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In 2020, China's poverty alleviation has made decisive achievements, and the regional overall poverty problem and the absolute poverty problem of the rural population in China have been basically solved. But when the national poverty alleviation policy is optimized and adjusted, enhancing the endogenous sustainable development capacity of poverty-stricken areas and households has become the focus of consolidating the achievements of poverty alleviation and comprehensively promoting rural revitalization. Livelihood resilience, which focuses specifically on the ability of individuals to withstand external shocks and disturbances with their own capital, is a necessary attribute for achieving sustainable development. However, previous studies paid less attention to the disturbance of social factors and the driving effect of social environmental factors on the construction of livelihood resilience. Using 518 farmer survey data from Shaanxi Province, this paper explores the mechanism by which farmers individual capital affects their livelihood resilience through ICT adoption. Statistical analysis shows that social networks are the most important factor for farmers to resist risks and develop sustainably. The empirical study finds that farmers' individual capital and ICT adoption are important variables in the construction of farmers' livelihood resilience. Specifically, the more individual capital farmers possess, the more likely they are to have higher levels of livelihood resilience. The higher the level of ICT adoption by farmers. the more they tend to have higher levels of livelihood resilience. At the same time, the impact mechanism of farmers' individual capital and ICT adoption on livelihood resilience shows an intermediary effect: individual capital use of digital technology livelihood resilience. In this path. ICT adoption partially mediates the impact of individual capital on the level of livelihood resilience, and the indirect effect of ICT adoption on livelihood resilience is greater than the direct effect, and the results are robust. Further analysis shows that there is no significant gender difference in the impact of farmers' individual capital on livelihood resilience. Compared with previous literature this paper expands on the following aspects: first, the risk factors of most previous studies on livelihood resilience are natural and ecological. In this paper, the risk scenario of livelihood resilience was extended from relatively sudden natural ecology to changes in social factors, and the construction mechanism of livelihood resilience under changes in the social environment was constructed. Second, previous studies on livelihood resilience rarely included the effects of ICT adoption. In this paper, ICT adoption is included in the relationship between farmers' individual capital and livelihood resilience. Third, most previous literature finds that ICT adoption exacerbates the digital divide between urban residents and rural residents. However, this study finds that in the face of risks, digital technology, as an external social construction, also brings about social integration, and ICT adoption essentially plays a role in the redistribution of resources and factors between urban and rural areas and between regions. An important policy implication of this study is that in terms of effectively connecting the achievements of poverty alleviation and rural revitalization, the path of individual capital-digital technology-sustainable development should be generally followed, which would improve farmers' livelihood resilience and endogenous sustainable development ability in the face of external risks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As a fundamental factor driving economic growth, natural capital plays a key role in sustainable development. This paper incorporates various economic growth proxy variables into the MRW model and uses the BMA method to tackle the uncertainty issue of the model. Based on China's provincial-level panel data, this paper examines the impact of renewable natural capital and non-renewable natural capital on the country's economic growth and then carries out multiple mechanism analysis with the CART algorithm. The main findings are: 1 Natural capital has a significant deep impact on China's economic growth in models incorporating proximate and fundamental theories, and the direction of natural capital's impact varies with proxy indicators, which shows a significant 'Curse' effect of dependence and a 'Blessing' effect of abundance. This panoramic perspective can reconcile the serious disagreement on 'Resource Curse' among the literature. 2 The effects of renewable natural capital are in line with the 'Resource neutral' hypothesis, while nonrenewable natural capital has a stronger impact on economic growth in terms of both the 'Curse' effect of dependence and the 'Blessing' effect of abundance, and the overall effect on economic growth depends on patterns of resource use. 3 Under high physical capital accumulation, natural capital has a more fundamental impact on economic growth, and the 'Blessing' effect of abundance has been significantly enhanced. Based on their resource endowments and economic development levels, all provinces should reinvest natural resource rents in national wealth to mitigate the 'Resource Curse' through effective protection of natural capital and compensation from reinvestment. This is a reasonable way to embark on a win-win sustainable development path of economic development and ecological civilization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Forecasting trends in sustainable sustainability levels in metropolitan areas serves as the foundation for developing development policies that are tailored to local conditions. Sustainability evaluation studies based on a multidimensional comprehensive index system fall short of highlighting the variability, systemic, and dynamic nature of metropolitan area development. To better understand the role of multidimensional scenarios in guiding the sustainable development of metropolitan areas, a greater emphasis on suburban spatial units and spatial heterogeneity characteristics is required. Methods: We simulate the trends of sustainable development levels of 16 municipal districts in Beijing, China from 2011 to 2030 by combining the system dynamics model and the shared socioeconomic pathways, and thus condense the metropolitan area's sustainable development model and compare the advantages and shortcomings of each development scenario under different models. Results: The findings show that: (1) Beijing's municipal districts perform differently in economic, social, and environmental subsystems, and there are three types of typical districts: Synergistic development, ecologically biased development, and economic constraint. (2) Shared socioeconomic pathway (SSP) 1 is the most desirable urban sustainable development scenario among the four scenarios of SSP1, SSP2 (BAU (business-as-usual)), SSP3, and SSP5. (3) In order to achieve the transition from the historical trajectory to the SSP1 scenario, each district type should pursue a distinct development strategy. To improve the quality of coordinated development, synergistic development type zones should use social security and employment expenditures to compensate for the shortcomings of social development. Ecologically biased zones should reduce energy consumption and increase environmental protection investment to maintain environmental advantages, and economic constraint type zones can maintain high gross domestic product growth rates in the short term to get out of the development dilemma. Conclusions: The findings of this paper highlight the complex cause-and-effect relationships between urban economic, social, and environmental systems and offer a framework for system evaluation and simulation technology for the sustainable development of metropolitan areas. This framework