THE STRATEGY OF PALM OIL PLANTATION EXPANSION BUSINESS IN RELATION TO ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY ISSUES: OVERCOMING THE CHALLENGES

The qualitative study aims to find out the strategy to overcome challenges of palm oil plantation expansion business in relation to environmental sustainability issues. The contribution of palm oil plantation related business has been an essential part in developing the Indonesian economy for decades. With its contribution to Indonesia's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) surmounting to more than 15 billion USD in terms of export on the year 2020 (GAPKI, 2020), and with more than 40 billion USD in terms of foreign exchange revenue to Indonesia on the year 2021 (Astra, 2021), it is no doubt the importance of Crude Palm Oil (CPO) which is the by-product of palm oil tree (Elaeis guineensis) has the utmost significant contribution to the Indonesian economy. The palm oil plantation has also significant contribution to the livelihood of the Indonesian citizen by providing jobs for more than 16 million people (CNN, 2021) especially when the pandemic Covid-19 era is happening throughout the world, and the industry also increases the social welfare of its farmers by programs that enrich the farmers with its nucleus-plasma program which fosters a partnership between the palm oil plantation companies and its local communities in a profit sharing mechanism that contributes to a minimum of 20% of total land cultivated for palm oil plantation. [ FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of Eduvest: Journal Of Universal Studies is the property of Green Publisher and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full . (Copyright applies to all s.)

Economically viable flower drying techniques to sustain flower industry amid COVID-19 pandemic.

Imposing lockdown amid COVID-19 pandemic has severely affected flower cultivation and their trades. Flower plants are very sensitive to the harvesting, and any unexpected delay may cause great loss (~ 50-60%) to the farmers. In 2018-2019, the worth of total production of floriculture products was ~ Rs 571.38 crore. During lockdown, the availability of human laborers and restricted transport has disrupted the supply of flowers to the market. Hence, some alternative options are suggested here for the farmers, for example, conversion of decorative flowers (e.g., anthurium, China aster, globe amaranthus, sweet-william, anemone, sea lavender, etc.) and inflorescence (e.g., Michaelmas daisy, zinnia, statice, ferns, aspidistra, eucalyptus, magnolia, etc.) can also be into value-added products through drying and dehydration technologies. Many dehydration methods such as hot air oven, solar drying, press drying, freeze-drying, embedded drying, glycerine drying, and microwave oven drying polyester drying can be used for flower drying at room temperature (~ 25 °C). These floral and foliage dehydration techniques are quite simple, which can also be operated by unskilled persons. Moreover, it will generate self-employment for the youth and women along with increased revenue than selling fresh flowers. In this review, different techniques of flower drying have been discussed in detail along with the influencing factors, efficiency, economic feasibility, flower waste management and sustainability. Further, it has also been suggested how these techniques could be useful for farmers, researchers, and traders to create value-added products? Hence, the present paper could be very interesting for the flower growers, retailers, students, as well as floricultural scientists who are involved in flower production worldwide.

Impact of disposable mask microplastics pollution on the aquatic environment and microalgae growth.

The COVID-19 pandemic has mandated people to use medical masks to protect the public. However the improper management of disposable mask waste has led to the increase of marine pollution, in terms of water quality, and the decline in aquatic microorganisms. The aim of this research was to investigate the impact of disposable mask waste on fresh water and microalgae biomass quality. Disposable masks (untreated or treated with Enterococcus faecalis) were placed in 10-L glass reactors containing fresh water or water containing algal Chlorella sp. and its growth supplements (Chlorella medium) (four 10-L reactors in total) and kept in controlled conditions for 3 months. Water and biomass yield quality were evaluated using water quality analysis, spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and proximate lipid and protein analysis. Disposable masks, incubated in either fresh water or Chlorella medium, affected several water quality parameters such as chemical oxygen demand (COD), biological oxygen demand (BOD), dissolved oxygen (DO), and pH. Microplastic identification revealed that some fibers were present in the water following a 100-day treatment process. Fourier transform-infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) analysis was used to determine the change in important, organic functional groups and highlighted the disappearance of a peak at 1530 cm-1 corresponding to the primary protein (C-N) and the appearance of new peaks at 1651 cm-1 and 1270 cm-1 corresponding to methyl alcohol (CH2OH) and ketone (C = O), respectively. This indicated the detrimental effect of disposable mask fragmentation on the biomass quality. The SEM investigation has shown a damage to the surface membrane of Chlorella sp. cells. Altogether, disposable masks decreased the water quality and damaged microalgae by inhibiting their growth. Therefore, the disposable mask contaminated by various microbes, after being used by a human, may be one of the most dangerous hazards to the environment.

