Sustainability  

Abid Hussain, Fahad N. Al-Barakah, Mohamed Al-Sewailem, Mohamed H. El-Saeid, Muhammad Waqar and Mahtab Ahmad

Increased industrialization has introduced a lot of hazardous materials into ecosystems. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are among the most toxic and persistent organic pollutants emanating from petrochemical industrial areas. Remediation of PAHs-... see more

Lichun Xiong, Chang Yu, Martin de Jong, Fengting Wang and Baodong Cheng

The Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region Integration Plan is one of the most important national strategies in China promoting regional economic development. The environmental problems in this region, however, especially air pollution and contaminated groundwater,... see more

Luigi Aldieri and Concetto Paolo Vinci

The objective of this paper is to analyze the effects of technology externalities stemming from different technological sectors for international firms engaged both in water pollution abatement and in dirty activities. We present a theoretical framework a... see more

Natalia Junakova and Jozef Junak

Sediment, often considered a by-product of various activities within river basin management to be disposed of, or a pollutant to be controlled, is increasingly being acknowledged as a resource in need of management. The paper deals with the possibility of... see more

David Rodriguez-Rosa, Ismael Payo-Gutierrez, Fernando J. Castillo-Garcia, Antonio Gonzalez-Rodriguez and Sergio Perez-Juarez

A method is proposed to achieve lateral stability of an autonomous bicycle with only the rotation of the front wheel. This can be achieved with a classic controller. However, if the energy consumption of the bicycle also has to be minimized, this solution... see more

Suresh Inakollu, Randy Morin and Ryan Keefe

Detailed carbon footprinting assignments have been on the rise in more and more major manufacturing industries. The main strength of carbon footprinting is to make product manufacturers aware of carbon emissions and understand its meaning due to perceived... see more

Ceyhun Yildiz, Mustafa Tekin, Ahmet Gani, Ö. Fatih Keçecioglu, Hakan Açikgöz and Mustafa Sekkeli

During the last decades, thanks to supportive policies of countries and a decrease in installation costs, total installed capacity of wind power has increased rapidly all around the world. The uncertain and variable nature of wind power has been a problem... see more

Shih-Chieh Chen, Ming-Young Jan, Kuo-Liang Lin, Sung-Lin Chao and Chien-Sen Liao

Environmental impacts, such as earthquakes, chemical pollution and anthropogenic factors can affect the stability and sustainability of an ecosystem. In this study, a long-term (3.7 years) investigation experiment was conducted to estimate the sustainabil... see more

Alptekin Durmusoglu

The chemical industry provides essential goods we use in our daily lives and key ingredients for many diverse industries. On the other hand, their production and use require serious attention while they may be seriously harmful to local air quality. The C... see more

Yan Xu, Jiahai Yuan and Jianxiu Wang

Cost evolution has an important influence on the commercialization and large-scale application of power technology. Many researchers have analyzed the quantitative relationship between the cost of power technology and its influencing factors while establi... see more

José-Luis Alfaro-Navarro, Víctor-Raúl López-Ruiz and Domingo Nevado Peña

Urban sustainability is a key factor that must be considered at the local level, however, there are few studies that consider sustainability using the triple bottom line approach and apply it to a large number of cities. In this paper, we develop a sustai... see more

Liming Zhao, Ling Li and Yujie Wu

Based on the concept of sea–land coordination and the statistical data of Hainan Province from 1999 to 2013, we establish a new evaluation index system included four aspects—economic development, social progress, environmental protection and resource effi... see more

Anthony Lehmann, Rebecca Chaplin-Kramer, Martin Lacayo, Grégory Giuliani, David Thau, Kevin Koy, Grace Goldberg and Richard Sharp Jr.

Sustainability challenges demand solutions, and the pace of technological and scientific advances in physical geography and Earth observation have great potential to provide the information needed to address these challenges. This paper highlights five on... see more

Attila Bai, József Popp, Károly Peto, Irén Szoke, Mónika Harangi-Rákos and Zoltán Gabnai

This study presents the sequestration and emissions of forests and algae related to CO2 while providing a comparison to other biomass sources (arable crops, short rotation coppices). The goal of the paper is to analyze the impact of the current CO2 balanc... see more

Jiannan Zheng, Z. Jane Wang and Chunsheng Zhu

Food image recognition is a key enabler for many smart home applications such as smart kitchen and smart personal nutrition log. In order to improve living experience and life quality, smart home systems collect valuable insights of users’ preferences, nu... see more