City Vertical Gardening

2022 ◽  
pp. 20-46
Author(s):  
Vasiliki Geropanta ◽  
Triantafyllos Ampatzoglou
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Urban Health ◽  
Environmental Effects ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Environmental Control ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Global Challenges ◽  
Planning Models ◽  
Policy And Planning

The countermeasures taken during the COVID-19 pandemic opened discussions regarding their status as temporal or ephemeral as they designated the positive environmental effects of the COVID-19 anthropause. The necessity to think about city transformation in times of environmental and health crises has revealed a number of digital tools and greening practices that might shape new policy and planning models to affront global challenges. Among these tools, a number of ‘urban acupuncture' activities have revealed the role of greening and gardening in urban spaces and how they assist in tackling challenges of environmental sustainability and city resilience. The authors investigate the contribution of vertical gardening (VG) as urban health enhancer and its prospects within smart city. They select and assess two case studies that integrate synergies between VG and machine learning (ML) approaches in an effort to showcase the tools' combined effect in realizing environmental control. These experiments imply hints for potential future research and implementation to broaden environments.

Political Consumerism for Sustainable Tourism

2018 ◽  
pp. 348-366
Author(s):  
Machiel Lamers ◽  
Jeroen Nawijn ◽  
Eke Eijgelaar
Keyword(s):  
Nature Conservation ◽  
Environmental Change ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Environmental Effects ◽  
Sustainable Tourism ◽  
Global Environmental Change ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Political Consumerism ◽  
Global Environmental

Over the last decades a substantial and growing societal and academic interest has emerged for the development of sustainable tourism. Scholars have highlighted the contribution of tourism to global environmental change and to local, detrimental social and environmental effects as well as to ways in which tourism contributes to nature conservation. Nevertheless the role of tourist consumers in driving sustainable tourism has remained unconvincing and inconsistent. This chapter reviews the constraints and opportunities of political consumerism for sustainable tourism. The discussion covers stronger pockets and a key weak pocket of political consumerism for sustainable tourism and also highlights inconsistencies in sustainable tourism consumption by drawing on a range of social theory arguments and possible solutions. The chapter concludes with an agenda for future research on this topic.

scholarly journals Role of Responsible Leadership for Organizational Citizenship Behavior for the Environment in Light of Psychological Ownership and Employee Environmental Commitment: A Moderated Mediation Model

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Abbas ◽  
Bilal Bilal ◽  
Ye Chengang ◽  
Shahid Manzoor ◽  
Irfan Ullah ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Citizenship ◽  
Organizational Citizenship Behavior ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Service Sector ◽  
Psychological Ownership ◽  
Citizenship Behavior ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Responsible Leadership ◽  
Environmental Commitment

The world is looking towards organizations for social responsibility to contribute to a sustainable environment. Employees’ organizational citizenship behavior for the environment (OCBE) is a voluntary environmental-oriented behavior that is important for organizations’ environmental performance. Based on social learning theory, the study examined the effects of responsible leadership in connection with OCBE by using a sample of 520 employees of manufacturing and service sector including engine manufacturing, petroleum plants banking and insurance sector organizations of China. Further, the role of psychological ownership and employee environmental commitment were used as mediators and moderators simultaneously. The direct, mediation, and moderation model results exposed a positive relationship between responsible leadership and OCBE via employee psychological ownership and employee environmental commitment. The study also revealed that the indirect effect is stronger when employees hold higher employee environmental commitment. The theoretical and practical implications for environmental sustainability in respect of organizations as well as future research directions are discussed.

scholarly journals Production Logistics Visibility – Perspectives, Principles and Prospects

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ravi Kalaiarasan ◽  
Jan Olhager ◽  
Magnus Wiktorsson ◽  
Yongkuk Jeong
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Business Performance ◽  
Production Systems ◽  
Resource Planning ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Accurate Information ◽  
Material Management ◽  
Production Logistics ◽  
Network Status

Globalisation, competitive markets and increasing sustainability requirements are demanding companies to focus on visibility to improve their supply chains and ultimately their businesses. This paper aims to identify perspectives, principles and prospects of production logistics visibility (PLV). The study is based on a literature review of articles presenting definitions, development trends and the future role of PLV. It is concluded that visibility is generally defined by availability, quality, accessibility and usefulness of information. PLV could refer to the extent to which actors within the production systems have access to timely and accurate information considered useful to their operations. According to the findings, antecedents of PLV include digitalisation, IoT and connectivity. These steps are required to turn data into meaningful information that can be used for decision making in production and logistics setting to improve operational and business performance. Furthermore, to fully benefit from PLV, there has to be an integration of external and internal perspectives. Concluding, the paper defines future research efforts including four lines of exploration and development: (1) Intra-site visibility for material management including dynamic synchronisation, takt and resource planning. (2) Supply-oriented visibility for dynamic status and prediction of supply network status. These two initial lines of enquiry should include the perspectives of stakeholders, parameter, enabling technologies and potential impact. (3) A synthesised framework for Production Logistics Visibility, relying on utilizing antecedents and enabling multi-criteria decision in production logistics based on visibility, where performance in terms of efficiency, sustainability and flexibility is ensured. (4) To specifically detail and exploit the potential in production logistics visibility in the aspect of environmental sustainability and closed material and product loops.

