Sustainability  

Yongrok Choi and Do Quynh Mai

Vietnam, as a new emerging market, especially in e-business, has been promoting its emerging e-commerce market in Southeast Asia using aggressive players such as Lazada. Nonetheless, Vietnam has strong cultural background of risk-averse attitudes, like ot... see more

Yan Yu, Yan Tong, Wenwu Tang, Yanbin Yuan and Yue Chen

Urban agglomeration has become a crucial topic in order for the Chinese government to promote new-type urbanization in China, and its urbanization will greatly affect China’s eco-environment. Existing literature on bidirectional influence between urbaniza... see more

Kari-Anne Lyng, Mia Bjerkestrand, Aina Elstad Stensgård, Pieter Callewaert and Ole Jørgen Hanssen

An optimisation model was developed to give decision support on methods of managing manure resources within a region to reduce greenhouse gases and at the same time obtain economic profitability for the farmer. The model was tested by performing a case st... see more

Qingsong Wang, Hongrui Tang, Xueliang Yuan, Mansen Wang, Hongkun Xiao and Zhi Ma

The oil system security in a country or region will affect its sustainable development ability. China’s oil security has risen to the national strategic level. It is urgent to construct an early warning indicator system to reflect the oil security level a... see more

Babak Ghassim

Minerals mining and processing companies (hereinafter referred to as “minerals industry”) face the increasing demand for a comprehensive approach towards innovations aimed at sustainability. While the ability to learn from external sources of knowledge is... see more

Elisenda Jové-Llopis and Agustí Segarra-Blasco

This study investigates the effects of eco-efficiency actions on firm performance in terms of sales growth in an extensive sample of 11,336 small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) located in 28 European countries. Our empirical results suggest that not... see more

Daeryong Park and Myoung-Jin Um

This study investigated the sustainability of the rainwater harvesting system (RWHS) by analyzing six urban city sites with different rainfall statistics in the United States. We developed a new RWHS performance model by modifying a spreadsheet-based stor... see more

Sjoerd Pietersen, Juan Carlos López-Acosta, Jorge Antonio Gomez-Díaz and Maite Lascurain-Rangel

México is a cultural and biological megadiverse country with an increased anthropogenic pressure on its tropical landscapes. The study area was the ejido “Los Ídolos”, Misantla, Central Veracruz, Mexico. The main objective of this research was to identify... see more

Changhong Zhao, Haonan Zhang, Yurong Zeng, Fengyun Li, Yuanxin Liu, Chengju Qin and Jiahai Yuan

The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is showing its great influence and leadership on the international energy cooperation. Based on the three-stage DEA model, total-factor energy efficiency (TFEE) in 35 BRI countries in 2015 was measured in this article. I... see more

Niccolò Pampuro, Christian Preti and Eugenio Cavallo

The aim of this investigation was to determine the physical and acoustical properties of compacts made from composted pig slurry solid fraction (SF) in order to assess the potential to recycle this agricultural waste as a sound absorber. The compacts were... see more

Zabihollah Rezaee

Global business organizations face the challenges of adapting proper sustainability strategies and practices to effectively respond to social, ethical, environmental, and governance issues while improving financial performance in creating value for their ... see more

Hyungkeun Kim, Kyungsoo Lee and Taeyeon Kim

Two types of methods are used to evaluate pedestrian comfort: pedestrian wind comfort and outdoor thermal comfort. To accurately ascertain the outdoor wind environment, wind speed is the only parameter considered. However, pedestrians may still feel disco... see more

Huifu Jiang, Shi An, Jian Wang and Jianxun Cui

This research proposed an eco-approach and departure system for left-turn vehicles at a fixed-time signalized intersection. This system gives higher priority to enhancing traffic safety than improving mobility and fuel efficiency, and optimizes the entire... see more

Shahbaz Khan, Abid Haleem, Mohd Imran Khan, Mustufa Haider Abidi and Abdulrahman Al-Ahmari

Traceability plays a vital role in the success of Halal Supply Chain (HSC). HSC revolve around the essential dimension of Halal Integrity (HI), whereas traceability is seemed to be medium to assure integrity. Thus, a need is felt to identify the factors w... see more

Yun Liu, Zhe Yan, Yijie Cheng and Xuanting Ye

With the intensification of international competition, there are many international technological collaborations in the integrated circuit manufacturing (ICM) industry. The importance of improving the level of international technological collaboration is ... see more