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Analysis and Measurement of Barriers to Green Transformation Behavior of Resource Industries

  • Cunfang Li,
  • Tao Song,
  • Wenfu Wang,
  • Xinyi Gu and ,
  • Zhan Li and
  • Yongzeng Lai
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

To effectively guide and stimulate the green transformation behavior of resource industries and promote the sustainable and high-quality development of the region, it is necessary to deeply analyze and clarify the barrier factors of the green transfo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue What Influences Environmental Behavior?)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,100 Views
26 Pages

1 September 2024

In the digital era, digital financial inclusion plays a pivotal role in facilitating green industrial transformation and green development in resource-based cities. In this study, we conduct an in-depth analysis of environmental decentralization and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,076 Views
21 Pages

1 February 2025

The rapid development and widespread application of artificial intelligence (AI) and robots have profoundly impacted the economy, society, and the environment. This article focuses on the relationship between industrial robots and green sustainable t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Available Energy and Environmental Economics: Volume II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
6,316 Views
22 Pages

Does Green Finance Promote the Green Transformation of China’s Manufacturing Industry?

  • Ming Chen,
  • Lina Song,
  • Xiaobo Zhu,
  • Yanshuo Zhu and
  • Chuanhao Liu

13 April 2023

The green transformation of the manufacturing industry is related to the low-carbon and green development of the economy. The study explored the impact mechanism of the implementation of green finance policy on the green transformation of China&rsquo...

(This article belongs to the Collection Green Innovation: The Power Source of Enterprise Sustainable Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
588 Views
24 Pages

15 July 2026

As the growth poles of regional development, industrial parks realize green transformation, which boosts green development in host cities while potentially generating impacts on neighboring cities. Drawing on the construction practices of national gr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,416 Views
24 Pages

17 December 2025

Amid intensifying challenges of global climate change, China—as the world’s largest carbon emitter and a major manufacturing hub—occupies a pivotal position in the global industrial green transformation. Drawing on environmental fed...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
6,506 Views
19 Pages

28 February 2018

The green concept has become one of the key demands of the current era of development in China. As an attempt to cope with climate change and constraints of resources and environment, the industrial green transformation is bound to have a dramatic im...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,873 Views
22 Pages

3 July 2024

To clarify the relationship between haze management competition and industrial green transformation, this paper is based on the theoretical perspectives of local government competition and environmental federalism, the specific form of haze governanc...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Sustainability and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
6,284 Views
16 Pages

9 August 2024

In this paper, to facilitate a green transition in developing economies globally, China is utilized as a standard case study. China has proposed the dual objectives of “carbon peaking” and “carbon neutrality”, where industrial...

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  • Open Access
714 Views
33 Pages

3 June 2026

Against the backdrop of economic growth and the transition toward a green, low-carbon economy, the coordinated advancement of digital intelligence and green development has become a crucial pathway to promoting high-quality industrial development. Us...

(This article belongs to the Topic Digital Intelligence Leads Environmental Regulation: A New Paradigm for Green Sustainable Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,650 Views
20 Pages

28 October 2022

Based on the theory of fiscal decentralization and sustainable development, and the mechanism analysis about fiscal decentralization and government environmental preference to promote industrial green transformation, using China’s provincial pa...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Sustainability and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
983 Views
25 Pages

11 December 2025

Accelerating the green transformation of China’s light industry is of great significance for addressing resource and environmental issues and promoting sustainable development. Based on data from 16 light industry sectors in China from 2004 to...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Innovation and Energy Transformation Toward Regional Economy Development)
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  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,294 Views
23 Pages

Impact of Digital Finance on Industrial Green Transformation: Evidence from the Yangtze River Economic Belt

  • Liuhua Fang,
  • Bin Zhao,
  • Wenyu Li,
  • Lixia Tao and ,
  • Luyao He,
  • Jianyu Zhang and
  • Chuanhao Wen
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

24 August 2023

Profound changes in information technology have resulted in the rapid development of the digital economy, digitalizing the financial sector and deepening green reforms. Consequently, digital finance has become an important driving force of green deve...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Green Development: Rural Communities, Resilience and Sustainability)
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  • Open Access
28 Citations
7,206 Views
22 Pages

6 August 2022

This research paper focuses on pathways towards a digital and green transition. We assess a generic pathway for the transformation of industry ecosystems in cities and regions based on processes of prioritisation, ecosystem identification, and platfo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue City 4.0: Urban Planning and Development in the Age of Digital Transformation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,234 Views
15 Pages

4 April 2022

Population mobility and the expansion of construction land in industrial development promote urbanization, and the sustainable development of cities creates requirements for the green transformation of industry. This paper uses the directional distan...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
3,900 Views
14 Pages

2 January 2020

The trade-off between economic growth and ecological improvement has always become an important and difficult issue for many countries, especially for developing countries. Due to a long-term extensive economic growth pattern, the regional resource a...

