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10 March 2026

This paper examines the stringency of floor area ratio (FAR) regulation in Guangzhou using a market-based approach. Building on a theoretical framework that links land price with respect to FAR to regulatory stringency, we estimate how FAR constraint...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
413 Views
41 Pages

2 August 2026

As global environmental challenges intensify and the imperative to mitigate extreme climate change grows increasingly urgent, the sustainable development of economic and social systems has emerged as a fundamental pathway for addressing environmental...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,981 Views
23 Pages

8 February 2025

This study investigates the relationship between environmental policy stringency and financial development across 40 countries from 1990 to 2021. Using the Environmental Policy Stringency Index (EPSI) to measure environmental regulations’ rigou...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Development Economics and Sustainable Economic Growth)
  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
5,490 Views
16 Pages

6 September 2023

This present research offers fresh insights regarding the causality nexus between environmental regulations and a sustainable environment. Also, this study considered the importance of renewable energy research and development (RERD), technological i...

(This article belongs to the Section Air, Climate Change and Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,933 Views
25 Pages

8 February 2022

To assess the impact of the online car-hailing services on the environment in China, in this paper, we develop a model to evaluate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and emission reduction during the production and use of car-hailing, as a result of incr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,298 Views
16 Pages

13 December 2017

The article investigates whether environmental regulations have affected productivity development and technological change in the European pulp and paper industry. A dynamic panel data approach is selected for analyzing a sample consisting of the pul...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,040 Views
21 Pages

9 August 2024

Digital economy is an important direction of the new round of technological revolution and a key driving force for realizing the “double control of carbon emissions”. This paper utilizes the panel data of 30 provincial-level administrativ...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems Practice in Social Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,563 Views
15 Pages

18 March 2022

The intensively debated issue of whether trade globalization leads to a race (climb) to the bottom (top) such that environmental policy stringency is loosened (strengthened) is still far from being uncontroversial. This paper provides new empirical e...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Economic Growth and the Environment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,781 Views
15 Pages

6 August 2022

On the basis of the latest input–output data, this paper estimates the amount of embodied carbon emissions in inter-regional trade by constructing a multiregional input–output model to evaluate how environmental regulation stringency infl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,893 Views
15 Pages

31 March 2023

The environmental regulatory stringency and labor reallocation are two defining features in developing countries. This study empirically estimates the impact of environmental regulation on labor allocation efficiency. We adopt the implementation of N...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,373 Views
18 Pages

15 September 2025

There is a lack of empirical studies investigating the individual and combined effects of environmental policy stringency, energy transition, and green technologies on greenhouse gas emissions in the context of BRICS–T countries. To address thi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
7,428 Views
18 Pages

21 April 2017

This paper proposes an extended data envelopment analysis (DEA) model for deriving eco-efficiency. In order to derive eco-efficiency, the proposed model utilizes the concepts of operational efficiency and environmental efficiency. Since DEA can separ...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Multiple Criteria Decision Making for Sustainability: Modeling and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,632 Views
21 Pages

From Law to Carbon: How Legal Origin Influences Environmental Policy and CO2 Emissions?

  • Viktor Koziuk,
  • Yuriy Hayda,
  • Oleksandr Dluhopolskyi,
  • Tomasz Wołowiec and
  • Anna Sabat

1 January 2026

This study examines whether historical legal traditions continue to influence contemporary environmental policy and carbon emission outcomes. Using data from the OECD Climate Actions and Policies Measurement Framework (CAPMF) and the World Bank&rsquo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
4,693 Views
15 Pages

18 August 2023

The idea of green growth stresses the necessity for economic expansion while resolving environmental issues, notably climate change. The Internet of Things (IoT) and environmental regulations have the potential to support green growth. Therefore, thi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Environment and Sustainable Economic Growth)
  • Article
  • Open Access
90 Views
24 Pages

Green Innovation and Environmental Policy Stringency: Heterogeneous Drivers of Sustainable Energy Transition in OECD Countries

  • Andreea Claudia Serban,
  • Ayhan Kuloğlu,
  • Emrah Kocak,
  • Ulaş Ünlü and ,
  • Bekir Celik and
  • Zhouyi Gu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

10 November 2026

Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG-7) requires not only technological progress but also effective environmental regulation. Although previous studies have examined green innovation and environmental policy separately, less is known about h...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovation Management and Organizational Performance for Sustainable Future—2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,505 Views
22 Pages

A Proteomic Examination of Plasma Extracellular Vesicles Across Colorectal Cancer Stages Uncovers Biological Insights That Potentially Improve Prognosis

  • Abidali Mohamedali,
  • Benjamin Heng,
  • Ardeshir Amirkhani,
  • Shivani Krishnamurthy and ,
  • David Cantor,
  • Peter Jun Myung Lee,
  • Joo-Shik Shin,
  • Michael Solomon,
  • Gilles J. Guillemin and
  • Seong Beom Ahn
  • + 6 authors+ 1 author

21 December 2024

Background: Recent advancements in understanding plasma extracellular vesicles (EVs) and their role in disease biology have provided additional unique insights into the study of Colorectal Cancer (CRC). Methods: This study aimed to gain biological in...

