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Volume 10 Number 8 Part August Year 2018

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

 

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