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Zhengyu Ren, Hsing Hung Chen, Kunseng Lao and Hongyi Zhang
In the social context of advocating a low-carbon economy, achieving sustainable growth in line with current social development requirements is an issue that agribusiness must face. In order to explore the mechanisms influencing the sustainable growth of ...
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As the world increasingly runs up against physical constraints of energy, land, water, and food, there is a growing role for policy to reduce environmental pressures without adversely affecting increases in prosperity. There is therefore a need for polic...
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Floor Brouwer, Lydia Vamvakeridou-Lyroudia, Eva Alexandri, Ingrida Bremere, Matthew Griffey and Vincent Linderhof
As the world increasingly runs up against physical constraints of energy, land, water, and food, there is a growing role for policy to reduce environmental pressures without adversely affecting increases in prosperity. There is therefore a need for polic...
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Xiaobin Dong, Yufang Zhang, Weijia Cui, Bin Xun, Baohua Yu, Sergio Ulgiati and Xinshi Zhang
The emergy concept, integrated with a multi-objective linear programming method, was used to model the agricultural structure of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region under the consideration of the need to develop a low-carbon economy. The em...
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Ian Thomas, Orana Sandri and Kathryn Hegarty
This paper captures the breadth of complexity in the debate about ?green jobs? as the world seeks to transition to a ?low carbon economy? and to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through the reduction of reliance for energy on the burning of fossil fuels. ...
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Yuyan Luo, Maozhu Jin, Peiyu Ren, Zhixue Liao and Zhongfu Zhu
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Klaus Hubacek, Kuishuang Feng and Bin Chen
China has achieved notable success in developing its economy with approximate 10 percent average annual GDP growth over the last two decades. At the same time, energy consumption and CO2 emissions almost doubled every five years, which led Chi...
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Bei Liu, Yukun Li, Xiaoya Tian, Lipeng Sun and Pishi Xiu
As a new engine to promote high-quality development and a sustainable economy, the digital economy (DE) plays a key role in achieving carbon reduction targets. In this paper, we use the ?broadband China (BC)? policy as a proxy variable for the DE and emp...
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María A. Quintás, Ana I. Martínez-Senra and Antonio Sartal
The purpose of this paper is to analyze how SMEs define the components of their business models (value proposition, creation and capture) from the point of view of decarbonization. We analyze SMEs as a group, and study whether their size affects this pro...
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Tong Shu, Zhizhen Peng, Shou Chen, Shouyang Wang, Kin Keung Lai and Honglin Yang
The government as a policy maker wishing to promote remanufacturing and proper disposal of hazardous old products which are harmful to environment has taken many actions, ranging from carbon regulation and financial incentives such as trade-in subsidy. H...
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Nan Xiang, Feng Xu and Jinghua Sha
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Xiangshuo He and Jian Zhang
With the development of global environment and social economy, it is an indispensable choice for enterprises to achieve sustainable growth through developing low-carbon economy and constructing low-carbon supply chain. Supplier is the source of chain, th...
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M. Jayaweera,J Manatunge,A. Witharana
It is imperative that Sri Lanka grasps the concepts of green jobs to meet the most vital but intricatechallenge of the 21st Century, which is the transformation to a sustainable and a low-carbon economy.Such a transformation or a paradigm shift, which ca...
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Kranthi Kumar Maniam, Raghuram Chetty, Ravikumar Thimmappa and Shiladitya Paul
Fuel cells are a key enabling technology for the future economy, thereby providing power to portable, stationary, and transportation applications, which can be considered an important contributor towards reducing the high dependencies on fossil fuels. El...
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Falah Alobaid and Jochen Ströhle
The world society ratifies international measures to reach a flexible and low-carbon energy economy, attenuating climate change and its devastating environmental consequences. The main contribution of this Special Issue is related to thermochemical conve...
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Qun Wang, Wei Guo, Xizhen Xu, Ronghui Deng, Xiaoxin Ding and Tiebing Chen
Prefabricated buildings are gradually being promoted from pilot demonstration to scale, to combat climate change and improve energy conservation and emission reduction in the building sector. Despite the carbon emission of assembled structures being subs...
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Sofoklis Bouras, Nikolaos Katsoulas, Dimitrios Antoniadis and Ioannis T. Karapanagiotidis
The simultaneous use of crude glycerol and effluent from anaerobic digestate, both wastes derived from the biofuel industry, were tested in the frame of circular economy concept, as potential low-cost nutrient sources for the cultivation of rich in docos...
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Susian Christian Martins,Eduardo Delgado Assad,Eduardo de Moraes Pavão,Maria-Leonor Ribeiro Casimiro Lopes-Assad
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The Sectoral Plan of Mitigation and Adaptation to Climate Change in order to consolidate an Economy of Low Carbon Emissions in Agriculture (ABC Plan) integrates the commitments made by Brazil to mitigate its emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG). The objec...
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Xinqing Xiao, Zhiqiang Zhu, Zetian Fu, Weisong Mu and Xiaoshuan Zhang
Low-carbon production is one of the dominating issues in the sustainable development of the food industry with high energy consumption, especially in the table grapes cold chain. The aim of this paper is to propose a profit maximization strategy of table...
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Alemayehu Molla,Vanessa Cooper
Businesses are under increasing pressure from customers, competitors, regulators and community groups to implement sustainable business practices. Balancing economic and environmental performance to be green and competitive is therefore a key strategic i...
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