Improving the livability and sustainability of the dense urban environments in the old town of cities has been a focus of attention in urban planning, particularly from the perspective of optimizing facility distribution. Given the study about how to understand the relationship between dense urban form and community facility distribution under the premise of satisfying the walking distance is limited

Reservoirs play a major role as an essential source of surface water, especially in arid and semi-arid regions. To optimize the operation of a reservoir and determine its storage, which varies in time, the uncertainties of major influencing factors such as its inflow and evaporation should be considered. The objective of this study is to examine the effects of joint uncertainties of the inflow and

The majority of data envelopment analysis (DEA) research studies evaluate the sustainability of processes with real-valued factors and individual role, while the investigation of sustainability of networks with bounded, discrete, and joint measures is necessary in many applications. Therefore, the purpose of this study is the examination of sustainability of supply networks and the network performance

Mountain ecosystems are complex and fragile, with significant topography variations, climatic conditions, and one that faces the most severe threats and challenges due to natural and anthropogenic activities. Despite all contributions within the past few decades on basic concepts, dimensions, sustainability issues, and various aspects of urban sustainability assessment tools, only a few academicians

With rise in population growth and increasing trend towards urbanization, urban spaces have become ‘hot spots’ for intensive resource use including water, energy and food (WEF). Thus, along with food production, food management from consumption side is equally important to address the issue of WEF resource scarcity. An analysis of urban food management in India was carried out through systematic study

China has become the world’s most carbon-emitting country, and the coal-fired power industry (CFPI) dominates China’s carbon emissions. Stimulating the carbon emission reduction potential of China’s CFPI is important for reducing global carbon emissions and mitigating global warming. To explore the potential for reducing carbon emissions in the CFPI, this study constructed a model based on the data

Moving toward environmental sustainability in the fruit production systems needs accurate monitoring of the systems in terms of energy flow. In this regard, using regression models (i.e., Cobb–Douglas), Multiple Linear Regression (MLR)), and Artificial Neural Network (ANN), this paper examined the energy flow in the pomegranate orchards in Iran. Unlike other similar studies, in the current research

The accurate identification of poverty types in rural areas is a national strategic need for poverty targeting and overall poverty alleviation. In this study, we took Gansu Province, a key area for poverty alleviation in China, as an example. With the multidimensional comprehensive measurement model of poverty, multi-criteria decision analysis method and ArcGIS spatial analysis method, we explored

By developing markets and increasing world competition, today, companies' success is not only related to their performance but also the interaction and performance of their entire supply chain and distribution. In the supply chain strategy, operational functions, such as planning, purchasing, and financial affairs are considered all together. In the meantime, the coordination between manufacturers

A hybrid ventilation system combining both natural and mechanical ventilation has proven very promising in moderating indoor climate, based on its ability to ensure indoor air quality with low energy consumption. The system maintains indoor thermal comfort conditions by switching to mechanical mode whenever natural ventilation is not possible. However, the application of such a system in severe arid

The study has been conducted at Agartala Municipal area (AMA) of Tripura, which exhibits rapid population growth and faster land use land cover changes. The major purpose of the study is to understand the dynamics of land use and Land surface temperature (LST) in the city of Agartala. The study incorporated satellite data such as Landsat TM (Thematic Mapper) and OLI (Operational Land Imager)/TIRS (Thermal

Selecting a proper set of projects is an important issue to make crucial decisions for many project-oriented organizations enabling them to achieve their goals despite the existing operational constraints (resources, time, etc.) and competitive environments. Since the results and consequences of the selected projects have short-term and long-range effects on social, economic, and environmental conditions

The sustainable development of the agricultural waste power generation industry (AWPGI) can reduce environmental pollutants' emissions and ameliorate energy shortage. However, the current development of AWPGI lacks sustainability. Hence, to address this issue, a Decision-Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (DEMATEL) model considering relative index weight is utilized, and the fuzzy composite DEMATEL

This paper evaluates compliance with environmental laws in the municipality of Sorriso and the impact of changing legislation on vegetation. To verify the size of the properties, the areas designated as legal reserves (LRs), permanent protection areas (APPs), and springs were studied. Details of compliance with the New Forest Code (NFC) were drawn from the Rural Environmental Register (CAR) database

Despite decades of debate and theoretical and practical activity related to the sustainability of tourism, its implementation remains difficult. The tourism–environment relationship, shaped by some concerns about natural and social environments, creates the concept of sustainable tourism and forms other concepts such as responsible tourism. The main debate related to sustainable tourism as a concept

