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Sustainability, Volume 7, Issue 6

June 2015 - 80 articles

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Articles (80)

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,071 Views
13 Pages

12 June 2015

Following the rapid growth of ubiquitous computing, many jobs that were previously manual have now been automated. This automation has increased the amount of time available for leisure; diverse services are now being developed for this leisure time....

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
9,882 Views
23 Pages

12 June 2015

The role of adolescents as influencers on their families’ environmental behavior is potentially a catalyst for change towards increasing eco-friendly actions. In this paper, the authors report on a cross-cultural study of ecological resocialization i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
10,871 Views
18 Pages

12 June 2015

Smart cities link the city services, citizens, resource and infrastructures together and form the heart of the modern society. As a “smart” ecosystem, smart cities focus on sustainable growth, efficiency, productivity and environmentally friendly dev...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,272 Views
20 Pages

11 June 2015

In an urban or suburban area, the sustainability of a waste management process is expected to be closely related to the territorial context and the local citizens’ behaviour. From this perspective, the implementation of the peculiar proximity waste c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
19,611 Views
18 Pages

11 June 2015

Researchers have put forward agricultural biotechnology as one possible tool for increasing food production and making agriculture more sustainable. In this paper, it is investigated how key actors in the Swedish food supply chain perceive the concep...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,732 Views
18 Pages

The Vie Cave Geomorphological Site in Southern Tuscany (Italy): Problems of Decay and Conservation

  • Elena Pecchioni,
  • Alba Patrizia Santo,
  • Leonardo Piccini,
  • Luciano Di Fazio,
  • Fabio Fratini,
  • Pasquino Pallecchi,
  • Riccardo Trevisan and
  • Carlo Alberto Garzonio

11 June 2015

The Vie Cave are a suggestive network of roads deeply entrenched in the rock, dating back to the Etruscan civilization; these ancient roads connect various settlements and necropolises existing mainly in the area of Sovana, Sorano and Pitigliano town...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
7,121 Views
19 Pages

10 June 2015

The correlation of urban metabolism and changes in land use is an important issue in urban ecology, but recent research lacks consideration of the mechanisms and interactions between them. In this research, we did an emergy analysis of the flows of m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,158 Views
23 Pages

9 June 2015

This study explores highway travellers’ willingness to pay (WTP) for external costs caused by traffic accidents. There are a number of further external costs, the paper focuses on two externalities: air pollution and time delays. Data collection was...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
8,177 Views
24 Pages

Ecosystem Service Value Assessment and Contribution Factor Analysis of Land Use Change in Miyun County, China

  • Ping Zhang,
  • Liang He,
  • Xin Fan,
  • Peishu Huo,
  • Yunhui Liu,
  • Tao Zhang,
  • Ying Pan and
  • Zhenrong Yu

9 June 2015

Unreasonable land use planning can reduce ecosystem service value and result in unsustainable land use. In this paper, the changes of ecosystem service value were investigated by using the GIS and dynamic simulation model of land use in Miyun of Beij...

  • Article
  • Open Access
64 Citations
10,952 Views
22 Pages

9 June 2015

Although many countries have included biodiversity offsetting (BO) requirements in their environmental regulations over the past four decades, this mechanism has recently been the object of renewed political interest. Incorporated into the mitigation...

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