(This article belongs to the Section Methods and Technologies Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,674 Views
23 Pages

28 July 2025

This study intends to portray how varying degrees of environmental policy stringency and the growing pressure of global competition reflect on high-tech (HT) sectors’ cost rationalization strategies and lead to environmental consequences in 15...

  • Article
  • Open Access
91 Citations
8,532 Views
14 Pages

This study examines the spillover effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) on green technology progress rate (as measured by the green total factor productivity). The analysis utilizes two measures of FDI, labor-based FDI and capital-based FDI, and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Decision Models in Green Growth and Sustainable Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
57 Citations
8,067 Views
18 Pages

18 June 2021

In response to global warming, greenhouse gas (GHG) abatement has been one of the top priorities of governments, and a large variety of environmental regulation policies have been implemented in past decades. Using panel data from 27 OECD countries o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
145 Citations
14,338 Views
24 Pages

Decline in Mobility: Public Transport in Poland in the time of the COVID-19 Pandemic

  • Michał Wielechowski,
  • Katarzyna Czech and
  • Łukasz Grzęda

29 September 2020

The aim of the paper is to assess changes in mobility in public transport in Poland, as a consequence of the development of the COVID-19 pandemic. We analyse the problem from the country and regional (voivodeships) perspective. The data come from Goo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Economics of Health Outbreaks and Epidemics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,529 Views
18 Pages

27 January 2025

Environmental policy stringency, eco-innovation, and green finance play key roles in advancing sustainability, particularly in low- and middle-income countries such as Pakistan. Using annual data from 1990 to 2020, this study employs a quantile autor...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Circular Economy and Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
74 Views
25 Pages

4 November 2026

The transition to low-carbon energy systems depends on national innovation systems generating climate mitigation technologies. This study examines how environmental policy stringency and trade openness shape green patenting (IPC/CPC class Y02), using...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
5,327 Views
23 Pages

30 March 2019

This study investigates how the introduction of more stringent environmental regulation regarding sulphur and nitrogen emission control areas induced shipping companies to react to a new situation and opened up a window of opportunity for build-up of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Short Sea Shipping)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,120 Views
18 Pages

26 March 2025

Facing a society that has accumulated many ecological and environmental problems, green technology innovation has gradually become an effective way to test the efficiency of environmental policies. This study investigated the impact of environmental...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
  • Best Paper Award
216 Citations
8,363 Views
25 Pages

Do Environment-Related Policy Instruments and Technologies Facilitate Renewable Energy Generation? Exploring the Contextual Evidence from Developed Economies

  • Umer Shahzad,
  • Magdalena Radulescu,
  • Syed Rahim,
  • Cem Isik and ,
  • Zahid Yousaf and
  • Stefan Alexandru Ionescu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

29 January 2021

Attaining sustainable development and cleaner production is a major challenge both for developed and developing economies; income, institutional regulations, institutional quality and international trade are the key determinants of environmental exte...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Energy Policy for a Sustainable Economic Growth)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,927 Views
20 Pages

As a main measure to promote the development of China’s energy–saving and new energy vehicles, the Phase V fuel consumption regulation is dramatically different from the past four phases, especially in the test procedure, moving from the New European...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Science and Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,646 Views
20 Pages

18 January 2026

The development of renewable energy has emerged as a cornerstone of sustainable economic transformation, offering a pathway to reduce carbon dependence and enhance long-term energy security. As a result, this study examines the influence of supply ch...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy Sustainability)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,977 Views
14 Pages

The Preparation of Mn-Modified CeO2 Nanosphere Catalysts and Their Catalytic Performance for Soot Combustion

  • Siyu Gao,
  • Di Yu,
  • Shengran Zhou,
  • Chunlei Zhang and ,
  • Lanyi Wang,
  • Xiaoqiang Fan,
  • Xuehua Yu and
  • Zhen Zhao
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

2 October 2023

With the increasing stringency of environmental protection regulations, reducing the severe pollution caused by soot particles from diesel vehicle exhaust has become a widespread concern. Catalytic purification technology is currently an efficient me...

(This article belongs to the Section Catalysis Enhanced Processes)
  • Article
  • Open Access
537 Views
37 Pages

17 July 2026

This paper studies the effects of price-cap regulation in an oral healthcare market by developing a duopoly model of price–quality competition between a public provider and a private provider. The results show that, in the absence of regulation, the...

