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Environmental Sciences
Shuyang Chen, Gang Xie
Summary: The growth of green finance, which involves the interaction of the economy, environment, and finance sector, relies on factors such as educational spending, technological advancement, and the impact of GDP per capita and health expenditure. University scientists play a crucial role in raising awareness about environmental problems and leading the development of interdisciplinary solutions. This research examines the effects of various factors on the growth of renewable energy in G7 economies.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Energy & Fuels
Gloria Rodriguez-Lozano, Michael Cifuentes-Yate
Summary: This study evaluates the efficiency of electricity generation from renewable and non-renewable energy sources in 126 countries from 2000 to 2016. The results show that many countries are efficient in electricity production, with Oceanian countries performing the best among evaluated countries.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENERGY RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Energy & Fuels
Richard Cabrera-Jimenez, Josep M. Mateo-Sanz, Jordi Gavalda, Laureano Jimenez, Carlos Pozo
Summary: This article analyzes the performance of 72 different biofuels routes based on 12 indicators covering the economic, environmental, and social dimensions. Results show that renewable diesel is a better option than ethanol-based blends or biodiesel, and waste biomass is preferred over cellulosic biomass or bio-oils. The selection of the carbon source is the most important decision and regional factors related to soil and climate should be considered.
Editorial Material
Chemistry, Physical
Chris Greig, David Keto, Scott Hobart, Benjamin Finch, Ryan Winkler
Summary: David Keto is the managing principal of SRI Group, Scott Hobart is the chief investment officer at Mercator Partners, Benjamin Finch is an undergraduate senior in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Princeton University, and Ryan Winkler is an undergraduate junior in the Department of Economics at Princeton University.
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Fairuz Suzana Mohd Chachuli, Norasikin Ahmad Ludin, Muhamad Alias Md Jedi, Norul Hisham Hamid
Summary: Using DEA and MI methods, this study evaluates the impact of renewable energy policy transitions on efficiency and social benefits in Malaysia, with results showing the highest efficiency in East Malaysia, fluctuations in renewable energy efficiency during policy transitions, and significant social benefits created in the solar photovoltaic industry.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2021)
Article
Environmental Studies
Weiwei Wang, Pengpeng Gao, Jiahaoran Wang
Summary: This research examines the impact of digital finance and renewable energy investment on carbon neutrality using panel data of Chinese companies in 30 provinces from 2005 to 2020. The study finds that inclusive digital financing can directly reduce carbon intensity and also influence it through improving industrial structure, resource efficiency, and promoting green technologies. The marginal impact of digital financing is smaller for large enterprises (larger for small firms), reflecting the challenges small businesses face in accessing finance. Digital finance opens new funding avenues for these businesses to achieve sustainability. The inclusiveness of digital financing, compared to traditional banking, can enhance private businesses' green innovation.
Article
Energy & Fuels
Junwen Yang, Bin Chen
Summary: This study evaluated the energy efficiency of municipal wastewater treatment plants in China using data envelopment analysis, revealing regional differences in energy efficiency and pollutant emissions levels. It emphasizes the importance of increasing technical efficiency in wastewater treatment industries.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Lena Klaassen, Bjarne Steffen
Summary: Reaching net zero GHG emissions requires significant investments in low-carbon infrastructure. To redirect finance flows, sustainable finance regulation is emphasized by the European Union. However, there is a lack of understanding of the specific investment shifts needed, which may hinder the development of crucial technologies. A meta-analysis reveals the substantial investment shifts required for climate-relevant infrastructure until 2035, especially in power plants, electricity grids, and rail infrastructure. These findings emphasize the importance of sustainable finance policies that consider the financing structures of these sectors.
NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE
(2023)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Ka Yin Chau, Massoud Moslehpour, Yu-Te Tu, Nguyen Tan Tai, Nguyen Hoang Tien, Pham Quang Huy
Summary: This article reports on an empirical investigation into the impact of green energy exploration and consumption on the sustainability of natural resources in G7 countries. The results show a positive relationship between green energy and the sustainability of natural resources. This study has both theoretical and practical significance for policy formulation and implementation regarding natural resource sustainability.
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Jie Liu, Yali Zheng, Xing Hu, Shiwei Yu
Summary: This study develops a new method to evaluate the renewable energy efficiency of Chinese provinces, considering the interactions among economic, social, and environmental subsystems. The study found that the renewable energy efficiency shows a V-shaped change over time and further improvement requires reducing investment and waste production while increasing GDP and environmental quality.
ENERGY FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
(2023)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Sinan Erdogan, Ugur Korkut Pata, Sakiru Adebola Solarin
Summary: This study examines the influence of renewable energy investments and technologies on carbon neutrality goals in G7 countries. The findings indicate that renewable energy investments and technologies help reduce carbon emissions, while economic growth and governance indicators have no effect on carbon emissions. The study suggests increasing investments in renewable energy and promoting clean technologies to achieve carbon neutrality targets.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2023)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Mirian Bortoluzzi, Marcelo Furlan, Jose Francisco dos Reis Neto
Summary: This study evaluated the environmental impact of 53 hydro-electric power plant projects in Brazil using DEA and ANN techniques, finding that Large Hydropower Plant projects had the worst environmental impact. The neural models used in this study achieved a high level of accuracy for predicting and classifying the environmental impact of hydroelectric projects.
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Qiang Wang, Feng Jiang, Rongrong Li
Summary: This article proposes a supply chain green degree assessment method based on a multi-regional input-output model and data envelopment analysis. The method integrates economic and environmental factors and measures the green-degree of global supply chains. The results show that the current global supply chains have a low green-degree, but emerging developing economies' supply chains are becoming cleaner.
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Economics
Qi-Cheng Yang, Mingbo Zheng, Jun-Sheng Wang, Yun-Peng Wang
Summary: This research examines the impact of armed conflicts on renewable energy finance using cross-country panel data and linear and non-linear regression techniques. The results show that armed conflicts have a negative shock on renewable energy finance, with the intensity of this impact depending on the level of economic development and renewable energy investment. Heterogeneous effects on wind, geothermal, and solar energy finance are observed. The study also indicates that armed conflicts reduce green innovation through renewable energy finance.
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
S. Bhatnagar, D. Sharma
Summary: This study conducts a bibliometric analysis to explore the growth and academic evolution of the concept of Green Finance (GF) and identifies its enablers. The study contributes to the literature on GF and provides scope for further research in this field.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2022)
Article
Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism
Ka Yin Chau, Jingjing Zheng, Dasen Yang, Huawen Shen, Ting Liu
Summary: This paper investigates the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on China's tourism industry, and provides a reference by evaluating the success of the China model in tourism crisis management.
JOURNAL OF CHINA TOURISM RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Computer Science, Information Systems
Yuk Ming Tang, Ka Yin Chau, Yun Kit Ip, Jiaxin Ji
Summary: This study investigates the relationship between customer integration, information sharing, and supply chain performance in China's community-based homestays. The findings suggest that both customer integration and information sharing have positive direct and indirect effects on supply chain performance. The study contributes to a better understanding of supply chain management activities in community-based homestays and provides meaningful theoretical and practical insights for practitioners.
