Flavio Pinheiro Martins’s research while affiliated with Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo and other places

Hybrid learning combines digital learning resources with conventional education approaches to expand educational offerings. While this approach has shown promise in addressing limitations of both online and in‐person instruction, significant challenges remain in ensuring equitable access and sustainable implementation. This study examined hybrid learning's relationship with the sustainable development goals (SDGs) framework through a scoping review analyzing evidence from academic literature ( n = 80) and reports from 36 global educational organizations. Our analysis identified 90 potential synergies (54%) and 45 challenges (26%) across social, economic, and environmental dimensions. The findings were analyzed under three main areas: (1) equity promotion through reduced geographical and socioeconomic barriers, (2) crisis response support during disruptions like pandemics and natural disasters, and (3) capacity building opportunities in workforce development. Based on these findings, we propose the SDG‐Hybrid Learning Alignment Framework, including a new SDG Target 4.8 (Digital‐Resilient Education) to guide hybrid learning initiatives. This framework emphasizes infrastructure standards, teaching competencies, equitable resource access, and institutional crisis continuity. Results suggest successful implementation requires integrating digital infrastructure with pedagogical approaches while considering local contexts and institutional capabilities.

Air, water, and soil pollution pose significant threats to environmental and human health, particularly in rapidly urbanising regions. This comprehensive review evaluates the scientific literature on plant biomonitoring in the State of São Paulo, Brazil, from 2009 to 2019, aiming to compile data for future research, assess the distribution of biomonitoring studies, and analyse their relationship to human health outcomes. To the extent of our knowledge, a review according to the criteria of this article has not yet been carried out. The review followed the ENTREQ protocol and employed a systematic search methodology, with thematic synthesis and descriptive statistics (percentage). Of the 656 studies identified, only 56 met the inclusion criteria. Air pollution was the most researched (91% of studies), and the city of São Paulo was the most frequent (40.2%). Leaves were the most analysed plant part (48.5%), and Tibouchina tipu was the most studied species (8.6%). Only five studies included here related the data to human health, focusing on respiratory diseases. The review presents an integrative framework illustrating the interplay between urbanisation, pollution, biomonitoring, and health outcomes. Despite limitations, plant biomonitoring offers valuable insights into the environmental and health impacts of pollution in São Paulo and can also serve as a guide for students and researchers on plant biomonitoring and its relationship with the diversity of pollutants and contaminants present in the biosphere, serving as support for the development of public policies regarding the improvement of environmental quality.

Surveillance indicators of the quality of water for human consumption in the Amazon were analysed from 2016 to 2020 using 185,528 samples from 11 microregions. Of the samples analysed, 93.20% were from urban areas, 66.65% were from the public water supply system (WSS), 31.02% were from the Collective Alternative Solution-CAS, and 2.33% from the Individual Alternative Solution-IAS. There was an increase in the number of records by the WSS, with a downwards trend and fluctuations in records for the CAS and the IAS. The quality indicators of chemical and physical parameters for urban areas were higher than those for rural areas and traditional communities. Most of the samples presented pH values below the recommended level. In the quantification of microbiological parameters, a higher presence of total coliforms and E. coli was identified in samples from rural areas and in traditional communities. In conclusion, there were inadequacies in the chemical, physical and microbiological parameters as well as problems related to the supply, storage and surveillance of water distributed for human consumption. These findings indicate the need to build an agenda for public management to address water insecurity and its likely effects on food insecurity in the region.

Resumo Analisaram-se indicadores de vigilância da qualidade da água para consumo humano no Amazonas, de 2016 a 2020, utilizando 185.528 amostras provenientes de 11 microrregiões. Das amostras analisadas, 93,20% são da área urbana, 66,65% provinham do sistema público (SAA), 31,02% da Solução Alternativa Coletiva (SAC) e 2,33% da Solução de Alternativa Individual (SAI). Observou-se aumento do número de registros pelo SAA, com tendência de queda e oscilações de registros para a SAC e a SAI. Os indicadores de qualidade dos parâmetros químicos e físicos da área urbana foram superiores aos das áreas rurais e de comunidades tradicionais. A maior parte das amostras apresentou valores de pH abaixo do recomendado. Na quantificação dos parâmetros microbiológicos, identificou-se maior presença de coliformes totais e E.coli na área rural e em comunidades tradicionais. Em conclusão, verificaram-se inadequações nos parâmetros químicos, físicos e microbiológicos, assim como problemas relativos ao abastecimento, armazenamento e à vigilância da água distribuída para consumo humano. Tais achados indicam a necessidade de construir uma agenda, pela gestão pública, para o enfrentamento da insegurança hídrica e seus prováveis efeitos sobre a insegurança alimentar existente na região.

