30 articles in this issue
Inger Auestad, Yngve Nilsen and Knut Rydgren
Hydropower is expanding globally and is regarded a key measure for mitigating climate change, but it also results in major environmental degradation, both at local scale and more widely. We can learn lessons about how restoration can be used to alleviate ... see more
Archana Raghavan Sathyan, Christoph Funk, Thomas Aenis and Lutz Breuer
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Emilia Ciupan, Cornel Ciupan, Emilia-Maria Câmpean, Lucia Stelea, Cecilia-Elena Policsek, Florin Lungu and Daniela-Corina Jucan
Wood is used as a raw material in various industries, including the production of furniture, which puts pressure on the exploitation of the forests and the continuous reduction of their surfaces, with undesirable effects on the environment. The paper prov... see more
Arturo Sanchez-Porras, María Guadalupe Tenorio-Arvide, Ricardo Darío Peña-Moreno, María Laura Sampedro-Rosas and Sonia Emilia Silva-Gómez
The provision of ecosystem services (ES) in a particular region is strongly related to land use. In 2013, San José Chiapa, México, was selected as the new operations base for an automotive company. The installation of the new automotive plant will encoura... see more
Sang-Hyun Lee, Makoto Taniguchi, Rabi H. Mohtar, Jin-Yong Choi and Seung-Hwan Yoo
The aim of this study is to assess the impact of rice-based food security on water, energy, land, and CO2 emissions from a holistic point of view using the Nexus approach, which analyzes tradeoffs between water, energy, and food management. In Japan, both... see more
Guoxu Ma, Tianliang Zhao, Shaofei Kong, Yansong Bao, Chao Chen, Sunling Gong, Jianping Guo, Chao Yu, Ming Wu, Jiacheng Chang and Yingchang You
Various particulate matters (PM) and associated carbonaceous aerosols released from open biomass burning (including open straw burning, grass and forest fires) are major sources of atmospheric pollutants. Northeast China is a central region with high fore... see more
Jose-Manuel Almodovar-Melendo, Joseph-Maria Cabeza-Lainez and Inmaculada Rodriguez-Cunill
Heritage issues have increased significantly in recent years. However, they tend to remain in the cultural sphere and are often resistant to scientific analyses. If we have to deal with the contradictory matter of sustainability in design for ancient buil... see more
Pedro Garcia-Caparros, Rosa María Chica, Eva María Almansa, Antonio Rull, Lara Alicia Rivas, Antonio García-Buendía, Francisco Javier Barbero and María Teresa Lao
Nowadays, the evaluation of sustainability is an important aspect in the study of agricultural systems and the number of projects and methods for impact assessment of food production systems is increasing. In this work, we initially carried out a survey t... see more
Katsuto Shimizu, Tetsuji Ota, Nobuya Mizoue and Shigejiro Yoshida
Shifting cultivation is a widely practiced agriculture system in the tropics. Regardless of the dominant land use, the dynamics of shifting cultivation over large areas are of limited knowledge. We conducted patch-based assessments and characterization of... see more
Gang Du, Xinyue Li, Hui Hu and Xiaoling Ouyang
Under the background of the unbalanced supply and demand of medical diagnostic equipment and rising health care costs, this study aims to optimize the service scheduling for medical diagnostic equipment so as to improve patient satisfaction by ensuring th... see more
Guijun Li, Yongsheng Wang, Jie Luo and Yulong Li
Currently, the construction of smart cities (SCs) has been booming all over the world and it also acts as a useful tool for the Chinese government to promote the sustainable development of cities. Identifying the aspects of SCs and systematically evaluati... see more
Rolandas Drejeris and Astrida Miceikiene
Measuring sustainable innovativeness of farms is a major challenge for both practitioners and academics. This article looks into the need for sustainable innovativeness assessment in agricultural business. To the best of our knowledge, farm sustainable in... see more
Xianzhe Zhang, Yanming Chen and Manchun Li
Studying the geospatial association within the urban agglomeration around the South China Sea can provide a basis for understanding the internal development of the China-Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Free Trade Area (CAFTA) and provide id... see more
Hongbin Liu and Xiaojuan Luo
Farmland protection is the most important land science research issue in developing countries, especially in China, due to serious land degradation. This paper aimed to reveal the causal chain among driving factors, farmers’ land protection percepti... see more
