Impact of land prices on corporate carbon emission intensity by Lin Guo, Ying Liu, Zeqing Jiang, Xiaoping Yuan, Qi Jing

“…The effects are most pronounced in central and western regions, among non-state-owned enterprises, and in industries with stricter environmental regulations or firms acquiring land through public bidding. …”
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Investigation of the Proportion of Brucella abortus and Brucella melitensis in Sheep and Goat Milk by Saeid Rostami, Ehsan Rashidian, Amin Jaydari, Heidar Rahimi

“…This article renews our knowledge about the causative agent of brucellosis in small ruminants and shows that B. abortus has a relatively high prevalence among those animals in the western regions of Iran, and its role as one of the main factors of abortion among small ruminants should not be ignored. …”
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The impact of green finance on carbon emission intensity in China: mediating and spatial effects by Xiaonan Liu, Jinglei Lu, Bin Zhou

“…IntroductionInvestigating the relationship between green finance and carbon emission intensity is essential for understanding its role in China’s carbon reduction strategy.MethodsThis study employs the entropy weight method to measure the green finance development index across 30 Chinese provinces.Using double fixed-effects, mediation effect, and Spatial Durbin Models (SDM), the analysis reveals three key findings.ResultsFirstly, green finance directly reduces carbon emission intensity and indirectly does so by fostering technological innovation and optimizing energy structures, with more pronounced effects in western regions, highlighting regional disparities. Secondly, green finance shows a significant spatial spillover effect, reducing carbon emission intensity in neighboring provinces, beyond the impact on economically and geographically similar regions. …”
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Research on the impact of artificial intelligence technology on urban public health resilience by Erdong Chen, Huaxin Zhang

“…The results demonstrate that AI technology significantly enhances resilience by improving resource allocation and response efficiency, with stronger impacts observed in eastern and central regions compared to western regions, where economic and technological capacities are weaker. …”
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The impact of climate risks on green technology innovation: an empirical study based on panel data of 269 cities in China by Yangyulong Wu

“…Fifth, the spatial spillover effects of physical risks are mainly seen in the central region, while those of transition risks are primarily observed in the eastern and western regions, indicating significant regional heterogeneity. …”
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Spatial Equilibrium Evaluation and Diagnosis of Regional Water Resources Based on Comprehensive Gini Coefficient and Subtractive Set Pair Potential by DONG Tao, DONG Guoqiang, HU Yong, FENG Yaolong, ZHANG Jun

“…The findings demonstrate that the water resources in Chongqing are generally in an unbalanced spatial state from 2015 to 2022, particularly in the central city, western regions, and eastern new cities of Chongqing. …”
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Equalization of basic public services enabled by digitization: A study of mechanism and heterogeneity. by Huayi Huang, Zhibing Zhang

“…The discussions on regional heterogeneity and spatial complexity show that digitalization makes a greater contribution to the equalization of basic public services in the central and western regions and the northeast than in the east. However, achieving equalization of basic public services across regions through digitalization is challenging. …”
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Digital economy, green innovation and regional resource allocation efficiency: evidence from 257 cities in China by Li Jiang, Li Jiang, Min Zhang, Shihui Hu

“…Heterogeneity analysis indicates that in eastern regions and areas with strong environmental regulations, the digital economy promotes both substantive and strategic green innovations, leading to higher efficiency. In mid-western regions, only substantive green innovation has a significant effect, while regions with weak environmental regulations experience less pronounced impacts.DiscussionThis study offers insights into leveraging green innovation to achieve efficient resource allocation and strengthen environmental resilience in the digital era.…”
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Does the digital economy exhibit multiplier effects? A case study on the optimization of agricultural production structure in rural digital economy by Fengting Wang, Hao Wang, Lichun Xiong

“…The results show that: (1) The development level of China's rural digital economy shows a general upward trend, showing regional differences with high levels in the southeastern coastal regions and low levels in the central and western regions. (2) The rural digital economy significantly contributes to agricultural production structure upgrading (APSU), this positive effect is more obvious in the main grain-producing areas, areas with a high degree of land transfer, and agricultural production agglomeration areas. (3) The rural digital economy achieves APSU by promoting technological innovation, facilitating industrial integration, and stimulating consumption upgrading, while there is a multiplier effect for this impact, that is, the existence of Metcalfe's law in APSU was verified for the first time. …”
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The economic dimensions of transnational organised crime in Southern and Western Africa by Tolulope Lembola Ojolo, Shanta Balgobind Singh

“…This article explores the economic dimensions of transnational organised crime (TOC) in Africa, focusing on the Southern and Western regions. TOC in Africa, while driven by traditional motives such as power and financial gain, has evolved into a sophisticated form of criminal entrepreneurship. …”
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Temporal and Spatial Evolution Characteristics of Meteorological Drought in the Loess Plateau from 1961 to 2020 by LI Mengting, LI Chunguang

