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Article    23 Jan 2026
Susana Sobral, João Ricardo Catarino and Alexandre Morais Nunes
Sustainable development requires legitimate coordination of cross-sector trade-offs across environmental limits, social needs, and long-term economic viability. Because the implementation of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) relies on multi-actor arrangements, collaborative governance (CG) design features may condition Sustainable development requires legitimate coordination of cross-sector trade-offs across environmental limits, social needs, and long-term economic viability. Because the implementation of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) relies on multi-actor arrangements, collaborative governance (CG) design features may condition whether participation translates into joint decision-making. CG emerges from these dynamic strategies to produce public products and services with multiple stakeholders, aligning and integrating the various parties’ ambitions. Given the ongoing discussion on SDGs, marked by the complexity and interdependence of actors, innovative, collaborative solutions are needed to achieve the desired goals. This necessity is further underscored by introducing a goal related to partnerships and collaboration: “Partnerships for Development” (Goal 17), demonstrating that collaboration is a crucial element for sustainable development and the implementation of the SDGs and the 2030 Agenda. Thus, this study aims to explore how CG supports strategies to implement the SDGs. To this end, through content analysis, we examine four initiatives involving public and private actors related to the implementation of the SDGs in Portugal. We aim to analyze whether these meet the criteria of CG and the various dimensions anticipated for its process. Only one initiative meets the criteria for CG, and Portugal still needs an established collaborative governance arrangement for implementing the SDGs. Therefore, it is necessary to invest in collaborative arrangements initiated by public organizations that allow for participation in decision-making and greater consensus-building, preserving a real contribution to public policy and a better understanding of the impacts and benefits of collaboration. It is also necessary to discuss the need for metagovernance structures for sustainable development. or Access Full Article
Highlights of Sustainability
Volume 5 (2026), Issue 1, pp. 70–83
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Article    19 Jan 2026
Stephan Soklaridis, Andrea Reisdorf and Sebastian Kummer
Highlights of Sustainability
Volume 5 (2026), Issue 1, pp. 46–60
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Article    19 Jan 2026
Inten Meutia, Shelly Febriana Kartasari and Hasni Yusrianti
Highlights of Sustainability
Volume 5 (2026), Issue 1, pp. 34–45
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Article    23 Dec 2025
Ga-won Song, Eunhwa Yang and Cheol-Jae Yoon
Highlights of Sustainability
Volume 4 (2025), Issue 4, pp. 299–328
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Article    26 Nov 2025
Kurt Orkun Aktaş, Ajda Zaim, Özlem Nur Aslantamer, Gözen Güner Aktaş and Hüseyin Emre Ilgın
Highlights of Sustainability
Volume 4 (2025), Issue 4, pp. 256–284
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Article    29 Oct 2025
Barbara Marchetti, Guido Castelli and Francesco Corvaro
Highlights of Sustainability
Volume 4 (2025), Issue 4, pp. 240–255
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Review    17 Oct 2025
Jesús Huerta de Soto, Antonio Sánchez-Bayón and Philipp Bagus
This paper reviews the efficiency and sustainability of the management model during the COVID-19 crisis and beyond. There is a comparison between the centralized bureaucratic management versus the agile market alternative or spontaneous and flexible social This paper reviews the efficiency and sustainability of the management model during the COVID-19 crisis and beyond. There is a comparison between the centralized bureaucratic management versus the agile market alternative or spontaneous and flexible social coordination. This is a study of Political Economy, Management, and Health Economics from the perspective of Austrian economics, with special attention to the Spanish case. The analysis is based on Mises theorem about the impossibility of economic calculation under centralized coactive systems, and other economic principles. In this context, we also pay attention to collateral problems of the centralized and coactive management. Finally, we propose a solution based on dynamic efficiency and the constitutions of wellbeing economics based on digitalization. or Access Full Article
Highlights of Sustainability
Volume 4 (2025), Issue 4, pp. 205–215
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Article    4 Sep 2025
Noha Emara, I-Ming Chiu and Sheila Warrick
Highlights of Sustainability
Volume 4 (2025), Issue 3, pp. 174–191
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Review    21 May 2025
Hüseyin Emre Ilgın and Özlem Nur Aslantamer
Highlights of Sustainability
Volume 4 (2025), Issue 2, pp. 122–145
2742 Views389 Downloads3 Citations
Article    22 Feb 2025
Assitan Diaby, Mehdi Seraj and Huseyin Ozdeser
Highlights of Sustainability
Volume 4 (2025), Issue 1, pp. 56–68
2214 Views946 Downloads1 Citations
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