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Sustainability, Volume 12, Issue 10

May-2 2020 - 395 articles

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Cover Story: This study examines urban sprawl in Belgium over six decades, from 1950 to 2010. It highlights that sprawl is a self-reinforcing process, i.e., sprawl fuels further sprawl over time. Three sprawl indices were employed: the degree of urban dispersion, the degree of urban permeation of the landscape, and the built-up land uptake per capita. These three indices consider both the growth of built-up areas and population density to measure the magnitude of sprawl. It appears that the increase in the degree of dispersion is locally driven by previous values of dispersion, i.e., dispersion provides an adequate milieu for further dispersion. According to these results, more restrictive land use policies are required in places where built areas are initially quite dispersed. The data that support the findings of this study are openly available. View this paper

Articles (395)

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  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,332 Views
17 Pages

Local Perceptions of Fires Risk and Policy Implications in the Hills of Valparaíso, Chile

  • Rodolfo Sapiains,
  • Ana María Ugarte,
  • Paulina Aldunce,
  • Germant Marchant,
  • Javier Alberto Romero,
  • Mauro E. González and
  • Valentina Inostroza-Lazo

25 May 2020

Climate change is increasing the occurrence of natural disasters worldwide, and more frequent and intense fires represent one of the most destructive expressions of this trend. Chile is highly vulnerable to climate change, and fires are a recurrent p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,988 Views
12 Pages

25 May 2020

Alternative metrics are increasingly used to measure the social impact of research. This article seeks to analyze the social impact of research in the field of tourism. For this purpose, we will determine the extent to which the articles in this fiel...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,583 Views
10 Pages

25 May 2020

Hydropower plays an essential role in maintaining energy flexibility. Modern designs focus on sustainability and robustness using different numerical tools. Automatic optimization of the turbines is widely used, including low, mini and micro head tur...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,610 Views
19 Pages

Suitability of Remediated PFAS-Affected Soil in Cement Pastes and Mortars

  • Andras Fehervari,
  • Will P. Gates,
  • Chathuranga Gallage and
  • Frank Collins

25 May 2020

Australia and many other parts of the world face issues of contamination in groundwater and soils by per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). While the pyrolytic treatment of contaminated soils can destroy PFAS, the resulting heat-treated soils c...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,723 Views
33 Pages

25 May 2020

The purpose of this paper is to create a smart operating roadmap, which shows the entire process of a strategic business plan, including functions, methods, and tools, to link IFRS 8 (International Financial Reporting Standards No.8) to ABSC (Activit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,912 Views
14 Pages

Yield Spread and Economic Policy Uncertainty: Evidence from Japan

  • Mei-Chih Wang,
  • Pao-Lan Kuo,
  • Chan-Sheng Chen,
  • Chien-Liang Chiu and
  • Tsangyao Chang

25 May 2020

In this paper, we adopt the nonlinear autoregressive distributed lags (NARDL) model extended by Shin et al. (2014) to investigate the relationship between the treasury yield spread and economic policy uncertainty (EPU) in Japan. This model helps us t...

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  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,096 Views
26 Pages

25 May 2020

Urban gardens have attracted considerable academic attention in recent years. Several studies have, in fact, emphasized their positive contribution in terms of social integration, community health, urban regeneration, and food security, and explored...

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  • Open Access
40 Citations
7,366 Views
18 Pages

25 May 2020

The most vulnerable countries often face a double burden in relation to climate change—they are at high risk to the impacts and are least equipped to cope and adapt. Global climate policy since the Convention in 1992, until most recently with t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,040 Views
27 Pages

25 May 2020

Understanding the nature of consumers’ environmental behaviors will help design better environmental policies for a sustainable future. Drawing on the responsible environmental behavior (REB) theoretical framework, we disentangle the effects of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
6,490 Views
21 Pages

25 May 2020

In response to the global fight against environmental deterioration and resource shortage, many governments call on firms to implement green innovation strategies. However, for most small and medium-sized firms, the high cost of green innovation make...

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