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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Koji Oishi, Hiroto Ito, Yohsuke Murase, Hiroki Takikawa, Takuto Sakamoto
Summary: This study investigates the longitudinal dynamics of development cooperation at the global level, with a focus on aid flows. The analysis of aid data from 1970 to 2013 reveals a persistent structure of aid networks, consisting of a small number of major donors and a large number of globally connected recipients. This challenges the efficacy of aid reform efforts to substantially change the global aid flow pattern.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Junye Wang, Mojtaba Aghajani Delavar
Summary: Phytoremediation is a cost-effective and environmentally sound approach that uses plants to immobilize, extract, decay, or lessen toxicity and contaminants. However, there are barriers preventing it from becoming a widespread commercial approach. This paper examines these barriers and discusses the real costs of phytoremediation when considering time and land values.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2023)
Article
Economics
Dmitriy D. Li, Meenakshi Rishi, Jeong Hwan Bae
Summary: Green Official Development Aid (ODA) does not have a direct impact on reducing carbon emissions, but the effectiveness of green ODA is significantly influenced by institutional quality, especially in terms of economic freedom and anti-corruption measures.
ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
(2021)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Kaci Kennedy McDade, Paige Kleidermacher, Gavin Yamey, Wenhui Mao
Summary: This study provides estimates of China's global health aid using commonly accepted definitions and frameworks for categorising health projects. The findings show that China has funded a significant number of health-related aid projects, with a focus on sub-Saharan Africa. The priority areas of these projects include medical services, basic healthcare, malaria control, and basic health infrastructure. Additionally, China ranks as the fifth largest health aid donor to African countries.
Article
Law
Kenneth S. Abraham, G. Edward White
Summary: The traditional narrative of the development of modern tort liability has been shown to be seriously misleading, as before the expansion of tort liability around 1970, courts had already confirmed, established, and extended the duties of liability insurers, intensifying the growth of tort liability.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW
(2021)
Article
Management
Jingqi Dai, Zongmin Li
Summary: This study proposes an equilibrium strategy based on a multi-objectives model to assist coal chemical industrial parks in achieving integrated management involving economy, environment, and efficiency. A real case study shows the effectiveness of this strategy, and management suggestions are provided.
OMEGA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Development Studies
Woojin Jung
Summary: Development aid has the potential to alleviate poverty more effectively when directed towards areas of concentrated need. This study addresses the limited research on subnational aid targeting by examining its orientation towards poor villages in Myanmar. The findings show that densely aided areas are brighter and have a lower proportion of vulnerable populations, but aid tends to go to areas with fewer resources when comparing villages with similar brightness. The study also reveals variations in aid targeting practices among different donors with different ideologies. These findings suggest that analyzing aid at a fine-grained level using high-resolution spatial data can provide a more nuanced understanding of aid targeting.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Jorge Cristobal, Michael Ehrenstein, Antonio Dominguez-Ramos, Angel Galan-Martin, Carlos Pozo, Maria Margallo, Ruben Aldaco, Laureano Jimenez, Angel Irabien, Gonzalo Guillen-Gosalbez
Summary: The paper discusses the link between national public spending and the achievement of SDGs, assesses the efficiency of national public spending through data envelopment analysis, and finds that low-income and high-income countries have higher average public spending efficiency. Low middle-income and upper middle-income countries still have room for improvement in public spending.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Ling Mei Han, Jian Qiang You, Jie Ning Meng, Yu Long Fu, Song Ling Wu
Summary: Over the past few decades, the transportation sector has been the largest contributor to CO2 emissions in China. Research and Development spending leads to technological innovation in the country and could affect the CO2 emission in the country. A QARDL approach was used for the data analysis, which revealed Research and Development and Transport infrastructure has a positive impact on CO2 emissions.
