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Environmental Sciences
Tomas Balezentis, Mindaugas Butkus, Dalia Streimikiene
Summary: The agricultural production is crucial for food provision and income in rural areas. This study analyzes the agricultural energy productivity in EU Member States during 2005-2019, finding the need for attention and policy development in this area. The results show stable differences between clusters of countries, suggesting the importance of cohesive policies for homogeneous groups.
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
(2023)
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Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Min Liu, Zhonglu Chen, James Karmoh Sowah Jr, Zahoor Ahmed, Dervis Kirikkaleli
Summary: This study examines the effects of energy productivity, economic growth, and globalization on CO2 emissions in Southern European countries. The results show that energy productivity reduces CO2 emissions, while economic growth and globalization increase CO2 emissions. Therefore, policymakers in Southern European countries should consider the impact of energy efficiency when setting their environmental, growth, and energy policies.
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Engineering, Environmental
Benjamin Hofmann, Karin Ingold, Christian Stamm, Priska Ammann, Rik I. L. Eggen, Robert Finger, Samuel Fuhrimann, Judit Lienert, Jennifer Mark, Chloe McCallum, Nicole Probst-Hensch, Ueli Reber, Lucius Tamm, Milena Wiget, Mirko S. Winkler, Lucca Zachmann, Sabine Hoffmann
Summary: The article criticizes the calls for more and better research to support sustainability, arguing that these calls are based on an incomplete understanding of scientific evidence use. The authors identify a variety of barriers to the transformative impact of evidence, which arise from diverse actor motivations at different stages of evidence use. They focus on the sustainability challenge of reducing environmental and human health risks of agricultural pesticides, and propose context-specific measures to increase evidence use for sustainable transformation.
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Economics
Ning Zhu, Justas Streimikis, Zhiqian Yu, Tomas Balezentis
Summary: This paper examines the importance of energy use in agriculture for modernization and productivity. However, it also highlights the unintended consequences of increased energy intensity.
SOCIO-ECONOMIC PLANNING SCIENCES
(2023)
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Biodiversity Conservation
Hai Qi, Zhiliang Dong, Xinshang You, Yu Li, Yiran Zhao, Xiaotian Sun
Summary: The agricultural sector in Hebei Province has faced challenges in balancing resource consumption, environmental impacts, and yields. With the help of extended exergy accounting, it has experienced a transformation from traditional to modern practices. This accounting method can assist in identifying resource depletion and environmental costs, promoting sustainable development in other regions or industries.
ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS
(2023)
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Agronomy
Romeo Victor Ionescu, Monica Laura Zlati, Valentin Marian Antohi
Summary: The research aims to quantify the vulnerabilities of EU agricultural evolution and evaluate viable agricultural development solutions in the current unfavorable context. The methods used include literature review and econometric modeling to analyze branch efficiency and effectiveness indicators.
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Business
Justas Streimikis, Zhuang Miao, Tomas Balezentis
Summary: This paper analyzes the energy efficiency and productivity growth in the agriculture of the European Union. The average annual productivity growth of 0.79% was obtained for the selected countries during 1995-2016, with Lithuania, Denmark, Belgium, and Romania showing the highest productivity gains. The productivity growth related to GHG emission dominated the contributions by the input/output variables in several countries.
BUSINESS STRATEGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
(2021)
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Environmental Studies
Artiom Volkov, Mangirdas Morkunas, Tomas Balezentis, Dalia Streimikiene
Summary: This study investigates the relationship between sustainability and resilience concepts in agriculture. The empirical analysis challenges existing insights by focusing on Northern European countries. The results suggest that the correlation between sustainability and economic resilience indicators is weak, but increases when considering first-order differences.
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Chantal M. J. Hendriks, Vaibhav Shrivastava, Ivona Sigurnjak, Jan Peter Lesschen, Erik Meers, Rembert van Noort, Zhongchen Yang, Rene P. J. J. Rietra
Summary: This study analyzes the environmental and agronomic effects of different bio-based fertilisers (BBFs) on potato growing in sandy soil. The study finds that the refinement level of BBFs influences nitrogen release rate, greenhouse gas emissions, and nutrient fertiliser replacement value. However, there is no significant difference in potato yield between BBFs and mineral fertilisers. Promoting the adoption of BBFs requires solving practical issues, ensuring legal substitution of mineral fertilisers, and reducing the surplus of slurry manure.
APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL
(2022)
Article
Thermodynamics
Fotios Kalantzis, Hanna Niczyporuk
Summary: Energy efficiency investments are crucial for a carbon-neutral economy, but many opportunities remain unrealized. This study reveals that firms often overlook non-energy benefits, such as increased labor productivity, while focusing on direct energy savings. By analyzing data from a large-scale survey of European firms, this paper establishes a positive and causal relationship between energy efficiency investments and labor productivity. The findings highlight the potential benefits that firms can gain from energy efficiency investments and emphasize the importance of government policies to promote awareness of non-energy benefits.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Muntasir Murshed
Summary: This study investigates the effect of energy productivity improvement, good governance, financial development, financial globalization, and international trade on carbon productivity using data from 116 global economies. The findings demonstrate that initially, energy productivity improvement cannot decouple economic growth from environmental pollution, but later on, effective energy use can achieve the decoupling by boosting carbon productivity. Additionally, good governance, financial development, and international trade contribute to carbon productivity enhancement, while foreign direct investment has no significant impact. The study highlights the heterogeneity of carbon productivity influencing factors across countries based on income, carbon productivity, energy productivity, governance, and regional locations. The results suggest that countries with higher energy productivity and good governance are more likely to achieve growth decoupling from environmental pollution, and recommend decoupling policies based on these findings.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
(2023)
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Business
Romeo -Victor Ionescu, Monica Laura Zlati, Valentin -Marian Antohi, Irina Olimpia Susanu, Nicoleta Cristache
Summary: Energy security is an essential aspect in the current geo-political context, and it plays a crucial role in directing supranational strategies and policies, particularly at the European Union level. This study aims to analyze the sustainability objectives in the energy sector by examining the dynamics of key indicators over an 11-year period. The research highlights the importance of renewable energy as a new source of support for regional economic development within the European Union, especially in the face of economic and socio-economic vulnerabilities induced by crises and other events.
TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE
(2022)
Editorial Material
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Alison Bentley
Summary: Russia's war has brought attention to the vulnerability of the global food supply, emphasizing the need for sustained investment to ensure food security in a changing climate.
Article
Food Science & Technology
Petros Chatzimpiros, Souhil Harchaoui
Summary: By simulating the upper limits of global feeding capacity and nitrogen pollution under organic and industrial fertilization regimes, it was found that the current agricultural area could feed around 8-20 billion people under unconstrained industrial fertilization and approximately 3-14 billion under organic fertilization. These ranges are influenced by the amount of animal proteins in human diets, feed-food competition, grassland-to-cropland allocation, and nitrogen use efficiency under organic fertilization.
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Miseldra Gil-Marin, Alejandro Vega-Munoz, Nicolas Contreras-Barraza, Guido Salazar-Sepulveda, Sandra Vera-Ruiz, Analia Veronica Losada
Summary: This review article discusses the progress of the sustainability accounting concept in academic literature by examining previous studies. The study finds that there is a lack of consistent terminology in sustainability accounting among businesses, academia, and regulatory bodies. This complicates the disclosure of activities related to sustainability development goals.
Article
Business
Josep M. Argiles-Bosch, Josep Garcia-Blandon, Diego Ravenda
Summary: This empirical research examines the flexibility of operating costs for e-commerce firms compared to traditional retail firms. The study finds that e-commerce firms have a different cost structure with lower labor costs and cost of goods sold, but higher other operating costs. The research also shows that e-commerce firms are more flexible in adjusting other operating costs when activity decreases.
ELECTRONIC COMMERCE RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Business, Finance
Josep Ma Argiles-Bosch, Josep Garcia-Blandon, Diego Ravenda
Summary: This study empirically analyzes the relationship between labor cost stickiness and the decrease in employment protection in the Spanish labor reforms. The results show that labor costs became less sticky after the reforms.
ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE
(2023)
Article
Economics
Josep Garcia-Blandon, Josep Maria Argiles-Bosch, Diego Ravenda, Gonzalo Rodriguez-Perez
Summary: The research suggests that gender quota regulations in Norway did not have a negative impact on firm performance, and voluntary implementation even had positive effects.
ECONOMIC RESEARCH-EKONOMSKA ISTRAZIVANJA
(2022)
Article
Business, Finance
Josep M. Argiles-Bosch, Josep Garcia-Blandon, Diego Ravenda
Summary: This research examines the convenience and consequences of the ANECA criteria for evaluating the research of accounting academics in Spain. The study finds that accounting scholars in Spain face more difficulties in publishing compared to scholars in other fields. Most successful Spanish academics who publish in top international accounting journals collaborate with foreign authors from institutions in the USA or UK, and their research focuses on international settings and topics. The Spanish accreditation regulation emphasizes this pattern, which may have serious implications for the survival of the accounting discipline in Spain and research on Spanish-specific topics.
REVISTA DE CONTABILIDAD-SPANISH ACCOUNTING REVIEW
(2023)
Article
Business, Finance
Forrest Fabian Jesse, Carla Antonini, Mercedes Luque-Vilchez
Summary: This paper proposes the use of artificial neural networks to design a circularity accounting network, which tracks CO2 emissions and sequestration along global supply chains and visualizes the level of circularity of products. The network connects users at different levels and contributes to the underexplored potential of AI in circular economy accounting.
