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Adopting a Quality-of-Life Approach to Urban Development: Proposing a New Framework Based on Structural, Fairness, and Perception Lenses

  • Wendy M. Purcell,
  • Andrew Schmidt,
  • Elizabeth Sitati,
  • Himanshu Shekhar and ,
  • David Dodman,
  • Francesco Sarracino,
  • Jamie Anderson,
  • Marija De Wijn and
  • Eduardo Moreno
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

20 February 2026

Given the lack of integrated, cross-cutting approaches in urban Quality of Life measures, a new framework is proposed here that draws upon a city-level index co-created under the Quality of Life Initiative implemented by UN-Habitat. Using a conceptua...

(This article belongs to the Section Development Goals towards Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
707 Views
22 Pages

Green Energy, Institutional Quality and Environmental Quality in the Context of Sustainable Development

  • Thu Thuy Nguyen,
  • Thuy Hang Pham Thi,
  • Van Hung Vu,
  • Thu Huong Nguyen and
  • Van Chien Nguyen

15 July 2026

Environmental pollution is becoming an urgent global issue. Countries are implementing various solutions and establishing legal frameworks and institutional policies to promote the use of green energy sources and thereby minimize the adverse environm...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
286 Views
32 Pages

Financial Development and Economic Development in Africa: The Moderating Role of Institutional Quality

  • Denis Wangila Simiyu,
  • Christine Nanjala Simiyu and
  • Wanyoike Charles Githira

9 October 2026

Financial development is widely regarded as a driver of economic development in Africa, yet the conditioning role of institutional quality has not been systematically synthesised. This systematic review, conducted in accordance with PRISMA 2020 guide...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Corruption, Institutions and the Macroeconomy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,337 Views
31 Pages

1 November 2024

High-quality development enhances economic quality and resource allocation efficiency through various effective and sustainable means, with particularly notable results in the manufacturing sector. Quality policies, through establishing standards, no...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,374 Views
20 Pages

The high-quality development of foreign trade is both an inherent need for China’s economic transformation and upgrading and a vital driver for global economic recovery and sustainable development. Analyzing how new quality productive forces em...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems Practice in Social Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
130 Citations
10,875 Views
13 Pages

The Moderating Effect of Institutional Quality on the Financial Development and Environmental Quality Nexus

  • Ahmed Imran Hunjra,
  • Tahar Tayachi,
  • Muhammad Irfan Chani,
  • Peter Verhoeven and
  • Asad Mehmood

Environmental sustainability is a major concern of contemporary societies, businesses, and governments. However, there is a lack of knowledge as to how countries can achieve the goal to end poverty, whilst protecting the planet. It is the objective o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainability in International Business: Talent Management, Market Entry Strategies, Competitiveness)
  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
3,849 Views
18 Pages

Guided High-Quality Development, Resources, and Environmental Forcing in China’s Green Development

  • Zhengda Li,
  • Wanping Yang,
  • Chengjun Wang,
  • Yuesheng Zhang and
  • Xiaoling Yuan

1 April 2019

High-quality guided development and environmental forcing are two routes for China’s green development, and each has different focuses and outcomes. The aim of this study is to clarify coordinated mechanisms to reveal the reasons and determine...

  • Review
  • Open Access
55 Citations
20,949 Views
15 Pages

24 July 2023

It is well−established that plants are sessile and photoautotrophic organisms that rely on light throughout their entire life cycle. Light quality (spectral composition) is especially important as it provides energy for photosynthesis and influ...

(This article belongs to the Section Plant Physiology and Metabolism)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,370 Views
15 Pages

Quality Management System in Air Quality Measurements for Sustainable Development

  • Rafał Kozłowski,
  • Mirosław Szwed,
  • Aneta Kozłowska,
  • Joanna Przybylska and
  • Tomasz Mach

30 August 2024

Air pollution is a global health issue and a cause of premature mortality. There is an urgent need to develop air quality monitoring networks and to implement standards enabling dependable testing and delivering reliable results. European standards p...

