Pub Date : 2026-06-01Epub Date: 2026-01-19DOI: 10.1016/j.eiar.2026.108342
Luming Yan , Ruilian Zhang , Ming Ji , Yujian Li
This study investigates the impact of China's Social Stability Risk Assessment (SSRA) policy on the effectiveness of social governance. By analyzing policy implementation across various administrative regions and evaluating governance outcomes using a comprehensive index framework, the paper assesses whether SSRA contributes to proactive conflict resolution, enhanced public participation, and improved administrative coordination. Empirical evidence from regional case studies and statistical analyses suggests that the SSRA policy positively correlates with improvements in social governance, particularly in regions with strong institutional capacities and transparent risk evaluation mechanisms. However, the policy's effectiveness is uneven across jurisdictions, highlighting the importance of local governance conditions and policy enforcement quality. The findings offer insights into the role of preventive governance tools in maintaining social stability and enhancing state-society relations in transitional governance contexts.
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Pub Date : 2026-06-01Epub Date: 2025-12-19DOI: 10.1016/j.techsoc.2025.103206
Yuxiang Hong , Majid Mohammad Shafiee , Merrill Warkentin
Cybersecurity awareness refers to basic literacy in the digital age. This study discusses the influencing mechanism of an individual's life satisfaction on cybersecurity awareness, considering the mediating effects of internet dependence and burnout based on the broaden-and-build theory (BBT) of positive emotions as well as compensatory internet use (CIU) theory. We constructed a theoretical framework and tested hypotheses using regression analysis of a sample of 951 subjects based on a longitudinal survey. The empirical results showed that life satisfaction - as a stable cognitive indicator of subjective well-being - was associated with higher cybersecurity awareness, both directly and indirectly through pathways informed by the BBT and CIU theory. This study provides managers with actionable insights for promoting cybersecurity awareness by fostering psychological resources (e.g., life satisfaction) that buffer against security fatigue and burnout.
{"title":"The role of life satisfaction in cybersecurity awareness: A broaden-and-build perspective","authors":"Yuxiang Hong , Majid Mohammad Shafiee , Merrill Warkentin","doi":"10.1016/j.techsoc.2025.103206","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.techsoc.2025.103206","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Cybersecurity awareness refers to basic literacy in the digital age. This study discusses the influencing mechanism of an individual's life satisfaction on cybersecurity awareness, considering the mediating effects of internet dependence and burnout based on the broaden-and-build theory (BBT) of positive emotions as well as compensatory internet use (CIU) theory. We constructed a theoretical framework and tested hypotheses using regression analysis of a sample of 951 subjects based on a longitudinal survey. The empirical results showed that life satisfaction - as a stable cognitive indicator of subjective well-being - was associated with higher cybersecurity awareness, both directly and indirectly through pathways informed by the BBT and CIU theory. This study provides managers with actionable insights for promoting cybersecurity awareness by fostering psychological resources (e.g., life satisfaction) that buffer against security fatigue and burnout.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47979,"journal":{"name":"Technology in Society","volume":"85 ","pages":"Article 103206"},"PeriodicalIF":12.5,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145839463","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Reconciling economic growth with sustainability challenges is a pressing priority for the Eurozone’s digital revolution. This study addresses a key gap by examining how green FinTech, global supply chains, and sustainable infrastructure interact to foster digital trade in the OECD and Europe. This study constructs a 24-year panel dataset of 39 economies from 2000 to 2023 to achieve the study’s main objective. To efficiently explore this research objective, the study employs novel and robust approaches, firstly, to construct three indices: the global supply chain, sustainable infrastructure, and Green FinTech index via Machine-Learning Time Heterogeneous factor analysis. Secondly, the study employs a dynamic, robust Panel Quantile Autoregressive Distributed Lag model with a moderation-effect specification (P-QARDL-ME). The theoretical foundation draws on global value chain and sustainability theories to link the variables to the study’s overarching goals. The findings reveal that integration of global supply chains and green FinTech solutions significantly enhances digital trade. Whereas Sustainable infrastructure plays a pivotal role in digital trade, it significantly decouples economic growth from environmental pollution, thereby promoting sustainability across the Eurozone. Integrating these results with global value chain and sustainability theories offers meaningful policy insights for the European Union, the World Trade Organization, regulators, businesses, and policymakers. Overall, the study advocates for stakeholder engagement and cross-border digital trade to support sustainable economic growth.
