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Sustainability, Volume 16, Issue 1

January-1 2024 - 469 articles

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Cover Story: This paper explores building-integrated greenery (BIG) systems, including green roofs and facades, as eco-beneficial solutions. Despite benefits, adoption is slowed by high costs and economic barriers. A key challenge is the lack of standardized metrics to measure BIG's city-level impact, which is crucial for investors and policymakers. The paper addresses this by introducing comprehensive indicators from frameworks like CICES and the NBS impact evaluation handbook. These indicators contribute to establishing a 'sustainability factor' for the cost-benefit analysis of BIG projects using local data. A case study on a 3500 m2 green roof in Lleida, Spain, demonstrates that its benefits in urban horticulture, CO2 capture, and recreational areas significantly outweigh the costs, offering key insights for policy and investment decisions. View this paper

Articles (469)

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,633 Views
18 Pages

4 January 2024

The marine economy is a vital component of boosting the high-quality development of the Chinese economy. According to the concept of high-quality development, we construct the evaluation indicator system to measure the level of high-quality developme...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
4,291 Views
26 Pages

Analysis of Agricultural Carbon Emissions and Carbon Sinks in the Yellow River Basin Based on LMDI and Tapio Decoupling Models

  • Luhao Jia,
  • Mingya Wang,
  • Shili Yang,
  • Fan Zhang,
  • Yidong Wang,
  • Penghao Li,
  • Wanqi Ma,
  • Shaobo Sui,
  • Tong Liu and
  • Mingshi Wang

4 January 2024

In addition to creating economic value, crops also serve important ecological functions. Especially their carbon sink function, which plays a key role in mitigating climate change. In this study, the LMDI and the Tapio model were innovatively combine...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,857 Views
26 Pages

4 January 2024

While stakeholder-driven approaches have been increasingly used in scenario modeling, previous studies have mostly focused on the qualitative elements, e.g., narratives and policy documents, from the stakeholders, but lack engagement of stakeholders...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,506 Views
27 Pages

4 January 2024

The Chinese government launched the Energy-Consumption Permit Trading Scheme (ECPT) in 2016 as a pilot policy initiative to achieve energy conservation and emissions reduction goals. To generate a quasi-natural experiment, this study used a differenc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,730 Views
17 Pages

4 January 2024

The main purpose of this work is to indicate the effects of the implementation of the concept of sustainable production from the perspective of the employee’s well-being. The subject of the research was manufacturers operating in the agricultur...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,302 Views
21 Pages

4 January 2024

Faced with the challenges of increasing demand and expanding emissions, China’s mining industry is at a crucial stage of sustainable development. In the context of the new technological revolution and industrial transformation, researching how...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,599 Views
24 Pages

Modeling Tetracycline Adsorption onto Blast Furnace Slag Using Statistical and Machine Learning Approaches

  • Harsha S. Rangappa,
  • Phyu Phyu Mon,
  • Indika Herath,
  • Giridhar Madras,
  • Chuxia Lin and
  • Challapalli Subrahmanyam

4 January 2024

Ground granulated blast furnace slag (GGBS) is a primary industrial waste product of iron production, and its improper disposal has been a serious environmental problem. This study aims to modify the GGBS using oxalic acid (GGBS-Ox) for the adsorptio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,809 Views
22 Pages

Construction Practices of Green Mines in China

  • Kun Du,
  • Junjie Xie,
  • Wenqin Xi,
  • Liang Wang and
  • Jian Zhou

4 January 2024

To maintain high-level economic development, protect the ecological environment, and achieve carbon peaking and carbon neutrality goals, the construction of green mines has become a critical issue in China. In this study, the importance of mineral re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,060 Views
25 Pages

Energy Efficiency and Thermal Comfort Analysis in a Higher Education Building in Brazil

  • Elisabeti F. T. Barbosa,
  • Lucila C. Labaki,
  • Adriana P. A. S. Castro and
  • Felipe S. D. Lopes

4 January 2024

Thermal comfort is extremely important in architecture, especially in environments with more people spending longer time on studies or intellectual activities. This research describes a case study designed to investigate the energy and thermal perfor...

  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,562 Views
20 Pages

A Drivers Framework of Organizational SDG Engagement

  • Björn Mestdagh,
  • Luc Van Liedekerke and
  • Olivier Sempiga

4 January 2024

This paper constitutes a theoretical reflection on organizational engagement with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Despite the widespread adoption of such engagements, a precise definition and positioning of organizational SDG engagement are...

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