Economic opportunities for creating smart cities in Poland. Does wealth matter?

I Jonek-Kowalska, R Wolniak - Cities, 2021 - Elsevier
The development of smart cities in practice requires significant investments and financial
expenses, therefore, the authors of the article decided to identify and evaluate the economic …

Urban development sustainability, industrial structure adjustment, and land use efficiency in China

Z Wang, H Fu, H Liu, C Liao - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2023 - Elsevier
It remains unclear on how industrial structure adjustment interacts with urban land use
efficiency and how urbanization affects their interaction, despite its significance for urban …

To build or not to build, that is the uncertainty: Fuzzy synthetic evaluation of risks for sustainable housing in developing economies

MA Adabre, APC Chan, DJ Edwards, R Osei-Kyei - Cities, 2022 - Elsevier
Sustainable housing development is essential for achieving the United Nation's Sustainable
Development Goals. However, amid increasing housing deficits, investing in sustainable …

Leveraging digital technology for development: Does ICT contribute to poverty reduction?

J Dzator, AO Acheampong, I Appiah-Otoo… - Telecommunications …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 1 requires countries to end poverty of all
forms. At the same time, SDG 9 target 9. c calls for increasing Information and …

Critical barriers to sustainability attainment in affordable housing: International construction professionals' perspective

MA Adabre, APC Chan, A Darko, R Osei-Kyei… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2020 - Elsevier
For a significant thrive towards sustainable development globally, sustainability attainment
in affordable housing for low-income earners is fundamental. Identifying obstacles to …

The distribution effect of urbanization: Theoretical deduction and evidence from China

L He, X Zhang - Habitat International, 2022 - Elsevier
The inverted-U relationship between urbanization and urban-rural inequality has been
relatively widely observed and investigated. However, most are confined to the context …

Urbanization, inequality, economic development and ecological footprint: Searching for turning points and regional homogeneity in Africa

DO Ekeocha - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2021 - Elsevier
The debates on how inequality, economic development and urbanization affects the
environment has been intense, but lacks the African perspective. Hence, this study …

Inclusive green growth for sustainable development of cities in China: spatiotemporal differences and influencing factors

S Fan, H Huang, W Mbanyele, Z Guo… - Environmental Science and …, 2023 - Springer
Inclusive green growth (IGG) based on coordinating the society, economy, and environment
is a new way to reach sustainable development. However, there is a lack of relevant …

[PDF][PDF] Decoupling relationship analysis between urbanization and carbon emissions in 33 African countries

X Duan, X Li, W Tan, R Xiao - Heliyon, 2022 - cell.com
Global warming is a serious environmental problem facing the world in the 21st century.
Carbon dioxide, an important greenhouse gas, is the driver of global warming. Rapid …

The poverty-environment nexus in developing countries: Evidence from heterogeneous panel causality methods, robust to cross-sectional dependence

A Awad, MH Warsame - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2022 - Elsevier
The impact of poverty on environmental quality, or the reverse impact, has already been
addressed in many studies. In these earlier studies, CO2 emissions were frequently used to …