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Timothy Nyerges, John A. Gallo, Keith M. Reynolds, Steven D. Prager, Philip J. Murphy and Wenwen Li
Improving geo-information decision evaluation is an important part of geospatial decision support research, particularly when considering vulnerability, risk, resilience, and sustainability (V-R-R-S) of urban land?water systems (ULWSs). Previous research...
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Omar S. Asfour, Osama Mohsen and Jamal Al-Qawasmi
This study investigates the impact of building grouping patterns on enhancing shading in public open spaces, considering different solar orientations, housing densities, and the hot climatic conditions of Saudi Arabia. The study considered a set of envir...
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Daria Terenteva, Dmitry Rodionov, Olga Konnikova and Evgenii Konnikov
The problem of consumerism is very relevant in the global context, as it is directly linked to the deteriorating ecological situation. Since the physical and digital environments are closely linked, the authors try to explore their interdependence in the...
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Yahya Qtaishat, Kemi Adeyeye and Stephen Emmitt
Assessment tools such as BREEAM and LEED are widely used to assess physical indicators of building performance from the micro- to the mesoscale. However, the built environment represents both intangible and tangible sets of indicators that should be unde...
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Ivette Echeverría,Laura Machicado,Oliver Saavedra,Ramiro Escalera,Gustavo Heredia,Renato Montoya
Due to limited availability of clean water, treated wastewater is an important resource to reduce water demand through its reuse. In Bolivia, one of the most common practices is the use of wastewater for crop irrigation. Wastewater Treatment Plants (WWTP...
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Antonio Nesticò and Gianluigi De Mare
A city plays a central role in the processes of economic, social, and environmental development, becoming the core of policy makers’ strategies. Thus, it is essential to optimize the use of monetary resources available by means of integrated decisi...
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Francesco Barreca and Pasquale Praticò
The sustainability of agri-food products is an increasingly pressing need. It is fundamental to consider the various needs related to the factors of production and to workers, which are different from those of products and plants, as well as new requirem...
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Thi-Nham Le and Chia-Nan Wang
The impressive growth of the Vietnam textile and apparel industry has led to some concerns due to its insufficient value chain and fierce competition within the industry. Thus, performance evaluation is significant issue to estimate the values of compani...
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Claudio A. Agostini, Carlos Silva and Shahriyar Nasirov
A number of successive energy crises over the last decade due to the lack of a balanced investment planning in the energy sector in Chile has led to a strong dependence on external sources and also doubled energy prices in the country, thus posing a sign...
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Kumudu Rathnayaka, Hector Malano and Meenakshi Arora
A comprehensive evaluation framework that can assess a wide range of water supply and demand management policy options in terms of economic, social, environmental, risk-based, and functional performance is crucial to ascertain their level of sustainabili...
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Thorsten Schuetze, Wolfgang Willkomm and Maria Roos
Façades with building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) have the advantage that they can produce renewable electric energy. Compared with conventional façades, BIPV façades have therefore a valuable additional property that can generally contribute to incr...
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Tess Russo, Katherine Alfredo and Joshua Fisher
Sustainable water management (SWM) requires allocating between competing water sector demands, and balancing the financial and social resources required to support necessary water systems. The objective of this review is to assess SWM in three sectors: u...
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Neil O. Anderson, Joey Annis, Mark Buchholz, Jared Cutting, Eric Heuring, Emily Jankila, Megan McCrumb, Nicole Nelson, Myra Pehoski, Karl Piepho, Valerie Price and Victoria Russell
Modern greenhouse production has been ~100% reliant on fossil fuels for all inputs (glazing, heating, fertilization, lighting, post-harvest). Recent innovations may reduce fossil fuel dependence but their effectiveness may not be thoroughly tested. To pr...
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Azza Alajlan and Malak Baslyman
Digital health transformation (DHT) has been deployed rapidly worldwide, and many e-health solutions are being invented and improved on an accelerating basis. Healthcare already faces many challenges in terms of reducing costs and allocating resources op...
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Michele Cerrato, Allegra Iasi, Federica Di Bennardo and Maria Pergola
The present research aimed to evaluate the economic and environmental sustainability of livestock farms in inland areas of the Cilento, Vallo di Diano and Alburni National Park (Southern Italy) and the convenience and possibility of activating forms of l...
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Özlem Sanri
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Ports are developing sustainability frameworks in order to cope with latest requirements from the stakeholders. Economic, environmental and social dimensions of sustainability are the three pillars of the topic. Although economic and environmental aspect...
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Rosaria Ciriminna, Antonino Scurria and Mario Pagliaro
Relying on a cost-effective and green process that is technically and economically feasible on large scale is not enough to call a technology ?sustainable?. We thus evaluate the sustainability of the production of the new ?AquaSun? antifouling sol?gel co...
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Giacomo Boschi, Giulia Masi, Giuliana Bonvicini and Maria Chiara Bignozzi
Sustainable development has recently become the driving force of all the policies leading environmental, economic, and social aspects of our life. In the construction sector, a large number of technological innovations has been introduced thus leading to...
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Jingyi Xu, Xiaoying Liang and Hai Chen
From the perspective of landscape, it is important to evaluate the landscape sustainability of ecologically fragile areas and explore temporal and spatial evolution laws to promote their sustainable development. Presently, most studies on the analysis of...
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