Human Impacts on Natural Habitats Leading to Covid-19 Pandemic

In the history of mankind, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has emerged as one of the most alarming pandemics. The causative organism of COVID-19 is severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) that has affected humans with high infection and mortality rates. SARS-CoV-2 is proposed to be a zoonotic virus with reservoir animals being bats or pangolins. The continuous emergence of zoonotic diseases in the last 100 years has indicated the linkages between anthropogenic activities and the onset of novel pathogenic microorganisms in the human population. Effect of the devastation of the environment and natural habitats are reasons for an increasing number of zoonotic diseases impacting mankind in the last few decades. Several of the zoonotic microbes are known to have jumped from wild animals or birds to humans causing severe outbreaks. Deforestation, unplanned urbanization, air pollution, climate change, bushmeat trading, and consumption are some of the important factors that are correlated with each other and influence the emergence of pandemics such as COVID-19. COVID-19 has also proved to be a learning for the future suggesting the importance of environmental sustainability and achieving the targets of United Nation Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs 2030). © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021.

Sustainability in orthodontics: Challenges and opportunities for improving our environmental impact.

OBJECTIVE: To highlight the potential environmental impact of different aspects of orthodontic care in the United Kingdom, outline the major barriers and challenges to reducing this impact, and summarise the possible action that could help the orthodontic community to tackle the climate change crisis. IMPACT: Travel, procurement and supply, material use, waste management, energy use and water consumption within dentistry have a considerable effect on the environment. There are, however, marked knowledge gaps pertaining to the impact of orthodontic treatment. CHALLENGES: The lack of awareness of the NHS contribution to the carbon footprint and net-zero goals among healthcare workers, the NHS backlogs and budget cuts, and cross-infection control requirements particularly following the COVID-19 pandemic are some of the many challenges to making healthcare delivery more sustainable. OPPORTUNITIES: By considering the triple bottom line (social, environmental and economic), incorporating the four Rs (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Rethink), taking practical action, including steps to educate ourselves and the wider team, and to promote research on environmental sustainability, we can get one step closer to reaching the NHS net-zero goals. CONCLUSION: Climate change is a global health threat with multiple contributors associated with orthodontic treatment delivery, which can be tackled on an individual, organisational and system level.

Environment and natural resources degradation under COVID-19 crises: Recovery post pandemic.

Environmental stability improved during the covid 19 pandemic when production and industrial activities, and natural resources depletion processes stopped during the lockdown environment worldwide; however, based on the judgment of COP26 and the recent COP27, environmental degradation increased in the world in post-pandemic; therefore, policymakers and researchers re-focused their attention on the determinants of CO2 in economies. Hence, this study investigates the nexus of natural resource rents, including oil rents, mineral rents, and coal rents, on the carbon emissions of upper-middle-income economies from 1984 to 2021. The study included economic growth and renewable energy as additional determinants. We have presented detailed time series methods that aid in examining the modeled variables characteristics in the current research, i.e., ADF and ADF-GLS for a unit root in the data variables and considering their stationarity, Johansen cointegration for long-term cointegration among variables, FMOLS, DOLS and CCR for the long run elasticities between dependent and independent variables and Granger causality test in our range of methods. Robustness checks analysis is done through a non-parametric approach by quantile regression and robust regression analysis. Our results exhibit that two natural resource rents that are oil rents and coal rents, have adverse impacts on carbon emissions, and both are positive and significant. In contrast, mineral rents have no statistical significance and role in the carbon emissions of upper-middle-income economies. Moreover, economic growth and renewable energy also positively and significantly impact carbon emissions. Granger causality analysis exerts that natural resources rents, except for mineral rents, economic growth, and renewable energy, all granger causes CO2 emissions, and the feedback is also true. The relevant findings are suitable for policymakers in upper-middle-income economies to ensure environmental sustainability in upper-middle-income economies.

Environmental reverberations of geopolitical risk and economic policy uncertainty resulting from the Russia-Ukraine conflict: A wavelet based approach for sectoral CO2 emissions.

