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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Andrew L. Fanning, Daniel W. O'Neill, Jason Hickel, Nicolas Roux
Summary: Most countries tend to transgress biophysical boundaries faster than they achieve social thresholds, leading to deep transformations being needed to safeguard human and planetary health. No country has achieved minimum social thresholds within biophysical boundaries between 1992 and 2015, and a projection indicates that no country is on the path to achieve them.
NATURE SUSTAINABILITY
(2022)
Review
Environmental Studies
Madeleine Wahlund, Jenny Palm
Summary: This paper aims to identify the similarities and differences between the concepts of 'energy democracy' and 'energy citizenship' and synthesize their contributions to citizen participation in energy transitions. The review of literature shows that these concepts often refer to participation in domestic energy technologies, energy communities, energy transition movements, and energy policy. Energy citizenship tends to focus on individual behavior change and participation in energy systems, while energy democracy focuses on institutionalization of participatory governance and the role of collectives.
ENERGY RESEARCH & SOCIAL SCIENCE
(2022)
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Environmental Sciences
Emanuele Bevacqua, Giuseppe Zappa, Flavio Lehner, Jakob Zscheischler
Summary: This study, using climate model large ensembles, demonstrates that future occurrences of compound hot-dry events over land will be primarily influenced by mean precipitation trends. Despite a 2 degrees C warmer world, local warming will be significant enough to ensure that future droughts always coincide with at least moderately hot extremes. Precipitation trends, on the other hand, are often weak and ambiguous, depending on factors such as the model, region, and internal climate variability.
NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE
(2022)
Review
Business
Adele Parmentola, Antonella Petrillo, Ilaria Tutore, Fabio De Felice
Summary: Blockchain technology is being widely used in various industries, helping to achieve sustainable development goals and positively impacting environmental sustainability. However, potential negative environmental effects of blockchain technology should be considered before adoption.
BUSINESS STRATEGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
(2022)
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Shoukat Iqbal Khattak, Manzoor Ahmad, Zahoor ul Haq, Shaofu Gao, Jiang Hang
Summary: The research reveals a counter-cyclical relationship between innovation in green and sustainable technologies and carbon dioxide emissions. Innovations have adverse effects on emissions during economic downturns but can mitigate emissions during economic booms.
SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION
(2022)
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Environmental Studies
Tomiwa Sunday Adebayo, Stephen Taiwo Onifade, Andrew Adewale Alola, Obumneke Bob Muoneke
Summary: This study analyzes the data of ten newly industrialized countries (NICs) between 1990 and 2018. The results show that natural resource rent is detrimental to the global goal of carbon neutrality. However, globalization can moderate this effect, and there is a positive correlation between economic growth and environmental quality. Additionally, renewable energy utilization and globalization independently promote environmental quality in these countries.
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Business
Zhang Yu, Syed Abdul Rehman Khan, Muhammad Umar
Summary: This study examines the impact of Industry 4.0 on circular economy practices and supply chain capability on firm performance. The results show that circular economy practices have a positive impact on economic and operational performance, and Industry 4.0 can improve business operations. Additionally, supply chain capability is positively related to operational performance, which, in turn, can enhance economic health.
BUSINESS STRATEGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
(2022)
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Environmental Studies
Oluwasegun B. Adekoya, Johnson A. Oliyide, OlaOluwa S. Yaya, Mamdouh Abdulaziz Saleh Al-Faryan
Summary: The ongoing Russia-Ukraine war has led to stronger connectedness between oil and other financial assets, with oil becoming a net transmitter of spillovers during the war. However, this spillover effect is temporary and diminishes over time.
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Environmental Studies
Zeyun Li, Tsung-Hsien Kuo, Wei Siao-Yun, Luu The Vinh
Summary: This study examines the role of green financing, volatility, and geopolitical risk in investment in renewable energy sources in China. The study finds that green financing and green regulations have a positive impact on promoting investment in renewable energy. However, oil price volatility and geopolitical risk negatively affect the investment pattern for clean energy sources. The study also highlights the moderating role of green regulations in strengthening the relationship between green financing and investment in renewable energy.
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Linsen Yang, Hongyan Xiao, Yongchao Qian, Xiaolu Zhao, Xiang-Yu Kong, Pei Liu, Weiwen Xin, Lin Fu, Lei Jiang, Liping Wen
Summary: The oceans provide an almost infinite source of uranium, but current methods of extracting uranium from seawater are not economically viable or efficient. A hierarchical porous membrane inspired by fractal structures in biology has been designed to capture uranium effectively, showing potential for fulfilling the vast promise of the oceans as a reliable and sustainable energy source.
