This paper presents an extended two-stage data envelopment analysis (DEA) method for analyzing water resource use efficiency (WRUE) and related WRUE issues, which was developed by introducing regional water resource metabolic theory into the two-stag...
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Background: It is unclear if the burden associated with schizophrenia is affected by the type and severity of patient’s symptoms. Objective: This study aims to quantify healthcare resource use associated with different profiles of schizophrenia sympt...
The article is devoted to developing methodological approaches to multi-criteria resource optimization of technological solutions in Nature Use Projects, considering the growing shortage of water and energy resources, climate change, and post-war tra...
Food security is an increasingly serious problem worldwide, and especially in sub-Saharan Africa. As land and resources are limited and environmental problems caused by agriculture are worsening, more efficient ways to use the resources available mus...
Today’s world is characterized by rapid technological advancements and escalating ecological concerns including soil and water contamination, acidification, biodiversity loss, excessive waste, etc.; a need is continuously increasing to mitigate...
A thermodynamic approach based on exergy use has been suggested as a measure for the use of resources in Life Cycle Assessment and other sustainability assessment methods. It is a relevant approach since it can capture energy resources, as well as me...
Innovation diffusion has been extensively explored in several contexts, with little application to hollow frontiers—economically attractive areas with resource opportunities. This dearth of scientific data bedevils the design of resource-planni...
The energy transition involves transforming electricity supply systems. Smart grids are resilient, polycentric systems consisting of integrated, self-governed Microgrids including distributed energy systems (DES). Renewable energy requires high numbe...
The German government aims to obtain at least 40 percent of its electricity from renewable sources by 2030. One of the central steps to reach this target is the construction of deep sea offshore wind farms. The paper presents a material intensity an...
Although the behaviour of the Large Blue butterflies of the genus Phengaris (= Maculinea) is relatively well studied, most empirical data come from investigations of their dispersal and oviposition. Here, we assessed overall intersexual differences i...
Understanding plant resource use efficiencies (RUEs) and their tradeoffs in a desert shrub community, particularly as it concerns the usage of water, light, and nitrogen, remains an ecological imperative. Plant RUEs have been widely used as indicator...
Large language model (LLM)-based agents are evolving into agents for computer use (ACUs) that read files, invoke applications, communicate over networks, and operate graphical interfaces, moving the effective security boundary from model inputs and o...
The EU presently orientates its policy to a low-carbon and resource-efficient economy. In this paper, we evaluate the current situation and the developments in greenhouse gas emissions, and we will evaluate carbon resource usage in chosen EU countrie...
Quantifying industry consumption or production of resources, wastes, emissions, and losses—collectively called flows—is a complex and evolving process. The attribution of flows to industries often requires allocating multiple data sources...
We aimed to study differences in the use of health care resources in relation to time before death in patients with advanced lung cancer who either received systemic anti-cancer treatment (SACT) or were ineligible for SACT. A retrospective cohort of...
Scientifically diagnosing the spatial conflict of resource-based cities and clarifying the coupling coordination relationship between the intensity of spatial conflict and the dynamic degree of land use is of great significance for the transformation...
Background: Infection is a typical consequence of cancer treatment due to its immunosuppressive nature, where the high use of antimicrobials raises the risk of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). The primary objective of an antimicrobial stewardship prog...
Human actions have altered global environments and reduced biodiversity by causing extinctions and reducing the population sizes of surviving species. Increasing human population size and per capita resource use will continue to have direct and indir...
Background: End-of-life cancer care involves multidisciplinary teams working in various settings. Evaluating the quality of care and the feedback from such processes is an important aspect of health care quality improvement. Our retrospective cohort...
Quantifying water use for agricultural production and accurate evaluation is important for achieving a balance between water supply and demand and sustainable use, especially in arid regions. This study quantifies the water footprint of food producti...
Coastal saline–alkaline land has considerable potential for soil carbon sequestration, but how different land-use types affect microbial resource limitation and carbon-use efficiency (CUE) in coastal saline–alkaline soils remains unclear....
This article explores the use of field experimentation in presenting an account of input inventory, material quantities, and the process flow for shea butter production in Ghana. The shea fruit is a non-timber forest product (NTFP) that is indigenous...
This study defines a methodology for the development of an economic indicator of natural resource use to be applied in the framework of the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology to integrate the assessment of the environmental performances of produ...
An agricultural heritage system is a special type of protected area that is both culturally and ecologically important. Biological resources are an essential component of an agricultural heritage system. They are necessary to support human livelihood...
Food waste has become a critical issue in modern society, especially in the urbanized and fast-growing cities of Asia. The increase in food waste has serious negative impacts on environmental sustainability, water and land resources, and food securit...