(This article belongs to the Section C: Energy Economics and Policy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
395 Views
37 Pages

17 June 2026

Industrial prosperity provides an important foundation for rural revitalization. Rural industrial development should increase economic benefits while protecting the environment and improving farmers’ livelihoods. Rural industrial green transfor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,988 Views
25 Pages

9 March 2023

In response to the huge economic impact of the new pneumonia epidemic, the “new infrastructure” has become an important hedge against the downward pressure of the economy. We believe that we should take this opportunity to ensure that the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
61 Citations
5,443 Views
15 Pages

7 September 2021

The green transformation of the manufacturing industry is crucial for high-quality development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, and environmental regulation and technological innovation may play key roles. Considering the undesirable output of the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Adoption of Management Strategies and Technologies for Sustainable Production: A Solution to Reduce Environmental Emissions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,284 Views
34 Pages

1 May 2026

This study develops an Industry 5.0- and IoT-enabled roadmap for green transformation in manufacturing, with a particular focus on Turkish industry. The study combines a structured literature review, bibliometric keyword mapping based on Web of Scien...

(This article belongs to the Section Green Sustainable Science and Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
6,535 Views
21 Pages

In the era of the digital economy, the rise and application of digital technologies have led to a series of systematic changes and disruptive innovations within enterprises. Based on the quasi-natural experiment of “Integration of Informatization and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digital Economy, Environmental Protection and Public Health)
  • Article
  • Open Access
67 Citations
7,291 Views
17 Pages

Over the last few decades, environmental impacts have been a major concern not only for policymakers but also for scholars and leaders of organisations. The leadership of organisations can drive the green behaviour of their employees, thus driving th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Agricultural Food Marketing, Economics and Policies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
50 Citations
5,754 Views
15 Pages

Environmental Transformational Leadership and Green Innovation in the Hotel Industry: Two Moderated Mediation Analyses

  • Ibrahim A. Elshaer,
  • Manal A. Abdelrahman,
  • Alaa M. S. Azazz,
  • Mahmaod Alrawad and
  • Sameh Fayyad

This research aims to investigate the relationships between transformational environmental leadership (ETL), organizational citizenship behavior for the environment (OCBE), and green innovation (GI). At the same time, green perceived organizational s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The 2nd Edition of Rethinking Work in the Digital Era to Protect the Environment and Promote Health)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,117 Views
19 Pages

25 May 2023

Using the panel data of the manufacturing industry in 30 provinces of China from 2005 to 2021, this research takes the establishment of a Chinese national-level comprehensive big data pilot zone as a quasi-natural experiment, empirically analyzes the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
5,933 Views
21 Pages

8 June 2021

This study explored a theoretical model of factors affecting employee turnover intentions in the energy-intensive industry from the perspective of environmental regulation through emission reduction policy. Moreover, we examined whether green transfo...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,210 Views
18 Pages

4 August 2024

The high carbon emissions and pollution of China’s thermal power industry chain have exacerbated environmental and climate degradation. Therefore, accelerating the green transformation process is of great significance in promoting the sustainab...

(This article belongs to the Section C: Energy Economics and Policy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
807 Views
25 Pages

5 December 2025

Energy consumption structure transformation (ECST) is essential to decrease pollutant emissions and realize green development. By constructing fixed effects, spatial Durbin, and threshold models, this paper adopts the panel data of 13 cities in the B...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,776 Views
21 Pages

16 May 2025

Green technological innovation, government policies, and the low-carbon transformation of the manufacturing industry are critical for promoting high-quality development in the Yangtze River Economic Belt. This study, based on input–output and t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
286 Views
30 Pages

26 September 2026

Transportation infrastructure and industrial decarbonization are mutually dependent, yet their dynamic interaction remains underexplored. This study examines the linkage between transportation infrastructure supply capacity and industrial green trans...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,540 Views
20 Pages

10 October 2022

At present, the high energy consumption, heavy pollution emissions, serious ecological damage and other problems of China’s industry are particularly prominent. Therefore, industrial governance is crucial and it is imperative to carry out indus...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Economic Transition and Green Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
326 Views
29 Pages

17 September 2026

Corporate sustainability requires firms to balance financial performance and social responsibilities, yet whether institutional support policies generate consistent sustainability outcomes remains unclear. This study exploits China’s industrial...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,106 Views
19 Pages

16 July 2022

The low productivity of the construction industry has been identified as a chronic problem, and this has been exacerbated by recent environmental factors, including COVID-19 and climate change. As a response to these environmental changes, policies r...

(This article belongs to the Section Green Building)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,042 Views
19 Pages

30 June 2025

Relying on information technologies such as the Internet, big data, and cloud computing, smart cities (SC) fully integrate urban resources, constantly strengthen the ability of urban economic systems, infrastructure systems, ecosystems, social system...

(This article belongs to the Section Land Planning and Landscape Architecture)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,255 Views
25 Pages

30 April 2025

The urgent global challenge of mitigating climate change has intensified the need to reduce carbon emissions. China significantly contributes to greenhouse gas emissions, placing substantial pressure on its industrial sector to shift toward a low-car...

