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  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,103 Views
17 Pages

The relationship between the tourism economy and the ecosystem service value (ESV) is crucial for sustainable regional development. This study takes southern Jiangsu as a research object. Firstly, the development level of the tourism economy and ecos...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,028 Views
20 Pages

2 November 2022

Topographic relief is a key factor limiting population distribution and economic development in mountainous areas, especially in the transition zone from mountains to plains. Taking the southern Anhui mountainous area as an example, based on the digi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
7,912 Views
28 Pages

Knowledge-Based Economy Capacity Building for Developing Countries: A Panel Analysis in Southern African Development Community

  • Koketso Phale,
  • Fanglin Li,
  • Isaac Adjei Mensah,
  • Akoto Yaw Omari-Sasu and
  • Mohammed Musah

7 March 2021

The Southern African Development Community is lagging behind in terms of knowledge economy relative to other regions worldwide. This dramatically reduces the chances of keeping up with their economically established counterparts in terms of sustainab...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,830 Views
25 Pages

Unlocking Green Export Opportunities: Empirical Insights from Southern Cone Economies

  • Carla Carolina Pérez-Hernández,
  • María Guadalupe Montiel-Hernández and
  • Blanca Cecilia Salazar-Hernández

5 March 2025

This paper develops a strategic framework that integrates the theoretical perspectives of evolutionary economic geography and economic complexity to identify green export opportunities. By combining feasibility factors—such as green specializat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,271 Views
20 Pages

How Do ESG Ratings Impact the Valuation of the Largest Companies in Southern Europe?

  • Georgios Zairis,
  • Nikolaos Apostolopoulos and
  • Panagiotis Liargovas

19 November 2025

This paper examines the relationship between ESG ratings, as a subset of criteria and a tool for assessing sustainability, and firm performance in Southern European economies. It focuses on publicly listed large-cap companies in Portugal, Italy, Gree...

  • Review
  • Open Access
50 Citations
10,406 Views
17 Pages

A Policy Review of Green Hydrogen Economy in Southern Africa

  • Katundu Imasiku,
  • Fortunate Farirai,
  • Jane Olwoch and
  • Solomon Nwabueze Agbo

30 November 2021

Renewable energy and clean energy have been on the global agenda for energy transition for quite a long time but recently gained strong momentum, especially with the anticipated depletion of fossil fuels alongside increasing environmental degradation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,376 Views
20 Pages

This study investigated the impact of mobile financial services on the shadow economy in Southern Africa countries and explored how regulatory quality moderates this relationship. Utilising panel data from 1993 to 2022, this study employed dynamic co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,665 Views
22 Pages

In recent scholarship, the impact of palaeoclimate change is often understood as a main factor contributing to the fragmentation and “fall” of Rome’s empire. The various attempts at postulating disastrous effects of temperature shif...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,241 Views
13 Pages

29 June 2017

Deficit irrigation (DI) is an agricultural practice in which the volume of irrigation water applied during the crop cycle is below the irrigation requirements for maximum production, the aim of which is to increase irrigation water productivity. Most...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,006 Views
17 Pages

Industrial Symbiosis and Circular Economy Practices Towards Sustainability in Forest-Based Clusters: Case Studies in Southern Brazil

  • Flávio José Simioni,
  • Juliana Ferreira Soares,
  • Jeane de Almeida do Rosário,
  • Luiza Garcia Sell,
  • Eduardo Bertol,
  • Fabio Murilo Padilha Souza,
  • Edvaldo Pereira Santos Júnior and
  • Luiz Moreira Coelho Junior

25 October 2024

This study aimed to investigate how Industrial Symbiosis (IS) built around thermoelectric power plants (TPPs) located in forest-based clusters in the southern plateau region of the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil, can stimulate the adoption of circul...