(This article belongs to the Section D2: Operations Research and Fuzzy Decision Making)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,113 Views
17 Pages

Characterization of Particle Number Setups for Measuring Brake Particle Emissions and Comparison with Exhaust Setups

  • Theodoros Grigoratos,
  • Athanasios Mamakos,
  • Michael Arndt,
  • Dmytro Lugovyy and ,
  • Robert Anderson,
  • Christian Hafenmayer,
  • Mikko Moisio,
  • Joonas Vanhanen,
  • Richard Frazee and
  • Barouch Giechaskiel
  • + 6 authors+ 1 author

3 January 2023

The stringency of vehicle exhaust emissions regulations resulted in a significant decrease in exhaust particulate matter (PM) emissions over the years. Non-exhaust particles (i.e., from brakes and tyres) account for almost half or more of road transp...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Brake Wear Particulate Matter and Mitigation Strategies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
104 Citations
8,514 Views
15 Pages

Climate Change and Economic Growth: The Role of Environmental Policy Stringency

  • Enrico Maria de Angelis,
  • Marina Di Giacomo and
  • Davide Vannoni

16 April 2019

The paper investigates the relationship between economic growth and environmental quality in the context of the Kuznets curve, which foresees that growth, while initially causing negative externalities for the environment, eventually can be seen also...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
597 Views
42 Pages

20 July 2026

Cross-border remanufacturing trade is developing steadily. Carbon tariffs and carbon cap-and-trade regulation have emerged as two important instruments for carbon governance, yet their independent and combined effects on supply chain operations remai...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
430 Views
45 Pages

30 August 2026

Understanding how environmental regulation is associated with firms’ green total factor productivity (GTFP), and the pathways underlying this relationship, is important for coordinating economic development with environmental protection amid th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
655 Views
32 Pages

27 February 2026

Within closed-loop supply chains (CLSCs), limited attention has been given to firms’ production and abatement decisions involving carbon permit transfer between an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) and an independent remanufacturer (IR) und...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematical Modelling and Optimization for Sustainable Operations Management, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,554 Views
27 Pages

2 October 2025

Global efforts to achieve carbon neutrality increasingly rely on institutional green policy that reshape corporate environmental behavior. This study examines whether green policy improves corporate environmental performance (EP). Using panel data of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Energy Futures: Economic Policies and Market Trends)
  • Article
  • Open Access
942 Views
56 Pages

Country ESG Sustainability Index as a Management and Regulatory Feedback Tool

  • Venera Zarubina,
  • Mikhail Zarubin,
  • Zhauhar Yessenkulova,
  • Zhanar Dyussembekova and ,
  • Olga Valentinovna Andreeva and
  • Artur Zarubin
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

13 July 2026

Contemporary ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) regulation creates costs and risks for businesses, which are associated with the stringency of requirements. This article demonstrates that the key source of these problems is the fragmentation...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Public Policy and Economic Analysis in Sustainability Transitions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3,853 Views
11 Pages

The Impact of COVID-19 Regulations on Adherence to Recombinant Human Growth Hormone Therapy: Evidence from Real-World Data

  • Paula van Dommelen,
  • Rosa Maria Baños,
  • Lilian Arnaud,
  • Quentin Le Masne and
  • Ekaterina Koledova

9 March 2023

Worldwide regulations during COVID-19 positively and negatively impacted self-management in paediatric patients with chronic medical conditions. We investigated the impact of regulations on adherence to recombinant human growth hormone (r-hGH) therap...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers in Endocrines 2023)
  • Article
  • Open Access
600 Views
23 Pages

23 July 2026

As an important policy tool for promoting green development, environmental regulation (ER) has exerted a profound impact on the employment sector. Using panel data from 106 prefecture-level and above cities in China’s Yangtze River Economic Bel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,465 Views
11 Pages

Combinatorial microRNA Loading into Extracellular Vesicles for Increased Anti-Inflammatory Efficacy

  • Alex Eli Pottash,
  • Daniel Levy,
  • Anjana Jeyaram,
  • Leo Kuo and ,
  • Stephanie M. Kronstadt,
  • Wei Chao and
  • Steven M. Jay
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Extracellular vesicles (EVs) have emerged as promising therapeutic entities in part due to their potential to regulate multiple signaling pathways in target cells. This potential is derived from the broad array of constituent and/or cargo molecules a...

(This article belongs to the Section Small Non-Coding RNA)
  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,393 Views
30 Pages

Progress of Ship Exhaust Emissions in China’s Lijiang River: Current Status and Aftertreatment Technologies

  • Pengyu Liu,
  • Bensen Xian,
  • Mei Wang,
  • Yong Xiao and ,
  • Xiaobin Zhou,
  • Dandan Xu,
  • Yanan Zhang,
  • Huili Liu and
  • Shaoyuan Bai
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

15 May 2025

Exhaust emissions from ships are significant threats to the environment and human health, necessitating effective control measures and treatment technologies. In response to the increasing stringency of emission regulations set by the International M...

