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Sustainability, Volume 11, Issue 15

August-1 2019 - 260 articles

Cover Story: Current legislation allows for the inclusion of social issues in contracting processes, which account for 20% of Spanish GDP. This study defines the procedures for socially efficient public procurement. The Delphi technique was used, with online surveys being completed by 71 experts representing the business sector, academia, and public administrations, and results confirm the existence of a rising consensus to include social value in public tenders. Theoretical implications correspond to a perspective change, and a price-based bidding model was substituted with a public procurement system, where the efficiency of the outputs in relation to inputs is considered the main goal. Our findings suggest the need to develop an objective social accounting system, capable of calculating—in a standard and predictable way—the social value generated to the various interest groups and society in general. View this paper
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Articles (260)

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  • Open Access
58 Citations
10,730 Views
19 Pages

6 August 2019

Solid waste management in developing cities is a threat to water and food security. The final disposal option for solid wastes is usually landfill sites. Possible contaminants and their impact on surface and groundwater, and soil quality, at the nort...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,348 Views
17 Pages

6 August 2019

In the debates on regional economic analysis, scholars generally reach the consensus that the industrial frame and the occupational mix are not very accurate substitutes for each other. While industry concentration and mix are widely accepted as sign...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,280 Views
19 Pages

6 August 2019

The traditional additional inertial control (T-AIC) strategy can provide frequency support for the directly-driven wind turbine with a permanent magnet synchronous generator (D-PMSG). However, due to the fixed control coefficients, the frequency modu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,019 Views
23 Pages

Multidimensional Measurement of the Level of Consistency of Farm Buildings with Rural Heritage: A Methodology Tested on an Italian Case Study

  • Stefano Benni,
  • Elisabetta Carfagna,
  • Daniele Torreggiani,
  • Elisabetta Maino,
  • Marco Bovo and
  • Patrizia Tassinari

6 August 2019

The industrialization after World War II marked a severe discontinuity between rural heritage and contemporary farm buildings. Rural landscapes have thus become more and more uniform; historical buildings are often abandoned and degraded, while conte...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
6,169 Views
13 Pages

6 August 2019

Extreme weather, climate-induced events that are episodic (e.g., hurricane, heatwave) or chronic (e.g., sea-level rise, temperature change) in nature, is occurring with increasing frequency and severity. This places a growing and time-sensitive need...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
8,013 Views
11 Pages

6 August 2019

Higher education continues to play an integral role in fostering regional development and this is underpinned by the concept that universities possess a social responsibility as proponents of progress in relation to society’s socio-economic, po...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,220 Views
26 Pages

Traps and Opportunities of Czech Small-Scale Beef Cattle Farming

  • Igor Krejčí,
  • Pavel Moulis,
  • Jana Pitrová,
  • Ivana Tichá,
  • Ladislav Pilař and
  • Jan Rydval

6 August 2019

Small farmers represent a majority of the European Union (EU) farming sector and are considered the cornerstone of both the current and future sustainable EU agriculture. The dynamic complexity of livestock systems hinders the understanding of its be...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,040 Views
14 Pages

6 August 2019

We examine the relationship between the expertise of outside directors from academia and firms’ financial performance using a unique dataset on the research publications of such directors. Specifically, we use research publication history in fi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,240 Views
20 Pages

6 August 2019

Timeliness of steel distribution centers can effectively ensure the smooth progress of ship construction, but the carbon emissions of vehicles in the distribution process are also a major source of pollution. Therefore, when considering the common co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,423 Views
16 Pages

6 August 2019

This paper presents a correction methodology for Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) based speech recognition. A strategy that validates with a reference database was developed for LSTM. It is conceptually simple but requires a large keyword database to ma...

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