Socio-Economic Planning Sciences

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Volume 102, issue C, 2025

University library performance management: Applying zero-sum gains DEA models to resource allocation

Marcella Bernardo, Matheus Alves Madeira de Souza, Ramon Sávio Moreira Lopes and Lásara Fabrícia Rodrigues

Carbon-economic equilibrium strategy towards a green electric coal supply chain integrated with coalbed methane under low carbon policies and hydropower volatilities

Siwei Zhao, Xuewu Chen and Lu Gan

A sustainable Two-Echelon waste collection routing: Understanding waste picker behavior

Diana A. Peña, Jairo R. Montoya-Torres and Lionel Amodeo

Search externalities, job-housing distribution and commuting subsidies in a two-city system

Ting-Ting Miao and Hai-Jun Huang

A location routing approach for mass evacuation planning with electric Trucks: An application to volcano-related disasters in Indonesia

Rahmad Inca Liperda, A.A.N. Perwira Redi and Meilinda Fitriani Nur Maghfiroh

Improving scholarship assignment using approximate dynamic programming: A Chilean case study

Sofía Redondo, Alejandro Cataldo, José Tomás Marquinez, Pablo A. Rey and Antoine Sauré

A street corner-level methodology to analyze the influence of points of interest on urban crime

Débora Barbosa Leite Silva, Thales Vieira, Evandro de Barros Costa, Afonso Paiva and Luis Gustavo Nonato

Testing facility location with constrained queue time problem: A case study on Brazilian capital cities

Almir Monteiro, Rafael Schneider, Laura Bahiense, Vanessa de Almeida Guimarães and Pedro Henrique González

A Bayesian approach for correcting bias of data envelopment analysis estimators using the super-efficiency frontier

Panagiotis D. Zervopoulos, Angelos Kanas, Andreas Fousteris, Gang Cheng and Salem Abdulrahman Alqasimi

Balancing fairness and efficiency in policing: A mean-variance utility and data envelopment analysis approach to arrest practices in U.S. cities

Soumyatanu Mukherjee and Sayan Mukherjee

The required link for actions on green macroprudential implementations to improve circularity performance in Europe: Fresh insights from PVAR

Le Thanh Ha

Performance evaluation of emerging grid infrastructure Operations: Evidence from ultra-high-voltage transmission lines in China

Bai-Chen Xie, Qian-Xu Wu, Yu-Yan Qin and Can Zhang

On the coherence of composite indexes of well-being: Multiverse analysis for formative models of measurement

Giulio Giacomo Cantone and Venera Tomaselli

Designing a bi-level waste disposal network by integrating environmental protection and sustainable development

Yuanzhe Liu, Huili Pei, Yaxi Zhang and Naiqi Liu

An innovative approach to efficiency measurement: Combining convexified efficiency analysis trees and data envelopment analysis to benchmark U.S. museums

Juan Aparicio, José L. Zofío, Doug Noonan, Dylan Thompson and Joanna Woronkowicz

Efficiency evaluation of the forest sector in China: A meta-frontier DEA approach

Dawei Wang, Feng Yang, Xiaoqi Zhang and Yu Sun

Two stages method-based on Africa smart irrigation system assessment for willingness to pay: A case of Ghana Northern Region

Tamimu Mohammed Gadafi, Decui Liang and Adjei Peter Darko

Wind of change for agent decisions and innovation diffusion: The ASPID predictive model for technology adoption

Carlos Sáenz-Royo, Ramón Hermoso and Francisco Chiclana

How does horizontal ecological compensation promote the coupled development of ecological environment protection and high-quality economy growth? Evidence from China's circular economy practices

Qingyuan Shen, Jintao Lu, Ilaria Tutore, Nicola Cucari and Qingbin Guo

Decision-making in sustainable dual-channel supply chain under carbon trading, risk aversion, and government subsidy policy

Abhijit Barman and Shib Sankar Sana

Multi-objective optimization for risk mitigation of medical waste disposal reverse logistics network

Yi Shi and Xingli Wu

Institutional variables and power firms’ productivity: Micro panel estimation with time-invariant variables

Simona Bigerna, D’Errico, Maria Chiara and Paolo Polinori

The half is more than the whole: How China's economic growth target affects forest eco-efficiency

