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Sustainability, Volume 15, Issue 10

2023 May-2 - 701 articles

Cover Story: This paper investigated the use of solar thermal energy systems in SPIRE and non-SPIRE industries and reported that existing solar systems are primarily applied to lower-irradiance regions due to the limited operating temperature range of the current collectors, which particularly affects the SPIRE sector. In order to increase the use of solar energy in these sectors, an innovative solar thermal system was developed by the EU-ASTEP project, with the capability of achieving a temperature of up to 400 °C. The calculated technical potential of the ASTEP system in EU industrial processes was shown to be 43.5 TWh for the SPIRE sector and 37.7 TWh for the non-SPIRE sector, which reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 10.8 and 9.4 MtCO2e. Consequently, the novel solar thermal system has the potential to help industries in reaching their net-zero GHG emission targets by 2050. View this paper
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Articles (701)

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,023 Views
20 Pages

22 May 2023

Green consumption behavior is the embodiment of pro-environmental behavior, which is of great value to curb carbon emissions. However, the existing research on the model construction and quantitative analysis of the psychological process of green con...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,275 Views
20 Pages

22 May 2023

Climate change is a major environmental issue facing humanity today, and the International Maritime Organization has accelerated the formulation of greenhouse gas emission policies. This study considers different carbon emission policies to construct...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Transportation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
7,564 Views
17 Pages

Assessment of Modular Construction System Made with Low Environmental Impact Construction Materials for Achieving Sustainable Housing Projects

  • Guisel Romero Quidel,
  • Matías Javier Soto Acuña,
  • Carlos Javier Rojas Herrera,
  • Karin Rodríguez Neira and
  • Juan Pablo Cárdenas-Ramírez

22 May 2023

The construction industry faces a significant challenge in addressing both the housing crisis and climate change. To mitigate this challenge, there has been a push toward the incorporation of industrialization in the construction process to improve p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,132 Views
15 Pages

22 May 2023

Will customers regret their loyalty to a hotel and look for alternatives if the hotel neglects to communicate with them? Empirical research on this question is limited in the hospitality literature. To accurately determine the direction of future cus...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,586 Views
29 Pages

22 May 2023

Feature creep captures the phenomenon that additional features result in product complexity and even decrease the usability of products. According to consumers’ heterogeneous tastes for products’ sophisticated features, we divide them int...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Adoption of Management Strategies and Technologies for Sustainable Production: A Solution to Reduce Environmental Emissions Volume II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,106 Views
12 Pages

22 May 2023

The purpose of this study was to propose and test a theoretical model that explored the relationship among perceived CSR, team identification, and satisfaction, along with behavioral intention in the context of the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) l...

  • Review
  • Open Access
34 Citations
5,650 Views
29 Pages

A Review of Load Frequency Control Schemes Deployed for Wind-Integrated Power Systems

  • Rafiq Asghar,
  • Francesco Riganti Fulginei,
  • Hamid Wadood and
  • Sarmad Saeed

22 May 2023

Load frequency control (LFC) has recently gained importance due to the increasing integration of wind energy in contemporary power systems. Hence, several power system models, control techniques, and controllers have been developed to improve the eff...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,131 Views
14 Pages

22 May 2023

Urban green space has increased significantly in many cities in China as a result of rapid urbanization. Despite various environmental and societal benefits of urban green space, its irrigation water use has become an important yet under-researched i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Water Resource Management and Agriculture Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,283 Views
20 Pages

Analysis of China–Angola Agricultural Cooperation and Strategies Based on SWOT Framework

  • Flavia Darcy Ferreira Cabral,
  • Changbin Yin,
  • Johan Landry Tchantchou Wague and
  • Yanshu Yin

22 May 2023

In the context of frequent food crises, Angola needs to improve the efficiency of agricultural production to meet the rigid domestic demand for food consumption. China has accumulated experience and technology in agricultural production over the year...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,922 Views
13 Pages

New Technique for Monitoring High Nature Value Farmland (HNVF) in Basilicata

  • Costanza Fiorentino,
  • Paola D’Antonio,
  • Francesco Toscano,
  • Angelo Donvito and
  • Felice Modugno