  • Review
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,962 Views
21 Pages

Current Status of Energy Production from Solid Biomass in Southern Italy

  • Cristina Moliner,
  • Elisabetta Arato and
  • Filippo Marchelli

30 April 2021

This work analyses and discusses data on thermochemical plants in Southern Italy that are fed with solid biomass. The analysis takes into account the biomass availability and potential together with the cost-benefit analysis using technology developm...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
5,251 Views
22 Pages

Assessment of the Possible Reuse of Extractive Waste Coming from Abandoned Mine Sites: Case Study in Gorno, Italy

  • Neha Mehta,
  • Giovanna Antonella Dino,
  • Iride Passarella,
  • Franco Ajmone-Marsan,
  • Piergiorgio Rossetti and
  • Domenico Antonio De Luca

21 March 2020

Supply of resources, a growing population, and environmental pollution are some of the main challenges facing the contemporary world. The rapid development of mining activities has produced huge amounts of waste. This waste, found in abandoned mine s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,247 Views
16 Pages

Double-Duty Carers (DDCs) refer to people who work in the healthcare industry while also providing unpaid care to relatives, friends, or neighbours. The expectations placed on DDCs is expected to grow, and these employees already experience a high ca...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,827 Views
14 Pages

(1) Introduction: Effective control of stroke risk factors can reduce stroke incidence. Motivation for participatory action of community dwellers to practice self-care to modify stroke risk after providing them with knowledge of stroke risk factors i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
61 Citations
5,333 Views
16 Pages

25 November 2021

The rapid development of the digital economy is a powerful driving force to promote high-quality economic growth all over the world. Although a number of studies have been conducted to investigate the development of the digital economy in China, thes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,991 Views
27 Pages

18 January 2024

The maritime economy is gradually becoming a new engine for the high-quality development of the economic and social sectors. However, due to factors such as geographical location and natural endowments, there are significant regional disparities, mak...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,862 Views
19 Pages

Does China’s Regional Digital Economy Promote the Development of a Green Economy?

  • Weiwei Zhang,
  • Shengqiang Zhang,
  • Lan Bo,
  • Mahfuzul Haque and
  • Enru Liu

13 January 2023

As countries worldwide are pursuing green development, assessing whether the digital economy as a new economic engine can help us achieve new breakthroughs is of great research value. China, being the largest resource consumer in the world but with a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
4,400 Views
24 Pages

Currently, the European Union is promoting the circular economy, a change that involves moving the foundations of actual economies toward the most sustainable production and consumption periods, in which the reuse of resources predominates, mainly th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
10,797 Views
15 Pages

Perspectives on Sustainable Tourism Development in the Hotel Industry—A Case Study from Southern Europe

  • Igor Trišić,
  • Snežana Štetić,
  • Donatella Privitera,
  • Marko D. Petrović,
  • Marija Maksin,
  • Slavoljub Vujović,
  • Zoran Jovanović and
  • Marija Kalinić

17 May 2021

Sustainable development is in many ways the fundamental basis of tourism. The importance and role of sustainable tourism development in the 21st century is at the center of this paper on eco-certificates and green procurement in the hotel industry, w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,059 Views
23 Pages

5 September 2024

The transition to a low-carbon (LC) economy is a major challenge for governments around the world. This article aims to investigate the most effective market and governmental initiatives to facilitate the industrial sector’s shift to a less car...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,631 Views
22 Pages

25 July 2021

This article examines the growth of the labour market and entrepreneurship in a metropolitan area. In particular, the study attempts to answer how the economy of the rural regions is developing in the hinterland of a large urban complex in Southern P...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,105 Views
4 Pages

Modelling Digital Circular Economy framework in the Agricultural Sector. An Application in Southern Italy

  • Tiziana Crovella,
  • Annarita Paiano,
  • Giovanni Lagioia,
  • Anna Maria Cilardi and
  • Luigi Trotta

24 November 2021

The transition towards circular economy (CE) in agriculture requires a large amount of data in order to map the consumption of natural resources and negative externalities. This paper aims to identify a digital framework for collecting and sharing da...

