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19 Citations
6,635 Views
18 Pages

9 December 2021

The present paper offers a view regarding the challenge induced in the environment by the productive structure of countries. Economic complexity, which links the productive structure of a country with its knowledge, labour, and sophistication, seems...

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  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,329 Views
23 Pages

The dual problems of the public crisis from the global epidemic and the deterioration of the ecological environment constrain the economic development in the Yellow River Basin. To promote the sustainable and balanced development in the Yellow River...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Challenges and Crucial Topics for 2030 Public Health)
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  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,840 Views
16 Pages

16 April 2014

Based on China’s inter-provincial panel data from 1999–2009, this paper has tested the impact and extent of marketization, government governance, and legal environment of sustainable economic development by controlling physical capital, human capital...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
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  • Open Access
56 Citations
6,228 Views
23 Pages

2 February 2020

With the rapid development of economy, the scale of the logistics industry is also expanding rapidly, which brings great convenience to economy and trade, and becomes one of the pillar industries of national economy. However, with the development of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Transportation and Green Logistics with Big Data)
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  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,626 Views
18 Pages

Hurdles to a Circular Built Environment: A Look at the Economic and Market Barriers

  • Philip Griffiths,
  • Moses Itanola,
  • Ana Andabaka and
  • Dzintra Atstāja

17 April 2025

The circular economy is considered the best principle through which sustainable practices may be established. Mineral exhaustion, decarbonisation, and waste elimination can all be addressed through a circular economy. The built environment is one of...

(This article belongs to the Topic Circular Economy Innovations and Breakthroughs for Built Environments)
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36 Citations
4,690 Views
19 Pages

Economic Development, Fiscal Ecological Compensation, and Ecological Environment Quality

  • Hongjie Cao,
  • Meina Li,
  • Fengqin Qin,
  • Yankun Xu and ,
  • Li Zhang and
  • Zhifeng Zhang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Focusing on the exploration of the important role of fiscal ecological compensation in green development, this paper incorporates fiscal ecological compensation into the analytical framework of green development. Based on samples of data from county...

(This article belongs to the Topic Energy Efficiency, Environment and Health)
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  • Open Access
19 Citations
8,220 Views
19 Pages

The aim of the article is to verify the convergence process of the Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) (CEE10) countries towards Western European countries (EU15) in years 1995–2016. Additionally, the paper aims to show the interaction between eco...

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13 Citations
5,243 Views
11 Pages

Kuznets Environmental Curve for Ecuador: An Analysis of the Impact of Economic Growth on the Environment

  • Carolina Jimenez,
  • Luis Moncada,
  • Diego Ochoa-Jimenez and
  • Wilman-Santiago Ochoa-Moreno

23 October 2019

In the present investigation, an analysis of the impact of economic growth on the environment during the period 1971–2015 in Ecuador was made. The hypothesis of the environmental Kuznets curve was used as a study tool. We estimated this relatio...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
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  • Open Access
738 Views
16 Pages

11 April 2025

Air pollution is one of the most important environmental problems in the world, it does harm to human health as well as hindering the sustainable development of the economy. The grim situation deserves wide attention and active participation in impro...

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7 Citations
3,462 Views
20 Pages

Impact of Access to Electricity and Socio-Economic Environment on Poverty Reduction: An Empirical Study on Myanmar

  • Qian Xiong,
  • Wenxin Shen,
  • Chunna Liu,
  • Xuteng Zhang and ,
  • Wenzhe Tang,
  • Colin F. Duffield,
  • Felix Kin Peng Hui and
  • Lihai Zhang
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

31 October 2024

Previous studies have identified the importance of access to electricity and the socio-economic environment for poverty reduction, but the comprehensive interplay and synergistic relationships between them remain unclear. Using data collected from My...

(This article belongs to the Section B: Energy and Environment)
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  • Open Access
35 Citations
3,769 Views
21 Pages

Integrated Evaluations of Resource and Environment Carrying Capacity of the Huaihe River Ecological and Economic Belt in China

  • Wei-Ling Hsu,
  • Xijuan Shen,
  • Haiying Xu,
  • Chunmei Zhang and ,
  • Hsin-Lung Liu and
  • Yan-Chyuan Shiau
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

31 October 2021

The evaluations of resource and environment carrying capacity and territorial development suitability, also referred to as “double evaluations”, have been taken by China as an important direction in territorial space planning. Based on the evaluation...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Land Management in Territorial Planning: Analysis, Appraisal, Strategies for Sustainability Ⅱ)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,075 Views
16 Pages

14 July 2025

Water resources are strategic resources that support regional economic social development and maintain the health and stability of ecosystems. This study revealed the evolution of the coordinated development of China’s water resources–eco...