(This article belongs to the Section Pollution Prevention, Mitigation and Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
80 Citations
10,065 Views
22 Pages

17 July 2015

In this study, the relationships between financial development, environmental quality and economic growth are studied based on data from 102 countries over the period 1980–2010 using the generalized method of moments (GMM) estimation. The econometric...

  • Article
  • Open Access
135 Citations
10,986 Views
19 Pages

Advancing the construction and application of new quality productive forces is an essential prerequisite for achieving high-quality agricultural development and expediting the establishment of agricultural powerhouses. This study aims to elucidate th...

(This article belongs to the Section Agricultural Economics, Policies and Rural Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
7,605 Views
15 Pages

20 October 2021

This study aims to identify the role of higher education quality assurance in achieving sustainable development goals. To support this aim, the following objectives were formulated: to discuss and summarize the best practices of QA agencies in promot...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Higher Education Quality Assurance)
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  • Open Access
1,108 Views
32 Pages

29 April 2026

With the implementation of China’s strategy to build a maritime power, new-quality marine productive forces have emerged as an important driver of high-quality development in the marine economy. Based on panel data from 11 coastal provinces in China...

(This article belongs to the Topic Enabling Strategies and Policies Toward a Sustainable Environment, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
101 Citations
9,889 Views
24 Pages

29 July 2022

From the perspective of economics, high-quality economic development is a concept that is not easy to grasp. How to quantify high-quality development is also a relatively complex topic. The combination of economic growth and development is high-quali...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,978 Views
22 Pages

29 August 2022

Economic development plays an important role in regional employment quality. Taking provincial panel data in China during 2010–2019 as a sample, we constructed an employment quality and economic development quality indicator system. The system...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
4,084 Views
28 Pages

10 September 2025

To assist resource-based regions in overcoming the bottlenecks of industrial transformation and advancing high-quality development, this paper conducts an in-depth analysis of the internal mechanisms through which new quality productive forces contri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,089 Views
30 Pages

11 July 2024

The key driving force for high-quality development is innovation, and collaborative innovation is an important form of organizing and realizing innovation. However, the impact of collaborative innovation networks on high-quality regional development...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovation Management and Sustainability)
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  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,835 Views
20 Pages

16 September 2024

In recent years, with the dramatic surge in the demand for health and elderly care services, the emergence of the health dividend has presented good development opportunities for health and wellness tourism. However, as a sector of the economy, healt...

  • Article
  • Open Access
63 Citations
20,574 Views
19 Pages

20 November 2014

The concept of sustainable development does not articulate what needs to be sustained, developed, or how, and is consequently intersubjective and intercultural. I therefore argue that it is essential to consider different worldviews when discussing s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,549 Views
19 Pages

19 January 2023

Regional digitization became an important driving force for high-quality economic development. Digital empowerment can effectively balance factor supply and demand and promote high-quality economic development. This study selects a sample of Chinese...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
4,493 Views
20 Pages

High-Quality Development of Chinese Agriculture under Factor Misallocation

  • Shuai Qin,
  • Zheying Han,
  • Hong Chen,
  • Haokun Wang and
  • Cheng Guo

Optimizing factor allocation is the premise of promoting high-quality development of agriculture. Based on the panel data of 31 provinces in China from 2004 to 2020, this paper examines the relationship between factor mismatch and high-quality agricu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Agricultural Green Transformation and Sustainable Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,632 Views
22 Pages

13 November 2018

The knowledge about the relations between domestic institutional quality and the sustainable development of exports in emerging markets remains limited, since most research into the relations between the institutional environment and the sustainable...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainability in Asian Emerging Markets)
  • Article
  • Open Access
465 Views
34 Pages

9 September 2026

China’s transition from rapid growth to high-quality development requires pharmaceutical manufacturing to pursue productivity gains that are both innovation-driven and sustainable. New quality productive forces (NQPF)—characterized by tec...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Sustainable Smart Manufacturing and Industrial Intelligence)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,491 Views
24 Pages

12 April 2024

With the popularization and practice of the concept of reduction development, how to accurately and comprehensively evaluate the high-quality development effect of the modern service industry has become crucial. This paper combines the concept of red...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
5,287 Views
19 Pages

Can Data Elements Promote the High-Quality Development of China’s Economy?

