Aims and Scope
Highlights of Sustainability is an international, transdisciplinary journal focusing on environmental, economic, social as well as cultural, technological, and political fields about sustainability and sustainable development. The journal serves as a platform for addressing and discussing theoretical and practical studies related to natural and social sciences as well as humanities about sustainability in corporations, governments, education institutions, regions, and societies.

As a scholarly open access journal, Highlights of Sustainability encourages researchers to publish their experimental and methodical results in as much detail as possible to promote the development of new technologies and new sustainability solutions. The journal accepts research articles and reviews.
Highlights of Sustainability is an international, transdisciplinary journal focusing on environmental, economic, social as well as cultural, technological, and political fields about sustainability and sustainable development. The journal serves as a platform for addressing and discussing theoretical and practical studies related to natural and social sciences as well as humanities about sustainability in corporations, governments, education institutions, regions, and societies.

As a scholarly open access journal, Highlights of Sustainability encourages researchers to publish their experimental and methodical results in as much detail as possible to promote the development of new technologies and new sustainability solutions. The journal accepts research articles and reviews.

The journal will cover topics including:

  • circular economy
  • climate change
  • defining and quantifying sustainability
  • education and sustainability
  • effects of global climate change on sustainability
  • energy resources management and assessment
  • environmental degradation
  • environmental impact assessment
  • environmental law
  • environmental protection
  • environmental resources management
  • environmentally-friendly chemical engineering
  • green building
  • green technologies
  • health and environment
  • heritage conservation
  • human population control
  • human well-being and social equality
  • land use
  • local and individual lifestyles
  • measuring sustainability
  • natural capital and biodiversity
  • natural resources management
  • overconsumption
  • policies and laws related to sustainability
  • policies for sustainable development
  • pollution
  • poverty
  • renewable energy
  • supply chain management
  • sustainable agriculture and food security
  • sustainable tourism
  • sustainability assessment tools
  • urban and regional planning
  • urban planning and transport
  • waste
  • water pollution and sanitation
  • and others as related to sustainability
Article    27 February 2024
Afonso Delgado, Paulo Caldas and Miguel Varela
https://doi.org/10.54175/hsustain3010007
Highlights of Sustainability
Volume 3 (2024), Issue 1, pp. 84–103
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Article    14 February 2024
George-Cornel Dumitrescu
This article is part of the Special Issue Green Economic Growth and Energy Consumption.
Highlights of Sustainability
Volume 3 (2024), Issue 1, pp. 76–83
300 Views74 Downloads
Article    7 February 2024
Tsz Hin Hui, Nadine Itani and John F. O’Connell
Highlights of Sustainability
Volume 3 (2024), Issue 1, pp. 61–75
550 Views100 Downloads
Article    2 February 2024
Nipun Goyal and Mahdi Mahmoudzadeh
This article is part of the Special Issue Capturing the Sustainable Impact of Early-Stage Business Models.
Highlights of Sustainability
Volume 3 (2024), Issue 1, pp. 46–60
326 Views67 Downloads
Article    29 January 2024
Manuel Rodeiro
Environmentalists have long claimed it is unjust for the state to prioritize economic interests over environmental ones by sacrificing ecosystem integrity and functioning to unsustainably expand the economy. Recently, mainstream environmentalists have moved to a more Environmentalists have long claimed it is unjust for the state to prioritize economic interests over environmental ones by sacrificing ecosystem integrity and functioning to unsustainably expand the economy. Recently, mainstream environmentalists have moved to a more conciliatory approach highlighting the common ground between environmental and economic goals. They today claim processes of economic growth and development can be made just if they become green. This paper explores the question: should states pursue “green growth”? Although some critics claim green growth is impossible, I maintain it is. I theorize three conditions that must be met for an instance of growth to be truly considered green. That a development project is green, however, does not automatically ensure it is just. Justice considerations remain in adjudicating the competing interests of different groups of stakeholders. I then examine four reasonable approaches to resolving controversies over the pursuit of green growth: cost-benefit analysis, sufficientarianism, democracy, and pluralism. I conclude a liberal pluralist form of decision-making is best for ensuring fairness. or Access Full Article
This article is part of the Special Issue Green Economic Growth and Energy Consumption.
