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Sustainability, Volume 9, Issue 11

November 2017 - 230 articles

Cover Story: This study explores the values and attitudes of dairy and beef farmers in Galicia (Spain) who integrate landscape and nature management activities into their farming practices. It identifies four groups of farmers, conceptualized as ‘farming styles’, in which nature and landscape management plays a different role and has different perceived benefits. The article concludes by discussing how these practices could be institutionally embedded to promote more diversified farming and a stronger rural economy.View the paper here.
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Articles (230)

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
6,666 Views
19 Pages

Terrestrial Condition Assessment for National Forests of the USDA Forest Service in the Continental US

  • David Cleland,
  • Keith Reynolds,
  • Robert Vaughan,
  • Barbara Schrader,
  • Harbin Li and
  • Larry Laing

22 November 2017

The terrestrial condition assessment (TCA) evaluates effects of uncharacteristic stressors and disturbance agents on land-type associations (LTAs) to identify restoration opportunities on national forest system (NFS) lands in the United States. A tea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,155 Views
21 Pages

22 November 2017

In order to help the forging enterprise realize energy conservation and emission reduction, the scheduling problem of furnace heating was improved in this paper. Aiming at the charging problem of continuous heating furnace, a multi-objective furnace...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
7,965 Views
25 Pages

22 November 2017

Between the First Opium War in 1840 and the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, the development of modern Christianity in Nanjing expanded beyond the parameters of faith and spirituality, while interacting closely with Nanjing’s city...

  • Review
  • Open Access
23 Citations
9,982 Views
17 Pages

Sustainable Soil Management in Ski Areas: Threats and Challenges

  • Emanuele Pintaldi,
  • Csilla Hudek,
  • Silvia Stanchi,
  • Thomas Spiegelberger,
  • Enrico Rivella and
  • Michele Freppaz

22 November 2017

The skiing industry often represent the main contribution to mountain regions’ economy, by providing several economic benefits and the improvement of services and infrastructure. Ski resorts also play a crucial role as an impacting factor, causing se...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,602 Views
29 Pages

Optimization of Evacuation Warnings Prior to a Hurricane Disaster

  • Dian Sun,
  • Jee Eun Kang,
  • Rajan Batta and
  • Yan Song

22 November 2017

The key purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that optimization of evacuation warnings by time period and impacted zone is crucial for efficient evacuation of an area impacted by a hurricane. We assume that people behave in a manner consistent with...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,512 Views
21 Pages

22 November 2017

A longer, wider and more complicated change in the travel path is put forward to adapt to the rapidly increasing expansion of metropolises in the field of urban travel. Urban travel requires higher levels of sustainable urban transport. Therefore,thi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
13,392 Views
24 Pages

Stakeholder Orientation in Cruise Lines’ Mission Statements

  • Lara Penco,
  • Giorgia Profumo and
  • Roberta Scarsi

22 November 2017

Consistent with the extant management literature, mission statements are crucial for the sustainability and growth of any firms and have been considered to be a tool for the strategic management process. Despite the considerable attention awarded to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
6,075 Views
28 Pages

Stability of Deep Underground Openings through Large Fault Zones in Argillaceous Rock

  • Deyu Qian,
  • Nong Zhang,
  • Dongjiang Pan,
  • Zhengzheng Xie,
  • Hideki Shimada,
  • Yang Wang,
  • Chenghao Zhang and
  • Nianchao Zhang

22 November 2017

The stability of underground openings is pivotal to sustainable safe mining in underground coal mines. To determine the stability and tunneling safety issues in 800-m-deep underground openings through large fault zones in argillaceous rocks in the Gu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,711 Views
21 Pages

Coordination Contracts in a Dual-Channel Supply Chain with a Risk-Averse Retailer

  • Lijing Zhu,
  • Xiaohang Ren,
  • Chulung Lee and
  • Yumeng Zhang

22 November 2017

Dual channels have become popular strategies for manufacturers due to the development of innovative selling platforms. Examples in practice also show that the lack of relationship management, such as cooperation and sharing, may cause an unsustainabl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
6,400 Views
17 Pages

21 November 2017

This paper experiments an artificial neural networks model with Bayesian approach on a small real estate sample. The output distribution has been calculated operating a numerical integration on the weights space with the Markov Chain Hybrid Monte Car...

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