2026 May-2 - 593 articles
Modular construction advances sustainability and is reshaping designer competencies, making workforce development critical to industry transition. Existing competency models rely mainly on expert interviews and Delphi methods, offering limited quanti...
As AI and digital tools become more widely adopted in school education, integrating them sustainably into teacher preparation has become a central concern for sustainable teacher education. This study examined how pre-service elementary teachers deve...
Diesel is a major soil contaminant that poses significant environmental risks, making its removal essential. This study investigates the synergistic application of thermal desorption (TD) and thermal plasma for the remediation of diesel-contaminated...
Evapotranspiration (ET) is a fundamental process within the water cycle and the agricultural water balance, optimizing resource allocation, maintaining soil health, and enhancing ecosystem resilience to climate change. Because ET represents a primary...
Assessing the level of circularity in the Hotel, Restaurant and Catering (HoReCa) sector is a significant challenge due to the lack of standardized quantification methods and the absence of structured environmental and material accounting systems, fe...
Climate change continues to threaten global food security. Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) offers a solution to addressing this challenge in urban agriculture (UA). This paper addresses a gap in the empirical literature on decision-making about the a...
Calcium carbide slag is a highly alkaline solid waste generated during acetylene production, but its long-term accumulation causes land occupation and persistent environmental risks such as soil alkalinization and water pollution. To support circular...
Post-disaster reconstruction programmes create an irreversible window for embedding or foreclosing residential energy efficiency at scale. This study examines the structural determinants of per capita residential electricity consumption (K_MES) acros...
Irrigation water use efficiency (IWUE) is a core indicator for assessing agricultural water use efficiency. However, existing studies predominantly focus on linear relationships between IWUE and individual correlates, with insufficient attention to t...
Biochar production from lignocellulosic waste represents a sustainable route for biomass valorization and carbon management within circular bioeconomy frameworks. In this study, biochar was produced from two abundant agricultural wastes in Türki...
This paper examines how local firm entry affects air pollution and whether the Air Pollution Prevention and Control Action Plan (APPCAP) changes this relationship. Using a county–month panel for 2010–2020, we match the Chinese Industrial...
Rural e-commerce is treated as a lever for common prosperity, but its welfare effect turns non-monotonic across digital-development gradients, raising concerns about the widening urban–rural gap in sustainable regional development. We built a c...
Adopting a circular economy approach requires new business models, multi-stakeholder engagement, and tailored financial models and mechanisms as core pillars. This paper examines the conditions needed to scale circular economy initiatives in Europe b...
Emergency medical response is complex. The need to make time-based decisions that can impact people’s health requires careful examination. Network analysis, among other methods, can support that time-based decision making. This study explores n...
Ensuring food security is a top priority for China, and non-grain production (NGP) of cropland can substantially reduce food production. As the core grain production base in Shaanxi Province and even Northwest China, the Guanzhong region’s evol...
Considering rising global uncertainties and intensifying resource and environmental pressures, it has become an inevitable trend to add more ecologically green factors to the traditional industrial chain resilience system and build a system of green...
The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries consistently rank among the highest per capita CO2 emitters globally, yet rigorous empirical analysis of the structural drivers of these emissions in the post-Paris Agreement era remains scarce. This study...
As urban areas expand, the sustainable management of municipal water becomes a critical challenge, especially in arid and semi-arid regions facing severe water scarcity. Accurate assessment of urban plant water requirements (PWR) is essential for dev...
Comprehensive utilization of crop straw (CUCS) is a critical pathway toward sustainable agricultural development, synergizing food security and carbon neutrality goals. However, there remains a lack of systematic empirical evidence regarding its macr...
The journal retracts the article titled, “Occurrence, Distribution, Damage Potential, and Farmers’ Perception on Fall Armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda (J [...]
The construction sector accounts for approximately 36% of global final energy consumption and close to 40% of total CO2 emissions, making it a primary target of international climate policy. Despite this growing attention, the indigenous building tra...
Against the backdrop of the global green development concept, scientifically assessing the level of urban green transformation (UGT) in China and revealing its spatiotemporal evolution are critical for promoting high-quality development in the countr...
Public data openness (PDO) is critical for advancing digital government initiatives and sustainable development. This study investigates the impact and underlying mechanisms of PDO on carbon emission efficiency (CEE) using a staggered difference-in-d...
This study evaluates how environmental regulation influences enterprise management practices in the YREB of China, which faces a dilemma between economic growth and ecological conservation. Following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Revie...
In this study, we examine how Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) awareness influences Generation Z’s adoption of Green FinTech services, especially in digitally emerging economies such as Saudi Arabia. Drawing on an extended model of t...
