Environmental pollution and climate change are significant challenges on the path to sustainable development for human society. This study employs panel data from 30 provinces in China, from 2000 to 2022, to empirically analyzes the impact of digital...
In the current context, where global ecological governance overly relies on technological intervention while neglecting the role of social and cultural resources, intangible cultural heritage (ICH), as a carrier of traditional ecological wisdom, is f...
Megacities in the Yangtze River Economic Belt (YREB) are facing severe challenges and unbalanced development. Combating megacity syndrome is crucial for achieving modernization. This study developed a Development-Autonomy-Inclusiveness governance fra...
Enhancing the synergistic governance of pollution control and carbon emission reduction is essential for achieving high-quality development in the Yellow River Basin urban agglomerations. Based on the connotation of synergistic governance of pollutio...
Achieving synergistic governance between carbon emissions and ecosystem service value (ESV) in the Yellow River Basin (YRB) remains a significant challenge. Existing studies often rely on a single administrative scale and rarely extend spatial cluste...
Faced with the dual pressure from global climate change and increasing air pollution, China has gradually clarified the adoption of market-based tools to improve the ecological environment. Based on Chinese provincial panel data from 2006 to 2020, th...
Atmospheric pollutants and CO2 share common origins in fossil fuel combustion, raising the question of whether fiscal incentives targeting air quality alone can indirectly reduce carbon emissions. This study examines this question by evaluating China...
This study aims to explore the role of government environmental auditing in promoting China’s coordinated goals of “pollution reduction, carbon mitigation, ecological expansion, and growth.” By analyzing 1959 panel data from 227 pre...
Fostering the coupled and coordinated progress of agricultural pollution control and carbon emission reduction (AGR) is integral to agricultural modernization and high-quality agricultural development. As China’s green finance policies have bee...
China’s media governance policies play a crucial role in shaping media ecology and promoting the modernization of national governance capacity. This study employed the Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) model and co-occurrence network analysis t...
Global, industrialization-driven environmental bottlenecks push manufacturing enterprises toward green transitions; yet, the information asymmetry between central and local governments, and between enterprises and banks, hinders this process. Adoptin...
Climate governance operates across multiple administrative tiers, and enhancing the vertical coherence of policies has become a critical determinant of successful climate governance. This study employs data from 1578 counties in China from 2008 to 20...
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...
Achieving carbon emission reduction synergy is vital for green economic transformation. This study examines whether environmental governance pressure promotes such synergy, simultaneously driving carbon reduction and pollution control. Leveraging the...
Under the “dual carbon” strategy, achieving synergy between pollution reduction and carbon mitigation is crucial for the sustainable development of coastal cities. However, existing studies frequently emphasize single-carbon reduction mea...
The deep integration of the digital economy and green finance is a key strategic arrangement for promoting high-quality industrial development in the new stage of development. This paper uses China’s dual pilot program—comprising both Big...
Connected and Automated Electric Vehicles (CAEVs) are rapidly evolving into complex Cyber-Physical-Social Systems (CPSS), generating structural tensions between technological innovation and public safety. Current research in public governance exhibit...
In the context of global energy system transformation and the pursuit of regional sustainability, China’s Air Pollution Control and Prevention Action Plan (APPA) targets both pollution reduction and carbon mitigation, serving as a critical poli...
Analyzing the influencing factors of PM2.5 concentration, scenario simulations, and countermeasure research to address the problem of PM2.5 pollution in Guangdong Province is of great significance for governments at all levels for formulating relevan...
This study asks whether, and through which firm-level channels, the green data center (GDC) pilot improves corporate sustainability, and it aims to quantify the policy effect and identify its transmission pathways. Under the dual shift in digital tra...
The carbon trading pilot policy is a key policy to achieve low-carbon development through market mechanism. Studying the impact of carbon trading on resource allocation efficiency can provide an important empirical basis to achieve energy saving and...
To address the environmental risks associated with large-scale stockpiling of red mud (RM) and coal gangue (CG) and the demand for their high-value utilization, this study proposes a ternary concrete system incorporating RM, fly ash (FA), and CG aggr...
Blockchain technology can enhance traceability and trust in contract farming supply chains, yet high implementation costs deter adoption by supply chain participants. This study examines the synergistic mechanisms between blockchain adoption strategi...
Against the backdrop of national policies promoting coordinated regional development and ecological civilization construction, the contradiction between ecological security and environmental carrying capacity in the Yangtze River Delta urban agglomer...
