2 December 2022
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
4 June 2024
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...
(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...
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...
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...
Mozambique is a Southern African tropical country; it forms a 4330 km coastline on the Indian Ocean side. It is one of the continent’s five former Portuguese colonies, with the economy relying mainly on agriculture and mining.
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...
21 March 2020
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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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