Highlights of Sustainability
Volume 3 (2024), Issue 1, pp. 33–45
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Article    27 February 2024
Afonso Delgado, Paulo Caldas and Miguel Varela
https://doi.org/10.54175/hsustain3010007
Highlights of Sustainability
Volume 3 (2024), Issue 1, pp. 84–103
154 Views33 Downloads
Article    14 February 2024
George-Cornel Dumitrescu
This article is part of the Special Issue Green Economic Growth and Energy Consumption.
Highlights of Sustainability
Volume 3 (2024), Issue 1, pp. 76–83
300 Views74 Downloads
Article    7 February 2024
Tsz Hin Hui, Nadine Itani and John F. O’Connell
Highlights of Sustainability
Volume 3 (2024), Issue 1, pp. 61–75
550 Views100 Downloads
Article    2 February 2024
Nipun Goyal and Mahdi Mahmoudzadeh
This article is part of the Special Issue Capturing the Sustainable Impact of Early-Stage Business Models.
Highlights of Sustainability
Volume 3 (2024), Issue 1, pp. 46–60
326 Views67 Downloads
Article    29 January 2024
Manuel Rodeiro
Environmentalists have long claimed it is unjust for the state to prioritize economic interests over environmental ones by sacrificing ecosystem integrity and functioning to unsustainably expand the economy. Recently, mainstream environmentalists have moved to a more Environmentalists have long claimed it is unjust for the state to prioritize economic interests over environmental ones by sacrificing ecosystem integrity and functioning to unsustainably expand the economy. Recently, mainstream environmentalists have moved to a more conciliatory approach highlighting the common ground between environmental and economic goals. They today claim processes of economic growth and development can be made just if they become green. This paper explores the question: should states pursue “green growth”? Although some critics claim green growth is impossible, I maintain it is. I theorize three conditions that must be met for an instance of growth to be truly considered green. That a development project is green, however, does not automatically ensure it is just. Justice considerations remain in adjudicating the competing interests of different groups of stakeholders. I then examine four reasonable approaches to resolving controversies over the pursuit of green growth: cost-benefit analysis, sufficientarianism, democracy, and pluralism. I conclude a liberal pluralist form of decision-making is best for ensuring fairness. or Access Full Article
This article is part of the Special Issue Green Economic Growth and Energy Consumption.
Highlights of Sustainability
Volume 3 (2024), Issue 1, pp. 33–45
378 Views87 Downloads
Article    5 January 2024
Athanasios G. Giannopoulos and Tatiana P. Moschovou
This article is part of the Special Issue Green Economic Growth and Energy Consumption.
Highlights of Sustainability
Volume 3 (2024), Issue 1, pp. 16–32
462 Views110 Downloads
Article    28 December 2023
Majbah Uddin, Nathan N. Huynh and Fahim Ahmed
Highlights of Sustainability
Volume 3 (2024), Issue 1, pp. 1–15
484 Views110 Downloads
Editorial    21 December 2023
Highlights of Sustainability Editorial Office
Annual Acknowledgment to Reviewers 2023—Highlights of Sustainability
Highlights of Sustainability
Volume 2 (2023), Issue 4, pp. 303–304
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Article    16 November 2023
Mahdi Mahmoudzadeh
This article is part of the Special Issue Capturing the Sustainable Impact of Early-Stage Business Models.
Highlights of Sustainability
Volume 2 (2023), Issue 4, pp. 283–302
568 Views159 Downloads
Article    15 November 2023
Irina Di Ruocco
This article is part of the Special Issue Capturing the Sustainable Impact of Early-Stage Business Models.
