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Article History

Received: 7 April 2025

Accepted: 11 May 2026

First Online: 8 June 2026

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: To maintain the integrity and transparency of the peer-review process, I Sammy Letema, as a member of the Editorial Board of Discover Sustainability, will not be involved in any stage of the editorial handling or decision-making process for our own submitted manuscript. All editorial responsibilities for this submission will be delegated to an independent editor to ensure an unbiased and fair evaluation, in accordance with standard ethical guidelines and conflict of interest policies in scholarly publishing.

: I Sammy Letema, as a member of the Editorial Board of Discover Sustainability, I will not be involved in any stage of the editorial handling or decision-making process for our own submitted manuscript. All editorial responsibilities for this submission will be delegated to an independent editor to ensure an unbiased and fair evaluation, in accordance with standard ethical guidelines and conflict of interest policies in scholarly publishing.