Do environmental conditions pose greater health risks to individuals living in urban or rural areas? The answer is theoretically ambiguous: while urban areas have traditionally been associated with heightened exposure to environmental pollutants, the economies of scale and density inherent to...

We analyze the impact of a rise in protectionism on environmental regulation. Using the 2018 US-China trade war as a quasi-natural experiment, we find that higher exposure to tariffs leads to less stringent regulation targets in China, increasing air pollution and carbon emissions. Politically...

We study green public procurement in relation to co-funding from the EU Structural and Investment Fund (ESIF). ESIF co-funding makes up for over a third of annual government capital expenditures in most EU12 countries, primarily targets regions with wealth below EU average and increasingly sets...

Latin America is among the most urbanized regions in the world. However, cities in this region usually present an uneven distribution of environmental amenities and hazards between socioeconomic sectors, translating into prevalent issues of environmental inequalities. Urban environmental...

Environmental peacebuilding investigates mutually reinforcing relationships between environmental sustainability and peacebuilding. However, environmental peacebuilding research and practice frequently neglect to explicitly take account of power relations and inequities. This is despite other...

Indicator-based frameworks for assessing farms' environmental performance have become a resource for environmental knowledge regarding the impacts of agricultural practices. The present study explores whether a novel indicator-based direct payment system, which focuses on the farms'...

The critical study of China's influence on global sustainability is imperative, given its emergence as a global power. This paper examines China's leading environmental discourse-ecological civilization-in the global context. Although ecological civilization has become a key envisioning concept...