NATURE SUSTAINABILITY
(2022)
Article
Economics
Zhaoyingzi Dong, Chuyu Xia, Kai Fang, Weiwen Zhang
Summary: This study examines the impact of China's carbon emissions trading policy on carbon emissions and air quality, using the difference-in-differences method. The results show that the policy significantly affects the co-benefits of carbon emissions reduction and air quality improvement, and has indirect effects through changing innovation ability and location choice of industries. It also reveals the policy's effectiveness in Central China and supports the pollution haven hypothesis by increasing carbon emissions in neighboring cities.
Article
Environmental Studies
Yonggang Zhang, Azer Dilanchiev
Summary: The study examined the relationship between financial stability, industrial structure, and resource utilization efficiency, finding that industrial structure has an impact on resource efficiency and China's industrial structure needs further optimization.
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Xutong Wu, Bojie Fu, Shuai Wang, Shuang Song, Yingjie Li, Zhenci Xu, Yongping Wei, Jianguo Liu
Summary: This study used a correlational network approach and a global SDG database to analyze the evolution of SDG interactions. The research found that as the level of sustainable development increases, the interactions among SDGs show nonlinear changes. At low and high levels of sustainable development, SDGs are both more positively and more negatively connected, while at middle levels, they cluster into more isolated positive connection groups.
NATURE SUSTAINABILITY
(2022)
Article
Environmental Studies
Mingting Xie, Muhammad Irfan, Asif Razzaq, Vishal Dagar
Summary: This study aims to analyze the impact of mineral and forestry resources volatility on economic performance and highlights the importance of sustainable use of material resources for achieving green growth agenda.
Article
Environmental Studies
Huangxin Chen, Yi Shi, Xin Zhao
Summary: Energy efficiency is identified as a crucial factor for achieving most of the Sustainable Development Goals by the World Bank. This study expands the debate on the determinants of energy efficiency by considering the evidence from the US economy and examines the causal relationship among variables. The results highlight the importance of industrial production, financial inclusion, renewable energy public R&D investment, and trade openness in determining energy efficiency in the USA.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Jason Hickel, Christian Dorninger, Hanspeter Wieland, Intan Suwandi
Summary: Unequal exchange theory suggests that economic growth in the global North relies on a large appropriation of resources and labor from the global South through price differentials in international trade. The study reveals that in 2015, the North appropriated a significant amount of resources from the South, enough to end extreme poverty multiple times. This unequal exchange is a key driver of global inequality, uneven development, and ecological breakdown.
GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS
(2022)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Benedikt Bruckner, Klaus Hubacek, Yuli Shan, Honglin Zhong, Kuishuang Feng
Summary: Carbon inequality reflects global wealth and income inequalities, with wealthy nations having high levels of consumption-based carbon emissions. This study shows that poverty alleviation has limited impact on global emissions, although emissions in poorer countries could more than double. Inequality in wealth and income distribution has direct consequences on consumption patterns, leading to carbon inequality. Although lifting people out of poverty under the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 1 results in only small relative increases in global emissions, poverty alleviation can significantly increase carbon emissions in low- and lower-middle-income countries in sub-Saharan Africa. To ensure poverty alleviation without exceeding climate targets, high-emitting countries need to reduce their emissions substantially.
NATURE SUSTAINABILITY
(2022)
Article
Environmental Studies
Mahlagha Darvishmotevali, Levent Altinay
Summary: The study found that environmental awareness plays a mediating role in the relationship between green HRM and employees' proactive P-EP, but does not support task-related P-EP. In addition, servant leadership does not moderate the relationship between green HRM and task-related performance.
TOURISM MANAGEMENT
(2022)
Article
Environmental Studies
Qiantao Zhang, Paige A. Clayton, Shiri M. Breznitz
Summary: The economic and financial crisis between 2008 and 2013 led universities to reconsider their funding allocations. While some universities were able to increase their research expenditure during this period of budget constraints, the efficiency of research funding declined. Governments and universities focused too narrowly on the financial terms of research and neglected other factors affecting academic research performance.
INTERNATIONAL REGIONAL SCIENCE REVIEW
(2022)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Zhaoqiang Zhong, Benhong Peng
Summary: This study uses sample data from Shanghai and Shenzhen A-share listed companies from 2010 to 2019 to analyze the impact of environmental regulation on enterprise green innovation. The results show that the new Environmental Protection Law (NEPL) significantly promotes green innovation in heavily polluting enterprises, especially in state-owned enterprises. Environmental responsibility plays a mediating role, while government subsidies play a positive moderating role in the impact of environmental regulation on enterprise green innovation.
SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION
(2022)
