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{"title":"Spatio-temporal heterogeneity of urban resilience from an environment– service–connectivity perspective: A case study of Beijing","authors":"Menghua Zhu,&nbsp;Chenhong Xia,&nbsp;Xiaodong Guo,&nbsp;Wei Wang,&nbsp;Donghui Ma","doi":"10.1016/j.cjpre.2026.08.009","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cjpre.2026.08.009","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>To address the systemic complexity and uncertainty risks associated with urbanization, this study develops a spatiotemporal dynamic evaluation model of urban resilience based on a three-dimensional “environment–service–connectivity” framework. Taking Beijing as a case study, the model integrates entropy-weighted TOPSIS, coupling coordination analysis, geographic detection, and geographically weighted regression to systematically reveal the spatiotemporal characteristics of urban resilience, the coupling mechanisms among its dimensions, and the spatial heterogeneity of influencing factors for 2010, 2015, and 2020. The results indicate that: (1) overall urban resilience in Beijing continuously improved over the study period, exhibiting a spatial pattern of higher resilience in central and southeastern areas and lower resilience in northern and southwestern regions; (2) the coupling coordination among the environmental, service, and connectivity dimensions gradually improved but remained at an early coordination stage, with three typical regional types identified: “high resilience–basic coordination”, “high resilience–basically uncoordinated”, and “low resilience–extremely uncoordinated”; (3) service facility diversity was identified as the dominant factor driving resilience enhancement, while the effects of other factors showed significant spatial heterogeneity. Specifically, resilience in the western ecological conservation areas was mainly driven by the proportion of cultivated and forested land, in northern regions by the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), in north-central areas by road network density, and in central and southern regions by proximity to medical facilities. This study demonstrates that the proposed model can effectively identify resilience gaps at the grid-cell level, providing a scientific basis for targeted spatial governance and differentiated strategies to enhance urban resilience in Beijing.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":45743,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Journal of Population Resources and Environment","volume":"24 3","pages":"Pages 407-418"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149175586","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Spatial-temporal differences, obstacle factors, and influencing factors of provinces’ water governance efficiency in China","authors":"Dan Wu,&nbsp;Haoyu Wang,&nbsp;Jiangnan Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.cjpre.2026.08.012","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cjpre.2026.08.012","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Based on the theoretical framework of the social-ecological system and the theory of ecosystem services and sustainable development, this study evaluates the framework for water governance efficiency with spatial-temporal comparability and analyzes the influencing factors of water governance efficiency. The comprehensive evaluation model is established by integrating the Analytic Hierarchy Process-Entropy Weight-Ideal Solution Model, and Obstacle Degree-Tobit Model to identify the spatial-temporal differences in provinces’ water governance efficiency, key obstacle factors, and influencing factors of water governance efficiency in China. The results show that, first, the provinces’ overall index value of water governance efficiency increased from the end of the 13th Five-Year Plan to the midterm of the 14th Five-Year Plan, with the mean value rising from 0.779 to 0.837. Breakthrough progress was achieved in water-saving control capacity, while intensive utilization and safety capacities showed gradual convergence across provinces. However, environmental protection and ecological restoration capacities demonstrate an increasingly pronounced divergence among provincial jurisdictions. Second, the constraints on the provinces’ water governance evolved from a “double bottleneck” of environmental protection and ecological restoration to a “four-dimensional bottleneck” of intensive utilization, safety guarantee, environmental protection, and ecological restoration in China. However, the priorities for water governance differ among the provinces. Third, socioeconomic governance systems had a significant positive impact on water governance efficiency. Among these factors, the levels of economic development, technological innovation, and water conservancy investment were key obstacles to water governance efficiency. By contrast, active international trade and an imbalanced water-usage structure imposed negative constraints on water governance. The impact of water resource endowment on water governance efficiency was insignificant. Policy recommendations have been proposed to improve the water governance efficiency in China’s provinces.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":45743,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Journal of Population Resources and Environment","volume":"24 3","pages":"Pages 444-456"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149175759","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"From Beijing to New Delhi: Adopting transformative legal frameworks for clean air governance","authors":"Md. Ziaul Islam","doi":"10.1016/j.cjpre.2026.08.