2025 December-1 - 456 articles
Rural labor transfer is crucial for China’s urbanization and agricultural modernization, yet the role of contracted land assets in this process remains underexplored. Understanding how land tenure arrangements affect labor mobility decisions ha...
Blockchain technology is increasingly adopted in supply chains to record product carbon footprints and environmental attributes on tamper-resistant ledgers. By improving the transparency and verifiability of emission-related information for governmen...
This paper presents an adaptive reinforcement learning (RL)-based control strategy for a wireless power transfer (WPT)-fed brushless DC (BLDC) motor drive, aimed at enhancing efficiency in industrial applications. Conventional control methods for BLD...
This research presents a solution to the problem of controlling the energy demand and carbon footprint of old buildings, with the focus being on a (heated) building located in Madrid, Spain. A framework that incorporates AI and advanced hybrid ensemb...
In transforming emerging economies, the historical origins of family firms can be traced either to the restructuring of SOEs or to direct establishment. Drawing on imprinting theory and intergenerational family governance, this study investigates how...
In the rapidly changing Urban Agglomeration on the Northern Slope of the Tianshan Mountains (UANSTM), urbanization and oasis ecosystem degradation have intensified the need for ecological security planning. However, traditional ecosystem service asse...
The authors would like to make the following corrections about the published paper [...]
As the fashion industry accelerates its digital and sustainable transformation, the European Union’s policy development on Digital Product Passports (DPPs) has attracted growing attention. However, there is still a lack of systematic research i...
In the context of pavement management systems (PMSs), overloaded trucks impose severe economic and environmental burdens by accelerating pavement deterioration and increasing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Existing research on Weigh-in-Motion (WIM)...
Urban densification in post-socialist cities has drastically reduced open and green spaces in high-rise housing areas (HRHAs), intensifying heat stress and degrading outdoor thermal comfort (OTC). These neighborhoods—shaped by socialist-era pla...
The market imperfection hypothesis posits that market frictions undermine economic efficiency and amplify economic fluctuations. As an emerging corporate evaluation framework and behavioral norm, ESG (environmental, social, and governance) performanc...
Over recent decades, planners in the U.S. have increasingly adopted mixed-use projects to reduce automobile dependency and strengthen local community identity, although results remain inconsistent across cities. Urban health and fitness outcomes are...
The shift towards renewable energy demands decision-making tools that unite economic performance with environmental stewardship and social equity. The conventional evaluation methods fail to consider these interconnected factors, which results in sub...
Crisis situations highlight the need for timely planning to mitigate their impacts on the economy and society. The COVID-19 pandemic has emphasized the importance of prevention, preparedness, and effective communication in tourism crises. As tourism...
The road construction sector is increasingly striving to reduce its environmental footprint while advancing circular economic goals. Conventional asphalt mixtures depend on virgin aggregates and bitumen, which significantly contribute to emissions an...
Ocean waves constitute a vast renewable resource, yet most linear generator-based wave energy converters (WECs) rely on single-degree-of-freedom (SDOF) linear oscillators that exhibit narrow resonance bandwidths and utilise sliding components prone t...
This study investigates the impact of renewable energy, environmental technology, foreign direct investment (FDI), and globalization on green economic growth in South Africa within the framework of the country’s National Development Plan (NDP)...
Balancing efficiency and equity within agricultural supply chains is crucial for rural revitalization and sustainable development. This study focuses on the three-tiered chain of ‘farmers–cooperatives–retailers’, constructing...
The transformation towards a sustainable bioeconomy presents new challenges and opportunities for the agricultural sector. This paper investigates how the environmental impacts of this transformation can be effectively monitored using existing agricu...
Wastewater generated in municipal rendering facilities requires multi-step treatment, but it may also serve as a source of nutrients and water and thus may be valorized before or instead of the necessary wastewater treatment operations. In this work,...
The Liaodong oak (Quercus wutaishanica Mayr) is dominant in the composition scheme in Qingyang City, and its growth performance and management practices have long been central concerns of forest management. However, the long cycles and complex dynami...
Rural destinations face a difficult challenge in balancing economic vitality with the environmental and infrastructural pressures, including congestion of car-dependent destinations. Despite growing calls for more sustainable mobility, destination ma...
Understanding the dynamics of Land Resource Carrying Capacity (LRCC) under rapid urbanization requires not only retrospective assessment but also operational tools for supporting future planning. This study develops a spatially explicit LRCC framewor...
This study presents a mixed-integer nonlinear programming (MINLP) framework to optimize the allocation of electric vehicle charging stations (EVCSs) in existing indoor parking facilities. The model minimizes total life-cycle cost by jointly determini...