The increasing importance and growth of the transportation of the industrial/nonindustrial hazardous materials and wastes in recent decades have been brought to the attention of the governments. Not paying attention to this issue has the different consequences, including the socially destructive effects leading to transportation incidents, storage and disposal of such materials and the risk of harm

Communities next to national parks, known as gateway communities, can benefit from national park development. Gateway communities are unique and limited in the degree to which, and direction in which, they can be developed. In this research, Banff National Park was used as a case study to explore residents' perceptions of the impact of national park tourism via a survey questionnaire distributed in

Urban sprawl transforms urban–rural linkages and indiscriminately exploits natural resources, degrading the ecosystems in peri-urban areas (PUAs). In India, the absence of a planning mechanism to steer and manage this transformation of PUAs worsens the problem, with arbitrary changes in land-use–land-cover (LULC) adversely impacting biodiversity, climate, productivity and water resources. In PUAs,

This paper considers a two-echelon green supply chain (SC) with one manufacturer that sells a same product to two retailers. There is also an environment-conscious government (Govt.) who intends to cooperate with the manufacturer and increase the level of the greenness of the products. We introduce a novel concept in the green literature which is to consider a dominant retailer in the green market

Reducing post harvest losses has been an option to enhance food security. Hence, the Chinese government has implemented the “scientific grain storage project” to improve household storage conditions and reduce storage losses. Based on the data of 1202 rural households from 23 provinces in China, we used propensity score matching (PSM) to measure the effects of advanced storage facilities on household

The lack of efforts in promoting conservation technologies to farming communities in the last few decades made the area of critical land, particularly over Java Island, increased by 28.33% during 2009–2014. Another cause of this condition is the unsatisfactory results of the existing land management techniques. The decision to conserve degraded lands should be supported by environmental awareness among

Sloping farmlands dominate much of Vietnam’s northern borderlands with China. Here, ethnic minority farmers have relied on their traditional ecological knowledge for centuries to fashion sustainable semi-subsistence livelihoods as best they can. With a rapidly increasing agrarian transition, these farmers must now juggle the agro-ecological limits of their farmlands with new state agricultural policies

The slack-based measure (SBM) model was used in this study to calculate the urban green innovation efficiency (GIE) of Chinese 283 cities during 2008–2018, and the night light data from the defense meteorological satellite program/operational linescan system (DMSP/OLS) were used to characterize the economic development level. On the basis, efforts were made to analyze how ecological footprint is affected

This study was designed to analyze the socioeconomic contribution of Exclosures to smallholder farmers. Many studies have been conducted on the biophysical impact of the Exclosures in restoring the degraded ecosystem. However, limited evidence is available about the perception of the community and the socioeconomic contribution of the Exclosures. Data were collected from primary and secondary sources

Concrete is the most utilized human-made material that has been used in the construction industry. The global concrete demand is rapidly increasing, and accordingly, designing green and sustainable concretes is of great concern. This study aims to optimize the mixture proportion of green and sustainable concretes. In this regard, concrete functional characteristics (i.e., compressive strength, slump

Water scarcity poses one of the most prominent threats to the well-being of smallholder farmers around the world. We studied the association between rural livelihood capitals (natural, human, social, financial, and physical) and resilience to water scarcity. Resilience was denoted by farmers’ self-reported capacity to have avoided, or adapted to, water scarcity. Proxies for livelihood capitals were

In order to reveal the distribution and migration law of downwind and upwind coal cutting, total dust (TD) and respirable dust (RD) concentration distribution and migration on the leeward side of the rear drum in the fully mechanized coal mining faces was tested by innovatively adopting the method of synchronous measurement at multiple measuring points on-site. Seven measuring points were arranged

Most of the prior literature focused on the scope, dimensions, importance, and business case of Corporate Sustainability (CS). A few studies also addressed the successful adoption or implementation of CS. Therefore, this study, by following the sequential process of stakeholder theory, adopts a holistic approach to inquire the impact of integrated management system (IMS) on CS and Firm Financial Performance

The fragile mountains of Himalaya are one of the most complex and heterogeneous mountain socio-ecological system (SES) due to its high diversity and intricate linkages of biophysical, sociocultural, and political aspects. An absence of substantial place-based knowledge and failed developmental initiatives due to absence of holistic approach in Himalaya has motivated to conduct a systematic review.