Asma Troudi, Sid-Ali Addouche, Sofiene Dellagi and Abderrahman El Mhamedi
One of the most innovative solutions treated in the literature in order to reduce the environmental impact of urban parcel delivery logistics is the use of drones for delivery on the last kilometer. Consequently, nowadays, the primary challenge is essenti... see more
Ralph Hansmann and Dagmar Schröter
Gender equality is essential to social justice and sustainable development in the higher education sector. An important aspect thereof is to promote equal opportunities for academic careers. This study investigates the current situation and possibilities ... see more
Andrea Bacchetti, Stefano Bonetti, Marco Perona and Nicola Saccani
The well-established Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) concept has been applied to several durable goods industries, including machinery. However, none of the existing TCO models explicitly focus on such highly energy-intensive equipment as metal melting furn... see more
Christine Tawfik and Sabine Limbourg
The aim of this paper is to consider the topic of pricing decisions in the context of intermodal transport as a subject of significant influence on intermodality’s success and the move towards environment friendly modes to bring about a European sus... see more
Jiae Han and Soomi Kim
Regeneration projects are a crucial tool in helping cities improve their heritage value. This includes the rehabilitation of industrial facilities, a practical solution to increasing urban sustainability. Seoul’s Mapo Cultural Depot, launched in 201... see more
August Wierling, Valeria Jana Schwanitz, Jan Pedro Zeiß, Celine Bout, Chiara Candelise, Winston Gilcrease and Jay Sterling Gregg
The share of renewable energy is increasing throughout Europe. Yet, little is known about how much can be attributed to different actors, other than those commercially active. This paper provides empirical evidence of activities by energy cooperatives in ... see more
Yung Yau
Homeowners’ collective actions are essential for effective governance of multi-owned housing (MOH) and a city’s sustainable development. Yet, not all homeowners keenly participate in MOH governance. Unpacking why homeowners decide to participa... see more
Craig R. Elevitch, D. Niki Mazaroli and Diane Ragone
Agroforestry is increasingly being recognized as a holistic food production system that can have numerous significant environmental, economic, and social benefits. This growing recognition is paralleled in the USA by the budding interest in regenerative a... see more
Elena Matei, Despina Saghin, Liliana Dumitrache and Mariana Nae
Residential care centres for elders (RCCEs) in Romania have rapidly developed over the last two decades. In the absence of coherent policies regarding elderly people, RCCEs are mainly the result of businesses arising from an acceleration of the ageing pro... see more
Xiaohan Yan, Dongxiao Gu, Changyong Liang, Shuping Zhao and Wenxing Lu
Maria Tysiachniouk, Andrey N. Petrov, Vera Kuklina and Natalia Krasnoshtanova
Benefit sharing arrangements are a central element of the interactions between oil companies and local communities in resource regions of the Arctic and sub-Arctic. This paper focused on developing a systematic understanding and typology of benefit sharin... see more
Xiaoqing Wang, Qiuming Wu, Salman Majeed and Donghao Sun
The coordinated development of industrialization and its ecological environment are vital antecedents to sustainable development in China. However, along with the accelerating development of industrialization in China, the contradiction between industrial... see more
Carlie D. Trott, Andrea E. Weinberg and Laura B. Sample McMeeking
Hao Wang, Pen-Chi Chiang, Yanpeng Cai, Chunhui Li, Xuan Wang, Tse-Lun Chen, Shiming Wei and Qian Huang
The construction materials utilized in the building sector have accounted for a large amount of natural resource and energy consumption. Green building, which has developed over three decades, can be regarded as a management and technical approach for bui... see more
Iván Y. Hernández-Paniagua, Rodrigo Lopez-Farias, José J. Piña-Mondragón, Juan A. Pichardo-Corpus, Olivia Delgadillo-Ruiz, Arnoldo Flores-Torres, Agustín García-Reynoso, Luis G. Ruiz-Suárez and Alberto Mendoza
Alessio D’Auria, Pasquale De Toro, Nicola Fierro and Elisa Montone
Ecosystem services play a fundamental role in society; their characteristics and the production of their natural generated capital are fundamental elements in the functioning of the support system of life on Earth. The loss of ecosystem services contribut... see more