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Sustainability, Volume 11, Issue 9

May-1 2019 - 265 articles

Cover Story: In this article, we highlight the importance of personal competencies for sustainable consumer behavior, such as self-reflexivity/self-awareness, emotional resilience, the willingness and ability to motivate oneself, and knowledge of and the ability to mobilize one’s psychological resources. We suggest two new learning formats that allow students to systematically acquire such competencies: self-inquiry-based learning (SIBL) and self-experience-based learning (SEBL). We developed these approaches at Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany, and applied them within the framework of two seminars called Personal Approaches to Sustainable Consumption. Conducting scholarship of teaching and learning, we empirically investigated the potential of SIBL and SEBL for cultivating personal competencies for sustainable consumption. Our results indicate that SIBL and SEBL are promising approaches to achieve this purpose. View this paper
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Articles (265)

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
6,165 Views
20 Pages

Performance Evaluation of Major Asian Airline Companies Using DEA Window Model and Grey Theory

  • Chia-Nan Wang,
  • Tsang-Ta Tsai,
  • Hsien-Pin Hsu and
  • Le-Hoang Nguyen

13 May 2019

Being an essential part of the global transport system, airline transportation is capable of delivering fast service for passengers and commodities. In the past decade, the Asia aviation industry has experienced a high growth rate of transport due to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,254 Views
14 Pages

13 May 2019

As consumers are becoming concernedabout environmental sustainability, firms are motivated to develop green products that adopt sustainable innovation or materials. This study contributes to the existing literature by specifically examining how consu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,694 Views
15 Pages

Attitude towards Bike Use in Rende, a Small Town in South Italy

  • Demetrio Carmine Festa and
  • Carmen Forciniti

13 May 2019

The bike can contribute to the development of sustainable mobility. This requires interventions to promote bike use, such as increasing the cyclist safety, construction of bikeways, and provision of ancillary services and bike sharing activities. In...

  • Article
  • Open Access
70 Citations
10,844 Views
15 Pages

13 May 2019

This study presents the experimental results of fresh and hardened properties of concrete incorporating high-volume fly ash (HVFA). Two kinds of low-calcium fly ash with loss on ignition (LOI) of 5% and 8% were used as replacement for cement and/or f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,463 Views
20 Pages

Spatio-Temporal Pattern of Land Degradation along the China-Mongolia Railway (Mongolia)

  • Juanle Wang,
  • Haishuo Wei,
  • Kai Cheng,
  • Ge Li,
  • Altansukh Ochir,
  • Lingling Bian,
  • Davaadorj Davaasuren,
  • Sonomdagva Chonokhuu and
  • Elbegjargal Nasanbat

13 May 2019

The increasingly serious problem of land degradation has a direct impact on the ecosystem and sustainable development in Mongolia. The influence of land degradation on the main China–Mongolia–Russia traffic arteries is currently unclear a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,376 Views
16 Pages

Effects of Saline and Deficit Irrigation on Soil-Plant Water Status and Potato Crop Yield under the Semiarid Climate of Tunisia

  • Hiba Ghazouani,
  • Giovanni Rallo,
  • Amel Mguidiche,
  • Basma Latrech,
  • Boutheina Douh,
  • Abdelhamid Boujelben and
  • Giuseppe Provenzano

13 May 2019

Water supplies have been decreasing in several semi-arid regions, and it is therefore necessary to adopt irrigation strategies aimed at maximizing water use efficiency. In this paper, the effects of saline and deficit irrigation on water use efficien...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
4,374 Views
15 Pages

Modeling Soil Nitrogen Content in South Patagonia across a Climate Gradient, Vegetation Type, and Grazing

  • Pablo L. Peri,
  • Yamina M. Rosas,
  • Brenton Ladd,
  • Santiago Toledo,
  • Romina G. Lasagno and
  • Guillermo Martínez Pastur

13 May 2019

Soil total nitrogen (N) stock in rangelands, shrublands, and forests support key ecological functions such as the capacity of the land to sustain plant and animal productivity and ecosystem services. The objective of this study was to model soil tota...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,323 Views
15 Pages

13 May 2019

Sustainable development is defined as development that meets the needs of the present generation, but does not compromise the satisfaction of future generations’ needs. It emphasizes the concept of needs and constraints. Women’s lack of d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,506 Views
24 Pages

13 May 2019

This study examines the relationship between residential property values and accessibility indicators derived from transit smart card data. The use of smart card data to estimate accessibility indicators for explaining the housing market has not yet...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,926 Views
22 Pages

13 May 2019

Reverse logistics is convincingly one of the most efficient solutions to reduce environmental pollution and waste of resources by capturing and recovering the values of the used products. Many studies have been developed for decision-making at tactic...

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