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  • Open Access
32 Citations
4,853 Views
28 Pages

7 September 2022

Renewable energy technology innovation (RETI) is a crucial way to improve energy poverty and combat climate change. However, few studies have examined the impact of RETI on industrial green transformation and upgrading (IGTU) from the perspective of...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Sustainability and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,225 Views
27 Pages

20 December 2024

With the increasing global concern for environmental protection and sustainable development, the low-carbon transformation of the manufacturing industries has become a top priority. The rapid development of green digital technology (GDT) provides new...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digitalization and Its Application of Sustainable Development)
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  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,719 Views
19 Pages

24 October 2022

Under the new development pattern, promoting urban green transformation efficiently addresses resource and environmental restrictions and is the foundation of high-quality development. However, the development of green transformation in Chinese citie...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Building Resilience in the Supply Chain in the Digital Era: The Challenges for Social, Environmental and Economic Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,793 Views
31 Pages

16 August 2023

The construction industry is in urgent need to transition away from its rough development and management practices. It is essential to embrace a sustainable development path to enhance core competitiveness, promote resource intensification, and prior...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Data and the Built Environment: Reconciling Resources and Information for a Sustainable Living)
  • Case Report
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,676 Views
23 Pages

A Systematic Government-Driven Green Development Transformation Strategy with Chinese Characteristics: The Case Study of the Xining Metropolitan Area

  • Jing Xu,
  • Yongchun Yang,
  • Zhuo Jia,
  • Genying Chang and ,
  • Yongjiao Zhang,
  • Maoyuan Zhao and
  • Wenrui Wang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

In the 21st century, the tension between economic growth, resources and the environment in countries around the world is increasing, and the sustainable development of the economy and society is under great pressure. Green development has become the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Trends in Urban Spatial Planning and Sustainable Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,119 Views
20 Pages

26 August 2022

In this research, under the guidance of scientific and available principles, an evaluation index system for the green total factor productivity of new infrastructure construction and the sports industry was constructed. The evaluation was conducted u...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,278 Views
13 Pages

Evaluation of a Chongqing Industrial Zone Transformation Based on Sustainable Development

  • Xiaoyan Zhang,
  • Yuehao Cao,
  • Mingfang Tang,
  • Enyi Yu and ,
  • Yiqun Zhang and
  • Gang Wu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

24 April 2022

With rapid urban expansion and the increasing demand of industrial development, the existing industrial zones require transformation and upgrading to achieve the sustainable development of society, economy, and environment. The green transformation o...

(This article belongs to the Topic Sustainability in Buildings: New Trends in the Management of Construction and Demolition Waste)
  • Article
  • Open Access
140 Views
42 Pages

19 October 2026

Industrial sustainability depends on cleaner production and more efficient resource use. This study examines whether local digital government development is associated with faster growth in the green total factor productivity of industrial firms, and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digital Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Environmental Innovation, and Sustainable Value Creation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
74 Citations
9,450 Views
19 Pages

Developing Green Innovations in the Wine Industry: An Applied Analysis

  • Eduardo Sánchez-García,
  • Javier Martínez-Falcó,
  • Antonio Alcon-Vila and
  • Bartolomé Marco-Lajara

9 March 2023

Winemaking is an ancestral activity characterized by its strong roots in the culture, heritage, and people of the producing regions. In addition to providing important health benefits, wine is a product that is widely accepted by society. However, th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Winemaking: Advanced Technology and Flavor Research)
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
7,535 Views
21 Pages

25 February 2024

This study, situated in the context of China’s transportation and logistics industry, explores the impact of digital transformation on corporate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance, as well as the role played by green innova...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,708 Views
20 Pages

11 December 2023

The e-commerce-oriented transformation of cities is an important measure to enhance the vitality of economic development, improve the efficiency of resource allocation, and provide a new boost to the green and high-quality development of regions. Tak...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Urban Green Development and Resilient Cities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
560 Views
27 Pages

8 April 2026

Against the dual backdrop of worsening air pollution and industrial intelligent transformation, industrial robot technology has become an important means to promote air pollution synergistic governance. This study innovatively incorporates public env...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
1,522 Views
23 Pages

23 June 2025

Reducing carbon dioxide emissions within carbon-intensive industries is a critical strategy to effectively combat global warming. The accelerated cultivation and enhancement of new quality productivity has created new momentum directed towards indust...

(This article belongs to the Section C: Energy Economics and Policy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
66 Citations
5,379 Views
20 Pages

29 December 2021

Green innovation has become an important combination of high-quality economic growth and ecological sustainability. In this paper, the super-efficiency network SBM model was used to measure the two-stage green innovation efficiency of the industrial...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,598 Views
16 Pages

During the period of high-quality development in China, environmental regulations have been regarded as powerful exogenous forces, especially for accelerating the green transformation of the manufacturing industry. Treating the first implementation o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,713 Views
28 Pages

25 July 2024

The increasingly environmental issues pose challenges to the economic development of countries, particularly hindering industrial transformation in developing nations. This study, grounded in the Resource-Based View, examines factors influencing gree...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Energy Economics and Environmental Sustainability: The Development of Green Industry)

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