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City selection for fresh produce e-commerce’s market entry strategy: Based on the perspective of urban logistics competitiveness

open access: yesTransportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 2022
Urban logistics is critical for fresh produce e-commerce (FPE), and the impressive advancement of urban logistics takes a leading role in increasing online grocery player’s competitiveness. This research analyzes the characteristics of logistics of fresh
Xinyue Kang, Haiyun Pang
doaj   +1 more source

Measurement of Urban Competitiveness in Lithuania

open access: yesEngineering Economics, 2010
The theoretical and practical aspects of the measurement of urban competitiveness are analyzed in this article. But, why the measurement of urban (at the same time regional or national) competitiveness is so important? The answer to this question is related to the fact, that if the competitiveness cannot be measured, it cannot be improved.
Bruneckienė, Jurgita   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Technology for Sustainable Urban Food Ecosystems in the Developing World: Strengthening the Nexus of Food–Water–Energy–Nutrition

open access: yesFrontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2018
Smart integration of technology can help create sustainable urban food ecosystems (UFEs) for the rapidly expanding urban population in the developing world. Technology, especially recent advances in digital-enabled devices based on internet connectivity,
Fred T. Davies, Banning Garrett
doaj   +1 more source

Retail Location, Competition and Urban Redevelopment [PDF]

open access: yesThe Service Industries Journal, 2002
After rapid growth in off-centre retailing in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the UK Government is now determined to concentrate future retailing within urban areas and, wherever possible, close to existing town and city centres. By their very nature, however, major retail developments are extensive users of land.
Adams, D.   +3 more
openaire   +1 more source

The City of Business: the Functional, the Relational-Cognitive and the Hierarchical-Distributive Approach

open access: yesKvalita Inovácia Prosperita, 2017
Purpose: The main purpose of the paper is to highlight some limits of the traditional theoretical interpretation of the relationships between the city and economic activities.
Roberto Camagni
doaj   +1 more source

High-Quality Economic Development in Huaihe Economic Zone Level Measurement and Evaluation

open access: yesJournal of Mathematics, 2021
This article constructs a comprehensive evaluation index system from four aspects: economic vitality, innovation efficiency, green development, and people’s lives.
Xin Sun, Shu Fang, Su Zhang
doaj   +1 more source

High Light Utilization and Color Rendering in Vacuum‐Deposited Semitransparent Perovskite Solar Cells

open access: yesAdvanced Materials, EarlyView.
In this work, low bandgap (≈1.55 eV) semitransparent perovskite solar cells (ST‐PSCs) having thin (thickness < ≈100 nm) perovskite layers and transparent conductive oxide‐based rear electrodes are fabricated using vacuum‐deposition methods. Two different ST‐PSCs demonstrated a high light utilization efficiency value of 4.2 (PCE: 9.26% and AVT: 45.3 ...
Abhyuday Paliwal   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

From Lab to Landscape: Environmental Biohybrid Robotics for Ecological Futures

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This Perspective explores environmental biohybrid robotics, integrating living tissues, microorganisms, and insects for operation in real‐world ecosystems. It traces the leap from laboratory experiments to forests, wetlands, and urban environments and discusses key challenges, development pathways, and opportunities for ecological monitoring and ...
Miriam Filippi
wiley   +1 more source

Conflict and Compatibility Between City Branding and Urban Competitiveness: Developing and Applying a Multidimensional Index for Emerging Cities in the MENA Region

open access: yesArchitecture
This research develops a city Branding–Competitiveness Index (BCI) that comprehend symbolic city branding elements with quantifiable aspects of urban competitiveness.
Nada H. Abdelraouf   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Linking Urban Planning and Competitiveness of Tourist Destinations

open access: yesRevista Brasileira de Pesquisa em Turismo, 2013
The study of competitiveness has been driven from new contexts, such as the competitiveness of tourist destinations, which has caused significant changes in terms of knowledge production, mixing areas and providing a multidisciplinary reflection.
Thays Cristina Domareski Ruiz   +1 more
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