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Sustainability, Volume 11, Issue 6

March-2 2019 - 318 articles

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Cover Story: Consumer reviews on the web have rapidly become an important information source through which consumers can share their experiences and opinions about products and services. By reading consumer reviews, companies and marketers get to know their customers and thus obtain a better understanding of marketing opportunities, the competitive landscape, the market structure, and the features of their own and competitors’ products that customers discuss. This paper examines consumer reviews of three different competitive automobile brands using text mining and association rule methods. This paper provides detailed insights into the superior and problematic sides of each brand and into consumers’ perceptions of automobiles, and highlights differences between satisfied and unsatisfied groups regarding the best and worst features of the brands. View this paper

Articles (318)

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  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,019 Views
15 Pages

26 March 2019

The housing price-to-income ratio is an important index for measuring the health of real estate, as well as detecting residents’ housing affordability and regional spatial justice. This paper considers 1833 residential districts in one main urb...

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  • Open Access
25 Citations
7,160 Views
16 Pages

26 March 2019

Building on the mystery/complexity/legibility/coherence model of Kaplan and Kaplan (1989) and up-to-date landscape visualization techniques, this paper presents a case study analyzing people’s aesthetic preferences for scenes with varying level...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,558 Views
12 Pages

26 March 2019

Military government was lifted from Kinmen in 1992. The opening-up of cross-strait relations transformed the island into a tourist destination. This transformation led to electricity and water shortages in Kinmen. With the reduction in the number of...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,494 Views
15 Pages

26 March 2019

Environmental issues are often discussed in purity-related terms. For instance, pollution, contamination, toxicity, and degradation are all concepts that can evoke notions of (im)purity in an environmental context. In this paper, we assess the effica...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,301 Views
16 Pages

26 March 2019

Sichuan Province of China is a prominent population and economic growth center as well as an earthquake-stricken region. A sound understanding of the seismic risk that Sichuan Province is facing is useful to raise risk awareness, achieve disaster ris...

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  • Open Access
74 Citations
9,433 Views
23 Pages

26 March 2019

Circular economy (CE) is an emerging concept that contrasts the linear economic system. This concept is particularly relevant for cities, currently hosting approximately 50% of the world’s population. Research gaps in the analysis and implement...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,015 Views
16 Pages

26 March 2019

This article examines the interplay between welfare ideas and institutional development and then seeks to explore the ideational background for social policy expansion in China. It focuses on the welfare semantics and narratives that underpin the gra...

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  • Open Access
45 Citations
7,381 Views
20 Pages

Residential Greenery: State of the Art and Health-Related Ecosystem Services and Disservices in the City of Berlin

  • Luca Battisti,
  • Lauranne Pille,
  • Thomas Wachtel,
  • Federica Larcher and
  • Ina Säumel

26 March 2019

Inclusively accessible green areas are essential for livable cities. The residential greenery on a door’s step of urban dwellers has rarely been the subject of research. Here we provide insights into the state of the art of residential greenery...

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  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,951 Views
24 Pages

Transit versus Nature. Depreciation of Environmental Values of the Road Alleys. Case Study: Gamerki-Jonkowo, Poland

  • Marzena Suchocka,
  • Magdalena Błaszczyk,
  • Adam Juźwiak,
  • Joanna Duriasz,
  • Adam Bohdan and
  • Jerzy Stolarczyk

26 March 2019

Road alleys are multifunctional features in open landscapes that serve as ecological corridors connecting habitats, and play an important role in sustaining ecological stability. However, multiple road authorities claim that tree-lined routes pose a...

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  • Open Access
29 Citations
4,840 Views
18 Pages

26 March 2019

In recent years, Taiwan has been facing water shortages due to the impact of climate change, which has resulted in many serious drought events, especially in southern Taiwan. Long-term records from 25 rainfall stations and 17 groundwater stations in...

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