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7 April 2023

For sustainable economic development, it is extremely important to understand how digital finance and technological innovation are coupled and how the spatial coupling network is connected. Based on panel data collected from 31 Chinese provinces betw...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digital Innovation for Sustainable Development)
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  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,097 Views
21 Pages

The Coupling Coordination Degree and Spatial Correlation Analysis of the Digital Economy and Sports Industry in China

  • Yawei Wang,
  • Yuanwen Geng,
  • Qinqin Lin,
  • Guoqiang Li,
  • Baihui Wang and
  • Dapeng Wang

2 December 2022

Driven by a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, the interactive and integrated development of the digital economy and the sports industry has become the objective demand of current economic development....

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11 Citations
4,086 Views
20 Pages

10 July 2023

The quick and reliable quantification of the relationship between ecosystem and economic system is important in policymaking for sustainable urban agglomerations facing enormous pressure from high population density and development intensity. This is...

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  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,647 Views
17 Pages

29 November 2021

With the proposed goals of reaching its “carbon peak” by 2030 and becoming “carbon neutral” by 2060, China will comprehensively build a diversified, efficient and clean energy system. The differences in China’s resource...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,276 Views
21 Pages

Cartridge delivery systems are commonly employed in aerospace engineering for the transportation of cylindrical projectiles. The coordination mechanism plays a pivotal role in ensuring reliable cartridge conveying, with its positioning accuracy being...

(This article belongs to the Topic Uncertainty Quantification in Design, Manufacturing and Maintenance of Complex Systems)
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  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,507 Views
19 Pages

9 December 2021

The implementation of water diversion projects will exert different influences on upstream water offering areas and the downstream water receiving areas. In order to effectively promote the coordinated development of the two regions, a comprehensive...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Water Management)
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  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,677 Views
16 Pages

1 June 2022

Sustainable urban development requires the coordinated development of economic, social, and environmental subsystems. Evaluating the coordination degree of different urban subsystems is of great significance to supporting sustainable urban developmen...

(This article belongs to the Topic Resilience of Interdependent Urban Systems)
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  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,562 Views
25 Pages

24 April 2024

Digital financial inclusion and common prosperity are pivotal elements in promoting the sustainable socioeconomic development of China. This study introduces a novel Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) method to evaluate the Common Prosperity Ind...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematical Modelling of Economics and Regional Development)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,012 Views
32 Pages

30 August 2025

The historic landscape and the value of the ancient city in the stock era present a diversified and mixed problem; as such, this study explores a quantifiable spatial correlation method for landscape layering characteristics and value space, in order...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Contemporary Challenges for Urban Built Environment and Landscape Conservation: Social, Cultural and Economic Issues)
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4 Citations
1,247 Views
17 Pages

10 April 2025

As an important ecological barrier and economic belt in China, the sustainable development of the Yellow River Basin (YRB) is of great significance to national ecological security and regional economic balance. Based on the coupled and coordinated de...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Yellow River Basin Management under Pressure: Present State, Restoration and Protection III)
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  • Open Access
661 Views
22 Pages

14 January 2026

As a novel traffic security facility to improve the environment of tunnels, the influence of tunnel sidewall decoration on drivers has been highly controversial. To analyze the impact of the multi-factor coupling of sidewall decoration effects on dri...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Transportation)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,345 Views
25 Pages

20 December 2021

With the gradual deepening of the development of high-quality urban transformation, the “Danwei Compound” urban space production method constitutes the basis of Chinese current urban spatial transformation. The transformation plan of the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Process Control and Smart Manufacturing for Industry 4.0)
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3 Citations
2,519 Views
18 Pages

Stability analysis of lateral–torsional coupled vibration is obligatory for rotating machinery, such as aero-engines. However, the state-of-the-art method may lead to stability misjudgment under different coordinate systems. The cause of this m...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computing Methods for Aerospace Reliability Engineering)
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3 Citations
2,030 Views
18 Pages

26 November 2024

With this research, we aim to outline and analyze China’s tourism inclusive green growth system and explore its dynamic evolution in terms of economic growth, environmental sustainability, and social inclusiveness. By establishing an evaluation...

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51 Citations
6,101 Views
14 Pages

19 March 2022

Taking the development level of digital village construction in the Zhejiang province of China as the research object, this paper analyzes the current situation of digital village construction in Zhejiang and the relationship between financial develo...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,361 Views
24 Pages

17 November 2025

The rapid advancement of digital technology has profoundly transformed the tourism industry, driving a shift from scale expansion toward high-quality and sustainable growth. However, spatiotemporal nature of digital empowerment’s support for su...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Development of Regional Tourism)
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  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,329 Views
25 Pages

9 August 2024

This study evaluates the new urbanization (NU) quality and the ecological resilience (ER) of 33 districts and counties in the Urban Agglomeration of Central Guizhou from 2010 to 2020. For this purpose, we used a modified coupled coordination degree (...

