Understanding ecosystem recovery following flood events is critical for sustainable floodplain management, yet causal evidence linking flooding to vegetation recovery remains limited. This study investigated the causal impact of the 2022 flood on eco...
Innovation districts, as a particular place for knowledge-based urban development strategies, have been praised for promoting sustainable economic developments. They have, however, been criticized for contributing to gentrification, urban inequality,...
Dockless bicycle-sharing is one of the novel transportation modes that emerged in recent years. As a component of the public transit system, it plays an important part in connecting the urban metro system but also generates some problems. With the lo...
Cultivated land (CL) protection is an overarching strategic concern for stabilizing the agricultural foundation and for achieving the sustainable development of the national economy and society. Faced with the challenges of the dual drives of complex...
School zones in the United States require compliance of drivers to decreased speed limits during school start and end times, typically indicated by flashing beacons and warning signs. This study examined school zone safety by evaluating the effects o...
Energy transition plays a crucial role in supporting sustainable economic growth and the reduction in carbon emissions. In fact, China implemented the national sustainable development experimental zone policy to achieve sustainable development goals,...
This paper considers the two control zones policy implemented in 1998 in China as a quasi-natural experiment, examines the impact of environmental regulation on the upgrading of urban industrial structure by constructing a DID model, and tests the he...
Africa’s Critical Zones experience unprecedented environmental degradation but do not have effective governance modalities for policy implementation coordination across jurisdictional and stakeholder scales. This study addresses three specific...
The Artificial Intelligence Pilot Zone Policy is an important strategic initiative for building artificial intelligence (AI) innovation hubs. It provides new opportunities to enhance manufacturing firm resilience and promote the sustainable developme...
Green total factor productivity (GTFP), as an important indicator considering both economic development and environmental protection, has prompted countries around the world to actively explore ways to improve it in the context of the global transiti...
Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly reshaping corporate production and governance, raising the question of how policy can steer corporations toward sustainable development. This study treats the staggered implementation of China’s Nati...
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...
Firms increasingly face disruptions arising from technological change, supply chain instability, and uncertain policy environments, making enterprise resilience a key concern for both managers and policymakers. As firms operate within interconnected...
Fast-paced urban growth in China has produced a specific, transient form of urban periphery, which continuously shifts outwards as the city expands. Seeing this process as a distinctive type of (sub)urbanization, this paper encapsulates it under the...
The improvement of urban land green use efficiency is significant in promoting sustainable development. As an important place-based policy in China, the pilot free-trade zone establishment has exerted a profound impact on urban economy and society. M...
China’s agricultural green development is of great significance to protecting the ecological environment, ensuring food security, and promoting rural revitalization. This study considers China’s agricultural green development pilot zones...
Tourism digitalization is widely viewed as a tool for sustainable local development, yet whether policy-led digital transformation generates measurable improvements in tourism-economy quality remains insufficiently tested. Treating the staggered esta...
Sustainable development represents a fundamental pathway for advancing high-quality economic and social transformation. Taking China’s Sustainable Development Agenda Pilot Zones Policy as a quasi-natural experiment and drawing on data from A-sh...
China’s National Ecological Civilization Pilot Zone (NECPZ) policy serves as a comprehensive policy for ecological and environmental sustainability that simultaneously enhances residents’ income. Using a panel dataset of 1761 counties in...
Jakarta faces a critical challenge of extensive land subsidence, ranking prominently globally. This research employs a combined technical and policy evaluation approach to analyze the issue, incorporating sustainability considerations to assess the e...
China’s dual-carbon goals require firms to pursue low-carbon transformation, while digital infrastructure offers new opportunities for corporate emission reduction. Using data from Chinese A-share listed firms from 2010 to 2024, this study trea...
Digital trade is reshaping innovation incentives in emerging economies, yet whether digital trade policy can promote a sustainable upgrading of urban innovation structure—one that shifts the composition of innovative activity toward higher qual...
The National Digital Economy Innovation and Development Pilot Zone (NDEIDPZ) policy, as a form of digital place-based policy, can strongly promote the high-quality development of the digital economy in China, generating broad-based benefits across ec...
While Tanzania has been facing food shortage for some decades, little efforts have been made to elicit optimal crop yields. To limit this problem, there is a need for a robust agricultural policy that aims at stabilizing agricultural production and s...
Over the last decade, Kunming has been subject to a strong urbanisation driven by rapid economic growth and socio-economic, topographical and proximity factors. As this urbanisation is expected to continue in the future, it is important to understand...
The extent to which environmental regulation yields a “weak” or “strong” Porter effect is fundamentally shaped by the trade-off between industrial output and productivity improvements, a complex dynamic that requires granular,...
