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Qasemipour, Ehsan (author), Abbasi, A. (author)Cropping pattern plays an important role in providing food and agricultural water resources sustainability, especially in arid regions in which the concomitant socioeconomic dangers of water shortage would be inevitable. In this research, six indices are applied to classify 37 cultivated crops according to Central Product Classification (CPC)....journal article 2019
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Wu, H. (author), Qian, QK (author), Straub, A. (author), Visscher, H.J. (author)The growing environmental problems, the rapid urbanization, and the disappearance of the demographic dividend in China has brought unprecedented opportunities to the development of prefabricated housing (PH). However, many barriers are hindering the promotion of PH, for instance, cost, lack of regulations, and the shortage of knowledge, among...journal article 2019
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Kheybari, S. (author), Kazemi, Mostafa (author), Rezaei, J. (author)One of the major factors in the success of renewable energy is finding a proper location for production facilities. At a national level, different parts of a country (e.g. provinces) can be seen as alternatives that can be assessed based on a set of criteria, and ranking them to identify the best location. The focus in this paper is on...journal article 2019
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Hofman-Caris, Roberta (author), Bertelkamp, C. (author), de Waal, Luuk (author), van den Brand, Tessa (author), Hofman, Jan (author), van der Aa, René (author), van der Hoek, J.P. (author)An increasing number of people want to reduce their environmental footprint by using harvested rainwater as a source for drinking water. Moreover, implementing rainwater harvesting (RWH) enables protection against damage caused by increasing precipitation frequency and intensity, which is predicted for Western Europe. In this study,...journal article 2019
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Nijgh, M.P. (author), Veljkovic, M. (author)Steel-concrete composite beams are widely used in practice because of their economic cross-section design. As sustainability becomes more and more important in the construction industry, the design of composite beams must be adapted to meet the requirements of the circular economy. This calls for demountability and reusability of the structural...journal article 2019
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Wang, Z. (author), Pashaei Kamali, F. (author), Osseweijer, P. (author), Posada Duque, J.A. (author)Derived from renewable feedstocks, aviation biofuel is generally perceived as inherently sustainable. However, its production involves a wide range of sectors and interacts with different actors in society. It is therefore important to understand and evaluate not only the environmental impacts of that process, but also its socioeconomic...journal article 2019
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de Vries, G. (author), Rietkerk, M. (author), Kooger, R. (author)In order to reach climate goals, policymakers stimulate homeowners to invest in sustainable measures in and around their house. Unfortunately, however, the number of green home measures lacks behind. This article introduces perceived hassle as an important reason for this shortfall. It is claimed that homeowners perceive hassle during different...journal article 2019
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Inland waterway terminal yard configuration contributing to sustainability: Modeling yard operationsWiercx, Max (author), van Kalmthout, Martijn (author), Wiegmans, B. (author)In order to encourage a substantial shift from highly polluting freight transport by road to more sustainable Inland WaterWay (IWW) transport, one of the possible options is to optimize handling activities at Inland Waterway Terminals (IWTs). Therefore, this research focused on efficiencies of IWTs and possible improvements by analyzing the...journal article 2019
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Xie, Yifei (author), Danaf, Mazen (author), Azevedo, Carlos Lima (author), Akkinepally, Arun Prakash (author), Atasoy, B. (author), Jeong, Kyungsoo (author), Seshadri, Ravi (author), Ben-Akiva, Moshe E. (author)This paper presents a systematic way of understanding and modeling traveler behavior in response to on-demand mobility services. We explicitly consider the sequential and yet inter-connected decision-making stages specific to on-demand service usage. The framework includes a hybrid choice model for service subscription, and three logit mixture...journal article 2019
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Türkeli, Serdar (author), Schophuizen, M.J.F. (author)In this article, we highlight the pressing need for integrating the windows of opportunities that digital transformation of education opens up with circular economy education to accelerate the achievements of sustainability outcomes. Circular economy transition, as a multi-scalar process, relates to several contexts, e.g., product, firm,...journal article 2019
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Kar, Arpan Kumar (author), Ilavarasan, Vigneswara (author), Gupta, M. P. (author), Janssen, M.F.W.H.A. (author), Kothari, Ravi (author)The next step after smart cities is the creation of digital or smart nations. A digital nation requires a national transformation across diverse institutions including the urban and rural areas of a society. Besides diverse social innovation initiatives, sustainability is a key aspect, so that rather than greenfield projects, long-term...contribution to periodical 2019
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Qasemipour, Ehsan (author), Abbasi, A. (author)Water challenges-especially in developing countries-are set to be strained by population explosion, growing technology, climate change and a shift in consumption pattern toward more water-intensive products. In these situations, water transfer in virtual form can play an important role in alleviating the pressure exerted on the limited water...journal article 2019
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Clarke, Nicholas (author), Kuipers, M.C. (author), Roos, J. (author)Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the conceptualisation of the Smart Sustainable City (SSC) with new concepts of resilience thinking in relation to urgent societal challenges facing the built environment. The paper aims to identify novel methodologies for smart reuse of heritage sites with a pluralist past as integral to...journal article 2019
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van Breugel, K. (author)The world’s infrastructure is vital for providing accommodation and mobility for people. Although it is obvious that the construction industry has been crucial for realizing building and civil infrastructures, it is also clear that building activities have a big impact on the environment. Still growing and developing societies and economies...journal article 2019
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Hopff, Birgit (author), Nijhuis, S. (author), Verhoef, Leendert (author)To what extent can transformation and development processes on a university or other campus fit in with the principles of circularity? This paper builds a bridge between the more theoretical approach of the circular economy and daily practice in campus development, using semi-structured in-depth interviews with a broad range of stakeholders in...journal article 2019
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Sustainability indicators: Monitoring cross-county water cooperation in the Nzoia river basin, KenyaOnencan, A.M. (author), Enserink, B. (author), van de Walle, B.A. (author)Kenya Water Services Regulatory Board (WASREB) Impact Report indicates a stagnation in water coverage at 55 percent, for the last three years, contrary to the 2015 target of 80 percent. One main reason for the stagnation is weak cross-county cooperation between hydrologically interdependent governments. WASREB has little guidance on what...journal article 2019
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Ersoy, A. (author)The concept of smart city has been discussed widely in the academia and policy terms, mainly referring to the ways in which cities can be managed more efficiently. Nevertheless, the real implications of smart technologies in urban practice often remain unexplored. Today, especially, not much is known about the challenges of smart city...journal article 2019
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van Geenhuizen, M.S. (author)Urban living labs is a practical methodology in improving sustainability in cities by facilitating collaborative learning and innovation in a real-life environment, thereby mainly responding to the needs of users (citizens). The paper aims to filter a list of key learnings on urban living labs through the lens of Responsible Research and...journal article 2019
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Stevens, L.L. (author), de Vries, M.J. (author), Bos, Mark M.J.W. (author), Kopnina, Helen (author)The emerging field of biomimicry and learning to design with and for nature has expanded in recent years through a diversity of educational programs. Inspiration following natural forms may give the appearance of being sustainable, but the question remains, how sustainable is it? Misunderstanding the function of these forms may leave...journal article 2019
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Asveld, L. (author), Osseweijer, P. (author), Posada Duque, J.A. (author)In this chapter we aim to give an overview of the main societal and ethical issues that are currently voiced around industrial biotechnology. We will illustrate this with some recent cases, such as the development of synthetic artemisinin, synthetic vanillin and vegetable oil produced by engineered algae. We show that current societal and...book chapter 2019