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17 Citations
3,194 Views
28 Pages

21 October 2021

The interaction between livelihood means and land use pattern of households is the core of the interactive coupling of the human-land system. This study focuses on Qinba mountainous area in southern Shaanxi province, a typical poverty-alleviated moun...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Dynamic Agriculture in East Asia: Land-Livelihood Interactions)
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2 Citations
909 Views
23 Pages

1 January 2026

The deep integration of the health industry and the digital economy represents a crucial pathway toward a sustainable and resilient future, as it enhances the competitiveness and promotes the orderly expansion of the health sector. Utilizing provinci...

(This article belongs to the Section Health, Well-Being and Sustainability)
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  • Open Access
26 Citations
3,530 Views
27 Pages

In the past 30 years, China’s industrialization level has developed rapidly, and agricultural green development (AGD) is facing severe challenges. The research on the temporal and spatial features of the coupling and coordination of industrialization...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Future and Feature Paper in Environment and Applied Ecology)
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  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,464 Views
18 Pages

5 June 2023

The ecological environment (EE) is an important factor affecting the sustainable development of the marine economy (ME): achieving coordinated development between the ME and EE remains a problem to be explored. From three perspectives—comprehen...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Oceans)
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  • Open Access
45 Citations
4,774 Views
18 Pages

As a primary pioneering region in China’s ongoing urbanization process, the Yangtze River Economic Belt’s (YREB’s) urbanization process is itself continually accelerating, causing increasing pressure on the area’s water ecosys...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Strategic Management toward a Sustainable Urbanization by Balancing the Utilization of Land and/or Water Resources)
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,155 Views
16 Pages

3 December 2024

Water resources, the social economy, and the ecological environment are interrelated and interacting complex systems, and the relationship among them affects the sustainable development of a region. To explore the interactive relationship and driving...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Water Management in Rapid Urbanization)
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30 Citations
4,154 Views
25 Pages

China is striving to build a new dual-circulation development pattern with the aim of leading the coupling of science, technology, and innovation through the active role of financial factors, ultimately promoting the country’s optimal economic...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Research Trends on the Development of Integrated and Robust Social Development Management Systems)
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  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,807 Views
23 Pages

26 December 2024

In recent years, China’s population growth rate is slowing, and birth rates are declining. The impact of changes in population size and structure on logistics development has raised important concerns. The coupling coordination between populati...

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551 Views
18 Pages

Background: Synergistic development of the coupled and coordinated relationship of medical service capacity, residents’ health level, and regional economic development (MRR) is crucial for realizing the “Healthy China 2030” strategy...

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2 Citations
1,226 Views
27 Pages

4 July 2025

The evolutionary patterns and influencing factors of the coupling coordination among multiple functions of cultivated land serve as an important basis for emphasizing the value of cultivated land utilization and promoting coordinated regional develop...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainability in Geographic Science)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,095 Views
19 Pages

6 June 2025

This paper uses a coupling model and social network analysis to analyze the evolution and spatial correlation network characteristics of the coupling coordination level between urban intelligent industry and green industry in the Yellow River Basin f...

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20 Citations
3,679 Views
19 Pages

Urban development in developing regions increases ecological and environmental pressures. Few annual ecological studies have been conducted on tourist-oriented cities. Guilin is famous as an international tourist destination in Chine. Analyzing its c...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Health)
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  • Open Access
279 Views
23 Pages

24 September 2026

The coupling coordination of production, living, and ecological (PLE) spaces is central to territorial spatial optimization, yet its assessment may vary substantially with spatial scale. Using 2020 land use/land cover data for Shandong Province, Chin...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainability in Geographic Science)
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351 Views
23 Pages

31 July 2026

Against the backdrop of tightening ecological constraints and the accelerating transition toward high-quality development, the coordinated development of technological innovation and the ecological environment has become an important topic in regiona...

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58 Citations
5,181 Views
20 Pages

31 January 2021

With the rapid expansion of the Chinese economy in recent years, the urbanization process of the provinces in the Yellow River Basin (YRB) has put serious pressure on the sustainability of the water resources carrying capacity (WRCC). It is necessary...

(This article belongs to the Section Urban Water Management)
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  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,417 Views
21 Pages

1 June 2023

Regional transportation integration is a key aspect in promoting regional integration and high-quality economic development, as it can improve inter-regional connectivity, decrease transportation costs, and facilitate the flow of labor, capital, tech...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems Practice in Social Science)
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  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,783 Views
20 Pages

21 April 2023

The coordinated development of resource–environment–economy is the strategic choice to realize sustainable development. To explore the historical pattern of the coordinated development of resource–environment–economy, showing...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Environment and Sustainable Economic Growth)
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  • Open Access
10 Citations
1,949 Views
27 Pages

Coupling Coordination Evaluation and Optimization of Water–Energy–Food System in the Yellow River Basin for Sustainable Development

  • Pengcheng Zhang,
  • Yaoyao Fu,
  • Boliang Lu,
  • Hongbo Li,
  • Yijie Qu,
  • Haslindar Ibrahim,
  • Jiaxuan Wang,
  • Hao Ding and
  • Shenglin Ma

10 April 2025

Understanding the coupling mechanisms and coordinated development dynamics of the water–energy–food (WEF) system is crucial for sustainable river basin development. This study focuses on the Yellow River Basin, conducting a comprehensive...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,153 Views
23 Pages

Coupling Coordination Evaluation of Ecological Security in Coal Resource-Exhausted Villages

  • Pingjia Luo,
  • Tianlong Liu,
  • Haiyang Cao,
  • Hao Chen and
  • Weixi Chen

18 April 2025

Although the exploitation of coal resources has driven regional economic growth, it has also inflicted considerable ecological damage. The sustainable development of ecological security in coal resource-exhausted villages is challenged by multiple pr...