(This article belongs to the Section Water Resources Management, Policy and Governance)
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,058 Views
18 Pages

8 January 2024

This paper selects the panel data of 297 cities in China from 2003 to 2017 and analyzes the effects of government efficiency and innovation environment on the relationship between high-speed rail opening and economic growth from the perspective of go...

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69 Citations
5,190 Views
17 Pages

The challenges imposed by climate change and the limited nature of resources generate paradigm shifts at the level of economic, social, and environmental policies and strategies. Promoting the principles of sustainable development and the circular ec...

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  • Open Access
34 Citations
3,557 Views
23 Pages

There is a complex dynamic coupling interaction process between the ecological environment and urban resilience. It is important to clarify the coordination relationship and interactive response mechanism between them for sustainable development cons...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Trends in Urban Spatial Planning and Sustainable Development)
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  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,418 Views
13 Pages

31 March 2023

Under the concept of sustainable development, problems such as high resource consumption, serious environmental pollution and ecosystem degradation are the main factors restricting the sustainable development of economy. This paper aims to analyze th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Application of Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,546 Views
38 Pages

14 July 2025

In the context of the new developmental philosophy, this study aimed to address the bottleneck of regional sustainable development; it constructs a three-system evaluation indicator system for Industrial Structure Optimization (ISO), Ecological Envir...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Promoting Green, Sustainable, and Resilient Urban Construction)
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  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,433 Views
20 Pages

6 December 2020

Owing to the growing interest in environmental problems worldwide, it is essential to schedule power generation considering the effects of pollutants. To address this, we propose an optimal approach that solves the combined economic emission dispatch...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Distributed Power Generation Scheduling, Modelling and Expansion Planning)
  • Essay
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,349 Views
26 Pages

25 October 2022

Tourism is currently one of the important development industries in many countries and regions, and a healthy environment is an important basis and carrier for the sustainable development of the tourism economy. Ensuring a harmonious relationship bet...

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27 Citations
4,122 Views
24 Pages

27 April 2022

Achieving the coordinated development of the logistics industry, new urbanization and the ecological environment is significant for improving the efficiency of the logistics industry, urbanization level and environmental quality, but there are few st...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue A New Outlook for Sustainable Urban Development: Focus on Resilient Smart Cities)
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  • Open Access
11 Citations
7,211 Views
13 Pages

14 September 2022

Family socio-economic status (SES) is a significant predictor of children’s early learning performance, while little is known about the relationship between family SES and children’s play. This study aimed to examine how family SES was re...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Early Childhood Education Development)
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  • Open Access
714 Views
27 Pages

3 April 2026

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....

(This article belongs to the Section Social Ecology and Sustainability)
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  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,494 Views
17 Pages

6 July 2021

The link between the built environment and residential segregation has long been of interest to the discussion for sustainable and socially resilient cities. However, direct assessments on how extensively diverse built environments affect the social...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Socio-Spatial Inequalities and Segregation in Cities: Social Dynamics and Collective Responses)
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  • Open Access
53 Citations
6,007 Views
19 Pages

11 January 2023

Ecological environment quality and resilience assessment is an important prerequisite for ensuring the coordination and stability of socio-economic development and eco-environment protection. Remote sensing technology has provided new approaches for...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Research on the Structure and Function of Forest and Grassland Based on Multi-Source Remote Sensing Data)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,920 Views
21 Pages

22 January 2025

This study adopts a sustainable development perspective to examine the economic and ecological coordinated progression and spatial disparities across 30 regions in China from 2011 to 2022. Firstly, detailed analysis of CCD reveals that coordination b...

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1 Citations
2,093 Views
20 Pages

31 July 2024

Revealing the coordinated correlation between chemical industry development and the water environment is essential for promoting high-quality development in the Yangtze River Economic Belt. Based on the data in the Yangtze River Economic Belt from 20...

