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Sustainability, Volume 12, Issue 14

July-2 2020 - 384 articles

Cover Story: The emergence of the Internet of Things (IoT) notion pioneered the implementation of various smart environments. With rapid resource shrinkage, energy management has recently become an essential concern for all smart environments. Although energy management emerged as a solution that addresses challenges that arise with increasing energy demand and resource deterioration, further evolution and expansion are hindered due to technological, economical, and social barriers. This review aggregates energy management approaches in smart environments and extensively reviews a variety of recent literature reports on peak load shaving and demand response. Significant benefits and challenges of these energy management strategies were identified through the literature survey. Finally, a critical discussion summarizing trends and opportunities is given as a thread for future research.View this paper
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Articles (384)

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,577 Views
14 Pages

21 July 2020

The temporal and spatial distribution of the toxic epiphytic dinoflagellate Ostreopsis cf. ovata was investigated off the Jeju coastal waters, Korea, from July 2016 to January 2019. The results showed that the presence of Ostreopsis cf. ovata in 184...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,941 Views
17 Pages

21 July 2020

This article identifies a gap in the approaches to Green Construction (GC), and initiates a line of research in the area of the so-called “ecological prototypes”. Ecological prototypes, stands for a new type of GC, which are integrated an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,431 Views
14 Pages

Protect Me from What I Want: Understanding Excessive Polluting Behavior and the Willingness to Act

  • Ragna Benedikta Garðarsdóttir,
  • Hrund Ólöf Andradóttir and
  • Throstur Thorsteinsson

21 July 2020

Many environmental problems stem from unsustainable human consumption. Accordingly, many studies have focused on the barriers to pro-environmental behavior. The inability or unwillingness to act is partially related to personal values as well as the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,469 Views
26 Pages

21 July 2020

This study applies the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model to examine the impacts of globalization and country risks on China’s tourism service trade over the period 1984–2015. The results reveal that in the long run, globalizatio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,376 Views
15 Pages

Assessing the Economic Viability of an Animal Byproduct Rendering Plant: Case Study of a Slaughterhouse in Greece

  • Dimitris Zagklis,
  • Eva Konstantinidou,
  • Constantina Zafiri and
  • Michael Kornaros

21 July 2020

Continuous human population growth has led to increased livestock production and hence large quantities of animal byproducts. One of the oldest and most efficient animal byproducts processing techniques is rendering, which facilitates the recovery of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,800 Views
16 Pages

Composition and Efficacy of a Natural Phytotherapeutic Blend against Nosemosis in Honey Bees

  • Romeo Teodor Cristina,
  • Zorana Kovačević,
  • Marko Cincović,
  • Eugenia Dumitrescu,
  • Florin Muselin,
  • Kalman Imre,
  • Dumitru Militaru,
  • Narcisa Mederle,
  • Isidora Radulov and
  • Nicoleta Hădărugă
  • + 1 author

21 July 2020

Honey bees are essential to sustaining ecosystems, contributing to the stability of biodiversity through pollination. Today, it is known that the failure of pollination leads irremediably to the loss of plant cultures and, as a consequence, inducing...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
4,428 Views
21 Pages

21 July 2020

Laboratories with sensitive instruments need a low-vibration environment. It is a challenge to control the train-induced vibration impact on these instruments when a newly planned metro line is adjacent to a laboratory building. An alternative method...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,431 Views
17 Pages

21 July 2020

The impacts of climate and the need to improve resilience to current and possible future climate are highlighted in the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 13. Vegetation in the Amur River Basin (ARB), lying in the middle and high latitudes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
68 Citations
10,130 Views
18 Pages

Sustainability in Higher Education: The Relationship between Work-Life Balance and XR E-Learning Facilities

  • Rocsana Bucea-Manea-Țoniş,
  • Radu Bucea-Manea-Țoniş,
  • Violeta Elena Simion,
  • Dragan Ilic,
  • Cezar Braicu and
  • Natalia Manea

21 July 2020

Nowadays, collaborative learning is proving to offer solutions to new inclusivity research challenges, and most importantly, can help ensure sustainable education. Collaborative learning can strengthen positive attitudes towards learning, improve per...

  • Review
  • Open Access
62 Citations
10,734 Views
23 Pages

A Review of the Measurement Method, Analysis and Implementation Policy of Carbon Dioxide Emission from Transportation

  • Nur Fatma Fadilah Yaacob,
  • Muhamad Razuhanafi Mat Yazid,
  • Khairul Nizam Abdul Maulud and
  • Noor Ezlin Ahmad Basri

21 July 2020

This paper presents a review of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from transportation in an attempt to establish a quick and suboptimal update of the methods used to calculate and analyze CO2 emissions from transportation. Transportation is the largest...

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