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  • Open Access
19 Citations
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32 Pages

13 January 2022

The evaluation of government data sustainability is a multicriteria decision making problem. The analytic network process (ANP) is among the most popular methods in determining the weights of criteria, and its limitation is the un-convergence problem...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
3,141 Views
26 Pages

The Chinese urban regeneration movement underscores a “people-oriented” paradigm, aimed at addressing urban challenges stemming from rapid prior urbanization, while striving for high-quality and sustainable urban development. At the commu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,132 Views
17 Pages

1 November 2019

The evaluation of vegetable production process efficiency is of great significance for energy saving and waste reduction in production processes. However, few studies have considered the effect of greenhouse vegetable production process efficiency on...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,661 Views
16 Pages

16 April 2019

Concentrating on geographically hierarchical data structures and using large-scale satisfaction survey data in Nanjing, this study employs Bayesian spatial multilevel model (MLM) to evaluate Nanjing’s perceived sustainable urbanization. In this...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,296 Views
16 Pages

10 January 2019

This study presents a method that is based on the three-stage network Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to evaluate the sustainability of packaging systems for a product. This method facilitates the selection of better product packaging alternatives fr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
5,638 Views
19 Pages

23 April 2019

Corporate sustainability is the integration of environmental protection, financial benefit, and social responsibility into management and business operations. There is insufficient evidence for its relationship with operating performance and producti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,025 Views
25 Pages

27 June 2024

Research on public service facility evaluation has mainly focused on spatial accessibility and facility quality from a supply perspective, but has rarely focused on the evaluation of service facilities from a usage perspective. Researchers can observ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,220 Views
19 Pages

10 October 2022

Sustainable urban development is a dynamic, continuous, and long-term process. However, only a few studies have considered the continuous changes in urban development levels over time. From a novel perspective of multivariate functional data, this st...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,944 Views
17 Pages

30 November 2019

High-quality evaluation of city sustainability is an important part of city policy making and development. In this paper, we evaluated the sustainability of the 14 cities in Liaoning, China, from 2015 to 2017. Based on the comprehensive consideration...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,793 Views
23 Pages

Towards the Development of Agenda 2063 Geo-Portal to Support Sustainable Development in Africa

  • Paidamwoyo Mhangara,
  • Asanda Lamba,
  • Willard Mapurisa and
  • Naledzani Mudau

The successful implementation of the African Union’s Agenda 2063 strategic development blueprint is critical for the attainment of economic development, social prosperity, political stability, protection, and regional integration in Africa. Age...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,211 Views
13 Pages

28 March 2019

This paper develops an efficiency-based approach for evaluating the performance of available electronic markets (e-markets) in the active pursuit of sustainable electronic business through the selection of specific e-markets for small and medium-size...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,774 Views
16 Pages

3 December 2015

Students’ inattention to the importance of teaching evaluations may undermine the sustainability of the education evaluation system. This study analyzed the effects of the personality variable reflected by monotonic response patterns, which is a typi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,681 Views
15 Pages

21 August 2017

Sustainability consists of economic, environmental, and societal aspects. Concomitant with China’s rapid growth, the evaluation of China’s ability for sustainable development (SD) has become a topic of interest. Unlike previous studies that are based...

  • Article
  • Open Access
838 Views
32 Pages

11 September 2025

This study introduces a novel informatics framework for assessing regional sustainability by integrating Twin Mean-Variance Two-Stage Data Envelopment Analysis (TMV-TSDEA) with a desirability-based decision analytics system. The model evaluates both...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,316 Views
49 Pages

12 August 2025

Understanding urban diversity is critical to inclusive planning for sustainable urban development. This study introduces a new Urban Diversity Index (UDI) based on global point-of-interest (POI) data for food-related establishments—defined here...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
6,479 Views
37 Pages

A Data-Driven Approach to Evaluation of Sustainability Reporting Practices in Extractive Industries

  • Cansu Perdeli Demirkan,
  • Nicole M. Smith,
  • H. Sebnem Duzgun and
  • Aurora Waclawski

4 August 2021

Sustainability reporting is one of the tools that contribute to incorporating sustainable development in the design of extractive operations (i.e., “Design for Sustainability”), and the demand for sustainability reports is increasing due to the incre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,862 Views
25 Pages

Evaluation of Data-Driven Sustainability Potential at SMEs Using an Altered Ecocanvas Model

  • Levente Péter Bálint,
  • László Várallyai and
  • Szilvia Botos

13 February 2025

Incorporating sustainability into business operations is likely to become one of the most significant priorities and challenges for companies in the near future. SMEs operating within conventional frameworks often experience constraints when adjustin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,813 Views
18 Pages

