30 articles in this issue
Shewit Gebremedhin, Abebe Getahun, Wassie Anteneh, Stijn Bruneel and Peter Goethals
Lake Tana, Ethiopia’s largest lake, has a remarkable and conservation-worthy assemblage of fish species, requiring fisheries management for sustainable exploitation. However, due to anthropogenic impacts, many of these fish species are threatened. H... see more
Dongho Yoo and Jieun Lee
With growing interest in corporate social responsibility (CSR), companies are utilizing it as a public relation (PR) tool for corporate image change. Previous research suggests that the fit between a company and CSR activity is a key determinant of CSR su... see more
Sadaf Ehsan, Mian Sajid Nazir, Mohammad Nurunnabi, Qasim Raza Khan, Samya Tahir and Ishfaq Ahmed
Disclosures on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) practices of business organizations have heightened over the past few decades due to increased awareness. Major contributions in the literature on CSR practices and their disclosures come from the studi... see more
Norka Blanco-Portela, Luis R-Pertierra, Javier Benayas and Rodrigo Lozano
Higher education institutions (HEIs) have been steadily progressing towards the integration of sustainable practices in their structures and operations. Several studies have reported the variety of drivers of change and the barriers to change that univers... see more
Yiping Xiao, Yan Song and Xiaodong Wu
China’s rapid urbanization has attracted wide international attention. However, it may not be sustainable. In order to assess it objectively and put forward recommendations for future development, this paper first develops a four-dimensional Urbaniz... see more
Seok-Keun Yoo and Bo-Young Kim
The use of big data, artificial intelligence, and new information and communication technologies has led to sustainable developments and improved business competitiveness. Until recently cloud services were classified as having special system requirements... see more
Paola Di Mascio, Gaetano Fusco, Giorgio Grappasonni, Laura Moretti and Antonella Ragnoli
Most road accidents occur in urban areas and notably at urban intersections, where cyclists and motorcyclists are the most vulnerable. In the last few years, cycling mobility has been growing; therefore, bike infrastructures should be designed to encourag... see more
Cristina Herrero-Jáuregui, Cecilia Arnaiz-Schmitz, María Fernanda Reyes, Marta Telesnicki, Ignacio Agramonte, Marcos H. Easdale, María Fe Schmitz, Martín Aguiar, Antonio Gómez-Sal and Carlos Montes
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Huaizhi Tang, Wenping Liu and Wenju Yun
Rapid urbanization has caused the reduction of green spaces in most cities, disrupting the structure and process of urban and rural ecosystems. The accurate identification of spatiotemporal changes in green spaces is important to delineate future manageme... see more
Miguel Gómez-Chaparro, Justo García-Sanz-Calcedo and Luis Armenta Márquez
Medical gases are known to show a great environmental impact and also to consume relevant resources in terms of hospital management. The present work reports on a study performed between 2008 and 2016 in a target set of 12 Spanish hospitals with floor are... see more
Taeho Park, Minho Kim, Chaemi Jang, Taeryang Choung, Kyung-A Sim, Dongju Seo and Seo Il Chang
Sustainable transportation is an essential part of a sustainable city; however, modern transportation systems with internal-combustion engines emits unacceptably high level of air-pollutants and noise. It is recognized widely that road-traffic noise has n... see more
Zhaoyi Pei, Songhao Piao, Mohammed El Habib Souidi, Muhammad Zuhair Qadir and Guo Li
The simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) of robot in the complex environment is a fundamental research topic for service robots. This paper presents a new humanoid multi-robot SLAM mechanism that allows robots to collaborate and localize each othe... see more
Jinding Xing, Kunhui Ye, Jian Zuo and Weiyan Jiang
Dust pollution is a key issue that contractors ought to address in the sphere of sustainable construction. Governments on behalf of the public assume part of the responsibilities for minimizing dust emissions on construction sites. However, the measures t... see more
Inkyung Cho, Jungkyu Park and Eunnyeong Heo
Technological knowledge created through government R&D investment not only contributes to technology and market expansion, but is also a major factor in evaluating a nation’s innovation capacity. As government budgets are limited, establishing an ef... see more
Jun Yang, Andong Guo, Xueming Li and Tai Huang
China’s high-speed rail was inaugurated in 2008; it has greatly improved accessibility, and reduced the time required to travel between cities, but at the same time, has caused an unfair distribution of accessibility levels. Therefore, this paper analyzes... see more
Alexander Zorn, Michele Esteves, Ivo Baur and Markus Lips