22 May 2023

The definition of High Nature Value Farmland Areas (HNVF) was provided by Andersen in 2003: “HNVF comprises those areas in Europe where agriculture is the major (usually the dominant) land use and where that agriculture supports or is associate...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Agriculture)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,086 Views
24 Pages

Modelling the Slovenian Wood Industry’s Response to the Greenhouse Gas Paris Agreement and the EU “Fit for 55” Green Transition Plan

  • Erwin M. Schau,
  • Igor Gavrić,
  • Iztok Šušteršič,
  • Eva Prelovšek Niemelä,
  • Balázs Dávid,
  • Jaka Gašper Pečnik,
  • David B. DeVallance and
  • Črtomir Tavzes

22 May 2023

Almost 200 nations, including the European Union, have signed the Paris Agreement that aims to limit the temperature rise to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels by reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. To meet this target, a significant decreas...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Life Cycle Thinking and Sustainability Assessment of Buildings)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,648 Views
19 Pages

22 May 2023

Cultural heritage is closely related to the economy. However, most studies focus on the relationship between the cultural heritage and tourism economy, instead of on the overall economy. This paper estimated the effect of the World Cultural Heritage(...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Role of Cultural Heritage in Promoting the Sustainable Development of Cities and Territories)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,529 Views
13 Pages

Effects of Content Characteristics and Improvement in User Satisfaction on the Reuse of Home Fitness Application

  • Moonju Nam,
  • Taegeon Song,
  • Dasran Kim,
  • Kukjin Jang,
  • Jinsick Kim,
  • Byeongsoo Koo,
  • Jooyeoun Lee and
  • Myoungsug Chung

22 May 2023

As the global fitness industry rapidly digitalizes, home fitness applications have emerged as a convenient solution for people to exercise anytime, anywhere. This study investigated the mediation effect of exercise satisfaction on the relationship be...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,659 Views
29 Pages

22 May 2023

The Level of Detail (LoD), a parameter used to define the information contained in building models, is an important factor to consider in modeling building energy at the urban scale. In this research, we conducted a parametric study regarding the dat...

(This article belongs to the Section Green Building)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,322 Views
15 Pages

The Impact of Inter-Basin Water Transfer Schemes on Hydropower Generation in the Upper Reaches of the Yangtze River during Extreme Drought Years

  • Fan Wen,
  • Mingxiang Yang,
  • Wenhai Guan,
  • Jixue Cao,
  • Yibo Zou,
  • Xuan Liu,
  • Hejia Wang and
  • Ningpeng Dong

22 May 2023

The Yangtze River Basin experiences frequent extreme heatwaves and prolonged droughts, resulting in a tight supply demand balance of electricity and negatively impacting socioeconomic production. Meanwhile, ongoing inter-basin water diversion project...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Planning, Management and Utilization of Water Resources)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,050 Views
18 Pages

Data-Driven Analysis and Evaluation of Regional Resources and the Environmental Carrying Capacity

  • Aiyong Lin,
  • Yujia Liu,
  • Shuling Zhou,
  • Yajie Zhang,
  • Cui Wang and
  • Heping Ding

22 May 2023

The resources and environmental carrying capacity (RECC) of a region are considered the key and the foundation for achieving sustainable development and the benchmark of environmental protection and pollution control. However, to improve the regional...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Sustainability and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,289 Views
17 Pages

22 May 2023

Many studies have proven that campus green space has healing effects, but there are few evaluation studies on the healing effects of a small-scale courtyard landscape on a high-density campus. This research comprehensively employs the method of seman...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Health, Wellbeing and Environmental Benefits of Contact with Nature)
  • Review
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,726 Views
18 Pages

A Critical Review of Studies on Coopetition in Educational Settings

  • Minwei Chen,
  • Cixian Lv,
  • Xinghua Wang,
  • Linlin Li and
  • Peijin Yang

22 May 2023

The benefits and limitations of utilizing collaborative and competitive activities within and between groups to facilitate learning are well known. Typically, these two concepts are viewed as mutually exclusive approaches, where one is favored over t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Education in Higher Education: Reflective and Cooperative Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,108 Views
13 Pages