  • Peipei Qi,
  • Dandan Sun,
  • Can Xu,
  • Qiang Li and
  • Qi Wang

27 April 2023

In recent years, the digital economy, with data as the key production factor, has developed rapidly and become the driving force of China’s high-quality economic development. The relationship between data factors and high-quality economic devel...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
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  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,120 Views
14 Pages

12 October 2022

Promoting the coupling coordinated development between ecological protection and high-quality development is an important path to achieve sustainable regional development around the world. Taking Guizhou, China as a typical case, this study builds a...

(This article belongs to the Section Landscape Ecology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,487 Views
21 Pages

7 August 2023

The “Five Development Concept” policy is the foundation of high-quality development in China, and enterprises should base their high-quality development on this new paradigm. Can digital inclusive finance play a vital role in the high-qua...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Economic Policy and Econometrics Strategy)
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  • Open Access
720 Views
41 Pages

2 June 2026

This study examines upstream non-quality drivers and their root causes in development-to-production transition processes, with a focus on New Product Introduction (NPI) environments characterized by high technological and organizational complexity. A...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quality and Sustainability: The Way to Improvement)
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  • Open Access
285 Views
26 Pages

Evaluation of Urban Development Quality in Hefei Based on the ESRE Model

  • Mingxi Chu,
  • Junwei Yue,
  • Pengyi Da,
  • Yong Xu and ,
  • Zhenhua Wu and
  • Yinghong Wang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

16 October 2026

Against the backdrop of high-quality development in the new era, urban development is shifting from scale expansion to quality improvement, and the scientific evaluation of urban development quality has become crucial for promoting sustainable develo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,916 Views
19 Pages

This study aimed to develop a scale for measuring the online convention service quality (OCSQ) for the effective management of conventions held online. This study followed three steps to develop the measurement scale of OCSQ. First, a literature revi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,544 Views
15 Pages

Quality Education for All: A Fuzzy Set Analysis of Sustainable Development Goal Compliance

  • Luísa Carvalho,
  • Dora Almeida,
  • Ana Loures,
  • Paulo Ferreira and
  • Fernando Rebola

19 June 2024

The relationship between education and societal development is unquestionable. Education contributes to achieving both societies’ and individuals’ social and economic goals. Quality education is recognized as one of the Sustainable Develo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Challenges and Future Trends of Sustainable Environmental Education)
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  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,974 Views
20 Pages

11 May 2023

Fiscal decentralization, as a policy with which to regulate the financial power relationships between central and local governments, undoubtedly has an impact on high-quality economic development, and in the current context of focusing on environment...

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  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,049 Views
22 Pages

10 July 2022

Taking the A-share listed companies in Shanghai and Shenzhen from 2013 to 2020 as the research object, this paper discusses the impact of innovation on high-quality development at the enterprise level and evaluates the effectiveness of the current tr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,146 Views
19 Pages

24 September 2024

As energy demand continues to grow, the enhancement of natural gas storage and peaking capacity has become an important measure to ensure national energy security and to achieve the goals of carbon peaking and carbon neutrality. Gas storage and peaki...

  • Review
  • Open Access
142 Citations
56,171 Views
20 Pages

9 July 2019

As the biggest developing country with the largest population in the world, China has made great achievements in education development, which has contributed tremendously to reducing poverty and boosting prosperity in the past decades. However, in th...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Education and Approaches)
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  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,886 Views
13 Pages

Analysis of the Coupling Relationship between Water Quality and Economic Development in Hongjiannao Basin, China

  • Xiaoping Liu,
  • Shengdong Cheng,
  • Ziyao Miao,
  • Zhanbin Li and ,
  • Peng Li,
  • Tong Liu,
  • Hegang Zhi,
  • Shen Zhang,
  • Yifan Wang and
  • Xing Zheng
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

17 August 2023

Hongjiannao is the largest inland lake in China’s deserts. In recent years, the water quality and area of the Hongjiannao Lake have continued to decline, which is closely associated with the economic development in the Hongjiannao basin. To exp...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Effects of Hydrology on Soil Erosion and Soil Conservation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,957 Views
18 Pages

