in: Enhancing Smart Universities with Emotional Intelligence , Joanna Rosak-Szyrocka,Shashi Kant Gupta,Muhammad Shahbaz,Markus Launer, Editor, Routledge, London/New York , London, pp.214-236, 2025
Due to an abrupt rise in environmental degradation, policymakers look forward to green solutions to manage such issues. Smart universities have recently become the last hope to introduce innovative methods for sustainability. Therefore, the present research uses income, urbanization, digital transformation (DT), high-quality institutes, and government expenditures (GEs) as sustainability factors. To investigate the study objectives, the current study utilizes the augmented mean group (AMG) and common correlated effects mean group (CCE-MG) estimators. Results show a positive association of income, urbanization, and GEs with carbon emissions and the decline in sustainability levels. Moreover, high-quality education institutes and DT manage environmental issues well. Besides, the interaction term of DT with high-quality educational institutes is used to measure smart universities, and its role remains negative for emissions levels. This factor causes a decline in emissions by 0.204% and 0.219%, respectively. To become clean and green, this study suggests imperative implications for selected regions.