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Sustainability, Volume 6, Issue 5

May 2014 - 38 articles

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Articles (38)

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,470 Views
17 Pages

Local Sustainability and Cooperation Actions in the Mediterranean Region

  • Tiberio Daddi,
  • Stefano Vaglio and
  • Massimo Battaglia

14 May 2014

The populations of the Middle East and Africa are increasing rapidly, contributing to rapid urban growth. This paper describes a two-year action research process involving diverse public, private, and community stakeholders. The actions aimed to deve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
8,192 Views
15 Pages

14 May 2014

In the formulation of hedonic models, in addition to locational factors and building structures which affect the house prices, the generation of the omitted variable bias is thought to occur in cases when local environmental variables and the individ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
8,195 Views
20 Pages

13 May 2014

New Urbanist development in the U.S. aims at enhancing a sense of community and seeks to return to the design of early transitional neighborhoods which have pedestrian-oriented environments with retail shops and services within walking distances of h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
7,768 Views
16 Pages

13 May 2014

Overheating, glare, and high-energy demand are recurrent problems in office buildings in Santiago, Chile (33°27'S; 70°42'W) during cooling periods. Santiago climate is warm and dry, with high solar radiation and temperature during most of the year. T...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
10,935 Views
20 Pages

13 May 2014

Hypes about wonder crops raise critical questions about the actors and mechanisms that link optimistic narratives about the crops’ potentials to actual production in the field. Jatropha curcas has been such a wonder crop, with a wide discrepancy betw...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
16 Citations
8,051 Views
10 Pages

13 May 2014

The transformation of the present energy system into a sustainable one is discussed worldwide. This is also mirrored in a vivid debate in the scientific literature [1–3]. Self-sufficiency attained with the help of electricity, heat, and fuel from re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
13,648 Views
44 Pages

13 May 2014

Under third-party power intervention (TPPI), which increases uncertainty in task environments, complex channel power interplays and restructuring are indispensable among green supply chain members as they move toward sustainable collaborative relati...

  • Review
  • Open Access
32 Citations
13,171 Views
17 Pages

Wastewater Recycling in Greece: The Case of Thessaloniki

  • Andreas Ilias,
  • Athanasios Panoras and
  • Andreas Angelakis

13 May 2014

In Greece, and particularly in many southeastern and island areas, there is severe pressure on water resources, further exacerbated by the high demand of water for tourism and irrigation in summertime. The integration of treated wastewater into water...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,904 Views
11 Pages

12 May 2014

Institutional change for sustainable development does not happen by itself. Individuals and organizations function as actors to influence development processes. Reference is made to a “political economic person” (PEP) guided by her/his “ideological o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
9,739 Views
33 Pages

8 May 2014

Emerging sustainability challenges, such as food security, livelihood development and climate change, require innovative and experimental ways of linking science, policy and practice at all scales. This requires the development of processes that inte...

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