30 articles in this issue
Chao Huang, Longpeng Cao, Nanxin Peng, Sijia Li, Jing Zhang, Long Wang, Xiong Luo and Jenq-Haur Wang
Photovoltaic (PV) modules convert renewable and sustainable solar energy into electricity. However, the uncertainty of PV power production brings challenges for the grid operation. To facilitate the management and scheduling of PV power plants, forecastin... see more
Menghui Li, Jinliang Xu, Xingliang Liu, Chao Sun and Zhihao Duan
Under no-notice evacuation scenarios with limited time horizons, the effectiveness of evacuation can be negatively impacted by intermediate trips that are made by family members and the identification of vulnerable populations. The emergence of shared-mob... see more
Linghan Zhang and Junyi Zhang
Highly social activities like leisure and tourism are considered to have positive effects on the elderly’s mental health. Taking Japan as a case study, this research aims to clarify how leisure and tourism contribute to the elderly’s quality o... see more
Floor Brouwer, Lydia Vamvakeridou-Lyroudia, Eva Alexandri, Ingrida Bremere, Matthew Griffey and Vincent Linderhof
As the world increasingly runs up against physical constraints of energy, land, water, and food, there is a growing role for policy to reduce environmental pressures without adversely affecting increases in prosperity. There is therefore a need for policy... see more
Qinghui Wang, Yu Peng, Min Fan, Zheng Zhang and Qingtong Cui
Assessment of the impacts of landscape patterns on regional precipitation will help improve ecosystem management and strategies for adaption to global changes. This study aimed to identify the key landscape metrics that affect precipitation across three s... see more
Yunlong Zhai, Quanzhong Wu, Guodong Chen, Hailin Zhang, Xiaogang Yin and Fu Chen
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Xueming (Jimmy) Chen
This study reviews the transit accessibility concept and describes its empirical application in Richmond, Virginia, USA. The transit accessibility concept involves multiple components. Each component has several measures; the selection of which measure to... see more
Hyung Jun An, Jong Ho Yoon, Young Sub An and Eunnyeong Heo
This study analyzed the heating and cooling performance of an office building in Daegu, Korea, equipped with amorphous-Si (a-Si) building-integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) windows. EnergyPlus was used to simulate and compare the heating and cooling loads of ... see more
Yuan Shao, Xudong Deng, Qiankai Qing and Yajuan Wang
Motivated by the increasing environmental concerns about the used electric vehicle batteries in China, an electric vehicle manufacturer’s battery recycling strategy under government subsidy was studied. A consumer utility function was used to captur... see more
Chulseoung Baek, Junhyung Seo, Moonkwan Choi, Jinsang Cho, Jiwhan Ahn and Kyehong Cho
Circulating fluidized bed combustion (CFBC) power generation technology is known to efficiently reduce the emission of air pollutants, such as SO2 and NO2, from coal combustion. however, CFBC coal ash contains high contents of free CaO, making it difficul... see more
José Manuel Sánchez Martín, Juan Ignacio Rengifo Gallego and Luz María Martín Delgado
The use of natural protected areas has been analyzed abundantly in the relevant literature, although on many occasions these areas are studied from the viewpoint of their role as a tourist destination in themselves, while neglecting their role as a touris... see more
Lihua Zhou, Ya Wang and Guojing Yang
As national policy implementers and regional development planners, local government managers have a clearer, more objective and comprehensive understanding of ecological changes than herdsmen. Thus, they have a significant impact on the sustainable develo... see more
Yuh-Shan Ho
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Foivos Anastasiadis, Naoum Tsolakis and Jagjit Singh Srai
Resource efficiency in the agri-food sector is a global urgent issue considering the urbanisation phenomena, the increased nutritional needs, and the emergence of diversified dietary norms. Despite the ongoing progress in digital technologies that could e... see more
Shuiqing Yang and Xianwu Zeng
Attracting citizens and facilitating their continued usage is critical for the sustainable development of mobile government microblog services. Drawing on the stimulus–organism–response (SOR) framework and the literature related to perceived value, this s... see more
Virginija Januškaite and Lina Užiene