ENTERPRISE INFORMATION SYSTEMS
(2023)
Article
Mathematical & Computational Biology
Fengsheng Chien, Hassan Saberi Nik, Mohammad Shirazian, J. F. Gomez-Aguilar
Summary: This paper investigates the stability analysis of an SEIRV model with nonlinear incidence rates and discusses the significance of control factors in disease transmission. The use of Volterra-Lyapunov matrices enables the study of global stability at the endemic equilibrium point. Additionally, an optimal control strategy is proposed to prevent the spread of coronavirus, aiming to minimize the number of infected and exposed individuals as well as treatment costs. Numerical simulations are conducted to further examine the analytical findings.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOMATHEMATICS
(2024)
Review
Environmental Sciences
Xiaoyun Liu, Ka-Yin Chau, Xiaoxiao Liu, Yan Wan
Summary: In order to reduce the burden of an increasing elderly population and provide efficient service resources, scholars worldwide have proposed and applied smart elderly care. This paper summarizes the hotspots of existing literature and explores the research frontiers for future studies. A scientometric analysis was conducted using CiteSpace software on high-quality literature from the China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) and the Web of Science (WOS). The results highlight six research hotspots in CNKI and 11 research themes in WOS, as well as three major evolution stages and three future research directions for smart elderly care research. This paper provides a comprehensive overview of smart elderly care literature from two major global databases, offering valuable insights for healthcare policy designers, practitioners, and developers to enhance the quality of life for elderly people.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH
(2023)
Article
Energy & Fuels
Fengsheng Chien, Muhammad Sadiq, Li Li, Arshian Sharif
Summary: Energy poverty remains a critical global challenge, posing a risk to billions of lives across all economies, particularly in developing and underdeveloped economies. More than 1 billion people are still without access to electricity, and about 2.7 billion rely on non-renewable resources for cooking. This study examines the effectiveness of sustainable energy and utility, natural resource utilization, and waste management in reducing energy poverty, focusing on South Asian economies from 2011 to 2020. The findings indicate that renewable energy output and consumption, natural resource utilization, waste management, inflation, and industrialization are positively linked to reducing energy poverty, providing an empirical baseline for future research in other countries facing similar challenges.
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Yuk Ming Tang, Ka Yin Chau, Yui-yip Lau, Zehang Zheng
Summary: Building an adaptive, flexible, resilient, and reliable inventory management system is crucial for cross-border e-commerce, as it ensures a steady supply of products, meets changing customer demands, and enables automation of e-commerce services. This study conducts intensive data collection and establishes an AI-based forecasting framework to optimize inventory management. The XGBoost method shows the best performance in accuracy and computation time. The research findings have practical implications for implementing algorithms in other e-commerce enterprises and highlight the current trend of logistics 4.0 solutions.
APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL
(2023)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
FengSheng Chien, Ching-Chi Hsu, Massoud Moslehpour, Muhammad Sadiq, Bushra Tufail, Thanh Quang Ngo
Summary: The achievement of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is highly challenging for countries, especially due to widespread pollution. Environmental sustainability goals face the greatest difficulties. To address these issues, countries have implemented various measures, with technological advancements and green finance gaining importance. This study focuses on estimating the impact of technological advancements and green finance on environmental sustainability in Indonesia, using the STIRPAT model and time series data from 1995-2020. The findings reveal that Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and green finance positively contribute to environmental sustainability in both the short and long term. However, economic growth and urbanization pose serious threats to environmental sustainability, as they are positively associated with ecological footprints at different quantiles. The study recommends that the Indonesian government prioritize policies promoting green finance and ICT technologies to ensure environmental sustainability.
ENVIRONMENT DEVELOPMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY
(2023)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Fengsheng Chien, Ching-Chi Hsu, YunQian Zhang, Muhammad Sadiq
Summary: This research examines the influence of foreign direct investment, economic development, and resource utilization on carbon emissions in G-7 member countries using a unique quantile regression model. The study finds that the effect of these variables on carbon emissions varies across different quantiles. Increased energy use leads to higher emissions, particularly at higher quantiles. Financial development and population growth appear to reduce emissions in high-emission nations. The study also confirms the halo effect concept and suggests that increased trade openness may decrease environmental emissions in low- and high-emissions countries.
