Today, logistics activities have become a major source of pollution that affects the environment and green logistics is becoming a hot topic. A logistics company’s operating strategy determines the direction of logistics activities and impact d...
Logistics activities are an important source of energy consumption and environmental issues. Research conclusions and practical experience show that promoting the development of container multimodal transport is an effective way to reduce the level o...
The hydropower project had comprehensively benefited people from aspects of the economy, society, ecology, etc. The comprehensive benefit is a key indicator for evaluating a project’s performance. However, the existing studies only evaluated the comp...
Sustainable urbanization emphasizes properly handling the relationships between people, people and society, and people and nature in the process of urban development. However, sometimes these interactions are difficult to quantify. Through an analysi...
Aboveground and underground spaces along the urban rail transit (AUSURT) are integral parts of the urban space. Collaborative planning of AUSURT can help to improve the efficiency of urban space use and boost urban sustainable development (USD). This...
The Yellow River Basin plays an important role in economic and social development and ecological security; therefore, its ecological protection and high-quality development are vital. In order to understand the level of synergistic development betwee...
Municipal solid waste (MSW) has caused the increasing concern for environmental issues in recent years, and the wide engagement from all stakeholders of society has been involved in promoting integrated MSW management. Therefore, this study aims to i...
The management of urban flood disasters is a systematic engineering project that requires a great amount of manpower, material resources, and financial resources, and the interaction and coordination degrees of various elements in the system deeply a...
The technology innovation of high-tech industries has become an important support for the innovation-driven strategy. This study introduces innovation ecosystem synergy as a moderating variable from a systemic and holistic perspective based on the tr...
As the number of elderly continues to increase in China, anxiety about related problems has encouraged special care for the elderly. Social organizations participating in community and home-based elderly care services (SO-CHECS) seem to be a promisin...
Achieving a secure and stable energy supply while steadily advancing the dual-carbon goals constitutes a dual strategic task for China’s sustainable development. Capacity governance policies serve as an effective tool for the government to regu...
This paper takes the two subsystems of inland ports and industries along the Yangtze River as a composite system as a research object, providing insight into the influence of the development efficiency of inland ports along the Yangtze River and the...
Owing to the publicity and externality of watershed governance, collaborative governance among cities has become an inevitable choice to improve watershed governance performance and promote sustainable development of watersheds. Existing studies have...
During the underground mining of coal resources, the rock pressure emerges acutely and the mine geological disasters occur frequently. It is of great significance to grasp the manifestation law of rock pressure in time to guide the safety production...
Regional synergy innovation capability is an important driving force in promoting the sustainable and high-quality development of the regional economy. Taking the regional innovation development panel data of the Yangtze River Delta integration regio...
There is a general phenomenon of incoordination between garbage classification management and participation behavior, which seriously affects the sustainable management efficiency of domestic garbage. In order to solve this problem, this paper introd...
Rapid urbanization poses great challenges to water-energy-food nexus (WEF-Nexus) system, calling for integrative resources governance to improve the synergies between subsystems that constitute the Nexus. This paper explores the synergies within the...
Under the dual transformation background of global digital economy and low-carbon development, the synergistic promotion of enterprise digital transformation and green upgrading has become an important path to realizing high-quality development. Base...
The synergetic reduction of CO2 and PM2.5 emissions has received much attention in China in recent years. A comprehensive evaluation of the synergy between CO2 emission reduction (CER) and PM2.5 emission reduction (PER) would provide valuable informa...
Against the backdrop of China’s dual-carbon targets and the construction of a new-type power system, the coordinated development of the electricity market, carbon market, and tradable green certificate (TGC) market is critical for energy system...
China faces the persistent challenge of uneven spatiotemporal water resource distribution, constraining economic and social development while exacerbating regional disparities. Achieving co-evolution between water source systems and water use systems...
Against the backdrop of global advancement toward carbon peaking and carbon neutrality goals, and green economic transition, the coordinated evolution of low-carbon development and socioeconomic growth has emerged as a core issue for high-quality reg...
With the goal of carbon peaking and neutrality, carbon productivity has become a means of sustainability in manufacturing, and the impact of the synergy of digitalization and servitization (DSS) on carbon productivity (CP) deserves in-depth study. Ba...
Road freight transport, an essential component of the logistics sector, faces challenges: high cost, low efficiency, and environmental impact. The need has become urgent to achieve a synergistic balance between low-carbon and high-efficiency developm...
Synergistic governance of air pollution and carbon is crucial for green transition against the backdrop of global climate change. This study explores the spatial synergistic characteristics and driving mechanisms between air pollutants and CO2 across...