The atmosphere plays a pivotal role in modulating the interactions between microorganisms and their surrounding environments, influencing ecological cycles, heritage conservation, and providing opportunities for novel applications. Recent studies hav...
South Africa, like many other emerging economies, has witnessed a growing awareness of climate change in recent years, driven by school-based initiatives, media coverage, and non-governmental campaigns. However, evidence indicates that this awareness...
Mobile Microlearning (MML) has emerged as a sustainable digital learning strategy capable of improving cognitive efficiency, reducing learner fatigue, and supporting scalable instructional delivery. This study investigates how MML compares with conve...
Climate change (CC) and air pollution are closely interlinked environmental challenges that significantly affect human health and quality of life, especially in urban and industrialized regions. This study conducted a comprehensive investigation on h...
Agricultural insurance, as a stabilizer, is crucial for the promotion of agricultural modernization. Therefore, exploring the impact mechanism of agricultural insurance on agricultural modernization and seeking ways to promote it has important practi...
The authors would like to make the following correction to the published paper [...]
Ensuring product quality and safety is fundamental to sustainable production and consumption. With the rapid advancement of digital technologies such as blockchain and big data, quality and safety traceability systems have become essential tools to e...
Air pollution, particularly fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and ozone (O3) pollution, poses serious challenges to environmental quality and sustainable development. The Tibetan Plateau, often described as the “Third Pole,” functions as a...
In educational settings, the transfer of knowledge to daily life and the permanence of learning outcomes are essential goals. In this context, Outdoor Learning (OL) has gained growing attention as an approach that connects students with real-life exp...
Amid global climate change and extreme weather conditions, sudden dzud events in arid grassland regions inflict severe disasters on herders, livestock, transportation, and the economy. In particular, Mongolia experiences frequent dzud events in recen...
Green agricultural technologies play a vital role in enhancing ecological quality, and biopesticides, as a key component, can reduce chemical pollution while improving soil health. Drawing on micro-level survey data from farmers in Sichuan Province,...
This study empirically examines the determinants of sustainable education finance by analyzing how income level, income inequality, fertility rate, and population density influence education expenditure as a share of GDP. Using annual data for 38 OEC...
Digitalization and sustainability are fundamentally transforming the way tourism destinations are planned, managed, and experienced. Among the digital tools supporting this transition, simulation emerges as a key enabler for developing smarter, more...
More than half of the world’s highly regulated rivers are currently experiencing an unsustainable balance between ecological protection and economic development. The value realization of river eco-products is considered a key pathway to address...
Concerns about the increasing ecological harm caused by human activities have led to greater recognition of the need to address environmental degradation. Policymakers are implementing actions and strategies to alleviate the detrimental effects of cl...
The consumer social network plays an important role in the formation of price premiums for agricultural foods. This study focuses on organic milk products and addresses the following questions: First, how does the consumer social network influence th...
Home energy management systems (HEMSs) have attracted considerable research interest in residential appliance management. Although optimal scheduling of home appliances has been extensively studied, these problems are fundamentally dynamic multi-obje...
Air quality assessment and waste management are key priorities within the Sustainable Development Goals. This study proposes an integrated approach to optimizing waste management and assessing air quality on Chalki Island, located in the Southeastern...
This study examines how information frictions in climate policy credibility shape carbon border adjustment mechanisms when trading partners cannot fully verify each other’s commitment to green industrial policies. A dynamic signaling framework...
Enhancing corporate green innovation has become a critical question in the context of sustainable development. Prior studies have predominantly examined the macro-level effects of regional integration while largely overlooking its micro-level impacts...
The global maritime industry faces a conflict between economic competition and sustainability standards. Economic pressure often incentivizes ship registries toward regulatory leniency, degrading environmental and social standards. Traditional static...
The accelerated loss of biodiversity and the limited integration of ocean literacy into school curricula highlight the urgent need for innovative approaches in Environmental Education for Sustainability (EES). This study presents the design and class...
Enhancing farmers’ livelihood resilience is a cornerstone of sustainable rural development and poverty alleviation consolidation in developing countries. While tourism has emerged as a prominent rural revitalization strategy, the mediating role...
In controlled environment agriculture (CEA), CO2 enrichment can promote photosynthesis while simultaneously reducing evapotranspiration, but the optimal settings vary depending on crop type, growth stage, and microclimate. This study presents a near-...
The growing importance of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) performance across sectors has accelerated the adoption of digital technologies for the continuous monitoring, analysis, and optimization of key sustainability indicators. This stu...
This study develops an indicator system for provincial digital innovation in China from 2012 to 2022, drawing on four dimensions: actors, elements, environment, and outcomes. Its purpose is to identify the spatial evolution of China’s digital i...
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