Socio-Economic Planning Sciences

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Volume 106, issue C, 2026

Diverse leadership, sustainable futures: unveiling the role of gender diversity in enhancing financial performance and achieving SDGs in Bangladesh's banking sector

Sayna Islam Diba, Anup Karmakar, Mohammad Abu Shahriar Hossain and Md Kamruzzaman

Life expectancy and its determinants: A machine learning analysis with implications for policy interventions

Milena Lopreite, Michelangelo Misuraca and Michelangelo Puliga

Centralized resource allocations with adjustment costs and a nonconvex production technology

Giovanni Cesaroni, Gabriel Villa and Sebastián Lozano

Optimizing facility locations and shuttle routes for senior welfare centers in aging societies: A priority-based approach

Jiyeong Min, Seokho Yoon, Hyeong Suk Na and Sang Jin Kweon

Assessment of primary healthcare accessibility in rural areas considering vulnerability

Valentina Castañeda-Torres, Sofía Pérez-Guzmán and Elena Valentina Gutiérrez-Gutiérrez

Is last-mile delivery by autonomous robots a reality?: A multi-criteria decision-making approach for prioritization of autonomous vehicle modes

Đorđije Dupljanin, Sara Jovčić, Slaviša Dumnić, Libor Švadlenka, Vladimir Simic and Momčilo Dobrodolac

Territorial disparities in organic food markets: Evidence from scanner data in Italy

Ilaria Benedetti, Tiziana Laureti and Luigi Palumbo

Strategic planning of polycentric urban regions: a modeling approach for practical applications

Joao F. Bigotte, Susana Freiria and Antonio P. Antunes

Utility effectiveness, composite indicators and ‘benefit of the doubt’ models: How important are preferences when evaluating the performance of innovation systems?

José Luis Zofío, Juan Aparicio, Javier Barbero and Jon Mikel Zabala-Iturriagagoitia

Structural patterns and energy productivity in the EU-27 decarbonization process

C.H. Siemens, J.M. Guaita-Martinez, R. Puertas and L. Gallego-Martín

What really drives food waste? Advancing food waste prevention through behavioral evidence

Lucas Rodrigues Deliberador, Mário Otávio Batalha and Aldara da Silva César

Performance evaluation of Natural Science Foundation projects based on hierarchical causal relationships

Qiuhong Zhao, Yanchun Ma, Xunzhuo Xi and Guoliang Yang

Agricultural production risks, crop losses, and the role of extension services: Insights from India

Ph Romen Sharma, Subhashree Sahu, Laishram Priscilla, Shridhar Patil, Renu Balakrishnan, Sumanta Chatterjee, Alok Kumar Sahoo, Priyajoy Kar and S.L. Jat

Designing a resilient humanitarian supply chain with intermodal transportation: A two-stage stochastic programming approach

Dorsa Taghvaei and Masoud Rabbani

Resilient and sustainable closed-loop pharmaceutical supply chain network: A smart contract application in the presence of quality disruptions

Saeed Nikounia and Mohammad Yavari

Fundraising and competition of NGOs in three tiers non-profit supply chain with leverages of investment and donation

Ata Allah Taleizadeh and Salar Shams-Azar

How do firm circular economy practices affect supply chain resilience from a sustainable development perspective?

Xueya Xu, Vincent Charles, Tatiana Gherman, Wanzhen Li and Xin Zhao

E-commerce supply chain planning with Space-as-a-Service: Two-stage stochastic programming approach

Seungchae Na, Sangjun Yoon, Junhyeok Lee and Youngchul Shin

How should workers be prepared for Industry 4.0? Antecedents of employee readiness for digital transformation

Carla Diniz S. Silva, Lino Guimarães Marujo and Pedro Senna

Balancing human and digital aspects in the retailers’ loyalty measurement

Sandro Castaldo, Andrea Ciacci, Lara Penco and Ginevra Testa

Multi-country analysis of healthy life expectancy gap

Emilia Di Lorenzo, Gabriella Piscopo, Alba Roviello and Marilena Sibillo

Artificial intelligence-enabled green innovation: Evidence from patent data

Tiziano Volpentesta, Roberto Urbani and Valerio Deriu

Undermined by rebounds? assessing the role of energy efficiency in alleviating energy poverty in Italy

Alfonso Carfora, Francesco Maria Chelli and Giuseppe Scandurra

Risk-averse placement optimization in refugee resettlement

Fatemeh Farajzadeh, Narges Ahani, Osman Y. Özaltın and Andrew C. Trapp

Designing cost-effective and environmentally responsible saffron supply chains: A two-stage data-driven approach for public and service sector decision-making

Sajjad Kaheni, Mohammad Saeed Jabalameli, Ehsan Dehghani and Peiman Ghasemi

Digital infrastructure and territorial heterogeneity in quality-of-life outcomes

Angela Stefania Bergantino, Benedetta Coluccia, Giulio Fusco and Gianluca Monturano

Closed-loop pharmaceutical supply chains: State of the art, emerging trends, and future research needs

Fatemeh Shekoohi, Payam Afkhami, Bokang Li, Mohsen Khabir, Nasrin Malekpoor Joneghani and Maxim A. Dulebenets

Evaluating synthetic population approaches for Italian municipal-level microdata

Silvia Scarpa, Massimo Baldini, Andrea Barigazzi, Giovanni Gallo and Marcello Morciano