SUSTAINABLE ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES AND ASSESSMENTS
(2023)
Article
Environmental Studies
FengSheng Chien, Ka Yin Chau, Muhammad Sadiq
Summary: Climate degradation is a global issue, and addressing it requires focusing on climate change mitigation technologies and the efficient use of natural resources. This study examines the impact of climate mitigation technology (renewable energy production and consumption) and natural resource management (natural resource rent and depletion) on climate change (greenhouse gas emissions) in China. The findings show that renewable energy output, consumption, natural resource rent, and depletion are negatively associated with greenhouse gas emissions in China, while industrialization and population growth have a positive association. This research provides guidance for policymakers in formulating regulations related to climate change using mitigation technologies and optimizing natural resource usage.
Article
Environmental Studies
Ching-Chi Hsu, Ka Yin Chau, FengSheng Chien
Summary: Demand for natural resources is constantly growing, leading to increasing prices, which have a significant impact on financial development and economic activity. This study examines the association between natural resource volatility and financial development to provide policy recommendations for economic recovery. Analyzing data from N11 economies, the findings demonstrate that natural resource volatility affects global economic growth and government governance both pre-pandemic and during the pandemic. The study highlights the detrimental impact of natural resource volatility on global economic growth and emphasizes the importance of natural gas, oil, and public administration quality in N11 financial development. Policymakers are encouraged to address the challenges discussed and propose solutions.
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Ka Yin Chau, Tian Huang, Massoud Moslehpour, Waqas Khan, Qasim Ali Nisar, Muhammad Haris
Summary: This study examines the impact of green HR management on circular economy performance, with green innovation as a mediator and big data analytics as a moderator. Data was collected from 438 SMEs in the textile sector and evaluated using PLS-SEM functionality. The study findings indicate a significant positive impact of green HRM on circular economy performance. Green innovation and big data analytics were found to mediate and moderate this relationship, while data-driven culture did not act as a moderator. The study also proposes a theoretical connection between the resource base view theorem and absorptive capacity theory for achieving competitive advantage in circular economy performance. The findings of this study are highly valuable for SMEs in terms of implementing sustainable practices such as recycling, repair, re-use, and modularization.
ENVIRONMENT DEVELOPMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY
(2023)
Article
Environmental Studies
Ka Yin Chau, Muhammad Sadiq, FengSheng Chien
Summary: The present generation is facing the challenging effects of global warming, which are more visible and severe compared to the pre-industrial era, leading to ecological destruction. Economies are making maximum efforts to ensure a sustainable environment, particularly by the year 2050. This research examines the impact of natural resources and eco-financing on renewable energy production and achieving carbon neutrality in ten Asian countries. The results indicate that natural resources, eco-financing, economic growth, industrialization, and increased renewable energy production contribute towards achieving COP26 resolution - the carbon neutrality goal. It is suggested that Asian economies should utilize eco-financing to unlock the potential for achieving carbon neutrality.
Article
Environmental Studies
Tran Thai Ha Nguyen, Yu-Te Tu, Gia Luat Diep, Trung Kien Tran, Nguyen Hoang Tien, FengSheng Chien
Summary: The rapid advancement in economies accelerates industrial processes and amplifies the significance of natural resources. However, the extensive demand for natural resources corrupts the environment, leading to an ecological deficit. This study evaluates the role of natural resource extraction and energy consumption in environmental sustainability using ASEAN panel data. The results show a positive relationship between natural resource rent and carbon emissions, highlighting the need for renewable energy resources to improve environmental quality.
Article
Business
Fengsheng Chien, Lihua Huang, Wei Zhao
Summary: Recently, there has been a global increase in energy demand, leading to a growing interest in efficient energy production among regulators and researchers. This study examines the impact of multiple energy demands on China's energy efficiency (renewable energy production). The researchers analyze secondary data from 1986 to 2019 using time series analysis techniques and find a positive association between multiple energy demands and energy efficiency in China. The study provides implications and recommendations for future research and regulation.
JOURNAL OF INNOVATION & KNOWLEDGE
(2023)