(This article belongs to the Section Water Resources Management, Policy and Governance)
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22 Citations
3,943 Views
24 Pages

Recent Advances in Technologies, Methods, and Economic Analysis for Sustainable Development of Energy, Water, and Environment Systems

  • Wenxiao Chu,
  • Maria Vicidomini,
  • Francesco Calise,
  • Neven Duić and ,
  • Poul Alborg Østergaard,
  • Qiuwang Wang and
  • Maria da Graça Carvalho
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

28 September 2022

Sustainability has become a broad societal goal, aiming to ensure that human beings coexist safely and harmoniously with nature over a longer time. The influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on the global economy is coming to an end. The development and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from the SDEWES 2021 Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems)
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20 Citations
10,012 Views
21 Pages

Economic Globalization Impacts on the Ecological Environment of Inland Developing Countries: A Case Study of Laos from the Perspective of the Land Use/Cover Change

  • Jun Wang,
  • Lichun Sui,
  • Xiaomei Yang,
  • Zhihua Wang and ,
  • Dazhuan Ge,
  • Junmei Kang,
  • Fengshuo Yang,
  • Yueming Liu and
  • Bin Liu
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

19 July 2019

Economic globalization promotes the economic development of underdeveloped regions but also influences the ecological environments of these regions, such as natural forest degradation. For inland developing regions with underdeveloped traffic routes,...

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16 Citations
2,859 Views
18 Pages

24 April 2023

The high-level coupling coordination relationship between urban development and a city’s water environment carrying capacity is conducive to urban sustainable development. Taking the Chengdu–Chongqing Economic Circle as the research objec...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Urbanization and Environmental Sustainability)
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  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,511 Views
33 Pages

5 March 2022

Taking nine provinces and cities along the ‘Silk Road Economic Belt’ as an example, this paper constructs an evaluation index system of the coupling coordination degree of the tourism–transportation–ecological environment syst...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,106 Views
20 Pages

Under the background of “the Belt and Road” and “China-Mongolia-Russia economic corridor” initiatives, we studied the urban accessibility level and regional spatial effect of the west line and east line of China-Mongolia-Russi...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,883 Views
15 Pages

31 October 2020

To date, no results have been published regarding cluster analysis of risk factors for cancer in Poland. Many cancer deaths are preventable through the modification of cancer risk behaviours. This study explores the multidisciplinary connection betwe...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Human Lifestyles and Behaviors. Sustainable Environments for Better Health, Quality of Life and Wellbeing)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,916 Views
20 Pages

17 April 2024

With the rapid development of urbanization, China is facing problems, such as uncoordinated regional development, imbalanced land space development, and ecological environment pollution. This poses a huge threat to the sustainable development of Chin...

(This article belongs to the Section Land Use, Impact Assessment and Sustainability)
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  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,312 Views
20 Pages

The ecological environment is the basis of high-quality economic development, and the coordinated development of the two is of great significance for promoting regional sustainable development. This study takes 31 cities in the middle reaches of the...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Science and Engineering)
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  • Open Access
47 Citations
6,736 Views
21 Pages

The Sustainable Development of the Economic-Energy-Environment (3E) System under the Carbon Trading (CT) Mechanism: A Chinese Case

  • Xingang Zhao,
  • Yuzhuo Zhang,
  • Ji Liang,
  • Yanbin Li and ,
  • Rongda Jia and
  • Ling Wang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

3 January 2018

The implementation of the carbon trading (CT) mechanism is important for the transformation of China’s renewable energy industry, thereby affecting the structure of energy, economy, and the environment, and determining the sustainable development of...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy Sustainability)
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  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,957 Views
19 Pages

5 May 2020

Water resources environment and high-quality economic development both have crucial significance to sustainable development. To explore the nexus between them, an integrated evaluation system was firstly established in this study on the basis of thei...

(This article belongs to the Section Water Resources Management, Policy and Governance)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
616 Views
24 Pages

29 January 2026

As a primary economic engine and strategic region in China, the development of the green building industry in the Yangtze River Economic Belt (YREB) holds demonstrative significance for the low-carbon transition of the country’s construction se...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Urban and Construction Management Under the Sustainable Development Goals: Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Evidence)
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  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,438 Views
19 Pages

20 November 2023

Tourism sustainability is a significant approach to forming a synergistic model of industry and ecology in ecologically vulnerable areas. Scientifically detecting the effect mechanism of tourism development on eco-environment resilience is important...