  • Essay
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,776 Views
19 Pages

29 March 2023

The digital economy has become the key driver of improving the quality and efficiency of the social economy and reshaping core competitiveness with the new technological revolution. This paper uses China’s provincial panel data from 2011 to 201...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,795 Views
15 Pages

16 April 2021

Southern yellow pines such as loblolly, Virginia and shortleaf pines constitute forest products and contribute significantly to the economy of the United States (U.S.). However, little is understood about the temporal change in canopy cover and green...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,665 Views
21 Pages

29 November 2024

This research investigates the impact of digital leadership on organizational performance using a mediating role of circular economy practices. Moreover, this research also examines the moderating role of technological innovation in the relationship...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,098 Views
21 Pages

14 July 2025

In the digital economy, sustainable development is based on digital technologies. However, information security issues arising from its use pose significant challenges to sustainable development. Assessing information security risks in the digital ec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,121 Views
15 Pages

14 June 2024

Scientists agree that as global temperatures rise, the intensity of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon also increases. In southern Africa, El Niño events often cause severe droughts that adversely affect a region&r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,097 Views
18 Pages

4 January 2024

The marine economy is a vital component of boosting the high-quality development of the Chinese economy. According to the concept of high-quality development, we construct the evaluation indicator system to measure the level of high-quality developme...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,093 Views
15 Pages

The majority of the world’s current economic models are destructive and unsustainable. Little progress has been made in recent years to change this, despite significant discussion surrounding the theme. In this context, the solidarity economy present...

  • Article
  • Open Access
63 Citations
8,997 Views
10 Pages

Antibacterial Activity of Three Extra Virgin Olive Oils of the Campania Region, Southern Italy, Related to Their Polyphenol Content and Composition

  • Filomena Nazzaro,
  • Florinda Fratianni,
  • Rosaria Cozzolino,
  • Antonella Martignetti,
  • Livia Malorni,
  • Vincenzo De Feo,
  • Adriano G. Cruz and
  • Antonio d’Acierno

Production of extra virgin olive oil (EVOO) represents an important element for the economy of Southern Italy. Therefore, EVOO is recognized as a food with noticeable biological effects. Our study aimed to evaluate the antimicrobial activity exhibite...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,798 Views
14 Pages

13 July 2020

With the rapid economic growth in China over the last two decades, exploring the changes in the Chinese economy has attracted great attention from the research community. Among different economic clusters in China, the southern region represents the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,612 Views
15 Pages

29 November 2024

The Late Chalcolithic period in the southern Levant saw notable changes in almost every aspect of daily life. Some of the most significant shifts during this time seem to have been anchored in the subsistence economy and involved food and its cooking...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,054 Views
32 Pages

30 April 2025

This study investigates how the digital economy empowers urban network intensity to address the dilemma of “low-efficiency lock-in” and to promote high-quality and balanced innovation development. Based on panel data from 264 prefecture-l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,357 Views
22 Pages

Driving Sustainability: Circular Bioeconomy and Governance in Andalusia (Southern Spain)

  • Samir Sayadi Gmada,
  • Mar Cátedra,
  • Carmen Capote,
  • Carlos Parra-López,
  • María García,
  • Carmen Ronchel,
  • Rafael Dueñas-Sánchez,
  • Esther Ortiz,
  • Milagros Argüelles and
  • José Luis Cruz

1 April 2025

Environmental degradation remains an increasingly urgent challenge, leading to focused debates at the Rio+20 conference (2012) on how to operationalise sustainability. This conference’s central theme was the green economy and the role of instit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,133 Views
14 Pages

10 July 2022

Under the background of intensifying global change, the frequent occurrence of agrometeorological disasters has an adverse impact on the social economy. Low-temperature weather in spring is one of the main agrometeorological disasters in Xinjiang. St...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,030 Views
23 Pages

25 July 2021

This paper aims to identify the causes and sources of erosion and deposition at small estuaries in southern central Vietnam under human intervention. The jetty built at the Tam Quan river mouth (Binh Dinh Province, Vietnam) serves as the base for the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,868 Views
21 Pages

On the basis of the panel data of 31 provinces in China from 2011 to 2020, this paper first constructs an index system through the Pressure-State-Response (PSR) model and conducts a comprehensive evaluation of China’s agricultural environment a...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,496 Views
21 Pages