22 May 2023

Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) plays an important role in e-health, sports training, and entertainment to monitor human bodies wirelessly and remotely. One critical challenge for WBAN is to guarantee the quality of user experience and improve the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Network Management for Sustainable Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,172 Views
16 Pages

22 May 2023

With the increase in the seriousness of environmental issues and investors’ increasing concern for corporate environmental performance, more and more scholars are paying attention to the impact of executive diversification on corporate investme...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,433 Views
16 Pages

22 May 2023

The existence of benefit distribution unfairness may lead to problems such as resettlement conflicts, which have become the bottleneck of sustainable development of water resources in many countries. Exploring and establishing equitable benefit shari...

(This article belongs to the Section Health, Well-Being and Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,413 Views
13 Pages

Occurrence and Assessment of Organic Pollutants Residues in the Aquatic Environment of the Coastal Sediments

  • Sadeq Abdullah Abdo Alkhadher,
  • Suhaimi Suratman and
  • Mohamad Pauzi Zakaria

22 May 2023

The current study aimed to monitor organic pollution on island and coastal environments using linear alkylbenzene (LAB). The aquatic environment is affected by the hazardous chemicals discharged through domestic and industrial waste. The distribution...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in the Sustainable Reuse of Sediments in Crop Production: Agronomic, Environmental, and Legal Issues)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,422 Views
17 Pages

22 May 2023

Accelerating industrial upgrading is essential for sustainable development. This paper aims to study how financial development affects industrial transformation and upgrading. First, the financial development index (fin) and the industrial upgrading...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Manufacturing Sustainability in the Industry 4.0 Era)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,604 Views
17 Pages

22 May 2023

Along with global climate change and industrialization, domino effects caused by Natech events occurred frequently in chemical industrial parks over the past decades. Previous research has not yet proposed a reliable method to obtain all possible pat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Urban Safety and Security Assessment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,565 Views
18 Pages

Hazardous Elements in Sediments Detected in Former Decommissioned Coal Mining Areas in Colombia: A Need for Environmental Recovery

  • Marcos L. S. Oliveira,
  • Gabriela Oliveira Valença,
  • Diana Pinto,
  • Leila Dal Moro,
  • Brian William Bodah,
  • Giana de Vargas Mores,
  • Julian Grub,
  • Bashir Adelodun and
  • Alcindo Neckel

22 May 2023

This study demonstrates an investigation into nanomineralogical and geochemical evolution for the detection of hazardous elements from old, abandoned coal mining deposits capable of causing negative environmental impacts. The general objective of thi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nanomineral and Their Importance on the Earth and Human Health: A Real Impact)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
7,081 Views
16 Pages

An Integrated Model to Improve Job Satisfaction: A Case for a Sustainable Construction Industry

  • Qasim Hussain Khahro,
  • Noor Yasmin Zainun,
  • Shabir Hussain Khahro and
  • Basel Sultan

21 May 2023

In the last few years, the fields of management, social psychology, and business operations have all paid a large amount of attention to the academic idea of job satisfaction. This paper looks at more than a decade of research into what makes people...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Management of Transportation Infrastructure Projects)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
7,273 Views
17 Pages

21 May 2023

Damage to adobe constructions might occur due to a long wall and a lack of effective restraint in the middle of the wall, causing it to collapse under an earthquake. Aiming at these problems, a technology for improving the seismic performance of a mo...