The prohibition zone policy restricts certain activities in specific areas to protect the environment, while the emission permit policy allows companies to trade emissions permits as a market-based approach to regulation. Can the two policies jointly...
The sustainable development of urbanization is a necessary condition for China to realize modernization. Considering the importance of urbanization to China’s future development and the advantages of development zones in promoting urbanization,...
Since 2014, Japan has implemented a policy for forming a compact urban structure at a national level through an urban planning technique called a location normalization plan. A residence-induced zone included in the location normalization plan is con...
Driven by many factors, the housing affordability landscape in the United States (U.S.) is in crisis. This research examines the potential role of inclusionary zoning (IZ) policies as a tool to alleviate housing cost burdens and deliver affordable ho...
Since the dawn of the 21st century, Japan has switched its national industry strategy from traditional industries—manufacturing and trading—toward tourism. Regional revitalization is a particularly important issue in Japan, and by uniting regions as...
As artificial intelligence becomes more deeply embedded in corporate sustainability governance, it remains unclear whether public policies centered on AI development are linked to changes in corporate sustainability disclosure. Focusing on corporate...
Industrial parks have been promoted as cornerstone strategies for economic development in countries around the world, including Viet Nam. The transformation of conventional industrial zones (IZs) into eco-industrial parks (EIPs) presents an effective...
Food’s place on the urban, municipal agenda has become an increasing focus in the emergent fields of food policy and food planning, whose leaders argue that food needs to be more explicitly added to the urban agenda. Yet, public food markets are a fo...
China’s National Key Ecological Function Zones (NKEFZs) currently represent the largest and most extensive ecological conservation policy in China, with one of the core objectives of this policy being to improve eco-environmental quality (EEQ)....
Enhancing the persistence of corporate green innovation is crucial for promoting sustainable societal development. As big data technologies and related policies advance, digitalization emerges as an effective enabler of green innovation in enterprise...
China’s pilot free trade zones play an important role in promoting deep-level reform and high-standard opening up. Based on the panel data of 284 prefecture-level cities in China from 2009 to 2021, the article explores the impact of pilot free...
The article aims to identify the firm-level effects of public support within the Polish Investment Zone (PIZ) on firms’ employment located in lagging regions of Poland, signalling insights into sustainable employment creation. Utilising a diffe...
National big data comprehensive pilot zones (BDCPZs) are key platforms for piloting and implementing big data policy. Additionally, the exploration of their impact on carbon unlocking efficiency and its mechanisms holds significant value. Here, using...
Land use and land cover changes driven by urbanization and agricultural expansion have increasingly degraded the ecological health of stream ecosystems across watersheds. In Republic of Korea, the Ministry of Environment has designated riparian zones...
Heavy-duty trucks, especially those used in urban areas, are responsible for a disproportionally large share of the external costs of the transportation sector. Policy instruments that target these trucks could thus be efficient measures to reduce ne...
This paper investigates the relationship between agglomeration and water pollution, and the effect of environment policies on water pollution reduction. The study employs a quasi-natural experimental method by coupling river water monitoring sites an...
Although various climate models, statistical crop models and economic simulations have been established to determine the level of farmers’ vulnerability, there has been little systematic assessment of farmers’ perception towards climate change in ass...
China’s high-tech industrial development zones (HIDZs) is a key “place-based” policy targeting national innovation-driven development. Despite the extensive research on HIDZs, it remains unclear whether and to what extent the policy...
Climate change not only increases the atmospheric temperature, but also changes the precipitation conditions and patterns, which can lead to an increase in the frequency of occurrence of natural disasters, such as flooding and drought. The Intergover...
Land-use change and coastal wetland degradation are reshaping the spatial patterns of coastal blue carbon storage. Identifying how to enhance saltmarsh blue carbon (SBC) while balancing coastal development and ecological protection has become a key i...
In the context of building a “Beautiful China”, it is imperative to strengthen environmental regulations to restrict industrial pollution emissions. However, there are significant differences of regulations intensity among different regio...
This paper investigated economic truck parking behavior to implement comprehensive Freight Loading Zone (FLZ) policies. We assumed that the delivery trucks can only park on FLZ. The proposed contribution is to quantify the cruising for parking time o...
Rapid urbanization and car dependency have transformed Riyadh into a sprawling metropolis, straining mobility, sustainability, and land use efficiency. Investments in metro and Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) systems present an opportunity to shift toward tr...
Low-emission zones (LEZs), incentivizing electric cars, park-and-ride systems, and other traffic reduction schemes, are all single measures aimed at achieving low-/zero-emission mobility. This paper aims to investigate the impact of LEZs’ passe...
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