Article
Environmental Sciences
Noman Mustafa, Muhammad MansoorAsghar, Rozeia Mustafa, Zahoor Ahmed, Husam Rjoub, Rafael Alvarado
Summary: The study reveals that a proactive corporate environmental strategy predicts corporate environmental performance through green product innovation. Moreover, the moderating effect of organizational structure on the relationship between proactive corporate environmental strategy and green product innovation is significant in small firms.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Fengjiao Wu, Wei Wang, Junguo Hong, Yanmin Pan
Summary: The study finds that decentralized environmental governance has a negative impact on green development, and industrial upgrading plays a mediating role in this process. The rising level of environmental decentralization in surrounding areas weakens the green development in the region, and it also has an overall negative spillover effect on neighboring areas' green development.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Ecology
Yolanda van Heezik, Claire Freeman, Alice Falloon, Yvette Buttery, Audrey Heyzer
Summary: The study found that childhood nature exposure (CNE) did not have a significant impact on the time adults spent in nature, landscape preferences, biodiversity exposure, nature connection, and willingness to engage in pro-environmental behaviors (PEB), based on analysis of two data sets.
LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING
(2021)
Article
Environmental Studies
Qilong Wan, Xiaodong Miao, Sahar Afshan
Summary: This study investigates the role of natural resources, green financing, and environmental regulations in reducing carbon emissions in China. The findings suggest that effective management of natural resources, green investment, and implementation of carbon taxes can significantly improve environmental quality and sustainability.
Article
Environmental Studies
Yunming Kuang, Boqiang Lin
Summary: This study empirically investigates the impact of China's Atmosphere Ten Articles (ATA) policy on the green economic efficiency of Chinese cities. The findings suggest that the ATA policy has a significant and negative effect on green economic efficiency, particularly in regions with low natural gas utilization density. These findings provide new insights into the relationship between environmental policy, resource utilization, and green economic development.
Article
Oceanography
S. Taljaard, J. H. Slinger, S. Arabi, S. P. Weerts, H. Vreugdenhil
Summary: This paper suggests changing the conceptual position of the natural environment in port development from a 'green handbrake' to an 'equal partner', and establishes a framework for Integrated Port Management (IPM) that emphasizes the importance of considering the natural environment early in port development and achieving multi-use benefits from the natural environment in the operations and maintenance phases.
OCEAN & COASTAL MANAGEMENT
(2021)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Anam Tariq, Arshad Hassan
Summary: This study extensively analyzes the impact of green finance, renewable energy, environmental regulations, and carbon finance on environmental sustainability. The results show a significant impact of green finance and renewable energy, while carbon finance has no significant effect. Environmental regulations play a moderating role in promoting a sustainable environment. The study confirms the presence of an inverted U-shaped Environmental Kuznets Curve and emphasizes the importance of green finance in fitting the curve. Long-term green finance projects and the implications of environmental regulations are recommended for ensuring environmental sustainability.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Qian Zhang, Dian Zhou, Duo Xu, Jiayin Cheng, Alessandro Rogora
Summary: The physical indicators of green space have a significant impact on its thermal environment, and the results of this study are important for urban planning and policy making.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Junting Zhou, Xuewei Yu, Xue Chen
Summary: This paper examines the impact of urban environmental legislation on green total factor energy efficiency (GTFEE) by analyzing the unique perspective of local environmental regulations in Chinese prefecture-level cities from 2000 to 2018. The results indicate that implementing environmental legislation significantly improves local GTFEE, with comprehensive protection regulations contributing more to energy efficiency improvements compared to pollution prevention regulations. The study suggests that environmental legislation can guide urban green transition through industrial upgrading and technological innovation, and regulations with higher regulatory effectiveness have a greater potential for energy saving. Additionally, the impact of environmental legislation on improving GTFEE is more significant in cities in non-old industrial bases, with less frequent turnover of officials, and in central and western regions in China.
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Yaqing Han, Yushui Li, Qiangqiang Wang
Summary: In the face of the contradiction between economic development and the ecological environment, promoting green development has become crucial for sustainable economic growth. Digital finance, as an innovative financial model integrating finance and digital technology, offers new opportunities for achieving green development. This research examines the mechanisms of digital finance and environmental regulation on green development efficiency, measures the efficiency of green development in 30 provinces of China from 2011 to 2020, and analyzes the relationships among digital finance, environmental regulation, and green development efficiency using a dynamic panel GMM model. The findings show that digital finance contributes to the efficiency improvement of green development, while environmental regulation still has a dampening effect on green development efficiency. However, the synergy between digital finance and environmental regulation has a positive impact on green development, and digital finance helps alleviate financing constraints caused by environmental regulation and weakens its negative effect on green development efficiency. Thus, the government should leverage the active role of digital finance in eco-environmental governance, optimize the top-level design of environmental regulation, and promote industrial structure upgrading and optimal allocation of financial resources.