Citizen Science and Its Role in Sustainable Development

2017 ◽  
pp. 1088-1108
Author(s):  
Hai-Ying Liu ◽  
Mike Kobernus
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Citizen Science ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Environmental Research ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Core Components ◽  
Future Research Directions

The chapter aims to analyse the role of citizen science in sustainable development, including case studies implementation, with specific focus on its suitability of citizen science in environmental sustainability. The authors structured this chapter in five sections: Background; Main focus; Solutions and recommendations for designing and executing citizen science initiatives; Future research directions with thoughts on the future role of citizen science; and Conclusion. In section of main focus, first, the authors reviewed the state of citizen science in sustainable development and explored the potential of citizen science for environmental research and governance. Second, authors identified and elaborated the core components that support the role of citizen science and demonstrated the practical approach to realize its objective. Third, using several citizens' observatories studies from various regions in Europe and within diverse environmental fields, authors highlighted the lessons learned, and reflected on major outcomes, challenges and opportunities.

The Role of the Government in Environmental Sustainability During the COVID-19 Pandemic

2022 ◽  
pp. 308-325
Author(s):  
Ayfer Gedikli ◽  
Abdullah Kutalmış Yalçın
Keyword(s):  
Water Pollution ◽  
Environmental Effects ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Pollution Levels ◽  
Human Contact ◽  
Industrial Sectors ◽  
The Government ◽  
Role Of The Government

The COVID-19 outbreak and its global spread through human-to-human contact have made it even more important to analyze the environmental effects. The higher the population, the higher the energy usage, the higher amount of carbon emissions, and the faster the environmental degradation. Having a high-quality environment is important for people to protect themselves from infection. During the lockdowns, city residents could benefit from the environment. Shutdowns contributed not only to break the chain of infections but also to the development of the environment and ecosystems. Due to the great cuts in transportation and industrial sectors, air and water pollution levels have come down, and nature has started to reassert itself. In this process, governments have a great role to fight the pandemic and protect the environment. In this chapter, environmental sustainability and the role of governments during the pandemic will be analyzed. Also, the viable solutions for environmental sustainability that can be provided by the governments will be put forth.

scholarly journals Recent Literature about Urban Sprawl: A Renewed Relevance of the Phenomenon from the Perspective of Environmental Sustainability

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (16) ◽  
pp. 6551
Author(s):  
Fernando Rubiera-Morollón ◽  
Ruben Garrido-Yserte
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Urban Sprawl ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Metropolitan Areas ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Low Density ◽  
Digital Cartography ◽  
New Methodologies

The urban sprawl phenomenon has attracted the attention of social researchers since the mid-20th century. It seemed that all relevant aspects had been extensively studied and that it would be difficult to produce new studies with significant contributions. However, in the last decade, we have witnessed a revival of the literature on urban sprawl for three main reasons: (i) the existence of new methodologies to measure the phenomenon based on digital cartography and geo-referenced information, (ii) new hypotheses about the relevance of the formation of metropolitan areas not institutionally integrated into urban sprawl in many places and, mainly, (iii) the role of urban density in the environmental sustainability of cities. The recent literature on this third aspect has grown the most and around which it seems that new and interesting lines of future research will develop. The objective of this work is to present a synthetic review of the most recent literature on urban sprawl as of the end of the second decade of the XXI century. This review can serve to recapitulate the growing consensus that is being formed on the lower environmental sustainability of low-density cities and diffuse limits.

scholarly journals Smart City Collaboration: A Review and an Agenda for Establishing Sustainable Collaboration

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (16) ◽  
pp. 9189
Author(s):  
David E. Mills ◽  
Iman Izadgoshasb ◽  
Steven G. Pudney
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Smart City ◽  
City Government ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Collaborative Relationships ◽  
City Governments ◽  
The Public

