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    An explorative analysis of gameplay data based on a serious game of climate adaptation in Aotearoa New Zealand
    (Elsevier B.V., 2025-08-27) Yang W; Harrison S; Blackett P; Allison A
    Serious games play a crucial role in educating and engaging the public on environmental management issues, such as climate change. These games also generate valuable data that can be used in understanding players' climate change decisions. However, there is a notable gap in the literature on serious game analytics to address the significance of scrutinising the usefulness of utilising gameplay data to explore player behaviours. This paper explores this gap through descriptive and quantitative analysis of gameplay data from ‘The Township Flooding Challenge’ in Aotearoa New Zealand to obtain data insights and data gaps in understanding players' behaviours and decisions on climate change adaptation. The findings suggest that gameplay data can offer insights into players' decisions on climate change adaptations amid uncertainty, but also highlights data gaps such as unclear definitions and incomplete data. Leveraging gameplay data can aid in data collection, decision-making modelling, and improving serious game design.
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    Measuring climate change impacts on Indigenous sociocultural wellbeing: Case study of Te Puuaha o Waikato
    (New Zealand Coastal Society, 2025-07-23) Mahuta R; van Schravendijk-Goodman C; Holland P; Harrison S; Rolleston-Gabel T; Johnson D; Yang W; Blackett P; Connolly J; Kerridge D; Manukau T; Rika-Heke M; Te Ao B; Te Ao P; Flavell K; Fear A
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    Dynamic economic valuation of coastal wetland restoration: A nature-based solution for climate and biodiversity
    (Elsevier B V, 2025-09) Yang W; Tanner CC; Holland P; Qu Z
    This paper explores the dynamic linkage between coastal wetland restoration and the resulting economic benefits, with a focus on nonmarket values such as climate regulation and biodiversity conservation. Coastal wetlands are recognised as highly effective natural carbon sinks, offering significant ecosystem services that contribute to climate change mitigation and adaptation. By utilising a modelling framework that integrates ecological recovery processes and economic valuations over a 100-year period, we provide insights into optimising long-term returns from wetland restoration. This study emphasises the importance of accounting for the temporal dynamics of ecosystem recovery, highlighting the lag between restoration activities and full ecosystem functionality. Our findings highlight the importance of nature-based solutions in global climate finance strategies and emphasise the need for more accurate, targeted investment in wetland restoration. This approach ensures that resources are allocated efficiently over time, maximising the benefits of enhancing coastal resilience and achieving long-term climate goals.
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    Convergence of primary education development in urban and rural China: empirical analysis of historical trends and future projections
    (Springer Nature Limited, 2025-12) Zhang Y; Yang W; Li B; Yang Y; Chen L; Feng L
    Integrating primary school education in urban and rural areas is essential for reducing disparities in resources and promoting educational equity. This study uses four analytical methods—entropy variation coefficient-comprehensive index, time difference correlation analysis, multivariate linear regression prediction, and Beta convergence—to analyze the historical evolution, future trends, and convergence in primary education development levels in China. Using national time series data from 1995 to 2022, we constructed an evaluation index for primary education and found that the urban-rural gap in primary education has slightly narrowed. Although urban growth currently surpasses rural growth, projections for the next 13 years suggest a decreasing gap in annual growth rates between the two. The analysis shows significant absolute Beta convergence nationally and within urban areas from 1995 to 2035, while rural areas exhibit divergence. After controlling for factors such as per-student expenditure, school building floor space per student, student-teacher ratio, teacher education level, teacher title structure, number of primary schools per student, enrollment rates, and dependency ratio, we find no significant conditional convergence at the national level or between urban and rural areas from 1995 to 2035. These results highlight that current levels of urban-rural investment are inadequate for balancing primary education development. To address this, increased and equitable educational investment is necessary for balanced development across urban and rural areas, within rural areas, and among urban regions.
