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In Germany, the current sectoral urban planning often leads to inefficient use of resources, partly because municipalities lack integrated planning instruments and argumentation strength toward politics, investors, or citizens. The paper develops the...

Management based on sustainable approaches increases the resilience of systems in which they are implemented. The following study explores the sustainability and efficiency of water management in the regions of Ukraine and the role of these factors i...

The pressing need for sustainable development solutions necessitates innovative data-driven tools. Machine learning (ML) offers significant potential, but faces challenges in centralized approaches, particularly concerning data privacy and resource c...

Recently, the main aim of the road freight transportation sector has been the establishment of a cost-effective and sustainable operation because it is one of the most environmentally damaging and most expensive elements of the supply chains’ a...

In this paper, the evolutionary algorithm for the optimization of Forex market trading strategies is proposed. The introduction to issues related to the financial markets and the evolutionary algorithms precedes the main part of the paper, in which t...

The 17 sustainable development goals proposed in the 2030 sustainable development agenda are the shared vision of all humanity. The core of achieving the sustainable development goals is to ensure grain security. Although financial inclusion is not s...

It has recently been underscored that access to energy has adverse impacts upon human development in South Asia. In this paper, we apply different variants of the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model to explain how improved access to energy mi...

Green development (GD) has become a new model of sustainable development across the world. However, our knowledge of green development efficiency (GDE) in Gansu province is poor. In remedy, this study, based on the panel data of 12 major cities in Ga...

The aim of this paper is to evaluate the relative efficiency of commercial banks in three developing countries in Europe (North Macedonia, Serbia, and Croatia) in the period from 2015 to 2019, and to provide targets for improvement for the inefficien...

The article presents a theoretical generalisation and solution of a current scientific and applied problem which develops theoretical principles, methodological approaches and scientific and practical recommendations for improving the mechanism of la...

The efficient development of Economic and Technological Development Zones (ETDZs) across China has been key to the country’s economic transformation. Despite this, few studies have addressed the dynamic characteristics of the efficiency of ETDZs. Tak...

The growing risk of climate change caused by the emission of greenhouse gases poses new challenges to contemporary countries. The development of economies is usually related to increasing levels of greenhouse gas emissions. Therefore, the question ar...

This paper examines the effect of financial development on countries’ production efficiency levels. By applying a probabilistic framework it develops robust (Order-m) time-dependent conditional nonparametric frontier estimators in order to meas...

The sustainability of economic development is constrained by issues such as the depletion of global resources and environmental deterioration; therefore, assessing the effectiveness of green development is crucial for ensuring both economic and socia...

In order to realize economic and social green development, to pave a pathway towards China’s green regional development and develop effective scientific policy to assist in building green cities and countries, it is necessary to put forward a relativ...

The green economy is one of the important and practical tools of sustainable development, which balances the two directions of regional development: economic growth and preservation of the natural environment. In this paper, we have developed a metho...

As a kind of green and pollution-free renewable energy, wind energy has great development prospects. How to promote the development of the wind power industry and improve the efficiency of wind power development and utilization is an urgent problem t...

China has always been a major agricultural country, and the issues of agriculture, rural areas and farmers have always been fundamental issues of China’s reform and development. First of all, most previous studies did not combine agricultural develop...

In order to achieve China’s carbon peaking and carbon neutrality (double carbon) targets and to advance ecological conservation and high-quality development in the Yellow River Basin, it is essential that China reduces its energy intensity and...

Sustainable rural development is crucial for urban–rural integration and achieving shared prosperity. This study assesses rural development efficiency (RDE) at the county level in the Yangtze River Delta (YRD) region from 2012 to 2021 using the...

Improving China’s high-quality development efficiency represents a key lever for the development of new productivity and successfully achieving the “dual carbon” goal. Starting from the nonparametric production theory, this paper ad...

Shenzhen is a national sustainable development innovation demonstration zone, with the theme of innovation leading the sustainable development of megacities. This manuscript studies technological innovation, production efficiency, and sustainable dev...

Low energy efficiency and severe environmental pollution are two growing issues haunting China’s fast economic development. Under China’s current development model, economic growth still heavily depends on massive energy input, which makes energy eff...

Realizing green development in agriculture is fundamental to sustained economic development. As a measure to facilitate the transfer of rural population, urbanization is considered to be strategic in promoting agricultural green development. This pap...

Green development is a significant concept that cannot be ignored in contemporary society. However, in the context of China’s transition from high-speed growth to high-quality development, the complex impact of urban development has brought gre...

