Imran Hossain

Revisiting Ecological Footprint Dynamics in the BRICS ‐10 Economies: The Roles of Geopolitical Risk, Financial Development, and Economic Freedom

This study examines the associations among geopolitical risk, financial development, economic freedom, foreign direct investment, urbanization, and ecological footprint in a BRICS‐10 sample comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Indonesia, and the United Arab Emirates over the p...

Benchmarking municipal solid waste transition through governance, recovery performance, and household segregation readiness

Advancing sovereign ESG performance in China through renewable energy industrialization and government effectiveness

This study examines the relationship between renewable energy use, industrialization, governance effectiveness, population growth, and technological innovation, and sovereign environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance, used as a proxy for sustainable development, in China over the period 1996–2023. The a...

A bibliometric analysis of governance pathways in environment, urbanization and climate change

Governance has emerged as a central sustainability challenge amid accelerating urbanization, environmental degradation, and climate change, yet research on the urban–environment nexus remains conceptually fragmented. This study maps the field’s high-impact intellectual core through a bibliometric analysis of the 250 mo...