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Prioritizing a sustainable future is paramount in global energy planning and development. Sustainable development, per the Brundtland Report, involves meeting current needs while safeguarding the ability of future generations to meet their own. Life skills, as defined by WHO, encompass positive abilities that empower individuals to tackle life’s challenges effectively. This paper delves into the role of life skills in shaping a sustainable future, informed by a systematic review of pertinent studies. It underscores the importance of integrating economic, environmental, and social factors into decisionmaking for enduring economic and environmental stability. Given that human actions profoundly impact all systems, including the economy, environment, and society, the focus on life skills becomes pivotal in achieving sustainability. Life skills bridge the gap between capabilities and essential functioning, enhancing individuals’ capacity to meet contemporary societal expectations and address social, economic, and environmental issues. Ultimately, sustainable development hinges on human actions guided by life skills, highlighting their pivotal role in securing a sustainable future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Digital transition to Industry 5.0 (I5.0) has finally arrived after Industry 4.0 (I4.0) was offered ten years ago to help address industry flaws in manufacturing. I5.0 is necessary in contemporary business to achieve competitive advantages for a sustainable future. However, despite the importance of I5.0, the critical success factors (CSFs) for the transition from I4.0 to I5.0 have not been explored extensively in the literature. This study develops a model to investigate potential CSFs for the smooth transition from I4.0 to I5.0. The study ensures systems flexibility, then ranks the identified CSFs based on their influential weights and explores their interrelationships. The study adopts the Bayesian best-worst method (B-BWM) to assess the perceptions of several decision-makers from a probabilistic perspective for reducing information loss. The results from this study reflect that CSFs, such as adoption of advanced technology to create value in I5.0 paradigm, high-powered analytical ability for smart manufacturing, cost and funding in transition from I4.0 to I5.0, aligned organizational strategy in transition to I5.0, and security and privacy to ensure effective digital transformation , contribute significantly towards the digital transformation from I4.0 to I.50 in smart manufacturing in the context of steel manufacturing business environment considering the developing countries. The successful implementation of CSFs can help achieve flexibility in the supply chain, contribute to flexible systems and support managers in framing strategies that help them prioritize for an easy transition towards a sustainable future. • Determine the critical success factors for the transition from I4.0 to I5.0 in smart manufacturing. • Bayesian best-worst method was adopted to assess the perceptions of several decision-makers. • Adoption of advanced technology to create value in I5.0 is an important factor for digital transformation. • The successful implementation of success factors can help achieve flexibility in supply chain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We examine the impact of renewable energy technology innovation on carbon emissions within the framework of China's 'dual carbon' goal, focusing on the role of local (provincial) government innovation competitions and economic competition. Analyzing data across 30 provinces from 2010 to 2019, we investigate the correlation between renewable energy advancements and emission reductions and how local government competition modulates this relationship. Our findings suggest that renewable energy innovations have a significant negative impact on carbon emissions. The study reveals that innovation competition among local governments positively affects emission reductions, while economic competition has a negative impact. These results contribute to understanding how regulatory competition among local governments can support or impede the achievement of dual carbon objectives, emphasizing the need for a competitive yet collaborative regulatory environment to enhance the benefits of renewable energy innovations. [Display omitted] • Renewable energy innovations significantly reduce carbon emissions in China, aiding the "dual carbon" goals. • Local government innovation competitions boost emission reductions, while economic rivalry can impede progress. • The study underscores the need for a balanced approach between competition and collaboration among local governments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We examine the impact of renewable energy technology innovation on carbon emissions within the framework of China's 'dual carbon' goal, focusing on the role of local (provincial) government innovation competitions and economic competition. Analyzing data across 30 provinces from 2010 to 2019, we investigate the correlation between renewable energy advancements and emission reductions and how local government competition modulates this relationship. Our findings suggest that renewable energy innovations have a significant negative impact on carbon emissions. The study reveals that innovation competition among local governments positively affects emission reductions, while economic competition has a negative impact. These results contribute to understanding how regulatory competition among local governments can support or impede the achievement of dual carbon objectives, emphasizing the need for a competitive yet collaborative regulatory environment to enhance the benefits of renewable energy innovations. [Display omitted] • Renewable energy innovations significantly reduce carbon emissions in China, aiding the "dual carbon" goals. • Local government innovation competitions boost emission reductions, while economic rivalry can impede progress. • The study underscores the need for a balanced approach between competition and collaboration among local governments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In light of the many wicked problems currently facing humanity this paper calls for futurists and psychologists to join forces in the envisionment