This study explored the effectiveness of the Phenomenon-Based Learning (PheBL) model in fostering students’ autonomous learning behaviors and metacognitive awareness as important dimensions of sustainable learning. Employing a quasi-experimenta...
Physical manufacturing and research infrastructures are essential for advanced innovation but often remain inaccessible to SMEs, start-ups, and research institutions that cannot justify ownership of capital-intensive assets. This study examines wheth...
Bismuth is widely recognized for its natural abundance, moderate cost, and low toxicity, making it an attractive alternative to the expensive and toxic transition metals commonly employed in heterogeneous catalysis. In this work, we report the immobi...
This paper introduces a dual-sector growth model to investigate the “circularity trap,” a phenomenon where increasing the Circular Material Use Rate (CMUR) leads to a decline in total value added per worker in developing economies. While...
The journal retracts the article “System-Cluster Technology of e-Learning Improvement under the Conditions of COVID-19” [...]
Emerging markets (EMs) are rising [...]
In the new development stage, promoting the integration of innovation–industry–talent chains (three chains) is an important measure to achieve low-carbon transformation and development. This study analyzes the internal logic of integratio...
Improving spray deposition within crop canopies is important for sustainable pesticide application, particularly when target surfaces are shielded or located in difficult-to-reach canopy zones. Air-assisted spraying may improve droplet transport and...
Promoting sustained green innovation plays an important role in facilitating the green transformation of the economy and achieving high-quality development. This study utilizes data from Chinese listed manufacturing firms from 2015 to 2024 and employ...
Moisture damage is a common hidden distress in asphalt pavements in hot and rainy regions, where it can rapidly develop into severe surface deterioration if not detected in time. To address this issue, this study proposes an automated framework integ...
Promoting the integration of the industrial and innovation chains (ICIC) constitutes a crucial strategy adopted by the Chinese government to foster sustainable economic development. Industrial intelligence (II), as a prominent application of artifici...
[Objective] This study aims to reveal the spatiotemporal evolution and transition patterns of green utilization efficiency of cultivated land (GUECL) across Chinese provinces and to identify multidimensional configurational pathways for improving eff...
The transition to a low-carbon economy is the cornerstone of global sustainability, requiring high-emission enterprises to shift from carbon-intensive production to genuine green innovation. However, this study uncovers a significant structural imped...
Makerspaces can serve as distributed urban infrastructures for repair, reuse, tool sharing, and peer learning, yet their contributions to circular economy (CE) goals often occur without being explicitly recognized or framed as CE practices. Inspired...
This study examines whether firm-level digital transformation capability (DTC) is associated with stronger operational resilience and whether governance structures condition this relationship. Operational resilience is treated here as a business-sust...
Building climate-resilient cities strengthens urban livability and sustainable development levels. This paper constructs a difference-in-differences model to examine the impact of the pilot policy for climate-resilient city construction (CRCC—C...
The current model of agricultural development, largely focused on the intensification of production, causes increased pressure on the natural environment and, at the same time, does not guarantee sufficient food supplies in the era of global demograp...
This study examines the association between digital payments adoption and reliance on cash in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), as well as its potential implications for financial inclusion. Using microdata from the 2021 Global Findex Survey for...
The rapid urbanization of coastal zones has brought to light ecological and environmental issues at the junction between land and sea. Accurately identifying key areas for ecological restoration in coastal zones, as well as implementing projects for...
Assessing the ecological and environmental quality of old industrial cities is crucial for understanding the spatial heterogeneity of ecological quality and its associated factors during regional transformation. Taking Tangshan, a typical old industr...
This study explores how Artificial Intelligence (AI) shapes Green Purchasing Behavior through cognitive and attitudinal mechanisms by implementing the Stimulus–Organism–Response (SOR Model) Theory. It analyzes AI as an external stimulus t...
Port decarbonization strategies often prioritize emissions under direct port authority control while overlooking dominant indirect sources. This study proposes an approach that combines Life-Cycle Assessment (LCA) and expert elicitation. While existi...
Perceived street vitality directly reflects residents’ assessments of the attractiveness of the street environment; it is not only an important focus of urban vitality research but also closely related to human-centred sustainable urban develop...
Tracking agrivoltaic (TAV) systems represent a significant form of agrivoltaics, which optimize solar energy capture through the dynamic adjustment of photovoltaic (PV) panel tilt angles. However, there is limited research on the effects of TAV syste...
Traditional Chinese brick-and-stone archways are not merely architectural products shaped by geographical constraints; they also embody a highly rational structural logic. Drawing on the unique earthen environment of the Loess Plateau and the region&...
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