Sustainability  

Haina Wang, Yingsheng Yang, Xiaoyi Zhang and Guangdong Tian

The theory on the carbon footprint of agriculture can systematically evaluate the carbon emissions caused by artificial factors from the agricultural production process, which is the theoretical basis for constructing low-carbon agriculture and has import... see more

Thilo J. Ketschau

This position paper defines and substantiates the relevance of educational sciences as design elements of socially sustainable development in economics and society. Therefore, a theoretical-normative link of the fields of social sustainability, social jus... see more

Troy D. Abel, Jonah White and Stacy Clauson

This paper examines the spatial and temporal trajectories of Seattle’s industrial land use restructuring and the shifting riskscape in Seattle, WA, a commonly recognized urban model of sustainability. Drawing on the perspective of sustainability as a conf... see more

Jelle Boeve-de Pauw, Niklas Gericke, Daniel Olsson and Teresa Berglund

Perhaps the most important issue in our time is how to sustain our planet’s resources, while developing wealth and well-being for a growing population. This monumental task has been defined in the concept of sustainable development (SD). During the last f... see more

Yu-Shan Chen, Yu-Hsien Lin, Ching-Ying Lin and Chih-Wei Chang

This study discusses the influences of green absorptive capacity, green dynamic capacities, and green service innovation on firm performance. In order to fill the research gap, this study proposes the concept of green service innovation. The results are a... see more

Anna Sidiropoulou, Maria Karatassiou, Georgia Galidaki and Paraskevi Sklavou

Transhumance, the seasonal movement of herds between highlands and lowlands following precise, repeated routes, is a common practice in many Mediterranean regions. This livestock movement exploits natural vegetation in both winter and summer pastures. In ... see more

Xiaoya Ma and Xiang Zhao

As the main feature of land use planning, land use allocation (LUA) optimization is an important means of creating a balance between the land-use supply and demand in a region and promoting the sustainable utilization of land resources. In essence, LUA op... see more

Mengtian Cao, Li Peng and Shaoquan Liu

With the continued growth of protected areas (PAs) in China in terms of the number, coverage and varieties of protected objects, how to efficiently manage the protected areas to ensure both resource protection and environmental protection has become a cru... see more

Stephanie I. J. Holzhauer, Steffen Franke, Christopher C. M. Kyba, Alessandro Manfrin, Reinhard Klenke, Christian C. Voigt, Daniel Lewanzik, Martin Oehlert, Michael T. Monaghan, Sebastian Schneider, Stefan Heller, Helga Kuechly, Anika Brüning, Ann-Christin Honnen and Franz Hölker

Artificial light at night (ALAN) is one of the most obvious hallmarks of human presence in an ecosystem. The rapidly increasing use of artificial light has fundamentally transformed nightscapes throughout most of the globe, although little is known about ... see more

Chuanglin Fang, Haimeng Liu, Guangdong Li, Dongqi Sun and Zhuang Miao

Urban air pollution is one of the most visible environmental problems to have accompanied China’s rapid urbanization. Based on emission inventory data from 2014, gathered from 289 cities, we used Global and Local Moran’s I to measure the spatial autorrela... see more

Mi Tian, Qingwen Min, Fei Lun, Zheng Yuan, Anthony M. Fuller, Lun Yang, Yongxun Zhang and Jie Zhou

Agricultural heritage sites have been gaining popularity as tourism destinations. The arrival of large numbers of tourists, however, has created serious challenges to these vulnerable ecosystems. In particular, water resources are facing tremendous pressu... see more

Qianwang Deng, Xiahui Liu and Haolan Liao

Remanufacturing can bring considerable economic and environmental benefits such as cost saving, conservation of energy and resources, and reduction of emissions. With the increasing awareness of sustainable manufacturing, remanufacturing gradually beco... see more

Pablo Díaz-Siefer, Alexander Neaman, Eduardo Salgado, Juan L. Celis-Diez and Siegmar Otto

An effective program of environmental education requires the identification of the knowledge that must be imparted. This paper compares the effects of human-environment system knowledge (i.e., knowledge related to environmental problems caused by humans) ... see more

Sara L. Wyngaarden, Amélie C.M. Gaudin, William Deen and Ralph C. Martin

A common agronomic recommendation is under-seeding red clover to wheat in the corn–soy–wheat rotation. As a leguminous cover crop, red clover boosts agro-ecological resilience and productivity through nitrogen fixation, as well as non-nitrogen-related con... see more

Fan-Yun Pai, Tsu-Ming Yeh and Yung-Hsien Hung

To consistently produce high quality products, a quality management system, such as the ISO9001, 2000 or TS 16949 must be practically implemented. One core instrument of the TS16949 MSA (Measurement System Analysis) is to rank the capability of a measurem... see more