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Sustainability, Volume 13, Issue 12

June-2 2021 - 474 articles

Cover Story: Commercially available bio-based products are labelled as biodegradable, and, given the priorities in the waste management hierarchy, they should be collected with biowaste and biologically treated. For end-of-life scenarios, it is essential to provide as much information as possible to create a database on the biodegradability of these products and the timeframe for their biodegradation. To this end, a one-year mesophilic anaerobic degradation test of bio-based products was conducted. Despite their high content of organic matter, the bio-based materials produced only small amounts of biogas. The structure of the bio-based foils started to show damage, and individual cracks and fissures revealed that, after one year of the process, the foils were only in the initial phase of degradation. This information may be useful for assessing regulations for the management of bio-based materials. View this paper
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Articles (474)

  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,975 Views
31 Pages

Recent Advances in Carbon Dioxide Conversion: A Circular Bioeconomy Perspective

  • TsingHai Wang,
  • Cheng-Di Dong,
  • Jui-Yen Lin,
  • Chiu-Wen Chen,
  • Jo-Shu Chang,
  • Hyunook Kim,
  • Chin-Pao Huang and
  • Chang-Mao Hung

21 June 2021

Managing the concentration of atmospheric CO2 requires a multifaceted engineering strategy, which remains a highly challenging task. Reducing atmospheric CO2 (CO2R) by converting it to value-added chemicals in a carbon neutral footprint manner must b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,063 Views
16 Pages

21 June 2021

Using the signaling theory as a reference, this research conducts an in-depth analysis of the adoption of the benefit corporation model, a legal and governance framework introduced into Italian regulations in 2016 following legislation introduced by...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,171 Views
24 Pages

21 June 2021

The elements which determine a peripheral area’s level of tourist attractiveness, such as tourist infrastructure and tourist values, should be developed in urban–rural communes in peripheral areas, where tourism may be one of the forces capable of st...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,782 Views
31 Pages

21 June 2021

The environmental impact of greenhouse gas emissions from buildings—especially in global cities such as Toronto—is well documented. Green mitigation of new and existing buildings has also been researched. Few studies, however, have focused on the dec...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,174 Views
13 Pages

21 June 2021

Trees are resources that provide multiple benefits, such as the conservation of fauna, both terrestrial and marine, a source of food and raw material, and offering protection in storms, which makes it practical to understand their behavior against di...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,771 Views
25 Pages

A GIS Software Module for Environmental Impact Assessment of the Open Pit Mining Projects for Small Mining Operators in Kazakhstan

  • Mikhail Zarubin,
  • Larissa Statsenko,
  • Pavel Spiridonov,
  • Venera Zarubina,
  • Noune Melkoumian and
  • Olga Salykova

21 June 2021

This research article presents a software module for the environmental impact assessment (EIA) of open pit mines. The EIA software module has been developed based on the comprehensive examination of both country-specific (namely, Kazakhstan) and curr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
7,264 Views
25 Pages

21 June 2021

The competition in today’s market is increasingly intensive. Employees’ market orientation behavior (MOB) is crucial for a firm to respond to market changes and attain its business performance goal. Moreover, a firm must exercise the internal marketi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
7,685 Views
28 Pages

Expandable Houses: An Explorative Life Cycle Cost Analysis

  • Charlotte Cambier,
  • Waldo Galle and
  • Niels De Temmerman

21 June 2021

In addition to the environmental burden of its construction and demolition activities, the Flemish housing market faces a structural affordability challenge. As one possible answer, this research explores the potential of so-called expandable houses,...

  • Review
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,150 Views
21 Pages

21 June 2021

This research aimed to systematically review the development studies pertaining to forest biomass and bioenergy supply chain resilience (SCR). In this regard, a mixed procedure was implemented in order to explore and analyze the relevant publications...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,098 Views
16 Pages

University Students’ Emotions When Using E-Portfolios in Virtual Education Environments

  • Emilio Crisol Moya,
  • Vanesa Gámiz Sánchez and
  • María Asunción Romero López

21 June 2021

This paper is based on a study that aims to understand the emotions students feel when they use the e-portfolio to manage their learning and assessment. The sample was composed of 358 students, and the instrument used was an ad hoc questionnaire. The...

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