Sustainability  

Tazim Jamal and Brian Smith

This paper examines the issue of climate change pedagogy and social action in tourism, with particular interest in globally-significant destinations under threat from climate change. Little is understood of the role and responsibility of visitors as key s... see more

Marc C. A. Wegerif and Johannes S. C. Wiskerke

The city region foodscape is a relational space of spatially proximate as well as more distant relations. The current understanding of city region foodscapes will be enhanced by more analyses of what is happening in the African and Asian cities where rapi... see more

Wenxia Liu, Shu Wang, Ye Chen, Xingliang Chen, Shuya Niu and Zongqi Liu

The large scale deployment of renewable generation is generally seen as the most promising option for displacing fossil fuel generators. A challenge in integrating renewable energy resources (RERs) for distribution networks is to find approaches that ensu... see more

Gengyuan Liu, Mark T. Brown and Marco Casazza

Different sustainability indicators tend to reflect different or even converse outcomes in terms of countries. A careful comparative study is needed to clarify whether these indicators are actually coherent with each other. We analyze and compare five sus... see more

Tamar Trop

The rebuilding of deteriorating residential areas is being replicated rapidly throughout Israeli cities despite limited assessment of the social consequences. This paper presents the findings of a social impact assessment (SIA) applied to a demolition and... see more

Yoojin Yi, Euijune Kim and Eunjin Choi

Ensuring equal opportunity of quality basic education is critical for a sustainable society, but access to high-quality public education is limited by the place of residence and income level of the household, especially under rigid geographic school assig... see more

Anja Hansen, Jörn Budde, Yusuf Nadi Karatay and Annette Prochnow

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Jian Yao and Rongyue Zheng

Occupant behavior has a significant impact on building energy performance. The purpose of this paper is to quantify the stochastic characteristics of manual solar shades and their influence on building energy performance. A co-simulation for occupants’ st... see more

Tek B. Sapkota, Vivek Shankar, Munmun Rai, Mangi L Jat, Clare M. Stirling, Love K. Singh, Hanuman S. Jat and Mohinder S. Grewal

This study examines the effects of tillage, residue management and cropping system intensification through the inclusion of green gram on the performance of the rice-wheat (RW) system in NW India. We hypothesized that zero tillage (ZT) with residue retent... see more

Claudio A. Agostini, Carlos Silva and Shahriyar Nasirov

A number of successive energy crises over the last decade due to the lack of a balanced investment planning in the energy sector in Chile has led to a strong dependence on external sources and also doubled energy prices in the country, thus posing a signi... see more

Ana Rodríguez-Olalla and Carmen Avilés-Palacios

Organisations have become interested in using integral management systems to increase their sustainable value. Although global integration models address sustainability in organisations, these models present shortcomings and limitations and do not describ... see more

Massimo Peri, Daniela Vandone and Lucia Baldi

Water, energy, and food and are strongly interconnected, and the sustainability of the whole world depends on this link. The aim of this article is to analyze the volatility spillovers between indexes representing the financial component of this nexus. We... see more

Costanza Nosi, Antonella D’Agostino, Margherita Pagliuca and Carlo Alberto Pratesi

Since the early 90s, Italy has undergone radical changes in the regulations of the public pension system aimed at mending its main drawbacks and improving sustainability in the long run. The reforms were intended to recover the national economy through a ... see more

Ying-Che Hsieh, Kuo-Yi Lin, Chao Lu and Ke Rong

The business ecosystem has provided a new paradigm for management research. Most research in the field has focused on profit-driven industries, neglecting the area of the circular economy. This research sets out to capture the mechanisms that the leading ... see more

Lu-Yi Qiu and Ling-Yun He

Air pollution has been a serious challenge for human sustainable development. Researches show that emissions from the transport sector have been found to be a main source of air pollution in cities. Governments have implemented numerous green traffic poli... see more