In agriculture, a rising number of sustainability assessments are available that also comprise financial ratios. In a literature review of farm management textbooks, taking account of the differences between European and North American practices and consi... see more
Sangseom Jeong, Azman Kassim, Moonhyun Hong and Nader Saadatkhah
This study was conducted to estimate the susceptibility of landslides on a test site in Malaysia (Hulu Kelang area). A Geographic Information system (GIS)-based physical model named YS-Slope, which integrates a mechanistic infinite slope stability method ... see more
Nina Repar, Pierrick Jan, Thomas Nemecek, Dunja Dux and Reiner Doluschitz
Improving the sustainability of the dairy food chain requires a simultaneous improvement in global and local environmental performance, as well as in the economic performance of dairy farms. We investigated the effect of different structural, farm managem... see more
Guangdong Wu, Guofeng Qiang, Jian Zuo, Xianbo Zhao and Ruidong Chang
Mega sustainable construction projects (MSCPs) require complex system engineering. There are various indicators available to evaluate sustainable construction, and it is difficult to determine which the key indicators are among them. Existing studies do n... see more
Vincenzo Giaccio, Luigi Mastronardi, Davide Marino, Agostino Giannelli and Alfonso Scardera
This paper investigates how and to what extent European and national policies have financed Italian agritourism. It analyses financial support derived from the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) (First and Second Pillar) and national and local subsidies. Fo... see more
Zi-qi Cai, Xiang-yang Li, Bo Lei, Jing-fan Yuan, Chang-shou Hong and Hong Wang
It is the fact that there are lots of hazard incidents in underground uranium mines caused by radon but in-suit uranium samples were difficult to collect. Based on closed chamber method, three similar samples in different sealed ways were made in a labora... see more
Liviu Stelian Begu, Maria Denisa Vasilescu, Larisa Stanila and Roxana Clodnitchi
In the aftermath of Angola’s civil war, strong economic relations developed between the country and the People’s Republic of China. Our study addresses China’s investment risks in Angola, considering an infrastructure-for-petroleum partn... see more
Laijun Zhao, Ying Qian, Qing-Mi Hu, Ran Jiang, Meiting Li and Xulei Wang
From the perspective of characteristics and causes, probability and forecast, and safety management evaluation, this paper analyzes 3974 hazardous chemical casualty accidents that occurred between 2006 and 2017 in China. The trends, monthly and hourly dis... see more
Matthias Garschagen, Gusti Ayu Ketut Surtiari and Mostapha Harb
On a conceptual and normative level, the debate around transformation in the context of disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation has been rising sharply over the recent years. Yet, whether and how transformation occurs in the messy realities ... see more
Salvador Garcia-Ayllon
Globalization and the development of the so-called “collaborative economies” has coincided with an important transformation of mass tourism in the last decades. This phenomenon has been accentuated enormously in many European cities in recent ... see more
José Adolfo Lozano-Miralles, Manuel Jesús Hermoso-Orzáez, Carmen Martínez-García and José Ignacio Rojas-Sola
The construction industry is responsible for 40–45% of primary energy consumption in Europe. Therefore, it is essential to find new materials with a lower environmental impact to achieve sustainable buildings. The objective of this study was to carr... see more
Wen-Hsien Tsai and Shang-Yu Lai
In the last 20 years, with the liberalization of the economy, and the trend of industrial globalization, people have gradually paid more attention to environmental protection. With the tremendous advances in information technology, enterprises facing such... see more
Shutian Zhou, Guofang Zhai and Yijun Shi
This paper addresses to the rapid rise of metro developments in Chinese cities to reconsider the official justifications of such mega-projects and the underlying driving forces behind proposal and approval processes. Qualitative approaches were undertaken... see more
Raquel Ajates Gonzalez, Jessica Thomas and Marina Chang
The popularity of agroecology has grown over the last few years as an alternative paradigm for food systems. This public attention has meant agroecology is increasingly becoming institutionalised and integrated into food policy frameworks. While there is ... see more
Hyun-Hee Jang, Gyu-Tae Seo and Dae-Woon Jeong
Currently, the ozone (O3) oxidation efficiency in the treatment of waste soy sauce provides 34.2% color removal and a 27.4% reduction in its chemical oxygen demand (COD). To improve the O3 oxidation efficiency, hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) is used to cause a ... see more