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Sustainability, Volume 10, Issue 6

June 2018 - 421 articles

Cover Story: The Digital Curtain: A Subject of Sustainability Science—R.W. Scholz According to Bandura, “people create social systems, and these systems, in turn, organize and influence people’s lives”. The symbolizing capacity differentiates humans from other species. Yet, technological co-evolution becomes a new quality resulting from the digital interface, curtain. The mind receives artifactual, digitally shaped, partly evolutionary uncommon and reductive stimuli. Artifactual also means that the digital interface is designed and operated by humans, in particular the Internet, social media, and other forms that ICT provides. The digital curtain may empower humans in their interactions with the environment. However, it changes social structures and may increase the social divide. You may find some reasoning by R.W. Scholz and the paper
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Articles (421)

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,075 Views
18 Pages

20 June 2018

The rapid development of the modern power grid has resulted in significant changes to the dynamic characteristics of regional power grids. Moreover, the operating conditions of power grids are increasingly complex, and uncertainty factors are on the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
112 Citations
11,401 Views
16 Pages

20 June 2018

In China, dockless bike-sharing programs (DBSPs) play a significant role in promoting the goals of sustainable urban travel and carbon emissions reduction. However, the sustainability of DBSPs is increasingly being challenged as various issues associ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,106 Views
25 Pages

20 June 2018

This article describes and analyzes a proposal for the teaching-learning of strategic management for business students, from the angle of critical reflection (CR) presuppositions. The proposal was designed to broaden the dominant rationality in teach...

  • Opinion
  • Open Access
16 Citations
8,165 Views
16 Pages

20 June 2018

Following 25 years of efforts in the field, the author discusses the situation of the construction sector by reflecting on the 3Ps of the era of sustainability: the promises of sustainability; the pitfalls in the interpretation of sustainability for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,848 Views
28 Pages

Coordinating the Dynamic Development of Energy and Industry in Composite Regions: An I-SDOP Analysis of the BTH Region

  • Xu Li,
  • Chinhao Chong,
  • Linwei Ma,
  • Pei Liu,
  • Xuesi Shen,
  • Zibo Jia,
  • Cheng Wang,
  • Zheng Li and
  • Weidou Ni

20 June 2018

In various regions of the world, there is an urgent need to address energy challenges by accelerating the transformation of energy and industrial systems. The problem is quite complex in rapidly developing composite regions, with the necessity to coo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,778 Views
22 Pages

The Generative Potential of Tensions within Belgian Agroecology

  • Pierre Marie Stassart,
  • Maarten Crivits,
  • Julie Hermesse,
  • Louis Tessier,
  • Julie Van Damme and
  • Joost Dessein

20 June 2018

Food crises and ecologization have given rise to a Belgian dynamic that does not behave according to the conventional tripod of agroecology: practitioners, social movement, and scientists. Instead of simply recounting the history of Belgian agroecolo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,229 Views
16 Pages

20 June 2018

The article discusses transformations of the tourist function in Polish voivodeship capital cities in the period between 2005–2015. The first research stage was carried out through the background of the theory of city economic base using two in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,004 Views
13 Pages

Land Eco-Security Assessment Based on the Multi-Dimensional Connection Cloud Model

  • Qiuyan Liu,
  • Mingwu Wang,
  • Xiao Wang,
  • Fengqiang Shen and
  • Juliang Jin

20 June 2018

The evaluation of land eco-security is challenging because it is involved with various uncertainty factors. Although the normal cloud model provides an idea for dealing with the randomness and fuzziness of indicators for the evaluation of land eco-se...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,201 Views
16 Pages

20 June 2018

With the intensive consumption and price rising of traditional fossil fuels, the development and utilization of renewable energy has attracted worldwide attention. Meanwhile, due to enhanced energy constraints and increasingly grim greenhouse gases,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
9,083 Views
28 Pages

Addressing Organisational Pressures as Drivers towards Sustainability in Manufacturing Projects and Project Management Methodologies

  • Fotios Misopoulos,
  • Roula Michaelides,
  • Mohammad Afiq Salehuddin,
  • Vicky Manthou and
  • Zenon Michaelides

20 June 2018

The concept of sustainability continues to rapidly grow in interest from disparate academic and industrial fields. This research aims to elucidate further the implications of the sustainability drivers upon project management methodological approache...

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