Sustainability  

Qingsheng Li, Jinliang Huang, Cui Wang, Heshan Lin, Jiwei Zhang, Jinlong Jiang and Bingkun Wang

With the acceleration of urbanization and industrialization, regional development is becoming increasingly disordered. Thus, how to balance economic development and ecological protection is a key question. To comprehensively evaluate land development suit... see more

Johannes Müller, Gonçalo Homem de Almeida Correia and Klaus Bogenberger

When the first free-floating carsharing operators launched their business, they did not know if it would be profitable. They often started in highly populated cities without performing extensive target group analysis, and were less concerned about fleet m... see more

Shu-Chiang Lin, Reny Nadlifatin, Anis Rahmawati Amna, Satria Fadil Persada and Mohammad Razif

The present study was aimed at measuring citizens’ behavior intention (BI) regarding mandatory and voluntary pro-environmental programs. Two pro-environmental activities, which consist of an environmental impact assessment (EIA) as a mandatory program and... see more

Qingguo Wang, Jong Ahn Chun, David Fleisher, Vangimalla Reddy, Dennis Timlin and Jonathan Resop

The Farquhar—von Caemmerer—Berry (FvCB) biochemical model of photosynthesis, commonly used to estimate CO2 assimilation at various spatial scales from leaf to global, has been used to assess the impacts of climate change on crop and ecosystem productiviti... see more

Sirak Robele Gari, Alice Newton, John D. Icely and Maria Mar Delgado-Serrano

There are a number of gaps in reviews relating Ostrom’s design principles (DPs) to common-pool resource (CPR) institutions. These include the geographical distribution of CPRs, the performance of young CPRs relative to the DPs, and the relationship betwee... see more

Ulla A. Saari, Rupert J. Baumgartner and Saku J. Mäkinen

The purpose of this study is to explore how consumers perceive eco-friendliness in their brand experiences and how this can be measured cross-nationally. This is a replication-extension study based on an existing brand experience scale. Data were collecte... see more

Zhengning Pu

The haze pollution caused by fine particulate matter (PM 2.5) emissions has become one of the most crucial topics of sustainable environmental governance in China. Using the average concentration of PM 2.5 in China’s key cities from 2000 to 2012, as measu... see more

Ningke Hu, Xin Li, Lei Luo and Liwei Zhang

Historical records and archaeological discoveries have shown that prosperous agricultural activities developed in the ancient Juyan Oasis of northwestern China, an important oasis that once flourished on the ancient Silk Road. However, how the irrigation ... see more

Jiarong Qian and Zhijun Zhao

Sustainability in agricultural development relies on continuing seed (cultivar) development and adoption. Measuring the contribution made by new seed cultivars to yield increases nationwide is essential, but this process remains challenging for academics.... see more

Li-Hsing Shih and Yi-Cin Jheng

Design for sustainable behavior has become more important for product or service design considering environmental sustainability in the use stage. The goal of this work is to specifically help design for encouraging energy-saving behavior in selecting eff... see more

Sangseom Jeong, Kwangwoo Lee, Junghwan Kim and Yongmin Kim

This paper investigates rainfall-induced landslides on partially saturated soil slopes using the 2011 Umyeonsan landslides at the center of Seoul, Korea. An integrated analysis of rainfall-induced landslide was carried out through laboratory tests, field ... see more

Zhenliang Yin, Qi Feng, Linshan Yang, Xiaohu Wen, Jianhua Si and Songbing Zou

Quantifying the long term impacts of climate and land cover change on streamflow is of great important for sustainable water resources management in inland river basins. The Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) model was employed to simulate the streamfl... see more

Lina Liu, Jiansheng Qu, Afton Clarke-Sather, Tek Narayan Maraseni and Jiaxing Pang

In China, household CO2 emissions (HCEs) are increasing due to economic development and accelerated urbanization. This paper details the spatial variations of per capita household CO2 emissions (PHCEs) in China and the factors impacting PHCEs using spatia... see more

Ana Rodrigues, Denise Machado and Tomaz Dentinho

The Azores Regional Government, through the Sustainable Energy Action Plan for the Azorean Islands, assumed that by the year 2018, 60% of electricity would be generated from renewable energy sources. Nevertheless, by increasing renewable energy sources sh... see more

Michiel A. Heldeweg

In Europe, the energy transition by means of a governance shift through liberalization is followed by a transition and shift towards community energy initiatives, with a particular view of supporting the demand for greater energy sustainability. What inst... see more