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Sustainability

Sustainability is the capacity to meet present needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet theirs, achieved by maintaining balance among environmental, economic, and social systems. In applied research it spans the responsible use of natural resources, the resilience of production and servic…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 12 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 11× across the literature 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

Overview

Sustainability is the capacity to meet present needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet theirs, achieved by maintaining balance among environmental, economic, and social systems. In applied research it spans the responsible use of natural resources, the resilience of production and service systems, and the long-term viability of practices and institutions. The studies collected here approach sustainability across several domains. Agricultural and food-system sustainability is prominent, including residue-retention practices in semi-arid cropping, permaculture applied to island agriculture, the future outlook of agricultural graduates, and critical questions about whether continual yield increases are necessary or desirable. Environmental and resource themes appear in work on insect-based foods as a lower-impact protein source, on solar pre-heating systems, and on the conservation of wildlife within ecotourism frameworks. Urban and organisational sustainability is represented by conceptual approaches to sustainable urban development and by analysis of risk management and organisational resilience under pandemic conditions, with attention to the roles of technology and sustainability. The collection also reflects the durability of interventions, as in the sustained implementation of evidence-based rehabilitation practice. Together these works express sustainability as an integrative principle that links ecological limits, economic feasibility, and social well-being, and that asks how human systems can be designed and maintained to remain productive and resilient over the long term.

Research published in this journal

12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

How this research is being cited

The 12 articles above have been cited 11 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

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Curated from peer-reviewed research published in Implementation science.

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