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ReviewiScience2026

Beyond silos: An integrated sustainability hierarchy framework.

Mengjiao Wang, Fredric Bauer, Joachim Peter Tilsted, Neil Tangri

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Review in iScience, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Mengjiao WangGreenpeace Research Laboratories, BioSciences, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4RN, the United Kingdom.
Fredric BauerEnvironmental and Energy Systems Studies, Department of Technology and Society, Lund University, 22100 Lund, Sweden.
Joachim Peter TilstedDepartment of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen, 1958 Frederiksberg, Denmark.
Neil TangriCenter for Environmental Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley CA 94720-7320, USA.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To address the gap between global sustainability commitments and action, piecemeal solutions targeting singular impacts fall short. Interventions remain fragmented across sectors and frequently prioritize downstream remediation over upstream prevention. Emphasizing the pressing importance of moving toward more systemic approaches, this paper introduces an integrated sustainability hierarchy framework. Reviewing existing hierarchies on waste, climate change, biodiversity, and more, we provide a cross-domain compass that transcends siloed debates and enables systematic development of policy agendas, impact-oriented financial portfolios, and assessment of interventions. Using the ongoing Global Plastics Treaty negotiations as an illustration, we demonstrate the value of the sustainability hierarchy for multi-dimensional sustainability challenges, going beyond existing domain-specific hierarchies. The framework contributes a practical and theoretically grounded tool for advancing systemic sustainability under conditions of accelerating socio-ecological risk and political backsliding.

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Environmental managementEnvironmental resourceEnvironmental science

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PMID42383005
PMCPMC13316076

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