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Sustainability, Volume 8, Issue 9

September 2016 - 132 articles

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Articles (132)

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,102 Views
15 Pages

An Assessment of Productivity Patterns of Grass-Dominated Rangelands in the Hindu Kush Karakoram Region, Pakistan

  • Faisal Mueen Qamer,
  • Chen Xi,
  • Sawaid Abbas,
  • Manchiraju S. R. Murthy,
  • Wu Ning and
  • Bao Anming

22 September 2016

Rangelands in the Hindu Kush Karakoram region provide a resource base for nomadic livestock grazing, which is one of the major traditional livelihood practices in the area. The present study assessed the spatiotemporal patterns and trends of rangelan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
77 Citations
15,342 Views
16 Pages

Communicating Sustainability: An Operational Model for Evaluating Corporate Websites

  • Alfonso Siano,
  • Francesca Conte,
  • Sara Amabile,
  • Agostino Vollero and
  • Paolo Piciocchi

21 September 2016

The interest in corporate sustainability has increased rapidly in recent years and has encouraged organizations to adopt appropriate digital communication strategies, in which the corporate website plays a key role. Despite this growing attention in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
7,177 Views
19 Pages

21 September 2016

The economic development of China’s coastal areas is being constrained by resources and the environment, with sustainable development being the key to solving these problems. The data envelopment analysis (DEA) model is widely used to assess sustaina...

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
32 Citations
14,334 Views
15 Pages

21 September 2016

The present paper demonstrates that inundation levels in the Mekong Delta’s largest city, Can Tho, are predominantly determined by ocean tides, sea-level rise, and land subsidence. Our analysis of inundation patterns projects that the duration of inu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
13,127 Views
27 Pages

Strategic Transport Management Models—The Case Study of an Oil Industry

  • Srđan Dimić,
  • Dragan Pamučar,
  • Srđan Ljubojević and
  • Boban Đorović

21 September 2016

The awareness of the need to preserve the environment and establish sustainable development evolved as the result of the development of the world economy and society. Transport plays a very important role in this process. It is recognized as one of t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
11,275 Views
20 Pages

Assessing the Sustainability Performance of Organic Farms in Denmark

  • Evelien M. De Olde,
  • Frank W. Oudshoorn,
  • Eddie A. M. Bokkers,
  • Anke Stubsgaard,
  • Claus A. G. Sørensen and
  • Imke J. M. De Boer

21 September 2016

The growth of organic agriculture in Denmark raises the interest of both producers and consumers in the sustainability performance of organic production. The aim of this study was to examine the sustainability performance of farms in four agricultura...

  • Article
  • Open Access
70 Citations
19,780 Views
24 Pages

21 September 2016

A key but contentious aspect of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is the means of implementation (MOI). Many developing countries emphasize the importance of international assistance while developed countries focus more on domestic financing and t...

  • Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
8,246 Views
18 Pages

21 September 2016

For realizing sustainable development, EV (Electric Vehicle) is currently considered as one of the most promising alternative due to its cleanness and inexhaustibility. However, the development and dissemination of EV has stagnated because it faces m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,194 Views
16 Pages

21 September 2016

Scholars have recently been debating how economic structure affects regional economic performance. Regional economic structure typically indicates how the industries in regions are organized. The attribute of industrial organization in regions is typ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,415 Views
17 Pages

20 September 2016

This paper explores how to handle multiple criteria decision-making (MCDM) problems in which the criteria values of alternatives take the form of comparative linguistic expressions. Firstly, the new concept of hesitant trapezoidal fuzzy numbers (HTrF...

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