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The politics of climate change and urban agriculture in South Africa
▻https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/sustainable-cities/articles/10.3389/frsc.2026.1936772/full

Urban agriculture has increasingly gained global recognition as a strategic approach for simultaneously addressing food security and climate change through mitigation and adaptation interventions. However, its potential remains constrained in South Africa, where climate change exacerbates the country’s persistent challenges of food insecurity, poverty, unemployment, inequality, and the triple burden of malnutrition. The study explored the politics of climate change mitigation and adaptation measures for urban agriculture in South Africa. It also identified the fragmentation of related policies and programmes, and the factors that contributed to it. The article examines the nature, causes, and consequences of policy fragmentation by drawing on the available literature. The study (…)

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The politics of climate change and urban agriculture in South Africa
▻https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/sustainable-cities/articles/10.3389/frsc.2026.1936772/abstract

Urban agriculture has increasingly gained global recognition as a strategic approach for simultaneously addressing food security and climate change through mitigation and adaptation interventions. However, its potential remains constrained in South Africa, where climate change exacerbates the country’s persistent challenges of food insecurity, poverty, unemployment, inequality, and the triple burden of malnutrition. The study explored the politics of climate change mitigation and adaptation measures for urban agriculture in South Africa. It also identified the fragmentation of related policies and programmes, and the factors that contributed to it. The article examines the nature, causes, and consequences of policy fragmentation by drawing on the available literature. The study (…)

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Bridging the socio-technical lag: a systematic literature review of regulation, collaboration, and inclusive governance in smart city infrastructure
▻https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/sustainable-cities/articles/10.3389/frsc.2026.1897229/full

The deep convergence of the digital built environment and emerging information technologies (EITs) is reshaping urban forms. Yet, a pronounced socio-technical lag persists between rapid engineering iteration and the relative inertia of public management institutions. A perspective influenced by technological determinism remains prevalent in existing smart city research, often obscuring the inherently complex political and social attributes of urban systems. Following the PRISMA protocol, this study systematically reviews 238 peer-reviewed articles exclusively from the Web of Science Core Collection. Descriptive analysis reveals a structural imbalance within this sample: studies focused on pure technical engineering vastly outnumber formal policy document analyses. Applying an inductive (…)

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Bridging the socio-technical lag: a systematic literature review of regulation, collaboration, and inclusive governance in smart city infrastructure
▻https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/sustainable-cities/articles/10.3389/frsc.2026.1897229/abstract

The deep convergence of the digital built environment and emerging information technologies (EITs) is reshaping urban forms. Yet, a pronounced socio-technical lag persists between rapid engineering iteration and the relative inertia of public management institutions. A perspective influenced by technological determinism remains prevalent in existing smart city research, often obscuring the inherently complex political and social attributes of urban systems. Following the PRISMA protocol, this study systematically reviews 238 peer-reviewed articles exclusively from the Web of Science Core Collection. Descriptive analysis reveals a structural imbalance within this sample: studies focused on pure technical engineering vastly outnumber formal policy document analyses. Applying an inductive (…)

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Occupant-centric passive ventilation and thermal resilience in hot-humid climates: a #Systematic_Review of sensor-validated evidence
▻https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frsc.2026.1804139

Thermal stress in buildings in hot-humid areas is increasing due to climate change. For many situations, mechanical cooling is not sustainable. The concept of passive ventilation is again emerging as an adaptation option, but current reviews address thermal comfort, indoor air quality, and thermal resilience separately. There is limited research on the real-world performance of all three domains. This review aims to fill this gap by bringing together field evidence in an integrated framework. A literature search was conducted using Scopus, ScienceDirect and Google Scholar, according to PRISMA 2020 guidelines. Studies published from 2010 through 2026 were included to reflect the current state of sensor technology, as well as building performance studies published after 2015. The (…)

Occupant-centric passive ventilation and thermal resilience in hot-humid climates: a #Systematic_Review of sensor-validated evidence
▻https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/sustainable-cities/articles/10.3389/frsc.2026.1804139/full

Thermal stress in buildings in hot-humid areas is increasing due to climate change. For many situations, mechanical cooling is not sustainable. The concept of passive ventilation is again emerging as an adaptation option, but current reviews address thermal comfort, indoor air quality, and thermal resilience separately. There is limited research on the real-world performance of all three domains. This review aims to fill this gap by bringing together field evidence in an integrated framework. A literature search was conducted using Scopus, ScienceDirect and Google Scholar, according to PRISMA 2020 guidelines. Studies published from 2010 through 2026 were included to reflect the current state of sensor technology, as well as building performance studies published after 2015. The (…)