FRONTIERS IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Agriculture, Multidisciplinary
Jiaxin Wang, Zhiming Qi, Chong Wang
Summary: Phosphorus (P) management is crucial for environmental protection as inappropriate application can cause water pollution. However, conflicting experimental results make it difficult to draw general conclusions, and there is a lack of comprehensive analysis on the impact of P management on crop yields. This study conducted a meta-analysis to assess the effectiveness of different P management practices on reducing soil P loss and their impact on crop yields. The results indicate that the most effective practices for reducing soil P loss may not necessarily lead to the greatest improvement in crop yield. Efficient irrigation, crop straw return, buffer strip, and intercropping were found to be the most effective in reducing soil P loss, while soil amendment, intercropping, and conservative practices showed the largest increase in crop yields.
AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT
(2023)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Wei Wang, Haibo Wang, Jaime Ortiz, Bahram Alidaee, Bowen Sun
Summary: This study uses a causal analytic framework to evaluate the effectiveness of government policy on the reduction of industrial pollutants in 284 Chinese cities between 2005 and 2016. The results show that city government policies, economic power, the influence of megacities, and geographical region significantly affect industrial pollution reduction, with economic power having a significant interaction with city government policies. The study also finds long-term causality among industrial pollution reduction, fixed assets investment, and GDP per-capita in city, urban agglomeration, and regional levels.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2022)
Review
Engineering, Industrial
Xiaofeng Xu, Yangyang He
Summary: This study designed a two-stage analysis scheme to identify and summarize the application of blockchain in modern logistics information sharing and the challenges it faces. The latent Dirichlet allocation topic model was used to summarize application scenarios, and a blockchain integration framework was created to determine optimal usage. Six key areas were identified and three typical cases were analyzed.
PRODUCTION PLANNING & CONTROL
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Zeyuan Liu, Zhulin Qi, Xiufeng Ni, Mengting Dong, Mengying Ma, Wenbo Xue, Qingyu Zhang, Jinnan Wang
Summary: The study identified key factors promoting the collaborative reduction of ozone and PM2.5 in China through machine learning and statistical analysis, filling a gap in environmental management in China.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Xiaohui Liu, Yu Chong, Danyang Di, Guoxiang Li
Summary: This article examines the impact of digital financial development on the synergistic reduction of pollution and carbon emissions. The study finds that digital financial development can significantly improve the synergistic reduction of pollution and carbon emissions, but this requires support from external environmental concerns. The key transmission mechanism lies in the dual guidance of digital finance development toward biased technical change, inducing the synergistic reduction of pollution and carbon emissions. The synergistic effect of digital finance development on pollution and carbon reduction depends on regional development endowments.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Armita Khorsandi, Liping Li
Summary: Although air pollution has decreased in many cities during the COVID-19 pandemic, addressing the high levels of air pollution in Tehran remains a challenge. This study proposes a mathematical model, called the ERAM model, to reduce air pollution without requiring citizen participation or additional costs.
FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
(2023)
Review
Environmental Sciences
Richard Fuller, Philip J. Landrigan, Kalpana Balakrishnan, Glynda Bathan, Stephan Bose-O'Reilly, Michael Brauer, Jack Caravanos, Tom Chiles, Aaron Cohen, Lilian Corra, Maureen Cropper, Greg Ferraro, Jill Hanna, David Hanrahan, Howard Hu, David Hunter, Gloria Janata, Rachael Kupka, Bruce Lanphear, Maureen Lichtveld, Keith Martin, Adetoun Mustapha, Ernesto Sanchez-Triana, Karti Sandilya, Laura Schaefli, Joseph Shaw, Jessica Seddon, William Suk, Martha Maria Tellez-Rojo, Chonghuai Yan
Summary: The Lancet Commission on pollution and health reported that pollution was responsible for 9 million premature deaths in 2015, making it the world's largest environmental risk factor for disease and premature death. Updated data from 2019 shows that pollution is still responsible for approximately 9 million deaths per year, with reductions in some types of pollution offset by increases in others. Despite efforts, little progress has been made in addressing pollution, particularly in low-income and middle-income countries.
LANCET PLANETARY HEALTH
(2022)