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Pub Date : 2026-06-01Epub Date: 2026-01-06DOI: 10.1016/j.techsoc.2026.103228
Zongpu Yang , Usman Mehmood , Abdulateif A. Almulhim , Abdullah A. Aljughaiman
The global economic landscape has been increasingly shaped by technological disruption, demographic pressures, and external shocks such as the COVID-19 pandemic, raising urgent questions about what drives economic resilience (ER) in developing regions like ASEAN. This study investigates the determinants of ER across ten ASEAN countries from 2010 to 2023, focusing on population growth (PG), foreign investment (FI), digital economy (DE), talent (TLN), and technology (TECH). After confirming slope heterogeneity and cross-sectional dependence, unit root tests (CADF, CIPS) and Westerlund cointegration were applied, followed by the Method of Moments Quantile Regression (MMQR) as the main estimator. To account for global shocks and cross-sectional dependence, Augmented Mean Group (AMG) and Common Correlated Effects Mean Group (CCEMG) estimators were employed, while Fixed Effects (FE), Feasible Generalized Least Squares (FGLS), and Driscoll–Kraay errors were used for robustness. The results reveal significant heterogeneity across the ER distribution. FI, TLN, and TECH exhibit rising positive effects at higher quantiles, indicating that more resilient economies benefit more from capital inflows, education quality, and digital readiness. DE has a limited or mixed influence, becoming significant only under certain long-run models, while PG shows weak and inconsistent effects. Contrasts between MMQR and long-run estimators highlight that short-term resilience during shocks such as COVID-19 is shaped by digital infrastructure and institutional capacity, whereas long-run gains depend on regional integration and structural reform. Robustness checks largely affirm these patterns. The study concludes that ASEAN's resilience is shaped by both absorptive capacity and policy responsiveness. It underscores the need for inclusive digitalization, human capital development, and coordinated regional strategies to ensure that economic shocks translate into adaptive, rather than regressive, outcomes. These findings inform targeted reforms that can help ASEAN countries build resilience in a volatile and interconnected global economy.
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Pub Date : 2026-06-01Epub Date: 2026-02-06DOI: 10.1016/j.eiar.2026.108364
Israel Carreira-Barral , Ana García-Moral , María Emilia Iñigo-Martínez , Julieta Díez-Hernández , Jesús Ibáñez , Mario Alonso-Terán , Patricia De La Fuente , Rocío Barros , Sonia Martel-Martín
This work proposes a straightforward methodology for integrating the environmental, economic, social, criticality and circularity dimensions as normalised indicators into a single equation, yielding a sustainability index, and demonstrates its applicability in the context of the steelmaking industry. This new approach, designed for early development stages and based on the elemental composition of the input materials (metal scraps and raw materials), allows the identification of those within a dataset that are of greatest concern according to their sustainability index and facilitates decision-making regarding their use in alloy production. A sensitivity analysis, with 11 studied scenarios, was conducted to evaluate the influence of the five indicators on the outcome, assigning different weights to them. The developed strategy, compatible with the Safe and Sustainable by Design framework, was successfully applied to a family of 207 materials of varying qualities. A set of raw materials, including both ferroalloys and pure elements, was identified as the most worrying group from the sustainability viewpoint, in line with previous works (e.g., ferroniobium, ferrotungsten, pure cobalt and pure copper), thereby validating the described framework. However, metal scraps should, whenever feasible, be prioritised, as their recovery would reduce the reliance on mineral resources. Consequently, a number of them are presented as alternatives to the least sustainable raw materials according to their sustainability indexes. The application of this methodology provides a holistic view of sustainability and enables rapid decisions regarding which products from a given set are more suitable for use, based on their index values and stakeholder needs.
