The National People Congress in 2013 stated the need to provide impulse and guidance for a transformation of the Chinese resource-based cities into sustainable cities. This paper considers the transformation path realized in a small Chinese resource-based city in China. The city of Jiyuan has...

Achieving sustainability and coping with climate change are the greatest challenges to human survival and harmonious human-nature relationship. However, we lack research on quantifying the capacity of sustainability to resist climate change over space and time. Here, we developed a...

Media dissemination has an important function in facilitating price discovery. Political pressure that restricts media dissemination can hinder this function and affect investors' perceptions. We investigate the magnitude and economic consequences of China's newspaper censorship, which blocks...

Recently, energy efficiency and the sharing economy have become significant factors for sustainable economic development (SED), which require the attention of researchers and policymakers. Thus, the present research investigates the impact of energy efficiency and the sharing economy on SED in...