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Sustainability, Volume 12, Issue 19

October-1 2020 - 455 articles

Cover Story: Bioenergy supply chains are regionally embedded and need to be seen in a place-based context with specific characteristics and constraints. Using a German case study, the potential of regionally embedded bioenergy chains in the past and the future is analyzed and discussed in this paper. The analysis integrates socioecological data and applies sustainability criteria in a multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA). Objectives for future development according to the ambitions of the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the EU RED II discussion are set and include the involvement of the farmer as a biogas plant operator and other regional stakeholders. To conclude, sustainable enablers are discussed to realize optimization potentials and emphasize the integration of regional stakeholders in making use of alternative biomass and in making regional bioenergy more sustainable.View this paper
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Articles (455)

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
10,224 Views
14 Pages

8 October 2020

This study applies wavelet analysis to examine the relationship between the urbanization and the urban–rural income gap in 31 provinces in China over the period 1978–2019. We find three patterns of causality between urbanization and the u...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
7,389 Views
14 Pages

8 October 2020

Search and rescue (SAR) is often the focus during the post-disaster response phase. It is operated under the principle of the “golden 72 h”; however, the actual efficiency of each operation lacks a standard for review. On the basis of con...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,271 Views
14 Pages

Growth Performance of Jatropha curcas Cultivated on Local Abandoned Bauxite Mine Soil

  • Lim Mingyuan,
  • Abd Wahid Samsuri,
  • Mohd Yunus Shukor and
  • Lai Yee Phang

8 October 2020

Lack of regulation in bauxite mining has caused land contamination in Malaysia. Land rehabilitation requires plants with excellent adaptability to adverse conditions. Inedible, economical viable crops with environmental co-benefits, like phytoremedia...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,470 Views
16 Pages

Analysis of Psychometric Properties of the Quality and Satisfaction Questionnaire Focused on Sustainability in Higher Education

  • María del Carmen Olmos-Gómez,
  • Mónica Luque-Suárez,
  • Concetta Ferrara and
  • Jesús Manuel Cuevas-Rincón

8 October 2020

The aim of this research was to develop and validate a questionnaire to assess the quality of education, from a sustainability perspective, in higher education institutions of Naples (Italy), and determine whether differences exist between the groups...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,853 Views
30 Pages

Driving Forces of Changing Environmental Pressures from Consumption in the European Food System

  • Philipp Schepelmann,
  • An Vercalsteren,
  • José Acosta-Fernandez,
  • Mathieu Saurat,
  • Katrien Boonen,
  • Maarten Christis,
  • Giovanni Marin,
  • Roberto Zoboli and
  • Cathy Maguire

8 October 2020

The paper provides an integrated assessment of environmental and socio-economic effects arising from final consumption of food products by European households. Direct and indirect effects accumulated along the global supply chain are assessed by appl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,136 Views
18 Pages

8 October 2020

The United Nations 2030 agenda includes quality university education, highlighting the importance of writing competence, as a basic skill for the dissemination of sustainable knowledge. However, there is little evidence of the factors that predict ef...

  • Article
  • Open Access
69 Citations
11,821 Views
19 Pages

8 October 2020

The University Jaume I of Castellon (Spain) launched the “ImpSDGup” course in 2017. The aim of this training course on professional education for sustainable development (ESD) skills and competences for higher education teachers is to help academics...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,217 Views
16 Pages

On the Operational Flood Forecasting Practices Using Low-Quality Data Input of a Distributed Hydrological Model

  • Binquan Li,
  • Zhongmin Liang,
  • Qingrui Chang,
  • Wei Zhou,
  • Huan Wang,
  • Jun Wang and
  • Yiming Hu

8 October 2020

Low-quality input data (such as sparse rainfall gauges, low spatial resolution soil type and land use maps) have limited the application of physically-based distributed hydrological models in operational practices in many data-sparse regions. It is n...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
10,184 Views
28 Pages

8 October 2020

Entrepreneurship education has been popularly adopted in higher education contexts. Although evidence-based implementations of such education are widely acknowledged as beneficial, valid assessments of it are sparse. One possible outcome of entrepren...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,317 Views
12 Pages

8 October 2020

The aim of this article is to investigate how Swedish teachers manage the uncertainty and complexity associated with sustainable development (SD) as a field of knowledge, in relation to the requirements in the school curriculum. Underlying the whole...

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