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Sustainability, Volume 10, Issue 2

February 2018 - 296 articles

Cover Story: The historic range of variability of land covers, and evidence-based knowledge about threshold intervals for local species extinction due to habitat loss, can be combined to derive quantitative targets for landscape restoration. Our study exemplifies this by using grasslands and avian umbrella species to show that the combined loss, alteration, and fragmentation over the past 200 years led to a 98–100% decline in habitat functionality. This stresses the need to define the historic range of variability in relation to species’ requirements for maintaining functional habitat networks. View this paper
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Articles (296)

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
8,999 Views
15 Pages

24 February 2018

Under increasing environmental pressure, hotel firms need to improve their ability to access international alliances while maintaining good performance for sustainable development. This paper uses survey data from 784 hotels running at different leve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
183 Citations
15,473 Views
16 Pages

23 February 2018

The adoption of conservation agriculture among small-scale farmers is still low despite the proven economic and environmental benefits of the technology. This study was conducted in Ingwe Municipality in Kwa-Zashuke, Ward 8, in KwaZulu-Natal province...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
9,097 Views
20 Pages

23 February 2018

Despite the major investigations in prior studies for direct links among board diversity and corporate performance, the literature has not covered many indirect associations among them. This article analyzes the association between board diversity (g...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
8,036 Views
22 Pages

Analysis and Evaluation of the Largest 500 Family Firms’ Websites through PLS-SEM Technique

  • Ascensión Barroso,
  • Óscar R. González-López,
  • Ramón Sanguino and
  • María Buenadicha-Mateos

23 February 2018

As few studies relate the technical aspects of a corporate website to a firm’s turnover, this paper aims to examine how the quality of a corporate website influences social networks and the company’s turnover in large family firms. The moderating and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
14,214 Views
17 Pages

23 February 2018

Complex social and environmental issues call for broader collaboration across different sectors so as to instigate transformative social change. While previous scholars have emphasized the role of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in facilitating...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,468 Views
16 Pages

23 February 2018

Education is the driving force of social development, while regional differences have restricted the balance of educational development. This paper provides a political and geospatial analysis of regional inequality across the province from 1990–2015...

  • Article
  • Open Access
63 Citations
8,104 Views
24 Pages

Ex-Ante Impact Assessment of Sustainability Information–The Directive 2014/95

  • Cristian Carini,
  • Laura Rocca,
  • Monica Veneziani and
  • Claudio Teodori

23 February 2018

Directive 2014/95, in force since 2017, is the first European step that requires undertakings to provide mandatory non-financial information. The regulation concerns sustainability information, such as environmental, social, and employee information,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
7,204 Views
19 Pages

23 February 2018

Throughout its life-cycle, wood contributes to climate change mitigation through carbon storage and material and energy substitution. Focusing on wood use for piles, check dams, paved walkways, guardrails, and noise barriers, we quantified the nation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
7,546 Views
22 Pages

Sustainability Assessment of Out-of-Home Meals: Potentials and Challenges of Applying the Indicator sets NAHGAST Meal-Basic and NAHGAST Meal-Pro

  • Tobias Engelmann,
  • Melanie Speck,
  • Holger Rohn,
  • Katrin Bienge,
  • Nina Langen,
  • Eva Howell,
  • Christine Göbel,
  • Silke Friedrich,
  • Petra Teitscheid and
  • Jaya Bowry
  • + 2 authors

23 February 2018

Nutrition is responsible for about 30% of global natural resource use. In order to limit the negative impact the nutritional sector has on the environment and on society, the consumption and processing of foodstuffs with assumed low negative impact i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,810 Views
21 Pages

22 February 2018

In order to stabilize the fluctuation of wind power and maintain a stable power output, a complementary control idea is proposed. This idea aims to make the output power from two wind farms complement each other. This study proposes a distributed con...

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