After the COVID-19 pandemic, Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, and a natural gas crisis between the European Union (EU) and Russia has begun. These events have negatively affected humanity and resulted in economic and environmental consequences. Against this background, this study examines the impact of geopolitical risk (GPR) and economic policy uncertainty (EPU) caused by the Russia-Ukraine conflict, on sectoral carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. To this end, the study analyzes data from January 1997 to October 2022 by using wavelet transform coherence (WTC) and time-varying wavelet causality test (TVWCT) approaches. The WTC results show that GPR and EPU reduce CO2 emissions in the residential, commercial, industrial, and electricity sectors, while GPR increases CO2 emissions in the transportation sector during the period from January 2019 to October 2022, which includes Russia-Ukraine conflict. The WTC analysis also indicates that the reduction in CO2 emissions provided by the EPU is higher than that of the GPR for several periods. According to the TVWCT, there are causal impacts of the GPR and the EPU on sectoral CO2 emissions, but the timing of the causal impacts differs between the raw and decomposed data. The results suggest that the EPU has a larger impact on reducing sectoral CO2 emissions during the Ukraine-Russia crisis and that production disruptions due to uncertainty have the greatest impact on reducing CO2 emissions in the electric power and transportation sectors.

EPH118 Healthcare Systems Sustainability and Resilience: Creating an Index

Objectives: The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for sustainable and resilient healthcare systems to protect population health. This requires measuring the relative progress of health systems towards becoming more sustainable and resilient. In this research, we design, construct and estimate a country-level healthcare system sustainability and resilience index (HSSRI) that reflects and combines the two dimensions. Method(s): The HSSRI aims to summarise the performance of a health system in the different domains contributing to its sustainability and resilience. These domains are: i) health system governance, ii) health system financing, iii) health system workforce, iv) medicines and technologies, v) health service delivery, vi) population health and social determinants, and vii) environmental sustainability. As part of our analyses, we conduct a rapid evidence assessment to identify indicators reflecting the domains included in the sustainability and resilience dimensions. We assess the domain indicators' suitability by the quantity and quality of the literature supporting their inclusion. The variables in each indicator are extracted from publicly available data sources, such as the OECD, World Bank, and others. The period covered is from 2000 to 2020. Weighted means of the indicators are used to construct the domains' indices in each dimension. We apply a geometric mean to combine the domain indices into one final index. Result(s): The HSSRI is piloted using data from five high-income countries, providing a credible instrument for measuring and reporting healthcare system sustainability and resilience. The results enable policy-makers and stakeholders to observe how different domains of sustainability and resilience have evolved across countries and time. Conclusion(s): The HSSRI will facilitate better understanding and monitoring of the healthcare system's relative weaknesses and strengths, and empower policy-makers to design interventions that improve its resilience and sustainability.Copyright © 2022

High time for surgeons to engage with the universal right to a healthy environment

On Thursday, 28 July 2022, the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) declared access to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment constitutes as a universal human right. This motion prompts action from diverse stakeholders across the globe. The surgical community has already taken consequent steps towards social participation and environmental sustainability in the recent years. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has increased the carbon footprint of surgical practice putting further impediments on the way towards a clean and healthy environment. Therefore, it is high time for surgeons to engage with the environment, mitigate the impact of the environmental crisis on surgical diseases and reduce the carbon footprint of surgical practice. Rethinking the use of energy - intensive technologies in the operating theater and collaborating with allied medical specialties and health professionals to decrease the ecological footprint of healthcare is pivotal.Copyright © 2022 The Author(s)

Circular economy practices in the leather products industry toward waste valorization: an approach of sustainable environmental management