SYSTEMA SOLAR - FUTURX PRIMITIVX 20|25 (VIDEO OFICIAL CUATRILOGÍA)
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Circular economy practices in Indonesia: a review of typologies, drivers, enablers, and barriers within a developing-country context
▻https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frsc.2026.1799466

Circular economy (CE) has gained prominence as a framework for rethinking production and consumption amid growing environmental and resource pressures. However, existing CE literature remains fragmented and largely shaped by developed-country perspectives, offering limited insight into how CE practices unfold in developing-country contexts. Using Indonesia as a case and based on a systematic literature review of 101 peer-reviewed journal articles indexed in Scopus, this paper identifies CE practice typologies and the drivers, enablers, and barriers associated with them. Beyond mapping these typologies, the analysis adopts a configurational perspective to examine how drivers, enablers, and barriers shape the emergence, stabilization, and constraint of CE practices. The findings show (…)

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Circular economy practices in Indonesia: a review of typologies, drivers, enablers, and barriers within a developing-country context
▻https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/sustainable-cities/articles/10.3389/frsc.2026.1799466/full

Circular economy (CE) has gained prominence as a framework for rethinking production and consumption amid growing environmental and resource pressures. However, existing CE literature remains fragmented and largely shaped by developed-country perspectives, offering limited insight into how CE practices unfold in developing-country contexts. Using Indonesia as a case and based on a systematic literature review of 101 peer-reviewed journal articles indexed in Scopus, this paper identifies CE practice typologies and the drivers, enablers, and barriers associated with them. Beyond mapping these typologies, the analysis adopts a configurational perspective to examine how drivers, enablers, and barriers shape the emergence, stabilization, and constraint of CE practices. The findings show (…)

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Review of East Africa rural–urban migration trends, drivers and sustainability implications
▻https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frsc.2026.1818484

This #Systematic_Review examines the contemporary patterns of rural–urban migration across the Eastern Africa, emphasizing its prevailing trends, underlying drivers, and multifaceted economic, social and environmental impacts. The review synthesizes evidence from 104 peer-reviewed publications and grey literature sources published between 2010 and 2025, covering eight countries in the region. Using the PRISMA framework and a thematic analysis approach, this review reveals a complex interaction between push factors and pull factors in the study area. Rural–urban migration patterns are influenced by youth dynamics, gender roles, and environmental vulnerability. Economically, migration leads to rural labor shortages and urban informal job expansion. Socially, it reshapes family structures, (…)

Review of East Africa rural–urban migration trends, drivers and sustainability implications
▻https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/sustainable-cities/articles/10.3389/frsc.2026.1818484/full

This #Systematic_Review examines the contemporary patterns of rural–urban migration across the Eastern Africa, emphasizing its prevailing trends, underlying drivers, and multifaceted economic, social and environmental impacts. The review synthesizes evidence from 104 peer-reviewed publications and grey literature sources published between 2010 and 2025, covering eight countries in the region. Using the PRISMA framework and a thematic analysis approach, this review reveals a complex interaction between push factors and pull factors in the study area. Rural–urban migration patterns are influenced by youth dynamics, gender roles, and environmental vulnerability. Economically, migration leads to rural labor shortages and urban informal job expansion. Socially, it reshapes family structures, (…)

Digital twins for sustainable urban energy systems: a #Systematic_Review of market mechanisms, flexibility, and coordination at the district scale
▻https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/sustainable-cities/articles/10.3389/frsc.2026.1837026/full

The pathway toward decarbonization of urban energy systems requires new digital infrastructures capable of operating and coordinating distributed renewable energy sources and enabling energy markets. Digital Twins are promising technologies in the management, modeling, simulation, and decision support of complex energy systems. This research is a systematic literature review conducted following the PRISMA 2020 guidelines. An initial database search identified 378 records, supplemented by additional studies identified through citation screening, resulting in 51 studies included in the final qualitative synthesis. Unlike previous reviews focusing primarily on technological architectures and operational optimisation, this review examines Digital Twins as enabling infrastructure for (…)

Circular economy as a climate strategy: a semi-systematic review with bibliometric insights on the transition from traditional infrastructures to sustainable solutions
▻https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/sustainable-cities/articles/10.3389/frsc.2026.1747243/full

In a context where traditional infrastructures face growing challenges related to climate change, the circular economy emerges as a promising alternative. This study aims to examine the relationship between circular economic models and traditional infrastructures in this context. The method used consists of a semi-systematic review supported by bibliometric review of 50 relevant articles, conducted between 2015–2024 using the Publish or Perish (PoP) application. The bibliometric analysis offers a unique perspective on the conceptual evolution of circular economy models and identifies emerging trends applied to traditional infrastructures, thus filling an important gap in the current scientific literature. The review found that traditional infrastructures present major challenges for (…)