FRONTIERS IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Yinthe Dockx, Martin Taubel, Esmee M. Bijnens, Katrien Witters, Maria Valkonen, Balamuralikrishna Jayaprakash, Janneke Hogervorst, Tim S. Nawrot, Lidia Casas
Summary: The study revealed significant associations between nearby residential green space and indoor microbial diversity, with different impacts on bacterial and fungal diversity depending on the type of green space. Further research is required to explore the specific microbial taxa compositions underlying these changes and their potential health benefits.
ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Endocrinology & Metabolism
Peng Jia, Xinxi Cao, Hongxi Yang, Shaoqing Dai, Pan He, Ganlin Huang, Tong Wu, Yaogang Wang
Summary: Access to green space is positively associated with physical activity and weight status, while negatively associated with television-watching time, BMI, and weight status among children. Distance to the nearest green space, often measured by GIS, is commonly used to represent access to green space, yet a clear conclusion on the association between access to green space and BMI remains elusive. Longitudinal studies are needed to determine the causal association between access to green space and weight status.
Article
Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
Zhe Wang, Yin-Pei Teng, Shuzhao Wu, Huangxin Chen
Summary: This research explores the impacts and mechanisms of green finance on the green development space in China using panel data from 30 provinces and municipalities. The findings show that green finance significantly expands the green development space of the economy and society, with ecological environment improvement playing a crucial mediating and regulating role. The effect of green finance on the expansion of the green development space is the largest in the eastern region, followed by the northeastern region, and the smallest in the central and western regions. Additionally, green finance has a stronger positive effect in regions with higher urbanization levels, government fiscal expenditure levels, foreign investment levels, and advanced industrial structures.
Article
Development Studies
Siyu Ren, Yu Hao, Haitao Wu
Summary: In the era of information economy, the integration of the internet and traditional industries is driving the world economy towards a more innovative, smarter, and greener direction. Research has shown that internet development can significantly reduce local environmental pollution and also environmental pollution in neighboring areas. Internet development primarily affects environmental pollution through improving technological innovation, industrial upgrading, human capital, and financial development.
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT
(2023)
Article
Environmental Studies
Mucahit Aydin, Yasin Sogut, Mehmet Emin Altundemir
Summary: This study analyzes the relationship between ecological footprint, environmental protection expenditures, environmental taxes, natural resources rents, and economic growth for 20 European Union (EU) countries from 1995 to 2018 within the context of the environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis. The results show that the hypothesis is valid only for Austria, the Netherlands, Poland, and Slovenia. Increased environmental protection expenditures lead to a decrease in the ecological footprint for Italy and Slovenia, while environmental taxes reduce the ecological footprint for Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia. The study suggests that environmental protection policies in EU countries need to be revised.
Article
Neurosciences
Soukayna Bekkali, George J. Youssef, Peter H. Donaldson, Jason He, Michael Do, Christian Hyde, Pamela Barhoun, Peter G. Enticott
Summary: This study confirmed that gaze fixation can modulate interpersonal motor resonance (IMR), with stronger effects observed when fixations occurred in biologically relevant areas. However, this effect was not consistently observed across different experimental blocks.
SOCIAL COGNITIVE AND AFFECTIVE NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Isabella S. Bower, Aron T. Hill, Peter G. Enticott
Summary: Understanding the impact of design characteristics of the built environment on brain function is crucial for understanding cognitive processes and mental health. This study found that the scale and color of interior built environments can modulate brain connectivity, potentially affecting cognitive processes and mental health outcomes.
HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Biological
Jarrad A. G. Lum, Gillian M. Clark, Pamela Barhoun, Aron T. Hill, Christian Hyde, Peter H. Wilson
Summary: Implicit sequence learning refers to the acquisition of serially ordered movements and sequentially structured cognitive information without awareness. The study found that in the domain of manual sequence learning, a decrease in theta power may reflect disengagement of attentional resources, which is associated with implicit motor sequence learning.
Article
Family Studies
Clare Nowell, Jennifer H. Pfeifer, Peter Enticott, Tim Silk, Nandita Vijayakumar
Summary: Self-disclosure plays a crucial role in developing close interpersonal relationships during adolescence, especially when sharing deeper levels of information with close individuals. This strengthens social bonds and supports mental wellbeing.
