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Sustainability, Volume 12, Issue 5

March-1 2020 - 454 articles

Cover Story: Circular Economy is nowadays recognized as a way to implement and achieve sustainability, mainly due to its contribution to the separation of biological and technical nutrients according to their metabolism. The incorporation of its principles into business leads to the creation of the Circular Business Model, where the business is a link in the value chain that tries to ensure circularity and mitigate the metabolic rift derived from the relationship between natural and social capital. This paper pursues a triple aim. Firstly, the use of Activity Theory as a framework for Circular Business. Secondly, the use of the holonic paradigm to manage complexity and allow dynamic relationships and contextualization aspects in the new Circular Business Models for different levels. Finally, a multilevel and multiscale Eco-Holonic Architecture for circular business is proposed from the perspective of Industry 4.0. View this paper
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Articles (454)

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,357 Views
18 Pages

9 March 2020

The present article aims to analyze the representations and the role of symbolic forms of mythical-religious thought in the mediatization of sustainability. A main corpus of items, composed of the media information and news offer covered by the mains...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,728 Views
23 Pages

Sustainable Thermal Energy Generation at Universities by Using Loquat Seeds as Biofuel

  • Miguel-Angel Perea-Moreno,
  • Francisco Manzano-Agugliaro,
  • Quetzalcoatl Hernandez-Escobedo and
  • Alberto-Jesus Perea-Moreno

9 March 2020

Global energy consumption has increased the emission of greenhouse gases (GHG), these being the main cause of global warming. Within renewable energies, bioenergy has undergone a great development in recent years. This is due to its carbon neutral ba...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
6,624 Views
13 Pages

Sustainable Banking: New Forms of Investing under the Umbrella of the 2030 Agenda

  • Mariano Méndez-Suárez,
  • Abel Monfort and
  • Fernando Gallardo

9 March 2020

(1) Social Impact Bonds (SIBs) foster the relationships between public and private sectors while adding value to new forms of investment that are closely linked to Socially Responsible Investments (SRIs). In this context, Sustainable Developments Goa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,624 Views
19 Pages

9 March 2020

Landslides are among the most severe natural hazards with significant impacts in human life and infrastructure. The Three Gorges Reservoir Area (TGRA) is vulnerable to landslides because of the geological environment and human activities. A centrifug...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,862 Views
17 Pages

9 March 2020

The adoption of solar energy is lagging behind in urban areas worldwide. Although the literature on energy transition is abundant, it has been focused mostly at the systems level. Few studies have addressed on-the-ground implementation. This paper ex...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,039 Views
17 Pages

Estimating Ecosystem Respiration in the Grasslands of Northern China Using Machine Learning: Model Evaluation and Comparison

  • Xiaobo Zhu,
  • Honglin He,
  • Mingguo Ma,
  • Xiaoli Ren,
  • Li Zhang,
  • Fawei Zhang,
  • Yingnian Li,
  • Peili Shi,
  • Shiping Chen and
  • Yanfen Wang
  • + 12 authors

9 March 2020

While a number of machine learning (ML) models have been used to estimate RE, systematic evaluation and comparison of these models are still limited. In this study, we developed three traditional ML models and a deep learning (DL) model, stacked auto...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,852 Views
14 Pages

9 March 2020

Adopting effective flood mitigation practices for repetitive flood events in the United States continues to play a prominent role in preventing future damage and fostering resilience to residential flooding. Two common mitigation practices for reduci...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
7,866 Views
22 Pages

9 March 2020

Gender equality is one of the Sustainable Development Goals. Management is one of the jobs that more clearly needs a gender perspective. Women leaders have found a way around the labyrinth to get to the top, which might have developed their personal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,023 Views
14 Pages

9 March 2020

In higher education, university students need to be equipped with the necessary knowledge and skills for their future workplace. Companies provide opportunities for students to participate as trainee consultants in innovation-related projects as a fo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,480 Views
21 Pages

9 March 2020

As one of the most important grain protection policies in China, the minimum purchase price policy prevents the fluctuation of grain output and protects the interests of farmers by regulating the prices of major grain varieties. For developing countr...

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