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The impact of circular economy and community development on human wellbeing in informal settlement areas in Indonesia: a systematic literature review
▻https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/sustainable-cities/articles/10.3389/frsc.2026.1754215/full

BackgroundIndonesia’s rapid urbanization has led to a proliferation of informal settlements facing environmental degradation and social marginalization. The circular economy (CE) is promoted as a sustainable solution, but its dominant discourse remains technocentric and rooted in Global North industrial contexts.Field interventionThis review intervenes in a critical gap in sustainability science: the misrecognition of necessity-driven, grassroots circular practices within dominant technocentric CE frameworks. While mainstream CE discourse emphasizes formal industrial systems and corporate business models, it systematically overlooks the lived realities of circularity in the Global South—where scarcity, informality, and community-based resource recovery constitute not exceptions but (…)

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Stakeholder participation and transparency in sustainable supply chain governance for urban circular economy transitions: a #Systematic_Review
▻https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/sustainable-cities/articles/10.3389/frsc.2026.1763093/full

As sustainable supply chain (SSC) practices continue to advance, scholarly attention has increasingly focused on the relationship between governance challenges and transparency mechanisms within sustainable supply chain management (SSCM). However, whether improving transparency alone is sufficient to achieve the intended governance outcomes remains a persistent point of theoretical and practical debate. This study conducts a systematic literature review (SLR) of research published over the past decade on SSCM governance structures and transparency mechanisms. We critically examine transparency as a governance instrument and assess its inherent limitations. The findings indicate that while enhanced transparency can partially mitigate information asymmetry and accountability deficits, (…)

Outdoor thermal comfort in hot arid and semi-arid cities of the Middle East and North Africa: current knowledge, gaps, and a framework for climate-sensitive urban design
▻https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/sustainable-cities/articles/10.3389/frsc.2026.1792739/full

IntroductionOutdoor thermal comfort (OTC) has become a critical determinant of urban livability, public health, and energy demand in cities exposed to escalating heat stress. In hot arid and semi-arid MENA contexts, extreme solar radiation, high mean radiant temperature, and rapid urbanization intensify thermal discomfort in outdoor spaces. Despite growing research interest, OTC knowledge in the region remains fragmented, methodologically inconsistent, and weakly contextualized.MethodsThis review provides the first region-specific, integrated synthesis of OTC research across hot arid and semi-arid MENA cities, covering Egypt, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states, the Levant, and North Africa. Using a PRISMA-guided methodology, 120 peer-reviewed studies published between 2010 and (…)

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Outdoor thermal comfort in hot arid and semi-arid cities of the Middle East and North Africa: current knowledge, gaps, and a framework for climate-sensitive urban design
▻https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/sustainable-cities/articles/10.3389/frsc.2026.1792739/abstract

IntroductionOutdoor thermal comfort (OTC) has become a critical determinant of urban livability, public health, and energy demand in cities exposed to escalating heat stress. In hot arid and semi-arid MENA contexts, extreme solar radiation, high mean radiant temperature, and rapid urbanization intensify thermal discomfort in outdoor spaces. Despite growing research interest, OTC knowledge in the region remains fragmented, methodologically inconsistent, and weakly contextualized.MethodsThis review provides the first region-specific, integrated synthesis of OTC research across hot arid and semi-arid MENA cities, covering Egypt, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states, the Levant, and North Africa. Using a PRISMA-guided methodology, 120 peer-reviewed studies published between 2010 and (…)

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Stakeholder participation in urban land readjustment: a meta-synthesis of global approaches and institutional challenges
▻https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/sustainable-cities/articles/10.3389/frsc.2026.1788572/full

Land readjustment (LR) has become a widely adopted urban development mechanism for reorganizing land parcels and providing infrastructure through cooperative arrangements among landowners, governments, and private actors. Yet the quality of stakeholder participation continues to vary substantially, undermining project legitimacy, equity, and long-term sustainability. This study conducts a systematic qualitative meta-synthesis of 47 peer-reviewed empirical studies, using the PRISMA protocol and thematic analysis, to examine how participation is practiced, supported, and challenged within LR processes globally. Seven recurring participatory approaches were identified including inclusive decision-making, negotiation and consensus building, transparency and trust, public agency leadership, (…)

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Social network analysis for territorial sustainability governance: a #Systematic_Review
▻https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frsc.2026.1733546

This article critically examines the role of Social Network Analysis (SNA) in stakeholder mapping for territorial sustainability. Based on a systematic literature review of 14 highly relevant peer-reviewed articles (2018–2025) focused on critical application, the study interrogates the epistemological and normative assumptions embedded in common SNA applications. While SNA is often used to identify actor centrality and coordination, this review explores its potential to reveal power asymmetries, inclusion gaps, and governance legitimacy. Emergent thematic domains include stakeholder diversity, institutional performance, and reflexive approach to SNA, reframing it as both technical instrument and critical lens for democratic governance. This contribution aligns with deliberative models (...)

