Sustainability  

Lixin Shen, Kannan Govindan and Madan Shankar

The ventilating crisis of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) issues in the textiles industry resulted in the engagement of many researchers in the analysis of CSR and its related factors throughout the globe. Some researchers in developed nations exten... see more

Ernesto Lopez-Valeiras, Jacobo Gomez-Conde and David Naranjo-Gil

This study analyzes how Management Accounting and Control Systems (MACS) facilitate the appropriation of the benefits of sustainable innovations in organizations. In particular, this paper examines the moderating role of different types of MACS in the re... see more

Na Li, Xiaojun Wang, Minjun Shi and Hong Yang

This paper develops an integrated modeling approach combined with a top-down dynamic computable general equilibrium (CGE) model and a bottom-up bio-economic model (BEM) to study the economic impact of a total water use control policy in the Heihe river b... see more

Marc A. Rosen, Doru A. Nicola, Cornelia A. Bulucea and Daniel C. Cismaru

Some aspects are illustrated of energy conversion processes during the operation of electric railway vehicles with traction induction motors, in order to support transport systems’ sustainability. Increasing efforts are being expended to enhance the susta... see more

Alexander V. Balatsky, Galina I. Balatsky and Stanislav S. Borysov

The paper aims at continuing the discussion on sustainability and attempts to forecast the impossibility of the expanding consumption worldwide due to the planet’s limited resources. As the population of China, India and other developing countries contin... see more

Tomáš Hák, Svatava Janoušková, Alistair Whitby, Saamah Abdallah and Jan Kovanda

The concepts of sustainable development, quality of life, wellbeing, green growth, etc., and their assessment by various kinds of indicators (within the “Beyond GDP”, or later known as the “GDP and Beyond” movement) have become important features of the ... see more

Junga Lee, Christopher D. Ellis, Yun Eui Choi, Soojin You and Jinhyung Chon

This paper presents an integrated approach to mitigation wetland site selection using functional landscape connectivity and landscape structure. This approach enables landscape designers to evaluate the relative priorities of mitigation wetland areas base... see more

Marco Zitti, Carlotta Ferrara, Luigi Perini, Margherita Carlucci and Luca Salvati

The present study illustrates a multidimensional analysis of an indicator of urban land use efficiency (per-capita built-up area, LUE) in mainland Attica, a Mediterranean urban region, along different expansion waves (1960–2010): compaction and densificat... see more

Dan Armeanu, Georgiana Camelia Cre?an, Leonard Lache and Mihaela Mitroi

In the current context of economic recovery and rebalancing, the necessity of modelling and estimating the potential output and output gap emerges in order to assess the quality and sustainability of economic growth, the monetary and fiscal policies, as w... see more

Ahmet Tolunay and Çaglar Bassüllü

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Wei-Ta Fang, Chin-Wei Huang, Jui-Yu Chou, Bai-You Cheng and Shang-Shu Shih

Bird watching is one of many recreational activities popular in ecotourism. Its popularity, therefore, prompts the need for studies on energy conservation. One such environmentally friendly approach toward minimizing bird watching’s ecological impact is e... see more

Sophie Devolder and Thomas Block

Today, cities worldwide are engaged in urban projects and activities in a concerted drive towards sustainable development. However, the concept of “sustainable urban projects” is inherently normative, subjective and ambiguous. Furthermore, the popularity ... see more

Yigang Wei, Cui Huang, Patrick T. I. Lam, Yong Sha and Yong Feng

Sustainable urban development has been receiving growing concerns from both city managers and urban residents across the world. As a yardstick of sustainability, urban carrying capacity (UCC) is an important conceptual underpinning that guides local gover... see more

Adam Peterson, Sven-Erik Jacobsen, Alejandro Bonifacio and Kevin Murphy

As sustainable production of quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.) increases and its geographic range of cultivation expands, quinoa breeding will allow use of the crop’s wide genetic diversity for cultivar improvement and for adaptation to new agroecosystem... see more

Franz K. Huber, Michael Morlok, Caroline S. Weckerle and Klaus Seeland

This paper investigates the socio-ecological differences and interactions between upland and lowland areas in Shaxi Valley, Yunnan Province, Southwest China. As an analytical tool we used an extended Human–Environment System Framework by focusing particul... see more