Purpose: The global resolution of embracing dynamic and intertwined production systems has made it necessary to adopt viable systems like circular economy (CE) to ensure excellency in the business. However, in emerging countries, it is challenging to implement the CE practices due to the existing problems in the supply chain network, as well as due to the vulnerable financial condition of the business after the deadly hit of COVID-19. The main aim of this research is to determine the barriers to implementing CE considering the recent pandemic and suggest strategies to organizations to ensure CE for a cleaner environment and greener economy. Design/methodology/approach: After an extensive literature review and validation from experts, 24 sub-barriers under the class of 6 main barriers are finalized by Pareto analysis, which is further analyzed via the best-worst method to determine the weight and rank of the barriers Further, fuzzy-Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) method is used to rank the proposed startegies to overcome the analysed barriers. Findings: The results identified "unavailability of initial funding capital”, "need long time investment”, "lack of integrating production system using advance technology” and "lack of strategic planning” as the most acute sub-barriers to CE implementation. Further, fuzzy TOPSIS method is used to suggest the best strategy to mitigate the ranked barriers. The results indicated "integrated design facility to CE”, "ensuring large scale funding for CE facility” as the best strategy. Practical implications: This study will motivate managers to implement CE practices to enjoy proper utilization of the resources, sustainable benefits in business, and gain competitive advantage. Originality/value: Periodically, a lot of work is done on CE practices but none of them highlighted the issues in the domain of the leather products industry (LPI) and COVID-19 toward achieving sustainability in production and consumption. Thus, some significant barriers and strategies to implement CE for achieving sustainability in LPI are highlighted in this study, which is a unique contribution to the literature. © 2023, Emerald Publishing Limited.

Environmentally sustainable smart cities and their converging AI, IoT, and big data technologies and solutions: an integrated approach to an extensive literature review.

There have recently been intensive efforts aimed at addressing the challenges of environmental degradation and climate change through the applied innovative solutions of AI, IoT, and Big Data. Given the synergistic potential of these advanced technologies, their convergence is being embraced and leveraged by smart cities in an attempt to make progress toward reaching the environmental targets of sustainable development goals under what has been termed "environmentally sustainable smart cities." This new paradigm of urbanism represents a significant research gap in and of itself. To fill this gap, this study explores the key research trends and driving factors of environmentally sustainable smart cities and maps their thematic evolution. Further, it examines the fragmentation, amalgamation, and transition of their underlying models of urbanism as well as their converging AI, IoT, and Big Data technologies and solutions. It employs and combines bibliometric analysis and evidence synthesis methods. A total of 2,574 documents were collected from the Web of Science database and compartmentalized into three sub-periods: 1991-2015, 2016-2019, and 2020-2021. The results show that environmentally sustainable smart cities are a rapidly growing trend that markedly escalated during the second and third periods-due to the acceleration of the digitalization and decarbonization agendas-thanks to COVID-19 and the rapid advancement of data-driven technologies. The analysis also reveals that, while the overall priority research topics have been dynamic over time-some AI models and techniques and environmental sustainability areas have received more attention than others. The evidence synthesized indicates that the increasing criticism of the fragmentation of smart cities and sustainable cities, the widespread diffusion of the SDGs agenda, and the dominance of advanced ICT have significantly impacted the materialization of environmentally sustainable smart cities, thereby influencing the landscape and dynamics of smart cities. It also suggests that the convergence of AI, IoT, and Big Data technologies provides new approaches to tackling the challenges of environmental sustainability. However, these technologies involve environmental costs and pose ethical risks and regulatory conundrums. The findings can inform scholars and practitioners of the emerging data-driven technology solutions of smart cities, as well as assist policymakers in designing and implementing responsive environmental policies.

Food Provision at the Olympic Games in the New Millennium: A Meta-narrative Review.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: The objective of this meta-narrative review was to identify, organise and map the literature on food provision and nutrition support at the summer and winter Olympic and Paralympic Games (OPG)  and similar major competition events over the past 21 years. This builds on a comprehensive update of a previous historical review of the evolution of food provision at the summer Olympic Games up until 2000 and considers contemporary issues such as the global pandemic and sustainability goals. METHODS: A range of sources included primary research and review articles, edited book chapters, theses, conference papers or abstracts, International Olympic Committee reports, Organising Committees' food vision and post-Games reports, independent professional reports, and media and periodicals including magazines and trade journals. The search strategy included four steps: a database search that complied with Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews criteria, a search of the Olympic Studies Centre, a review of reference lists for unpublished sources, and a Google search for additional media reports. The researchers followed an iterative process where emerging narratives were discussed, recorded and refined as data were extracted. RESULTS: The data from 229 records were extracted into a spreadsheet and grouped according to the type of evidence and specific event, then presented chronologically to give a perspective on the development of food provision and nutrition support. Eleven narratives emerged from the data extraction: 'description of meals, menus and food', 'vision of the food provision', 'food safety', 'catering company involvement', 'sponsorship or contracts with food companies', 'athlete perspective', 'stakeholder perspective', 'athlete food intake,' 'nutrition input in food provision', 'food environment' and 'sustainability'. CONCLUSION: Results suggest that athletes' dining expectations, organising committee budgets, expert input and current global trends have led to food delivery changes. The OPG food environment has the capacity to positively influence the dietary choices of athletes and teams, while evolving to meet contemporary global challenges such as COVID-19 and sustainability targets.

