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  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,593 Views
11 Pages

A Bus-Scheduling Method Based on Multi-Sensor Data Fusion and Payment Authenticity Verification

  • Wenan Gong,
  • Ting Zeng,
  • Haina Song,
  • Jiayi Su,
  • Honggang Wang,
  • Lin Hu,
  • Jinchao Xiao,
  • Xiaosong Liu,
  • Ming Li and
  • Jingfeng Yang

It is of great significance to ensure public transportation management capabilities by improving urban public transport services. One method is to solve the problems related to the quality of data submitted for public funding as well as the accuracy...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,449 Views
3 Pages

The role of the voluntary pension fund is to ensure the preservation and increase of their value by investing the collected payments and contributions, and thus the later amount of private pensions for payment. Savings for a private pension is a long...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
23,579 Views
10 Pages

Since the oil price downturn of 2015, the United Arab Emirates and fellow Gulf Cooperation Council countries have worked hard to expand digital payments in the interest of improved tax and revenue collection, transparency, and security. Yet despite a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,667 Views
14 Pages

Rural solid waste management is an important method to improve rural living environments. Farmers’ participation in rural solid waste management plays an essential role in sustainable waste management. Based on the micro-survey data of 592 farm...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,270 Views
15 Pages

Green Payment and Perceived Rural Landscape Quality: A Cost-Benefit Analysis in Central Italy

  • Raffaele Cortignani,
  • Federica Gobattoni,
  • Raffaele Pelorosso and
  • Maria Nicolina Ripa

16 August 2018

The conservation of perceived scenery of traditional extensive and diversified landscapes is a valuable aim for reaching sustainable rural development. Considering the financial budget assigned and the application rules of European Union agricultural...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,044 Views
20 Pages

12 September 2022

Revealing the performance of farmland conservation policies that use different types of policy instruments can provide a basis for optimizing such policies. Based on farmers’ perceptions of farmland conservation policies, this paper conducted a...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
8,478 Views
22 Pages

Impacts of Payment for Forest Ecosystem Services in Protecting Forests in Dak Lak Province, Vietnam

  • Thu Thuy Pham,
  • Thi Thanh Thuy Le,
  • Hoa Nie Kdam Tuyet,
  • Van Trương Pham,
  • Phuong Hanh Nie Kdam Tran,
  • Trung Dung Tran,
  • Ngoc My Hoa Tran,
  • Thi Thuy Anh Nguyen and
  • Thi Van Anh Nguyen

11 October 2021

Vietnam’s Payment for Forest Ecosystem Services (PFES) scheme has the goal of protecting remaining natural forests by providing financial support to people involved in forest protection. However, studying the case of Dak Lak province in the Central H...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,881 Views
18 Pages

The integration of ecosystem services (ESs) valuation into agricultural policy frameworks is critical for fostering sustainable land management practices. This study leverages the redesigned version of the bio-economic farm model MODAM (Multi-Objecti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,652 Views
18 Pages

Promoting Low-Risk Fire Regimes: An Agent-Based Model to Explore Wildfire Mitigation Policy Options

  • Paulo Flores Ribeiro,
  • Francisco Moreira,
  • Maria João Canadas,
  • Ana Novais,
  • Miguel Leal,
  • Sandra Oliveira,
  • Rafaello Bergonse,
  • José Luís Zêzere and
  • José Lima Santos

6 March 2023

Landscape patterns and composition were identified as key drivers of fire risk and fire regimes. However, few studies have focused on effective policymaking aimed at encouraging landowners to diversify the landscape and make it more fire-resilient. W...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,685 Views
10 Pages

Assessing the Contribution of Citrus Orchards in Climate Change Mitigation through Carbon Sequestration in Sargodha District, Pakistan

  • Ghulam Yasin,
  • Muhammad Farrakh Nawaz,
  • Muhammad Zubair,
  • Ihsan Qadir,
  • Aansa Rukya Saleem,
  • Muhammad Ijaz,
  • Sadaf Gul,
  • Muhammad Amjad Bashir,
  • Abdur Rehim and
  • Zhenjie Du
  • + 1 author

10 November 2021

Adopting agroforestry practices in many developing countries is essential to combat climate change and diversify farm incomes. This study investigated the above and below-ground biomass and soil carbon of a citrus-based intercropping system in six si...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,957 Views
22 Pages

15 October 2024

Forests provide goods and services while maintaining ecological security. However, the market does not adequately reflect their economic benefits, posing a significant challenge to the Payments for Forest Ecosystem Services (PFES). The involvement of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,533 Views
22 Pages

As governments increasingly explore digital financial instruments to diversify funding channels and expand citizen participation, Thailand’s G-Token represents an early attempt to integrate blockchain technology into sovereign debt issuance. Th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,281 Views
26 Pages

8 December 2021

Increasing the level and diversifying the sources of flexible capacity available to transmission system operators will be a pivotal factor for maintaining reliable control of national electricity grids. These response capacities are widely available;...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
3,356 Views
21 Pages

The Transfer Payment Policy of National Key Ecological Functional Areas (TPEFAP), a well-known ecological compensation (eco-compensation) scheme in China, has been proposed by the government to alleviate ecological poverty and protect the environment...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,208 Views
17 Pages

Crop Rotation Practiced by Romanian Crop Farms before the Introduction of the “Environmentally Beneficial Practices Applicable to Arable Land” Eco-Scheme

  • Paula Stoicea,
  • Adrian Gheorghe Basa,
  • Elena Stoian,
  • Elena Toma,
  • Marius Mihai Micu,
  • Mihai Gidea,
  • Carina Andreea Dobre,
  • Adina Magdalena Iorga and
  • Irina Adriana Chiurciu

8 August 2023

The main objective of this article is the analysis of crop rotation applied to three crop farms of different sizes in Romania. The period under study is before the implementation of the “Environmentally beneficial practices applicable to arable...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
8,377 Views
25 Pages

14 January 2025

This study aims to understand how InsurTech has developed in Korea. To achieve this, we collected InsurTech-related news articles published in the Korean media over the past eight years. Using a relatedness analysis based on the TopicRank algorithm,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,666 Views
14 Pages

21 March 2024

The grassland ecological compensation mechanism is a basic guarantee for promoting the sustainable utilization of grassland resources, and the reasonable determination of the compensation subject is the basic premise for the effective operation of th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
990 Views
22 Pages

24 July 2025

Research on ecosystem carbon sequestration services and ecological compensation is crucial for advancing carbon neutrality. As a public good, ecosystem carbon sequestration services inherently lead to externalities. Therefore, it is essential to cons...