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Pub Date : 2026-06-01Epub Date: 2025-12-26DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101842
Neil Howard
Fierce debates rage over ‘what to do’ about child labour in artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM). Long decried as a site of exploitation, ASM is demonised by much of the international child protection architecture as an archaic relic in need of eradication. By contrast, working children’s movements, civil society advocates, and sympathetic academics all argue that the picture is more complex, that child work, including in ASM, can bring many benefits, and thus that regulation is better than repression. To this more progressive, yet still reformist, strand of argument has recently been added a more radical alternative, calling for massive redistribution to address ‘the root causes of the root causes’. This paper reviews the field of competing representations of and proposed responses to child labour in ASM. It argues that although the repressive strand remains hegemonic, the reformist is gaining ground, while the radical is pointing in increasingly progressive political directions. The paper marks, in 2025, not only the point at which all child work in ASM should have been eradicated, according to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, but also the 20th anniversary of the International Labour Organisation’s seminal take on the issue, A Load Too Heavy.
关于如何处理手工和小规模采矿（ASM）中的童工问题，人们展开了激烈的辩论。ASM长期以来被谴责为剥削的场所，被许多国际儿童保护机构妖魔化，被视为需要根除的古老遗迹。相比之下，童工运动、民间社会倡导者和富有同情心的学者们都认为，情况要复杂得多，童工工作，包括ASM，可以带来许多好处，因此监管比镇压要好。对于这种更进步，但仍然是改革派的观点，最近又增加了一个更激进的选择，呼吁进行大规模的再分配，以解决“根本原因的根本原因”。本文回顾了ASM中童工的竞争代表和提出的回应。该书认为，尽管压制派仍然占据主导地位，但改革派正在得势，而激进派则指向日益进步的政治方向。根据联合国（un）的可持续发展目标（Sustainable Development Goals）， 2025年不仅标志着亚洲地区所有童工都应该被根除，而且标志着国际劳工组织（ilo）对这一问题的开创性研究《负担太重》（A Load Too Heavy）发表20周年。
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Pub Date : 2026-06-01Epub Date: 2026-01-05DOI: 10.1016/j.techsoc.2026.103217
Alireza Moghayedi , Kathy Michell , Shalini Urs , Anh Tran , Jim Mason
The rapid digital transformation of urban environments is reshaping how citizens interact with public infrastructure. One emerging innovation is Digitalized Urban Public Facilities (DUPFs). While DUPFs are widely recognized for their operational and technological benefits, their social implications, particularly regarding inclusivity and social sustainability, remain underexplored. This study addresses this gap by examining how DUPF characteristics, user experiences, and socio-demographic profiles interact to shape perceptions of inclusivity and social sustainability. Adopting a multi-method quantitative research design, the study combines descriptive analysis and inferential modeling techniques. Drawing from a comprehensive literature review, a causal model is developed and validated using survey data collected from users across four global case studies. Through structural equation modeling (SEM) and moderation analysis, the findings reveal that DUPFs significantly enhance social sustainability, especially among marginalized and older users, who benefit most from improved accessibility, usability, and service responsiveness. The results further highlight that higher levels of digitalization and accessible information correlate strongly with perceived inclusivity. Moderation effects show that age and marginalization status amplify the positive impacts of DUPFs, while gender and income have minimal moderating influence. This study contributes novel insights into the social value of digital public services and provides actionable guidance for designing inclusive, user-centered DUPFs that advance equity and urban sustainability across diverse communities.
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Pub Date : 2026-06-01Epub Date: 2025-11-19DOI: 10.1016/j.techsoc.2025.103173
Bingqin Han , Diyi Liu
As AI humanoid robots increasingly enter domestic spaces, understanding the multifaceted drivers of user acceptance becomes crucial. However, existing technology acceptance models often overlook the unique contextual and emotional demands of home settings, the spaces characterized by intimacy, informality, and privacy sensitivity. This study proposes a novel “onion model” of AI humanoid robot acceptance in home settings, structured across three layers: technical, psychological, and social. Drawing on data from 1373 individuals in China, results reveal that technical performance, particularly reliability (β = 0.355) and usability (β = 0.341), serves as the foundational layer of acceptance, while customization (β = 0.230) and cost–benefit evaluation (β = 0.325) significantly enhance user attachment and rational justification. Perceived intrusiveness strongly deters acceptance (β = −0.101), reflecting heightened privacy sensitivities in home environments. For social factor, peer influence was also found to play a significant role (β = 0.207), highlighting the importance of collective norms in shaping individual decisions. The findings contribute both a contextually grounded and theoretically novel framework for understanding AI adoption, offering actionable insights for developers, policymakers, and researchers seeking to advance human–AI integration in everyday life.
