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Sustainability, Volume 11, Issue 2

January-2 2019 - 259 articles

Cover Story: Currently, cities consume 60–80% of global natural resources. They produce 50% of global waste and 75% of greenhouse gas emissions. The UN estimates that 66% of the world’s population will live in cities by 2050, while the global urban footprint will triple over the years up to 2030. Thus, cities, as a system of production and consumption, threaten global environmental sustainability. Looping actions—reuse, recycling, and recovery of resources (materials, energy, water, land, and infrastructure)—and nexus solutions can help to address resource scarcity and wastage in cities. However, there are many challenges to their implementation. In this paper, we explore these challenges. We demonstrate how context affects them and the importance of context-dependent solutions. In addition, our analysis identifies some common levers for promoting looping actions and nexus solutions in cities. View this paper
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Articles (259)

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,791 Views
13 Pages

21 January 2019

Using an experimental approach, we investigate income distribution among heterogeneous subjects exploiting a Common Pool Resource (CPR). The CPR experiments are conducted in continuous time and under different treatments, including combinations of co...

  • Review
  • Open Access
327 Citations
31,284 Views
18 Pages

21 January 2019

The cement industry is facing numerous challenges in the 21st century due to depleting natural fuel resources, shortage of raw materials, exponentially increasing cement demand and climate linked environmental concerns. Every tonne of ordinary Portla...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
7,964 Views
16 Pages

21 January 2019

The overall scale of China’s logistics industry is growing rapidly, and the environment and conditions for its development are constantly improving, which lays a solid foundation for further accelerating the development of the logistics industr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
4,708 Views
13 Pages

21 January 2019

China is the largest carbon dioxide emitter in the world, and reducing China’s transportation carbon emissions is of great significance for the world. Using the Chinese provincial data from 2005–2015, this article analyzes the convergence...

  • Article
  • Open Access
58 Citations
8,618 Views
14 Pages

21 January 2019

The conservation of traditional residential architecture is crucial in terms of sociocultural continuity. When the traditional houses are no longer used for residential purposes, new functions should be assigned to them for the continuity of the heri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,721 Views
15 Pages

21 January 2019

The art market operates in a very different way from conventional economic markets, ranging from its behaviors of supply and demand, the trading of goods, and the economic agents intervening in it. In addition, it is a highly unregulated market, with...

  • Article
  • Open Access
81 Citations
11,244 Views
11 Pages

21 January 2019

Food security has received wide attention in China for a long time due to the challenges of a huge population and limited farmland area. Under conditions of rapid urbanization, the food scenario has changed, creating major challenges for massive popu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
6,691 Views
14 Pages

21 January 2019

Farmers in China and many other developing countries suffer from low technical efficiency of chemical fertilizer use, which leads to excessive nutrient runoff and other environmental problems. A major cause of the low efficiency is lack of science-ba...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,289 Views
17 Pages

21 January 2019

This study investigates the spatial dependence of house prices in the Yangtze Delta Urban Agglomeration since the year 2000. According to Moran’s I index and the LISA scatter plot derived from a cross-section data set, the spatial dependence of...

  • Concept Paper
  • Open Access
4 Citations
8,212 Views
21 Pages

Logistics Innovation in China: The Lens of Chinese Daoism

  • Yu Gong,
  • Lujie Chen,
  • Fu Jia and
  • Richard Wilding

21 January 2019

Innovation is vital for the logistics industry. This paper develops a Daoism-based conceptual model for logistics innovation in China. It identifies research gaps in this area and provides directions for future research. Following a content-based lit...

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