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Sustainability, Volume 7, Issue 2

February 2015 - 61 articles

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Articles (61)

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
9,136 Views
21 Pages

13 February 2015

Resilience thinking has strongly influenced how people understand and pursue sustainability of linked social-ecological systems. Resilience thinking highlights the need to build capacity and manage general system properties in a complex, constantly c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
8,644 Views
20 Pages

Measurement and Numerical Simulation of Air Velocity in a Tunnel-Ventilated Broiler House

  • Eliseo Bustamante,
  • Fernando-Juan García-Diego,
  • Salvador Calvet,
  • Antonio G. Torres and
  • Antonio Hospitaler

13 February 2015

A building needs to be designed for the whole period of its useful life according to its requirements. However, future climate predictions involve some uncertainty. Thus, several sustainable strategies of adaptation need to be incorporated after the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
7,174 Views
15 Pages

Sustainable Development for Solar Heating Systems in Taiwan

  • Keh-Chin Chang,
  • Wei-Min Lin and
  • Kung-Ming Chung

12 February 2015

In response to the impact of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, developing and using renewable energy sources and technologies have become vital for managing energy supply and demand in Taiwan. The long-term subsidy programs (...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
7,263 Views
15 Pages

Educating the Aware, Informed and Action-Oriented Sustainable Citizen

  • Audrey L. Schroer,
  • Heili E. Lowman and
  • Craig L. Just

12 February 2015

The Introduction to Sustainability course at the University of Iowa seeks to educate the aware, informed and action-oriented sustainable citizen. A phenomenographic analysis and retrospective pretest were utilized to determine how students formed con...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
10,077 Views
28 Pages

Analysis of the Temporal and Spatial Distribution of Lake and Reservoir Water Quality in China and Changes in Its Relationship with GDP from 2005 to 2010

  • Xiaojie Meng,
  • Yan Zhang,
  • Xiangyi Yu,
  • Jinyan Zhan,
  • Yingying Chai,
  • Andrea Critto,
  • Yating Li and
  • Jinjian Li

12 February 2015

We analyzed the spatial distribution of lake and reservoir water quality in China, and the trends from 2005 to 2010, based on monitoring data from 28 large Chinese lakes and reservoirs. We used a comprehensive water pollution index (WPI) to describe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
176 Citations
20,303 Views
32 Pages

11 February 2015

The social dimension of the transition to a low carbon economy is a key challenge to cities. The establishment of local energy initiatives (LEIs) has recently been attracting attention. It is of great importance to draw lessons from best practices wh...

  • Article
  • Open Access
93 Citations
18,764 Views
25 Pages

11 February 2015

This paper aims to investigate companies’ environmental, social, governance (ESG), and financial implications of their commitment to the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC). The focus is placed on companies operating in the three countries with the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
50 Citations
15,300 Views
13 Pages

11 February 2015

Swedish agricultural companies, especially small farms, are struggling to be profitable in difficult economic times. It is a challenge for Swedish farmers to compete with imported products on prices. The agricultural industry, however, supports the v...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
11,277 Views
32 Pages

A Stepwise, Participatory Approach to Design and Implement Community Based Adaptation to Drought in the Peruvian Andes

  • Ralph Lasage,
  • Sanne Muis,
  • Carolina S. E. Sardella,
  • Michiel A. Van Drunen,
  • Peter H. Verburg and
  • Jeroen C. J. H. Aerts

10 February 2015

The livelihoods of people in the Andes are expected to be affected by climate change due to their dependence on glacier water. The observed decrease in glacier volume over the last few decades is likely to accelerate during the current century, which...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
11,533 Views
24 Pages

10 February 2015

An integrated optimization simulation model has been developed based on an input-output approach to mitigate water pollution and water scarcity through embedding environmental economic policies and applicable technologies into a complex environ-econ...

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