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Green finance and foreign direct investment–environmental sustainability nexuses in emerging countries: new insights from the environmental Kuznets curve

Researchers identified asymmetric relationships between green finance, foreign direct investment, and environmental sustainability in emerging countries using nonlinear ARDL modeling, finding heterogeneous effects that support the environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis.

2023 Frontiers in Environmental Science 46 citations
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The Effect of Foreign Direct Investment on Air Pollution in the Economic Community of West African States region: What Influence Does Tax Expenditure Have?

This study examines how foreign direct investment affects air pollution in West African countries, finding that tax policy can influence whether economic investment leads to environmental improvement or degradation.

2023 Journal of Environmental Protection
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Spatiotemporal Evolution of the Coupled and Coordinated Development of the Low-carbon Economy, Green Finance, and Ecological Environmental Quality: Evidence from China

Despite its title referencing low-carbon economy and ecological quality, this paper studies the coordinated development of green finance, carbon reduction, and environmental quality indicators across Chinese provinces — not microplastic pollution. It examines regional economic and environmental policy dynamics using statistical modelling, and is not relevant to microplastics or human health.

2025 Applied Ecology and Environmental Research 1 citations
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Greenfield, Mergers & Acquisitions, Energy Consumption, and Environmental Performance in selected SAARC and ASEAN countries

This economic study examined how different types of foreign direct investment affect energy consumption and environmental performance in various countries. Understanding the relationship between economic activity and environmental outcomes is relevant to predicting how plastic production and pollution change with development.

2019 Universiti Utara Malaysia Institutional Repository (Universiti Utara Malaysia) 6 citations
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Assessing the impact of governance and health expenditures on carbon emissions in China: Role of environmental regulation

Researchers analysed the relationship between governance quality, health expenditures, environmental regulation, and carbon emissions in China from 1984 to 2018, finding an inverted U-shaped environmental Kuznets curve and that stronger environmental regulation helps decouple economic growth from carbon output.

2022 Frontiers in Public Health 7 citations
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Research and Development as a Moderating Variable for Sustainable Economic Performance: The Asian, European, and Kuwaiti Models

This is an economics and business study examining research and development spending as a moderating factor in the relationship between sustainability practices and economic performance. It is not related to environmental science or microplastics.

2020 Sustainability 12 citations
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Analyzing The Implementation of Green-Economy Inclusive Strategy in East Java Province Through Urban Good Governance in Green-Economy Framework: The Case of Surabaya

Researchers analysed the implementation of a green-economy strategy in Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia using a qualitative-descriptive approach and thematic analysis, evaluating four dimensions — decision-making, implementation capacity, green economy systems, and socio-ecological factors — to derive a replicable development strategy.

2024 East Java Economic Journal
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European Circular Economy Policy-Making in Sustainability and Resource Management Development

This study analyzed the development of circular economy policy across EU countries using circularity indicators, finding that high circularity scores do not necessarily correlate with lower environmental impact. The EU as a whole consumes the majority of global materials and generates 43% of emissions, highlighting gaps between circularity metrics and actual sustainability.

2024 International Journal of Mathematical Engineering and Management Sciences 4 citations
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Analyzing the linkage among CO2 emissions, economic growth, tourism, and energy consumption in the Asian economies

Researchers analyzed the long-run relationships between economic growth, tourism, energy use, and CO2 emissions in Asian economies from 1995–2017, finding evidence for the Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis and that tourism significantly contributes to environmental degradation, with a coefficient of 0.132 linking tourism growth to increased carbon emissions across the region.

2021 Environmental Science and Pollution Research 90 citations
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FDI, Trade, and Finance: Catalysts for Green Growth in ASEAN-5

Researchers applied fully modified ordinary least squares (FMOLS) estimation to investigate how foreign direct investment, trade openness, and financial development affect green economic growth across ASEAN-5 countries from 2010 to 2021. Results showed that FDI and financial development have positive effects on green growth while trade openness has a negative impact, with policy implications for promoting environmentally responsible investment and stricter trade-related environmental regulations.

2024 Journal of Contemporary Issues and Thought
Systematic Review Tier 1

Critical environmental management accounting practices influencing service delivery of growing cities in a developing economy: a review and conceptual framework

This systematic literature review identified key environmental management accounting practices that influence service delivery in local governments of developing economies. The findings highlight that energy accounting, material flow accounting, and water management accounting are critical but underutilized tools for addressing environmental challenges and improving sustainability in growing cities.

2024 Environment Systems & Decisions 11 citations
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Will China’s audit of natural environmental resource promote green sustainable development? Evidence from PSM-DID analysis based on substantial and strategic pollution reduction

This study used a multi-period difference-in-differences model to test whether China's natural resource audit policy promoted green sustainable development, finding that audited regions showed measurable improvements in environmental performance metrics. The results suggest accountability mechanisms can be effective tools for encouraging local green governance.

