Dongbei University of Finance and Economics

Addressing the governance dilemma of urban low value waste under misalignment

Municipal solid waste (MSW) governance has attracted growing global attention. However, low-value waste (LVW) remains a critical bottleneck undermining system-wide performance. Drawing on theories of policy–technology–management alignment and urban environmental governance, this...

Environmental sustainability in belt and road economies: quantile GMM STIRPAT evidence on the roles of trade, digitalization, renewable energy, innovation, urbanization, and human development

The stress on environmental systems of the involved economies has increased due to the fast rate of economic integration encouraged by the Belt and Road Initiative. The massive infrastructural spending, intensifying trade movement, and quickening urbanisation have simultaneously...

Counterfactual load forecasting with LLM-structured events and representation learning

News-reported social, environmental, and grid events can substantially reshape electricity demand, yet quantifying how such events perturb forecasted load trajectories remains largely unaddressed. Existing news-augmented forecasting studies use news as auxiliary features to reduc...