In the wake of environmental challenges, it becomes questionable whether transfer from linear to a nonlinear or circular economy can be achieved by continuing to employ traditional linear ways of thinking about potential solutions and designing the tools for achieving the desired outcomes that should lead to overall planetary sustainability. Instead, for this important issue, it is necessary to involve a number of stakeholders in the implementation and measurement of circular economy implementation efficiency in practice. In addition to governments and industry, the entire society must participate in this, including higher education institutions. Higher education is necessary because it is a crucial tool for achieving sustainability and sustainable development. The quality of education is very important in economies – in this case, circular economies. Bearing this in mind, the key aspect of this chapter focuses on the scientific research in circular economy education among students of the University of Belgrade, Republic of Serbia. The results obtained can be a useful source of information to other educators, at a time when improving education for sustainability is gaining more and more credibility and scientific ground.KeywordsCircular economySustainabilityHigher educationHigher education for circular economyCurriculum

Technology omnipresence has changed all dimensions of our life: the way we work, study, and leisure (Lau et al., 2018). Classrooms evolved from a unidirectional, textbook-supported, lecture-based, and group feedback-dependent learning context to a physically independent, everywhere-everytime learning environment (Heflin et al., 2017) that is not restricted to study-oriented platforms such as Moodles and resources designed adequately for educational outcomes such as massive open online courses (MOOCs) but also percolates work-oriented platforms such as Google’s toolkit and LinkedIn and social media interaction platforms such as Facebook and Instagram (Thomas et al., 2018; Shafer et al., 2018).

Diversity in organizations has been mainly considered from the business case paradigm. Firms who foster diversity and equality management (DEM) policies and practices show better performance, net value-added, and legitimacy. Nevertheless, there is still a long way to go, regarding diversity rhetoric and equality, and inclusion practice. Consistent human resource practices in vertical alignment with the strategic core of the business have shown to be a way for firms to truly fulfill the social contract established toward DEM. Drawing from signaling and legitimacy theory under the broader scope of strategic human resources management (SHRM), we argue that leadership can be a proxy for DEM practices and that it can be measured through institutional reports. We analyze leadership diversity in 305 companies through a diversity indicator from the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). The method used is panel analysis, and eight hypotheses are tested by the GRI diversity indicator which is composed of independent variables, such as the wage gap between genders, gender and age turnover, rules violation, and reported cases of gender discrimination. It was possible to verify that the diversity of gender and ethnicity shows more sensitivity to the variable components than age diversity. Thus, managers should focus more attention on diversity indicators such as wages, respect for rules, turnover causes, and cases of discrimination, as well as the inclusion of minority groups in company leadership, especially those that wish to obtain a greater commitment to sustainability.

Sustainable Development Education is considered one of the main vectors for a sustainability transition. Sustainability is a broad field, inherently occupied by different knowledge areas that drink from each other to address the complexity of safeguarding the biosphere for the current and future human and nonhuman inhabitants. With the advent of new frameworks addressing sustainable development under a wider and more detailed lens, such as Aichi Targets, Millennium Development Goals, and ultimately the Sustainable Development Goals, the call for interdisciplinarity becomes even more needed. Interdisciplinarity can be seen as combining methods, theoretical approaches, and epistemological perspectives in diverse working groups for problem-solving; interdisciplinarity can also assume a critical perspective, grounded on the real-world problem needs. We assume that critical and instrumental perspectives, combined in the higher education milieu, can be the answer for educating leaders that hold the theoretical repertoire and the practical competencies that enable them to be agents of changing realities.

There is a general understanding that quantitative methods are more trustworthy than methods based uniquely on words and discourse. In this paper, we depart from this thinking to explore how numbers can be used in qualitative research so as to take advantage of its expressive power. We present a technique that enables the application of multivariate data analysis—particularly of interdependence methods, which include principal components analysis, factor analysis, cluster analysis, and multidimensional scaling—in qualitative research. The technique consists in translating categorical data from qualitative research into a binary form that enables the calculation of correlations, similarity coefficients, and distances, thus enabling the application of the interdependence methods of multivariate data analysis. Results also include a brief taxonomy of literature review. It contributes by demonstrating how qualitative research can benefit from quantitative analysis.