ABSTRACT Smart cities and urban digital twins have fostered the emergence of immersive environments, such as the metaverse. While contemporary scholarlship has increasingly examined the integration of the metaverse within smart city infrastructures, the critical nexus between urban sustainability and the metaverse remains largely under‐researched. This
Jose Manuel Diaz‐Sarachaga +1 more
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Entrepreneurial nations competing for attention: sport mega-events as strategic assets for soft power. [PDF]
AlReshaid F +5 more
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ABSTRACT This study investigates how green and non‐green goods, energy transition, digitalization, economic growth, and population affect the material footprint of G‐7 countries from 1990 to 2023. Using an extended STIRPAT framework, we show that green and non‐green goods increase material footprint, demonstrating the resource intensity associated with
Sohidul Islam +5 more
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A Financial Benefit-Cost Analysis of Advancing Jordan's Medical Tourism: The Case of Proton Therapy. [PDF]
Fasseeh AN +6 more
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Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in European Countries: An Analytical and Econometric Approach
ABSTRACT Despite the growing policy relevance of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) within the European Union, significant uncertainties remain regarding the extent to which European countries perform unevenly across different dimensions of sustainable development and whether higher levels of economic development necessarily translate into better
Inês Pereira, Margarita Robaina
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Emerging design principles for environmental, economic, and equity successes in land conservation. [PDF]
Sims KRE, Alix-Garcia JM.
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ABSTRACT Community‐based adaptation scholars and practitioners acknowledge that power asymmetries pose significant barriers to project impact. Nevertheless, there is little research on the role of the global political economy as the root cause of vulnerability.
Tom Selje, Alexandra Klepp, Boris Heinz
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Mapping China's sports tourism projects: regional imbalances, urban agglomerations, and driving forces. [PDF]
Zhao F, Han J.
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A Scenario Tool for Sustainability Transformation in Fisheries and Beyond
ABSTRACT The urgency to find sustainable management solutions intensifies with increasing natural resource scarcity. Resource sectors are usually characterized by diverse resource users. We developed a structured scenario tool designed to quantitatively assess policy options for achieving sustainability, accounting for ecological, economic and ...
Marie‐Catherine Riekhof +5 more
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Determining capacity and barriers to disability sport development: the international federation of cerebral palsy football membership perspective. [PDF]
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