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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
13 Citations
4,789 Views
19 Pages

19 June 2018

The recycling of organic wastes in agriculture contributes to a circular economy by returning to the soil nutrients and reducing the need of mineral-based fertilisers. An agronomical and environmental evaluation of a series of biochars prepared from...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,476 Views
11 Pages

Effect of Marine Microorganisms on Limestone as an Approach for Calcareous Soil

  • Juan Antonio Villarreal Sanchez,
  • Lourdes Diaz Jimenez,
  • Jose Concepcion Escobedo Bocardo,
  • Jose Omar Cardenas Palomo,
  • Nereida Elizabeth Guerra Escamilla and
  • Jesus Salvador Luna Alvarez

19 June 2018

Calcareous soils generally have low levels of organic matter and nitrogen; they require modification to promote their support for agriculture production. Calcareous soils are commonly found in important agricultural areas throughout the world, mainly...

  • Article
  • Open Access
89 Citations
8,250 Views
21 Pages

Cloud–Fog–Based Smart Grid Model for Efficient Resource Management

  • Saman Zahoor,
  • Sakeena Javaid,
  • Nadeem Javaid,
  • Mahmood Ashraf,
  • Farruh Ishmanov and
  • Muhammad Khalil Afzal

19 June 2018

A smart grid (SG) is a modernized electric grid that enhances the reliability, efficiency, sustainability, and economics of electricity services. Moreover, it plays a vital role in modern energy infrastructure. The core challenge faced by SGs is how...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,816 Views
17 Pages

19 June 2018

Forest buffers contribute to enhancing the quality and availability of water in catchments. This study aims to examine the effects of forest buffers on water quality and quantity in three reservoir catchments in Mauritius, including Mare aux Vacoas (...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
7,789 Views
20 Pages

19 June 2018

Because of the comprehensiveness and urgency of environmental challenges, every stakeholder needs to be engaged in reducing environmental impacts. The healthcare sector has rarely been studied, despite its intense effects on the environment, particul...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
9,427 Views
21 Pages

19 June 2018

This article examines the role of institutions—particularly universities—in the recent refugee crisis. It contributes to the debate on the integration of refugees through the higher education system in Spain. Based on semi-structured inte...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
8,759 Views
20 Pages

How to Address the Sustainability Transition of Farming Systems? A Conceptual Framework to Organize Research

  • Guillaume Martin,
  • Sandrine Allain,
  • Jacques-Eric Bergez,
  • Delphine Burger-Leenhardt,
  • Julie Constantin,
  • Michel Duru,
  • Laurent Hazard,
  • Camille Lacombe,
  • Danièle Magda and
  • Marie-Angélina Magne
  • + 4 authors

19 June 2018

Stakeholders from academic, political, and social spheres encourage the development of more sustainable forms of agriculture. Given its scale and scope, the sustainability transition is a challenge to the entire agricultural sector. The main question...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,578 Views
24 Pages

19 June 2018

The massive urban social management data with geographical coordinates from the inspectors, volunteers, and citizens of the city are a new source of spatio-temporal data, which can be used for the data mining of city management and the evolution of h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,617 Views
17 Pages

19 June 2018

Based on the perspective of knowledge transfer and the technology acceptance model (TAM), this paper constructs a university technology transfer sustainable development model that considers the inventor’s technology service from the perspective...

  • Article
  • Open Access
51 Citations
16,205 Views
21 Pages

The Prospective of Nuclear Power in China

  • Yan Xu,
  • Junjie Kang and
  • Jiahai Yuan

19 June 2018

From scratch to current stage, China’s nuclear power technology has experienced rapid development, and now China has begun to export nuclear power technology. As a kind of highly efficient and clean energy source, nuclear energy is also a prior...

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