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Sustainability, Volume 16, Issue 3

February-1 2024 - 409 articles

Cover Story: Several decades after the 1992 Rio Conference, economic growth persists at the expense of nature. This is attributed to the economic system's failure to conserve the natural capital on which it relies, leading to a decoupling between economic and natural systems. While our society is complex, common factors diminish or enhance sustainability depending on particular conditions: financial entities and monetary debt, speculation, technology, long-term views, tipping point management, and top-down and bottom-up conservation forces. Our research shows that the current economic system is not inherently unsustainable. Short-term sustainability can be achieved by shifting capitalist forces to support nature. Long-term success, in contrast, demands a more profound paradigm shift: integrating and accounting for nature in the economy. View this paper
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Articles (409)

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,050 Views
19 Pages

5 February 2024

In this study, the biomass expansion factor (BEF) method was combined with the tree growth function in order to obtain a more accurate growth function of tree species through the fitting of different growth functions to tree growth, and to determine...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,362 Views
14 Pages

5 February 2024

Global warming may have a complex effect on soil carbon mineralization across mountain elevations. Elevational zonation governs the soil natural composition of mountain ecosystems due to different temperature conditions. Understanding the response of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,719 Views
23 Pages

A Novel Cloud-Based IoT Framework for Secure Health Monitoring

  • Sahar Ebadinezhad and
  • Temitope Emmanuel Mobolade

5 February 2024

The growing use of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies in a variety of sectors, including healthcare, has opened up new possibilities for gathering and analyzing patient data. In some cases, the elderly are exposed to significant risk and even mort...

  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,823 Views
25 Pages

5 February 2024

After joining the globalization initiative, countries from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have experienced an exponential growth in carbon emissions. The high carbon lock-in of the energy consumption structure and lagged energy in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
6,629 Views
26 Pages

Floating PV Systems as an Alternative Power Source: Case Study on Three Representative Islands of Indonesia

  • Ignacio Esparza,
  • Ángela Olábarri Candela,
  • Luofeng Huang,
  • Yifeng Yang,
  • Chayun Budiono,
  • Soegeng Riyadi,
  • Wolter Hetharia,
  • Ridho Hantoro,
  • Dony Setyawan and
  • I. K. A. P. Utama
  • + 2 authors

5 February 2024

Floating solar renewable energy is of enormous potential in Indonesia. This paper presents a comprehensive study of the design of Floating Photovoltaic (FPV) systems with Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) for three islands in Indonesia. These isl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
69 Citations
22,011 Views
25 Pages

Artificial Intelligence Bringing Improvements to Adaptive Learning in Education: A Case Study

  • Claudio Giovanni Demartini,
  • Luciano Sciascia,
  • Andrea Bosso and
  • Federico Manuri

5 February 2024

Despite promising outcomes in higher education, the widespread adoption of learning analytics remains elusive in various educational settings, with primary and secondary schools displaying considerable reluctance to embrace these tools. This hesitanc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
9,159 Views
13 Pages

The Analysis and AI Simulation of Passenger Flows in an Airport Terminal: A Decision-Making Tool

  • Afroditi Anagnostopoulou,
  • Dimitrios Tolikas,
  • Evangelos Spyrou,
  • Attila Akac and
  • Vassilios Kappatos

5 February 2024

In this paper, a decision-making tool is proposed that can utilize different strategies to deal with passenger flows in airport terminals. A simulation model has been developed to investigate these strategies, which can be updated and modified based...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,714 Views
17 Pages

5 February 2024

The red beds that are widely distributed in hilly areas in eastern Sichuan Province are inevitable rock and soil masses in engineering construction. In order to obtain a larger building area, engineering slope cutting is quite common in red bed hilly...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,933 Views
12 Pages

5 February 2024

The health care sector exists to support and promote human wellbeing; however, its operations contribute to environmental degradation undermining nature’s capacity to support the same wellbeing. Biodiversity loss, in particular, creates threats...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,285 Views
24 Pages

5 February 2024

Internal branding has been regarded as important for internalizing an organization’s values and visions to its employees and managing human resources since before the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite changes in the working environment after the pande...

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