26 October 2018

In the light of the shortcomings of the analytic hierarchy process and other common regional sustainable development evaluation methods, this paper proposes the use of a combination of subjective and objective weights to generate input/output indicat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
7,217 Views
18 Pages

Evaluating Groundwater Management Sustainability under Limited Data Availability in Semiarid Zones

  • Javier Senent-Aparicio,
  • Julio Pérez-Sánchez,
  • José Luis García-Aróstegui,
  • Alicia Bielsa-Artero and
  • Juan Carlos Domingo-Pinillos

5 August 2015

In recent years, many researchers have devoted their efforts to finding an objective measurement of sustainability by developing evaluation tools based on sustainability indices. These indexes not only reveal the current state of water resources in a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,308 Views
19 Pages

26 January 2022

Under the background of big data, citizens can freely access and use open data to create value through the open government data platform (OGDP). The sustainable use of OGDP can meet the needs of citizens. The value created by citizens can also improv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
9,539 Views
40 Pages

An Integrated Modeling Approach to Evaluate and Optimize Data Center Sustainability, Dependability and Cost

  • Gustavo Callou,
  • João Ferreira,
  • Paulo Maciel,
  • Dietmar Tutsch and
  • Rafael Souza

8 January 2014

Data centers have evolved dramatically in recent years, due to the advent of social networking services, e-commerce and cloud computing. The conflicting requirements are the high availability levels demanded against the low sustainability impact and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,174 Views
18 Pages

14 November 2021

Human survival depends on the sustainable development of agriculture. This study constructs a data-driven evaluation and optimization method of agricultural sustainable development capacity, aiming to better cope with challenges such as environmental...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,607 Views
17 Pages

A Data-Driven Packaging Efficiency Optimization Method for a Low Carbon System in Agri-Products Cold Chain

  • Jingjie Wang,
  • Xiaoshuan Zhang,
  • Xiang Wang,
  • Hongxing Huang,
  • Jinyou Hu and
  • Weijun Lin

12 January 2022

The of monitoring the Internet of Things (IoT) in the cold chain allows process data, including packaging data, to be more easily accessible. Proper optimization modelling is the core driving force towards the green and low-carbon operation of cold c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,309 Views
22 Pages

1 August 2024

The assessment of ecotourism suitability is crucial for sustainable regional development and is seen as an effective strategy to achieve both environmental protection and economic growth. One of the key challenges in land research is effectively iden...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,252 Views
21 Pages

A Time-Varying Potential Evaluation Method for Electric Vehicle Group Demand Response Driven by Small Sample Data

  • Sheng Ding,
  • Chengmei Xu,
  • Yao Rao,
  • Zhaofang Song,
  • Wangwang Yang,
  • Zexu Chen and
  • Zitong Zhang

27 April 2022

Electric vehicle (EV) loads are playing an increasingly important role in improving the flexibility of power grid operation. The prerequisite for EV loads to participate in demand response (DR) is that the DR regulation strategy and corresponding DR...

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
53 Citations
13,765 Views
17 Pages

The United Nation’s Agenda 2030 and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) pick up where the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) left off. The SDGs set forth a formidable task for the global community and international sustainable development over the...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,641 Views
15 Pages

4 October 2022

In the process of human survival and sustainable development, water security, energy security and food security have become the three most prominent issues, but they are interrelated and directly affect each other, that is, to form a Water–Ener...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
7,007 Views
18 Pages

8 January 2019

With the gradual slowdown of economic growth in China, the Chinese government proposed the task of supply-side reform. As a vital part of China’s economy, supply-side reform in the real estate market is particularly important. Using 29 province...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,863 Views
36 Pages

24 July 2025

In the context of green development, promoting the development of data elements is crucial for advancing the green and low-carbon transition and achieving China’s “dual-carbon” targets. This study quantitatively evaluates China&rsqu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
629 Views
17 Pages

28 October 2025

The United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Agenda has been derailed by various events (e.g., COVID-19, economic crises, democratic backsliding, economic illiberalism, decreasing regard for human rights, and war). These events have d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,066 Views
19 Pages

12 October 2021

Sustainable business development is connected with environmental impact, natural resources and people. This makes the location a crucial factor for the operation of a business. Therefore, a combination of both geo-spatial data analysis and traditiona...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1,023 Views
23 Pages

14 October 2025

This study conducts a comprehensive bibliometric analysis of research applying data envelopment analysis (DEA) to the evaluation of sustainability and performance in complex socioeconomic systems between 2010 and mid-2025. DEA has become an increasin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,053 Views
21 Pages

