-based soil probiotics, offer potential to enhance nutrient-use efficiency and reduce environmental impacts, their large-scale adoption remains limited. This gap reflects not only technical or economic barriers, but also the complex socio-ecological systems in which such innovations are embedded. In this Perspective, we argue that a systems thinking approach is essential to understand and overcome the barriers to scaling agricultural innovations for reef protection. Integrating insights from soil microbiome engineering and interdisciplinary research, we show how systems thinking can serve as an analytical lens to understand adoption delays, ecological risks, and economic lock-ins, supporting transition toward long-term resilience in both farming systems and reef ecosystems.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34472,"journal":{"name":"Current Research in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"12 ","pages":"Article 100364"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148501528","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Environmental performance in export markets and agricultural exports: Green innovation as a conditional enabler","authors":"Thuy Anh Tu,&nbsp;Thi Mai Phuong Chu,&nbsp;Le Mai Tu,&nbsp;Thi Lan Huong Truong","doi":"10.1016/j.crsust.2026.100369","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.crsust.2026.100369","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Environmental upgrading in destination markets is increasingly reshaping the competitive landscape for agricultural exporters from emerging economies. Yet whether environmental pressure acts as a trade barrier or a catalyst for export upgrading remains unclear. This study examines how trading partners' environmental performance interacts with green innovation to shape Vietnam's agricultural export outcomes, using panel data covering 30 countries over 2011–2023 within a structural gravity (PPML) framework. The study finds that stricter environmental performance standards in importing countries reduce agricultural exports, reflecting compliance costs and non-tariff barriers. However, this effect is not uniform. As green innovation capacity improves, exporters are better able to adapt to environmental requirements, thereby mitigating adverse impacts and, in some cases, transforming environmental pressure into a market access advantage. Importantly, the role of green innovation is dynamic. In the initial stage, it may impose adjustment costs and weaken competitiveness, but over time it enhances technological capability and production efficiency, supporting export performance. Moreover, these effects vary across destination markets, indicating that the trade impact of environmental performance depends critically on the level of environmental standards faced by exporters. These findings suggest that green innovation is not inherently beneficial or costly, but rather a conditional mechanism that determines whether environmental performance constrains or enhances export competitiveness. The study contributes to the trade–environment literature by highlighting the context-dependent nature of environmental impacts and offers policy-relevant insights for emerging economies navigating the global green trade transition.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34472,"journal":{"name":"Current Research in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"12 ","pages":"Article 100369"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148642670","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}