2023 June-2 - 711 articles
This paper discusses whether urban agglomeration can promote urban growth from the perspective of network externalities. Although agglomeration externalities play an important role in promoting regional development, improved accessibility makes urban...
Microgrids (MGs) are systems that cleanly, efficiently, and economically integrate Renewable Energy Sources (RESs) and Energy Storage Systems (ESSs) to the electrical grid. They are capable of reducing transmission losses and improving the use of ele...
Aiming to investigate the mechanical performance of UHPC T-section beams, five specimens are fabricated and tested, considering the variable steel fiber volume fraction (SFVF). The code of the Association Francaise de Génie Civil (AFGC) is eva...
Magnesium deficiency is a pervasive and recurrent factor that significantly restricts crop production, primarily attributable to the low levels of exchangeable magnesium (ex-Mg) present in acidic soil conditions. This deficiency exerts a pronounced n...
The development of sustainable building materials and construction to decrease environmental pollution in both production and operational stages of the materials’ life cycle is appealing to great interest in the construction industries worldwid...
This paper focuses on the current state and future potential of the most prevalent synthetic fibre, polyester, as a circular textile. The aim is to reveal areas for intervention in the current system that might lead the transition to circular polyest...
The problems of environmental pollution and resource shortages are becoming increasingly prominent with the advances in technology and the improvements in social productivity levels. How to coordinate the innovating subjects, and strengthen the inter...
With the growing demand for clean and safe water, there is a pressing need to explore novel materials for water treatment applications. In this regard, bio-based polymeric materials have emerged as a promising solution for water purification. This ar...
This paper examines community as the consumer of community-related corporate social responsibility (CSR). It empirically investigates the critical success factors of CSR within the context of tourism from the community perspective because, for CSR ac...
Carbon dioxide hydrates were formed in fresh water and in aqueous mixtures containing ammonium sulfate, at concentrations equal to 1.9, 6.3, and 9.5 wt%. The moles of hydrates formed were compared, to define the inhibiting strength of the electrolyte...
“Lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets”. Green marketing and sustainable development have become crucial topics in economic and social development. During 2019–2023, there are nearly 952 publications on green marketi...
Fluctuant irradiance conditions constitute a challenge in front of a proper battery charging process, when originated from a PhotoVoltaic Array (PVA). The behavior of the PVA under such conditions (i.e., reflected by a disturbed PV characteristic cur...
Water quality directly determines our living environment. In order to establish a more scientific and reasonable water quality evaluation model, it needs a lot of data support, but it will lead to a large increase in the calculation time of the evalu...
As typical innovation organizations, the structure and efficiency of cooperation among universities’ innovation behaviors are important influencing factors for regional innovation sustainable development. In 2019, the Chinese government promulg...
This paper discusses the effects of both sustainable development and an Islamic system on the transmission of oil shocks into inflation. Sustainable development in this context includes wealth distribution equity, public governance effectiveness and...
Project success is crucial for businesses, but the impact of virtual teams on it is still not fully understood. The global outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 has led to the widespread adoption of virtual environment solutions to support geogra...
Indonesia is among the largest fish-producing countries. The West Nusa Tenggara (WNT) region is one of the highest producers of fish in Indonesia. Hence, the levels of MP contamination in commercial fish should be assessed to ensure food safety, food...
In the context of China’s “double carbon” target, paying attention to regional green total factor energy efficiency (GTFEE) is crucial for ensuring a fundamental guarantee for China’s free trade zones for the promotion of sust...
Based on the sample of serial M&A of Chinese listed companies from 2010–2019, this paper intends to investigate the impact of serial M&A on innovation performance and the impact of financing constraints and digital inclusive finance (DI...
The aim of this article is to review Latin American scientific production on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the field of education. For this purpose, a bibliometric analysis is performed on WoS articles, and a content analysis is carried...
Adopting social responsibility can be a key strategy for firms to mitigate the impact of production on the environment, contributing to a more sustainable business model. Based on the triple bottom line perspective, we analyze the effect of Corporate...
Displacement control is critical to the design of retaining walls, especially in urban areas, to avoid any potential damage to adjacent structures during excavations. In this study, model tests are first conducted to investigate the stress and deform...
This article explores the overlapping between green supply chains and digital supply chains through a bibliometric analysis of the two scientific domains. Using articles’ bibliographic data, we conducted a bibliometric analysis of the literatur...
The societal effects of industrial pollution have spurred heated debates, but more research into the influence and internal mechanism of innovative pilot city policies (IPCPs) on industrial emissions is needed. Using panel data from 276 Chinese citie...
Ecologically fragile areas in China account for more than half of its land area. Performing early warning assessments and trend analyses of resource and environment carrying capacity in ecologically fragile areas can lay a scientific foundation for e...