Highlights of Sustainability
Volume 2 (2023), Issue 4, pp. 259–282
569 Views161 Downloads
Article    29 April 2022
Richard W. Butler and Rachel Dodds
Highlights of Sustainability
Volume 1 (2022), Issue 2, pp. 54–64
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Article    7 July 2022
Ogenis Brilhante and Julia Skinner
Highlights of Sustainability
Volume 1 (2022), Issue 3, pp. 113–128
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Article    8 September 2022
Annalisa Stacchini, Andrea Guizzardi and Michele Costa
Highlights of Sustainability
Volume 1 (2022), Issue 3, pp. 202–223
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Article    6 May 2022
Marjan Marjanović, Wendy Wuyts, Julie Marin and Joanna Williams
Highlights of Sustainability
Volume 1 (2022), Issue 2, pp. 65–87
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Article    17 May 2022
Alfred Söderberg
Highlights of Sustainability
Volume 1 (2022), Issue 2, pp. 88–104
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Short Note    2 June 2022
James A. Dyer and Raymond L. Desjardins
The Carbon Footprint (CF) of agriculture must be substantially reduced to help avoid catastrophic climate change. This paper examines the ratio of Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions to protein as an indicator of the CF of the The Carbon Footprint (CF) of agriculture must be substantially reduced to help avoid catastrophic climate change. This paper examines the ratio of Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions to protein as an indicator of the CF of the major Canadian livestock commodities using previously published results. The GHG emissions for these commodities were estimated with a spreadsheet model that accounted for all three GHGs, the complete life cycles of each livestock type and the livestock interactions with the agricultural land base. The indicator results reviewed here included the responses to livestock types and diets, livestock versus plant protein sources, spatial scales and geographic differences. The sensitivity of the results shown suggest that GHG-protein ratios could provide valuable guidance for producers and consumers to reduce their GHG emissions. For example, diverting feed grains from beef feedlots to hog production would substantially reduce the CF of red meat, although still not as low as the CF of poultry products. The complete proteins derived from pulses have much lower CF values than all livestock products. or Access Full Article
Highlights of Sustainability
Volume 1 (2022), Issue 2, pp. 105–112
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Commentary    8 July 2022
Alexis D. Smith
In the Nintendo game Animal Crossing: New Horizons, players move to an uninhabited island and quickly become instrumental to the naming, aesthetic development, and biodiversity of the island. In some ways, the game can foster a In the Nintendo game Animal Crossing: New Horizons, players move to an uninhabited island and quickly become instrumental to the naming, aesthetic development, and biodiversity of the island. In some ways, the game can foster a love for and curiosity about nature. In other ways, the game reinforces harmful colonialist values and attitudes that are ultimately an obstacle to conservation in the real world. Here I critique the game values relevant to conservation, both the values that benefit and the values that hinder conservation. I discuss possibilities for a future version of the game that reinforces values better aligned with conservation. or Access Full Article
Highlights of Sustainability
Volume 1 (2022), Issue 3, pp. 129–133
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Article    28 March 2022
Reza Heydari, Mohammad Keshtidar, Haywantee Ramkissoon, Mahdi Esfahani and Ehsan Asadollahi
Highlights of Sustainability
Volume 1 (2022), Issue 2, pp. 41–53
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Article    26 August 2022
Stephen K. Wegren
Although Russia’s grain growing regions have experienced episodic droughts, the financial impact of climate change has to date been modest when measured in terms of value of production lost. As industrial agriculture continues to emit greenhouse Although Russia’s grain growing regions have experienced episodic droughts, the financial impact of climate change has to date been modest when measured in terms of value of production lost. As industrial agriculture continues to emit greenhouse gases, the impact of climate change will intensify, making Russia’s southern regions drier and hotter, and potentially forcing a structural shift in production northward, an event that will lead to lower yields and grain output. The sustainable sector in Russia’s agricultural system is not able to compensate for lower grain output in the south, nor is it able to feed the nation or ensure food security across the full spectrum of commodities that consumers expect. The prospect of Russia as a declining grain power impacts the dozens of nations that import Russian grain, most notably authoritarian regimes in the Middle East. or Access Full Article
Highlights of Sustainability
Volume 1 (2022), Issue 3, pp. 188–201
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Article    6 December 2022
Julia Hillmann, Anne Bergmann and Edeltraud Guenther
This paper investigates the time-dependent effects of building organizational resilience. So far, empirical research only finds evidence that organizational resilience provides benefits in the long term. For the short and medium term, the link remains unclear This paper investigates the time-dependent effects of building organizational resilience. So far, empirical research only finds evidence that organizational resilience provides benefits in the long term. For the short and medium term, the link remains unclear. On the one hand, literature indicates that building organizational resilience is costly. On the other hand, actions to build organizational resilience are perceived by investors, which should provide immediate positive effects for companies. This study investigates these two assumptions in the climate change context. We apply multiple regression analysis to study the relationship between resilience capabilities and different measures of financial performance. For market value and financial volatility, our findings indicate that building organizational resilience provides immediate benefits. For the total stock return index, we find only benefits that materialize with a time lag. We find no evidence at all that building resilience capabilities is related to costs in terms of lower accounting-based financial performance. Overall findings indicate that building organizational resilience is advantageous as it prepares an organization to face the challenges of climate change and, at the same time, provides financial benefits. or Access Full Article
Highlights of Sustainability
Volume 1 (2022), Issue 4, pp. 233–252
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