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Kai Fang, Reinout Heijungs, Zheng Duan and Geert R. de Snoo
Growing scientific evidence for the indispensable role of environmental sustainability in sustainable development calls for appropriate frameworks and indicators for environmental sustainability assessment (ESA). In this paper, we operationalize and upda...
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Xiaolei Yang, Peng Sui, Yawen Shen, James S. Gerber, Dong Wang, Xiaolong Wang, Hongcui Dai and Yuanquan Chen
Monocropping systems, which currently dominate China’s major grain production regions, contribute to resource scarcity and environmental pollution. Intercropping has the potential to improve resource use efficiency. However, prior studies of interc...
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Chanhoon Jung, Chanwoo Kim, Solhee Kim and Kyo Suh
Jeju Island experienced an approximately 42% increase in energy consumption from 2006 to 2015 and the demand for energy consumption is expected to continue to increase. Thus, Jeju Island is planning a project entitled “Carbon Free Island by 2030&rd...
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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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I. Soto Izquierdo, O. Soto Izquierdo, M. Ramalho
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The continued growth in demand for cement has raised concerns in the industry about environmental and sustainability issues. In addition, the worldwide generation of large quantities of solid waste threatens human health and on environmental quality. Thi...
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Manuel J. Carretero-Ayuso, Justo García-Sanz-Calcedo
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Based on Life Cycle Assessment techniques, this research compares the environmental impact of 11 variants for the construction of roofs in residential buildings. Among others, the energy used, the carbon footprint and the waste associated to placement a...
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Violeta Domanovic
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Research Question: This paper investigated whether a relationship exists between environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) performance indicators and financial performance measures in the public sector. Motivation: Performance measurement play...
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Xiaoxue Shen, Ruili Li, Jie Du, Xianchenghao Jiang and Guoyu Qiu
Reliable quantitative information regarding sediment sources is essential for target mitigation, particularly in settings with a large number of loose provenances caused by earth disasters. The lakes in the Jiuzhaigou World Natural Heritage Site (WNHS) a...
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Francesco Modica, Valeria Marrocco, Giacomo Copani and Irene Fassi
Micro-manufacturing emerged in the last years as a new engineering area with the potential of increasing peoples? quality of life through the production of innovative micro-devices to be used, for example, in the biomedical, micro-electronics or telecomm...
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Yujie Ren, Zeqiang Sun, Xinhui Hu, Quanru Liu, Qinqing Xu, Dulin Qin, Xuejun Wang, Shenglin Liu, Changjian Ma and Xuewen Wei
Choosing the proper fertilizer regime for a crop in a given location remains challenging to increase yield, profitability, environmental growth protection, and sustainability. However, the nutrient demand characteristics of cotton in the North China Plai...
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Mariangela Diacono, Alessandro Persiani, Vincenzo Alfano, Antonio Monteforte and Francesco Montemurro
In the Mediterranean area, using organic fertilizers is crucial to maintaining and increasing soil fertility and crop productivity since soil organic matter is being progressively depleted due to climate change effects. Therefore, the aim of this study w...
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Stanislav Karpuk, Rolf Radespiel and Ali Elham
The present work demonstrates the impact of future airframe and propulsion technologies on the sustainability of potential future medium-range commercial jets with design specifications similar to the Airbus A320-200. Advanced airframe and engine technol...
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Patrícia Rodrigues, José D. Silvestre, Inês Flores-Colen, Cristina A. Viegas, Hawreen H. Ahmed, Rawaz Kurda and Jorge de Brito
This study applies a methodology to evaluate the ecotoxicological potential of raw materials and cement-based construction materials. In this study, natural aggregates and Portland cement were replaced with non-conventional recycled concrete aggregates (...
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Corey R. Halpin and Craig G. Lorimer
Quantitative criteria for assessing demographic sustainability of tree populations would be useful in forest conservation, as climate change and a growing complex of invasive pests are likely to drive forests outside their historic range of variability. ...
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Daniele Masseroni, Sandra Ricart, Francisco Ramirez De Cartagena, Joaquim Monserrat, José Manuel Gonçalves, Isabel De Lima, Arianna Facchi, Guido Sali and Claudio Gandolfi
Traditionally, most irrigation practices in Southern Europe have been based on gravity-fed surface irrigation systems. Currently, these systems remain a relevant typology in the European Union (EU) member states of the Mediterranean areas, where it is of...
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Daniele Masseroni, Sandra Ricart, Francisco Ramirez de Cartagena, Joaquim Monserrat, José Manuel Gonçalves, Isabel de Lima, Arianna Facchi, Guido Sali, Claudio Gandolfi
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Traditionally, most irrigation practices in Southern Europe have been based on gravity-fed surface irrigation systems. Currently, these systems remain a relevant typology in the European Union (EU) member states of the Mediterranean areas, where it is of...
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Sharmina Begum, Mohammad G. Rasul, Delwar Akbar and Naveed Ramzan
Energy recovery from biomass by gasification technology has attracted significant interest because it satisfies a key requirement of environmental sustainability by producing near zero emissions. Though it is not a new technology, studies on its integrat...
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Michael F. Tlusty, Ronald Hardy and Stephen F. Cross
North American dining customers like to have a singular large piece of protein in the center of the plate. When fish is the protein of choice, the portion size from many species is limited by the overall size of the fish. Therefore, for these species, th...
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Santosa Raharjo,Santun R. P. Sitorus,Suwandi Suwandi
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The landuse change from paddy field to non-rice field in Java is increasing every year and this has an impact on the decreasing of national food security. Likewise the occurrence of land conversion of around 2,000 ha for the construction of Jatigede rese...
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