(This article belongs to the Section Green Building)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,393 Views
20 Pages

Energy and Exergy Analyses of a PWR-Type Nuclear Power Plant Coupled with an ME-TVC-MED Desalination System

  • Zakaria Triki,
  • Rabah Menasri,
  • Mohamed Najib Bouaziz,
  • Hichem Tahraoui,
  • Mohammed Kebir,
  • Abdeltif Amrane,
  • Jie Zhang and
  • Lotfi Mouni

21 May 2023

Electricity–water cogeneration power plants are an important tool for advancing sustainable water treatment technologies because they provide a cost-effective and environmentally friendly solution for meeting the energy and water needs of commu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Advanced Water Treatment Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
7,998 Views
24 Pages

A New Decision Framework for Hybrid Solar and Wind Power Plant Site Selection Using Linear Regression Modeling Based on GIS-AHP

  • Meysam Asadi,
  • Kazem Pourhossein,
  • Younes Noorollahi,
  • Mousa Marzband and
  • Gregorio Iglesias

21 May 2023

Currently, worldwide attention to clean energy and sustainable energy has been expedited because of its many environmental benefits. In fact, wind and solar energies play a prime role in decarbonizing the energy market. However, finding the most suit...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Energy Economics and Environmental Policy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,957 Views
18 Pages

21 May 2023

The large-scale implementation of municipal solid waste incineration (MSWI) has put great pressure on waste management and environmental protection. Road construction engineering has also been confronted with the challenges of the heavy consumption o...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Materials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
6,078 Views
26 Pages

21 May 2023

Disaster is a general term for events that result in physical, economic, and social losses for people and occur when insufficient resources exist. Natural disasters, particularly earthquakes, are frequent occurrences worldwide. Although plans are mad...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,561 Views
19 Pages

21 May 2023

By drawing on ecosystem and innovation-driven development theories, the aim of this paper is to increase our understanding of their application to think tanks. The composition, structure, and features of the knowledge service ecosystem of think tanks...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Knowledge Management and Business Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
104 Citations
11,577 Views
17 Pages

AI- and IoT-Assisted Sustainable Education Systems during Pandemics, such as COVID-19, for Smart Cities

  • M. M. Kamruzzaman,
  • Saad Alanazi,
  • Madallah Alruwaili,
  • Nasser Alshammari,
  • Said Elaiwat,
  • Marwan Abu-Zanona,
  • Nisreen Innab,
  • Bassam Mohammad Elzaghmouri and
  • Bandar Ahmed Alanazi

21 May 2023

The integration of AI and the IoT in education has the potential to revolutionize the way we learn. Personalized learning, real-time feedback and support, and immersive learning experiences are some of the benefits that AI and the IoT can bring to th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT) for Sustainable Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,660 Views
27 Pages

21 May 2023

Xizi Pagoda, or the pagoda for cherishing writing paper, is part of China’s architectural heritage in culture, education, and rites. It symbolizes respect for books and ceremonies, aspirations for virtue and ideals, and hope for literati cultiv...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainability in Conservation of Cultural Heritage: An Open Challenge)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,510 Views
14 Pages

21 May 2023

Partition piles are widely used in tunnel displacement control under excavation. However, the control effect of partition piles has not been systematically studied, and the centrifuge model test is lacking. In view of this situation, the centrifuge m...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Transportation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,567 Views
16 Pages

The Impacts of China’s Resident Tourism Subsidy Policy on the Economy and Air Pollution Emissions

  • Leyi Zheng,
  • Junfeng Liu,
  • Qiong Yang,
  • Yuqing Wang,
  • Ying Liu,
  • Xiurong Hu,
  • Jianying Hu,
  • Yi Wan,
  • Xuejun Wang and
  • Shu Tao
  • + 2 authors

21 May 2023

Currently, tourism is an important contributor to the Chinese economy. The Chinese government issued Several Opinions of the State Council on Promoting the Reform and Development of Tourism and Several Opinions of the General Office of the State Coun...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
7,750 Views
20 Pages

21 May 2023

Academic institutions play a crucial role in knowledge production and driving innovation and economic growth. To enhance their capacity to deliver on these responsibilities, they are increasingly urged to establish academic–industry collaborati...

