You are currently viewing a new version of our website. To view the old version click .

16 Results Found

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
1,975 Views
21 Pages

17 July 2023

Regional synergy innovation capability is an important driving force in promoting the sustainable and high-quality development of the regional economy. Taking the regional innovation development panel data of the Yangtze River Delta integration regio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,306 Views
24 Pages

1 June 2023

The key to achieving the high-quality development of the marine economy (HDME) is to facilitate synergy through the coordination of marine elements. By adopting a perspective concerning complex systems, this paper presents a comprehensive framework&m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,127 Views
19 Pages

1 June 2024

The management of urban flood disasters is a systematic engineering project that requires a great amount of manpower, material resources, and financial resources, and the interaction and coordination degrees of various elements in the system deeply a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,130 Views
15 Pages

Synergetic Development Assessment of Urban River System Landscapes

  • Jingya Qiao,
  • Mo Wang,
  • Dongqing Zhang,
  • Chenyang Ding,
  • Jingjing Wang and
  • Dawei Xu

24 November 2017

This paper presents Synergetic Development Assessment (SDA) as a methodology to evaluate the environmental, economic, and social performance of an urban river system landscape from the perspective of sustainability. SDA is based on synergetics and it...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,763 Views
19 Pages

21 December 2017

Sustainable urbanization emphasizes properly handling the relationships between people, people and society, and people and nature in the process of urban development. However, sometimes these interactions are difficult to quantify. Through an analysi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,446 Views
17 Pages

2 November 2023

This paper takes the two subsystems of inland ports and industries along the Yangtze River as a composite system as a research object, providing insight into the influence of the development efficiency of inland ports along the Yangtze River and the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,505 Views
22 Pages

1 September 2024

The high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin is still facing the issue of imbalance and inadequacy, and it urgently requires the backing and assistance of a well-coordinated and efficient comprehensive transportation network system. Based o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
750 Views
20 Pages

3 May 2025

Rapid economic development has exacerbated environmental degradation, particularly because of carbon dioxide emissions. To address these issues, China has proposed economic transformation from high-speed to high-quality development to achieve carbon...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,201 Views
19 Pages

24 January 2024

Enhancing the marine carrying capacity (MCC) is of important value in hastening the transformation of the marine economy and realising the marine economy high-quality development (MEHD). We explore the synergistic mechanism between the MCC and MEHD a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,913 Views
24 Pages

The Synergistic Effect of Urban and Rural Ecological Resilience: Dynamic Trends and Drivers in Yunnan

  • Ying Zhou,
  • Yanwei Wang,
  • Shuhong Fang,
  • Yixi Tian,
  • Yujia Zhu and
  • Lihong Han

24 September 2024

With the rapid development of the world economy, pollution of urban and rural ecological environments and the decline in anti-risk capabilities are becoming more serious. In order to promote sustainable improvement of urban and rural ecological resil...

  • Article
  • Open Access
704 Views
21 Pages

29 August 2025

The evolution of traditional rural settlements is a dynamic process. During urbanization, traditional rural settlements, as dual carriers of natural and cultural heritage, face the structural contradiction between preservation and development. The 20...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,571 Views
13 Pages

Revisiting the Phenomenon of Cellulase Action: Not All Endo- and Exo-Cellulase Interactions Are Synergistic

  • Mariska Thoresen,
  • Samkelo Malgas,
  • Mpho Stephen Mafa and
  • Brett Ivan Pletschke

27 January 2021

The conventional endo–exo synergism model has extensively been supported in literature, which is based on the perception that endoglucanases (EGs) expose or create accessible sites on the cellulose chain to facilitate the action of processive cellobi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,261 Views
17 Pages

Are There Conflicts among Energy Security, Energy Equity and Environmental Sustainability in China’s Provinces?

  • Yijian Ge,
  • Lin Liu,
  • Xilong Yao,
  • Mohammad Aman Honardost and
  • Ujunwa Angela Nwigwe

4 June 2022

In the process of achieving carbon-peaking and carbon-neutrality goals, conflict situations often arise from advancing energy equity, energy security, and environmental sustainability. Taking China as a case study, we developed an assessment model fo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,968 Views
30 Pages

25 May 2024

Human actions have led to consistent and profound alterations in land use, which in turn have had a notable effect on the services provided by ecosystems. In this research, the Google Earth Engine (GEE) was initially employed to perform a supervised...

  • Article
  • Open Access
246 Views
30 Pages

31 October 2025

In recent years, China has faced the dual challenge of achieving high-quality economic development (HQED) alongside carbon emission reduction (CER), with new-quality productivity (NQP) emerging as a key driver integrating both agendas. Research on th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,389 Views
20 Pages

Exploring spatiotemporal evolution features and factors affecting pollution reduction and carbon abatement on the urban agglomeration scale is helpful to better understand the interaction between ecological environment and economic development in urb...