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cjpre.2026.08.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Air pollution is a formidable threat to several emerging economies, including India. This research indicates that India’s National Ambient Air Quality Standards permit an annual mean fine particulate matter (PM_2.5) concentration of 40 μg/m³—exceeding World Health Organisation standards. This study reveals that approximately 1.5 million deaths in India annually are caused by long-term PM_2.5 exposure (95% confidence interval: 1.1 million to 1.9 million). New Delhi grapples with a grave public health crisis, with approximately 12 000 lives lost each year due to PM_2.5 exposure, accounting for 11.5% of total fatalities. On November 18, 2024, New Delhi’s air quality index (AQI) surged to an alarming 795, the highest pollution level recorded in four years. On December 30, 2024, New Delhi’s AQI was reported as 172, while Beijing’s AQI was significantly lower at 69, indicating a moderate pollution level. This study uses legal research and a literature review to critically assess the effectiveness of various legal instruments introduced in Delhi. The analysis includes comparisons with Beijing’s success and highlights a significant gap in New Delhi’s implementation of the legal framework it developed to combat pollution.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":45743,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Journal of Population Resources and Environment","volume":"24 3","pages":"Pages 457-465"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149175760","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Assessing the impact of electric vehicle adoption on environmental equity and mitigation mechanisms in China","authors":"Zhaofu Yang,&nbsp;Yongna Yuan,&nbsp;Bowen Zeng","doi":"10.1016/j.cjpre.2026.08.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cjpre.2026.08.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Electric vehicles (EVs) are likely to dominate the new car sales market by 2035, as China aims to decarbonize its transportation sector. Notwithstanding the significant local environmental benefits, EVs may raise environmental inequity concerns, with air pollution shifting from regions importing electricity to net electricity exporters. Using provincial monthly panel data from January 2016 to December 2022, this study examines the impact of EV adoption on regional environmental equity and explores the mechanisms that mitigate inequality. The results show that (1) EVs reduce air pollution in user regions but exacerbate pollution burdens and environmental management costs in electricity exporting regions, thereby widening regional disparities in environmental equity; (2) pollution transfer effects intensify progressively, especially during peak winter demand, with pollution concentrated in net electricity exporting provinces; and (3) pollution transfer effects of EVs are mitigated in regions with a higher share of renewable power generation, stronger technological innovation, and stricter environmental regulation. However, once these factors surpass their respective thresholds, regional environmental inequities are reduced. Revealing that the underlying mechanism of regional environmental imbalance is induced by EVs diffusion, this study emphasizes that the coordination of renewable energy development, technological advancement, and environmental governance is critical for transport electrification and environmental equity.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":45743,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Journal of Population Resources and Environment","volume":"24 3","pages":"Pages 324-335"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149175757","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Double-edged sword of artificial intelligence on energy consumption: Evidence from China","authors":"Ruilin Hao,&nbsp;Wenjia Zhang,&nbsp;Shuxing Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.cjpre.2026.08.006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cjpre.2026.08.006","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Energy consumption is tightly connected with resource depletion and environmental quality. As the core technology driving the contemporary sci-tech revolution and industrial transformation, artificial intelligence (AI) reshapes production processes and has a profound influence on energy consumption. This study examines the double-edged sword of AI’s impact on energy consumption, combining theoretical analysis with empirical evidence from 282 Chinese cities (2011–2021) using a fixed effects model. The results reveal that while AI promotes energy saving through green technological innovation, it also induces an energy rebound via industrial expansion. This effect currently outweighs the energy⁃saving effect in China, significantly increasing energy consumption, particularly fossil energy consumption in the central and northeastern regions and resource-based cities. Targeted energy saving and emissions reduction policies are found to effectively mitigate these rebound effects. This study provides new empirical evidence on the relationship between AI and energy consumption, offering practical insights for policymakers seeking to balance AI development with sustainable, green growth.