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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
43 Citations
7,570 Views
13 Pages

20 June 2018

As in other industrialized countries, many urban water social-ecological systems in the United States are characterized by frequent discharges of contaminated runoff, catastrophic flooding, and near-complete severance of the hydrologic cycle. Recent...

  • Article
  • Open Access
100 Citations
16,066 Views
20 Pages

Impact of Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) Practices on Cotton Production and Livelihood of Farmers in Punjab, Pakistan

  • Muhammad Ali Imran,
  • Asghar Ali,
  • Muhammad Ashfaq,
  • Sarfraz Hassan,
  • Richard Culas and
  • Chunbo Ma

20 June 2018

Cotton is the second largest crop of Pakistan in terms of area after wheat and is being suffered by multiple shocks over the time due to conventional agricultural management practices, climate change, and market failures. Climate Smart Agriculture (C...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,075 Views
14 Pages

20 June 2018

Few studies have reported on how customer value is co-created in healthcare service delivery, and its effect on patients’ perceptions of wellbeing. It is important to examine physician-patient interaction in the context of a healthcare sector c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,377 Views
20 Pages

Drought Assessment with the Community Land Model for 1951–2010 in East Asia

  • Myoung-Jin Um,
  • Mun Mo Kim,
  • Yeonjoo Kim and
  • Daeryong Park

20 June 2018

Severe droughts have occurred in East Asia; however, observational hydroclimate data that covers the entire region is lacking. The objective of this study is to investigate drought assessment in East Asia. This study estimated three drought indices b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,166 Views
15 Pages

20 June 2018

As market competition becomes increasingly fierce, it becomes more and more important for members of the supply chain to maximize market sales and improve the economic benefits of all parties through altruistic cooperation. Considering the complex re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,070 Views
21 Pages

20 June 2018

The Belt and Road initiatives related to green development projects are being increasingly considered globally. However, such projects face several risks resulting from stakeholder diversity. Although previous studies attempted to identify the risks...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
10,376 Views
15 Pages

Sustainable Practices in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in Ecuador

  • Paúl Sarango-Lalangui,
  • José Álvarez-García and
  • María De la Cruz Del Río-Rama

20 June 2018

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), as well as larger enterprises, generate economic, social, and environmental impacts on their environment. However, in the case of these types of enterprises, the accumulation of these impacts is very signifi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
6,393 Views
13 Pages

20 June 2018

(1) Background: The study aims to highlight the impact of educational, recreational, motric and satisfaction of adventure education activities in the urban tourism environment; (2) Methods: The study included 48 students with specialization in physic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,439 Views
18 Pages

20 June 2018

Domestic energy use accounts for more than a quarter of total energy use in the United Kingdom (UK), with space and water heating accounting for almost 80% of this consumption. Energy efficiency is often the simplest and most cost-effective way of re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
50 Citations
11,027 Views
20 Pages

20 June 2018

The purpose of this paper is to analyze how SMEs define the components of their business models (value proposition, creation and capture) from the point of view of decarbonization. We analyze SMEs as a group, and study whether their size affects this...

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