27 August 2024

The economic governance capacity of local government in China is instrumental in fostering tourism development quality and sustainability from the aspects of leading resource allocation, maintaining market fairness, and promoting enterprise innovatio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Designing Scenarios as Interpretive Measurement of Human–Environment-Social Sustainable Interaction)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
13,500 Views
17 Pages

Hydrologic and Water Quality Model Development Using Simulink

  • James D. Bowen,
  • David N. Perry and
  • Colin D. Bell

18 November 2014

A stormwater runoff model based on the Soil Conservation Service (SCS) method and a finite-volume based water quality model have been developed to investigate the use of Simulink for use in teaching and research. Simulink, a MATLAB extension, is a gr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from the 13th Estuarine and Coastal Modeling Conference)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,782 Views
18 Pages

In recent years, the digital economy has shown great potential in regard to in driving social production and development. In the context of the construction of digital villages, the deep integration of the digital economy and agricultural development...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,402 Views
50 Pages

20 September 2025

As China’s agriculture transitions toward high-quality development, reconciling agricultural green transformation with improved farmers’ income quality has become critical. This study seeks to investigate the effects of agricultural green...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
7,309 Views
16 Pages

22 February 2023

China’s economy began as one of high-speed development and has since advanced into a period of high-quality enhancement as driven by the services trade. Data elements are important for promoting services trade. In this paper, we present a liter...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Sustainability and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,661 Views
20 Pages

28 November 2024

Smart manufacturing is the core technology of the new industrial revolution and plays a crucial role in promoting high-quality development of enterprises. By using the panel dataset from 2015 to 2022 in China and applying text analysis methods to mea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
355 Views
25 Pages

The Impact of New Quality Productive Forces on High-Quality Energy Development: Evidence from China’s Energy Transition

  • Linfeng Li,
  • Huilu Yu,
  • Hongqiang Jiang,
  • Zihan Yuan and ,
  • Xuan Li and
  • Shilong Wang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

14 September 2026

Against the backdrop of an accelerating global energy transition and increasingly stringent carbon reduction targets, achieving high-quality energy development (HED) has emerged as a critical pathway toward green and low-carbon transformation. New qu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
973 Views
21 Pages

26 January 2026

The global consensus on sustainable development hinges on the coordinated advancement of economic, social, and environmental dimensions, with high-quality development serving as China’s pivotal pathway for practical implementation. As the prima...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue A Quantitative Analysis and Interdisciplinary Approach to the Sustainable Development Goals)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,948 Views
18 Pages

24 January 2023

Taking the trade flow of main wood forest products imported from Russia from 2011 to 2021 as the data source, this study measures the quality of the main wood forest products imported from Russia by China through the regression inference method of de...

  • Article
  • Open Access
533 Views
29 Pages

22 May 2026

Digital innovation constitutes the core determinant of sustainable digital transformation and functions as a pivotal driver of regional high-quality economic development. As a strategic node in China’s urban agglomeration framework, the Guangdo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
9,233 Views
14 Pages

1 February 2013

A total of 2000 EST sequences were produced from cDNA libraries generated from Chinese bayberry fruit (Myrica rubra Sieb. and Zucc. cv. “Biqi”) at four different ripening stages. After cluster and assembly analysis of the datasets by UniProt, 395 un...

(This article belongs to the Section Biochemistry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,429 Views
16 Pages

14 February 2022

High-quality development (HQD) is the direction of China’s urbanization development. This paper defines HQD of urbanization in terms of theoretical connotation and constructs the evaluation index system of HQD of China’s urbanization from...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
351 Views
15 Pages

10 October 2026

Background/Objectives: Perceived diet quality (PDQ), measured with a single question, has been linked to better cardiometabolic health indicators. However, no published comprehensive tool to measure PDQ exists. Therefore, the objective of this study...

(This article belongs to the Section Nutrition and Public Health)
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,304 Views
13 Pages

30 April 2023

Background: High-quality development has permeated all aspects of China’s economic and social development. Nevertheless, few scholars have studied high-quality financial development. Purpose: Explore the spatial spillover impact of the digital...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainability as an Inevitable Paradigm of Business and Social Relations)

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