Towards a green and sustainable recovery from COVID-19.

Whilst COVID-19 has left a devastating trail of economic and social losses, it has spurred incidental transitory positive externalities for the environment and climate. Key among these include; improved air and water quality, clearer skies and a projected 8% global blip in carbon emissions by the end of 2020. The global wave of restrictive lock downs implemented to contain the spread of COVID-19 in the short term account for these gains. The lockdowns were defined by limited public and private travel, closure of airports and borders, and a decline in industrial activity. However, most of these climate and environmental gains were secondary effects of the COVID-19 induced lockdowns and not based on decisive deliberate policy action, which casts doubts on their sustainability and ability to contribute to a green economy transition. Sustaining accrued environmental and climate benefits will depend on the direction of the COVID-19 stimuli and recovery packages - whether they are designed to work for the planet or against it. This article therefore elaborates on how state and non-state actors across the globe ought to be agile in building back sustainably to upend the ongoing collision course between the planet and economic development. It emphasizes the use of Sustainable Development Goals and Nationally Determined Contributions on climate change (NDCs) as a compass to shape the direction of COVID-19 recovery packages. It further enumerates six strategies that must underpin recovery packages to ensure win-win for the economy, society, and the planet.

Relationship sustainability-store equity across segments of retail customers

PurposeThe study of sustainability in retail has experienced an exponential interest in recent years as a result of greater awareness on the part of consumers of the negative effects of the current way of producing and consuming on society and the environment. This work examines the heterogeneous evaluation based on behavioural variables in retail trade and how consumer perceptions towards sustainable practices implemented in stores can influence the overall store equity.Design/methodology/approachThe authors propose a theoretical model based on the literature, tested through a mixed regression model in a sample of 510 customers of food retail establishments.FindingsThe dimensions of sustainability are postulated as driving forces of brand equity towards the retail establishment. Specifically, social sustainability shows a greater impact on consumer perception, being the main factor in the development of the store's brand equity. Furthermore, the analysis of unobserved heterogeneity identifies three latent classes in which the effects of perceptions on sustainable retail activities vary across consumer segments.Originality/valueThe study analyses in a single model the effect of sustainability dimensions on store equity from the consumer's perspective, analysing the differences between these relationships as a consequence of the unobserved heterogeneity of consumers.

The rights of nature: An emerging transformation opportunity for evaluation

"Building back better" in the post-COVID-19 Anthropocene era requires novel ideas and ways of working to truly challenge "business as usual" and contribute to urgently needed systems transformations. This article invites post-normal evaluation professionals to engage with the concept of the Rights of Nature, a generative form of institutional innovation that recognizes ecosystems and natural communities as entities that have an independent right to exist and flourish that can be enforced under legal or social norms. Pathways are suggested to use evaluation as values-driven practice to reflect on and encourage human-nature relationships founded on mutual dependence, cooperation, and synergy. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (French) Pour "reconstruire en mieux" a l'ere de l'Anthropocene post-COVID-19, il faut de nouvelles idees et methodes de travail qui nous permettent veritablement de remettre en question le "business as usual" et de contribuer aux transforma tions systemiques necessaires et urgentes. Cet article invite les professionnels de l'evaluation de l'ere << post-normale a s'engager dans le concept des droits de la nature, une forme generative d'innovation institutionnelle qui reconnait les ecosystemes et les communautes naturelles comme des entites ayant un droit in dependant a l'existence et a l'epanouissement qui peut etre applique en vertu de normes juridiques ou sociales. Des pistes sont suggerees pour utiliser l'evaluation comme une pratique axee sur les valeurs afin de reflechir aux relations entre l'humain et la nature, fondees sur la dependance mutuelle, la cooperation et la synergie, et de les encourager. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)

Content posted by Spanish automotive sector brands on YouTube: branded content, insights and environmental commitment

