Sustainability  

Jaecheol Kim

This study examines the dominance of the D/H ratio as a design element for an enclosed urban square, long claimed by numerous urban designers. It claims that like the D/H ratio, other design elements significantly affect the perceptual quality of an enclo... see more

Zhimin Zhou, Xinyue Ye and Xiangyu Ge

This paper aims to reveal the nexus for sulfur dioxide (SO2) emission and income, as well as the effects of technical progress on SO2 emission in China based on environment Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis. The spatial panel technique is used in case the co... see more

Saurabh Singh, Pradip Kumar Sharma, Seo Yeon Moon and Jong Hyuk Park

Nowadays, the high power consumption of data centers is the biggest challenge to making cloud computing greener. Many researchers are still seeking effective solutions to reduce or harvest the energy produced at data centers. To address this challenge, we... see more

Yanchun Yi, Sisi Ma, Weijun Guan and Ke Li

Although several studies have explained the effect of urbanization on China’s carbon emissions, most have focused on population urbanization, while ignoring the urban spatial form. This study investigates the impact of urban spatial form, measured by resi... see more

José Álvarez-García, María de la Cruz del Río-Rama and María del Mar Miras-Rodríguez

Most thalassotherapy centres in Spain do not have any quality certification but they are carrying out several actions of quality management in an attempt to obtain better results. Consequently, the aim of this research is to study if the implementation of... see more

Agnieszka E. Latawiec, Jolanta B. Królczyk, Maciej Kubon, Katarzyna Szwedziak, Adam Drosik, Ewa Polanczyk, Katarzyna Grotkiewicz and Bernardo B. N. Strassburg

Most research on biochar has focused either on the mechanistic or the biophysical aspects, and there has been relatively little research into the social applicability and acceptance of biochar as a soil enhancer in agriculture. However, whether to adopt b... see more

Peter Tarne, Marzia Traverso and Matthias Finkbeiner

The aim of this paper is to guide the next steps of a PhD thesis through a structured review of the state of the art and implementation of Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA), and to identify challenges and potentials for its adoption at an automo... see more

Daniel Hausknost, Ernst Schriefl, Christian Lauk and Gerald Kalt

To date the concept of the bioeconomy—an economy based primarily on biogenic instead of fossil resources—has largely been associated with visions of “green growth” and the advancement of biotechnology and has been framed from within an industrial perspect... see more

Yuqiang Li, Yinping Chen, Xuyang Wang, Yayi Niu and Jie Lian

Caragana microphylla, a native perennial leguminous shrub, is widely used for desertification control in China’s Horqin Sandy Land. We investigated the effects of afforestation using C. microphylla in areas with fixed and active dunes on soil carbon (C) a... see more

Boqiang Lin, Zihan Zhang and Fei Ge

China, as the world’s largest cement producer, accounts for more than 60% of global cement production. With the continuous development of the Chinese economy, resource and environmental constraints are becoming increasingly serious, and energy saving and ... see more

Rong Guan, Haitao Zheng, Jie Hu, Qi Fang and Ruoen Ren

In response to the call of the Chinese government to support low-carbon development, the issue has come to the view gradually as to whether the behaviors of banks’ green credit will contribute to easing their own credit risk. To reflect the behaviors of g... see more

Zhiyuan Yuan, Xinqi Zheng, Lulu Zhang and Guoliang Zhao

In the current era, competition among countries and regions is in fact among cities. Thus, how to measure urban competitiveness precisely is a basic and important question. The two main approaches to this are comprehensive evaluation based on a set of ind... see more

Iwona Szumacher and Piotr Pabjanek

Ecosystem services (ES) in cities and surrounding suburban areas are one of the major factors which guarantee quality of life. Most studies directly referring to urban ecosystem services are conducted on a local scale or for selected cities. There are few... see more

Jing Ni, Bowen Jin, Bo Zhang and Xiaowei Wang

Data centers have become ubiquitous in the last few years in an attempt to keep pace with the processing and storage needs of the Internet and cloud computing. The steady growth in the heat densities of IT servers leads to a rise in the energy needed to c... see more

Ricardo Enrique Vega-Azamar, Rabindranarth Romero-López, Norma Angélica Oropeza-García, Mathias Glaus, Robert Hausler and Herlinda del Socorro Silva-Poot

Sustainability of cities and the environmental implications of high resource utilization by the domestic sector are growing concerns related to urban regions. Well-informed urban planning decision-making is an essential tool to help in the task and, for t... see more