Governance of digital transformation for sustainable development: aligning digital innovation with the sustainable development goals
▻https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frsc.2026.1743552

The accelerating pace of digital innovation presents new governance challenges, necessitating the establishment of robust policy, legislative, and institutional frameworks to mitigate risks and maximize sustainability benefits. This study examines the intersection between digital transformation (DT), governance, and sustainability within the context of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The purpose of this study is to synthesize and critically evaluate the evidence on how DT governance influences progress toward the SDGs. Using a systematic mapping and structured qualitative evidence synthesis, aligned with PRISMA 2020 guidelines, the study reviews peer-reviewed literature published between 2015 and 2024 on the governance of DT in relation to the SDGs. Sixty-five (...)

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Emerging transport modes and mobility hubs: a review of their impacts on CO2 emissions
▻https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frsc.2026.1685930

The escalating demand for urban mobility has significantly contributed to increased CO2 emissions, necessitating a shift towards sustainable, low-carbon transportation solutions. Emerging modes and concepts such as micro-mobility, shared mobility, electric mobility and mobility hubs offer promising pathways to reduce vehicle CO2 emissions. This review explores the role of these modes in emission reduction, with particular attention to the integrative function of mobility hubs. This review synthesized current knowledge on the role of emerging transport modes in reducing urban CO₂ emissions. Our analysis through the Life-Cycle Assessment framework and Dynamic Mitigation Model demonstrates that while these modes can lower emissions by facilitating a shift away from private cars, their (...)

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LibreOffice dénonce le format #OOXML
▻https://www.zdnet.fr/actualites/libreoffice-denonce-le-format-ooxml-489936.htm

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Ce débat dépasse le cadre de la philosophie du logiciel libre. Les conséquences sur l’intégrité des données sont lourdes. Un exemple frappant concerne la gestion des noms de gènes dans #Excel.

Pendant des années, le logiciel a #converti #automatiquement des symboles #alphanumériques, comme MARCH1, en #dates (1-Mar). Ce processus a corrompu des bases de données de recherche mondiales.

Une étude met en lumière l’ampleur du problème :

– Environ 20% des articles scientifiques examinés contenaient des erreurs liées à l’#auto-formatage d’Excel.
– Le comité HGNC a dû renommer 27 #gènes_humains pour éviter ces #erreurs de conversion #systématiques.
– #Microsoft a proposé une option pour désactiver cette conversion uniquement en 2023, soit des années après le signalement du problème.

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A footprint of UHI in India: a #Systematic_Review of causative factors, impacts and mitigation strategies
▻https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frsc.2025.1649138

Urban heat island (UHI) is the phenomenon where urban areas possess higher temperature than its surrounding rural areas. The present review examines the factors contributing to the UHI effect and the challenge faced by Indian cities in the context of environmental sustainability and health by referring to the literature of more than 40 cities between 2005 and 2023. The present study reviewed already available research which utilizes remote sensing techniques to study the UHI. This study mainly includes satellite data studies; while some fixed station studies, field observations and instrument measurement studies were also incorporated. The current scenario of UHI research in India highlights that the larger cities are studied the most and the smaller but developing cities still need (...)

Analyzing sustainable urban development through smart and sustainable cities: an integrated review
▻https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frsc.2025.1685716

‘Smart cities’ is an ever-evolving concept focusing on technological integration in urban policymaking to resolve contemporary urban issues. Despite repeated claims that ‘smart initiatives’ produce sustainability, a detailed research analysis is required to detail the extent to which the desired outcomes have been achieved. Within these academic, research, and policy parameters, the current study discusses the relevance of concepts of ‘smart’ and ‘sustainable cities’ through a systematic literature review to answer the inter-dependence of these concepts within modern urban reforms. Our findings highlight that cities cannot be ‘truly smart’ without becoming sustainable first, and technocentricity, complex policy practices, and ad-hoc conceptualization are the major hurdles in urban (...)

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Tax credit mechanisms and policy innovation for affordable housing in South Africa: a #Systematic_Review
▻https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frsc.2025.1665969

IntroductionSouth Africa continues to face a significant housing crisis characterized by a growing backlog, unaffordability, and spatial inequality. Although state-led interventions such as the Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP) and the Finance Linked Individual Subsidy Programme (FLISP) have improved access for low-income households, these initiatives have not adequately addressed the housing needs of the missing middle, nor have they fully leveraged private sector participation. This article investigates how tax credits can complement existing housing programs, including BNG, FLISP, and informal settlement upgrading initiatives. The South African government is seeking innovative, scalable, and financially sustainable approaches to address the housing crisis. Tax-based (...)