will serve as a source of regulations and a foundation for management of urban refinement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the deepening of the “double carbon” goal in agricultural development, the green development of agriculture has become a concrete practice to accelerate the structural reform of the agricultural supply side and the modernization of agriculture and rural areas. As a big agricultural province, Jiangxi has great potential to promote the green transformation of agriculture, but the green development of agriculture is still in the embryonic stage, and it faces new opportunities and challenges in the new historical period. Based on the investigation of the current situation of agricultural green development in Jiangxi Province, this paper expounds the development process and achievements in agricultural green development system, agricultural resource protection, low-carbon industry construction and other aspects, and analyzes the existing problems and deficiencies in agricultural industry structure, scientific and technological service level, characteristic industry development, green brand building and other aspects. The feasible suggestions for better and faster development of green agriculture were discussed from the optimization of industrial structure, expansion of the scale of operation, improvement of the quality and quantity of agricultural products, strengthening the restoration of ecological function, increasing the introduction of talents, innovation of green development mode and other aspects, in order to provide reference for speeding up the green development of agriculture in Jiangxi and even the whole country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, the development process, current situation and existing problems of agricultural standardization demonstration areas in China are analyzed in depth. It is found that there are many problems in the agricultural standardization demonstration zone, such as insufficient policy support, insufficient capital investment, lack of professional and technical personnel, and weak farmers’ awareness of standardization, which need to be solved. Therefore, in the construction process of agricultural standardization demonstration zone, governments at all levels should provide a good policy environment in terms of policies, projects and systems; by formulating corresponding local standards, improve the standardized production system and build a diversified technology promotion system; establish the traceability system of agricultural products, create agricultural brands, continue to promote the construction of agricultural standardization in the way of brand-driven standardization, continue to improve the economic, social and ecological benefits of the demonstration zone, and ensure the sustainable development of the agricultural standardization demonstration zone. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Construction of "blue granary" is an important move to implement China's maritime power strategy, and is of great strategic significance for maintaining sustainable development of marine resources and guaranteeing national food security. As a major fishery province, Guangdong Province has rich marine resources and is one of the key provinces for the construction of blue granary in China. This paper analyzes the development characteristics of the international blue granary industry powerhouses, the United States and Norway, and the domestic blue granary industry powerhouses, Shandong and Fujian, comparing and analyzing the main problems faced by the development of blue granary industry in Guangdong Province, such as insufficient level of scientific and technological innovation, low level of community participation and lack of supervision and management, and drawing on the initiatives and experience of the construction of the blue granary at home and abroad, it proposes promote the transformation and upgrading of the fisheries industry, promote the development of the marine tertiary industry; improve the capacity of fisheries science and technology research and development, accelerate the transformation of scientific and technological achievements in fisheries; play the role of fisheries associations to guide the masses to participate consciously; improve the legal management system, integration of management institutions intelligence and other suggestions for improvement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Rural tourism is an important way to promote rural economic development and improve farmers' life, and it is of great significance to the economic and social development of northwest minority areas. Based on the actual situation of rural tourism development in northwest ethnic areas, this paper aims to study the development path and key factors of rural tourism in northwest ethnic areas of China, and put forward feasible suggestions. Through the research, it is found that the rural tourism resources in this area are rich, but there are still a series of problems in the development process, such as insufficient government guidance, single tourism products, rural image and quality is not high. The development path of rural tourism in northwest ethnic areas should pay attention to culture, ecology and community participation. The government should strengthen guidance and promotion, improve the quality and image of rural tourism, and promote the coupling development of tourism industry and rural economy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the past few decades, earth observation has experienced rapid development, which provides necessary theoretical knowledge, research means and methods for global sustainable development. By searching the Web of Science core collection database and using CiteSpace, a knowledge map tool, this study conducted a bibliometric analysis of sustainable development research based on earth observation from 1991 to 2021. This study analyzed the research progress based on the literature output trends, publishing regions and cooperation network, high-frequency terms and terms with the strongest citation bursts, and proposed future research directions. The results show that: ①The number of articles published in the field of "earth observation technology and sustainable development" is generally on the rise, which can be divided into germination stage, growth stage and rapid development stage. ②There is close international cooperation in the study of earth observation technology and sustainable development, among which, United States and Germany are in a leading position in terms of the number and influence of published paper. These countries are rich in scientific research. China and other developing countries have a dominant position in the number of publications, but their international influence still needs to be improved. ③At present, research focuses on the environmental protection related contents such as land use/land cover change, climate change, natural resources and water resources. In recent years, the research field has been constantly integrating artificial intelligence, mathematical statistics and other emerging methods, and the research content tends to be diversified. In the future research, it is necessary to fully achieve the supporting role of earth observation technology and contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals through a Decade of Action, and to deepen the study of earth observation data and facilitate data sharing in order to open up a new path for wide application. The combination of earth observation data with traditional statistical data should be strengthened to achieve the fully functioning of the potential of earth observation in SDGs monitoring. We can focus on international cooperation and take global action. These can help us to provide effective strategic and decision reference for the realization of the Sustainable Development Goals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]