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Alberto Picardo, Víctor M. Soltero and Estela Peralta
The construction sector is one of the leading global contributors to environmental footprint, with road infrastructures being a significant resource consumer. The traditional practice of using virgin raw materials and extracting natural aggregates has a ...
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Neel Renne, Patricia Kara De Maeijer, Bart Craeye, Matthias Buyle and Amaryllis Audenaert
Nowadays, a vast number of concrete structures are approaching the end of their expected service life. The need for maintenance and repair is high due to the continued deterioration of the existing building inventory and infrastructure, resulting in a la...
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Rolandas Drejeris and Astrida Miceikiene
Measuring sustainable innovativeness of farms is a major challenge for both practitioners and academics. This article looks into the need for sustainable innovativeness assessment in agricultural business. To the best of our knowledge, farm sustainable i...
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Marco Lamperti Tornaghi, Arian Loli and Paolo Negro
The design of new buildings, and even more the rehabilitation of existing ones, needs to satisfy modern criteria in terms of energy efficiency and environmental performance, within the context of adequate safety requirements. Tackling all these needs at ...
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Marco Lamperti Tornaghi, Arian Loli and Paolo Negro
The design of new buildings, and even more the rehabilitation of existing ones, needs to satisfy modern criteria in terms of energy efficiency and environmental performance, within the context of adequate safety requirements. Tackling all these needs at ...
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Josephine Vaughan, Rebecca Evans and Willy Sher
Accounting for the embodied carbon in construction materials and calculating the carbon footprint of entire construction projects in life-cycle assessments is a rapidly developing area in the construction industry. Carbon emission accounting relies on in...
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Vassilis Litskas, Paraskevi Vourlioti, Theano Mamouka, Stylianos Kotsopoulos and Charalampos Paraskevas
Potato cultivation is a significant agricultural activity worldwide. As a staple food in many countries, potatoes provide essential nutrients and are a significant source of income for farmers. This paper investigates current and future net irrigation re...
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Alireza Esparham, Nikolai Ivanovich Vatin, Makhmud Kharun and Mohammad Hematibahar
By posing the question of what will be the definition of sustainable development in the future, it can almost be seen that the principle of ?no waste? and the production of new materials with less of a negative environmental impact will have a high prior...
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Luís Bragança and María Concepción Verde Muniesa
According to the European Green Deal, excessive carbon emissions are the origin of global warming and must be drastically reduced. Given that the building sector is one of the major sources of carbon emissions, results imperative to limit these emissions...
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Juanjuan Cheng, Qian Wang, Dongjian Li and Jin Yu
China is the world?s largest apple producer, and agricultural cooperatives play an important role in promoting sustainable production in its whole life cycle system. However, few studies on cooperatives have evaluated the environmental and economic perfo...
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Partho Protim Barman, Md. Mostafa Shamsuzzaman, Petra Schneider, Mohammad Mojibul Hoque Mozumder and Qun Liu
This research evaluated fisheries reference points and stock status to assess the sustainability of the croaker fishery (Sciaenidae) from the Bay of Bengal (BoB), Bangladesh. Sixteen years (2001?2016) of catch-effort data were analyzed using two surplus ...
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Alicia M. Amerson, Tyler M. Harris, Savanna R. Michener, Cailene M. Gunn and Joseph H. Haxel
Recommendations derived from papers documenting the Triton Field Trials (TFiT) study of marine energy environmental monitoring technology and methods under the Triton Initiative (Triton), as reported in this Special Issue, are summarized here. Additional...
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Abdallah Tageldein Mansour, Belal Wagih Allam, Tarek Mohamed Srour, Eglal Ali Omar, Abdel Aziz Mousa Nour and Hala Saber Khalil
Cultivation of species of high growth rates is a key achievement of sustainable aquaculture development, with the aim of increasing animal protein per capita, maintaining food security and preserving freshwater usage. The present study was conducted to e...
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Kikki Lambrecht Ipsen, Massimo Pizzol, Morten Birkved and Ben Amor
The building sector is responsible for extensive resource consumption and waste generation, resulting in high pressure on the environment. A way to potentially mitigate this is by including environmental considerations during building design through the ...
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Maria Rosaria Guarini, Francesco Sica, Pierluigi Morano and Josè Antonio Vadalà
The International Energy Agency (2019) states 40% of CO2 emissions in cities are linked to the buildings stock, in particular to heating and cooling systems, material types and users? performance. According to Green New Deal, the energy transition of bui...
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Michelle Leichter, Isadora Hackenhaar and Ana Passuello
Urban activities, such as transportation, are responsible for a large portion of energy-related CO2 emissions. As the need for sustainable urban development increases, decision-makers embrace Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) as a reliable tool capable of gene...
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Rui Alexandre Castanho, José Manuel Naranjo Gómez, Ana Vulevic, Arian Behradfar and Gualter Couto
It is well-known that the ultra-peripheral territories as Islands present several limitations such as the lack of resources, restricted land, mass tourism, and barriers to movement, and connectivity between urban centers. These obstacles make ultra-perip...
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Rui Alexandre Castanho, Arian Behradfar, Ana Vulevic and José Manuel Naranjo Gómez
The scarcity of resources, the limited land, and the overstressing of tourism, as well as the estrangements of movement, make the insular territories relevant case studies in terms of their regional management and governance and, consequently, sustainabl...
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Nina Shin and Sangwook Park
This study aims to enable a high level of coordination to cope with increasing levels of uncertainty by computing supplier- and network-based resilience values. Our case study is based on a real-world highly connected global manufacturing firm based in K...
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Lukasz Nowotny and Jacek Nurzynski
Lightweight floors are in line with a sustainable construction concept and have become increasingly popular in residential buildings. The acoustic performance of such floors plays a pivotal role in the overall building quality rating. There is, however, ...
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