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The response to the penalty for an environmental violation on the firm level is a matter of reactive corporate environmental practices, about which the existence of a penalty is critical for environmental public policy. We propose that a penalty acts...

Developing high-quality regional integration requires a good-quality water environment. In this study, the impact of formal and informal environmental regulation (FIER) on water environment governance performance (WEP) is examined using a fixed-effec...

Environmental regulation is a crucial tool for controlling environmental pollution. Digital finance is essential for the development of green finance. The relationship between environmental regulation and digital finance concerning environmental poll...

It is of great significance to clarify the impact and mechanism of environmental regulations on enterprises’ green innovation. This paper empirically studies the impact of command-and-control environmental regulation (CCER) and market-incentive...

Since the beginning of 2020, the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic made it necessary to change our lifestyles (e.g., restrictions on transport or travelling and forced telework). This has also changed the environmental impact of our lifestyles. To quantify...

Abundant extant literature emphasizes the impact of board members attributes’ influence on environmental information disclosure. Considering the voluntary nature of environmental information disclosure, executives have strong managerial discret...

In the context of China’s 14th Five-Year Plan and 2035 visionary goals of national economic and social development, to achieve the national dual carbon goals, an innovation-driven green development strategy must be implemented, and the relation...

The 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China clearly regards the prevention and control of environmental pollution as one of the “three key battles” to build a well-off society. This paper analyzes the relationship between s...

The green transformation of the service sector is crucial for promoting the construction of ecological civilization and boosting high-quality development. The aim of the relationship between environmental regulation and eco-efficiency is to explore t...

In recent years, the relationship between the executive characteristics and corporate environmental responsibility has attracted much attention from academia, especially the relationship between executive compensation and corporate environmental resp...

While environmental pollution is becoming more and more serious, many countries are adopting policies to control pollution. At the same time, the environmental regulation will inevitably affect economic and social development, especially employment g...

This study aims to explore how environmental, social and governance (ESG) consistency impacts the firm performance, specifically, the relationship between ESG performance and economic performance (EP). This study posits that the company’s commitment...

Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) performance has become a vital instrument for corporations to integrate sustainable development principles into business operations. Against the dual backdrop of disruptions in the international order and e...

To address the challenges posed by the living environment and promote sustainable development, the Chinese government implemented a new environmental protection law in 2015. Based on the provincial panel data of 30 provinces, autonomous regions, and...

The paper illustrates the phases and results of an evaluation model applied to abandoned industrial areas affected by critical environmental pollution. The main aim is to provide the economic evaluation of the impacts of critical environmental pollut...

This study uses financial data from 872 Chinese listed companies (2018–2022). It tests the triple dividend effect and threshold effect of China’s environmental protection tax (EPT) using high-dimensional fixed effects models and panel thr...

As an essential way to promote ecological civilization, green finance is attracting wide attention. However, whether green finance can successfully regulate the green technology innovation effect of heterogeneous environmental regulations and boost g...

The automated vehicle (AV) industry is a new growing industry of great interest. The environmental friendliness of AVs represents a core characteristic of their leap-forward development. The environmental effect of AVs, including its evaluation frame...

The basin economy is essential in China’s high-quality development, which brings prodigious economic and social benefits. However, high industrialization and urbanization led to a significant escalation in water pollution within basins. The ach...

Brownfields or objects of accumulated environmental damage are a complex object characterized by both the absorption and release of uncontrolled energy (for example, biogas or hydrothermal energy). The brownfield redevelopment process provides unique...

The impact of environmental regulations (ER) on haze pollution control has been continuously debated in the field of sustainable development. This paper explores the direct and indirect threshold effects of ER on haze pollution, and five underlying m...

Current research has generally concentrated on the motivations of environmental policies on local green innovation while ignoring the effect they may have on green innovation in neighboring places. To obtain a thorough understanding and explanation o...

Tributaries flowing naturally play an important role in maintaining the biodiversity of aquatic organisms in dammed rivers. The Chishui River is currently the only undeveloped first-level tributary and an important habitat for aquatic organisms in th...

Pollution-intensive industries (PIIs) have both scale effect and environmental sensitivity. Therefore, this paper studies how environmental regulation (ER) affects the location dynamics of PIIs under the agglomeration effect. Our results show that, E...

Volunteers trained in environmental science are the backbone of environmental protection. Therefore, it is necessary to study the pro-environmental behaviors of volunteers trained in environmental science and guide them to actively participate in pro...

Facing the current increasingly severe environmental problems, the government and the public make increasingly strong demands for environmental protection. It is the key to sustainable development to study how to motivate enterprises to actively fulf...

