Environment, Development and Sustainability最新文献

{"title":"Can digital transformation promote enterprise green innovation? Evidence from China","authors":"Jing Xiao, Ping Zeng, Huafei Yan, Lanlan Niu","doi":"10.1007/s10668-024-05328-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-024-05328-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Enterprise green innovation (EGI) is necessary to develop sustainably. With the continuous advancement of the digital economy, whether digital transformation (DT) can enhance the quantity and quality of green innovation in enterprises is an important issue that urgently needs to be explored. More importantly, the complex moderating roles of formal and informal institutions have not received sufficient attention. Based on the data of 3595 listed companies in China from 2011 to 2021, this study empirically analyzed the impact of DT on EGI. It tested the moderating role of environmental regulation (ER) and Confucian culture (Ru). The research found that (i) DT positively impacts EGI quantity and quality and can improve EGI quality better. This fundamental conclusion has passed various endogeneity and robustness tests. (ii) ER positively moderates the relationship between DT and EGI and can better moderate the relationship between DT and EGI quantity. (iii) When the Ru in a region is relatively high, the positive moderation effect of ER on the DT-EGI relationship is enhanced. (iv) The DT-EGI relationship is characterized by significant heterogeneity, like property rights, industry, and regional distribution. Specifically, the DT of state-owned enterprises, manufacturing enterprises, and enterprises in the central and western regions can better promote EGI. Therefore, managers should increase investment in DT to encourage enterprises to promote EGI actively. While strengthening environmental regulations, the government should also pay attention to the guidance of Ru and flexibly adjust relevant policies based on the heterogeneity of different enterprises to achieve the EGI effects of DT.</p>","PeriodicalId":540,"journal":{"name":"Environment, Development and Sustainability","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142187393","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Revisiting policy and practices of sustainable development in Turkey","authors":"Sertif Demir, Adnan Guzel","doi":"10.1007/s10668-024-05346-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-024-05346-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Environmental decline has been a global concern for all humanity and living species for many years. Despite the ongoing global response to increasing environmental degradation, the world still faces unrelenting environmental decline. Turkey sees sustainable development and green growth as responses to environmental decline while maintaining steady growth. The key issue here is how to manage/reduce environmental decline without jeopardizing rapid growth to meet the needs of the current generation. Therefore, this article analyzes sustainable development in Turkey in terms of policy and practices. For this purpose, it first presents a literature review on environmentalism, sustainable development and green growth, and then scrutinizes sustainable development policy and practices in Turkey. Briefly, although Turkey has embraced the policies of environmental conservation, Turkey’s core environmental discourse favors the steady growth and industrialization while ensuring the environmental conservation. Bear in mind that Turkey is still grappling with rapid growth to sustain a livable life for every citizen. As a result, the state is striving to balance various policies and the interests of many stakeholders to achieve sustainable development.</p>","PeriodicalId":540,"journal":{"name":"Environment, Development and Sustainability","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142187396","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Perceptions of tourism business managers towards the impacts of climate change in selected tourist sites in Zimbabwe","authors":"Zibanai Zhou","doi":"10.1007/s10668-024-05332-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-024-05332-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Climate change remains a significant challenge, which threatens the tourism sector in Zimbabwe. This study employs the destination sustainability theory to examine the perceptions of tourism business managers on the impacts of climate change on tourism activities in selected tourist centres in Zimbabwe. A qualitative research approach was adopted in which in-depth interviews were conducted with 30 managerial employees selected through purposive and snow ball sampling strategies. Participants were drawn from multiple study sites, namely Nyanga and Chimanimani; Hwange, Victoria Falls, and Binga; Kariba, Lake Chivero, Mana pools; and Gonarezhou. Findings showed that the perception of tourism facilities managers towards climate change were varied, with managers mostly concerned about climate change induced risk of flooding, shortened tourists vacation time, delayed opening of facilities, damage to supportive tourism infrastructure, loss of biodiversity and reduced capacity utilisation. Additionally, findings reveal that tourism is highly sensitive and vulnerable to the impacts of climate change in the selected study sites due to mediating variables encompassing over-dependence on tourism resources sensitive to climate change, an undiversified tourism market base, and reliance on outdoor tourist activities, coupled with other site specific variables. Overall, tourist sites lack adaptive capacity to recover from the impacts of climate change, hence the adoption of a wide range of smart climate change proofing strategies, notably sinking of boreholes to alleviate water shortages, translocation of wildlife, clearing blocked roads, rehabilitating damaged bridges, investing in energy saving appliances, and green energy. The findings of the study underscore the need for tourism facilities managers to adopt a climate change centric approach when developing climate change proofing strategies to enhance the sustainability and resilience of the sector.</p>","PeriodicalId":540,"journal":{"name":"Environment, Development and Sustainability","volume":"61 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142187394","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The influence of digital economy on rural per capita disposable income: evidence from China","authors":"Yajian Ni","doi":"10.1007/s10668-024-05308-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-024-05308-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The flourishing development of digital economy (DE) in China has profoundly affected the operation mode of social industry, commerce, agriculture and other industries, and the influence of DE on rural residents’ income needs further study. Based on the panel data of 31 provinces in China from 2017 to 2020, a multiple linear regression model of DE and rural per capita disposable income (PCDI) is constructed, and the model is estimated by the two-stage least squares method. The findings show that DE can improve rural PCDI. From the perspective of the intermediary effect, DE can promote rural PCDI through reducing agricultural product output, because the development of DE broadens the income channels of planting crops and reduces the production and operation costs. From the perspective of the adjustment effect, technological innovation has a significant negative adjustment effect on the influence of DE on PCDI, which shows that although DE makes up for some shortcomings in rural areas through technological innovation, it also accelerates the loss of resources.