The development of rural e-commerce has significant value for regional economic development in developing countries. Its sustainable development depends on whether e-commerce can promote endogenous capital accumulation at the county level. This study...
This paper used the sectional data of Chinese counties to analyze the spatial distribution characteristics of sustainable development of e-commerce for agricultural products in China at the county-level. The standard deviation ellipses and Moran’s in...
Under the Yellow River Basin’s strategic imperative of ecological protection and high-quality development, the critical question is whether rapid urbanization’s population agglomeration and land expansion are genuinely aligned with-or inc...
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Land resources provide stable support for economic development in China. However, due to the scarcity of land, the contradiction between agricultural land protection and construction land expansion is prominent. Under such circumstances, optimal allo...
Food security is the primary condition for the development of human society. The Great River Basin is very important to ensure the accessibility and availability of agricultural irrigation, which is vital for food security. The Yellow River Basin pla...
Industrial development is a fundamental driver of socio-economic progress, and industrial structure upgrading plays a vital role in advancing rural revitalization. Based on county-level panel data from Fujian Province from 2017 to 2022, this study em...
The pressing ecological challenges of the twenty-first century underscore the need for biodiversity protection. The “One Health” approach, which integrates human, animal, and environmental health, has become increasingly vital. This study...
The sustainable development of a country requires stable funds to reshape and restore its economy, something which cannot be separated from the support of financial services. Digital financial inclusion, with its inclusive and extensive features, has...
Humans benefit from ecosystem services (ES) and profoundly influence the ecosystem in rapid urbanisation and large-scale urban sprawl contexts, especially at the landscape level. However, the impacts of landscape pattern, the driving mechanism of sub...
Digital entrepreneurship, driven by digital technology and the digital economy, is a vital pathway for high-quality economic development. In China, the “National Pilot Policy of Information Accessibility” has been a key initiative to adva...
The rapid expansion of e-commerce has transformed market access in developing economies, yet its impact on the spatial structure of market participation remains insufficiently understood. While existing studies primarily examine welfare outcomes such...
Air pollution poses a global challenge, prompting governments worldwide to implement environmental policies aimed at its mitigation. However, grassroots management is key to the effectiveness of pollution management. Traditional air monitoring, rangi...
Although the coupling coordination relationship (CCR) between ecological environment and economic development has received extensive scholarly attention, investigations into the underlying mechanisms of this coupling coordination remain insufficient....
Floods pose a substantial risk to human well-being. These risks encompass economic losses, infrastructural damage, disruption of daily life, and potential loss of life. This study presents a state-wide and county-level spatial exposure assessment of...
Both transport development and poverty alleviation are vital for sustainable development. However, due to the lack of long-term, comparable, county-level transport accessibility and poverty incidence data, the spatiotemporal patterns of these factors...
Achieving equitable and harmonized socio-economic development is a vital gauge of national progress, particularly in geographically extensive nations such as China. This study, employing nighttime lights as a socio-economic development indicator and...
The Qinghai–Tibet Plateau (QTP), a critical ecological buffer for Asia, faces intensifying pressures from climate change and infrastructure expansion. The Qinghai–Tibet Railway (QTR), as the world’s highest-altitude railway, travers...
As the global urban economy accelerates its transition from an “industrial economy” to a “service economy”, consumption has replaced investment as the core engine driving economic development. Commercial land serves as the phy...
Balancing regional disparities in non-grainization is vital for stable grain production and sustainable urbanization. This study employs geospatial analysis to examine the spatiotemporal patterns and driving factors of non-grainization in Jiangsu Pro...
The scientific assessment of the health level of county ecosystems is the basis for formulating county-based sustainable development strategies. In this paper, we take the county areas of Sichuan Province as the evaluation objects and combine the SDG...
Forests are both an irreplaceable natural resource and a vital economic asset for all humankind. Based on the data of counties in mainland China from 2007 to 2020, the article explores the direct impact and spatial spillover effects of the policy imp...
The Chinese government regards the night-time economy as one of the essential means to expand domestic demand and enhance sustainable economic development. Scientifically choosing the night-time economic development path of the suburban counties of t...
The expansion of the construction land scale has been vital in supporting rapid economic development and meeting social needs. However, the spatial heterogeneity in the effect of construction land scale on carbon emission intensity at the county leve...
Promoting economic prosperity, social justice, and ecological sustainability requires the rapid decarbonization of our global energy system in favor of renewable sources of energy. Recent news analysis estimates that 15% of counties across the US hav...
Vegetation, serving as the primary constituent of terrestrial ecosystems, plays a crucial role in regulating energy flow and material cycles and providing vital resources for human socio-economic activities. This study analyzes the spatio-temporal pa...
Intensive anthropogenic disturbances have driven significant spatial disparities and progressive fragmentation of forest-based green infrastructure (GI) that delivers vital ecosystem services across river basins. To address these challenges, delineat...
Rural transformation is crucial to alleviating development pressure on traditional agricultural areas and stimulating rural vitality. This study aims to comprehensively analyze the spatio-temporal patterns, identify the key influencing factors, and p...
Land economic density (LED) is vital for optimizing industrial structure and promoting intensive resource utilization. However, most existing studies have focused on city or county scales, with limited attention to township-level patterns. To address...
Surface water is a vital resource for human survival. However, economic and social development has resulted in significant pollutants from human activities, causing environmental pollution in watersheds. This pollution has had a profound impact on th...
The lower reaches of the Jinsha River, serving as a vital ecological barrier in southwestern China and playing a crucial role in advancing targeted poverty alleviation efforts, remain underexplored in terms of the coupling between ecological and econ...
Winning the battle against pollution and strengthening ecological protection in all respects are vital for promoting green development and building a moderately prosperous ecological civilization in China. Using the entropy weight method, this paper...
As the economic center and major grain-producing area in Southwest China, the calculation of the carbon budget and the protection of cultivated land in the Chengdu Plain are of vital significance for China to achieve a carbon peak strategy and ensure...
Agricultural product branding promotes regional economic development by enhancing brand value and market competitiveness, serving as a vital pathway for increasing farmers’ incomes and advancing the transformation of modern agriculture. This pa...
Post-disaster rapid recovery and reconstruction, along with the evaluation of these efforts, are crucial for affected areas. They not only facilitate the swift repair of vulnerable systems but also reflect whether the recovery work has enhanced regio...
A precise multi-scenario prediction of future population, based on micro-scale census data and localized interpretation of global scenarios, is significant for understanding long-term demographic changes. However, the data used in previous research n...
With the rapid process of urbanization and constant changes in ecological environments, passive migration programs have been popularized among many governments worldwide as a prevalent adaptation strategy. Poverty alleviation resettlement (PAR) emerg...
High-quality road network information plays a vital role in regional economic development, disaster emergency management and land planning. To date, studies have primarily focused on sampling flat urban roads, while fewer have paid attention to road...