REVISTA DE CONTABILIDAD-SPANISH ACCOUNTING REVIEW
(2023)
Article
Ergonomics
Josep M. Argiles-Bosch, Josep Garcia-Blandon, Diego Ravenda
Summary: This article presents empirical research that demonstrates a negative relationship between workplace accidents and financial performance, with a stronger impact on performance in the following year. The study provides consistent results across various industries and sample sizes, while also offering refined analyses of the curvilinear relationship and robust widespread inference for a large number of industries.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND ERGONOMICS
(2022)
Article
Business, Finance
Carla Antonini, Wioleta Olczak, Dennis M. Patten
Summary: The study reveals that, during the Trump presidency in the United States, the extent of climate change disclosure in standalone CSR reports for most large U.S. companies did not change significantly. However, companies headquartered in states strongly supporting Trump showed more negative changes in disclosure, while companies in carbon intensive industries showed more positive changes.
Article
Business, Finance
Josep Garcia-Blandon, Josep Maria Argiles-Bosch, Diego Ravenda, David Castillo-Merino
Summary: The study found that the positive relationship between auditor-provided tax services (APTS) and tax avoidance observed in the US does not hold in the Spanish market. This has potentially interesting implications at both theoretical and practical levels.
SPANISH JOURNAL OF FINANCE AND ACCOUNTING-REVISTA ESPANOLA DE FINANCIACION Y CONTABILIDA
(2021)
Article
Business, Finance
Josep Garcia-Blandon, Josep Maria Argiles-Bosch, Diego Ravenda
REVISTA DE CONTABILIDAD-SPANISH ACCOUNTING REVIEW
(2020)
Article
Business, Finance
Carla Antonini, Cornelia Beck, Carlos Larrinaga
ACCOUNTING AUDITING & ACCOUNTABILITY JOURNAL
(2020)
Article
Business, Finance
Josep Garcia-Blandon, Josep Maria Argiles, Diego Ravenda
ACCOUNTING IN EUROPE
(2020)
Article
Business
Josep Garcia-Blandon, Josep M. Argiles-Bosch, Diego Ravenda
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT
(2019)
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Business, Finance
Diego Ravenda, Maika M. Valencia-Silva, Josep M. Argiles-Bosch, Josep Garcia-Blandon
CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON ACCOUNTING
(2019)
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Business
Josep Garcia-Blandon, Josep Maria Argiles-Bosch, Diego Ravenda
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS RESEARCH
(2019)
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Management
Josep M. Argiles-Bosch, Josep Garcia-Blandon, Diego Ravenda, Monica Martinez-Blasco
JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT CONTROL
(2018)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Lars odegaard Bentsen, Narada Dilp Warakagoda, Roy Stenbro, Paal Engelstad
Summary: This study investigates uncertainty modeling in wind power forecasting using different parametric and non-parametric methods. Johnson's SU distribution is found to outperform Gaussian distributions in predicting wind power. This research contributes to the literature by introducing Johnson's SU distribution as a candidate for probabilistic wind forecasting.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2024)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Xing Liu, Qiuchen Wang, Yunhao Wen, Long Li, Xinfang Zhang, Yi Wang
Summary: This study analyzes the characteristics of process parameters in three lean gas ethane recovery processes and establishes a prediction and multiobjective optimization model for ethane recovery and system energy consumption. A new method for comparing ethane recovery processes for lean gas is proposed, and the addition of extra coolers improves the ethane recovery. The support vector regression model based on grey wolf optimization demonstrates the highest prediction accuracy, and the multiobjective multiverse optimization algorithm shows the best optimization performance and diversity in the solutions.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2024)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Cairong Song, Haidong Yang, Xian-Bing Meng, Pan Yang, Jianyang Cai, Hao Bao, Kangkang Xu
Summary: The paper proposes a novel deep learning-based prediction framework, aTCN-LSTM, for accurate cooling load predictions. The framework utilizes a gate-controlled multi-head temporal convolutional network and a sparse probabilistic self-attention mechanism with a bidirectional long short-term memory network to capture both temporal and long-term dependencies in the cooling load sequences. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness and superiority of the proposed method, which can serve as an effective guide for HVAC chiller scheduling and demand management initiatives.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2024)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Zhe Chen, Xiaojing Li, Xianli Xia, Jizhou Zhang
Summary: This study uses survey data from the Loess Plateau in China to evaluate the impact of social interaction on the adoption of soil and water conservation (SWC) technology by farmers. The study finds that social interaction increases the likelihood of farmers adopting SWC, and internet use moderates this effect. The positive impact of social interaction on SWC adoption is more pronounced for farmers in larger villages and those who join cooperative societies.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2024)
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Chenghua Zhang, Yunfei Yan, Kaiming Shen, Zongguo Xue, Jingxiang You, Yonghong Wu, Ziqiang He
Summary: This paper reports a novel method that significantly improves combustion performance, including heat transfer enhancement under steady-state conditions and adaptive stable flame regulation under velocity sudden increase.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2024)
