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Recipes for Resilience
The Recipes for Resilience project demonstrates the possibility of partner-led youth engagement that uses agrifood heritage as a tool for dialogue on climate adaptation, justice, and resilience. The project drew on innovative arts and humanities methods to increase Caribbean youths’ awareness of agrifood heritage and its importance for climate-change action. In the Caribbean, music has long been a source of cultural retention and transfer. As a creative methodology, music has the capacity to bring people together to explore a common problem and voice concerns by telling stories in a creative way. In line with the oralized cultures that exist in the Caribbean, music was used to stimulate participating youths’ interest in Afrodescendant and Indigenous foodways and to inspire them to take climate action by enhancing food security through traditional knowledge. The affective impact of music and its ability to transmit stories and evoke awareness through emotive appeal, was reflected in the final workshop, as sensory cues triggered memories and encouraged participants to discuss traditional foodways and reflect on sustainable food practices that, for some, were lost but not forgotten.
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  • 09 Nov 2022
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Impact of China's Digital Transformation on Carbon Emissions
Studying the carbon emissions resulting from digital transformation can provide a reference for the realization of the goals of carbon peaking and carbon neutrality in the era of the digital economy. Digital economy labor productivity has not shown a promoting effect on carbon emission reduction. China should strengthen the construction of a digital platform for ecological and environmental governance and build a green and low-carbon industrial chain and supply chain to promote the realization of the goals of carbon peaking and carbon neutrality.
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  • 25 Aug 2023
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Strategies of Participants in the Carbon Trading Market
To effectively understand the collaborative and evolutionary mechanisms of three stakeholders in carbon trading namely, government, emission reduction enterprises, and emission control enterprises, it is important to identify the factors that affect decision-making behaviors amongst game players, ultimately contributing to the goal of “double carbon”. Researchers constructed a tripartite game model, analyzing the selection mechanism for game strategies related to carbon trading participants through replicated dynamic equations. Researchers also discussed the main factors that influence the evolutionary and stable outcomes of carbon trading through scenario simulations. Additionally, researchers introduced prospect theory to examine the impact of risk sensitivity and loss avoidance levels amongst decision-makers on the optimal outcome of the system. The findings reveal that in the initial game model, the three decision-makers show a cyclical behavior pattern, but the system stabilizes in the optimal equilibrium state (1,1,1) when certain conditions are satisfied. Furthermore, the initial willingness of decision-makers impacts the ability of the game system to reach a stable point. Moreover, larger values for the risk sensitivity coefficient and loss avoidance coefficient can promote the evolution of the game system toward an optimal, stable point.
  • 610
  • 31 Jul 2023
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Rimini Harbor Docks with Virtual Reality
The human factor plays an important role in the successful design of infrastructure to support sustainable mobility. By engaging users early in the design process, information can be obtained before physical environments are built, making designed spaces more attractive and safer for users.
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  • 09 Jan 2024
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Technology Innovation on Chinese Enterprise Capacity Utilization
Since the outbreak of the international financial crisis, the global economic downturn has led to shrinking demand, and traditional industries around the world have faced the problem of overcapacity. This problem may increase international trade frictions and cause systemic risks, thereby increasing macroeconomic uncertainty and restricting sustainable economic growth. How to improve capacity utilization (CU) and alleviate overcapacity has become an important topic of concern around the world.
  • 568
  • 30 Sep 2022
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Pollution on Urban Scale in China
Urbanization is a critical and profound transformation of land, industry, and population in modern society.  Environmental pollution significantly impacts the urbanization process.
  • 533
  • 23 Nov 2023
Topic Review
Low-Carbon Lifestyles beyond Decarbonisation
There is a growing recognition of the urgent need to change citizens’ lifestyles to realise decarbonised societies. Consumption-based accounting (carbon footprinting) is a helpful indicator for measuring the impacts of peoples’ consumption on climate change by capturing both direct and embedded carbon emissions. Carbon footprinting can propose impactful behaviour changes to reduce carbon footprints immediately, it may deflect people’s attention from the much needed but time-consuming efforts to reshape the “systems of provisions” to enable decarbonised living.
