The People's Republic of China (PRC) has been undergoing marvelous industrialization and manufacturing development in the past decades, which has promoted its fast economic growth and has reached a level of middle-income in recent years. It is widely accepted that the PRC's status as the...

The technology of concentrating solar power (CSP) is a potential way to meet the increasing demand of electricity consumption and environmental sustainability. However, it is still difficult to determine the installed locations of CSP systems, electricity generation by the systems, and the cost...

Reducing food losses and food waste is attracting growing public attention at the international, regional, and national levels, and is widely acknowledged to contribute to abating interlinked sustainability challenges such as food security, climate change, and water shortage. However, the...