Sustainability  

Xinyu Fu and Jie Song

Sea level rise (SLR) is believed to be the most dangerous impact of climate change in coastal regions. Adapting to its impacts has become imperative since SLR is now considered inevitable. Lack of local economic analysis of SLR impacts is one of the major... see more

Jongseok Seo, Lidziya Lysiankova, Young-Seok Ock and Dongphil Chun

More than 1,180,000 people use several thousand coworking spaces these days, but the running of coworking spaces is a rather fragile business model. Coworking spaces need entrepreneurial sustainability as well. Therefore, this study identifies success fac... see more

Hongmeng Ye, Xuyin Yuan, Lei Han, Ja Bawk Marip and Jing Qin

Non-point source pollution is widely considered a serious threat to drinking water. Eutrophication in Chinese watershed is mainly due to nitrogen and phosphorus output from agricultural source. Taihu Lake is a typical eutrophic lake in China, a basin repr... see more

Caroline Fritsch, Andreas Staebler, Anton Happel, Miguel Angel Cubero Márquez, Ingrid Aguiló-Aguayo, Maribel Abadias, Miriam Gallur, Ilaria Maria Cigognini, Angela Montanari, Maria Jose López, Francisca Suárez-Estrella, Nigel Brunton, Elisa Luengo, Laura Sisti, Maura Ferri and Gianluca Belotti

The vast and ever-growing amount of agricultural and food wastes has become a major concern throughout the whole world. Therefore, strategies for their processing and value-added reuse are needed to enable a sustainable utilization of feedstocks and reduc... see more

Beniamino Murgante, Mohamad Salmani, Mohamad Molaei Qelichi and Mehdi Hajilo

Natural hazards such as earthquakes take place around the world and when combined with humans create natural disasters. Earthquakes, a form of natural hazard, have, in recent years, caused damage and destruction in many rural areas due to the lack of sust... see more

Msafiri Y. Mkonda and Xinhua He

While Tanzania has been facing food shortage for some decades, little efforts have been made to elicit optimal crop yields. To limit this problem, there is a need for a robust agricultural policy that aims at stabilizing agricultural production and socio-... see more

Maxwell C. Wilson, Xiao-Yan Li, Yu-Jun Ma, Andrew T. Smith and Jianguo Wu

China’s South–North Water Transfer Project (SNWTP) has the potential to transfer as much as 44.8 km3 year-1 of water from the Yangtze River basin to the Yellow River basin. However, the SNWTP has not been assessed from a sustainability perspective. Thus, ... see more

Byung-Wan Jo, Yun-Sung Lee, Jung-Hoon Kim, Do-Keun Kim and Pyung-Ho Choi

Construction is a hazardous industry in which accidents occur frequently. Occupational accidents at construction sites are a serious public health issue in Korea. Construction site conditions often create dangerous situations by requiring workers and heav... see more

Juan Manuel Ramon-Jeronimo, Raquel Florez-Lopez and Maria Angeles Ramon-Jeronimo

Firms are involved in supply chains to achieve operative efficiency, develop strategic advantages, and generate financial profits. However, there is limited evidence regarding how governance mechanisms influence the generation of value from collaboration.... see more

Ilkhom Soliev and Insa Theesfeld

It is broadly agreed that development needs and effects from changing environment will increase pressure on the ways natural resources are utilized and shared at present. In most parts of the world, resource stress has already reached unprecedented levels... see more

Lin Zhen and Bingzhen Du

The per capita ecological footprint (EF) is a useful tool to compare consumption with nature's ability to support this consumption. Guyuan is an economically impoverished region in China, where EF provides important insights into whether human consumption... see more

Marie-Christine Cormier-Salem

Carbon policy is a fascinating topic in geography and political ecology, because carbon is a new exchangeable good, which links the local to the international arenas through a complex set of instruments, norms, and institutions. In this paper, after expla... see more

Yi-Tui Chen

This article attempts to examine the factors affecting residential electricity consumption through two approaches, a socioeconomic perspective and a direct use perspective. The results of this study find that gross domestic product (GDP), employment rates... see more

Shih-Heng Yu, Yu Gao and Yih-Chearng Shiue

Sustainability consists of economic, environmental, and societal aspects. Concomitant with China’s rapid growth, the evaluation of China’s ability for sustainable development (SD) has become a topic of interest. Unlike previous studies that are based on p... see more

Yufang Shen, Lixia Zhu, Hongyan Cheng, Shanchao Yue and Shiqing Li

Biochar amendments to soil have potential as a climate change mitigation strategy. However, their effect on carbon exchange in different ecosystems has not been well evaluated. Understanding how biochar affects carbon exchange from agricultural soil is es... see more