Collaboration is problematic in the public sector, yet many smart city theorists advocate relationships fully dependent upon collaboration to address the intense complexity encountered by city governments and achieve city objectives of quality of life, efficiency, effectiveness, and economic and environmental sustainability. Skeptical, we inductively drew together the widely dispersed theoretical tenets of smart city collaboration into a framework of collaborative relationships and tested this framework using secondary evidence as to practice in greater Amsterdam. Mostly authentic collaborative relationships were explicated. Theory is extended by clarifying the roles of actors, especially the role of city government as actor and steward of the collaborative ecosystem. Future research should unpack the factors that impact the sustainability of smart city collaborations.

scholarly journals A review of the environmental implications of B2C e-commerce: a logistics perspective

2015 ◽  
Vol 45 (6) ◽  
pp. 565-591 ◽  
Author(s):  
Riccardo Mangiaracina ◽  
Gino Marchet ◽  
Sara Perotti ◽  
Angela Tumino
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Effects ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Consumer Electronics ◽  
Clear Understanding ◽  
Environmental Implications ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Business To Consumer

Purpose – Given the importance of logistics operations in business-to-consumer (B2C) e-commerce and growing interest in the related environmental effects, the purpose of this paper is to offer an up-to-date literature review on the topic of B2C e-commerce environmental sustainability, specifically from a logistics perspective. Design/methodology/approach – The analysis focussed on a set of 56 papers published from 2001 to 2014 in 38 peer-reviewed international journals. The papers were analyzed and categorized according to the main features of the paper, the research method(s) adopted and the themes tackled. Findings – There is a growing interest in sustainability issues. In the last 14 years, the focus has progressively shifted from the mere identification of the wide-ranging environmental effects of e-commerce to the need for a quantitative evaluation of their impact, although much remains to be done in this regard. Some industries, such as books and grocery, have largely been addressed, however, promising sectors in the e-commerce field, such as clothing and consumer electronics, have only been considered to a certain degree. Moreover, despite the emerging role of multichannel strategies, the environmental implications of the related logistics activities have not yet been studied in detail. Originality/value – B2C e-commerce has grown in popularity, and its environmental implications are currently of key interest. This paper contributes to the understanding of the existing body of knowledge on this topic, presenting an up-to-date classification of articles and highlighting themes for further research activities. From a managerial perspective, this paper helps supply chain managers develop a clear understanding of both the logistics areas with the most impact on environmental sustainability and the KPIs used to quantify the environmental implications of e-commerce logistics operations comprehensively and effectively.

Citizen Science and Its Role in Sustainable Development

2017 ◽  
pp. 147-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hai-Ying Liu ◽  
Mike Kobernus
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Citizen Science ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Environmental Research ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Core Components ◽  
Future Research Directions

The chapter aims to analyse the role of citizen science in sustainable development, including case studies implementation, with specific focus on its suitability of citizen science in environmental sustainability. The authors structured this chapter in five sections: Background; Main focus; Solutions and recommendations for designing and executing citizen science initiatives; Future research directions with thoughts on the future role of citizen science; and Conclusion. In section of main focus, first, the authors reviewed the state of citizen science in sustainable development and explored the potential of citizen science for environmental research and governance. Second, authors identified and elaborated the core components that support the role of citizen science and demonstrated the practical approach to realize its objective. Third, using several citizens' observatories studies from various regions in Europe and within diverse environmental fields, authors highlighted the lessons learned, and reflected on major outcomes, challenges and opportunities.

The role of machine learning applications in diagnosing and assessing critical and non-critical CHD: a scoping review

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Stephanie M. Helman ◽  
Elizabeth A. Herrup ◽  
Adam B. Christopher ◽  
Salah S. Al-Zaiti
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Scoping Review ◽  
Clinical Applications ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Learning Techniques ◽  
Machine Learning Applications

Abstract Machine learning uses historical data to make predictions about new data. It has been frequently applied in healthcare to optimise diagnostic classification through discovery of hidden patterns in data that may not be obvious to clinicians. Congenital Heart Defect (CHD) machine learning research entails one of the most promising clinical applications, in which timely and accurate diagnosis is essential. The objective of this scoping review is to summarise the application and clinical utility of machine learning techniques used in paediatric cardiology research, specifically focusing on approaches aiming to optimise diagnosis and assessment of underlying CHD. Out of 50 full-text articles identified between 2015 and 2021, 40% focused on optimising the diagnosis and assessment of CHD. Deep learning and support vector machine were the most commonly used algorithms, accounting for an overall diagnostic accuracy > 0.80. Clinical applications primarily focused on the classification of auscultatory heart sounds, transthoracic echocardiograms, and cardiac MRIs. The range of these applications and directions of future research are discussed in this scoping review.

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