2026 February-2 - 451 articles
For nations heavily dependent on fossil-fuel exports, hydrogen is emerging as a promising solution to reduce carbon emissions while preserving economic stability and promoting countries’ energy independence. This research study examines hydroge...
Digital services trade is often viewed as a pathway to lower carbon intensity by reducing reliance on carbon-intensive physical trade. However, its environmental benefits may depend critically on the regulatory environments governing cross-border dig...
Heavy metal contamination, particularly lead, poses significant environmental and health risks. In this study, a multifunctional TiO2@PLDOPA@Fe3O4 (TPF) nanocomposite was synthesized and evaluated as a reusable adsorbent for lead ion (Pb(II)) removal...
Green economy (GE) is an important sustainable model that supports green practices and the achievement of sustainable development goals in the construction industry. However, the full-scale benefits of GE adoption in construction activities are short...
Water systems experience increasing sustainability challenges from climate variability, aging infrastructure, and energy and chemical intensity demands, but AI has typically been assessed against prediction accuracy rather than demonstrated operation...
Burrows are tunnels or holes excavated into the ground by certain types of animals, to be used as habitation or temporary refuge, or as a by-product of their locomotion. Burrows provide a form of shelter against predation and exposure to the elements...
The rapid growth of e-commerce, particularly in China, has led to a surge in express packaging waste, posing significant environmental challenges. However, consumer participation in express packaging recycling remains a critical yet underexplored iss...
This paper proposes an integrated framework to evaluate Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives in peacebuilding settings using the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). The model is structured around six criteria: conflict sensitivity, economi...
Environmental education awareness (EEA) often fails to translate into confident environmental action, representing a critical knowledge–action gap in sustainability education. This study investigated whether digital citizenship mediates the rel...
Digital infrastructure in rural China acts as a significant temporal intervention, yet its impact on social sustainability remains under-explored. Adopting the “timescape” lens, this study examines the interaction between linear algorithm...
Green infrastructure (GI) provides essential ecosystem services for urban sustainability in the face of urbanization and climate change, including stormwater management, heat mitigation, and reduction in carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration levels. Exi...
Droughts are one of the most significant hazards that affect human life due to the imbalanced distribution of water across the world. Some parts of the world are usually dry, and meteorological conditions affect these regions rapidly. In water-scarce...
Urban air quality assessment is central to environmental sustainability and public health management. This study presents a structured comparative evaluation of Random Forest (RF), Support Vector Machine (SVM), LSTM, and Bi-LSTM models for pollutant-...
Digitalization and decarbonization are unfolding in parallel, yet firm-level evidence on whether digital economy development delivers substantive low-carbon performance remains mixed. Using a 2008–2022 panel of Chinese listed firms matched to a...
The transition towards climate neutrality requires the development of spatially explicit planning approaches that account for territorial differences and land-use dynamics. Within this conceptual framework, this study has the objective of identifying...
Coal continues to play a significant role in Poland’s electricity generation system, making the sustainable management of environmental impacts from hard coal mining a critical challenge during the ongoing energy transition. In line with the Eu...
The transition to low-carbon urban environments is a cornerstone of global sustainability efforts. However, evaluating the diverse management efforts driving this transition is frequently hindered by fragmented and heterogeneous data. This study intr...
Against the backdrop of China’s “Dual Carbon” strategy, transitioning to high-quality energy development (HQED) is imperative for balancing decarbonization with economic resilience. This study explores the transformative role of the...
Addressing climate change necessitates coordinated efforts across multiple sectors, with agriculture representing a significant source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This requires sophisticated mitigation strategies at the farm level. Digital dec...
Textile and fashion designers play a strategic role in sustainable development within the textile chain. Several studies highlight the decision-making role of designers, emphasizing how their choices influence the entire production sector. The aim of...
Against the backdrop of China’s vigorous promotion of green and low-carbon development, this study empirically examines the impact of ESG greenwashing on corporate financial sustainable development performance, using a sample of Chinese A-share...
Cement is one of the primary construction materials in ground improvement applications that employ the binder stabilization method. Due to the high carbon dioxide emissions in its production, evaluating environmentally friendly alternative binder mat...
This study investigates the evolution of the structures of China’s domestic intercity tourism information flow networks, an increasingly important issue in an information-driven society. Moving beyond prior research that primarily emphasizes ur...
This study analyses the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) in enterprises in Slovakia in comparison with the EU27 and examines its relationship with labour productivity from the perspective of long-term economic sustainability. Using harmonised...
Ground-level ozone (O3) pollution remains persistently high in China, despite the implementation of stringent emission controls targeting primary pollutants. However, understanding of the drivers and formation mechanisms of this secondary pollutant r...