Reforestation practices have intensified in the Mississippi Alluvial Valley (MAV) of the United States of America with the aid of Farm Bill programs during the past three decades. Increases in reforested land also enhance possibilities to restore onc...
About 95% of current hydrogen production uses technologies involving primary fossil resources. A minor part is synthesized by low-carbon and close-to-zero-carbon-footprint methods using RESs. The significant expansion of low-carbon hydrogen energy is...
The access and benefit sharing (ABS) concept was originally intended to promote the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity and the fair and equitable sharing of benefits from the use of biological resources and traditional knowledge for res...
Rapid urbanization and industrialization have had a range of effects on urban form and land use, especially in resource-based cities. Previous research has predominantly focused on the analysis of urban compactness or land-use efficiency individually...
Maize–alfalfa intercropping is practiced in Northeast China to improve land productivity and forage production. However, competition between the two crops can reduce system performance, which calls for an emphasis on optimal row ratio. Hence, t...
India is experiencing energy crisis and a widening gap between energy supply and demand. The country is, however, endowed with considerable, commercially and technically available renewable resources, from which surplus agro-biomass is of great impor...
In Switzerland, the advantages of timber buildings for the climate are broadly discussed. In the following paper, a comparative sustainability assessment of four building alternatives is presented. Especially the contribution of implementing Swiss ti...
This study assesses the ecological conditions of the Colentina urban river system by investigating phytoplankton community traits, with a focus on resource use efficiency (RUE) as a functional indicator. Using phytoplankton biomass, taxonomic composi...
Resource-based regions play an indispensable role as strategic bases for national energy and raw material supply in the global industrialization and urbanization process. However, intensive and large-scale natural resource exploitation—particul...
Land use transition and its effects on farmers’ well-being are central to the transformation and sustainable development of resource-exhausted areas (REAs). While extensive research has emerged in recent years, there remains a critical lack of...
Improving water resource use efficiency (WRUE) is essential for achieving sustainable water management under increasing socioeconomic and environmental pressures. This study investigates the spatiotemporal evolution, associated factors, and spatial t...
In the context of global climate change and China’s dual-carbon strategy, this analysis examines how land-use transition is associated with land-use carbon effects in China’s resource-based cities. From the perspective of urban developmen...
The vulnerability of buildings faces further scrutiny as gaps in design, construction, operation, and maintenance remain. Although there has been noticeable progress in the field, the frequency and magnitude of building damage during natural events h...
Cyanobacterial blooms in urban rivers present critical ecological threats worldwide, yet their mechanisms in fluvial systems remain inadequately explored compared to lacustrine environments. This study addresses this gap by investigating bloom dynami...
The Chinese government is committed to its goal of building a resource-saving and environmentally friendly society (RES). The hope is that establishing an RES will accelerate social and economic development, improve resource utilization, and transfor...
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Continuous coal mining results in dramatic regional land use change, and significantly influences the sustainable development of coal resource-based cities. Present studies pay little attention to the characteristics and regularities of land use chan...
Resource-based cities generally have large carbon-emission, and their carbon balance status is receiving more attention. Land use is a key factor in regulating regional carbon balance. To explore the relationship between land use patterns and carbon...
Green and low-carbon strategies represent governance orientations for resource-based cities to respond to global changes and achieve sustainable development. Designating the Yellow River Basin (YRB), an important ecological functional area and an eco...
Light spectrum and intensity is one of the key factors in the production of microgreens in controlled-environment agriculture and is directly related to plant growth and biomass accumulation. Hence, the objective of this research study was to investi...
We present the results of a regression analysis of a large-scale integrated user online application that surveys natural resource use and subjective well-being in Germany. We analyse more than 44,000 users who provided information on their natural re...
Intercropping systems are beneficial for resource utilization; however, the spatial proximity of companion species leads to competition for shared resources, particularly light. A walnut–potato intercropping model was established to understand...
Opportunities exist for adoption of precision agriculture technologies in all parts of the world. The form of precision agriculture may vary from region to region depending on technologies available, knowledge levels and mindsets. The current review...
Extreme drought intensifies the complexity of the water resource allocation system, and unreasonable water distribution exacerbates drought losses. Drought mitigation measures such as emergency water supply augmentation and water use compression incu...
Plantations are typically monocultures, which limits their sustainability. Therefore, understanding acclimatization strategies and resource use efficiencies in plant species and life forms aids the improvement of vegetation diversity and ecological f...
Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) is Africa’s second most-grown crop and is widely used as the staple food after maize. The demand for potato production is increasing and growth in the area under production is estimated at 1.25% a year. Potato has...
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