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Sustainability, Volume 12, Issue 8

April-2 2020 - 434 articles

Cover Story: Sustainability in viticulture requires deeper knowledge of the issues related to soil management in response to provided vineyard ecosystem services. The paper reports the effects of alternate inter-row cover cropping (CC), with Vicia faba, on soil organic carbon (SOC), nitrate, and microbial diversity in a vineyard in a semiarid region in Southern Europe. Surprisingly, 8 years of CC management, compared with conventional tillage (CT), had no relevant effect on SOC, although it almost doubled soil biomass and increased nitrate content. CC and CT have an opposite influence on fungal and bacterial diversity, although low beta diversity was observed. Results highlight that the current CC management in semiarid vineyards does not maximize the ecosystem services. Developing a proper management protocol for vulnerable vineyard soils is strongly required to achieve land degradation neutrality. View this paper
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Articles (434)

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
3,878 Views
6 Pages

24 April 2020

The color of French fries is an organoleptic attribute indicative of this product quality and also a reliable indicator of its safety. The darker the product color, the higher its acrylamide concentration. Acrylamide is an organic compound of the ami...

  • Article
  • Open Access
103 Citations
10,261 Views
13 Pages

Implementation of E-Proctoring in Online Teaching: A Study about Motivational Factors

  • Carina S. González-González,
  • Alfonso Infante-Moro and
  • Juan C. Infante-Moro

24 April 2020

Most online teaching institutions still do not offer complete remote teaching, requiring the physical presence of the student in the evaluation process (for supervisory reasons), which could aggravate the evaluation and certification in massive open...

  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,956 Views
16 Pages

More or Less Sustainable? Assessment from a Policy Perspective

  • Biljana Petrevska,
  • Aleksandra Terzić and
  • Cvetko Andreeski

24 April 2020

Sustainability of tourism destinations has become the main focus in planning and managing tourism development. Despite existing legislation and an institutional framework to safeguard balanced tourism growth, many destinations fail to properly addres...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,588 Views
20 Pages

24 April 2020

To restore water pipes damaged by earthquakes, it is common to block the water flow by closing the associated shut-off valves. In this process, water supply suspension in the area connected to the isolated pipes is inevitable, which decreases the ser...

  • Review
  • Open Access
207 Citations
31,518 Views
30 Pages

A Review of Indigenous Food Crops in Africa and the Implications for more Sustainable and Healthy Food Systems

  • Racheal Akinola,
  • Laura Maureen Pereira,
  • Tafadzwanashe Mabhaudhi,
  • Francia-Marié de Bruin and
  • Loubie Rusch

24 April 2020

Indigenous and traditional foods crops (ITFCs) have multiple uses within society, and most notably have an important role to play in the attempt to diversify the food in order to enhance food and nutrition security. However, research suggests that th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
140 Citations
14,567 Views
18 Pages

24 April 2020

This research investigates the extent to which the voluntary disclosure of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), assumed to be the most recent innovation in social disclosures and corporate sustainability reporting, is diffused among Italian listed c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
7,471 Views
13 Pages

Soil Quality and Its Potential Indicators under Different Land Use Systems in the Shivaliks of Indian Punjab

  • Bharat Bhushan Vashisht,
  • Bijesh Maharjan,
  • Sandeep Sharma and
  • Samanpreet Kaur

24 April 2020

The present study assessed the overall state of the soil based on the most sensitive soil attributes under different land uses—i.e., rainfed agriculture, mixed forest, afforestation and non-arable lands—in the lower Shivaliks of Indian Pu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
58 Citations
4,703 Views
17 Pages

24 April 2020

Maintaining optimal ecological security is a serious issue in the Chinese Loess Plateau (CLP). Remote sensing ecological indexes (RSEI) of three main tableland regions of the CLP were calculated based on spectral information provided by remote sensin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
8,698 Views
19 Pages

24 April 2020

There has been an emerging interest in the study of urban design dimensions associated with Transit-Oriented Developments (TODs). However, addressing the question of how TOD principles laid out in the international literature can be explored in the c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
62 Citations
11,966 Views
16 Pages

24 April 2020

As one of the internationally recognized solutions to environmental problems, electric vehicles feature zero direct emissions and can reduce dependence on petroleum. An increasing number of countries have attached importance to the electric vehicle a...

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