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50 Citations
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Environmental Impacts of Planned Capitals and Lessons for Indonesia’s New Capital

  • Hoong Chen Teo,
  • Alex Mark Lechner,
  • Saut Sagala and
  • Ahimsa Campos-Arceiz

9 November 2020

Indonesia’s new planned capital in East Kalimantan is being touted as a “smart, green, beautiful and sustainable city” but has stoked fears of massive environmental damage to the island of Borneo, one of the world’s most impor...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,447 Views
14 Pages

27 May 2020

When the resources of a focal organization are limited, strengthening the capability of sustainable performance by building up an ecosystem through cooperation is a good choice. When venture capital firms invest in sustainable projects, due to the no...

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  • Open Access
66 Citations
6,093 Views
17 Pages

Influence of Livelihood Capitals on Livelihood Strategies of Herdsmen in Inner Mongolia, China

  • Wenqiang Ding,
  • Saheed Olaide Jimoh,
  • Yulu Hou,
  • Xiangyang Hou and
  • Weiguo Zhang

18 September 2018

Herders’ living strategy is a function of the capitals at their disposal which also serve as a buffering mechanism when shocks arise. An insight into the connection between livelihood strategies and capitals owned by herders provides guidance t...

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  • Open Access
58 Citations
10,970 Views
14 Pages

Identification and Induction of Human, Social, and Cultural Capitals through an Experimental Approach to Stormwater Management

  • Olivia Odom Green,
  • William D. Shuster,
  • Lee K. Rhea,
  • Ahjond S. Garmestani and
  • Hale W. Thurston

6 August 2012

Decentralized stormwater management is based on the dispersal of stormwater management practices (SWMP) throughout a watershed to manage stormwater runoff volume and potentially restore natural hydrologic processes. This approach to stormwater manage...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,522 Views
12 Pages

4 August 2023

We explore attitudes toward democracy in relation to social divisions by focusing on the European Union member states and the corresponding EU political field. Positioning in the European political field is addressed through the theory of social fiel...

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  • Open Access
31 Citations
5,404 Views
18 Pages

This study draws on Bourdieu’s theory of capitals to analyze the relative importance of economic, cultural, and social capital on health behaviors in Chinese middle-aged and older adults. Based on data from the China Family Panel Studies of 201...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,223 Views
16 Pages

14 November 2024

Urban informality, often viewed negatively, is not solely the product of the urban poor but also reflects the failure of formal systems to adapt. Informal workers, who make up about 61% of the global workforce, operate outside formal labor laws and s...

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  • Open Access
105 Citations
14,900 Views
16 Pages

In the last few decades, disaster risk reduction programs and climate initiatives across the globe have focused largely on the intimate connections between vulnerability, recovery, adaptation, and coping mechanisms. Recent focus, however, is increasi...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,785 Views
23 Pages

28 October 2024

Farmers’ livelihoods are critical for global sustainable development and the conservation and transmission of rural heritage. However, neglecting farmers’ livelihoods increases the risks to living heritage conservation. Therefore, it is e...

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  • Open Access
43 Citations
4,840 Views
20 Pages

14 February 2018

Using information collected through semi-structured questionnaires in 483 households, this paper examines the relationships between livelihood risks and livelihood capitals amongst rural farming communities in China’s Shiyang River Basin. Based on an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,886 Views
21 Pages

Stepping Out of the Shadows: Legacy of the European Capitals of Culture, Guimarães 2012 and Košice 2013

  • Oto Hudec,
  • Paula Cristina Remoaldo,
  • Nataša Urbančíková and
  • José António Cadima Ribeiro

10 March 2019

The European Capitals of Culture (ECOC) is the most ambitious cultural, collaborative programme in Europe. Up until 2000, ECOC projects were hosted by several national capitals and principal cultural cities in Europe. In the second phase, the program...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,845 Views
17 Pages

A Sustainable Analysis Regarding the Impact of Tourism on Food Preferences in European Capitals