  • 505
  • 12 Jan 2024
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Barrier Factors to Installing Energy Storage Equipment
Using green energy is an important way for businesses to achieve their Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) goals and ensure sustainable operations. Currently, however, green energy is not a stable source of power, and this instability poses certain risks to normal business operations and manufacturing processes. The installation of energy storage equipment has become an indispensable accompaniment to facilitating green energy use for an enterprise. However, businesses may encounter significant barriers during the process of installing energy storage equipment.
  • 465
  • 30 Oct 2023
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Forest Transition and Fuzzy Environments in Neoliberal Mexico
Although deforestation remains a continuing threat to both the natural world and its resident human populations, a countervailing land cover dynamic has been observed in many nations. This process of landscape turnaround, the so-called forest transition, holds the potential of regenerating ecosystem services by sparing land from agricultural activities and abandoning it to forest succession.
  • 374
  • 17 Nov 2023
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Decarbonizing Cement and Concrete in the United Kingdom
Resource efficiency in the construction industry, especially within the cement sector, which accounts for nearly 8% of global CO₂ emissions, remains insufficiently explored. This study develops the first Sub-national Computable General Equilibrium (SCGE) model for the UK to evaluate the regional economic and environmental impacts of improving efficiency in cement and ready-mix concrete use. Unlike costly carbon capture technologies, material efficiency strategies such as clinker substitution, cement optimization, and reducing concrete demand offer cost-effective emission reductions. While material efficiency is increasingly recognized as a key pathway for industrial decarbonization, its economic impacts at the regional level remain underexplored. The SCGE model incorporates these strategies into a regionally disaggregated framework to assess their implications for industrial decarbonization. Results show that material efficiency can significantly cut emissions while sustaining or enhancing regional economic performance. However, impacts vary across regions, driven by differences in industrial composition. This research fills a key gap by quantifying these regional disparities and offers a new methodological approach for analyzing material efficiency and circular economy interventions. The SCGE framework provides critical insights for policymakers aiming to align economic resilience with environmental goals, supporting the UK’s transition to net-zero emissions.
  • 248
  • 06 May 2025
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Roof Gardens: A Green Solution for Ecology, Community, and Wellbeing
Green roofs have emerged as a key nature-based solution for improving environmental quality, strengthening urban resilience, and enhancing human wellbeing. In the hospitality sector—where sustainable design and guest experience increasingly intersect—the incorporation of green roof gardens is particularly significant. Urban hotels face heightened challenges related to elevated temperatures, reduced green space, and the growing need for restorative environments within dense urban settings. This study aims to examine how green roof gardens function as integrated ecological, social, and psychological infrastructures in hotel environments. It evaluates the extent to which rooftop green spaces contribute to environmental sustainability, enhance guest experience, and foster community connections. The research adopts a qualitative design combining a comprehensive literature review conducted at selected five-star hotels in Greece. Data from secondary sources and field-based assessments were thematically analyzed to identify recurring patterns in environmental performance, social use, and psychological benefits. Findings indicate that hotel green roof gardens act as multifunctional systems that deliver significant ecological benefits—such as improved microclimate regulation, stormwater retention, and biodiversity support—while simultaneously enriching social interaction and guest experience through accessible, esthetically appealing spaces. Observations further highlight their contribution to psychological wellbeing by offering restorative environments characterized by greenery, natural light, and panoramic views. The study concludes that green roof gardens represent an effective design strategy that integrates sustainability, hospitality experience, and urban wellbeing. Their application in hotels provides both conceptual insight and practical guidance for the development of more resilient, livable, and guest-centered urban environments. These findings underscore the importance of incorporating green roofs into contemporary tourism and urban planning practices.
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  • 29 Dec 2025
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