JOURNAL OF RESEARCH ON ADOLESCENCE
(2023)
Editorial Material
Clinical Neurology
Natalia Albein-Urios, Lara Fernandez, Aron Hill, Melissa Kirkovski, Peter G. Enticott
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Kaila M. Bianco, Ian Fuelscher, Jarrad A. G. Lum, Mervyn Singh, Peter G. Enticott, Karen Caeyenberghs, Christian Hyde
Summary: Functional neuroimaging consistently suggests the involvement of the fronto-basal ganglia-cerebellar circuit in procedural learning. This study investigates the role of white matter fiber pathways connecting regions within this network in explaining individual differences in procedural learning. The results show a positive relationship between fiber density in certain segments of the superior cerebellar peduncles and the rebound effect on the serial reaction time task, suggesting the importance of white matter organization in the basal ganglia-cerebellar circuit for individual differences in procedural learning.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Yichao Wang, Mallery Crowe, Luke D. Knibbs, Matthew Fuller-Tyszkiewicz, Laerke Mygind, Jessica A. Kerr, Melissa Wake, Craig A. Olsson, Peter G. Enticott, Rachel L. Peters, Galina Daraganova, Suzanne Mavoa, Kate Lycett
Summary: Exposure to ambient air pollution is associated with reduced cognitive function, while residential greenness is associated with enhanced cognitive function. This study examines the effects of air pollution and greenness on cognitive function in adolescents and mid-life adults. The results show associations between air pollution and cognitive function in both generations, while greenness does not appear to have a strong effect. These findings highlight the importance of regulating air pollution and increasing green spaces for cognitive health.
ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION
(2023)
Article
Neurosciences
Jarrad A. G. Lum, Linda K. Byrne, Pamela Barhoun, Christian Hyde, Aron T. Hill, Peter G. Enticott, Gillian M. Clark
Summary: Neuroimaging resting state paradigms have revealed that there is synchronised oscillatory activity present even without completing a task or mental operation. This activity likely optimises the brain's sensitivity to upcoming information and promotes subsequent learning and memory outcomes. The current study explored whether this extends to implicit forms of learning and found a negative correlation between implicit sequence learning and resting state power in the upper theta band.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Construction & Building Technology
Mostafa Mir, Farnad Nasirzadeh, Hannah Bereznicki, Peter Enticott, SangHyun Lee, Anthony Mills
Summary: Construction noise in urban areas is a major issue causing noise pollution. This study used physiological data to investigate the impact of construction noise on human health. It identified the effects of different construction noise types, levels, and exposure durations on heart rate parameters and respiratory activity.
SUSTAINABLE CITIES AND SOCIETY
(2023)
Article
Pediatrics
Trine Flensborg-Madsen, Erik Lykke Mortensen, Jesper Dammeyer, Cathrine Lawaetz Wimmelmann
Summary: This study investigated the association between infants' age at attaining motor developmental milestones and the big five personality traits 50 years later. The results showed that slower attainment of motor milestones was associated with increased neuroticism and lower conscientiousness in midlife. These findings suggest that delays in early motor development may be associated with personality traits such as neuroticism and conscientiousness through the life course.
Article
Environmental Studies
Laerke Mygind, Gillian M. Clark, Felicity J. Bigelow, Matthew Fuller-Tyszkiewicz, Luke D. Knibbs, Suzanne Mavoa, Trine Flensborg-Madsen, Peter Bentsen, Jarrad Lum, Peter G. Enticott
Summary: Human social cognition is important for social behaviors and integration. Greenery around the home may promote social skills in children. This study found that vegetation cover was associated with theory of mind, but not affect recognition, in children.
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Environmental Studies
Laerke Mygind, Christopher Greenwood, Primrose Letcher, Suzanne Mavoa, Kate Lycett, Yichao Wang, Trine Flensborg-Madsen, Peter Bentsen, Jacqui A. Macdonald, Kimberly Thomson, Delyse Hutchinson, Craig A. Olsson, Peter G. Enticott
Summary: This study investigated the relationship between natural availability and early nurturing parenting practices, mother-infant bonding, and infant socioemotional function. The results showed no significant associations between residential greenness and parenting practices, mother-infant bonding, or infant socioemotional function. However, shorter distances to a park were associated with less hostile parenting, and more residential greenness was related to stronger father-infant bonding and more hostile parenting among the most stressed parents.
ENVIRONMENT AND BEHAVIOR
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Clinical
Lauren M. Francis, Christopher J. Greenwood, Peter G. Enticott, Kayla A. Mansour, Imogene Smith, Liam G. Graeme, Craig A. Olsson, Jeannette Milgrom, Helen Skouteris, Jacqui A. Macdonald
Summary: A study found that father's anger trait can affect their ability to understand their own and others' mental states, which may impact their father-infant bonding and caregiving involvement. The study also found that the relationship between anger trait and father-infant bonding quality is mediated by the father's mentalizing capacities.