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  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,072 Views
26 Pages

Green Software Process Factors: A Qualitative Study

  • Siti Rohana Ahmad Ibrahim,
  • Jamaiah Yahaya and
  • Hasimi Sallehudin

7 September 2022

In the twenty-first century, the use of software is growing due to many applications requiring large and complex software. Many people do not realise that the use of software has influenced the operation of computer hardware to move indirectly as it...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,663 Views
21 Pages

23 November 2023

Accelerating the green development of the dairy industry is an important work to promote the construction of ecological civilization and ensure the safe supply of dairy products. Existing studies lack a comprehensive analysis of the green development...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,323 Views
19 Pages

Critical Factors for Green Public Procurement: The Case of Greece

  • Varvara S. Orfanidou,
  • Dimitrios J. Dimitriou,
  • Nikolaos P. Rachaniotis and
  • Giannis T. Tsoulfas

5 December 2024

Background: Green Public Procurement (GPP) is a sector that has been growing in recent years through policies encouraged by the European Union. In the Greek public sector, the respective National Action Plan (NAP), which sets specific targets for GPP...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
8,850 Views
14 Pages

14 November 2019

Green bonds have both “bond” and “green” attributes and are one of the important financing tools for green financial markets. The green bond risk premium directly reflects the financing cost of bond issuers and the capital gai...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,041 Views
22 Pages

Construct and Priority Ranking of Factors Affecting Crowdfunding for Green Products

  • Xiu-Yue Zhang,
  • Jui-Che Tu,
  • Shurui Gu,
  • Tzu-Hsuan Lu and
  • Minzhe Yi

27 February 2022

This article aims to target the key factors that could positively affect crowdfunding success for green products in order to promote crowdfunding efficiency and green supply chain management. Methods: Data were collected through expert interviews and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,369 Views
20 Pages

24 July 2024

Environmental and design factors determine the stormwater management capacity of green roofs; however, the design and environmental factors that impact their hydrological performance in subtropical humid regions are poorly understood. In particular,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
5,264 Views
16 Pages

Social Network Analysis of Factors Influencing Green Building Development in China

  • Ning Huang,
  • Libiao Bai,
  • Hailing Wang,
  • Qiang Du,
  • Long Shao and
  • Jingtao Li

Green buildings have been viewed as one of the most effective solutions to the negative environmental impacts of construction activities. For the sustainable development of the economy and the environment, many governments in the world have launched...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
2,733 Views
25 Pages

The green production behavior of pig farmers is the basis for high-quality development in animal husbandry. In order to solve the problem of poor green production behaviors in small- and medium-sized pig farmers, it is necessary to analyze the influe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,125 Views
21 Pages

18 July 2024

The relationships between humans and the environment have recently been incorporated into ergonomics in an effort to broaden the discipline’s traditional scope. Green ergonomics is an emerging field of study that has discovered links between pe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,955 Views
23 Pages

Determining Factors on Green Innovation Adoption: An Empirical Study in Brazilian Agribusiness Firms

  • Alexandre Rodrigues da Silva,
  • Claudia Brito Silva Cirani,
  • Fernando Antonio Ribeiro Serra,
  • Angélica Pigola,
  • Priscila Rezende da Costa,
  • Isabel Cristina Scafuto,
  • Roberto Lima Ruas and
  • Marcos Rogério Mazieri

6 April 2023

Green innovation has become one of the mainstream concepts to address environmental issues. However, research on green innovation, especially at the firm level, is still evolving. Building upon the natural resource-based view (NRBV) and resource-base...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,090 Views
13 Pages

Protective Effect of Green Tea Consumption on Colorectal Cancer Varies by Lifestyle Factors

  • Hyejin Kim,
  • Jeonghee Lee,
  • Jae Hwan Oh,
  • Hee Jin Chang,
  • Dae Kyung Sohn,
  • Aesun Shin and
  • Jeongseon Kim

1 November 2019

The inconsistent findings regarding green tea intake and colorectal cancer (CRC) risk in several epidemiological studies might result from variations in lifestyle factors. Therefore, we examined whether increased green tea intake was associated with...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
7,278 Views
21 Pages

Green residential buildings (GRBs) are one of the effective practices of energy saving and emission reduction in the construction industry. However, many real estate developers in China are less willing to develop GRBs, because of the factors affecti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,954 Views
26 Pages

30 April 2023

This article examines the establishment and publication of green plans and green public procurement (GPP) policies in Japanese municipalities. The purpose of the study was to investigate these green policymaking initiatives from a contingency theory...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
4,459 Views
21 Pages

1 April 2020

With the development of the world economy and the rapid increase in population, the carbon dioxide produced by large energy consumption has made environmental issues increasingly prominent, which has brought severe challenges to the survival and deve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,268 Views
21 Pages

7 April 2024

Green vegetation is one of the main objects of ecological environment restoration and protection, objectively reflecting the quality of regional ecological environments. Studying its spatial distribution characteristics is of great significance to th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,427 Views
19 Pages

4 June 2023

Increasing green total factor productivity is the key to achieving green development in agriculture. This study measured the green total factor productivity of Jiangxi’s agriculture, and its regional and temporal evolution characteristics were...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
5,097 Views
32 Pages