“…Based on the daily meteorological data of 61 meteorological stations in the Loess Plateau from 1961 to 2020,this paper explores the historical arid evolution characteristics of the study area.The paper adopts the standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index (SPEI),Morlet wavelet analysis,drought area coverage,drought frequency,and Mann-Kendall mutation test to reveal the characteristics of dry and wet changes and cycle characteristics of the Loess Plateau under the background of nearly 60a global warming.Meanwhile,it carries out the attribution analysis of drought.The results show that the alternating wet and dry variation of SPEI values is region-wide.Annual SPEI_12 and spring,autumn,and winter SPEI_3 show a decreasing trend year by year during the study period,and the decreasing trend of drought tendency is ranked as autumn>spring>winter>annual.Summer SPEI_3 shows a relatively flat increasing trend with a trend rate of 0.02/10a.The overall drought coverage area shows an upward trend,and the annual drought frequency is between 31.40% and 35.15%.The aridification trend of the central and western regions is large.The cycle of dry and wet changes at different time scales is unstable,and it is currently in the stage of warm and humidification for a long time.The current trend of warming and humidification is only reflected in quantitative changes,which is not enough to change the basic climatic state of the region and is still in the arid and semi-arid climate range of cool and dry.…”
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Evaluation of the Effects of the Belt and Road Initiative on the Unified Economic and Environmental Efficiency of Transportation Infrastructure in China Based on Range-Adjusted Mea... by Yijiao Wang

“…The Initiative has positive effects in improving the unified efficiency in eastern region but has no effect in the central and western regions. Although the Initiative can significantly enhance the efficiency through transforming and upgrading the industrial structure, the industrial structure rationalization plays a primary positive role. …”
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Assessing the Coordination Development Level of Agricultural Economy and Ecology in China: Regional Disparities, Dynamics, and Barriers by Lei Zhan, Xiaoying Huang, Zihao Xu, Zhigang Huang

“…Second, regional differences are primarily driven by variations between the eastern, central, and western regions, with structural disparities shifting from interregional to hyper-variable density. …”
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Evolution Characteristics of Annual Precipitation and Intra-Annual Allocation in Guangdong Province from 1958 to 2023 by YANG Jun, XU Jinghua, LIU Changhui

“…The results show that: The spatial distribution of annual precipitation in Guangdong Province is distinctly geographical, showing a trend of "small precipitation in northern, eastern, and western regions and large precipitation in southern and central regions". …”
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Educational sustainability: A multi-scale elementary school resource distribution variability from China by Jiali Cai, Wenhua Wei

“…The study reveals that the internal variability of primary education resources in the eastern, central, and western regions of China has significantly decreased, with the Gini coefficient in the western region dropping from 0.40 in 2006 to 0.12 in 2020. …”
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Stochastic Modelling of the Dynamics of the SARS-CoV-2 Epidemic: An Africa Perspective by Rasaki, Olawale Olanrewaju, Nafiu, Lukman Abiodun, Abdisalam, Hassan Muse, Thierno, Souleymane Barry

“…Lastly, the overall Infection Fatality rate in Africa was estimated to be 26.16%, while it carted across the Central, Eastern, Northern, Southern and Western regions with 15.3%, 20.4%, 31.6%, 39.4%, and 24.1% respectively.…”
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Quantifying Urban Sprawl and Its Driving Forces in China by Jintao Wang, Shiyou Qu, Ke Peng, Yanchao Feng

“…The continuous outflow of population and loosely land supply have accelerated the intensity of urban land sprawl in the central and western regions. The findings of the article may help people to realize that urban sprawl has become a staggering reality among Chinese cities; thereby urban planners as well as policymakers should make some actions to hinder the urban sprawl.…”
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University Leaders’ Views on Independent Campus Curriculum as Educational Reforms in Indonesian Islamic Universities by Muhammad Nasir, Muhammad Khairul Rijal, Syarifah Kurniaty Kahar, Fathur Rahman, Anis Komariah

“…Nine Islamic universities representing Indonesia’s eastern and western regions were chosen purposively. Thirteen leaders of Islamic universities who occupy various structural positions related to implementing the Independent Campus Curriculum were interviewed. …”
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A study of the impact of urban business credit environment on environmental pollution. by Jing Wu, Qing Guo

“…The extra heterogeneity test results for the different regions show that the relationship between business credit level and environmental pollution is consistent with the overall situation in the eastern and western regions, the opposite effect was observed in the central region. (4) Changes in the urban business credit environment have an indirect impact on environmental conditions due to the amount of regional financial development and technological innovation potential. …”
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Green finance and urban carbon emission dual control: an empirical evidence from China by Tian Zhang, Yao Zhang, Yumin Zhang

“…However, in central and western regions and resource-based cities, green finance only suppresses urban carbon emission intensity. (3) Green finance can reduce urban carbon emissions and intensity through two channels: economic scale expansion and technological advancement, while the channel of industrial structure optimization has not yet shown a significant effect. …”
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