  • Florin Răzvan Lupșa-Tătaru,
  • Radu Constantin Lixăndroiu and
  • Dana Adriana Lupșa-Tătaru

16 October 2023

This research examines the interrelationships among the scope of tourism, travellers’ food choices, and the restaurant business in European capitals. It employs a sustainable and electronic tool, Octoparse 8, to gather and analyse a substantial...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,716 Views
20 Pages

23 July 2020

To clarify the effects of generalized capitals and energy footprint on aggregate incomes and total carbon dioxide emissions, a cross-country panel analysis is applied in the present study. The generalized capitals included in this study are human cap...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,280 Views
12 Pages

Insights into Rural Stress: Using the Community Capitals Framework to Help Inform Rural Policies and Interventions

  • Kevan W. Lamm,
  • Alyssa Powell,
  • Abigail Borron,
  • Keith Atkins and
  • Stephanie Hollifield

Communities in rural America have experienced significant decline over the past century. Professionals working within these communities, such as extension or community development professionals, may leverage their position as trusted sources to decre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,780 Views
18 Pages

17 February 2023

The degree of risk to which agricultural farmers are exposed during the COVID-19 pandemic and how they tackle those difficulties is a critical topic. Although the topic has been paid considerable attention by worldwide scholars, this study intends to...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,110 Views
27 Pages

10 November 2021

Buddhist influences on the sacred axis of the capital during Medieval China (220–907) underwent a process of starting with little impact during the era of Eastern Han, Caowei, and Western Jin (220–317) to a more prominent influence from the late Sout...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,399 Views
16 Pages

14 November 2022

Climate change has exacerbated food and livelihood insecurity for Mayan milpa farmers in Central America. For centuries, milpa farming has been sustainable for subsistence; however, in the last 50 years, milpas have become less reliable due to accele...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,316 Views
19 Pages

Evaluation of Sanitation Strategies and Initiatives Implemented in Mexico from Community Capitals Point of View

  • Thalía Turrén-Cruz,
  • Juan Alejandro García-Rodríguez and
  • Miguel Ángel López Zavala

8 February 2019

Sanitation is fundamental to human development and well-being. For developing countries, such as Mexico, one of the greatest long-term challenges is to treat all the wastewater generated. Several projects have been implemented to achieve this goal, b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
63 Citations
8,618 Views
19 Pages

9 November 2016

Urban expansion form is the most direct manifestation of urban expansion in space. Although it has been widely and vigorously studied, relatively little attention has been paid to reveal its spatiotemporal characteristics at the administrative level...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,213 Views
19 Pages

The Green Attitude of Four European Capitals of Culture’s Youth

  • Edit Kővári,
  • Katalin Formádi and
  • Zsuzsanna Banász

11 May 2023

This study investigated the attitude of young people (individuals aged 14–25 years old) towards environmental protection using the NEP scale. The research aims to understand how demographic characteristics may influence young people’s att...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,097 Views
29 Pages

19 August 2025

This study investigates long-term urban air quality and population-level exposure in 33 European capital cities between 2010 and 2024. Using over 3.5 million hourly observations retrieved from official monitoring networks, city-level Air Quality Inde...

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  • Open Access
2,816 Views
34 Pages

19 December 2022

There are numbers of various new infill constructions and renovations occurring in many cities annually that are based more on bottom-up initiatives by various stakeholders rather than top-down initiated plans according to a city master plan. Such in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,517 Views
26 Pages

Community Capitals Framework for Sustainable Development: A Qualitative Study of Creative Tourism in Ban Chiang World Heritage Site

  • Suparak Suriyankietkaew,
  • Krittawit Krittayaruangroj,
  • Sukanda Thinthan and
  • Syamol Lumlongrut

8 April 2025

This study explores creative tourism strategies in community-based tourism for sustainable development, focusing on the millennium-old Ban Chiang UNESCO World Heritage site in Thailand. It aims to uncover how creative tourism strategies support commu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,171 Views
16 Pages

14 October 2022

In recent decades, new administrative capitals (NACs) are being developed in Asia and developing countries due to the overcrowding of capitals and large cities. The self-sufficiency of a planned city is considered important for balanced national deve...