In the context of green economy development, efforts and measurements aimed to balance the relationship between the economy and environment have been vigorously promoted. Among these regulations, the policy of China’s carbon emissions trading (CET) pilot, one of the market-based environmental regulations, is favorable for China to take a path that can trigger both improvement of environmental quality

The purpose of this study is to identify and characterize individual sources of pollutants such as PM10, SO2, NOx, and CO in the urban area in Karadeniz (Turkey) using the bivariate polar plots method. In addition, the relationship between the meteorological conditions and the pollutants was determined based on correlation analysis in the region. Bivariate polar plots are a graphical method used to

Sustainable development is a process through which the needs of the present generation are satisfied without damaging the benefits or resources for meeting the needs of succeeding generations. Sustainable development could help to realize a society with far better conditions than those in today’s society, especially for future generations. This study proposes a comprehensive multi-criteria decision-making

In this study, fresh and hardened aspects of mortars being produced from RFAs (recycled fine aggregates) obtained from concretes, w/c (water/cement) ratio of which varies in the range of 0.47–0.55 have been examined. On the mortars experiments such as those relating with workability, mechanical properties, drying shrinkage, sorptivity, and apparent porosity have been conducted. As flow diameters of

Degradation of riparian vegetation throughout the world is a major challenge due to its various ecological functions. Assessment of degeneration of riparian vegetation structure, diversity and their subsequent restoration through screening of indigenous species are rare information from Indian perspective. The present study was designed to assess the ecology of riparian vegetation through phytosociological

The reverse logistics of municipal hazardous waste (RLMHW) have received close attention from researchers and practitioners alike, given the essential impact of safe transportation and effective management of hazardous waste on public health and environmental sustainability. There are a great number of studies in the extant literature on RLMHW, with many and diverse research topics; however, a concise

Based on the theory of trade added value, this paper discusses the potential actual trade scale and benefit damage degree of the two countries under the background of big country game by measuring the real trade scale of China and the USA, simulating the economic impact of tariffs imposed by China and the USA and utilizing Wang–Wei–Zhu (WWZ) method to decompose the potential changes in Sino-US trade

The need for conserving water rises as the resource becomes scarcer. The most essential step in order to manage this resource is to estimate watershed runoff. Runoff and rainfall are the main two sources that maintain ground water and recharge it. Hydrologists in the Kurdistan Region face the challenge of unavailability of data (most watersheds in the area are ungauged) or inaccurate data. The surface

The extraction of nontimber forest products, an important tool in the conservation of forests and the generation of social benefits, is prominent in the economies of extractive communities. This article describes the production chain of fava d'anta (Dimorphandra gardneriana Tulasne) in two conservation areas of Chapada do Araripe, Northeast of Brazil, highlighting the socioeconomic profile of the collectors

Renewable energy (RE) plays an increasingly important role in the economy of almost every country in the world. In order to examine the state of renewable energy (RE) in Mazowieckie Voivodeship (Poland), a literature review was carried out, anonymous surveys were conducted, a SWOT (Strenghts, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) and TOWS analysis were carried out and the potential of RE in Mazowieckie

Small islands of Vietnam witness increasing natural resource use conflicts among stakeholders resulting from their isolation from the mainland, combined with more recent pressures of urbanization, tourism, and socio-economic development. A challenge facing both residents and governments is identifying more appropriate inter-sector cooperation to minimize conflicts taking into account short-term economic

The socio-environmental crisis and the complexity of urban problems highlight the importance of better understanding the emergence and configuration of social innovation ecosystems (SIEs) and their impact on cities. This article proposes a new theoretical–methodological approach that is inspired in a pragmatism perspective and presents results of its empirical application in the mapping and analysis

Land use land cover change (LULCC) is a global environmental trend that plays a key role in worldwide environmental change and sustainable development. Substantial disturbance resulting from natural and anthropogenic activities has been witnessed in sub-Sahara Africa (SSA) over the last four decades, which is mostly due to the increasing population being experienced in Africa. One-third of emitted

With great changes in production requirements, in-service machine tools may be unable to meet new production requirements. Aiming for this problem, a sustainable resource-saving and high-valued recovery approach for in-service machine tools is proposed, which integrates remanufacturing and product-service systems (PSS). In-service machine tool remanufacturing is defined as a new remanufacturing model

Global climate has undergone unprecedented changes due to several natural- and human-induced factors. The present study sought to assess the impacts of climate hazards on coastal livelihoods, specifically in Ningo-Prampram district in the Greater Accra region, Ghana. The research uses participatory rural appraisal (PRA) and the analytic hierarchical process (AHP) tools to ascertain the major climatic

Eliminating ultra-poverty has received particular attention of policymakers and scholars. The ultra-poor in mountainous regions often live on subsistence farming and natural resource extraction. One of the sustainable ways to support them is to find alternative livelihood options that reduce natural resource extraction and increase household income. During the last decades, Vietnam has reduced its