Cultural tourism has received widespread attention for its role in promoting cultural heritage and economic growth. However, there is insufficient research regarding how to verify the synergy between culture and tourism and how to ensure its sustaina...
The shipping service industry plays a pivotal role in enhancing port competitiveness and fostering urban economic growth, yet limited studies systematically integrate its spatial temporal dynamics with the processes driving port–city synergy. T...
As China’s economy accelerates its transition toward high-quality development, various regions are actively tapping into their distinctive resources to unlock economic potential and exploring pathways to achieve high-quality collaborative devel...
In the context of the “dual carbon” goals, this study examines the spatiotemporal patterns and evolution of urban low-carbon coordinated development (LCCD). Based on the integrated Economy–Energy–Environment–Society (3E1...
The sustainability of reservoir resettlement depends on the synergistic development of resettlers’ livelihoods and host regions; however, existing studies lack an integrated analytical framework. Combining the Sustainable Livelihoods Framework...
The synergy of digitalization and greening (DGS) enhances the resilience of the industrial chain (ICR), a critical aspect for the sustainable growth of the national economy. This symbiotic relationship not only facilitates the enhancement of quality...
The key to achieving the high-quality development of the marine economy (HDME) is to facilitate synergy through the coordination of marine elements. By adopting a perspective concerning complex systems, this paper presents a comprehensive framework&m...
This paper presents Synergetic Development Assessment (SDA) as a methodology to evaluate the environmental, economic, and social performance of an urban river system landscape from the perspective of sustainability. SDA is based on synergetics and it...
Although building enterprises are actively developing towards the direction of an integrated building supply chain (IBSC), they still face many difficulties in digital green innovation (DGI) activities. The purpose of this study is to reveal the inte...
Emergency rescue is a critical decision for emergency response, and the assignment of rescuers is crucial to the sustainable development of emergency rescue. Therefore, how to effectively assign rescuers to carry out rescue tasks, so as to achieve th...
Digital–green synergy development is a critical pathway for promoting comprehensive rural revitalization and high-quality development. Using panel data from 31 Chinese provinces spanning 2012 to 2023, we employ the global entropy weight method,...
In water-scarce areas, there is a complex interrelationship between water resources and economic development. This paper studies the relationship between water resources and economic development from an ecosystem services perspective. This paper sele...
This study utilized policy text quantification, the entropy weighting technique, and the standard setting of the vertical policy synergetic degree to measure the synergy status of the environmental protection and governance policies in the Bohai Rim...
Based on the analysis and measurement of the overall situation, import and export structure and international competitiveness of the various sectors of service trade in the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area, with the help of MATLAB and Gray...
A comprehensive understanding of the ecosystem services (ESs) trade-off/synergy relationships has become increasingly important for ecological management and sustainable development. This study employed the Yangtze River Delta (YRD) region in China a...
Based on a sample of A-share companies listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange and the Shenzhen Stock Exchange from 2011 to 2022, this paper measures and analyzes the degree of enterprises’ digital–green synergy and further tests the influe...
Because of the general lack of multi-level hospital management collaboration performance effectiveness research, this paper proposes a multi-level hospital management Synergy Entropy-House of Quality (HoQ) Measurement Model by innovatively combining...
“Port–hinterland synergy” means the development of port and hinterland should promote each other. The “dual circulation” development pattern indicates the requirement of exploring the domestic transportation demand and p...
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The synergistic action of anodic oxidation using boron-doped diamond and low-frequency ultrasound in different water matrices and operating conditions for the decomposition of the emerging contaminant propyl paraben was investigated. The degree of sy...
Background: Drug treatments for gait disorders in post-stroke patients aim to reduce muscular hyperactivity. The analysis of muscle activity is essential to help clinicians understand these disorders. This study aimed to quantify changes in muscle sy...
Anthropomorphic robotic hands are designed to attain dexterous movements and flexibility much like human hands. Achieving human-like object manipulation remains a challenge especially due to the control complexity of the anthropomorphic robotic hand...
Increasing air pollution, rising carbon emissions, and urban shrinkage pose significant challenges for sustainable urban development in China. Exploring the relationship between urban shrinkage and the synergy effect of pollution reduction and carbon...
The internal trade-off of land space is caused by the competition of land use for multiple functions, such as agricultural production, economic development and ecological protection. In response to this common problem, this study uses a positive and...
This study reveals the internal mechanism of the synergetic evolution of financial support, technological innovation, and industrial upgrading from the perspective of system synergy. It aims to provide a theoretical basis and reference for promoting...
Human mastication is a complex and rhythmic biomechanical process regulated by the central nervous system (CNS). Muscle synergies are a group of motor primitives that the CNS may combine to simplify motor control in human movement. This study aimed t...
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