Highlights•Systems approach can guide smart cities to reconnect with urban sustainability.•A
smart initiative is smarter if it connects across all SET subsystems.•Social processes benefit …

Ensuring food security, improving sustainability, and, at the same time, demonstrating the
widely perceived economic value are challenges presented by commercial urban …

This paper uses the data of A-share strategic emerging enterprises in Shanghai and
Shenzhen Stock Exchanges from 2011 to 2018 to explore the impact of digital finance on the …

The article deals with Covid-19 as a social crisis and justice challenge for cities. It describes
how Covid-19 shines a spotlight on the uneven distribution of goods and burdens …

Peri-urban ecosystems especially peri-urban agriculture play an important part in multiple
dimensions of both rural and urban sustainability and resilience. Yet such ecosystems on …

Vehicular emissions comprise a main source of air pollutants, especially particulate matter
(PM), which contains toxic compounds. Brazil has been restricting vehicular emissions for …

Territorial transformations are currently influenced by the combination of multi-scale
processes that generate complex change dynamics. In particular, we focus on the emerging …

Professor Boyce s work is an excellent example of how ecological economics can be done
in an objective, evidence-based approach that can put issues on the agenda in a manner …

With the transition to carbon-free economy, concerns have grown about the “green divide”–
the separation of society into different social groups whose socioeconomic status …

We report on a novel evaluation framework to globally assess the footprint of smart cities
and communities (SCC) projects, being also expandable to the case of smart grid related …