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Sustainability, Volume 8, Issue 1

January 2016 - 101 articles

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Articles (101)

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,580 Views
19 Pages

16 January 2016

The Qinghai–Tibet power grid interconnection project is the first power transmission project with the highest altitude, longest transmission lines, longest distance running across the plateau frozen ground, and highest iron tower in the world. The ri...

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
60 Citations
8,748 Views
15 Pages

16 January 2016

This paper presents an integrated multi-attribute decision-making (MADM) approach to aid selection of commercially available materials in the context of sustainable design. The MADM couples grey relational analysis (GRA) with an analytic hierarchy pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
8,691 Views
18 Pages

15 January 2016

Using a dynamic panel data approach to analyze national-level and province-level data in China from 2000 to 2012, this paper studies how real estate investment affects Chinese economic growth. We find that real estate investment has significantly pos...

  • Article
  • Open Access
117 Citations
18,266 Views
23 Pages

True Green and Sustainable University Campuses? Toward a Clusters Approach

  • Giulia Sonetti,
  • Patrizia Lombardi and
  • Lorenzo Chelleri

15 January 2016

Campus greening is often the first step universities take towards sustainability. However, the diffusion of sustainability reporting methodologies and rankings is still at an early stage, and is biased in mainly measuring energy efficiency indicators...

  • Article
  • Open Access
53 Citations
13,007 Views
24 Pages

15 January 2016

This study uses the model of Patzelt and Shepherd (2011) to examine the factors influencing the identification of sustainable opportunities among SMEs in a developing country, Zambia. The factors under investigation include knowledge of the natural/s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
10,191 Views
20 Pages

15 January 2016

There is a lack of structured methodologies to support stakeholders in accessing the sustainability aspects for e-waste management. Moreover, the increasing volume of electronic waste (e-waste) and the availability of automated e-waste treatment solu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
8,147 Views
15 Pages

14 January 2016

Farmers use credit from commercial credit providers to finance production activities. Commercial credit providers have to predict the financial sustainability of the enterprise to ensure that the borrower will have the ability to repay the loan. A De...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
6,315 Views
12 Pages

14 January 2016

Assessment of seasonal variation in concentration of heavy metals–As, Cd, Co, Cr, Cu, Ni, Pb, and Zn from the Siloam Geothermal Spring and their impacts on surface soils and Mangifera indica were undertaken during winter and summer seasons in South A...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
11,504 Views
29 Pages

14 January 2016

Globalization has been on everyone’s lips in light of the contemporary conditions. It has been viewed mostly as a stage reached as a result of long-term societal changes over the course of world history. For us, globalization has been an ongoing proc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,530 Views
15 Pages

13 January 2016

It is feared that the increasing population of vehicles in the world and the depletion of fossil-based fuel reserves could render transportation and other activities that rely on fossil fuels unsustainable in the long term. Concerns over environmenta...

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