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":45743,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Journal of Population Resources and Environment","volume":"24 3","pages":"Pages 360-369"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149175582","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Toward greener horizons: Integrating sustainable supply chain management, green innovation, and CSR for operational excellence and competitive advantage in the Chinese manufacturing sector","authors":"Shahid Mahmood,&nbsp;Jinping Guan,&nbsp;Asifa Iqbal","doi":"10.1016/j.cjpre.2026.08.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cjpre.2026.08.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In response to growing environmental and social concerns, many companies have adopted sustainable supply chain management practices (SSCMPs) to emphasize efficient resource use, energy conservation, and waste reduction. Recognizing sustainability as a strategic lever, this study examines how SSCMPs, corporate social responsibility, and green innovation contribute to competitive advantage through the mediating role of green operational performance. It further explores how total quality management and technological capability moderate these relationships. This study employs structural equation modeling via SmartPLS and reveals that both SSCMPs and green innovation have a significant positive impact on competitive advantage, with green operational performance serving as a key mechanism linking sustainable initiatives to competitive outcomes. This study advances resource-based view theory by integrating sustainability, quality management, and technology into a unified framework. The findings provide managers with evidence-based strategies for embedding sustainability into supply chain operations to enhance resilience, efficiency, and competitive positioning. Overall, this research highlights the strategic importance of sustainability as a driver of both operational excellence and continuing competitive advantage. This study also provides actionable insights on integrating sustainable practices into supply chain strategies to boost resilience and competitiveness.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":45743,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Journal of Population Resources and Environment","volume":"24 3","pages":"Pages 309-323"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149175585","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Dynamic evaluation of Chinese coal resource-based cities’ transformation and development from the perspective of new quality productive forces","authors":"Longke Wang,&nbsp;Ming Zhang,&nbsp;Qian Yue,&nbsp;Wenqi Wu","doi":"10.1016/j.cjpre.2026.08.011","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cjpre.2026.08.011","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Coal resource-based cities (CRBCs) are China’s main energy supply bases with significant long-term influence and are now in the critical period of transformation and development. New quality productive forces (NQPFs) are the driving foundations that promote cities’ transformation and development. This study constructs an NQPF indicator system to measure and evaluate NQPFs in 30 typical Chinese CRBCs using the improved entropy-weighted Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) model and identifies obstacle factors. The relevant results are threefold. (1) NQPFs are not high overall and generally moderate and follow the order of eastern &gt; central &gt; western &gt; northeastern regions. (2) NQPF conversion stages can be categorized into stagnation, single-stage decline, single-stage development, and two-stage development, linked to each city’s unique factors. (3) Information infrastructure, broadband penetration, per capita output, research and development investment, and employment awareness are found to be the five most prominent obstacles. This analysis provides valuable insights into CRBC transformation and long-term development.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":45743,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Journal of Population Resources and Environment","volume":"24 3","pages":"Pages 433-443"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149175587","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Energy-related technology-induced CO2 emission reduction in Africa","authors":"Chong Xu,&nbsp;Fei Wu,&nbsp;Jiafu An,&nbsp;Jiandong Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.cjpre.2026.08.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cjpre.2026.08.004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Africa currently faces extreme poverty while simultaneously grappling with the dual challenges of explosive population growth and mounting pressure to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. However, the underlying causes of CO₂ emissions in Africa and their driving factors remain poorly understood, hindering the formulation and implementation of policies to reduce CO₂ emissions and promote sustainable development. This study addresses this gap by investigating the spatiotemporal characteristics and drivers of CO₂ emissions in 30 African countries from 1980 to 2021. The drivers related to efficiency and technological change, with and without heterogeneity, were captured using log(<em>t</em>) convergence, production-theoretical decomposition analysis, and meta-frontier production-theoretical decomposition