As an innovative retailing mode, “new retailing” is making the distinction between physical and virtual commerce obsolete, where offline stores attract customers and supply them with the opportunity of experiences, and online stores provi...

To evaluate the effectiveness of the low-carbon innovation development of enterprises, this paper proposes a neutral dynamic network cross-efficiency model and introduces the bootstrap sampling method to correct the model. The model categorizes the l...

Limited by ecological conditions, in order to improve the innovation efficiency concerning energy, a change from “extensive” to “green” is required. The development of sustainable technology is the most important productive fo...

The aim of this paper is to provide a new approach for assessing the input–output efficiency of education and technology for national science and education department. We used the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) method to analyze the efficiency shari...

Taking the panel data of 13 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central government) in Shanxi and Xinjiang from 2011 to 2020 as the research object, we establish an evaluation index system for assessing smart mine cons...

Previous research in regional energy efficiency by using macro statistical data has demonstrated that technology development could improve regional energy efficiency. Since the start of reform and opening up in 1978, China has mainly adopted energy i...

Macro-economic development of China’s health industry is essential to the sustainable development and growth momentum of the national economy. Strategies to promote the development and rebalancing of the industrial structure need to be improved...

Modern cities require urban compact development to be sustainable. The evaluation of urban compact development may help create more accurate and realistic policies. The spatio-temporal dynamic evolution of urban compact development efficiency and its...

Due to limited land resources, it is necessary to balance urban economic development and efficient land use. Clarifying the relationship between the two is crucial to improving both economic efficiency and land use efficiency. Considering the undesir...

The energy transition and carbon emission efficiency are important thrust and target functions, respectively, for achieving carbon neutrality in the future. Using a sample of 30 Chinese provinces from 2006 to 2018, we measured their carbon efficiency...

The healthcare and welfare policies of nations, as well as the amount of investments put into these areas, vary across countries. Investments in healthcare and welfare have been increasing worldwide which brings the question of assessing the efficien...

In the context of ecological priority and green development strategy, accelerating the upgrading of tourism structure and promoting the development of ecotourism is an important guarantee to achieve green and low-carbon economic growth and high-quali...

Based on panel data collected from 30 Chinese provinces between 2009 and 2020, we used the Super-SBM model to calculate regional eco-efficiency (EE) and analyze its spatial–temporal evolution characteristics. Furthermore, we constructed SDM to...

This study empirically investigates the involvement of actors in the process of energy-efficiency improvements in operations to align strategic sustainability goals across and within operations. The study analyzes development efforts stemming from ac...

The level of development of the innovation factor plays a crucial role in supporting the high-quality sustainable development of China’s economy. In order to advance the sustainable development of regional innovation factor allocation efficienc...

During the “14th Five-Year Plan” period, a question worth exploring in depth would be how China promotes green development through green finance to realize the goal of financially supporting the construction of ecological civilization. Th...

The green development of agriculture is an essential way to achieve high-quality agricultural development, and the development of digitalization has given new momentum to the green development of agriculture. In this study, based on the panel data of...

The digital economy development promotes green transformation in China’s economy. Based on provincial-level data from 2011–2019, an ArcGIS spatial analysis is used to explore the spatial and temporal evolution patterns of the digital econ...

Addressing the challenge of attaining a harmonious balance between energy utilization efficiency and the level of industrial structure development is crucial for promoting regional sustainable development. Aiming at the goal of carbon neutrality, a t...

The global digitization trend provides a favorable development environment for the efficient acquisition of knowledge and technology. However, restrictions imposed by countries on digital trade have hindered this trend. This study is based on 60 samp...

Green development efficiency is an essential measure of China’s economy turning into a stage of high-quality development in the new era. This paper establishes a spatial Durbin model based on the new geography economics. It empirically investig...

This study constructs an index system based on provincial data from 2012 to 2023 for forestry industry agglomeration and eco-efficiency. Using methods such as the Coupling Coordination Degree and Relative Development Degree, the study explores the re...

Reasonably assessing the efficiency of green regional development is a key to improving environmental management and implementing sustainable development strategies. From the perspectives of environmental pollutant emissions, energy consumption, and...

The sandstorm in 2021 in East Asia demonstrated the ecological issues that culminated for decades in Mongolia. Mongolia is facing challenges to realize green and sustainable development. This article aims to increase the understanding of eco-efficien...

The thermal environment of the development headings in deep underground mines tends to be harsh. The design of a reliable auxiliary ventilation system is an important strategy to maintain the thermal environment and air quality in the workplace. Henc...