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Incorporating Renewable Energy Science in Regional Landscape Design: Results from a Competition in The Netherlands

Waal, Renée M. de; Stremke, Sven; Hoorn, Anton van; … - In: Sustainability 7 (2015) 5, pp. 4806-4828

Energy transition is expected to make an important contribution to sustainable development. Although it is argued that landscape design could foster energy transition, there is scant empirical research on how practitioners approach this new challenge. The research question central to this study...

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Sustainability after the Thermal Energy Supply in Emergency Situations: The Case Study of Abruzzi Earthquake (Italy)

Micangeli, Andrea; Michelangeli, Emanuele; Naso, Vincenzo - In: Sustainability 5 (2013) 8, pp. 3513-3525

Recent natural and human-induced emergencies have highlighted the vulnerability of the built environment. In order to immediately answer to people’s needs while managing an emergency, any intervention should be more proactive and take into account renewable technologies that can be applied in...

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Education for a Sustainable Future: Strategies of the New Hindu Religious Movements

Haigh, Martin - In: Sustainability 2 (2010) 11, pp. 3500-3519

Increasingly, sustainability is conceived as a crisis of the human mind and the key challenge for pro-sustainability education is developing sufficient motivation in learners. The spiritual aspirations of religious communities contain sufficient motivational force, which may be deployed for...

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Pioneering in Marginal Fields: Jatropha for Carbon Credits and Restoring Degraded Land in Eastern Indonesia

Rooijen, Loes Willemijn van - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 4, pp. 2223-2247

This paper highlights the role of a national Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) in Indonesia as “pioneer” actor in the … of previous activities of the NGO positions their jatropha project as one period in a sequence of donor …-funded appropriate technology programs. On the island of Flores in Eastern Indonesia the NGO aimed to establish community based jatropha …

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Using Solar PV Feed-In Tariff Policy History to Inform a Sustainable Flexible Pricing Regime to Enhance the Diffusion of Energy Storage and Electric Vehicles

Bell, William - 2017

The aim of this paper is to analyses residential solar PV feed-in tariffs (FiT) policy history to inform the development of a sustainable flexible pricing regime to enhance the diffusion of energy storage, electric vehicles, solar PV installations and other distributed resources focusing on the...

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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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