Editorial Team

Editor-in-Chief

Name: Prof. Hamid Mattiello
Affiliation: University of Applied Sciences, Fachhochschole des Mittelstand (FHM), Germany
Interests: the X.0 wave theory; blue-green sustainability; digitalization; SME; culture; future studies

Name: Prof. Carlo Bulletti
Affiliation: Yale University, United States
Interests: gynecology-obstetrics; reproductive medicine

Editorial Board Members

Name: Assoc. Prof. Yongqing Dong
Affiliation: Tianjin University, China
Interests: social development; public policy; population and health

Name: Prof. Muhammad Irfan
Affiliation: Shandong Management University, China
Interests: business economics; environmental economics; energy economics; consumer behavior; global business strategy; sustainability; business management; business and sustainability challenges; digitalization in international business marketing

Name: MD. MBA. MPH. Nicolai Savaskan
Affiliation: Public Health Authority Neukölln, Germany
Interests: neuroscience; cancer; infection control; glutamate signaling; public health; migration; mental health

Name: Dr. Shah Saud
Affiliation: Beijing Institute of Technology, China
Interests: financial economics; sustainable development; sustainable reporting; corporate social responsibility; corporate governance

Name: Dr. Maomao Zhang
Affiliation: Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Interests: land use and management; urban climate; ecosystem services; urban-rural development and sustainability

Name: Dr. Shaopeng Zhang
Affiliation: Northeast Forestry University, China
Interests: environmental economics; ecological economics; innovation economics

Name: Prof. Jieren Hu
Affiliation: Hangzhou City University, China
Interests: Sociology of Law; Dispute Resolution; Mediation; Marriage and Family; Social Governance in Urban China

Name: Prof. Owiti A. K'Akumu
Affiliation: University of Nairobi, Kenya
Interests: real estate; urban governance; housing environment; institutional economics; urban land use

Name: Dr. Claudia Durán
Affiliation: Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana, Chile
Interests: data analytics; smart logistic; knowledge engineering; decision making; strategic management

Name: Prof. Yi-Chung Hu
Affiliation: Chung Yuan Christian University, Taiwan
Interests: multi-criteria decision making; data mining; management science; soft computing; forecasting

Name: Dr. Vaibhav Narwane
Affiliation: Somaiya Vidyavihar University, India
Interests: AI/ML for Manufacturing; Big Data Analytics; Smart Manufacturing; Supply Chain Analytics

Name: Dr. Muhammad Imran
Affiliation: Hengxing University Qingdao China, China
Interests: Regional Economics; Regional Development; Urban Economics; Economic Development; Spatial Economics; Regional Science; Urban Development; Location Theory; Spatial Development; Urban Sustainability

Name: Dr. Yasir Rasool
Affiliation: Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China
Interests: Sustainable Growth; Technology Innovation; Environment sustainability; Green Finance; Environmental Policy

Name: Prof. Nikos Papadakis
Affiliation: University of Crete, Greece
Interests: public policies in education and training; employment policies; social policy; migration policy; EU policy and research methodology

Name: Dr. Xiaoyun Jia
Affiliation: Shandong Univeristy, China
Interests: behavior sciences; digital media; social psychology; human-computer interactions; e-commerce; information systems

Name: Dr. Jurate Sliogeriene
Affiliation: Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania
Interests: Sustainable Development of Energy Systems and Infrastructure; Energy Security; Public Sector Corporate Governance; Modelling of Decision Support Systems; Multi-Criteria Decision Methods (MCDM) and Their Applications

Name: Dr. Abd Alwahed Dagestani
Affiliation: Central South University, China
Interests: environmental policy analysis; legitimacy theory; porter hypothesis

Name: Assoc. Prof. Dr. R. B. Radin Firdaus
Affiliation: Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia
Interests: agriculture and rural development

Name: Prof. Mengzhong Zhang
Affiliation: Gannon University, United States
Interests: public administration history and theory; public budgeting and fiscal administration; comparative public administration; policy analysis; modern governance

Name: Prof. Hans-Joerg Albrecht
Affiliation: Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Germany
Interests: sentence theory; juvenile crime and justice; illegal drug policy; environmental and organized crime; evaluative research on the role of criminal justice in transitional legal systems

Name: Prof. Sunil Choenni
Affiliation: Rotterdam University of Applied Science, Netherlands
Interests: Evidence-based Policy; Artificial Intelligence and Society; Data Science and Society; Algorithmic Fairness