Green finance has emerged as a crucial instrument for driving the macroeconomic transition toward a low-carbon economy, yet its specific transmission mechanisms warrant deeper empirical scrutiny. Leveraging China’s Green Finance Reform and Inno...
The northern agro-pastoral ecotone of China faces persistent trade-offs among cultivated land (CL) protection, energy development, water constraints, and ecological restoration, posing challenges for sustainable human–land interactions. Focusin...
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...
It is of great theoretical and practical significance to achieve high-quality development that promotes the transformation of digestion, absorption, and re-innovation to an independent innovation model, actively participating in the restructuring of...
In the context of sustainable development, water resources, energy, and carbon emissions are pivotal factors influencing the rational planning of economic development and the secure establishment of ecological barriers. As a core food production area...
Corporate green transformation is important for the realization of China’s “double carbon” goal and the construction of a green economy, but existing studies only explored the role of policy factors or internal corporate factors in...
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...
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Achieving synergistic governance of air pollution treatment and greenhouse gas emission reduction is the way for the Chinese government to achieve green transformational development. Against this background, this paper takes the implementation of the...
In the face of escalating environmental challenges, the imperative to reduce pollution and carbon emissions has never been more critical. Synergistic effects aimed at mitigating these pressing issues constitute the central concern of contemporary env...
Synergy among the various components of national agricultural innovation systems (AISs) promotes agricultural development. This paper investigated the innovation synergy among the various innovation elements of national AISs. First, we developed a sy...
Digital inclusive financial services are an important external force driving the common prosperity of Chinese farmers, while the sustainable development of household livelihoods is an internal guarantee for their common prosperity. The synergistic in...
Under tightening land, fiscal, and environmental constraints, hydropower resettlement must shift from a compensation-oriented model toward synergistic development. Existing studies fail to clearly define the boundary between statutory responsibilitie...
The in-depth promotion of environmental pollution prevention and control is a must for China to move towards green development, and the effectiveness of urban environmental pollution control largely depends on the selection of these environmental pol...
Air pollutants and greenhouse gases share common sources, primarily originating from human activities such as energy utilization, thus presenting significant potential for synergistic control. Isolated consideration of solutions for either pollution...
The partnership between government and market plays a crucial role in allocating green resources and fostering collaboration across organizations and departments. It integrates diverse knowledge types into the green innovation process and offers mult...
Synergistic governance of pollution and carbon reduction is a critical pathway for promoting the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development. Based on panel data from 30 Chinese provinces over the period 2006–2023, thi...
Advancing the low-carbon and resilient transformation of urban systems has become a crucial strategy for addressing the climate crisis. Current research predominantly focuses on either the effect of governance or the efficient utilization of urban sy...
To estimate the synergistic emission reduction effect resulting from carbon emissions trading scheme (ETS) pilots launched in 2013, this study estimated the synergistic emission reduction relationship between carbon dioxide (CO2) and atmospheric poll...
Prefabricated buildings (PBs) are considered a green way to reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions in the construction industry due to their environmental and social benefits. However, PBs have obstacles such as high construction costs, immat...
This study aims to elucidate the mechanisms through which digital government construction influences regional dual control of energy consumption (encompassing both the total volume and intensity of energy use), with a particular emphasis on exploring...
Cultivated land is fundamental to agricultural production, and the eco-efficiency of cultivated land utilization is widely acknowledged as a crucial indicator for assessing rational land use. Accordingly, this study applies a Super-SBM model with und...
In the context of global climate governance and the green transition, digital infrastructure serves as a critical enabler of resource allocation in the digital economy, offering strategic value in tackling synergistic pollution and carbon reduction c...
Central Environmental Protection Inspection (CEPI) is a major step in China’s environmental vertical supervision reform. With the multi-period Difference-in-Differences method, we assess the impact of CEPI on enterprise green transformation. In...
The international community has committed to protecting the Earth and its ecosystems, thus ensuring wellbeing, economic growth, and a sustainable environment, by applying 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs), including many related to water. These...
Environmental governance cannot be separated from scientific and rational policy guidelines, and content analysis of environmental governance policy texts helps to understand the characteristics of existing policies and improve policy design. Using p...
The research on the spatial governance of the suburbs of megacities is of great significance for coordinating the spatial relationship between the central urban area and the suburbs of megacities, and implementing the regional functional layout of me...
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