Sustainability  

Guokui Wang, Xingpeng Chen, Zilong Zhang and Chaolan Niu

China is the largest CO2 emitter in the world and is still reliant on energy consumption for economic growth. Research has focused on effective approaches of reducing and mitigating CO2 emissions. This paper undertakes a decomposition study of energy-rela... see more

Lei Ding, Kun-Lun Chen, Ting Liu, Sheng-Gao Cheng and Xu Wang

Spatial-temporal hotspot pattern analysis of environmental pollution incidents provides an indispensable source of information for the further development of incident prevention measures. In this study, the spatial-temporal patterns of environmental pollu... see more

Yuta Uchiyama, Kengo Hayashi and Ryo Kohsaka

A City Biodiversity Index (CBI) has been proposed and applied at the international level to enable local municipalities and cities to manage biodiversity and ecosystem services in a sustainable manner. CBI databases are being constructed as global platfor... see more

Sangkyun Kim

In performing team-based projects in engineering class, students usually face many problems, such as free-riding, lack of responsibility, boredom, and insufficient initiative. This papers proposes a new method for performing team-based projects in enginee... see more

Thobekani Lose and Robertson K. Tengeh

Notwithstanding the growing interest in business incubation programmes and the benefits derived from such programmes, the path is beset by numerous challenges. This paper investigates the challenges faced by business incubators (BIs) as they strive to su... see more

Gennaro Nicola Bifulco, Francesco Galante, Luigi Pariota and Maria Russo Spena

Reduction of the environmental impact of cars represents one of the biggest transport industry challenges. Beyond more efficient engines, a promising approach is to use eco-driving technologies that help drivers achieve lower fuel consumption and emission... see more

Zhanyu Zhang, Liting Sheng, Jie Yang, Xiao-An Chen, Lili Kong and Bakhtawar Wagan

A study was undertaken to develop an appropriate plan of land use under suitable slope gradient to control soil erosion from a red soil hilly watershed of southern China by using the GeoWEPP (Geo-spatial Interface for the Water Erosion Prediction Project)... see more

Junwon Seo, Jong Wan Hu and Burte Davaajamts

This paper is intended to evaluate the seismic performance of a twelve-story reinforced concrete moment-resisting frame structure with shear walls using 3D finite element models according to such seismic design regulations as Federal Emergency Management ... see more

Mohammad Reza Majdi Yazdi, Mehdi Aliehyaei and Marc A. Rosen

Gas turbines incur a loss of output power during hot seasons due to high ambient air temperatures, and input air cooling systems are often used to partly offset this problem. Here, results are reported for an investigation of the utilization of a heat pum... see more

Xicheng Tan, Liping Di, Meixia Deng, Jing Fu, Guiwei Shao, Meng Gao, Ziheng Sun, Xinyue Ye, Zongyao Sha and Baoxuan Jin

Since the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) proposed the geospatial Web Processing Service (WPS), standard OGC Web Service (OWS)-based geospatial processing has become the major type of distributed geospatial application. However, improving the performance... see more

Lucia Cellucci, Chiara Burattini, Dionysia Drakou, Franco Gugliermetti, Fabio Bisegna, Andrea de Lieto Vollaro, Ferdinando Salata and Iacopo Golasi

The smart and resilient city evolves by slow procedures of mutation without radical changes, increasing the livability of its territory. The value of the city center in a Smart City can increase through urban lighting systems: its elements on the territor... see more

Ying Qu, Mengru Li, Han Jia and Lingling Guo

Being an important aspect of sustainable development, sustainable consumption has attracted great attention among Chinese politicians and academia, and Chinese governments have established policies that encourage sustainable consumption behaviors. However... see more

Paola Gullino, Gabriele Loris Beccaro and Federica Larcher

In 2002, the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) established the importance of the sustainability and the need of management plans for the safeguard of cultural heritage. No models, rules or specific definitions have b... see more

Jae Heon Shim and Chun-Il Kim

Measuring resilience to natural hazards is a central issue in the hazard mitigation sciences. This paper applied a confirmatory factor methodology to operationalize the biophysical, built-environment, and socioeconomic resilience dimensions for local juri... see more

Nicolás C. Bronfman, Pamela C. Cisternas, Esperanza López-Vázquez, Cristóbal de la Maza and Juan Carlos Oyanedel

Environmental protection and restoration are some of the major challenges faced by our society. To address this problem, it is fundamental to understand pro-environmental behaviors in the population, as well as the factors that determine them. There are, ... see more