Acknowledgment to the Reviewers of Journal of Environmental & Earth Sciences in 2025
2026-02-06
Revitalising the Earth: Cross-International Solution Communication for Promoting Healthy Environmental Development
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Jia Chu
International Business School, Hunan University of Information Technology, Changsha City 410151, China
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.30564/jees.v8i7.13402Abstract
With rising international environmental issues, there is a need to ensure effective communication of solutions across international boundaries to enhance sustainable development and environment sustainability. International solution communication entails the process of transmitting and localizing environmental innovations, technologies and policy-based or social, among nations and regions. This article discusses the actors, channels, and strategies that are significant to the transfer of environmental solutions with regard to identifying the obstacles that inhibit their universal adoption, and also the ethical concerns that would require consideration. Although there are viable solutions, the successful execution of these solutions is usually hampered by issues of governance mismatch, capacity gaps, political resistance, and cultural differences in different settings. This review offers an understanding of how trust, evidence-based communication, and local adaptation can improve solution transfer by the analysis of the mechanisms of delivering solutions and adopting them. Ethical issues, including data equity and environmental justice, are also addressed, and inclusive and open communication is essential. The article suggests an integrative model that connects the context, the mechanism of communication, and the outcome to provide a holistic model of maximizing cross-national solution communication. This framework will promote a situation in which environmental solutions result in measurable and sustainable enhancement of environmental health in the world by promoting collaboration and resolving barriers to communication.
Keywords:
Cross-International Communication; Environmental Solutions; Solution Transfer; Policy Diffusion; Environmental JusticeReferences
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Chu, J. (2026). Revitalising the Earth: Cross-International Solution Communication for Promoting Healthy Environmental Development. Journal of Environmental & Earth Sciences, 8(7), 30–47. https://doi.org/10.30564/jees.v8i7.13402
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