{"title":"Peeling back acceptance: An onion model of AI humanoid robot adoption in homes","authors":"Bingqin Han , Diyi Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.techsoc.2025.103173","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.techsoc.2025.103173","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>As AI humanoid robots increasingly enter domestic spaces, understanding the multifaceted drivers of user acceptance becomes crucial. However, existing technology acceptance models often overlook the unique contextual and emotional demands of home settings, the spaces characterized by intimacy, informality, and privacy sensitivity. This study proposes a novel “onion model” of AI humanoid robot acceptance in home settings, structured across three layers: technical, psychological, and social. Drawing on data from 1373 individuals in China, results reveal that technical performance, particularly reliability (β = 0.355) and usability (β = 0.341), serves as the foundational layer of acceptance, while customization (β = 0.230) and cost–benefit evaluation (β = 0.325) significantly enhance user attachment and rational justification. Perceived intrusiveness strongly deters acceptance (β = −0.101), reflecting heightened privacy sensitivities in home environments. For social factor, peer influence was also found to play a significant role (β = 0.207), highlighting the importance of collective norms in shaping individual decisions. The findings contribute both a contextually grounded and theoretically novel framework for understanding AI adoption, offering actionable insights for developers, policymakers, and researchers seeking to advance human–AI integration in everyday life.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47979,"journal":{"name":"Technology in Society","volume":"85 ","pages":"Article 103173"},"PeriodicalIF":12.5,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145579371","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
For effective climate mitigation, land ecosystem conservation should focus on preserving carbon sinks instead of carbon stocks. However, the carbon sink capacity of land ecosystems is dynamic and uncertain, and its conservation is management-intensive and livelihood-impacting. This calls for more reliable evidence on future carbon sink dynamics and feasible policies for their conservation. This study evaluated spatial priorities for future carbon sink conservation in China by predicting carbon sink capacity from 2020 to 2100 using machine-learning models, while also mapping potential costs associated with management and population impacts. We found that intensified climate change may undermine future carbon sink capacity across extensive regions. Prioritised conservation areas were identified primarily in central, southern, and northeastern China, covering 8 %, 21.3 %, and 33.9 % of the country under conservative, moderate, and ambitious conservation targets, respectively. There is a modest synergy between priorities for carbon sink and biodiversity conservation, with a correlation coefficient of 0.515 and a spatial overlap of 9.9 %–42.6 % depending on conservation target levels. For actionable policies, we recommend focusing intensive management on just 12.6 % of China’s land, which aligns well with existing national ecological restoration projects. These findings provide evidence-based and feasible policies for carbon sink conservation in a resource-constrained country, with implications discussed for developing countries worldwide.
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Pub Date : 2026-06-01Epub Date: 2026-02-21DOI: 10.1016/j.marpol.2026.107083
Pablo Fraile-Jurado
This paper traces the evolution of marine spatial planning (MSP) in Spain, from early geographical reflections on the territoriality of the sea to the institutional implementation of legally binding marine spatial plans. Building on the tradition of maritime geography, Spanish scholarship conceptualized the ocean as a political and spatial domain long before MSP emerged as a formal policy tool. The paper situates this intellectual lineage within the Europeanization of marine policy and the establishment of the Planes de Ordenación del Espacio Marítimo (POEMs) in 2023. By combining theoretical, cartographic, and administrative perspectives, it highlights how Spain’s trajectory exemplifies the convergence between academic innovation and policy implementation. The analysis underscores both the achievements and the ongoing challenges of developing a coherent, adaptive framework for marine governance in a multilevel European context.
本文追溯了西班牙海洋空间规划（MSP）的演变，从早期对海洋领土的地理反思到具有法律约束力的海洋空间规划的制度实施。在海洋地理学传统的基础上，早在MSP成为正式的政策工具之前，西班牙学者就将海洋概念化为一个政治和空间领域。本文将这一知识谱系置于海洋政策的欧洲化和2023年建立的平面Ordenación del Espacio Marítimo （POEMs）中。通过结合理论、制图和行政观点，它突出了西班牙的发展轨迹如何体现了学术创新与政策实施之间的融合。分析强调了在欧洲多层次背景下制定连贯、适应性的海洋治理框架所取得的成就和面临的挑战。
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