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Open AccessDetermining ecological footprints for sustainable cities; sample of Sakarya city
Unchecked growth, or urban expansion, causes a host of negative environmental effects in cities and produces a myriad of ecological issues. Planning initiatives in cities must include a “ecological city” persp...
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Open AccessUsing best-worst scaling to inform agroecological interventions in Western Kenya
Both the demand for food and the environmental impacts of food production are estimated to significantly increase by 2050. Agroecological interventions have proven effective in facilitating the transition from...
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Open AccessDynamics of total and industrial energy use in Turkiye from 1991 to 2019: a case study
Energy use is an indicator of economic growth. However, high energy intensity has two main disadvantages. First, low energy efficiency increases a country’s dependence on other countries, especially when the c...
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Open AccessA water–energy–food nexus analysis of the impact of desalination and irrigated agriculture expansion in the Ain Temouchent region, Algeria
The need for an integrated approach to sustainable resources management to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals has become widely recognized. Population growth, climate change, environmental degradation, ...
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Open AccessWhen urbanization and natural ecosystems collide: governance model to manage a mangrove ecosystem in a dual city
This paper aims to describe the process of constructing and implementing a governance model for a mangrove ecosystem located along two waterways within a touristic city (Cartagena de Indias, Colombia). This ci...
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Open AccessA biogas-fired cogeneration (cooling and power) system combined with biomethane facilities: 3E evaluation, sensitivity analyses and optimization
The increasing demand for power and cooling generation presents a dual challenge: an unavoidable increase in carbon emissions from fossil fuel combustion and the associated difficulties in meeting the escalati...
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Open AccessThe United Nations SDG13 and the EU27 countries performance: A comparative analysis
This paper evaluates the performance of the European Union 27 (EU-27), its supranational regions, and Member States (MSs) in relation to the Climate Action Sustainable Development Goal (SDG13) of the United Na...
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Open AccessEnergy audits in the tofu industry; an evaluation of energy consumption towards a green and sustainable industry
The tofu industry consumes a lot of energy and water for its process production and then produces wastewater in large quantities that have a negative effect on the environment. It is because tofu craftsmen sti...
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Open AccessNexus between regulatory pressure, eco-friendly product demand and sustainable competitive advantage of manufacturing small and medium-sized enterprises: the mediating role of eco-innovation
Although previous research endeavours have extensively explored the environmental pressure-performance relationship, their findings have been inclusive. Therefore, this paper examines the direct and indirect (...
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Open AccessDrivers and challenges of solar photovoltaics (PV) adoption by Turkish manufacturers
This study addresses the critical gap in literature caused by previous qualitative studies on PV adoption focusing primarily on households, which have limited access to specific industry sectors across differe...
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Open AccessConsumers’ knowledge and decisions on circularity: Albanian, Polish, and Portuguese perspectives
Although the concept of Circular Economy (CE) has become popular in recent years, the transition towards a CE system requires a change in consumers’ behaviour. However, there is still limited knowledge of cons...
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Open AccessManagement of effective factors in increasing the resilience of rural settlements against drought a case study of Ilam province
Drought is considered a potential natural disaster and threat. Despite all the scientific and technical advancements, in develo** countries the management of this hazard is still complicated. Drought managem...
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Open AccessDoes information about environmental considerations affect Chinese and UK consumers’ purchase intentions for traced foods? A path analysis
Consumers are increasingly focused on making sustainable food choices, necessitating transparent and trusted systems for providing sustainability information. This can be implemented, for instance, through app...
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Open AccessCarbon financial trading risk based on multidimensional analysis of data flow from the perspective of low-carbon economy
Currently, carbon trading provides financial incentives for buying and selling savings to generate a certain quantity of energy gases with a market-based mechanism. Trade in renewable energy and breakthroughs ...
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Open AccessEvaluation of a grid-connected PV power plant: performance and agrivoltaic aspects
The performance ratio, a globally recognized metric that correlates with reported global solar radiation values, serves as a crucial indicator for evaluating the efficiency of grid-connected PV plants. Also, a...
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Open AccessGreen consumers’ behavioral intention and loyalty to use mobile organic food delivery applications: the role of social supports, sustainability perceptions, and religious consciousness
Consumer behavior in the food industry has undergone significant changes in recent years, largely driven by growing consumer awareness of environmental, technological, religious, and social concerns. As a resu...
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Open AccessGiant oil discoveries and conflicts
This study investigates the effects of oil discoveries on conflict. We propose that the effects from oil discoveries may differ depending on types of conflicts, mainly interstate versus intrastate. Using a mea...
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Open AccessAir pollution modeling to support strategic environmental assessment: case study—National Emission Reduction Plan for coal-fired thermal power plants in Serbia
The paper presents a specific method of environmental impact assessment applied in Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) for the National Emission Reduction Plan (NERP) in the Republic of Serbia, based on a...
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Open AccessEvaluation of water quality based on artificial intelligence: performance of multilayer perceptron neural networks and multiple linear regression versus water quality indexes
A significant problem in the sustainable management of water resources is the lack of funding and long-term monitoring. Today, this problem has been greatly reduced by innovative, adaptive, and sustainable lea...
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Open AccessThe urban population agglomeration capacity and its impact on economic efficiency in the Yangtze River Delta Urban Agglomeration
This paper constructs and elaborates a theoretical model of urban economic efficiency (UEE) from the perspective of urban scaling law. A framework of urban economic analysis is established with urban populatio...
