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Sustainability, Volume 12, Issue 4

February-2 2020 - 417 articles

Cover Story: Energy is certainly one of the greatest challenges of sustainability. Universities, as education and research centres, are major consumers of energy. They must therefore be an example for the sustainability of energy. This study aims to make a benchmark analysis of energy use in universities, and especially in those with a Mediterranean climate. The campus of the University of Almeria was used as a case study, and a total of 33 buildings with different uses were analysed over 8 years. The categories in which the buildings were classified were: Administration Office, Teaching and Seminary Room, Research Building, Library Building, Sports Facilities, and Restaurant Buildings. The information analysed will allow the realisation of good energy practices in the future. This study opens up new perspectives in energy sustainability in a global context and for universities in particular, giving an example to society. View this paper
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Articles (417)

  • Article
  • Open Access
53 Citations
14,572 Views
28 Pages

24 February 2020

Despite the relevance of human resources in the management of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), confusion and theoretical chaos are still evident in the area. This manuscript provides a systematic review of the link between CSR and Human Resourc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
151 Citations
33,908 Views
15 Pages

Green Brand of Companies and Greenwashing under Sustainable Development Goals

  • Tetyana Pimonenko,
  • Yuriy Bilan,
  • Jakub Horák,
  • Liudmyla Starchenko and
  • Waldemar Gajda

24 February 2020

Implementing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and increasing environmental issues provokes changes in consumers’ and stakeholders’ behavior. Thus, stakeholders try to invest in green companies and projects; consumers prefer to buy eco...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,678 Views
15 Pages

24 February 2020

This study investigates the monitoring effectiveness of the largest institutional blockholder in Korea, the Korean National Pension Service (KNPS), on firms’ engagement in corporate social responsibility (CSR). We use a large, unique sample fro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
6,277 Views
25 Pages

An Action Research for Improving the Sustainability Assessment Framework Instruments

  • Nelly Condori-Fernandez,
  • Patricia Lago,
  • Miguel R. Luaces and
  • Ángeles S. Places

24 February 2020

In the last years, software engineering researchers have defined sustainability as a quality requirement of software, but not enough effort has been devoted to develop new methods/techniques to support the analysis and assessment of software sustaina...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,708 Views
12 Pages

24 February 2020

The purpose of our article is to assess the effect of diverse factors, such as economic, demographic, and institutional factors, on global and social fiscal pressure. The study is based on a panel analysis of 38 states during 2000–2017. We used...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,243 Views
18 Pages

24 February 2020

Straw retention is a widely used method in rice planting areas throughout China. However, the combined influences of straw retention and nitrogen (N) fertilizer application on greenhouse gas (GHG) fluxes from paddy fields merits significant attention...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,290 Views
14 Pages

24 February 2020

Previous research on bank deregulation has supported the idea that interstate banking deregulation lowered the cost of credit and increased the net farm income. This analysis builds on that base by investigating whether the agricultural loan delinque...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
4,795 Views
23 Pages

24 February 2020

This paper integrates the Internet service platform with big-data marketing into the dynamic closed-loop supply chain system as an independent game subject. Considering the reference price effect of consumers, this work constructs differential games...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
6,180 Views
20 Pages

Environmental and Economic Water Management in Shale Gas Extraction

  • José A. Caballero,
  • Juan A. Labarta,
  • Natalia Quirante,
  • Alba Carrero-Parreño and
  • Ignacio E. Grossmann

24 February 2020

This paper introduces a comprehensive study of the Life Cycle Impact Assessment (LCIA) of water management in shale gas exploitation. First, we present a comprehensive study of wastewater treatment in the shale gas extraction, including the most comm...

  • Article
  • Open Access
94 Citations
16,837 Views
23 Pages

24 February 2020

Green supply chain management (GSCM) can be defined as the integration of environmental concerns into the inter-organizational practices of supply chain management (SCM). This paper analyzes the role of seaports in the greening of supply chains in tw...

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