Logistics parks are increasingly acting as coordination hubs in cross-border agricultural supply chains (CASCs), yet evidence on how park-enabled governance mechanisms translate into sustainability remains limited. This study examines the drivers of...
Waterfront recreational spaces, as key urban ecological resources, are distinctive in their scarcity and ecological fragility. Their sustainable revitalization requires evidence-based spatial planning and design. The analysis of the vitality of water...
This study analysed the role of risk perception and business self-efficacy feeling through entrepreneurial education acquired by higher specialised studies on the emergence of entrepreneurial intentions. The quantitative research method included a qu...
Closed-basin lakes are highly sensitive to climatic variability, yet for the Lake Van Basin (Türkiye), the dynamic and spatially heterogeneous linkages among atmospheric drivers and lake-level changes (particularly their lag structure and predic...
Although Palestine ratified the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) in 2014 without reservations, women’s labour-force participation has remained largely stagnant over the past fifteen years, fluct...
Utah Lake is a large, shallow, highly eutrophic system that is naturally rich in phosphorus (P) and is prone to harmful algal blooms (HABs). While ongoing regulatory efforts often focus on reducing external anthropogenic P loads, particularly from wa...
This work supports the circular economy and sustainable material by facilitating the creation of low-carbon materials with enhanced elimination of nutrients from wastewater, thereby assisting in preventing eutrophication. Porous geopolymers, owing to...
Advancing the low-carbon and resilient transformation of urban systems has become a crucial strategy for addressing the climate crisis. Current research predominantly focuses on either the effect of governance or the efficient utilization of urban sy...
Traditional greenhouse cooling often relies on single-pass evaporative systems that exhaust valuable moisture and CO2 into the atmosphere. This research introduces a sustainable alternative by developing a laboratory-scale greenhouse that utilizes a...
Engineering education is increasingly shaped by two converging developments: accelerating sustainability transitions and rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI). However, in many application-oriented undergraduate programs, sustainability lear...
Biological wastewater treatment methods are considered suitable due to several advantages, such as fast processing, low operating cost, less secondary pollution, and overall, environmentally friendly. Microalgae-based wastewater treatment has promisi...
Minibus taxis are Cape Town’s ubiquitous public transport mode, carrying about 69% of public transport users. As electric mobility accelerates, the implications of electrifying this paratransit fleet must be quantified. We present a multi-persp...
Digital technologies are widely viewed as important tools for enhancing corporate environmental performance. However, there is growing recognition that their environmental impacts are not uniformly positive and may even generate unintended negative c...
Hydrogen gas sensors are essential for ensuring safety and efficient operation in the expanding hydrogen energy economy and its infrastructure. However, real-world sensor performance is frequently compromised by interference from coexisting gases, en...
Learning environments are increasingly expected to enable students to develop competencies necessary for addressing complex social, environmental, and technological challenges in sustainable societies. Within this context, instructional approaches th...
While it is a global imperative that firms should achieve superior environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance, the specific impact of ESG on export product quality remains under-explored. Based on stakeholder theory and principal–a...
Carbon sinks have been widely recognized as critical components of climate change mitigation and achieving carbon neutrality. With rapid urbanization, protecting and optimizing urban carbon sinks remain major challenges. This study uses Zhengzhou as...
The Yellow River Basin is a vital agricultural and ecological region in China. In recent years, intensified livestock farming has substantially increased chemical oxygen demand (COD) as well as nitrogen and phosphorus emissions, forming a cross-media...
Integrating engineering ethics education into the curriculum system of China’s transportation engineering major is crucial for promoting Sustainable Development Goal 11 (SDG 11) in the field of transportation engineering in China. However, the...
Rapid urbanization has led to severe landscape fragmentation and ecosystem degradation in the Gansu Section of the Yellow River Basin (GSYRB). Focusing on this region, this study identified the spatial distribution of key ecological elements; consequ...
Ecuador’s energy system, heavily reliant on hydropower, is increasingly exposed to climate-related disruptions. The 2023–2024 crisis triggered by a historic drought revealed critical structural weaknesses. During this period, the governme...
This study examines how sustainability orientation shapes sustainability behavior among entrepreneurial small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Turkey. Grounded in self-determination theory (SDT) and the theory of planned behavior (TPB), this st...
Soil fertility is a critical factor for sustainable agricultural production, yet traditional soil analysis methods are often time-consuming and costly. As such, the aim of our research was to evaluate the potential of near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy...
Protection of water resources is an urgent priority in the context of increasing freshwater scarcity. Sustainable and circular water management focuses on reducing water consumption as well as measures to recover and reuse alternative water sources....
Intellectual property (IP) is a cornerstone of sustainable industrial growth, yet unpredictable fluctuations in patent application filings pose a challenge to the administrative efficiency and sustainable governance of patent offices. This study aims...
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