2023

Achieving carbon neutrality and reducing global temperature rise below 2 °C necessitates shifting from conventional energy to renewable energy and ensuring sustainable use of natural resources. However, economic, political, and financial risks significantly impact renewable energy investments and natural resources' sustainable utilization. Thus, it is necessary to understand the roles of political, economic, and financial risk when assessing the impacts of natural resources, green energy use, and economic growth on pollutant emissions.

The development of the financial sector is one of the main macroeconomic goals for developing countries as well as developed ones. The literature focusing on the determinants of financial sector development presents very diverse and inconsistent results. Therefore, the main aim of the study is to empirically investigate the long run and causal linkages between natural resources, economic growth, savings, current account balance and financial sector development for 33 developing countries.

China has experienced rapid economic growth in recent decades. The benefits of economic growth are indisputable. However, risks are also generated that can jeopardize the sustainability of economic progress. Real estate bubbles, for example. The rapidly soaring house prices are one of the severe challenges in China in recent years. The real estate tax, monetary policy, and macro-prudential policy are the three main measures of the Chinese government to stabilize house prices.

El proyecto se enfoca en evaluar estrategias de enfriamiento de un módulo de baterías de iones de litio de tipo cilíndricas para la prevención del sobrecalentamiento. Para el efecto se realizarán distintas simulaciones numéricas mediante herramientas de dinámica de fluidos computacional (CFD, por sus siglas en inglés).

La caficultura es una actividad importante en Ecuador ya que se practica en todas las regiones del país, bajo diferentes pisos altitudinales, tanto en monocultivos como en sistemas agroforestales. La principal característica del café ecuatoriano es sus exquisitos aroma y sabor, reconocidos a nivel internacional. Al ser una bebida de alto consumo, su comercialización constituye una fuente de ingresos importante para todos los actores que intervienen en los diferentes eslabones de su cadena de producción.

La contaminación acústica es un problema ambiental, que afecta a largo plazo los procesos auditivos de los seres humanos y las condiciones de vida. Este inconveniente se acentúa con fuerza principalmente en las grandes metrópolis, en donde las actividades productivas, comerciales e industriales, tienen una intensa dinámica; esto genera un entorno disfuncional y de precariedad del estándar de vida en la población.

International Journal of Health Science is a bimonthly periodical edited by Atena Editora, being an important vehicle for the dissemination of scientific works arising from relevant research in the health area.

Manuscripts are accepted in: Portuguese, Spanish and English. Articles submitted in Portuguese will be translated into English and published in that language. For articles submitted in Spanish and English, there will be no translation needed.