22 October 2020

Green buildings are playing a pivotal role in sustainable urban development around the world, including Saudi Arabia. Green buildings subject to various sources of risk that influence the potential outcomes of the investments or services added in the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
80 Citations
32,422 Views
18 Pages

Factors Influencing Consumer Behavior toward Green Products: A Systematic Literature Review

  • Andreea Barbu,
  • Ștefan-Alexandru Catană,
  • Dana Corina Deselnicu,
  • Lucian-Ionel Cioca and
  • Alexandra Ioanid

In the last few decades, humans have consumed more resources than in all of previous history. Hence, we are living in times in which the topic of environmental protection is a global concern. The paper aims to conduct a systematic literature review o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,166 Views
24 Pages

17 May 2023

Green consumption is an important tool to accelerate the circular economy and promote sustainable development. The identification of critical influencing factors for green consumption is the key to promoting green consumption behavior (GCB). Firstly,...

  • Essay
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,235 Views
13 Pages

2 July 2024

During a critical period of structural reform in China’s agricultural supply chain, accelerating the promotion and application of green production technologies emerges as a pivotal strategy to ensure the quality and safety of agricultural produ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
65 Citations
7,762 Views
17 Pages

Spatiotemporal Patterns of the Use of Urban Green Spaces and External Factors Contributing to Their Use in Central Beijing

  • Fangzheng Li,
  • Fen Zhang,
  • Xiong Li,
  • Peng Wang,
  • Junhui Liang,
  • Yuting Mei,
  • Wenwen Cheng and
  • Yun Qian

Urban green spaces encourage outdoor activity and social communication that contribute to the health of local residents. Examining the relationship between the use of urban green spaces and factors influencing their utilization can provide essential...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,363 Views
24 Pages

8 July 2024

The achievement of the dual-carbon objective and China’s green and sustainable development are both heavily reliant on green consumption. This research paper employs the Likert scale method to construct a questionnaire encompassing internal and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,089 Views
20 Pages

3 March 2025

With the accelerated advancement of the global technological revolution and industrial transformation, digitalization and greening are increasingly becoming important trends in the transformation and development of the global economy and society, and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,010 Views
18 Pages

Critical Factors Affecting Green Innovation in Major Transportation Infrastructure Projects

  • Shuhan Wang,
  • Long Li,
  • Xianfei Yin,
  • Ziwei Yi,
  • Shu Shi and
  • Meiqi Wan

22 September 2025

The complexities of megaprojects, particularly major transportation infrastructure projects (MTIs), require technological innovation that advances economic, social, and ecological objectives. Traditional engineering innovation emphasizes economic gai...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,162 Views
13 Pages

26 December 2022

Investigating urban green innovation efficiency (UGIE) is imperative because it is correlated with the development of an ecological civilization and an innovative country. Spatiotemporal evolution and influencing factors of UGIE are two important sci...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,257 Views
15 Pages

26 May 2022

Green design is a key step in improving the green performance of corporate projects. Stimulating the green design behavior of designers is the guarantee for the sustainable implementation of green design. This study extracted four dimensions, namely,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,585 Views
22 Pages

Modeling Critical Success Factors for Green Energy Integration in Data Centers

  • Panos T. Chountalas,
  • Stamatios K. Chrysikopoulos,
  • Konstantina K. Agoraki and
  • Natalia Chatzifoti

15 April 2025

The rising energy demands of data centers combined with increasing sustainability requirements require the integration of green energy solutions. This study identifies and analyzes the Critical Success Factors (CSFs) that affect the effective adoptio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,022 Views
18 Pages

29 December 2023

Green innovation is an important concept of high-quality development to achieve resource conservation and ecological protection. To explore whether there is an imbalance in the development of green innovation in China and find the reasons for this ph...

  • Article
  • Open Access
165 Citations
16,992 Views
17 Pages

5 August 2019

Sustainable development is a powerful impetus to achieve the coordination between economic advancement and environmental protection. Therefore, the promotion and adoption of green consumption has attracted increasing attention from academics. As an i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,636 Views
25 Pages

27 December 2023

It is imperative to achieve the high-quality development of fisheries and green transformation of mariculture. Based on the data of marine aquaculture fisheries in China from 2006 to 2019, this research uses the Super-SBM (Slacks-Based Measure) model...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,397 Views
27 Pages

13 January 2025

Urban green development is crucial for citizen well-being and serves as a key pillar of sustainable development strategies. Collaborative governance mechanisms help address management, technical, and financial challenges in urban green development. T...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
4,044 Views
15 Pages

22 March 2020

Promoting new-type urbanization with the concept of green development has become an inevitable requirement for high-quality development in the Yellow River Basin. Grasping the development trend and influencing factors of green urbanization level in t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,949 Views
16 Pages

Currently, the green procurement activities of private hospitals in Taiwan follow the self-built green electronic-procurement (e-procurement) system. This requires professional personnel to take the time to regularly update the green specification an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,104 Views
14 Pages

