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Decommissioning of a fuel oil-fired thermoelectric power plant in Brazil - Economic feasibility under certain and risk conditions 巴西一座燃油热电厂的退役--特定条件和风险条件下的经济可行性

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Sustainable Futures Pub Date : 2024-10-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.sftr.2024.100332

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Environmental regulation, R&D subsidies, and industrial green total factor productivity 环境监管、研发补贴和工业绿色全要素生产率

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Sustainable Futures Pub Date : 2024-10-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.sftr.2024.100333

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Spatial inequality in sub-national human development index: A case study of West Bengal districts 国家以下各级人类发展指数的空间不平等：西孟加拉邦各县的案例研究

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Sustainable Futures Pub Date : 2024-10-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.sftr.2024.100330

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Utilising machine learning for corporate social responsibility (CSR) and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) evaluation: Transitioning from committees to climate 利用机器学习进行企业社会责任 (CSR) 和环境、社会及治理 (ESG) 评估：从委员会过渡到气候

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Sustainable Futures Pub Date : 2024-10-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.sftr.2024.100329

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Public participation in Governance of E-waste recycling: A tripartite evolutionary game analysis 公众参与电子废物回收治理：三方进化博弈分析

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Sustainable Futures Pub Date : 2024-10-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.sftr.2024.100323

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From green entrepreneurial intention to behaviour: The role of environmental knowledge, subjective norms, and external institutional support 从绿色创业意向到行为：环境知识、主观规范和外部机构支持的作用

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Sustainable Futures Pub Date : 2024-10-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.sftr.2024.100331

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Disruptive innovation capability in resource-constrained environments: The role of strategic posture and human capital 资源受限环境中的颠覆性创新能力：战略态势和人力资本的作用

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Sustainable Futures Pub Date : 2024-10-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.sftr.2024.100326

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Role of Virtual Reality in advancing education with sustainability and identification of Additive Manufacturing as its cost-effective enabler 虚拟现实技术在推进可持续教育方面的作用，以及将增材制造技术确定为具有成本效益的促进因素

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Sustainable Futures Pub Date : 2024-09-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.sftr.2024.100324

{"title":"Role of Virtual Reality in advancing education with sustainability and identification of Additive Manufacturing as its cost-effective enabler","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.sftr.2024.100324","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.sftr.2024.100324","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Virtual Reality (VR) revolutionises education, offering a uniquely immersive and engaging learning experience. It fosters personalised learning, ignites creativity, and enhances understanding through interactive 3D models. These models transport students into a virtual world, facilitating better comprehension and memory retention. VR also addresses crucial educational challenges, such as catering to students with special needs and enabling remote learning. Nevertheless, VR also faces challenges like high initial investment and, hence, has limited adoption in education. Thus, to overcome this challenge, Additive Manufacturing (AM) is identified as an emerging technology that complements VR in education. VR provides a digital model, whereas AM provides 3D physical models, enhancing understanding in students. These technologies reduce paperwork, promote a sustainable environment, and facilitate students to learn from their homes, reducing their travelling requirements. This paper highlights that using these technologies in education contributes to achieving many United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals.</div><div>This is a review-based research, where a scoping review has been presented, with articles and research papers from the relevant sources collected and analysed to address the well identified research objectives. It also compares traditional and VR-based teaching-learning, provides a broad classification for the different education segments targetable through VR, the economic impact of VR on education, and significant applications and advantages of VR in education. We also propose using AM as a cost-effective enabler for VR in education, facilitating sustainability by achieving many of the SDG goals. Further, limitations and VR's implications in academia are presented to show a way forward.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34478,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Futures","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142420241","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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How do energy input and carbon emission constraints affect the ESG performance of manufacturing enterprises? Evidence from China 能源投入和碳排放约束如何影响制造业企业的ESG表现？来自中国的证据

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Sustainable Futures Pub Date : 2024-09-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.sftr.2024.100318

{"title":"How do energy input and carbon emission constraints affect the ESG performance of manufacturing enterprises? Evidence from China","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.sftr.2024.100318","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.sftr.2024.100318","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Sustainable development is the key to achieving high-quality growth in the manufacturing industry. The article analyzes the impact of energy inputs and carbon emission constraints on the ESG performance of Chinese manufacturing firms using listed company data from 2011-2022, carbon market emission control firms, and new energy city policies. The study finds the following core conclusions. First, energy input-carbon emission constraints can significantly improve the overall ESG performance of manufacturing firms rather than being limited to improving one aspect of performance. The benchmark regression results remain robust after a series of robustness tests. Second, the mechanism test shows that the energy input-carbon emission constraint can improve the ESG performance of manufacturing firms by promoting public green concern in the source prevention link, corporate green technology innovation in the process control link, and corporate green investment in the end governance link. In addition, enterprises' horizontal competition and vertical cooperation factors have a moderating effect on the direct impact of energy input-carbon emission constraints. Supply chain integration as a vertical cooperation factor positively reinforces the marginal increment. Firm competitiveness as a horizontal competition factor produces a \"U\" shaped moderating effect that is first weak and then strong. Finally, the heterogeneity analysis finds that the energy input-carbon emission constraint effectively promotes the ESG performance of technology-intensive and mature manufacturing firms and has a \"sending charcoal in the snow\" effect on the ESG performance of manufacturing firms in high-carbon industries. Therefore, the two-end synergistic constraint of energy input-carbon emission can effectively promote the growth of ESG performance of manufacturing enterprises, which brings important insights to the green development of manufacturing industries in other countries.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34478,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Futures","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142359545","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Achieving behavioral intention to renewable energy through perceived costs and benefits and environmental concern 通过感知成本和收益以及对环境的关注，实现对可再生能源的行为意向

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Sustainable Futures Pub Date : 2024-09-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.sftr.2024.100319

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