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Development Studies
Daniel Balsalobre-Lorente, Oana M. Driha, George Halkos, Shekhar Mishra
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SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
(2022)
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Business
Weidong Huo, Jie Qi, Tong Yang, Jialu Liu, Miaomiao Liu, Ziqi Zhou
Summary: Economic development has led to global greenhouse gas emissions and climate change, posing a common challenge for all nations. Cities, as drivers of national economic development, have a crucial role in low-carbon development and climate change mitigation. China has actively explored and implemented pilot policies for low-carbon cities to reduce emissions and mitigate climate change. Findings from this study show that pilot cities achieved an annual carbon emission reduction of approximately 2.72%, resulting in a gross domestic product loss of around 1.19 trillion yuan from 2013 to 2017. These reductions were achieved through adjustments in industrial structure, promotion of technological innovation, and investment in low-carbon technologies.
TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE
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Xiaohang Ren, Yiying Li, Cheng Yan, Fenghua Wen, Zudi Lu
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TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE
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Yi Su, Qi-ming Fan
Summary: Based on empirical analysis, this paper finds that renewable energy technology innovation has a significant positive impact on green development, while the rationalization of the industrial structure also has a positive effect on green development. However, the advancement of the industrial structure has a negative impact on green development. The study further reveals a mutually exclusive effect between renewable energy technology innovation and industrial structure upgrading, but their joint effect can promote the positive impact of technological innovation on green development while restraining the negative effect of industrial structure advancement.
TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE
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Hisashi Masuda, Spring H. Han, Jungwoo Lee
Summary: This study examines the importance of parasocial relationships between social media influencers and followers in purchase intention, finding that PSR has a significantly positive impact on purchase intentions. Additionally, personal attributes, characterizations, and influencer types play important roles in the formation of PSR.
TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE
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Li Zhao, Ling Zhang, Jianxin Sun, Pengfei He
Summary: This study examined the impact of public participation on green technological innovation in Chinese enterprises, categorizing the constraints into dimensions of news media, community residents, and ENGOs. Results showed that constraints from news media and community residents were conducive to green technological innovation, while constraints from ENGOs had a weaker effect. Environmental regulatory enforcement played a positive moderating role in the relationship between ENGO constraints and green technological innovation.
TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE
(2022)
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Regional & Urban Planning
Sierra C. Woodruff, Sara Meerow, Missy Stults, Chandler Wilkins
Summary: Increasingly, local governments are developing resilience plans to address climate change impacts. However, these plans lack critical elements for climate preparedness, although they provide a platform to tackle economic, social, and environmental policies that may amplify climate change impacts. Resilience planning represents an alternative, potentially complementary approach to climate change preparedness, but there is still room for improvement.
JOURNAL OF PLANNING EDUCATION AND RESEARCH
(2022)
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Development Studies
Muhammad Ramzan, Ummara Razi, Muhammad Umer Quddoos, Tomiwa Sunday Adebayo
Summary: This study investigates the impact of green innovation and financial globalization on environmental sustainability and energy transition in the UK. The results show that green innovation and financial globalization have a unidirectional causality towards environmental sustainability and energy transition.
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
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Business
Zhanchi Wu, Xiangjun Fan, Bangzhu Zhu, Jiahui Xia, Lin Zhang, Ping Wang
Summary: This paper applies fixed effects and difference-in-differences models to investigate the impact of government subsidies on the innovation investment of new energy firms in China. The empirical results suggest an inverted U-shaped relationship between subsidy scale and enterprise innovation investment. Higher subsidy levels have a crowding out effect on research and development (R&D) investment, primarily due to managerial myopia. The existence of this crowding out effect is further confirmed through an exploration of China's 2016 new energy vehicle subsidy adjustment policy. This study reveals the optimal choice of government intervention.
TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE
(2022)
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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
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Business
Nicola Friedman, Jarrod Ormiston
Summary: Blockchain technology is seen as both a tool for sustainability and a broader philosophical mindset in global food supply chains. It has the potential to ensure fairer supply chains, enhance food traceability, and drive environmental sustainability. However, there are functional and psychological barriers, as well as cooperative barriers and resistance to change, hindering its potential as a sustainability-oriented innovation.
TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE
(2022)
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Business
Jafar Hussain, Chien -Chiang Lee, Yongxiu Chen
Summary: This study proposes a monopoly market model and develops a simulation-based optimization model to measure the optimal behavior of green technology investment and the government's optimal subsidy. The results of the study help the government find the best green technology investment and subsidy, and help decision-makers achieve environmental improvement and profit maximization.
TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE
(2022)
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Business
Jinyan Shi, Conghui Yu, Yanxi Li, Tianhe Wang
Summary: This paper examines the impact of the green finance reform and innovation pilot policy on the debt-financing cost of heavy-polluting enterprises in China. The results show a substantial decrease in the debt-financing cost of these enterprises in the pilot zones, indicating a significant incentive effect of the policy. Mechanism analyses further reveal that the policy stimulates the reputation insurance effect through signal transmission, rather than the innovation compensation effect proposed by Porter Hypothesis.
TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE
(2022)
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Development Studies
Baolong Yuan, Chen Li, Hongyuan Yin, Meng Zeng
Summary: The study shows that green innovation significantly reduces CO2 emissions in China, especially when institutional quality is high. In the western region, the reduction of CO2 emissions through green innovation increases as institutional quality improves. Green innovation had a greater impact on CO2 emissions reduction in 2013-2017 compared to 2005-2012.
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT
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Business
Xiaoling Wang, Tianyue Zhang, Jatin Nathwani, Fangming Yang, Qinglong Shao
Summary: By using the vector error correction model and analyzing Chinese industrial data, this study explores the relationships between CO2 emissions, energy efficiency, economic performance, environmental regulation, and technological innovation. The empirical results provide support for the Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis, weak Porter Hypothesis, and Jevons' Paradox.
TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE
(2022)
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Business
Chi-Wei Su, Li-Dong Pang, Ran Tao, Xuefeng Shao, Muhammad Umar
Summary: This paper investigates the capacity of renewable energy consumption and technological innovation in promoting net-zero emissions in the U.S. The study finds that renewable energy consumption has a significant emissions-mitigating effect, while technological innovation plays a weak role in emissions reduction. The findings suggest that industries should enhance environmental awareness and incentives for renewable energy-related technological innovation, and the government should adopt measures to promote renewable energy consumption.
TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE
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Baojun Yu, Changming Li, Nawazish Mirza, Muhammad Umar
Summary: This study evaluates the ability of machine learning models to predict credit ratings of eco-friendly firms, finding that classification and regression trees have the highest precision for credit rating predictions. Even when constrained to specific rating categories, accuracy remains robust. The results suggest that a random forest ensemble can be used in combination with regression trees to predict default or near default ratings.
TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE
(2022)
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Geography
Ximing Yin, Jin Chen, Jizhen Li
Summary: A world with large disparities in development between rural and urban areas cannot achieve sustainable development goals. This paper proposes the concept of rural innovation system and compares it with urban innovation system. It introduces a theoretical model of the rural innovation system and outlines future challenges. This has significant implications for rural studies, innovation systems, and public policy.
JOURNAL OF RURAL STUDIES
(2022)
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Development Studies
Yu Zhuang, Shuili Yang, Asif Razzaq, Zeeshan Khan
Summary: The study examines the impact of infrastructure-led Chinese outward foreign direct investment, tourism development, and technology innovation on carbon emissions in Belt and Road Initiative countries. Results show that foreign direct investment and technology innovation reduce emissions, while tourism development interacting with foreign direct investment leads to higher emissions.
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT
(2022)
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Development Studies
Jafar Hussain, Chien-Chiang Lee
Summary: This study examines the role of carbon neutrality instruments in a duopoly market and finds that green bond provision, emission tax, and emission quota play vital roles in achieving carbon neutrality. Different combinations of carbon neutrality instruments can significantly reduce carbon emissions, aiding governments in determining optimal carbon neutrality policies.
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
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