(This article belongs to the Section Tourism, Culture, and Heritage)
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  • Open Access
679 Views
19 Pages

The Relationship Between Economic Environment and Housing Market Dynamics

  • Fennee Chong,
  • Susilo Nur Aji Cokro Darsono and
  • Mahrus Lutfi Adi Kurniawan

7 August 2026

The housing sector is an important pillar of the economy. Understanding the trend and factors influencing it is essential for effective policy formulation and purchasing decisions. The objectives of this study are to assess the performance trajectory...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Real Estate, Housing, and Urban Governance—2nd Edition)
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  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,802 Views
16 Pages

Coordination between economic development (ED) and ecological environment (EE) is an important challenge for high-quality urban development. Taking the panel data related to the ED and EE of the Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration (YUA) from 2009...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Recent Development of Environmental Management in Asia)
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  • Open Access
2,126 Views
22 Pages

19 June 2023

This study develops a factorial Bayesian least-squares support vector machine-based energy–water–environment nexus system optimization (i.e., FBL–EWEO) model. FBL–EWEO can provide dependable predictions for electricity demand,...

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3 Citations
1,132 Views
22 Pages

16 April 2026

Although tourism is increasingly seen as a key component of sustainable regional development and economic diversification, its extraordinary expansion raises governance and environmental issues at the local level. The current study assesses the influ...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Development of Regional Tourism)
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,796 Views
21 Pages

The Yangtze River Economic Belt (YREB) is the core region for the security of mineral resources in China and is a strategic water source containing rich water resources. Coordinating the security of mineral resources and water resources in the YREB i...

(This article belongs to the Topic Energy Efficiency, Environment and Health)
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  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,460 Views
19 Pages

23 August 2022

Societal safety is the result of the coordinated development of several subsystems; the coupling–coordination relationship among economic development (ED), social stability (SS), and ecological environment (EE) is the premise of realizing susta...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Effects of Human Activity on the Third Pole and Trade-Offs for a Sustainable Plateau)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,535 Views
20 Pages

10 June 2022

As a rigid constraint of the scale and speed of regional economic-social development, carrying capacity is an endogenous variable of regional sustainable development potential. Concepts such as ecological footprint and virtual water have been introdu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Environmental Carrying Capacity in Urban and Regional Development)
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  • Open Access
59 Citations
15,809 Views
23 Pages

26 September 2017

The sustainable development of an economic-energy-environment (3E) system has received increasing attention by the government because it both determines national development and individuals’ health at the macro and micro level. In this paper, we synt...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Energy Policy and Policy Implications—Good Examples and Critical Reflections)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,885 Views
11 Pages

Most studies have focused on factors associated with depression at the individual level, and evidence on ecological models linking social-economic features with depression is rare in Taiwan. This study aimed to use multi-level analysis to explore the...

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34 Citations
5,157 Views
14 Pages

The wide application of various energy resources in economic development is allegedly responsible for deepening environmental deterioration in terms of increasing pollution emissions and other negative consequences including climate change. This curr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Future Challenges in the Framework of Integrated and Sustainable Environmental Planning: Case Studies and Innovative Proposals)
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  • Open Access
2,232 Views
11 Pages

16 January 2024

Malta faces a significant challenge in reducing carbon emissions, with energy consumption in its 153,100 occupied residences contributing to 30% of CO2 emissions. This study focuses on a sample of an 1870s, 80 sq-m footprint, three-story residence, e...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from MEDPOWER 2022—the 13th Mediterranean Conference on Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution and Energy Conversion)
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2 Citations
1,466 Views
28 Pages

Multimodal Deep Learning Framework for Profiling Socio-Economic Indicators and Public Health Determinants in Urban Environments

  • Esaie Dufitimana,
  • Jean Pierre Bizimana,
  • Ernest Uwayezu,
  • Paterne Gahungu and
  • Emmy Mugisha

Urbanization significantly enhances socio-economic conditions, health, and well-being for many by improving access to services, education, and economic opportunities. However, socio-economic and public health disparities are also being exacerbated by...

(This article belongs to the Topic Geospatial AI: Systems, Model, Methods, and Applications)

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