PurposeThe main objective of this study is to analyze content posted by automotive sector brands on their YouTube channels, identifying the use of a branded content format, the application of insights to creative conceptualization and the dissemination of messages related to messages' environmental commitment.Design/methodology/approachA descriptive study was conducted using qualitative content analysis as the methodological approach. The sample is made up of 691 videos posted on YouTube from September 2020 to August 2021 by the ten automotive brands with the biggest advertising budgets in Spain (InfoAdex, 2021).FindingsThe findings reveal a predominance of the advertorial format in content posted on YouTube by automotive sector brands, while the branded content format is less popular. Creative concepts based on insights are rare and limited to videos with an advertisement format. The theme of respect for the environment is used mainly in connection with the discourse on vehicle features and not so much as a commitment by the brand in response to consumer concerns or the changes that the automotive sector is undergoing.Originality/valueThe originality of the study lies in the approach it takes to content posted by automotive brands on YouTube. The paper's contribution is innovative in that the study monitors posts by brands in the sample on YouTube over the course of a year, rather than just during the specific periods when these brands run advertising campaigns.

The Time is Now! Capturing the Momentum of Consumers' Attitudinal and Behavioral Change Towards Environmental Sustainability Due to the Pandemic: An Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought the issue of environmental health to the forefront, highlighting the responsibility of marketers to help fight global climate change (Mende & Misra, 2021). During the pandemic lockdowns, many cities across the world saw positive environmental effects such as improvement of air quality and ecological restoration (Rume & Islam, 2020), but as the world returns back to "normal” it is necessary to consider the role of consumers on our environmental health (Kotler, 2020). This research examines peoples' perceived connection between environmental health and human health to capture possible shifts in the perception of need for higher environmental sustainability efforts due to the pandemic. This work employs a multi-method approach using interviews, surveys, and experiments to examine the relationship between the perceived relevance of the pandemic to environmental sustainability and individual's attitude and willingness to act. Preliminary research suggests the pandemic has certainly increased individuals' awareness about the environment's health and their willingness to act in an environmentally friendly manner. Individuals noted concern over the impact of the environment's health on human health and were aware of their individual impact on the environment, also noting an increase in their own sustainable behavior since the pandemic. Additionally, although individuals were highly confident in their ability to act in an environmentally friendly manner and felt they needed to change their way of life to protect the environment, they were less confident on the avenues to do so. Overall, we see the pandemic has created momentum towards higher attitudinal and behavioral change towards pro-sustainability. By understanding which factors impact attitude towards environmental sustainability and willingness to act towards the same, we can capture this momentum to increase the sustainability mindset. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

Improving cloud/edge sustainability through artificial intelligence: A systematic review

In recent years, the increase in the use of services in cloud, fog, edge, and IoT ecosystems has been very notable. On the one hand, environmental sustainability is affected by this type of ecosystem since it can produce a large amount of energy consumption which translates into CO2 emissions into the atmosphere. On the other hand, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the use of these ecosystems has increased considerably. Thus, it is necessary to apply policies and techniques to maximize sustainability within these ecosystems. Some of these policies and techniques are those based on artificial intelligence. However, the current processing of these policies and techniques can also consume a lot of resources. From this perspective, this article aims to clarify whether the sustainability of cloud/fog/edge/IoT ecosystems is improved by the application of artificial intelligence. To do this, a systematic literature review is developed in this paper. In addition, a set of classifications of the analyzed works is proposed based on the different aspects related to these ecosystems, their sustainability, and the applicability of artificial intelligence to improve them. © 2023 The Author(s)

Corrigendum: Adoption of digital money (e-wallet) in the post COVID-19 era: The moderating role of low distribution charges and low transit time in impulsive buying: A developing country perspective (Front. Cell Dev. Biol., (2023), 10, 984316, 10.3389/fenvs.2022.984316)

In the published article, there was an error in Affiliation 1. Instead of "MinNan Science and Technology University, Quanzhou, China”, it should be "College of Business, MinNan Science and Technology University, Quanzhou, China.” There was also a mistake in the Funding statement. The funding statement for the Key Development Project of the Department of Science and Technology was displayed as "2015CBd051”. The correct statement is "Key Development Project of Department of Science and Technology (2015C03Bd051).'' Funding This research projectwas funded by BeijingMunicipal Philosophy and Social Science Planning Office "Research on the Coordinated Development of Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei Financial Agglomeration and Industrial Structure Upgrading” (16YJB037) and Key Development Project of Department of Science and Technology (2015C03Bd051). The authors apologize for these errors and state that they do not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated. © 2023 Wei, Xiao, Yaqub, Irfan, Murad and Yaqub.