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    Impact of farmer group participation on the adoption of sustainable farming practices—spatial analysis of New Zealand dairy farmers
    (John Wiley and Sons Ltd on behalf of Edgard Milhaud Foundation, 2023-09) Yang W; Wang L
    This paper analyzes the impact of participation in farmer groups on dairy farmers’ adoption of sustainable farming practices in New Zealand. A spatial propensity score matching method is used to consider the spatial dependence and social connections between farmers in the decision-making of farmer group participation and adoption of sustainable farming practices. The results show that farmers’ decisions of farmer group participation are affected by their neighbors’ choices, and participation in farmer groups has a positive effect on farmers’ adoption of sustainable farming practices. The findings indicate the important role of social interactions in farmers’ voluntary uptake of sustainable agricultural practices. Overall, the positive effect of farmer group participation on the adoption of sustainable agricultural practices highlights learning and knowledge spillover among farmers, which emerges as important to the formulation of sustainable farming policy.
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    Integrating the Cross-Border Industrial Chain: An Exploring of Key Configuration of Agricultural Investment in Lancang-Mekong River Region
    (MDPI (Basel, Switzerland), 2025-04-11) Feng L; Yang W; Jin Y; Zhang Y; Li B; Prus P
    The demand for agriculture finance and investment for sustainable agriculture development has long been a concern for many years. However, the insufficient integration of the agricultural technology innovation chain and technology transfer impedes the enhancement of collaborative innovation capability in evolving total factor productivity. This paper utilizes Chinese agricultural companies’ investment in the Lancang-Mekong River region as an example to scrutinize key configuration factors fostering the integration of technical collaboration within agricultural industry chains. The results indicated that Chinese agricultural companies can be classified into two categories based on their approach to technical collaboration. The first category is strength-oriented, and companies in this category have the capability to transform technological investments, yielding relatively high returns. They also have optimistic expectations regarding favorable policies in the host country. This category accounts for about one-third of the companies studied. The second category is potential-oriented, in which firms possess the potential for technological investment transformation, with lower investment returns. They require effective contextual management and tax incentives from the host country to thrive. The impact of foreign direct investment decision-making diminishes, introducing new imperatives for the current host country’s market environment and the management of FDI enterprises in the host country. This study makes contributions to advance the exploration of technology’s impact on agricultural companies’ cross-border investment, stipulating new requirements for the transformative development of regional foreign direct investment, particularly for private enterprises.
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    Online or not online: the impact of business owner’s risk preference on the adoption of e-business
    (Springer Nature, 2023-09-21) Yang W; Wang L; Zhang X
    The significant growth of internet users has driven businesses to develop their capacity in e-commerce and meet the increasing demand for e-consumption, e-services, and e-business. To gain the benefits of e-business, firms may choose to extend or transit their offline-operated businesses to online or hybrid modes. Opportunities are accompanied by risks in this process. Therefore, it is important to understand how business owners’ financial risk preferences affect their choice of business operation models, namely, online and offline operations. Using data from the China Household Finance Survey (CHFS) in 2017 and 2019, this study examined the impacts of business owners’ risk preferences on e-business adoption, considering social insurance as a moderator on the relationship between risk effect and online business operation. In addition, we used heterogeneity examination to test for regional differences between rural and urban areas. Our results show that, compared to high-risk takers, low-risk takers are less likely to choose online or hybrid businesses; and having social insurance reduces the effect of risk preference on adopting e-business. This finding indicates social insurance may provide financial security to business owners with low-risk preferences and makes them more likely to adopt online business, whilst it may distort adoption incentives for high- and medium-risk groups. Results of the heterogeneity examination suggest a discrepancy in the risk preference effect on the adoption of e-business between the rural and urban areas: the impact of risk preference is found to be significantly higher on businesses in the rural area than those in the urban area.
