Sustainability  

Xiaoshu Cao, Feiwen Liang, Huiling Chen and Yongwei Liu

A longer, wider and more complicated change in the travel path is put forward to adapt to the rapidly increasing expansion of metropolises in the field of urban travel. Urban travel requires higher levels of sustainable urban transport. Therefore,this pap... see more

Cheng Fang and Bo Yang

Between the First Opium War in 1840 and the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, the development of modern Christianity in Nanjing expanded beyond the parameters of faith and spirituality, while interacting closely with Nanjing’s city life ... see more

Fei He, Kang Shen, Li Guan and Mingming Jiang

In order to help the forging enterprise realize energy conservation and emission reduction, the scheduling problem of furnace heating was improved in this paper. Aiming at the charging problem of continuous heating furnace, a multi-objective furnace charg... see more

Deyu Qian, Nong Zhang, Dongjiang Pan, Zhengzheng Xie, Hideki Shimada, Yang Wang, Chenghao Zhang and Nianchao Zhang

The stability of underground openings is pivotal to sustainable safe mining in underground coal mines. To determine the stability and tunneling safety issues in 800-m-deep underground openings through large fault zones in argillaceous rocks in the Guqiao ... see more

Dian Sun, Jee Eun Kang, Rajan Batta and Yan Song

The key purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that optimization of evacuation warnings by time period and impacted zone is crucial for efficient evacuation of an area impacted by a hurricane. We assume that people behave in a manner consistent with the ... see more

Lara Penco, Giorgia Profumo and Roberta Scarsi

Consistent with the extant management literature, mission statements are crucial for the sustainability and growth of any firms and have been considered to be a tool for the strategic management process. Despite the considerable attention awarded to this ... see more

Emanuele Pintaldi, Csilla Hudek, Silvia Stanchi, Thomas Spiegelberger, Enrico Rivella and Michele Freppaz

The skiing industry often represent the main contribution to mountain regions’ economy, by providing several economic benefits and the improvement of services and infrastructure. Ski resorts also play a crucial role as an impacting factor, causing severe ... see more

Lijing Zhu, Xiaohang Ren, Chulung Lee and Yumeng Zhang

Dual channels have become popular strategies for manufacturers due to the development of innovative selling platforms. Examples in practice also show that the lack of relationship management, such as cooperation and sharing, may cause an unsustainable sup... see more

David Cleland, Keith Reynolds, Robert Vaughan, Barbara Schrader, Harbin Li and Larry Laing

The terrestrial condition assessment (TCA) evaluates effects of uncharacteristic stressors and disturbance agents on land-type associations (LTAs) to identify restoration opportunities on national forest system (NFS) lands in the United States. A team of ... see more

Ellen M. Hoffmann, Monish Jose, Nils Nölke and Thomas Möckel

Urbanisation is a global trend rapidly transforming the biophysical and socioeconomic structures of metropolitan areas. To better understand (and perhaps control) these processes, more interdisciplinary research must be dedicated to the rural–urban interf... see more

Sandra Fatoric and Erin Seekamp

Climate change challenges cultural heritage management and preservation. Understanding the barriers that can impede preservation is of paramount importance, as is developing solutions that facilitate the planning and management of vulnerable cultural reso... see more

Vincenzo Del Giudice, Pierfrancesco De Paola, Fabiana Forte and Benedetto Manganelli

This paper experiments an artificial neural networks model with Bayesian approach on a small real estate sample. The output distribution has been calculated operating a numerical integration on the weights space with the Markov Chain Hybrid Monte Carlo Me... see more

Tung Manh Ho, Hong Kong T. Nguyen, Thu-Trang Vuong and Quan-Hoang Vuong

The topic of sustainability has mostly been tied to economic development and environmental protection, yet not much attention has been paid to the need for high problem-solving capacity as this underlines both issues. One of the most straightforward ways ... see more

Jun Yang, Fuhong Lv, Jingcheng Zhou, Yongwei Song and Fei Li

China is an agriculturally-producing country and the safety of its vegetables will have an extensive attention at home and abroad. Recently, contamination of soils and vegetables caused by mining activities is of great social concern because of the potent... see more

Jin-Wook Lee and Jong-Sang Sung

As part of an urban policy designed to revive South Korea’s shrinking cities, vacant residential structures are being demolished and the resulting empty plots transformed into public spaces. This study discursively examines this process, its stakeholders,... see more