Scheduling working shifts of train dispatchers considering workers’ preferences

David Canca, Francisco A. Ortega and Ramón Piedra-de-la-Cuadra

Revitalizing marginal areas: A foundational economy approach

Giuseppe Varavallo, Filippo Barbera and Riccardo Di Clemente

Digital transformation, price discrimination, and equity in medical tourism trade: A North–South framework

Tonmoy Chatterjee

Nonlinear effects of the digital economy on urban-rural factor mobility: A hybrid econometric-machine learning approach

Hongbo Li and Zijun Liu

Gender diversity, institutional weakness, and waste management outcomes in Italian municipalities

Maria Carmela Aprile, Livio Ferrante, Stefania Fontana and Simona Monteleone

Digital twin use-case prioritisation for sustainability in smart manufacturing: A multi-criteria decision analytics approach

Adel Ben Youssef, Adelina Zeqiri and Sama Mbang

The spatiotemporal patterns and driving decomposition of carbon inequality in the Triangle of Central China

Yan Qiao, Limin Jiao, Weiqian Lei, Qiqi Jia, Yajie Zhang, Jia Li and Bingjie Li

Blockchain-driven cooperative decision-making for low-carbon supply chain under multi-source heterogeneous decision information

Jiafu Su, Baojian Xu, Di Shen, Na Zhang and Junjun Li

Forecasting the success of megaprojects with judgmental methods: the role of expertise, stakeholder perspectives, and implications for socio-economic planning

Konstantia Litsiou, Yiannis Polychronakis, Stelios Sapountzis and Konstantinos Nikolopoulos

Balancing the scales: Fair and efficient resource allocation for student success

Mohammadsina Almasi, Hadis Anahideh, Denisa Gandara and Abolfazl Asudeh

Planning for equitable public health: A framework for interpretable causal policy learning

Kushal Anjaria

Robust location of collection facilities for waste management

Massimiliano Caramia, Maria Sole Gatta, Diego Maria Pinto and Giuseppe Stecca

Socio-economic determinants of health literacy among blood donors: A cross-sectional study in Italy

Pietro Renzi and Alberto Franci

Mapping policy priorities and family needs in regional official documents of Northeast Italy using generative text analysis

Simone Di Zio, Yuri Calleo, Manuela Scioni, Marco Marozzi and Mario Bolzan

Measuring gender equality in quality of life satisfaction: A composite index for Italian regions

Margherita Maria Pagliuca, Daniela Fusco, Paola Giordano and Maria Antonietta Liguori

Unveiling the role of eco-certifications as spatial drivers of green tourism in Italian provinces

Riccardo Gianluigi Serio, Maria Michela Dickson, Diego Giuliani, Andrea Mazzitelli and Giuseppe Espa

Energy-conscious dynamic electric vehicle routing for urban cold-chain delivery: A K-means-ALNS approach

Jiarui Zhou, Jianxin Wang, Hui Jia and Yijiao Huang

Robust optimization for bioethanol supply chain networks: Balancing sustainability, resilience, and responsiveness

Seyed Vahid Ahmadi, Seyed Hossein Iranmanesh and Aliyeh Kazemi

A hybrid approach for the dynamic routing of police patrols

Moacir Almeida Simões and Denis Borenstein

Pharmacy on-duty planning in urban environments: A gradual covering approach with workload equity

Elifcan Yaşa, İsmail Kayahan and Seda Baş Güre

Public-sector decision support for digital-agriculture rollout: Feasibility-constrained provincial sequencing in Vietnam

Thanh Van Do, Enjun Xia and Binh Anh Pham

Beyond efficiency: Quality of Government and eco-productivity convergence in the EU

Marc Aliana, Maria Teresa Balaguer-Coll, Diego Prior and Emili Tortosa-Ausina

Design of a sustainable closed-loop supply chain under supply-side disruption: A quantity discount strategy

Shahab Rahiminia, Saman Hassanzadeh Amin, Liping Fang and Victor Shi

Income inequality in Southern Africa: Evidence from interpretable machine learning and panel econometric models

John Mulenga, Lenganji Simwanda, Sergei Pismennyi, Irena Benešová, Wilem Heijman and Anna Tsenteradze

Occupational mismatch in European labour markets: A joint analysis of education, skills, and severe mismatch

Sergio Longobardi and Margherita Maria Pagliuca

Effective influence on the preferences towards public and active transport following the implementation of pedestrianization

Jing Tang, Muhammet Deveci, Ilgin Gokasar, Dursun Delen, Volkan Yıldız and Weizhong Wang

Impact of integrated transportation on city high-quality development in China

Tao Li, Ruidong Fan, Xiangbin Li and Qianqian Zheng

Coupling coordination of digital economy vitality and real economy green development efficiency: Spatiotemporal dynamic evolution and nonlinear driving mechanisms

Jialiang Xie and Zhicai Wu

Efficiency evaluation of fishing entities and sustainable fishery policies: Evidence from Japan

Hisashi Ito, Taiga Shimotsuura, Tomoaki Nakaishi and Shigemi Kagawa

Optimal social distancing policy incorporating compliance of individuals

Hyelim Shin and Taesik Lee

Flowers and flames. The determinants of biorefineries location in the EU circular economy: a core–periphery perspective

Giuseppe Celi, Vincenzo D'Atteo and Edgardo Sica