This study aims to expand our understanding of environmental performance by adopting exploration and exploitation concepts, which are key types of firm innovation. We reveal exploration and exploitation as two important antecedents of proactive and r...

Small and fragmented arable land is a key challenge for small-scale agricultural countries, resulting in low labor productivity, ecological damage, and inefficient land use. To cope with this challenge, the farmland transfer (FLT) policy is implement...

To explore the connotation and development level of China’s new quality productivity, this paper constructs an index system based on innovation, greenness, and productivity. This system is used to describe the development level of China’s...

This paper took the panel data of 1052 heavily-polluting listed companies from both the Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Exchange from 2010 to 2017 to empirically analyze the impact of environmental regulation (ERG) on firm performance (FP). The article i...

There is a clear target and roadmap for the peaking of carbon emissions and achievement of carbon neutrality, and prior to this target being reached, penalties have been formulated to supervise enterprises and prompt green innovation. This study aime...

The environment is a key element that affects many aspects of our society, including the economy, education and talents. In this article, the main purpose is to provide statistical models, algorithms and quantitative evidence regarding environmental...

Combined with the characteristics of the Chinese environmental regulation supervision system and evolutionary game theory, the spillover effect of local governments’ investment behaviour has been incorporated into their payment function to study the...

The development of digital financial inclusion has added a new vitality to economic growth, and environmental regulation is an important tool to achieve sustainable economic growth. Therefore, whether there is a synergistic effect between these two f...

Based on provincial dynamic panel data from 2010 to 2019, this paper constructs a panel threshold model and explores the nonlinear relationship between environmental regulation and economic growth through channels of technological innovation. In addi...

This study provides empirical evidence and policy inspiration for China to implement the energy use rights trading policy. Using 262 cities in China from 2005 to 2019 as samples, we employed the double difference method and mediation analysis to empi...

Governments contribute to the transition toward a circular economy (CE) by using criteria in their procurement processes that trigger the supply of circular products and services, namely circular public procurement (CPP). CPP practices are emerging i...

This paper uses both fiscal expenditure policy and fiscal revenue policy as input indicators and selects environmental pollution control results reflecting different forms and sources of pollution as output indicators. The efficiency of fiscal polici...

This paper uses panel data from 284 Chinese cities from 2004 to 2020 and employs a dynamic spatial panel Durbin model to re-examine the relationship between industrial agglomeration, environmental regulation, and haze pollution. It further adopts a d...

This study aims to examine the relationships among environmental sensitivity, eco-anxiety, and sustainable consumption behavior, thereby revealing how these variables interact within the framework of sustainability psychology. Conducted with a sample...

Farmers’ green breeding behavior is significant to environmental protection and sustainable development. Based on the micro-survey data of 1248 beef cattle farmers in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and Jilin Province, the OLS model and regula...

In the context of China’s synergistic development of import and export strategies and water environmental protection, this paper analyzes the role of two-way FDI synergistic development in water environmental governance efficiency based on pane...

Agricultural product trade openness is a crucial factor impacting agricultural carbon emissions. This study analyzes the relationship between trade openness and carbon emissions in China. Using panel data from 2002 to 2020 for 31 provinces, a thresho...

Against the dual backdrop of iterative AI advancement and deepening green development imperatives, AI-driven industrial intelligence (INT) has emerged as a pivotal force in driving sustainable economic growth. While the existing literature has explor...

Based on the trickle-down effect model, social learning theory and trait activation theory, this study explores the mechanisms of multi-level responsible leadership on employees’ pro-environmental behaviors in the hotel industry in China. The results...

This study applies a panel threshold regression model to reconcile the inconsistent findings about returnee chief executive officer (CEO) effects on enterprise innovation using the environmental uncertainty as the threshold variable and panel data fr...

In this study, taking the pilot zones for green finance reform and innovations set up in 2017 as the objects, a quasi-natural experiment is conducted to assess the environmental effects of green finance policy using the difference-in-difference prope...

In recent years, China has made it clear that the whole society should constantly enhance its awareness of ecological and environmental protection and promote the development of public safety and health. For listed energy enterprises, it is the respo...

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosure plays a pivotal role in mitigating “blue” (labor standard) and “green” (environmental standard) trade barriers, optimizing the foreign trade ecosystem, fostering sustainable dev...

The heat-reflective coating for asphalt pavement is a functional layer applied on pavement surfaces to reduce heat storage in the pavement via reflecting sunlight, thus inhibiting pavement temperature rise. The objective of this study was to analyze...