23 May 2025

To ensure sustainability, the Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries (EAF) requires the evaluation of the impacts of fisheries beyond the main targeted species, to include those on bycaught, endangered, threatened and protected populations and keystone spec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
70 Citations
7,544 Views
17 Pages

10 August 2020

With the increasing popularity of the Internet of Things (IoT) platforms, the cyber security of these platforms is a highly active area of research. One key technology underpinning smart IoT systems is machine learning, which classifies and predicts...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,610 Views
16 Pages

20 March 2023

The sustainable development of urban transport is the key to sustainable urban development. This study analyses and identifies the evaluation indicators affecting Macau’s transport, and analyses the relationship between the relevant evaluation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,122 Views
25 Pages

18 April 2025

With the development of the economy and improvements in living standards, public demand for sports activities has continued to increase. However, the supply–demand relationship of urban sports venues remains unbalanced in many cities. Existing...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,938 Views
23 Pages

Evaluating PlanetScope and UAV Multispectral Data for Monitoring Winter Wheat and Sustainable Fertilization Practices in Mediterranean Agroecosystems

  • Italo Moletto-Lobos,
  • Katarzyna Cyran,
  • Luciano Orden,
  • Silvia Sánchez-Méndez,
  • Belen Franch,
  • Natacha Kalecinski,
  • Francisco J. Andreu-Rodríguez,
  • Miguel Á. Mira-Urios,
  • José A. Saéz-Tovar and
  • Pierre C. Guillevic
  • + 1 author

28 November 2024

Cereal crops play a critical role in global food security, but their productivity is increasingly threatened by climate change. This study evaluates the feasibility of using PlanetScope satellite imagery and a UAV equipped with the MicaSense RedEdge...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,435 Views
14 Pages

Since the agriculture sector, such as Italian grapevine production, exert a pressure on the environment to some extent, this research aims to evaluate the environmental impacts and estimate the societal costs of four current grapevine production syst...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,624 Views
32 Pages

In 2015, 193 countries declared their commitment to “leave no one behind” in pursuit of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, the world’s refugees have been routinely excluded from national censuses and representative surveys, and, as a r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,179 Views
15 Pages

24 July 2024

SDGSAT-1, the first scientific satellite dedicated to advancing the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, brings renewed vigor and opportunities to water resource monitoring and research. This study evaluates the effectiveness of SD...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,972 Views
22 Pages

11 October 2022

Keeping the global temperature rise below 2 degrees Celsius, as foreseen by the Paris Agreement, requires a new global roadmap for the energy transition. For this reason, the European Commission decided to directly involve local municipalities in rea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
826 Views
23 Pages

25 September 2025

This study evaluates the economic dimension of sustainable supply chain efficiency among Korean automotive suppliers using an SCOR-aligned two-stage Network Range-Adjusted Measure (NRAM) Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) model. The framework separates...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,663 Views
4 Pages

30 October 2018

This paper is an approach to forecast the spatial data in time series domain. Normally in GIS (Geographical Information System), we need raster forecasting. Moving average, exponential smoothing, and linear regression methods of forecasting are used...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,019 Views
17 Pages

19 April 2017

This paper divides the typical social scientific research process into two stages: the research development stage and the research innovation stage, with personnel as a shared input between them. We construct an input-shared multi-period two-stage DE...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,412 Views
16 Pages

22 July 2022

With the expansion of global trade and the deterioration of the marine environment, research on the sustainability of marine transport has drawn increasing scientific attention. This study takes the marine supply chain composed of Maersk and ports in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,313 Views
18 Pages

22 December 2019

With the increase of car ownership, mobile pollution has become an important source of air pollution, which makes it more difficult for China to control air pollution. In order to control mobile pollution from automobile exhaust, China has taken a se...

  • Review
  • Open Access
440 Views
20 Pages

1 December 2025

Demand-responsive transit (DRT) is an innovative public transportation model that dynamically adjusts routes based on passengers’ specific demands. While existing studies offer insights into routing, scheduling, and network design, they remain...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,175 Views
16 Pages

28 February 2023

Combining the travel modes of human activities, fully mining multi-source data, and analyzing the relationship between the urban ecological environment and human activities are important topics in urban ecological environment planning. Human activity...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,414 Views
25 Pages

28 September 2024

Urban mobility systems generate a massive volume of real-time data, providing an exceptional opportunity to understand and optimize transportation networks. To harness this potential, we developed UrbanFlow Milano, an interactive map-based dashboard...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,483 Views
12 Pages

18 September 2018

The sustainability of regional water resources has important supporting data needed for establishing policies on the sustainable development of the social economy. The purpose of this paper is to propose an assessment method to accurately reflect the...

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