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    Do consumers care about environmentally sustainable attributes along the food supply chain? —A systematic literature review
    (AIMS Press, 2023-04-27) Yang W; Anh B; Le P
    The agri-food market has shown a clear signal of "green" consumption that drives an increasing interest in studying consumers' willingness to pay (WTP) for food products with environmentally sustainable attributes, such as eco-friendly and carbon neutral. Whilst many existing studies have focused on a general idea of green attributes or on-farm practices that are regarded to be most relevant to the attributes, the agri-food industry has started to address consumers' concerns about the negative environmental impacts of agri-food production across the whole supply chain, including the processing, transportation, and consumption process. It is therefore the purpose of this study to conduct a systematic review of the existing literature on consumers' intentions of purchasing and WTP for food products with environmentally sustainable attributes, with a special interest in understanding the connections between consumer behaviours and different stages of the food supply chain. Results of the study revealed three main research gaps: the lack of clear definitions of environmentally sustainable attributes; ignorance of connections between the characteristics of environmentally sustainable attributes and different stages of the food supply chain; and lacking effective information processing among the key players along the supply chain, leading to inefficient communication between the supply and demand side. The findings of the study help form a conceptual framework for future studies to associate environmentally sustainable attributes to the whole food supply chain that helps the agri-food industry to effectively process market information, communicate with consumers, and satisfy the market demand.
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    Characterizing the dynamics of the rumen microbiota, its metabolites, and blood metabolites across reproductive stages in Small-tailed Han sheep.
    (American Society for Microbiology, 2023-11-10) Sha Y; Liu X; Pu X; He Y; Wang J; Zhao S; Shao P; Wang F; Xie Z; Chen X; Yang W
    Different reproductive stages of mammals involve complex biological processes, and the intestinal microbiota, as an endocrine organ or an “invisible organ,” is involved in the regulation of hormone levels, immune function, and metabolism. However, the effects of the rumen microbiota, its metabolites, and blood metabolites on the reproductive performance of ruminants remain unclear. This study revealed that the Prevotella abundance increased significantly during pregnancy (P < 0.01); the Fibrobacter abundance increased significantly during lactation (P < 0.05); and rumen microbial carbohydrate metabolism, glucose biosynthesis, and metabolic functions were significantly enriched during pregnancy (P < 0.05). Microbial metabolic profile analysis showed that the differentially abundant microbial metabolites during pregnancy and lactation were mainly enriched in the biosynthesis of ubiquinone and other terpenoid quinones, and there was a certain correlation with the microbiota. Among them, sapindoside A was increased during pregnancy, nicotinamide riboside and β-cryptoxanthin were reduced during pregnancy, and L-tryptophan was significantly increased during lactation. In addition, the volatile fatty acid levels in lactation were significantly higher than those in non-pregnancy and pregnancy (P < 0.05), and the NH3-N content during pregnancy was significantly higher than that during lactation and non-pregnancy (P < 0.05). Moreover, there were differences in the serum metabolite levels at different reproductive stages, and similar metabolites existed when comparing the rumen metabolites, which were mainly enriched in arachidonic acid metabolism, vitamin B6 metabolism, and ABC transporter protein, resulting in significantly higher serum IgA and IgM levels during lactation than during non-pregnancy and pregnancy (P < 0.05).
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    Factors affecting online shopping frequency: lessons from New Zealand.
    (Springer Nature, 2022-05-04) Ma W; Gan C; Vatsa P; Yang W; Zheng H
    During the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown, the number of people shopping online has increased worldwide, and New Zealand is no exception. To date, little is known about the online shopping behaviours of New Zealanders in a pandemic environment. This paper provides the first attempt by exploring the factors affecting online shopping frequency in New Zealand, a country widely regarded as a paragon of excellence for containing the COVID-19 pandemic. A Poisson regression model is utilized to analyze data collected through an online survey between July and November 2020. The empirical results show that people's online shopping frequency is positively affected by payment convenience, competitive pricing, living in the city, and the number of children. The perceived effectiveness of the government's action in combating COVID-19, having poor past online shopping experiences, and being married reduce online shopping frequency.