15 articles in this issue
Aviel Verbruggen and Yuliya Yurchenko
Addressing climate change requires de-carbonizing future energy supplies in an increasingly energy-dependent world. The IEA and the IPCC (2014) mention the following as low-carbon energy supply options: ‘renewable energy, nuclear power and fossil fuels wi... see more
Jiefeng Kang, Jianyi Lin, Xiaofeng Zhao, Shengnan Zhao and Limin Kou
Decomposition of the urban water footprint can provide insight for water management. In this paper, a new decomposition method based on the log-mean Divisia index model (LMDI) was developed to analyze the driving forces of water footprint changes, attribu... see more
Sanne Grotenbreg and Arwin van Buuren
Governments increasingly choose facilitation as a strategy to entice others to produce public goods and services, including in relation to the realisation of sustainable energy innovations. An important instrument to implement this governance strategy is ... see more
Shiwei Lu, Shih-Lung Shaw, Zhixiang Fang, Xirui Zhang and Ling Yin
The introduction of the Huff model is of critical significance in many fields, including urban transport, optimal location planning, economics and business analysis. Moreover, parameters calibration is a crucial procedure before using the model. Previous ... see more
Tong Shu, Zhizhen Peng, Shou Chen, Shouyang Wang, Kin Keung Lai and Honglin Yang
The government as a policy maker wishing to promote remanufacturing and proper disposal of hazardous old products which are harmful to environment has taken many actions, ranging from carbon regulation and financial incentives such as trade-in subsidy. Ho... see more
Haibo Zhou and Hanhui Hu
This paper constructs an additive two-stage network DEA (data envelopment analysis) model with consideration of undesirable outputs and shared inputs. Following the triple bottom line standard of sustainability, we calculate both the overall and sub-stage... see more
Samireh Saymohammadi, Kiumars Zarafshani, Mohsen Tavakoli, Hossien Mahdizadeh and Farzad Amiri
Concern about the effects of climatic change on numerous aspects of human life in general and on agricultural production in particular is growing. The utility of HadCM3 as a tool in climate change predictions in cross cultural studies is scarce. Therefore... see more
Edenise Garcia, Fábio Sampaio Vianna Ramos Filho, Giovanni Matheus Mallmann and Francisco Fonseca
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Ki-Bong Park and Xiao-Yong Wang
The increase in CO2 concentrations and global warming will increase the carbonation depth of concrete. Furthermore, temperature rise will increase the rate of corrosion of steel rebar after carbonation. On the other hand, compared with normal concrete, hi... see more
Celián Román-Figueroa, Rodrigo Padilla, Juan Manuel Uribe and Manuel Paneque
Camelina (Camelina sativa L.) is an oilseed with potential for use as a raw material in second-generation biofuels. Camelina has a seed yield of up to 2380 kg·ha-1 and contains around 45% fatty acids. Selection of a suitable site is critical for productio... see more
Baochen Yang, Chuanze Liu, Yunpeng Su and Xin Jing
In order to realize the national carbon intensity reduction target, China has decided to establish a unified national carbon emissions trading market in 2017. At the initial stage, eight industrial sectors will be covered in the carbon market and the othe... see more
Byoung-Hwan Seo, Hyuck Soo Kim, Saranya Kuppusamy, Kye-Hoon Kim and Kwon-Rae Kim
Phytoremediation is a promising technology to remediate carcass burial sites where deep soil layers are contaminated with nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P) and other potential contaminants by leachate. The current study was conducted to examine the remedial ef... see more
Lulu Qu, Xueyi Shi, Chang Liu and Ye Yuan
Wenxiang Li, Ye Li, Jing Fan and Haopeng Deng
Carsharing is one of the effective ways to relieve the problems of traffic jams, parking difficulties, and air pollution. In recent years, the numbers of carsharing services and their members have remarkably increased around the world. The project of elec... see more
Yangang Xing, Phil Jones and Iain Donnison
Nature has provided humankind with food, fuel, and shelter throughout evolutionary history. However, in contemporary cities, many natural landscapes have become degraded and replaced with impermeable hard surfaces (e.g., roads, paving, car parks and build... see more