This study aims to investigate the global perspective on the relationship between financial inclusion and environmental degradation, taking into account the potential moderating role of information and communication t...
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This study aims to investigate the global perspective on the relationship between financial inclusion and environmental degradation, taking into account the potential moderating role of information and communication technology (ICT). The research utilizes panel data from 131 countries, covering the period of 1995 to 2019. The findings show that financial inclusion has significant and positive impact on carbon emissions, implying that as financial inclusion increases, so do carbon emissions. Moreover, our findings reveal a significant negative moderating effect of the ICT on the relationship between financial inclusion and carbon emissions. This implies that the impact of financial inclusion on carbon emissions is contingent upon the level of ICT development. The robustness of these findings is confirmed through the use of alternative proxies for the explanatory and moderating variables, as well as alternative estimation methods. The outcomes of this study carry significant implications for both policy and practice.
As the main entities of undertaking the intensive energy activities, the green and low-carbon development of the enterprise parks is one of the important means to achieve the "dual carbon"targets. Taking two...
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As the main entities of undertaking the intensive energy activities, the green and low-carbon development of the enterprise parks is one of the important means to achieve the "dual carbon" targets. Taking tw...
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(数字)9798350352658
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(纸本)9798350352665
As the main entities of undertaking the intensive energy activities, the green and low-carbon development of the enterprise parks is one of the important means to achieve the "dual carbon" targets. Taking two different types of parks, an industrial park and a research and technology park, in Guangzhou as the research objects, using Homer software and taking the minimum total net present value as the objective function, this study carried out the capacity optimization for different scenarios in order to optimize the allocation and analysis of low-carbon energy and electricity development plans for the two different types of enterprise parks. The results showed that: (1) for enterprise parks, fully utilizing renewable energy and equipping energy storage systems could effectively improve the economic and low-carbon efficiency of the energy system, while making use of the excessive power with electricity to heat conversion technology did not have significant effect. (2) Due to the intensive nature of land use, the enterprise parks were unable to adopt renewable energy sources on a large scale, resulting in an increase of unit cost of power supply. Compared with the research and technology parks, the industrial parks still have potential to make further improvement in economic efficiency.
This paper mainly carries out the preliminary work for the design of an innovative three-way seismic isolator based on the metallic pseudo rubber-silicon rubber (MPR-SR) composite. First, the MPR-SR composite was prep...
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This paper mainly carries out the preliminary work for the design of an innovative three-way seismic isolator based on the metallic pseudo rubber-silicon rubber (MPR-SR) composite. First, the MPR-SR composite was prepared by adding the SR, a high-molecular polymer, to the MPR, and several MPR-SR specimens of different molding densities were prepared. Next, the specimens were subjected to compression and shear tests under quasi-static and dynamic loads, respectively. Several tests were carried out to reflect how these behaviors are affected by load amplitude, cycle count, loading frequency and molding density. The mechanical properties and damping features between the specimens were compared and analyzed in details. On this basis, the author examined the mechanical properties and SI mechanism of the MPR-SR composite. The results show that the MPR-SR composite has good recoverability under compressive and shear deformations: the composite can recover even if 40% of it has been deformed under compression and 80% under shear load;the hysteretic energy dissipation ability of the composite increases with the molding density;the loading frequency and cycle number have basically no impact on the compressive hysteretic behavior of the composite. To sum up, the MPR-SR enjoys good stiffness and energy dissipation ability, and serves as an excellent material for anti-corrosion, antioxidant three-way seismic isolator.
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