Name: Prof. Lisheng Dong
Affiliation: University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China
Interests: Comparative Politics and Government; Public Administration Theory; Comparative Administrative Reforms; Comparative Civil Service Systems; Democratization and Party Politics; Eu and China Mutual Perceptions; Comparative Metropolitan Politics and Governance; Comparative Electoral Systems; Central-Local Relations; Local Governance

Name: Dr. Rahul V. Ralegaonkar
Affiliation: VNIT Nagpur, India
Interests: green building; sustainable construction; construction materials; energy efficiency in building; sustainability; sustainable development

Name: Prof. Reima Suomi
Affiliation: University of Turku, Finland
Interests: management of telecommunication networks; electronic and mobile services; virtual organizations; telework

Name: Dr. Murad Bein
Affiliation: Cyprus International University, Turkey
Interests: energy economics; health economics; financial economics; cost and benefit analysis

Name: Dr. Stephen Taiwo Onifade
Affiliation: University of Vaasa, Finland
Interests: sustainable development; energy & environmental economics; econometric modeling

Name: Dr. Najeeb Al-Shorbaji
Affiliation: eHealth Development Association, Jordan
Interests: information management; health informatics; public environmental; occupational health

Name: Prof. Athanasius P. Bayuseno
Affiliation: Diponegoro University, Indonesia
Interests: engineering; materials science; physics; science & technology; environmental sciences & ecology

Name: Prof. Pham Duy Hien
Affiliation: Vietnam Atomic Energy Institute, Viet Nam
Interests: environmental sciences & ecology; meteorology & atmospheric sciences; nuclear science & technology; energy & fuels

Name: Dr. Azka Amin
Affiliation: Hainan University, China
Interests: energy economics; environmental economics; international economics

The rapid increase in the use of disposable baby diapers in urban areas is associated with a number of environmental challenges. This study assesses the environmental challenges of disposable baby diapers in Hwange, Zimbabwe. Questionnaires, interviews, and field observations were used for data collection in this study. Data collected from the field was analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 25.0 and Microsoft Excel. The study findings show that pollution, diseases, and odours are the major challenges of poor waste management associated with disposable baby diapers in Hwange ZPC residential areas. The study recommends the involvement of responsible authorities in conscientious recycling and education on waste management. The research also recommends the need to conduct longitudinal research to establish the position of local and central government in the bid to promote a safe and healthy environment in mining towns such as Hwange, as they are overlooked.

COVID-19 affected various communities across the globe in different ways. The study assessed the impacts of COVID-19 lockdown on domestic violence in Southlea-Park residential area in Harare. A mixed methods research design was adopted as it allowed use of both qualitative and quantitative data collection approaches. Questionnaires, interviews and observations were employed for data collection. The research showed that DV in Southlea Park residential area emanated from drug abuse, juvenile delinquency, and conflicts over decision- making between parents, prostitution and food insufficiency among others. The study indicated that most dominant forms of DV in Southlea Park during the COVID-19 lockdown period included physical, emotional and verbal violence. The findings from this study indicated that males suffered more from verbal and psychological violence whilst females suffered more from physical, economic, sexual and emotional violence. The research concludes that COVID-19 had massive influence on domestic violence, however, the Zimbabwe Republic Police should ensure deployment of police officers in temporally camps within or close to residential areas that are far from police stations to ensure public safety during situations that trigger domestic and other forms of violence in residential areas and the Ministry of Women Affairs, Community, Small and Medium Enterprises Development in Zimbabwe should ensure availability of agents responsible for ensuring against vulnerability of people to gender, domestic and other forms of violence in all communities of the country especially during situations that trigger violence.

The study assessed land use/cover changes in Upper Runnde sub-catchment in Zimbabwe between 2000 and 2020 using GIS and remote sensing techniques with the support of interviews and field observations. Faster land use/cover changes were experienced within the 2000–2010 decade when compared to the 2010–2020 decade for instance bare land increased by 92.1% between 2000–2010 compared to 16.5% between 2010–2020. Major land cover transformations included change from forest land to bare land, grassland and shrub land, change from grassland to bare and shrub land to grassland. The results confirmed conversion of forests to agricultural lands and settlements following the fast track land reform program in 2000 and livestock increase induced overgrazing as major human activities driving land cover changes. There is a need for serious attention from resource management stakeholders before depletion of critical resources like water and woodlands. Therefore, The Ministry of Lands, Agriculture, Water and Rural Resettlement and the Zimbabwe National Water Authority may consider strict auditing of land uses and water resource use in catchment areas to guard against encroachment of agriculture and other land uses in protected lands and fragile ecosystems like water bodies and wetlands.