Sustainable competitive advantage is a widely explored topic at the organizational level. Although, regions care about competitiveness as much as organizations, because it leads to improved welfare and economic performance. However, sustainable regional c... see more
Juan Uribe-Toril, José Luis Ruiz-Real and Jaime De Pablo Valenciano
Gentrification is a controversial term that refers to certain changes in neighbourhoods that result in the economic and social transformation of a low-income area into one of higher value, moving or pushing out the old population and businesses. The purpo... see more
Philip Hallinger and Suparak Suriyankietkaew
The rise of sustainable development as a field of applied research has been observed across a wide range of disciplines. Successful change towards sustainability in organizations and societies requires leadership to provide a vision, set direction, and mo... see more
Aryssa Kathreen Marcaida, Tan Hung Nguyen and Jaehun Ahn
Permeable pavement has been considered an effective low impact development (LID) strategy in attempts to mitigate the environmental impacts of natural surface depletion brought about by urbanization. A concern associated with the pavement’s hydrauli... see more
Wai-Ming To and Peter K. C. Lee
China has experienced unprecedented economic growth and structural change in the past decades. This paper reviews the development of China’s maritime economy for the period of 2002 to 2017. According to official data from China’s government, t... see more
Ramin Rayee, Hoang-Dung Tran, Tran Dang Xuan and Tran Dang Khanh
The control of protein and amylose content is the principal challenge in rice nutrient and quality improvement. In this study, water deficits in 2- and 3-day intervals were imposed on two Japonica cultivars K1 and K3, and an Indica K4 subtype after anthes... see more
Abolfazl Dehghanmongabadi and Sebnem Hoskara
Universities have the extraordinary ability to generate awareness regarding all aspects of sustainability in communities. To be successful, they must first adopt and model sustainable concepts within their own campuses. Transportation is one of the most a... see more
Yitagesu Tekle Tegegne, Mathias Cramm and Jo Van Brusselen
Sustainable forest management (SFM) is a concept that guides forest management and policy globally. Over the past decades, two prominent regimes have emerged at the global level that can strengthen SFM: The European Union’s Action Plan on Forest Law... see more
Ken Oyama, Ayari G. Pasquier and Edgar Mojica
In this paper, we assess the challenges of macro-universities to incorporate sustainability as an integral dimension of their activities and institutional development, and as a public higher education institutions that have an important role in sustainabl... see more
Xiaohong Deng, Lei Gong, Yanfang Gao, Xiaoqing Cui and Ke Xu
Population mobility and attendant issues, especially housing issues, have a major impact on sustainable urban development. In the urbanization process, a number of micro-communities with various social characteristics have come to compose the rural migran... see more
Claudia Cosentino, Federico Amato and Beniamino Murgante
Land take is one of the most studied phenomena in land use science. The increased attention to the issue of urban growth from both scientists and decision makers is justified by the dramatic negative effects on land use caused by anthropogenic activities.... see more
Yeri Choi, Sugie Lee and Hyunbin Moon
Urban heat island effects, which are the phenomenon wherein higher ambient air temperatures are measured in cities than in rural areas, have worsened urban thermal environments over the past decades. This study aims to analyze the effects of urban physica... see more
Matti Grosse
The existence of user-innovators in the household sector is undeniable. Prior research provided evidence on the vast scope of product developments by household sector users and documented a large set of individual user-innovator characteristics to explain... see more
Seunghee Im and Yang Woon Chung
This study examined the mediating effects of organizational pride and trust on the relationship between employee volunteering meaningfulness and organizational citizenship behavior. The study also investigated the moderating effects of perceived organizat... see more
Famous O. Igbinovia, Ghaeth Fandi, Ibrahim Ahmad, Zdenek Muller and Josef Tlusty
Installing a synchronous condenser (SC) onto an electricity grid can assist in the areas of reactive power needs, short-circuit strength, and, consequently, system inertia and guarantees better dynamic voltage recovery. This paper summarizes the practical... see more