Sustainability  

Edeltraud Haselsteiner, Barbara Smetschka, Alexander Remesch and Veronika Gaube

Linking time use of the inhabitants of a city with their energy consumption and urban form is an approach which allows integration of the social dimension into research on sustainable urban development. While much has been written about the planning of ci... see more

Elisha Vlaholias, Kirrilly Thompson, Danielle Every and Drew Dawson

As global concern about sustainability, food waste, and poverty increases, there is an urgent need to understand what motivates businesses to adopt pro-social and pro-environmental behaviours. This paper suggests that food redistribution organisations h... see more

Victor Bunster and Masa Noguchi

Global increases in the demand for energy are imposing strong pressures over the environment while compromising the capacity of emerging economies to achieve sustainable development. In this context, implementation of effective strategies to reduce consum... see more

Larissa Schütte and Diana Gregory-Smith

The present research aimed to investigate the decision-making process for sustainable holidays, as a type of ethical consumption related to environmental welfare. Using semi-structured in-depth interviews with 20 German holidaymakers of different ages, it... see more

Wisdom Akpalu, Isaac Dasmani and Ametefee K. Normanyo

In most developing coastal countries, the artisanal fisheries sector is managed as a common pool resource. As a result, such fisheries are overcapitalized and overfished. In Ghana, in addition to anthropogenic factors, there is evidence of rising coastal ... see more

Wisdom Akpalu and Mintewab Bezabih

Land tenure arrangements in Africa are generally skewed in favour of males. Compared to males, female plot owners face complex sets of constraints and systemic high tenure insecurity which culminate in low yields. In order to obtain better returns, some f... see more

Karina Condeixa, Eduardo Qualharini, Dieter Boer and Assed Haddad

Life Cycle Assessment is a methodology that investigates impacts linked to a product or service during its entire life cycle. Life Cycle Assessment studies investigate processes and sub-processes in a fragmented way to ascertain their inputs, outputs and ... see more

Silvia Cesarini, F. I. Javier Pastor, Per M. Nielsen and Pilar Diaz

Enzymatic biodiesel synthesis can solve several problems posed by the alkaline-catalyzed transesterification but it has the drawback of being too expensive to be considered competitive. Costs can be reduced by lipase improvement, use of unrefined oils, e... see more

Arman Hashemi, Heather Cruickshank and Ali Cheshmehzangi

This paper evaluates the current conditions of Ugandan low-income tropical housing with a focus on construction methods and materials in order to identify the key areas for improvement. Literature review, site visits and photographic surveys are carried o... see more

Sarah Velten, Julia Leventon, Nicolas Jager and Jens Newig

The idea of a sustainable agriculture has gained prominence since the publication of the Brundtland Report in 1987. Yet, the concept of sustainable agriculture is very vague and ambiguous in its meaning, which renders its use and implementation extremely ... see more

Jaqueline Garcia-Yi

Cocaine is extracted from coca: a native bush from the Amazon rainforest. Coca is mostly grown in remote areas to avoid government intervention, and it has been increasingly cultivated inside protected areas (PAs). The effects of coca cultivation on the p... see more

Dorina Pojani and Dominic Stead

Megacities have frequently received a disproportionate amount of attention over other sizes of cities in recent discourse on urban sustainability. In this article, the authors argue that a focus on smaller and medium-sized cities is crucial to achieving s... see more

Dong-Shang Chang, Sheng-Hung Chen, Chia-Wei Hsu and Allen H. Hu

Sustainable development has always been the objective of many fields, including the tourism and transportation sector. However, a major part of this sector, the airline industry, deals with many negative impacts, such as air pollution, noise, CO2 emission... see more

Rosemary Kennedy, Laurie Buys and Evonne Miller

Dwellings in multi-storey apartment buildings (MSAB) are predicted to increase dramatically as a proportion of housing stock in subtropical cities over coming decades. The problem of designing comfortable and healthy high-density residential environments ... see more

Perrihan Al-Riffai, Julian Blohmke, Clemens Breisinger and Manfred Wiebelt

While the recent political transition in Egypt has delayed much-needed policy reforms, our paper suggests that under certain conditions, fostering the national renewable energy strategy may be a promising way of giving an ailing economy an urgently needed... see more