5 August 2025

This paper aims to explore the potentialities and systemic relationships between the ‘regenerative’ process and ‘circular economy’ concept within the conservation and reuse of a built cultural heritage framework through contex...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,512 Views
18 Pages

Temporal Comparative Analysis of Industrial Symbiosis in a Business Network: Opportunities of Circular Economy

  • Fabiane Florencio de Souza,
  • Mariane Bigarelli Ferreira,
  • Adriana Valélia Saraceni,
  • Leozenir Mendes Betim,
  • Tafael Lucas Pereira,
  • Rodolfo Reinaldo Hermes Petter,
  • Regina Negri Pagani,
  • Luis Mauricio Martins de Resende,
  • Joseane Pontes and
  • Cassiano Moro Piekarski

29 February 2020

The objective of this work is to perform a temporal comparative analysis in a network of companies in the furniture sector, in Santa Catarina, southern Brazil, presenting drivers through circular economy modeling. The study was performed applying the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,241 Views
19 Pages

13 January 2023

It is important to explore the energy–economy–environment (3E) coupling mechanism for building a sustainable economy in the context of carbon-peaking and carbon-neutralization strategy. Based on the DPSIRM (driving force–pressure&nd...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,791 Views
22 Pages

11 August 2023

The digital economy now plays a pivotal role in reshaping the global economic structure and optimizing the allocation of resources. With the popularization of digital technology in rural areas, the impact of the digital economy on rural development i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,772 Views
19 Pages

18 January 2019

Water-saving irrigation development level (WIDL) refers to reasonably and accurately judging a water-saving area based on the analysis of all factors affecting the water-saving irrigation development. The evaluation of regional WIDL is the premise of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,718 Views
7 Pages

6 November 2022

Invasive species impact both the local biota and human economies and are a very serious threat to biodiversity. The American bullfrog was initially introduced into northwestern China and many other sites for aquacultural purposes. Then, the frogs esc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,251 Views
15 Pages

26 July 2024

This study presents empirical findings highlighting the role of pollution control measures in shaping the trajectory of local tourism market development. Analysis of provincial-level panel data underscores the pronounced impact of water pollution com...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,663 Views
16 Pages

10 April 2024

The changing global climate, characterized by rising surface air temperatures, shifting precipitation patterns, and heightened occurrences of extreme weather events, is anticipated to profoundly impact the environment, economy, and society worldwide....

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,292 Views
23 Pages

30 May 2025

Currently, studies in green infrastructure have developed different wetland park value evaluation systems, and various criteria to measure urban economic development have been proposed. However, these criteria are not widely adopted, and there is a l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,534 Views
16 Pages

23 February 2018

Education is the driving force of social development, while regional differences have restricted the balance of educational development. This paper provides a political and geospatial analysis of regional inequality across the province from 1990–2015...

  • Review
  • Open Access
109 Citations
15,318 Views
16 Pages

Cereal Production Trends under Climate Change: Impacts and Adaptation Strategies in Southern Africa

  • Luxon Nhamo,
  • Greenwell Matchaya,
  • Tafadzwanashe Mabhaudhi,
  • Sibusiso Nhlengethwa,
  • Charles Nhemachena and
  • Sylvester Mpandeli

The increasing frequency and intensity of droughts and floods, coupled with increasing temperatures and declining rainfall totals, are exacerbating existing vulnerabilities in southern Africa. Agriculture is the most affected sector as 95% of cultiva...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,303 Views
16 Pages

Recovery, Molecular Characterization, and Ampelographic Assessment of Marginal Grapevine Germplasm from Southern Umbria (Central Italy)

  • Alessandra Zombardo,
  • Paolo Storchi,
  • Paolo Valentini,
  • Alice Ciofini,
  • Daniele Migliaro and
  • Manna Crespan

27 July 2021

The protection of grapevine biodiversity and the safeguarding of genetic variability are certainly primary and topical objectives for wine research, especially in territories historically devoted to viticulture. To assess the autochthonous germplasm...

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