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5 Citations
1,621 Views
31 Pages

Against the backdrop of global warming, the marine low-carbon economy has emerged as a crucial pathway to achieving carbon peaking and carbon neutrality goals. This paper develops an evaluation index system for the marine low-carbon economy and carbo...

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3 Citations
3,135 Views
24 Pages

20 February 2025

The role of green spaces in ecological civilization construction has been increasingly recognized, particularly due to their multifaceted attributes and significant impact on economic development. Based on data from 2015 to 2020, this study construct...

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6 Citations
3,371 Views
24 Pages

15 February 2025

The integration of scientific and technological innovation with industrial innovation has emerged as a pivotal driver of sustainable economic growth. Utilizing the theory of system coupling, this study conceptualizes the integration process as comple...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Management)
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  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,654 Views
23 Pages

24 August 2023

Rapid urbanization and industrialization have had a range of effects on urban form and land use, especially in resource-based cities. Previous research has predominantly focused on the analysis of urban compactness or land-use efficiency individually...

(This article belongs to the Section Land Planning and Landscape Architecture)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,707 Views
22 Pages

30 June 2025

To promote Chinese-style modernization, we must unremittingly promote the all-round revitalization of the countryside. Industry and agriculture are inseparable. The light industry is a traditionally dominant industry in China and is closely linked to...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Management)
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  • Open Access
29 Citations
3,793 Views
19 Pages

10 June 2022

The coordination and coupling of new urbanization and the ecological environment is of great significance for the high-quality development of the Yellow River basin, China. In this paper, the urbanization efficiency and ecological efficiency of seven...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,587 Views
22 Pages

Integrating Ecosystem Services and Health into Landscape Functional Zoning: A Case Study of the Jinan Southern Mountainous Area, China

  • Kai Li,
  • Ying Hou,
  • Ruhong Xin,
  • Yuejing Rong,
  • Xiang Pan,
  • Zihan Gao,
  • Ting Wang,
  • Bingyang Lyu,
  • Baimeng Guo and
  • Xi Li
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25 September 2024

Ecosystems and their services to society have exhibited dramatic degradation all over the world, and landscape planning based on ecosystem service (ES) science is a promising way to mitigate ES loss and improve human well-being. However, ecosystem he...

(This article belongs to the Section Land Planning and Landscape Architecture)
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487 Views
26 Pages

22 June 2026

With the advancement of systematic ecological protection and restoration, ecosystem coordination assessment and multi-scale differentiation analysis have become increasingly important for regional ecological governance. In this context, this study de...

(This article belongs to the Section Landscape Ecology)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
738 Views
28 Pages

30 January 2026

Coordinating ecotourism development with economic growth is central to achieving sustainability in regions where natural assets are both a comparative advantage and a binding constraint. This study assesses the ecotourism economy coupling coordinatio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nature-Based Tourism and Outdoor Recreation in the Context of Sustainability)
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  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,812 Views
22 Pages

29 July 2022

With the accelerating urbanization and steady economic development in China, the urban built-up area is expanding and the population in the core area is proliferating. The pressure of insufficient urban infrastructure, especially public transportatio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Research Trends on the Development of Integrated and Robust Social Development Management Systems)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,205 Views
19 Pages

18 June 2023

In order to gain a comprehensive understanding of land system changes and regional sustainable development, it is crucial to explore the spatiotemporal distributions of multiple land use functions (LUFs). Therefore, herein, considering the Yangtze Ri...

(This article belongs to the Section Soil Conservation and Sustainability)
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  • Open Access
794 Views
17 Pages

Coupling Relationship Analysis of Water Resources, Society, Economy, and Ecosystems in the Shule River Basin

  • Zhongpei Liu,
  • Ben Ma,
  • Pucheng Zhu,
  • Wengeng Cao,
  • Yanliang Tian,
  • Lin Wu,
  • Furong Yu and
  • Junkun Nie

25 December 2025

Climate change and human activities have intensified the imbalance between water supply and demand in the Shule River Basin. Prominent issues such as groundwater over-exploitation and insufficient ecological base flow have significantly constrained t...

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  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,903 Views
29 Pages

7 June 2022

The comprehensive quality evaluation of the lakefront landscape relies on a combination of subjective and objective methods. This study aims to evaluate the coupling coordination between spatial quality and public sentiment in Wuhan’s lakefront...

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17 Citations
3,394 Views
20 Pages

It is inevitable that urban agglomeration will have a coercive impact on the regional Ecological Environment Quality (EEQ) as a consequence of high-speed urbanization. Balancing the EEQ and urbanization development has become a problem worthy of atte...

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