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Small Mushrooms for Big Business? Gaps in the Sustainable Management of Non-Timber Forest Products in Southwest China

He, Jun; Dong, Min; Stark, Macro - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 10, pp. 6847-6861

The challenge of managing forests for the production of commercial non-timber forest products (NTFPs) lies in promoting economic development by maintaining and even increasing production while simultaneously maintaining or improving ecological conditions. The discussion of forest management...

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Spatial Distribution of Migration and Economic Development: A Case Study of Sichuan Province, China

Yang, Chengfeng; Han, Huiran; Song, Jinping - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 10, pp. 6509-6528

The spatial distribution of China’s rapid growth in population and economic development is uneven, and this imbalance leads to migration. However, the literature concerning migration in China has been primarily focused at the provincial scale and on eastern parts of the country. Relatively few...

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Residents’ Household Solid Waste (HSW) Source Separation Activity: A Case Study of Suzhou, China

Zhang, Hua; Wen, Zong-Guo - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 9, pp. 6446-6466

Though the Suzhou government has provided household solid waste (HSW) source separation since 2000, the program remains largely ineffective. Between January and March 2014, the authors conducted an intercept survey in five different community groups in Suzhou, and 505 valid surveys were...

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Sustainable Fashion Supply Chain: Lessons from H&M

Shen, Bin - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 9, pp. 6236-6249

Sustainability is significantly important for fashion business due to consumers’ increasing awareness of environment. When a fashion company aims to promote sustainability, the main linkage is to develop a sustainable supply chain. This paper contributes to current knowledge of sustainable...

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Sustainable Rent-Based Closed-Loop Supply Chain for Fashion Products

Hu, Zhi-Hua; Li, Qing; Chen, Xian-Juan; Wang, Yan-Feng - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 10, pp. 7063-7088

The textile and clothing industry generates much pollution and consumes a large amount of resources. Improper uses and disposal of clothing products make the problems much more severe. Fast fashion products shorten the valid lifecycle and generate more waste than regular clothing products....

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The Impact of Agricultural Extension on Farmer Nutrient Management Behavior in Chinese Rice Production: A Household-Level Analysis

Pan, Dan - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 10, pp. 6644-6665

Agricultural nutrients play a critical role in food production and human nutrition in China. Against this backdrop, agricultural extension services are essential for providing farmers with knowledge and information about nutrient management. By using a propensity score-matching (PSM) approach,...

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Modeling the Impacts of Urbanization and Industrial Transformation on Water Resources in China: An Integrated Hydro-Economic CGE Analysis

Jiang, Li; Wu, Feng; Liu, Yu; Deng, Xiangzheng - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 11, pp. 7586-7600

’s nine watershed regions. Our results indicate that urbanization and industrial transformation in China will raise the … results suggest that growing water demand due to urbanization and industrial transformation will raise the shadow price of … water in all nine river basins. Finally, we find that national economic growth is largely attributable to urbanization and …

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Estimation of Real-Time Flood Risk on Roads Based on Rainfall Calculated by the Revised Method of Missing Rainfall

Kim, Eunmi; Ra, Ilkyeun; Rhee, Kyung Hyun; Kim, Chang Soo - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 9, pp. 6418-6431

phenomena and the growth of impermeable areas due to urbanization. This study suggests a method to estimate real-time flood risk …

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Environment in Industrial Ecology, Grasping a Complex Notion for Enhancing Industrial Synergies at Territorial Scales

Dumoulin, François; Wassenaar, Tom - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 9, pp. 6267-6277

Identifying the most relevant environment related indicators and how to make them available to decision-makers are current issues. Some seek to enhance their efficiency by means of methods such as aggregations or weighting. More fundamentally, in this chapter we question how industrial...

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Civil Society in Hybrid Governance: Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) Legitimacy in Mediating Wal-Mart’s Local Produce Supply Chains in Honduras

Bloom, J. Dara - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 10, pp. 7388-7411

This paper challenges the notion that the incorporation of actors from civil society into hybrid governance arrangements improves outcomes and legitimacy. Multi-stakeholder collaborations are a popular hybrid governance approach to development, including NGOs’ work to integrate smallholder...

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