</p>","PeriodicalId":540,"journal":{"name":"Environment, Development and Sustainability","volume":"51 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142187398","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Environmental-economic analysis of regional energy system under different supply and demand side scenarios with LEAP model","authors":"Parvin Golfam, Parisa-Sadat Ashofteh","doi":"10.1007/s10668-024-05333-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-024-05333-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study aims to analyze the cost–benefit of demand–supply scenarios on hydropower generation and supply situation in the Marun catchment (Khuzestan province located in Iran) using the Low Emission Analysis Platform (LEAP). For this purpose, demographic data, macroeconomic indicators, and per capita consumption of various energy carriers in both urban and agricultural sectors in 2015 were extracted and calculated for Marun catchment. Then, key assumptions affecting energy consumption including population growth rate, Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth, and urbanization percentage for 2015–2040 were estimated and the trend of energy demand changes was modeled. Next, four scenarios including (1) Business-As-Usual (BAU), (2) Demand-Side Management (DSM), (3) energy mix and (4) integration scenarios were simulated with LEAP model and net present value (NPV) index calculated for each of them. The results show that final electricity demand in 2040 will be equal to 5094 MWh, while electricity generation capacity is equal to 3.1 million MWh. The results of cost–benefit analysis of different scenarios show that NPV Index of using energy-saving lamps is—$ 251 million compared to BAU scenario and is the best economic alternative to supply the electricity demand of the Marun catchment.</p>","PeriodicalId":540,"journal":{"name":"Environment, Development and Sustainability","volume":"67 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142187399","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Assessing Accra’s Climate Action Plan as a case of vertical integration to achieve sustainable development","authors":"Desmond Adjaison, Antwi-Boasiako Amoah","doi":"10.1007/s10668-024-05341-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-024-05341-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The compounding effects of rapid urbanization and climate change are driving cities in the Global South to urgently require localized intervention. This imperative hinges on the existence of robust institutional frameworks and strategies. The researchers observed that Accra’s Climate Action Plan (ACAP) in Ghana incorporates enabling factors that support urban climate governance; nevertheless, there is a lack of clarity regarding the key success implementation indicators that have been integrated to determine sustainable outcomes. The article, therefore, aims to qualitatively evaluate the governance frameworks and strategies put in place to attain a sustainable future in Accra by 2030. The evaluation of strategies focuses on two fundamental domains: stakeholder engagement and policy instruments. The governance framework is examined in terms of budget and funding options; monitoring and evaluation processes, internal coordination and cross-sector collaboration. The study employs interviews, content analysis, and a three-dimensional framework to assess sustainable development synergies. The findings of the study reveal specific policy instruments that are suboptimal at the local scale due to prevailing decentralized frameworks constraining the city’s autonomy. Furthermore, the ACAP has yet to be integrated into the city’s budget, with funding remaining limited. The institutional integration of ACAP is also significantly hindered by bureaucratic inefficiencies, limitations in monitoring and evaluation framework, and weakness in both internal and cross-sectoral collaborations. Another evidence from this study is that ACAP, while conducive for promoting sustainable development, shows limitations in addressing social sustainability. This is attributed to the absence of a comprehensive social risk and gender-responsive analysis of the impacts associated with the implementation of ACAP. The article thus concludes that the pursuit of a sustainable urban future in Accra remains impeded, unless meaningful efforts are directed toward enhancing the governance framework and revising the policy. The study recommends a more systematic analysis of policies to promote stronger social sustainability, inter alia. Policymakers and scholars focusing on local climate policy and sustainable urban development can find utility in the findings.</p>","PeriodicalId":540,"journal":{"name":"Environment, Development and Sustainability","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142187454","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Measuring city sustainability and coupling coordinated performance in economy, society, environment, and governance in 52 northern Chinese cities","authors":"Chen Wang, Zhaoming Hou, Li Zhu","doi":"10.1007/s10668-024-05339-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-024-05339-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The coordinated development among city subsystems is an essential driving force of city sustainability. This paper uses the Entropy Weight-TOPSIS Model and Coupling Coordinated Model to measure and compare the City Sustainability Performance (CSP) and Coupling Coordination Performance (CCP) of 52 cities in northern China. The results show that the current measurement results of city sustainability may be too optimistic. The overall sustainability level of the northern Chinese cities is low. Only a few cities, such as the capital, provincial capitals, and other regional central cities, achieved relatively positive CSP and CCP. Nevertheless, under the surface, even in the cities with positive results, their subsystems’ coordinated development is unsatisfactory. The spatial distribution indicates that the high pollution and energy consumption industrial transfer from other regional central cities to the surrounding cities may cause the disadvantage of the CSP and CCP of the surrounding cities. In the context of slowing global and Chinese economic growth, the city economy subsystem development is likely to be lower than the development of the environment, society, and city governance subsystem. To achieve high-quality city development, cities should focus on achieving coordinated development of the environment, society, economy, and city governance.