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Strengthening urban resilience in China through underground infrastructures management: Addressing global climate challenges with technological solutions

open access: yesDeep Underground Science and Engineering, EarlyView.
This paper explores how climate‐resilient technologies, such as smart grids, digital twins, and self‐healing materials, can enhance urban resilience. It highlights the urgent need for proactive planning, public‐private collaboration, and data‐driven innovation to future‐proof underground infrastructure amid accelerating climate and urban pressures ...
Kai Chen Goh   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Strategic Priorities for Advancing Eating Disorder Risk Reduction: A Narrative Review

open access: yesInternational Journal of Eating Disorders, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite decades of advances in treatment, eating disorders continue to impose substantial individual and societal burden, underscoring the need for earlier and more effective risk reduction. Prevention research has expanded considerably, producing a wide range of approaches that target modifiable risk factors, build individual coping skills ...
Hannah K. Jarman
wiley   +1 more source

Fundamental Tax Reform: The Growth and Utility Effects of a Revenue-Neutral Flat Tax

open access: yes
We estimate the growth and utility effects of switching from a graduated-rate federal income tax to a flat tax along the lines of Hall-Rabushka (1995).
Hlavac, Marek
core   +1 more source

Solar Fuels Via Methane Valorization: Thermochemical Pathways, Unified Metrics, and Techno‐Economic Perspectives

open access: yesENERGY &ENVIRONMENTAL MATERIALS, EarlyView.
A first‐of‐its‐kind review benchmarks three solar methane valorization pathways with unified performance metrics for clean fuel production. Meeting global climate targets and sustainable energy demands requires carbon‐neutral fuels and innovative conversion pathways.
Muhammad Abdulmoez   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Enabling a Circular Water Transition: Identifying Governance Pathways for Wastewater Reuse

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Over 80% of the world's wastewater is discharged untreated, making reuse a widely underutilised strategy for addressing water scarcity. Due to the complexity of implementing water reuse systems, supportive governance conditions are required to steer this process and overcome barriers.
Kirsty Holstead   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Personal Income Tax Reform in Lithuania: Macroeconomic and Welfare Implications

open access: yes
In this paper, the economic impact of the 2006–2008 personal income tax (PIT) reform in Lithuania is analyzed applying model-based simulations. We find that the undertaken PIT reform is unsustainable as it leads to permanent government budget deficits ...
Sigitas Karpavicius, Igor Vetlov
core   +1 more source

Orchestration of Climate Action in Municipalities: A Collective Capacity Approach

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Municipalities are increasingly positioned as key actors in enabling local climate action, yet their ability to mobilise societal actors remains insufficiently understood. This study examines how municipal officials in six Finnish municipalities from different local contexts understand and operationalise collective capacity for climate action,
Maija Faehnle   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

FARM MACHINERY INVESTMENT AND THE TAX REFORM ACT OF 1986

open access: yes
The Tax Reform Act of 1986 significantly changed incentives for investing. This analysis specifically examines how changes in marginal tax rates, depreciation schedules, and the investment tax credit altered the cost of capital and net investment in ...
Hrubovcak, James   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Learning Networks Drive Environmental Innovation: Evidence From Fourth‐Stage Purification Diffusion

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Contaminants of emerging concern, including pharmaceuticals and industrial chemicals, threaten water quality globally. In the European Union (EU), until the adoption of the revised Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive in 2024, a regulatory gap had left the member states and the municipalities in them without binding removal standards ...
Simon Bulian   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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