analysis, respectively. The results revealed a convergence trend in CO₂ emissions for the selected African countries, excluding Morocco. Furthermore, population size is the primary driver of CO₂ emissions, accounting for approximately 62.72% of the growth in CO₂ emissions during the period 2001–2021. At the same time, technological advancements and energy efficiency improvements reduce CO₂ emissions in Africa. Moreover, the technical efficiency and technical change effects of energy use within groups significantly mitigate CO₂ emissions growth, with varying impacts across regions. This study highlights the importance of considering regional spatiotemporal differences, particularly those related to energy efficiency and technology, and proposes targeted policy recommendations to promote the sustainable development of the entire continent.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":45743,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Journal of Population Resources and Environment","volume":"24 3","pages":"Pages 336-347"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149175761","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Green development meets safety resilience: Synergistic pathways to sustainability in three urban agglomerations in China","authors":"Weihang Du,&nbsp;Yuanyuan Liu,&nbsp;Xiangjie Xie","doi":"10.1016/j.cjpre.2026.08.010","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cjpre.2026.08.010","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Enhancing green development and safety resilience is a critical pathway toward sustainable development. Drawing on panel data from the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei, Yangtze River Delta, and Pearl River Delta urban agglomerations, this study constructs an urban safety resilience indicator system and employs the non-radial directional distance function to measure green development efficiency. By integrating multiple analytical models, including the coupling coordination degree, panel vector autoregression, and Haken models, it quantifies the interaction between green development and safety resilience and explores the mechanisms underlying their synergistic evolution. The findings show that the three regions generally evolved toward moderate or high levels of coordination, with core cities leading this transition. Impulse response analysis reveals that safety resilience exerts a sustained positive effect on green development, whereas green development can impose a short-term constraint on improving safety resilience. The Haken model identifies safety resilience as the order parameter, with a potential barrier of 0.623 6. By 2022, Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen had overcome this barrier and achieved high-order synergy, while the other cities remained in low-order states awaiting phase transition. Based on distances to the potential barrier, the study proposes tailored governance strategies for the advanced, emergent, fragile, and defective synergy categories, and advocates distinct pathways and potential energy transfer mechanisms, such as cross-regional carbon compensation and resilience resource sharing.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":45743,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Journal of Population Resources and Environment","volume":"24 3","pages":"Pages 419-432"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149175758","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Environmental regulation instruments versus employment: Investigation based on the heterogeneity perspective","authors":"Chutong Wang,&nbsp;Mingjie Jia","doi":"10.1016/j.cjpre.2026.08.007","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cjpre.2026.08.007","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>China faces the dual challenges of environmental transition and employment growth. In the backdrop of the policy priority of “stabilizing employment”, mitigating environmental risk has become a key concern in academic and policy circles. Using panel data on manufacturing firms from 2011 to 2023, this study examines how command-and-control (ER-com), market-based (ER-mar), and voluntary (ER-vol) environmental regulations affect labor demand, focusing on the heterogeneity of regulatory instruments. Findings show ER-com suppresses employment, whereas ER-mar and ER-vol significantly increase it. Further, heterogeneity exists across external environments, firm characteristics, and job types: ER-com was more binding in the central and western regions, ER-vol stronger in labor-intensive and non-state-owned firms, and ER-mar more effective in competitive industries and smaller firms. ER-vol and ER-mar helped increase labor demand in production, sales, and technology positions, whereas ER-vol had no significant effect on employment in finance, human resources, administration, or customer service. Mechanism analysis showed that ER-com reduces employment through a resource crowding-out effect, whereas ER-mar and ER-vol operate through Michael Porter’s double-dividend effect. The results provide new evidence of how environmental policies can advance both green transition and employment growth.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":45743,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Journal of Population Resources and Environment","volume":"24 3","pages":"Pages 370-389"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149175583","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}