</p>","PeriodicalId":540,"journal":{"name":"Environment, Development and Sustainability","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142187400","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Are high efficiency and environmental protection compatible? The impact of China’s environmental policies on enterprise productivity","authors":"Yuan Wang, Yanxi Liang, Yu Wang","doi":"10.1007/s10668-024-05338-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-024-05338-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Globally, the concept of carbon neutrality is gaining traction, and the impact of environmental policy on business has been thoroughly studied. Although research on the impact of environmental policy on the production efficiency of enterprises has been extensive, the mechanism of this effect within the enterprise remains obscure. This paper analyzes “the role process of green innovation and cleaner production” within the enterprise in terms of “environmental policy and enterprise production efficiency improvement” using an innovative approach based on the Porter effect. This paper examines the chain-mediating effect of “green innovation → cleaner production” in “environmental policy → enterprise production efficiency” using data from Chinese publicly traded companies. Different impacts are analyzed by separating environmental policies into environmental regulatory policies and incentive environmental policies. (1) Regulatory environmental policies promote green innovation, which assists enterprises in achieving cleaner production and improving production efficiency. (2) Incentive environmental policies do not promote green innovation but can assist enterprises in achieving green production, which improves enterprise production efficiency. The heterogeneity test of state-owned and non-state-owned enterprises yields intriguing new findings in this study. Through systematic analysis, this paper reveals the internal mechanism of the impact of environmental policy on enterprise output. Finally, policy recommendations are proposed to assist the government in achieving green economic development.</p>","PeriodicalId":540,"journal":{"name":"Environment, Development and Sustainability","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142187456","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A method for regulating land surface temperature by creating balance in urban landscape heterogeneities: the case of Tehran Metropolitan","authors":"Omid Fotoohi, Najmeh Jahani, Sungmin Lee","doi":"10.1007/s10668-024-05334-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-024-05334-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Heterogeneity in urban landscapes plays a vital role in the flow of matter, energy, and information that in turn leads to the change in Land Surface Temperature (LST) over time. The relationship between LST and heterogeneity serves as a valuable resource for urban design, planning, and management. It aids in making informed decisions about how to manage urban land cover to reduce LST. This study seeks to make urban heterogeneous landscapes more balanced to mitigate and regulate LST. In this study, we examined three key landscape characteristics: patch shape complexity, structural and spatial heterogeneity within the landscape, and the connectivity between similar and dissimilar patches. These factors play a crucial role in achieving an appropriate level of heterogeneity for sustainable development. Subsequently, we analyzed these three landscape characteristics in Tehran to examine their relationship with LST, utilizing landscape ecology principles, landscape metrics, and statistical methods. Our findings suggest that the built patches hold greater significance. Furthermore, the shape complexity of both built and green patches plays a critical role in reducing LST, which has the potential to mitigate the urban heat island effect. Consequently, when devising strategies to enhance the heterogeneity of urban environments, built patches should be given priority.</p>","PeriodicalId":540,"journal":{"name":"Environment, Development and Sustainability","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142187455","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Recent trends in biosensor development for climate smart organic agriculture and their role in environmental sustainability","authors":"Dheerendra Singh Gangwar","doi":"10.1007/s10668-024-05300-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-024-05300-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article intends to provide a comprehensive review and synthesis of recent research in the area of biosensors and their potential applications in climate-smart organic agriculture in order to ensure food availability for the growing population, which largely depends on the collaborative effort resulting in technology development to address the top challenges associated with agriculture and environmental sustainability. Continuous monitoring and early detection of pests, pathogens, contaminants, and disease outbreaks with the help of biosensors can certainly improve the productivity of farming landscapes. In addition to that, biosensors are also used to monitor farmland growing conditions with the objective of assessing and reducing the challenging issues of climate change. Recent advancements in this domain can assist farmers in reducing overall energy consumption and carbon footprints, as agriculture not only contributes to greenhouse gas emissions but is also a victim of climate change. Reducing emissions from agricultural farm fields—primarily methane and nitrous oxide—has a prominent influence on climate change adaptation and mitigation. The main task of the deployed biosensors is the detection and timely removal of biochemicals and other categories of contaminants from the farm fields to maintain the quality and safety of the food items while disposing of pests, pathogens, and weeds. Consequently, growing demand for bio-sensing technologies exists in the agriculture and food industries. Applications of biosensors in the agriculture sector would be important for capacity building, skill development, and intelligent management of natural resources. This article will help researchers in proffering valuable insights and inferences for their research work as a contribution to the comprehension of associated challenges, potential solutions, and advancements for the development of cost-effective solutions for farmers based on bio-sensing technologies.</p>","PeriodicalId":540,"journal":{"name":"Environment, Development and Sustainability","volume":"57 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141938219","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}