Compared to many developing countries, Malaysia has been far less successful in getting its citizen to embrace hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs). The study investigates the reasons behind this problem and offers a framework that could facilitate policymakers and stakeholders toward the electrification transition. Using the textual-based content analysis method, text-based articles and comments were extracted

The bioenergy industry is a proven option to replace fossil fuels in the heat supply and partly in the transport sector and generation of electricity. The study aims to investigate the empirical model of whether bioenergy use and institutional quality increase forest destruction in the European Union 28 countries covering the period 1990–2018, using the pooled ordinary least squares (pooled OLS), fixed

As the global population is projected to increase by two billion people by 2050, so will the demand for phosphorus (P), an essential nutrient for all living organisms and a major driver of eutrophication. To sustainably meet these challenges, we apply the conceptual framework of transition management (TM) to demonstrate how the trajectory of the current linear P use system could be strategically shifted

The distribution of pollution-intensive industries is a serious challenge to environmental governance of China during the transition period. However, existing studies lack the attention to the distribution and driving factors of air-pollution-intensive industries (APIIs). Therefore, based on geospatial analysis and spatial measurement models, this study explored the spatial distribution of APIIs and

In a water treatment plant, the decision to carry out a jar test, for determining the required coagulant dosage, is made based on notable changes in treated water qualities such as treated water turbidity and color, which is essentially a reactive response to changes in water qualities. In addition, until a change that the operator deems as ‘significant’ occurs, the plant tends to use the same dosage

This paper aims to identify the perceived quality of life of women who fish and farm in the Maicá Lake region, Santarém, Brazilian Amazonia. The study was realized in 2018 and involved 18 women residing in two districts of Santarém (structured interview with open questions). The results indicate that the women's quality of life was related to factors such as health, family, work, religion, and community

The United Nations (UN) annual report on water resources released in 2015 announced that the world will face a global water deficit of about 40% by the year 2030. Around half of the world’s population depends on groundwater for fulfilling the daily consumption (drinking; domestic use). As humans require a water supply for their survival, it seems important to establish an adequate strategy for water

Landscape destruction is much prevailing nowadays, with cities expanding coupled with an increasing global population. Accordingly, moving landscapes toward sustainability is needed more than ever before. Although urban and landscape planners have increasingly studied landscape sustainability, understanding the impact of nature-based solutions on landscape sustainability is still obscure. In order

Cyanobacteria are a group of diverse prokaryotes that are capable of oxygenic photosynthesis. They are ubiquitous in nature and have been reported to survive in extreme environments. This study aimed to identify and assess the diversity of the cyanobacteria present in some mine tailing sites in the towns of Itogon and Tuba, in Benguet Province, Philippines using isolation-dependent and isolation-independent

The development of information and communication technologies (ICT) positively contributes to economic growth; however, their environmental implications cannot be ignored. Therefore, it is imperative to investigate the impact of ICT, energy consumption, economic growth, and financial development on the air quality in Pakistan. Drawing on the data set from 1976 to 2018, we employed Nonlinear Autoregressive

Urbanization plays a crucial role in the urban landscape dynamics, contributing to numerous ecosystems and urban climate changes. Diurnal variation of land surface temperature (LST) is a significant index for estimating local climate change as a response to urbanization. This research analyzes the impact of urbanization on the LST-based diurnal temperature range (DTR) for Pune, India, in three steps:

The valorization of typical food products contributes to local economy sustainability. The European Union introduced the optional "mountain product label” (European Commission, EUR-Lex 2014, European Parliament 2012) to promote the mountain economic system sustainability. Although some researchers have focused their studies on the mountain product label, at our knowledge, the mountain product label

The growing trend of economic integration and globalization has made the need to harmonize cross-border trade and their associated procedures among trading countries, inevitable. Nonetheless, there is an emerging debate about the environmental consequences of engaging in trade interactions among the policymakers, trade pundits and researchers alike. To this end, this study examines whether Africa’s

The north-western Mediterranean coast of Egypt, including the study area from El Hammam to EL Alamein, is a hub for economic and coastal tourism development. Coastal tourism is recognized as a driving force for the economic development and sustainability in Egypt, however, it is an environment and climate-dependent industry. This study explores the potential impacts of climate change (CC) and the sea-level

Urbanization has threatened rural communities’ livelihoods worldwide, changing their agro-food systems from locally produced traditional items to industrialized foodstuffs. The main objective was to investigate the relationship between livelihood conditions and the agro-food transition process in rural communities of the Center-West, Northeast, and Amazon regions of Brazil. We hypothesized that traditional