and enactment of more sustainable futures. It is argued that large scale spirito-psychological transformation, with an emphasis on loving as embodied and embedded practice, is key to actually meeting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Inspired by the counterculture movement of the 1950s and 1960s, but also by critically reflecting upon its many failed social experiments, this paper envisions the emergence of a second wave of peaceful, constructive resistance. Inspired by the ideas of futurists, psychologists and mystics, by combining enactivist thinking (cultural ψ) with valuing human experience wholly (ॐ), and turning that into a shared experiential affair the foundation is laid for others to refine and build upon: a Psychology of Loving as the driving force for sustainable change. • Futurists of past foresaw the grand challenges that humanity is currently facing. Their warnings were ignored. • The youngsters of the flower-power generation envisioned a future of love, but lacked foundational ground to make it real. • This is a call for grassroots change achieved through loving in its broadest communal and spiritual sense. • Culturally patterned behavior and conditioned personality structures cannot be spiritually bypassed. • However, a Psychology of Loving can guide the transformative power of mystical experiences towards sustainable futures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Migration has become a global phenomenon because the modern means of transportation has reduced the time of travel. It has not only been soaring globally but also it has been becoming intense in Nepal as well. In the context of Nepal, migration from village towards frontier proximities, towns and city centers has been increasing on everyday basis, which is a stumbling block for sustainable future of both origin and recipient communities because it is associated with social, economic, environmental and institutional attributes of the origin and recipient communities. In this field, very few attempts have been made by academia, professional and concerned authorities focusing on the effects of migration for sustainable future. Considering this reality, I attempted to explore the twofold effects of migration in both origin and recipient communities pleading the stories of three research participants such as one non-migrant and two migrants. In this paper, I implanted ethnographic methods to inscribe the stories of research participants. For this, I employed conversational interview and observation techniques. In addition to this, I put my theoretical positionality on the side of the migration pessimistic school of thought putting the migration optimistic school of thought away to reveal the negative results of migration. Thus, the stories of both non-migrant and migrants have been implored in informal settings. From the sustainable point of view, the departure of people created social, economic, environmental and institutional threats in the origin as well as recipient communities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The coming fossil fuel peak may cause shortages in energy supplies and major disturbances in the global economy. The forecasts for the future of our way of life are very divergent depending on the prediction used for future human access to energy, and they range between collapse and indefinite growth. The LINEX production function, which depends on energy input, was modified, calibrated and used to model the gross domestic product (GDP) of the US economy under several different energy scenarios after the fossil fuel peak. The effects of information and communication technologies and technological innovation after energetic crises have been also modeled. A future renewable mix of global scale will require the use of a major fraction of the reserves of several important minerals. In this context, a future steady-state economy appears to be the best plausible scenario. Some of the implications and challenges derived from this steady-state economy are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Using strategic partnership framework, the purpose of this paper is to explore how to build sustainable future in post-conflict Niger delta of Nigeria given previous attempts by past administrations that failed to bring lasting peace and sustainability in the region. Partnership working amongst governments, businesses and voluntary groups or civil society premised on sharing the burdens of governance for sustainability as well as to defuse conflict or oil complex is the approach taken in the paper. Despite extant scholarship on the Niger delta, none has used the framework of partnership to articulate sustainable future in the amnesty era, which is gradually slipping into a fresh wave of conflict in the wake of distrust by stakeholders. As shall be argued there is a positive correlation between strategic partnership and sustainable future in the region. Thus, in transcending the drawn-out conflict in the Niger delta, strategic partnership is required particularly since stakeholder engagement is necessary for credibility and trust in the structure of the post-conflict peace initiative (Amnesty Deal). This approach will engender trust, credibility and legitimacy as key stakeholders in the region will be involved via partnership working. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents the research regarding the characteristics of constant changes in higher education institutions and the concept of learning organization. It states that lifelong learning and becoming the learning organizations are the factors in the process of administering the changes in educational institutions in order to fit into the contemporary developments. It mentions that the best strategies of sustainability are using rare opportunities given by knowledge society.

We analyze in this paper the reasons why has been introduced the concept of Antropoceno as a new geological period in which the great changes suffered by the Earth -and more precisely by the biosphere- are due to human action. On the other hand, we intend to show that this new period constitutes an opportunity to rethink human behavior to overcome the situation of planetary emergency and make possible a sustainable future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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