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Smallholder Farms in Bulgaria and Their Contributions to Food and Social Security
Fredriksson, Lena; Rizov, Marian; Davidova, Sophia; … - In: Sustainability 13 (2021) 14
Bulgaria has a long tradition of smallholder farming, predominantly producing for selfconsumption. As a result of land … households stayed as subsistence farmers and used their small pieces of land to produce for self-consumption and market the … commercialisation of smallholder farms and a structural change in agriculture should address, besides market factors, the socioeconomic …
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A New Strategy for Utilizing Rice Forage Production Using a No-Tillage System to Enhance the Self-Sufficient Feed Ratio of Small Scale Dairy Farming in Japan
Zahra, Windi Al; Yasue, Takeshi; Asagi, Naomi; … - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 8, pp. 4975-4989
Rice forage systems can increase the land use efficiency in paddy fields, improve the self-sufficient feed ratio, and provide environmental benefits for agro-ecosystems. This system often decreased economic benefits compared with those through imported commercial forage feed, particularly in...
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Considerations When Applying Simplified LCA Approaches in the Wine Sector
Arzoumanidis, Ioannis; Raggi, Andrea; Petti, Luigia - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 8, pp. 5018-5028
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) has been increasingly used to improve the environmental performance of food systems and simplification of LCA appears to be a vital question, especially for Small- and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). Following a literature review on simplified LCA tools and their...
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Challenges for Sustainable Development and Its Legal Response in China: A Perspective for Social Transformation
Qin, Tianbao - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 8, pp. 5075-5106
With rapid development since the 1970s, China is entering a period of social transformation, which not only creates favorable conditions for sustainable development but also presents new challenges. The transitional period in China is a stage in which two types of social transformation coexist,...
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Enhancing the Effectiveness of Cycle Time Estimation in Wafer Fabrication-Efficient Methodology and Managerial Implications
Chen, Toly; Wang, Yu-Cheng - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 8, pp. 5107-5128
Cycle time management plays an important role in improving the performance of a wafer fabrication factory. It starts from the estimation of the cycle time of each job in the wafer fabrication factory. Although this topic has been widely investigated, several issues still need to be addressed,...
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Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Border Policies in Dehong Prefecture of Yunnan, China
Bie, Qianlong; Li, Cansong; Zhou, Shangyi - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 8, pp. 5284-5299
With the process of globalization, many political geographers and research institutions have begun to focus on borders and border areas. Faced with the current debate on the border policies, this paper reviews the former research relating to border studies and provides an evaluation of China’s...
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Emergy Synthesis and Regional Sustainability Assessment: Case Study of Pan-Pearl River Delta in China
Li, Guomin; Kuang, Yaoqiu; Huang, Ningsheng; Chang, … - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 8, pp. 5203-5230
In this paper, emergy analysis is used in association with the ternary diagrams and geographic information system (GIS) tools to improve the evaluation of sustainability for the Pan-Pearl River Delta (PPRD) region. Emergy accounting of PPRD is estimated, and various emergy-based indicators are...
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The Dynamic Coordinated Development of a Regional Environment-Tourism-Economy System: A Case Study from Western Hunan Province, China
Yuan, Yaoqing; Jin, Maozhu; Ren, Jinfei; Hu, Mingming; … - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 8, pp. 5231-5251
Based on regional coordination theory and system theory, the authors constructed an evaluation index system for the coordinated development of a regional environment-tourism-economy system with a pressure-state-response (PSR) model. With a coordinated development model, it further empirically...
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Forest Policy and Law for Sustainability within the Korean Peninsula
Park, Mi Sun; Lee, Hyowon - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 8, pp. 5162-5186
Since the early 1990s, sustainable forest management (SFM) has emerged as a paradigm of forest management on global, regional and national levels. In developing countries, avoiding deforestation is a preliminary step towards SFM. The Korean peninsula experienced severe deforestation and forest...
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Information Extraction of High-Resolution Remotely Sensed Image Based on Multiresolution Segmentation
Shao, Peng; Yang, Guodong; Niu, Xuefeng; Zhang, Xuqing; … - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 8, pp. 5300-5310
The principle of multiresolution segmentation was represented in detail in this study, and the canny algorithm was applied for edge-detection of a remotely sensed image based on this principle. The target image was divided into regions based on object-oriented multiresolution segmentation and...
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