2022 PLoS ONE 9 citations
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Greenwashing's Influence on Corporate Performance and Strategies for Regulation and Oversight

This study analyzed how greenwashing affects corporate financial performance and reputation, finding that deceptive environmental marketing can provide short-term benefits but exposes companies to regulatory and reputational risks, and recommends enhanced oversight frameworks.

2024 Shanlax International Journal of Arts Science and Humanities 6 citations
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Green Supply Chain Coordination with Considering Carbon Emissions and Product Green Level Dependent Demand

Researchers developed a green supply chain coordination model that incorporates carbon emission costs and product green-level dependent demand, finding that green development policies and cost-sharing mechanisms can incentivize enterprises to adopt more sustainable supply chain operations.

2023 Preprints.org 3 citations
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The Impact of Ecolabels and Green Taxes on Market Outcomes

This review examines the economic mechanisms by which ecolabels and green taxes influence supplier and consumer behavior, with case studies on their use to reduce plastic waste in ocean and fisheries contexts.

2023 Sustainable development goals series 6 citations
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The Non-Linear Impact of Green Space Recreational Service Performance on Residents’ Emotional States in High-Density Cities

Researchers assessed green space recreational service performance in high-density Chinese cities and modeled its non-linear relationship with residents' emotional well-being. They found that moderate green space quality and accessibility had the strongest positive effects on emotional health, with diminishing returns at very high provision levels, informing urban park planning priorities.

2025 Land
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The Influence of Green Intellectual Capital on Sustainability: Mediating Effect of Green Human Resource Management

This conceptual paper proposes a model linking green intellectual capital to sustainability outcomes in Indonesian oil and gas companies, arguing that green human resource management mediates this relationship and identifying a gap in empirical research from developing economies that limits understanding of how knowledge-based resources drive environmental performance.

2022 Universiti Malaysia Terengganu Journal of Undergraduate Research
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A Retrospective Approach to Pro-Environmental Behavior from Environmental Education: An Alternative from Sustainable Development

This 20-year bibliometric retrospective on environmental education and pro-environmental behaviour research found a persistent gap between acquiring environmental knowledge and changing behaviour, concluding that participatory pedagogical approaches and greater integration of sustainable development into higher education are needed to bridge this divide.

2023 Sustainability 9 citations
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The Future of Fisheries Co-Management in The Context of Sustainable Blue Economy and Green Deal: There Is No Green Without Blue !

This study assessed how fisheries co-management schemes in European coastal communities are contributing to sustainability goals, finding that local governance structures play a critical role in promoting energy efficiency, climate adaptation, and sustainable blue economy practices.

2023 Preprints.org 8 citations
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Green Accounting Practices in Bali’s Hospitality Industry: A Strategic Approach to Sustainable Hotel Management

Researchers examined green accounting practices in ten major hotels in Bali's hospitality industry, focusing on environmental protection, waste management, eco-friendly purchasing, and energy conservation using a qualitative approach with semi-structured interviews. The study found that implementing green accounting as a strategic approach enables hotels to balance economic growth with environmental sustainability while responding to increasing regulatory and market pressures.

2025 Jurnal Ilmiah Manajemen Kesatuan
Meta Analysis Tier 1

New Model for Quantifying the Impact of the Social Economy on Water Resources’ Sustainability

This study models correlations between social economy indicators and water resource sustainability across EU27 countries, finding that environmental protection spending tends to cover ecological objectives even when exceeding budget allocations. The study is not related to microplastic research.

2024
Review Tier 2

Beneficial Use Impairments, Degradation of Aesthetics, and Human Health: A Review

This systematic literature review examined the relationship between environmental aesthetics, ecological quality, and human health outcomes in blue and green space development programs. Researchers found that while improving aesthetics is a common management goal, few studies have adequately quantified the link between aesthetically pleasing ecologically sound environments and measurable human health benefits, identifying a critical knowledge gap.

2022 UNC Libraries
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Economy or Environment? Sustainability from a Political Economy Perspective

This review examines environmental sustainability challenges from a political economy perspective, tracing the history of economic pressures on ecosystems from the mid-19th century to the present and evaluating theoretical frameworks and sustainability indicators used to monitor and limit the growing impact of economic systems on the natural environment.

2025 Ekonomista
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Nurses as agents for achieving environmentally sustainable health systems: A bibliometric analysis

This bibliometric analysis examined the role of nurses in achieving environmentally sustainable health systems, finding a lack of experimental data and policies and highlighting that nurses should be included in sustainability decision-making within healthcare.

2022 Journal of Nursing Management 28 citations