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  • Open Access
19 Citations
9,551 Views
42 Pages

Social Capital, Intellectual Capital, and Audit Fee: Conflicting Evidence from Iran

  • Hossein Tarighi,
  • Mahdi Salehi,
  • Mahdi Moradi and
  • Grzegorz Zimon

1 February 2022

In the current study, we investigate the impacts of social capital (SC) and intellectual capital (IC) on audit fees among the companies listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE). Since the criteria for the norms and the networks are extremely correla...

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  • Open Access
211 Views
25 Pages

This article explores the extent of ECoCs (European Capitals of Culture) as placemaking laboratories. Methodologically, this study employed a mixed-methods approach. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with public and private stakeholders invol...

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  • Open Access
41 Citations
10,067 Views
17 Pages

This article is an in-depth analysis of the social nature of vaccine decision-making. It employs the sociological theory of Bourdieu and Ingram to consider how parents experience non-vaccination as a valued form of capital in specific communities, an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,650 Views
15 Pages

24 April 2019

For the rural districts of China to get an economically and socially sustainable development, the strengthening of agricultural cooperatives is essential. This study aims at presenting a model about how social capital within the cooperatives can be c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,475 Views
21 Pages

Disentangling Director Attributes: Human Capital versus Social Capital of Directors

  • Angela Andersen,
  • Alexandre Garel,
  • Aaron Gilbert and
  • Alireza Tourani-Rad

This study seeks to disentangle the human capital and the social capital of directors to improve our understanding of the value that directors bring to their boardroom. Employing social network analysis (SNA) to measure the social capital of director...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,585 Views
24 Pages

8 July 2022

How to combine science and technology with the humanities in the research on ancient cities to reveal ancient peoples’ urban planning thoughts is worthy of in-depth study. The capitals of the Western Han dynasty as well as the Sui and Tang dyna...

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  • Open Access
101 Citations
10,839 Views
19 Pages

Social Capital, Human Capital, and Sustainability: A Bibliometric and Visualization Analysis

  • Fernando J. Garrigos-Simon,
  • M. Dolores Botella-Carrubi and
  • Tomas F. Gonzalez-Cruz

13 December 2018

Academic interest in social and human capital is growing significantly. Similarly, their relationship with sustainability is increasing, especially compared to sustainability’s relationship with natural capital and financial and economic capita...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,672 Views
10 Pages

Career Capital and Well-Being: A Configurational Perspective

  • Qian Xu,
  • Zhe Hou,
  • Chao Zhang,
  • Feng Yu and
  • Tong Li

This study explored the configuration effect of human capital, social capital, and psychological capital on employee well-being. A total of 458 employees were investigated via a human capital scale, social capital scale, Chinese psychological capital...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,976 Views
16 Pages

As intellectual capital is considered an important strategic resource in knowledge-intensive industries, such as the health and pharmaceutical industries, scholars have developed a deeper understanding of the human capital at different levels of orga...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
6,054 Views
19 Pages

12 May 2021

This study examines the relationship between psychological capital, social capital, and adaptive performance in China’s lodging industry. Recent research has revealed that the production attributes of internal social capital can explain adaptive perf...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,194 Views
14 Pages

Social Capital and Cross-Border Venture Capital Investments in China

  • Yi Tan,
  • Xiaoli Wang,
  • Jason Z. -H. Lee and
  • Kun Shi

In the context of the Chinese market, foreign cross-border venture capitalists have devised specific strategies to mitigate the challenges associated with the liabilities of foreignness, such as risks and information asymmetry. They have strategicall...

