Sustainability, Volume 15, Issue 11

This article intends to investigate the effects of using a mobile app on the vocabulary learning achievement and memory of Chinese tertiary EFL learners. 108 non-English majors took part in the study. Moreover, their perceptions of the app were inves...

With the rapid advancement of China’s power system reform, various provinces have progressively recognized distributed energy systems as autonomous market participants, and their operational paradigm has transitioned from centralized procuremen...

This paper examines two sustainability practices in complex and uncertain processes such as the case of the promotion of the underground built heritage (UBH). Convinced that the sustainability of a UBH valorisation project is only guaranteed by its s...

The GM(1,N) model, as a classical multivariate grey prediction model, can make a holistic and dynamic analysis of multiple factors and reflect the dynamic change relationship between the variable series and the related factor series. However, numerou...

One potential solution to enhance the nutritional value of food while addressing environmental concerns is to use bioactive extracts from agro-waste in the food industry. This study aimed to investigate the effects of replacing sucrose with powders m...

In the context of cultural heritage reuse, creative businesses can play the role of activators of sustainable transition processes in the built environment. The exercise of the functions by creative enterprises can improve actions of regeneration of...

The rise in the volume of e-commerce is adding increasing pressure on the logistics of parcel delivery. To improve the efficiency of their operations, the parcel industry in Japan is exploring team-based collection and delivery (TCD), whereby the sal...

There is a lack of technology innovation studies in the maritime sector focusing on developing countries. Generally, these countries present various limitations due to their own social, economic, and political contexts. Moreover, the lack of leadersh...

The ecological environment (EE) is an important factor affecting the sustainable development of the marine economy (ME): achieving coordinated development between the ME and EE remains a problem to be explored. From three perspectives—comprehen...

The Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) refers to a country’s climate action plan to limit greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and adapt to climate change hazards. Each country is obliged to submit its NDCs to the UNFCCC, adhering to a guidelin...