(This article belongs to the Section Air Pollution and Health)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,071 Views
18 Pages

22 May 2025

This study examines the impact of flare tariff adjustments on gas-flaring volumes in Nigeria. Utilising a 52-year dataset, this analysis demonstrates that the effectiveness of flare tariffs in reducing gas flaring depends on the stringency of imposed...

(This article belongs to the Section Gas Emissions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
6,615 Views
16 Pages

6 September 2021

Interactions between proteins are essential to any cellular process and constitute the basis for molecular networks that determine the functional state of a cell. With the technical advances in recent years, an astonishingly high number of protein–pr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Complex Carbohydrates and Glycoconjugates: Structure, Functions and Applications 2021)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
11,457 Views
26 Pages

Bank Competition, Foreign Bank Entry, and Risk-Taking Behavior: Cross Country Evidence

  • Sichong Chen,
  • Muhammad Imran Nazir,
  • Shujahat Haider Hashmi and
  • Ruqia Shaikh

This unique study examines the interactive role of bank competition and foreign bank entry in explaining the risk-taking of banks over the globe. We used cross-country data for the banking sector from 2000 to 2016. Using the pooled regression model a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Commercial Banking)
  • Article
  • Open Access
593 Views
25 Pages

3 March 2026

This study explores the impact of industrial intelligent transformation on industrial carbon emission efficiency and its spatial spillover effect, which is closely related to industrial sustainability. Based on panel data of 284 cities in China from...

(This article belongs to the Section Pollution Prevention, Mitigation and Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
6,258 Views
16 Pages

Comparative Transcriptomics Analyses in Livers of Mice, Humans, and Humanized Mice Define Human-Specific Gene Networks

  • Chengfei Jiang,
  • Ping Li,
  • Xiangbo Ruan,
  • Yonghe Ma and ,
  • Kenji Kawai,
  • Hiroshi Suemizu and
  • Haiming Cao
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

30 November 2020

Mouse is the most widely used animal model in biomedical research, but it remains unknown what causes the large number of differentially regulated genes between human and mouse livers identified in recent years. In this report, we aim to determine wh...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Molecular Mechanisms in Metabolic Disease)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,504 Views
15 Pages

KRASG12C Can Either Promote or Impair Cap-Dependent Translation in Two Different Lung Adenocarcinoma Cell Lines

  • George Kyriakopoulos,
  • Vicky Katopodi,
  • Ilias Skeparnias,
  • Eleni G. Kaliatsi and ,
  • Katerina Grafanaki and
  • Constantinos Stathopoulos
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

23 February 2021

KRASG12C is among the most common oncogenic mutations in lung adenocarcinoma and a promising target for treatment by small-molecule inhibitors. KRAS oncogenic signaling is responsible for modulation of tumor microenvironment, with translation factors...

(This article belongs to the Section Molecular Oncology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
677 Views
19 Pages

22 April 2026

The relationship between economic development and environmental degradation in Brazil was studied over the period 1970–2022, using ecological footprint (EF) as an environmental indicator. A contribution to the scientific literature exists here...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,857 Views
15 Pages

12 August 2019

NS3 protein is a member of the non-structural protein of duck Tembusu virus (DTMUV), which contains three domains, each of which has serine protease, nucleotide triphosphatase, and RNA helicase activities, respectively. It performs a variety of biolo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Flavivirus Replication and Pathogenesis)
  • Review
  • Open Access
43 Citations
10,570 Views
35 Pages

CRISPR-Cas Adaptive Immune Systems of the Sulfolobales: Unravelling Their Complexity and Diversity

  • Roger A. Garrett,
  • Shiraz A. Shah,
  • Susanne Erdmann,
  • Guannan Liu and ,
  • Marzieh Mousaei,
  • Carlos León-Sobrino,
  • Wenfang Peng,
  • Soley Gudbergsdottir,
  • Ling Deng and
  • Qunxin She
  • + 7 authors+ 2 authors

10 March 2015

The Sulfolobales have provided good model organisms for studying CRISPR-Cas systems of the crenarchaeal kingdom of the archaea. These organisms are infected by a wide range of exceptional archaea-specific viruses and conjugative plasmids, and their...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Archaea: Evolution, Physiology, and Molecular Biology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
8,231 Views
21 Pages

8 April 2023

The EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) is the largest cap-and-trade scheme for CO2 emissions globally. This study evaluates the impact on CO2-equivalents emission of the increased stringency of Phase 3, which marked a significant shift from the previo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Transition Risk to a Low-Carbon Economy and the Effects on Financial Markets)

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