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
14,702 Views
17 Pages

The Impact of Employee Development Practices on Human Capital and Social Capital: The Mediating Contribution of Knowledge Management

  • Ahmad Adnan Al-Tit,
  • Sura Al-Ayed,
  • Abdulaziz Alhammadi,
  • Mohammad Hunitie,
  • Aktham Alsarayreh and
  • Wijdan Albassam

There is a shortage of research investigating the link between employee development practices and intellectual capital as mediated by knowledge management. The aim of the current research was to consider the influence of employee development practice...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,354 Views
16 Pages

Biotechnology firms operate in a highly innovative and capital-intensive environment, characterized by high levels of R&D, long product development periods, significant regulations, and high levels of uncertainty. These firms rely heavily on inta...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,660 Views
19 Pages

Background: Mutual assistance for the elderly is a new pension model that has been widely valued and discussed in China, especially in rural areas. The social and psychological capital owned by the elderly in rural areas promotes their participation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,547 Views
14 Pages

20 December 2021

Revealing the practice of the capital assistance system in coastal communities that are indicated to have deviated from the principles of social capital, and building an integrated model as a solution for improving fishermen’s low performance a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
5,349 Views
16 Pages

31 October 2018

The new generation of migrant workers may play a crucial role in boosting China’s rural economy. With the rise of knowledge economy and the advent of the information age, it is difficult for human capital and economic capital alone to gain adva...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,442 Views
13 Pages

We aim to analyze the impact of capital regulation and market discipline on capital to risk-weighted assets ratio. We used the panel data of Asian developing-countries banks for the period from 2009 to 2018. We collected data from the financial state...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
7,035 Views
19 Pages

Governing Harmonious Human Engagement with the Spatial Capital

  • Shukui Tan,
  • Haipeng Song,
  • Ghulam Akhmat and
  • Javeed Hussain

5 March 2014

The unprecedented rate and scale of activities, simulated by human abode in its entirety, is having large and accelerating effects on the integrity of biophysical elements of spatial capital, at local, regional, and global scales. Real appreciation o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,859 Views
17 Pages

Venture Capital and Dividend Policy

  • Yi Tan,
  • Xiaoli Wang and
  • Xiaoyu Fu

In this paper, we empirically examine the impact of venture capital investment on the dividend policy of the invested companies using a sample of list companies from China’s ChiNext market during the period 2014 to 2019. Our empirical results s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,025 Views
18 Pages

20 February 2020

Rural credit is very important to the increase of farmers’ income and the development of rural economy, and it has attracted wide attention from scholars. Many scholars have paid attention to the impact of social capital on farmers’ credi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
3,734 Views
25 Pages

A Multidimensional View of Intellectual Capital: The Impact on Innovation Performance

  • Mostafa A. Ali,
  • Nazimah Hussin,
  • Hossam Haddad,
  • Reem Al-Araj and
  • Ibtihal A. Abed

The current economic trend worldwide is for an industrial economy based on tangible assets to convert into a non-tangible economy based on intellectual capital. Lately, a multidimensional view of intellectual capital and its implications on innovatio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
5,834 Views
14 Pages

The present study investigated individual-level determinants of community social capital among older adults in urban China, with a particular emphasis on health and family social capital. A quota sampling method was used to select 456 adults aged 60...

  • Review
  • Open Access
32 Citations
10,445 Views
15 Pages

31 March 2016

When the level of trust in government is low, government cannot effectively provide services, since the policy goals and the process of implementations are not fully understood by the people. This study hypothesizes that the level of trust in governm...

  • Article
  • Open Access
146 Citations
29,033 Views
58 Pages

Human Capital and Sustainability

  • Ivo Šlaus and
  • Garry Jacobs

7 January 2011

A study of sustainability needs to consider the role of all forms of capital—natural, biological, social, technological, financial, cultural—and the complex ways in which they interact. All forms of capital derive their value, utility and application...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,760 Views
14 Pages

Social capital is the basis of community-based action and constitutes an important resource for the poor in urban areas. However, social class, age, ethnicity and gender play an important role in shaping social capital outcomes. This article provides...

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