Sustainable Development

Edited By: Prof. Richard Welford, National Institute of Development Administration, Bangkok

Online ISSN:1099-1719|

Print ISSN:0968-0802|

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Volume 33, Issue 3
June 2025

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Sustainable Development is an interdisciplinary journal which seeks to address and discuss ways to deliver sustainable development. Papers must address issues associated with the achievement of sustainable development or one or more of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We have a large readership including: policy makers in central and local government and NGOs; decision makers in business; academics; researchers; scientists; and engineers.

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Climate Change: Towards a Sustainable Future

Submission Deadline: 30 April 2026

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Do Anti-Corruption and Renewable Energy Drive Environmental Sustainability? Testing the EKC Hypothesis for G20 Countries

Suleyman Yurtkuran, Abdulgazi Yıkıcı, Çağrı Çolak,

First Published: 28 July 2025

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Game Plan for the Planet: A Systematic Look at Sustainable Development in Sports Organizations

Kinga Banucha, Katarzyna Szopik-Depczyńska, Giuseppe Ioppolo,

First Published: 27 July 2025

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Climate Change and Insurance: Embracing Resilience for Private Market Survival

John A. Roper, David G. Casagrande, Paolo Bocchini,

First Published: 27 July 2025

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Sustainability Adoption Across Supply Chain Network Designs: A Comparative Analysis of Centralized, Decentralized, and Distributed Structures

Afrooz Moatari-Kazerouni, Yvonne Lederer Antonucci, Mathias Kirchmer,

First Published: 25 July 2025

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Strengthening Food Security Within the Sustainable Development Goals Framework: A Study Based on Bibliometric Analysis and BERTopic Mining

Shuang Peng, Qiao Lin, Yangfen Chen,

First Published: 25 July 2025

The following is a list of the most cited articles based on citations published in the last three years, according to CrossRef.

The social dimension of sustainable development: Defining urban social sustainability

Nicola Dempsey, Glen Bramley, Sinéad Power, Caroline Brown,

Pages: 289-300
First Published: 27 September 2011

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Sustainable tourism development and competitiveness: The systematic literature review

Dalia Streimikiene, Biruta Svagzdiene, Edmundas Jasinskas, Arturas Simanavicius,

Pages: 259-271
First Published: 19 September 2020

Towards Integration at Last? The Sustainable Development Goals as a Network of Targets

David Le Blanc,

Pages: 176-187
First Published: 10 April 2015