(This article belongs to the Section Social Ecology and Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
95 Citations
7,812 Views
21 Pages

21 May 2023

Ensuring a reliable and uninterrupted supply of electricity is crucial for sustaining modern and advanced societies. Traditionally, power systems analysis was mostly dependent on formal commercial software, mathematical models produced via a mix of d...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,840 Views
15 Pages

21 May 2023

This study explores the effects of four types of visitor experiences on experience value and satisfaction. Farmer’s markets indirectly have an educational function through disseminating food and agricultural knowledge. They significantly shorte...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Tourist Satisfaction, Sustainability, and Sustainable Tourism Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,686 Views
12 Pages

21 May 2023

The present study investigated the factors that affect the post-educational agricultural sector entrepreneurship of Somali university students studying agriculture in Turkey. The study data were obtained via an online survey from 77 Somali students c...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,316 Views
26 Pages

21 May 2023

Despite the growing urgency to curb carbon emissions worldwide, the healthcare industry, particularly the pharmaceutical industry, has received little attention from the sustainability community in terms of its contribution to the global carbon footp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,825 Views
19 Pages

Development of Hybrid Systems by Integrating an Adsorption Process with Natural Zeolite and/or Palygorskite into the Electrocoagulation Treatment of Sanitary Landfill Leachate

  • Christiana Genethliou,
  • Irene-Eva Triantaphyllidou,
  • Dimitrios Chatzitheodorou,
  • Athanasia G. Tekerlekopoulou and
  • Dimitris V. Vayenas

21 May 2023

The effectiveness of a hybrid approach comprising electrocoagulation (EC) and adsorption (AD) (using natural zeolite and/or palygorskite) processes to treat raw sanitary landfill leachate (SLL) was investigated in terms of color, dissolved chemical o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of Biotechnology in Waste Treatment and Valorization for Energy Recovery)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,541 Views
13 Pages

Study on a Stomatal Conductance Model of Grape Leaves in Extremely Arid Areas

  • Ruifeng Sun,
  • Juanjuan Ma,
  • Xihuan Sun,
  • Shijian Bai,
  • Lijian Zheng and
  • Jiachang Guo

21 May 2023

Stomata are essential for regulating the exchange of water and energy between plants and the atmosphere. In the context of climate warming, especially in extremely arid regions, the knowledge of stomatal conductance variation patterns is fundamental...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Sustainability and Applications)
  • Review
  • Open Access
33 Citations
7,130 Views
21 Pages

Potentials of Biomass Waste Valorization: Case of South America

  • Sofía Sampaolesi,
  • Laura Estefanía Briand,
  • Mario Carlos Nazareno Saparrat and
  • María Victoria Toledo

21 May 2023

Various surveys carried out by the government and scientific projects on the availability of direct and indirect waste biomass in South America have reported that Brazil and Colombia produce 97% of the total waste biomass in the region, directly obta...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recycling Biomass for Agriculture and Bioenergy Production)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,677 Views
20 Pages

20 May 2023

The harmonious development of human settlement environments (HSEs) and resident demands (RD) contributes to the sustainable development of areas. However, few studies have focused on development-level evaluations and analyses of coupling coordination...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Urban and Rural Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
53 Citations
10,698 Views
32 Pages

20 May 2023

Education for sustainable development (ESD) is a growing research field, particularly over the last decade. Measuring the level of ESD that is currently embedded in curricula is useful for planning the further implementation of sustainability-related...

(This article belongs to the Section Development Goals towards Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,194 Views
19 Pages

A Study of Vulnerable Road Users’ Behaviors Using Schema Theory and the Perceptual Cycle Model

  • Zhengrong Liu,
  • Jianping Wu,
  • Adnan Yousaf,
  • Rich C. McIlroy,
  • Linyang Wang,
  • Mingyu Liu,
  • Katherine L. Plant and
  • Neville A. Stanton

20 May 2023

China is currently in a rapid urbanization phase, and road traffic accidents occur frequently, with vulnerable road users often being easily injured. Traditional road traffic safety research often focuses on environmental and structural safety issues...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,528 Views
21 Pages

20 May 2023

Background: People invest hours of their working day to pay for their vehicle. Is this a worthwhile use of their time? Wouldn’t public transport be a more economical solution for those on low income? Which demographic group typically chooses th...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Transportation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,401 Views
20 Pages

20 May 2023

During the last decade, DC microgrids have been extensively researched due to their simple structure compared to AC microgrids and increased penetration of DC loads in modern power networks. The DC microgrids consist of three main components, that is...

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