2026 August-2 - 589 articles
As China’s urbanization shifts toward quality-oriented development, urban regeneration increasingly prioritizes the perceived quality of public spaces to enhance urban vitality and advance sustainable urban living. This study takes Zhengzhou&rs...
The core predicament of energy transition lies not in the availability of clean technologies, but in whether an economy possesses the institutional capacity and social foundation to systematically regulate its carbon-energy metabolic processes. Drawi...
The growing environmental impact of the construction sector is driving a shift toward sustainable design practices, in which digital technologies are integrated to enable designers to make informed decisions from the early design stages. In this stud...
Winter water allocation in regulated plain river networks requires an operational link between hydrological low water benchmarks and replenishment decisions. This study focused on the Lixiahe plain river networks; utilizing winter water level records...
Sustainable urban disaster response requires Earth observation (EO) resources to be selected according to event demands, environmental conditions, sensing capabilities, and urban targets. This study proposes an Observation Linked Open Data (O-LOD)-ba...
Liquid Air Energy Storage (LAES) is a promising large-scale storage technology for supporting the sustainable integration of intermittent renewable electricity into power grids, particularly when electricity storage is combined with waste-heat valori...
The cooperatives combine a pyramidal structure, in which few members concentrate decision-making power, with ownership dispersed among a broad membership base. This configuration favors adverse selection and moral hazard arising from information asym...
For renewable-rich microgrids, effective energy management is essential to improve economic efficiency and renewable-energy utilization while maintaining supply adequacy and network security. However, online dispatch remains challenging because varia...
Colonias are historically underserved communities along the Texas–Mexico border facing infrastructure deficiencies, socioeconomic vulnerability, and environmental hazards. This study examines parcel-level development conditions across 66,160 pr...
Urban agglomerations are increasingly exposed to shocks that extend across administrative boundaries through infrastructure systems, industrial chains, population mobility, and shared ecological spaces. Existing urban resilience research has predomin...
Valorizing peach pruning residues into alternative feed is a potentially sustainable strategy. In this study, we evaluated the effects of extrusion puffing (EX) and white-rot fungi (Phanerochaete chrysosporium, Irpex lacteus, and Phlebia acerina) on...
Sustainable historic-town conservation requires preserving historical patterns and cultural memory while understanding how spatial environments shape everyday perception. Using Yun’an Ancient Salt Town in Chongqing, China, this study develops a...
The rapid development of the low-altitude economy is reshaping tourism activities, infrastructure provision, and landscape resource use, yet national-scale research on low-altitude tourism bases remains limited. Using data on 1247 bases in China, thi...
This study examines the association between financial development and selected telecommunications infrastructure indicators in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), focusing on mobile cellular subscriptions (MBS) and fixed telephone subscriptions (FTS). It also...
Agricultural drones have been increasingly adopted to improve production efficiency and address labor shortages in agriculture. However, their broader socioeconomic effects remain unclear, particularly regarding whether drone-assisted farming may inc...
Coordinating air pollution control with carbon mitigation is a central challenge for urban sustainability. However, there is currently a lack of sufficient research on whether digital infrastructure can complement environmental regulations to enhance...
Digital inclusive finance has become an important policy instrument for promoting inclusive growth and decent employment. Using matched data from the China Micro- and Small-Enterprise Survey (CMES) and the Peking University Digital Financial Inclusio...
Small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) currently face substantial challenges in maintaining their operating standards. Implementing occupational health and safety practices (OHSPs) can be an important strategy for success. This empirical study as...
This paper examines the relationship between digital transformation capabilities and perceived organizational performance in an entrepreneurial fintech SME and considers, at an interpretive level, how these capabilities may support more accessible di...
Green digital technologies are increasingly used to improve environmental visibility, resource efficiency, and sustainability-oriented decision-making. However, their association with sustainable business performance may depend on whether firms conve...
Background: Pharmaceutical waste presents significant economic and environmental challenges, necessitating systemic interventions for sustainable healthcare. Community pharmacists are pivotal in mitigating this waste through optimized dispensing, pat...
China’s transition toward a low-carbon and sustainable energy system requires renewable energy firms to align their technological decisions with environmental policy objectives. Drawing on the Porter hypothesis, this study examines how command-...
Road infrastructure risk management often relies on aggregate rankings that assume stable priorities across projects. This retrospective, document-based study examines between-project differences in risk structure and directed associations between pr...
Firms both influence natural systems and depend on the ecosystem services that support their ongoing production and operations. A higher degree of such dependence may strengthen firms’ motivation to pursue green technologies aimed at conserving...
Urban green infrastructure (UGI) serves as a core pillar of sustainable urban development, delivering multiple benefits including urban heat island mitigation, stormwater regulation, and health promotion. However, allergenic pollen released by urban...
