The European Strategy for Plastics in a Circular Economy (COM(2018 28 final) proposes a vision where innovative materials and alternative feedstocks to fossil resources are developed and used...

Hoping to support sustainability, countries have established policies to foster the bioeconomy (BE), based on the use of biomass and knowledge on biological principles. However, appropriate monitoring is still...

The European Environment Agency (EEA) has been increasingly adopting systemic approaches to analyse the complex interrelations at the core of persistent environmental problems and sustainability challenges. Such...

Deforestation, a significant threat to biodiversity, is accelerated by global demand for commodities. Although prior literature has linked deforestation to global supply chains, here we provide...

In order to create sustainable food systems, producers, eaters, businesses, governments, and the funding and donor communities must understand how to quantify and understand the real costs of food...

A conceptual framework and farm sustainability assessment method to determine social and environmental externalities (benefits and impacts) has been developed in this study, which could guide management...