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Muhammad Irfan, Asif Razzaq, Arshian Sharif, Xiaodong Yang
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Zahoor Ahmed, Mahmood Ahmad, Husam Rjoub, Olga A. Kalugina, Nazim Hussain
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SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
(2022)
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Business
Boqiang Lin, Ruiyang Ma
Summary: Green technology innovations play an important role in balancing economic growth and environmental governance. However, there is limited empirical research on the relationship between green technology innovations and CO2 emissions, particularly in developing countries like China. This study examines panel data from 264 prefecture-level cities in China from 2006 to 2017, and finds that the impact of green technology innovations on CO2 emissions varies across different types of cities. It also shows that green technology innovations can contribute to CO2 emission reduction after 2010, indirectly through industrial structure upgrading. The study further suggests that the marginal effect of green technologies on CO2 emissions is influenced by the urban innovation environment and the human capital level of a city.
TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE
(2022)
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Umer Shahzad, Diogo Ferraz, Huu-Huan Nguyen, Lianbiao Cui
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TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE
(2022)
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Muhammad Irfan, Rajvikram Madurai Elavarasan, Munir Ahmad, Muhammad Mohsin, Vishal Dagar, Yu Hao
Summary: India faces various barriers in developing its biomass industry, with technological and infrastructural barriers being the most significant. The study suggests that increasing research and development activities is the best alternative solution. Policymakers, stakeholders, and government institutions should work together to accelerate the progress of the Indian biomass industry.
TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE
(2022)
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Chunhong Zhang, Irfan Khan, Vishal Dagar, Asif Saeed, Muhammad Wasif Zafar
Summary: There is a huge gap between the need for ICT infrastructure and its availability in developing countries. ICT and education have different effects on environmental quality, while globalization, income, and financial development play a role in controlling these effects. Policymakers are suggested to take measures to develop ICT infrastructure, improve education, and reduce unsustainable practices.
TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE
(2022)
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Kashif Raza Abbasi, Khadim Hussain, Akram Masoud Haddad, Asma Salman, Ilhan Ozturk
Summary: This study examines the impact of economic globalization, financial development, energy use, economic development, and technological innovation on consumption and emissions in Pakistan. The empirical evidence reveals that financial and economic development stimulate consumption and emissions in both the short and long run. Energy use intensifies consumption and emissions only in the long run. Economic globalization adversely affects consumption and emissions in the short run but increases consumption-based emissions in the long run. Technological innovations decrease emissions in the long term. The study suggests policymakers discourage non-renewables and increase renewable energy use to decrease consumption and emissions.
TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE
(2022)
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Ran Tao, Chi-Wei Su, Bushra Naqvi, Syed Kumail Abbas Rizvi
Summary: In recent years, environmentalists have expressed concerns about the excessive use of electricity, especially in cryptocurrency mining, prompting regulators and stakeholders to reassess the costs and benefits of technological development in Fintech and its impact on the environment. This study found that Fintech development can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions with the inclusion of appropriate control variables, even after considering the potential endogeneity of Fintech development using 2SLS and GMM estimations.
TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE
(2022)
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Development Studies
Muhammad Wasif Zafar, Muhammad Mansoor Saleem, Mehmet Akif Destek, Abdullah Emre Caglar
Summary: The study found that remittances help reduce environmental degradation, export diversification can lower CO2 emissions, and renewable energy contributes to decreasing CO2 emissions. Conversely, economic growth is detrimental to the environment. Education was found to be a significant factor in environmental degradation.
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
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Business
Malin Song, Licheng Peng, Yuping Shang, Xin Zhao
Summary: Through analyzing samples of China's Ashare resource-based enterprises, this study found that green technology progress significantly promotes total factor productivity and environmental regulation forces the green technology progress of enterprises through external pressure. Additionally, the results also indicate that the forcing effect of environmental regulation on green technology progress is more significant when enterprises have strong financial and human resource bases.
TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE
(2022)
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Chetna Chauhan, Vinit Parida, Amandeep Dhir
Summary: In recent years, there has been a significant increase in academic research in the fields of circular economy and digital technologies, with digital technologies such as IoT and AI playing crucial roles in implementing circular economy. Studies have shown that the digitalization-driven transition towards circular economy faces various barriers, including policy-related issues, lack of predictability, psychological issues, and information vulnerability.
TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE
(2022)
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Development Studies
Arshian Sharif, Najia Saqib, Kangyin Dong, Syed Abdul Rehman Khan
Summary: This study examines the importance of green technology innovation and green financing in achieving sustainable environmental development. The findings demonstrate that green technology innovation and green financing have a significant negative impact on CO2 emissions. Additionally, social globalization moderates the relationship between CO2 emissions and GDP positively, while negatively influencing the relationship between green financing, green technology innovation, and CO2 emissions.
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
(2022)
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Development Studies
Yunpeng Sun, Asif Razzaq
Summary: Improving environmental quality and fiscal management is important for sustainable development. However, little is known about the impact of fiscal decentralisation on environmental quality. This study analyzed data from 32 OECD countries and found that fiscal decentralisation significantly reduces carbon emissions at medium to higher emission levels, while green innovation reduces emissions from lower to medium levels. Institutional reforms promote environmental sustainability across all emission levels.
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
(2022)
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Business
Ciro Troise, Vincenzo Corvello, Abby Ghobadian, Nicholas O'Regan
Summary: Organizational agility, crucial for survival and competitiveness, especially for SMEs, is built upon digital technology capability, relational capability, and innovation capability. Developing these capabilities enhances performance, product, and process innovation, contributing to the enduring success of SMEs.
TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE
(2022)
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Business
Emma Serwaa Obobisa, Haibo Chen, Isaac Adjei Mensah
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TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE
(2022)
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Satish Kumar, Saumyaranjan Sahoo, Weng Marc Lim, Sascha Kraus, Umesh Bamel
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TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE
(2022)
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Yuanzhi Guo, Yang Zhou, Yansui Liu
Summary: After nearly seventy years of poverty alleviation, China has basically solved the problem of providing food and clothing to the rural poor. However, the islanding effect of the distribution of the poor and the marginal diminishing effect of the antipoverty resources restrict the effects of poverty-eliminating strategies. In response, the Chinese central government has introduced targeted poverty alleviation, aiming to achieve genuine outcomes by accurately identifying and assisting poverty-stricken households.
JOURNAL OF RURAL STUDIES
(2022)
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Chen Zhu, Chien -Chiang Lee
Summary: Based on a balanced panel dataset of 278 Chinese cities, this study employs a spatial difference-in-differences approach to examine the impact of low-carbon pilot policy on technological innovation. The results demonstrate that implementing low-carbon pilot policy has a positive effect on technological innovation in both pilot cities and neighbouring cities. Various mechanisms and heterogeneity factors are also explored.
TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE
(2022)
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Business
Eyup Dogan, Muhammad Zubair Chishti, Nooshin Karimi Alavijeh, Panayiotis Tzeremes
Summary: This study investigates the impacts of technology and Kyoto Protocol on energy transition using a novel econometric method. The empirical results show a significant positive link between technology and energy transition, as well as a positive impact of the Kyoto Protocol. Further policy implications are discussed.
TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE
(2022)
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Development Studies
Siyu Ren, Yu Hao, Haitao Wu
Summary: In the era of information economy, the integration of the internet and traditional industries is driving the world economy towards a more innovative, smarter, and greener direction. Research has shown that internet development can significantly reduce local environmental pollution and also environmental pollution in neighboring areas. Internet development primarily affects environmental pollution through improving technological innovation, industrial upgrading, human capital, and financial development.
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT
(2023)