Bohao Jin and Heming Wang

An evolutionary multi-stage public-private cooperation framework for emergency supply reserves with corporate reputation considerations

Langyu Zhou, Jing Zhang, Jing Gong, Chaoyong Zhang and Huige Xing

Agriculture-service integration and agricultural green total factor productivity: A case study of China

Yaoyao Song, Weiyin Zhu, Yuelin Yang and Erdou Su

Modeling socio-spatial resilience of public engagement with urban spaces

Qianqi Guo and Yuliang Wang

Trickle-down or siphon: The spillover effects of the digital economy on green innovation from the perspective of the circular economy

Yi Qiu, Cong Gao and Na Song

SLEP-less in Santiago: The effect of local educational services in Chile

Rómulo A. Chumacero and Leonardo Letelier S

Resolving stakeholder conflicts in high-speed railway route planning: An overlapping network and evolutionary game approach

Fengting Zhang, Pengcheng Xiang, Dan Wang and Jiafu Su

Impact mechanism and contribution measurement of digital transformation on scale expansion of Chinese enterprises

Meng Tian, Yiwei Wang, Lei Han and Zhuowen Yang

Multi-period capacity utilization measurement using a TOPSIS-DEA approach: A case study of the forestry industry

Yan Huang, Hanting Yu, Jiawei Wang and Meiling Li

Knowledge and technology transfer in German universities: An exploratory study leveraging information from university websites

Torben Schubert, Denilton Darold and Henning Kroll

Enhancing public safety through integrated UAV and police patrols

Shangyao Yan, Tsung-Hsun Hsieh and Yu-Chien Lai

Assessing the effectiveness of recent pension reforms: The French experiment

Jorge Miguel Bravo, Mercedes Ayuso and Najat El Mekkaoui

A hybrid method combining three-way decision and DEA game cross-efficiency for procurement mode selection in contract farming

Sen Liu, Rongrong Jiang, Ling Liu and Felix T.S. Chan

Assessing the resilience of water and wastewater utilities: A multi-criteria approach for Chile

Alexandros Maziotis and Maria Molinos-Senante

Game theory meets circular economy and sustainability: Bargaining game range adjusted measure unleashed

Mohammad Tavassoli and Reza Farzipoor Saen

How does open public data affect enterprise green transformation?

Long Ling, Lu Hu, Shaoqiu Li, Xing Zhao and Xixi Ye

Coordinated governance for data value release in China

Manman Cheng and Bin Zhang

Prepositioning of relief supplies jointly by a risk-averse humanitarian organisation and risk-neutral suppliers through an option contract

T Devi Prasad Patra and J.K. Jha

Volume 101, issue C, 2025

A food upcycling model by food bank collection-distribution networks

Javid Ghahremani-Nahr, Ramez Kian and Abdolsalam Ghaderi

Understanding the dynamics of crowdshipping in last-mile distribution within urban mobility: A comprehensive framework

Alisson Garcia-Herrera, Adrian Serrano-Hernandez and Javier Faulin

Gender differential in economic participation, foreign aid and productivity: Pathway to broad-based growth

Abiola John Asaleye and Kariena Strydom

Integrated sustainability perspective to interconnect circular economy, environmental development, and social status: designation of sustainable development spillovers

Xinyu Cai, Hua Xiang and Faeze Akbari

Evaluating socioeconomic factors for crime against women in developing countries: A data-centric statistical learning approach

Esther Jose, Sayanti Mukherjee and Jose Swaminathan

Environmental awareness and pro-environmental behavior impact on renewables investments: A moderating role of environmental concerns

Luca Esposito and Raja Nabeel-Ud-Din Jalal

Determinants of primary healthcare efficiency in the Brazilian Legal Amazon: A hybrid approach using Data Envelopment Analysis and Tobit regression

Luís Filipe Azevedo de Oliveira, Fernanda Araujo Baião, Fernando Luiz Cyrino Oliveira and Igor Tona Peres

Optimizing public transit service in suburban urbanized areas: A case study of Ningbo, China - Evolution from bus rapid transit to urban rail transit

Erzhuo Zhang, Feng Lian and Zhongzhen Yang

A hierarchical facility location-allocation model for sustainable municipal solid waste management in urban cities

Aakash Kale, Amit Upadhyay and Ramesh Anbanandam

A scenario robust Bi-objective model for integrating disaster mitigation and preparedness

Jomon A. Paul and Xinfang Wang

Prioritization of old community renewal projects based on stakeholders' preferences – The case of Beijing, China

He Ding, Zheng Yi, Xu Xiwei, Xie Yang and Ding Shouyi

Representing social exclusion in geographic space: interpretability or informational power?

