Research on flat firms has many dimensions. To introduce this special issue, we start our essay with a thought experiment. In his novella Flatland (1884), Edwin A. Abbott describes life in a “flat,” two-dimensional world that is populated by geometric shapes—squares, lines, triangles, and...

Quantification of evapotranspiration (ET) is critical to sustainable management of irrigated agriculture. To date, attempts at measuring regional ET in arid and semi-arid regions with complex surface characteristics have been largely unsuccessful. In this study, we proposed a remote sensing data...

Perceived fairness may affect people’s willingness to pay (WTP). In this study, an online survey with random experiments reveals that perceived fairness has a significant positive impact on consumers’ WTP for cleaner raw water (WTP1) and their WTP for tap water meeting higher water quality...