8 April 2023

Ensuring sufficient food production and guaranteeing the safety and quality of food are crucial aspects of food security, how to achieve the balance between food production efficiency and environmental protection is an urgent problem and challenge to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
7,237 Views
15 Pages

Analyzing the Factors Enabling Green Lean Six Sigma Implementation in the Industry 4.0 Era

  • L. Thiruvarasu Letchumanan,
  • Hamed Gholami,
  • Noordin Mohd Yusof,
  • Nor Hasrul Akhmal Bin Ngadiman,
  • Anas A. Salameh,
  • Dalia Štreimikienė and
  • Fausto Cavallaro

15 March 2022

Green Lean Six Sigma has emerged in the Industry 4.0 era as a business strategy contributing to the circular economy by adopting the 3R concept, i.e., reduce, reuse, and recycle. Despite its broadly acknowledged capabilities in the manufacturing indu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,292 Views
11 Pages

5 December 2022

It is significant to scientifically identify what factors influence the green growth of manufacturing enterprises and analyze the relationship among these factors, thus promoting green growth. Firstly, the corresponding conceptual model is designed;...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,029 Views
12 Pages

13 April 2023

This study examines the impact of IoT characteristics, key cultural dimensions, and safety concerns on consumer green purchase intentions. The research employed a survey approach, collecting responses from 278 consumers. Structural equation modeling...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,129 Views
19 Pages

19 July 2023

Green wave control is an important technology that synchronizes traffic signals to improve traffic flow on urban arterial roads. Current research has focused on optimizing and evaluating control schemes; however, their operational effect is easily af...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
10,328 Views
16 Pages

26 October 2016

There is a growing concern about human factors in green building, which is imperative in high-rise high-density urban environments. This paper describes our attempts to explore the influence of workplace green features (such as green certification, v...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,917 Views
13 Pages

17 April 2023

Urban green space has a cooling effect and its cooling effect can extend to the surrounding environment, conspicuously decreasing with distance. Land surface temperature (LST) and cooling distance are generally researched based on remote sensing and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,200 Views
20 Pages

Multilevel Change of Urban Green Space and Spatiotemporal Heterogeneity Analysis of Driving Factors

  • Huimin Wang,
  • Canrui Lin,
  • Sihua Ou,
  • Qianying Feng,
  • Kui Guo,
  • Xiaojian Wei and
  • Jiazhou Xie

3 June 2024

Analyzing the change trend of urban green space (UGS) and exploring related driving forces can provide scientific reference for sustainable development in rapidly urbanizing areas. However, the spatial and temporal driving mechanisms of the drivers o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
159 Views
22 Pages

Enhancing agricultural green total factor productivity (AGTFP) under ecological and environmental constraints is essential for advancing green agricultural development in the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei (BTH) region. Using panel data from 13 pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
5,534 Views
12 Pages

Density of Green Spaces and Cardiovascular Risk Factors in the City of Madrid: The Heart Healthy Hoods Study

  • Elena Plans-Beriso,
  • Pedro Gullón,
  • Alba Cebrecos,
  • Mario Fontán,
  • Julia Díez,
  • Mark Nieuwenhuijsen and
  • Manuel Franco

The aim of this study is to evaluate the relationship between the density of green spaces at different buffer sizes (300, 500, 1000 and 1500 m) and cardiovascular risk factors (obesity, hypertension, high cholesterol, and diabetes) as well as to stud...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,054 Views
20 Pages

4 February 2025

This study investigates the relationship between educational economic factors and institutional sustainability performance in Saudi public universities, examining the mediating role of green management practices. Using data from 168 respondents acros...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
5,397 Views
17 Pages

10 February 2017

A questionnaire survey was conducted with 1475 urban residents in the east region of China to explore the impact of household heterogeneity factors on the green travel behavior of urban residents. The green travel behavior was divided into practice-b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,295 Views
21 Pages

This study investigates the changes in urban green space coverage across 254 counties of varying types in Texas from 2001 to 2021, aiming to explore the spatial patterns of green space transformation and its socioeconomic driving factors. By analyzin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,212 Views
17 Pages

24 February 2023

The appropriate resolution has been confirmed to be crucial to the extraction of urban green space and the related research on ecosystem services. However, the factors affecting the differences between various resolutions of data in certain applicati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
815 Views
26 Pages

13 November 2025

This study establishes a structured framework to identify and evaluate risk factors that may hinder the achievement of sustainable development goals in green buildings and sustainable infrastructure projects. Fifty-six risk factors are identified and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
17,576 Views
37 Pages

Challenges and Factors Influencing the Implementation of Green Logistics: A Case Study of Saudi Arabia

  • Mashael Khayyat,
  • Mohammed Balfaqih,
  • Hasan Balfaqih and
  • Mahamod Ismail

30 June 2024

Logistics operations significantly depend on fossil fuels and non-renewable energy sources, posing challenges to environmental sustainability. Achieving a balance between environmental protection and economic efficiency is vital in logistics decision...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,142 Views
16 Pages

12 March 2023

Green buildings are an important initiative to address energy and environmental issues in the construction field. The high-quality development of green buildings is affected by many factors, and it is necessary to identify the critical factors affect...

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