The determination of the evapotranspiration (ET) and its components in urban woodlands is crucial to mitigate the urban heat island effect and improve sustainable urban development. However, accurately estimating ET in urban areas is more difficult a...
Metal manufacturing produces various types of byproducts and metal waste that have been growing exponentially. The increasing amounts of metal waste are usually disposed of in landfills, which causes soil and water pollution and increases the amount...
Contemporarily, the promotion and application of straw-to-field technology plays an important role in developing high-quality green agriculture, alleviating agricultural non-point source pollution and realizing the double carbon target. As the main s...
Knowledge of the gas sorption and permeability characteristics of a coal provides an essential basis for the evaluation of coalbed methane reserves and their recoverability. Thus, the gas excess sorption capacities of the main gas component of coal s...
Given that the production process in the manufacturing industry is a significant contributor to carbon emissions, many governments have implemented carbon emission-related policies to incentivize manufacturers to optimize their production process or...
Following the new development philosophy, this research elaborates the connotation of sustainable high-quality forestry development and constructs an evaluation index system based on the connotation. The entropy-based TOPSIS method was used to measur...
Saudi Arabia witnessed unprecedented urban development starting from the 1930s due to oil discovery, leading to the construction of new contemporary cities and high-tech buildings. Recently, starting from the late 1990s, an increasing feeling of este...
The carbon dioxide gasification performance of low-quality lignite-agroindustrial/forest waste blends was investigated in terms of reactivity, conversion, cold gas efficiency, product gas composition and heating value. The experiments were conducted...
Pipeline inspection is important to ensure the safe operation of pipelines. Obtaining the location of an underground pipeline is a prerequisite for most inspection technologies. Existing pipeline location methods can find a pipeline’s location,...
Microfinance institutions (MFIs) play a significant role in financial-inclusion and poverty-alleviation activities. A critical challenge facing MFIs is of how they all can build their own capacity for sustainable and healthy development. By using the...
In the context of global warming and the energy crisis, a large amount of energy consumed by the construction industry has a negative impact on climate change. Green retrofitting for older multi-story houses can significantly reduce energy consumptio...
The invasion of alien plant species outside of their home range constitutes an emerging problem threatening native plant diversity. The expansion of alien species is often favored in anthropogenic habitats, such as roads and urbanized areas, which al...
This study examines the impact of green finance on optimizing China’s agricultural industrial structure. It emphasizes the importance of innovative green financial services, improved efficiency, tailored regional approaches, and enhanced foresi...
Leading risk assessment standards such as the NIST SP 800-39 and ISO 27005 state that information security risk assessment (ISRA) is one of the crucial stages in the risk-management process. It pinpoints current weaknesses and potential risks, the li...
Sustainability has converted the topic of the humanity and life-cycle analysis (LCA) is one of the main methods for evaluating the impact of each product, process, and system. Polymers, especially nylon 6,6, have found substantial relevance in severa...
Understanding the impact of land use/land cover (LULC) change on hydrology is the key to sustainable water resource management. In this study, we used the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) to evaluate the impact of LULC change on the runoff in th...
Mixed ownership reform has contributed greatly to China’s economic development; however, there is little literature on how mixed ownership reform affects carbon performance in the context of environmentally sustainable development. Therefore, t...
The inter-regional freight volume is a crucial factor for transportation infrastructure planning and investment decision-making. However, existing studies on freight volume estimation have mainly focused on the total freight volume within a specific...
Using the panel data of cities at the prefecture level and above in China, based on the endogenous growth theory, this study aims to explore the influence of the cross-regional allocation of human capital on regional economic sustainable development....
Issues of sustainable development, successful achievement of the SDGs, solving the problems of production and promotion of green products, goods and technologies, expanding the use of green brands and many other aspects related to life and production...
Borehole shrinkage and collapse are likely to occur when downhole testing is conducted in soft or loose sandy soils, resulting in testing interruption. To prevent this situation from occurring, installing casing in the borehole is a common approach....
The spread of the COVID-19 pandemic has had a major impact on tourism, giving significant importance to resilience strategies for this sector. Indeed, over the past three years, an increasing amount of research has been conducted on tourism resilienc...
Promoting green investment and green industry development is necessary to transform from the traditional crude economic model to a high-quality and high-efficiency economic model. Based on the panel data of 30 provinces in China from 2007 to 2021, th...
This paper describes the impact of hydrothermal conditions on the strength properties and hydration processes of belite cement mortar samples. The belite-rich binder was synthesized by sintering the initial mixture of raw materials (granite cutting w...
Digital technology can be used to enable the living preservation and heritage innovation of the intangible cultural heritage of Chinese traditional textile skills for sustainable development. Taking the “Wu Leno” weaving technique in Suzh...
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