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Abstract
Technological advancement and favorable geographical factors significantly increase environmental development. This study contributes to the existing body of knowledge by examining the impact of China-East Asia trade, geography, and digitalization on CO2 emissions, aiming to assess sustainable environmental development in East Asia from 1990 to 2021. The analysis employs Feasible Generalized Least Squares (FGLS) and the Dumitrescu and Hurlin (DH) causality tests to provide comprehensive insights. The findings reveal that China-East Asia trade positively contributes to sustainable environmental development in East Asia by promoting economic integration and cleaner technological practices. However, the direct impact of geographical factors worsens sustainable environmental development, likely due to challenges related to distance, terrain, and natural resource distribution. Furthermore, the results highlight that digitalization significantly reduces CO2 emissions, enhancing sustainable environmental development. Additionally, the threshold effect indicates that digitalization plays a crucial role in either amplifying or mitigating the impact of trade and geography by enhancing technological efficiency and facilitating information exchange, ultimately contributing to sustainable environmental development. The DH causality test results confirm that China-East Asia trade, geography, and digitalization exhibit predictive power for sustainable environmental development, highlighting their interconnected roles in shaping environmental outcomes. This study concludes with key policy recommendations aimed at promoting sustainable environmental development by strengthening digitalization and refining trade policies to mitigate geographical constraints.
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Food and Energy Security seeks to publish high quality and high impact original research on agricultural crop and forest productivity to improve food and energy security. It actively seeks submissions from emerging countries with expanding agricultural research communities. Papers from China, other parts of Asia, India and South America are particularly welcome. The Editorial Board, headed by Editor-in-Chief Professor Martin Parry, is determined to make FES the leading publication in its sector and will be aiming for a top-ranking impact factor.
Primary research articles should report hypothesis driven investigations that provide new insights into mechanisms and processes that determine productivity and properties for exploitation. Review articles are welcome but they must be critical in approach and provide particularly novel and far reaching insights.
Food and Energy Security offers authors a forum for the discussion of the most important advances in this field and promotes an integrative approach of scientific disciplines. Papers must contribute substantially to the advancement of knowledge.
Examples of areas covered in Food and Energy Security include:
• Agronomy
• Biotechnological Approaches
• Breeding & Genetics
• Climate Change
• Quality and Composition
• Food Crops and Bioenergy Feedstocks
• Developmental, Physiology and Biochemistry
• Functional Genomics
• Molecular Biology
• Pest and Disease Management
• Post Harvest Biology
• Soil Science
• Systems Biology
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