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Environmental Economics and Ecological Transformations from a Sustainability Perspective

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sustainability and Applications".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2025) | Viewed by 5163

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Wanhai You

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Guest Editor
School of Economics and Management, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, China
Interests: energy economics and finance; climate change; climate risk
Dr. Shijing Nan

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Guest Editor
School of Economics and Management, Northwest University, Xi'an, China
Interests: low-carbon economy; energy economics; environmental economics
Dr. Yawei Guo

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Guest Editor
School of Economics and Management, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, China
Interests: low-carbon economy; financial risk spillover

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

How to maintain sustainable development is a matter of significant importance facing all countries around the world. It calls for a deep transformation in all aspects of society, including the economy, culture, ecology, energy and so on. Accordingly, it is very important to clarify the relationship between various determinants, such as economic growth, population factors, energy transition and the structure transition, and environmental indicators.

Therefore, this Special Issue focuses on the approach to sustainable development from various perspectives. We encourage researchers to submit their experimental, computational, theoretical and empirical research relating to environmental economics, ecological transformations, energy transition, and sustainable development, in addition to climate change and climate risk.

Topics of interest for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following:

  1. Sustainable development in ecological transition;
  2. Environmental problems in social development;
  3. Corporate environmental performance in social transformation;
  4. Energy transition and energy efficiency issues in structural transformation;
  5. Climate change, climate risk and their impacts on the economy.

Dr. Wanhai You
Dr. Shijing Nan
Dr. Yawei Guo
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • environmental economics
  • ecological transformations
  • structure transition
  • sustainable development
  • energy transition
  • climate change
  • climate risk

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Renewable Energy Credits Transforming Market Dynamics
by Bankole I. Oladapo, Mattew A. Olawumi and Francis T. Omigbodun
Sustainability 2024, 16(19), 8602; https://doi.org/10.3390/su16198602 - 3 Oct 2024
Cited by 4 | Viewed by 1984
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This research uses advanced statistical methods to examine climate change mitigation policies’ economic and environmental impacts. The primary objective is to assess the effectiveness of carbon pricing, renewable energy subsidies, emission trading schemes, and regulatory standards in reducing CO2 emissions, fostering economic [...] Read more.
This research uses advanced statistical methods to examine climate change mitigation policies’ economic and environmental impacts. The primary objective is to assess the effectiveness of carbon pricing, renewable energy subsidies, emission trading schemes, and regulatory standards in reducing CO2 emissions, fostering economic growth, and promoting employment. A mixed-methods approach was employed, combining regression analysis, cost–benefit analysis (CBA), and computable general equilibrium (CGE) models. Data were collected from national and global databases, and sensitivity analyses were conducted to ensure the robustness of the findings. Key findings revealed a statistically significant reduction in CO2 emissions by 0.45% for each unit increase in carbon pricing (p < 0.01). Renewable energy subsidies were positively correlated with a 3.5% increase in employment in the green sector (p < 0.05). Emission trading schemes were projected to increase GDP by 1.2% over a decade (p < 0.05). However, chi-square tests indicated that carbon pricing disproportionately affects low-income households (p < 0.05), highlighting the need for compensatory policies. The study concluded that a balanced policy mix, tailored to national contexts, can optimise economic and environmental outcomes while addressing social equity concerns. Error margins in GDP projections remained below ±0.3%, confirming the models’ reliability. Full article
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Enabling Green Innovation Quality through Green Finance Credit Allocation: Evidence from Chinese Firms
by Liangfeng Hao, Biyi Deng and Haobo Zhang
Sustainability 2024, 16(17), 7336; https://doi.org/10.3390/su16177336 - 26 Aug 2024
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As one of the world’s largest economies and the biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, China plays a critical role in global environmental management. As China emphasizes new quality productive forces, understanding how green finance can enable green innovation quality (GIQ) is essential for [...] Read more.
As one of the world’s largest economies and the biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, China plays a critical role in global environmental management. As China emphasizes new quality productive forces, understanding how green finance can enable green innovation quality (GIQ) is essential for projecting China’s influence in the sustainable development of the global ecological environment. This paper sets up a quasi-natural experiment using the Green Credit Policy (GCP) to examine the impact of green financial credit allocation on the enterprises’ GIQ. The findings demonstrate that the GCP has the potential to improve the GIQ of the green credit-restricted industries, compared to non-green credit-restricted ones. It is worth noting that as China speeds up its industrial digital transformation and productivity improvement, green financial credit allocation can elevate the digitization level and total factor productivity of green credit-restricted industries, leading to a higher GIQ by curbing corporate shadow banking. Further research shows that fintech and financial regulation can strengthen the positive influence of the GCP on GIQ. Moreover, regional intellectual property protection has a beneficial synergistic effect in combination with the policy. Full article
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