Living terraced cultural landscapes (LTCLs) bind together agricultural heritage, ecological function, and local culture. International instruments such as the Guidance and Toolkit for Impact Assessments, Enhancing Our Heritage Toolkit 2.0, and Prepar...
East Asia is both the densest subsystem of the global liner shipping network and the home basin of its signature hazard, the typhoon. This study quantifies the relationship in both directions, as a stress test of the sustainability of maritime connec...
This study proposes an innovative framework that combines hydroclimatic and agro-environmental predictors, including nitrate concentration and NDVI, with climatic factors such as Rainfall, temperature, and evapotranspiration to forecast piezometric l...
The spatial organization of public service facilities within transit-oriented development TOD blocks is closely related to residents’ daily travel conditions and travel-related carbon emissions. This study examined all 172 operating metro stati...
In-storage food loss is a persistent yet under-addressed source of economic, environmental, and social waste in small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) cold chains, where continuous monitoring and lean workflows are typically absent. This study asks...
Amid the global energy transition, whether city-level energy policies can improve firm-level sustainability remains insufficiently understood. Using panel data on Chinese A-share listed firms from 2009 to 2023, this study examines the relationship be...
Ecuadorian aquaculture plays an increasingly important role in food security, providing a sustainable complement to capture fisheries. Manabí constitutes a key economic sector that contributes to employment generation, income diversification,...
Smart city initiatives increasingly claim to be citizen-centric, yet governance frameworks persistently conflate two analytically distinct concepts, citizen participation and citizen engagement, in ways that undermine the design and evaluation of civ...
Climate adaptation depends not only on infrastructure and governance but also on the adaptive capacity of populations, whose psychological correlates are rarely quantified at a national scale. This study tests an integrative model in which environmen...
Large-scale renewable energy bases with high penetration of renewable energy are facing increasing challenges related to renewable energy curtailment. Concentrated solar power plants with thermal energy storage can provide dispatchable power output,...
The transition to a new industrial paradigm beyond Industry 5.0 demands hyperconnectivity and massive processing, creating a paradox where high computational demand can threaten corporate sustainability goals (ESG). This study aims to structure and p...
Understanding building operational carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions is essential for sustainable urban planning, yet variations in emissions across building types remain poorly characterized. This study integrated top-down and bottom-up approaches to e...
Activated carbon is a highly porous adsorbent material that is often used to treat wastewater using physical and chemical adsorption. Agricultural and urban biomass waste valorization to activated carbon is a low-cost, renewable solution to commercia...
Land-use change directly and indirectly affects regional carbon storage by reshaping the composition and function of terrestrial ecosystems, and understanding this process is important for guiding land-use strategies toward carbon neutrality. This st...
Local physicochemical variability in small post-extraction gravel pit lakes is often difficult to interpret because water chemistry may reflect both seasonal dynamics and highly local shoreline conditions. This study assessed spatial and temporal pat...
Underground gas storage (UGS) facilities serve to balance natural gas networks within a given area. The nature of natural gas network balancing is twofold: long-term (seasonal) during periods of significant gas withdrawal (the cold half-year) and sho...
To address the mismatch between agricultural development and water resource conditions, this study examined 22 provinces and four municipalities in China over the period 2014–2023 and incorporated terrain factors into the analytical framework....
Hydrochloric acid is conventionally used to pre-hydrolyse starch before periodate oxidation into dialdehyde starch (DAS), which may generate chloride-containing waste. This study proposes a sustainable one-step hydrolysis–oxidation route using...
Rapid urban expansion reshapes urban morphology and the spatial organization of regional city systems. However, provincial-scale studies rarely integrate expansion dynamics, morphological change, and the evolution of morphological polycentricity, whi...
This paper examines the emergence of generative Artificial Intelligence and its increasing integration into educational processes, highlighting the significant impact this transformation has had on teaching practices. The rapid spread of these techno...
With the rapid development of E-commerce platforms (EPs) and the accumulation of consumer data, demand information sharing has become increasingly important in green supply chains. However, the interaction between selling mode selection and informati...
China’s pursuit of its dual-carbon targets amid rapid artificial intelligence (AI) development raises an important question: do the environmental implications of AI innovation change as regional innovation advances? Using a balanced panel of 30...
Coffee fermentation is a critical yet under-optimized stage of the coffee value chain, with significant implications for beverage quality, process consistency, and smallholder livelihoods. Pichia species, together with several non-Saccharomyces yeast...
Existing studies often reduce private firms’ environmental behaviors to mere greenwashing, rarely unpacking the underlying mechanisms that drive polluting enterprises to develop and sustain substantive compliance. This paper constructs a &ldquo...
Despite growing regulatory and investor attention to human capital as a core pillar of corporate sustainability and ESG reporting, it remains unclear how human capital-related information is priced in financial markets. This study examines the associ...
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