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Urbanization and Land Use Planning for Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): A Case Study of Greece

  • Dimitrios Kalfas,
  • Stavros Kalogiannidis,
  • Fotios Chatzitheodoridis and
  • Ermelinda Toska

Sustainable development has attracted the attention of social-economic, spatial well-being, and cultural continuity advocates across the world. However, the processes involved in land use as well as urban development have continued to affect the atta...

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42 Citations
8,656 Views
17 Pages

Improving Energy Literacy to Facilitate Energy Transition and Nurture Environmental Culture in Vietnam

  • Quy Van Khuc,
  • Mai Tran,
  • Thuy Nguyen,
  • Nguyen An Thinh,
  • Thao Dang,
  • Dang Trung Tuyen,
  • Phu Pham and
  • Luu Quoc Dat

23 January 2023

Concern about energy depletion has risen because of industrialization and consumerism, pushing a transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources. To this end, every group within society, especially the youth, should be made responsible for c...

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42 Citations
10,927 Views
45 Pages

22 August 2024

Energy is a crucial factor for urban development. Cities have a crucial role in climate change, as they use 2/3 of the world’s energy, producing 70% of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. In order to reduce the large ecological footprint of the uti...

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41 Citations
8,099 Views
23 Pages

Groundwater Quality of Some Parts of Coastal Bhola District, Bangladesh: Exceptional Evidence

  • Molla Rahman Shaibur,
  • Ishtiaque Ahmmed,
  • Sabiha Sarwar,
  • Rezaul Karim,
  • Md. Musharraf Hossain,
  • M. Shahidul Islam,
  • Md. Shaheen Shah,
  • Abu Shamim Khan,
  • Farhana Akhtar and
  • Md. Galal Uddin
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The composition of groundwater governs the drinking and irrigation water suitability. A large part of the coastal region of Bangladesh is affected and is responsible for changing the composition of the groundwater. This research attempted to observe...

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  • Open Access
39 Citations
7,490 Views
32 Pages

24 February 2023

Modern society faces major environmental problems, but there are many difficulties in studying the nature–human relationship from an integral psychosocial perspective. We propose the ecomind sponge conceptual framework, based on the mindsponge...

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39 Citations
14,621 Views
22 Pages

Contribution of the Cultural and Creative Industries to Regional Development and Revitalization: A European Perspective

  • Dimitrios Kalfas,
  • Stavros Kalogiannidis,
  • Vasilios Ambas and
  • Fotios Chatzitheodoridis

Cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs) have emerged as powerful drivers of regional development and revitalization in Europe in recent years. This study explores the impact of CCIs on European regions, focusing on their economic, social, and cultura...

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37 Citations
18,484 Views
20 Pages

Urban Quality of Life: A Systematic Literature Review

  • Josana Gabriele Bolzan Wesz,
  • Luciana Inês Gomes Miron,
  • Ioanni Delsante and
  • Patricia Tzortzopoulos

The built environment has great influence over the sustainability of societies as well as over people’s quality of life. Quality of life (QoL) is a broad concept that has different definitions across diverse bodies of knowledge. The social&ndas...

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37 Citations
3,038 Views
17 Pages

Principles of Sustainable Development of Georesources as a Way to Reduce Urban Vulnerability

  • Cheynesh Kongar-Syuryun,
  • Roman Klyuev,
  • Vladimir Golik,
  • Armine Oganesyan,
  • Danila Solovykh,
  • Marat Khayrutdinov and
  • Danila Adigamov

Humanity development is associated with higher spiritual and social behaviour and financial shape, which is an undeniable factor of urbanisation. Previously, in areas of georesource concentration, cities and settlements were formed with people exploi...

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31 Citations
8,778 Views
27 Pages

A Blockchain Based Framework for Efficient Water Management and Leakage Detection in Urban Areas

  • Muhammad Tayyab Naqash,
  • Toqeer Ali Syed,
  • Saad Said Alqahtani,
  • Muhammad Shoaib Siddiqui,
  • Ali Alzahrani and
  • Muhammad Nauman

22 September 2023

Sustainable urban water management is essential to handle water scarcity, leakage, and inefficient distribution. This paper covers water management in urban areas, including an introduction, an overview of water management practices, the characterist...

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28 Citations
10,058 Views
19 Pages

Household-Level Strategies to Tackle Plastic Waste Pollution in a Transitional Country

  • Quy Van Khuc,
  • Thao Dang,
  • Mai Tran,
  • Dinh Tien Nguyen,
  • Thuy Nguyen,
  • Phu Pham and
  • Trung Tran

6 February 2023

As one of the world’s fastest-growing economies, Vietnam is tackling environmental pollution, particularly plastic waste. This study contributes to the literature on environmental culture and practical solutions by better understanding households’ be...

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