Matheus Pereira Libório, Alexandre Magno Alves Diniz, Marcelo de Rezende Pinto, Sandro Laudares and Patrícia Bernardes

Collaborate or compete? Decentralized resource allocation between local authorities during COVID-19 based on evolutionary game theory

Xihui Wang, Anqi Zhu, Yu Fan and Liang Liang

An Industry 4.0 geolocation system for last mile ground disasters survivor detection: Tests and results

A.J. Soto-Vergel, D. Ramirez-Rios, J.C. Velez and R. Amaya-Mier

A case-driven simulation-optimization model for sustainable medical logistics network

Fariba Goodarzian and Peiman Ghasemi

Enhancing healthcare system resilience: Optimization of strategic investments portfolio

Isaline Baret, Nhan Quy Nguyen, Yassine Ouazene and Farouk Yalaoui

Econometric estimation of deprivation cost functions for emergency medical services

Trilce Encarnacion

Vulnerability assessment and decision analysis of airport unlawful interference emergency disposal based on complex network in China: Take regional airports for example

Yu Wu and Shiting He

A survey on resource and fixed cost allocation research with data envelopment analysis

Maryam Masoumi Hazhir and Ali Asghar Foroughi

Stability and optimisation of financing strategies for blue pharmacy cultivation in China

Tong-Kun Qu, Tong-Xin Li and Ye-Cheng Wang

Incentive contract in relief supply chains: The case of multiplayer competition and cooperation

Jianfang Shao, Yu Fan and Xihui Wang

Realistic strategies for dynamic ambulance relocation

Yulia Karpova, Fulgencia Villa and Eva Vallada

An enhanced physical education evaluation algorithm for higher education using interval-valued Fermatean fuzzy information

Abrar Hussain, Kifayat Ullah, Zeeshan Ali, Sarbast Moslem and Tapan Senapati

Statistical methods on heterogeneous data for evaluating services

Tonio Di Battista, Ron Kenett, Paolo Mariani and Antonello D'Ambra

Fleet sizing and dynamic relocation problems for electric kick scooter sharing system

I-Lin Wang, C.S. Shui and Yen-Tzu Yueh

Spatial-temporal evolution of coupling coordination development between circular economy and tourism in the eastern regions of China

Wenjing Yang, Lu Tao, Qingquan Li, Feiyue Li, Shiqi Du, Yue Zhang, Chao Gao, Xiaomeng Fang, Ziyang Zhang, Jingang Huang, Xiaobin Xu, Pingzhi Hou, Junhong Tang and Wei Han

Exploring the agricultural synergy between carbon abatement and pollution reduction in China

Yaoyao Song, Yuelin Yang, Fangping Shang and Xuemei Jiang

A multi-objective supply chain model for reducing carbon emissions and food losses in a multi-period mixed product environment

Chao-Hui Liao and Hsin-Wei Hsu

Tourist trip planning with priority discipline

Yuning Hu, Xinggang Luo, Xinrui Liu, Pengli Ji and Zhongliang Zhang

Measuring the causal economic effects of scientific research—Evidence from the staggered foundation of the SENAI innovation institutes in Brazil

Torben Schubert, Denilton Darold and Markus Will

Forecasting the Portuguese public hospitals performance: An impossible task?

Miguel Varela

Unveiling structural change determinants: A machine learning approach to long-term dynamics

Julián Salinas and Jianhua Zhang

Economic and environmental benefits of improving production efficiency in eco-feed plants: A case study from Japan

Junji Tsuru, Daigo Ushijima, Tomoaki Nakaishi and Shigemi Kagawa

Early warning system for Russian stock market crises: TCN-LSTM-Attention model using imbalanced data and attention mechanism

Tamara Teplova, Maksim Fayzulin and Aleksei Kurkin

A robust design of a circular supply chain network based on the resilience and responsiveness dimensions: A data-driven model

Vahid Yahyapour Ganji, Ehsan Hozan, Parisa Babolhavaeji, AmirReza Tajally and Mohssen Ghanavati-Nejad