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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)

  • Review
  • Open Access
207 Citations
31,530 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
14,572 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
7,474 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
4,704 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
8,702 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
11,970 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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
192 Citations
23,979 Views
20 Pages

24 April 2020

The globalization of the food supply chain industry has significantly emerged today. Due to this, farm-to-fork food safety and quality certification have become very important. Increasing threats to food security and contamination have led to the eno...

  • Review
  • Open Access
40 Citations
6,607 Views
16 Pages

24 April 2020

Numerical model as a simulation tool was used to describe the pollutants transformation and degradation process in constructed wetlands (CWs). It can help provide insight into the “black box” and increase the understanding of the complex...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
6,283 Views
14 Pages

24 April 2020

The main aim of this paper is to evaluate if manufacturing firms can boost their performance through green innovations. The literature on this topic shows contradictory findings. We have concentrated on the effect of advanced manufacturing technologi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
54 Citations
6,485 Views
19 Pages

Multi-Depot Green Vehicle Routing Problem to Minimize Carbon Emissions

  • Weiheng Zhang,
  • Yuvraj Gajpal,
  • Srimantoorao. S. Appadoo and
  • Qi Wei

24 April 2020

A Multi-Depot Green Vehicle Routing Problem (MDGVRP) is considered in this paper. In MDGVRP, Alternative Fuel-powered Vehicles (AFVs) start from different depots, serve customers, and, at the end, return to the original depots. The limited fuel tank...

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