Human activities and climate change constitute the contemporary catalyst for natural
processes and their impacts, ie, geo-environmental hazards. Globally, natural catastrophic …

Environmental management of an area describes a policy for its systematic and sustainable
environmental protection. In the present study, regional environmental vulnerability …

Purpose Climate change poses diverse, often fundamental, challenges to livelihoods of
island peoples. The purpose of this study is to demonstrate that these challenges must be …

The inclusion of an index, which can be the representative of environmental quality from
different aspects, seems to be of paramount significance. This issue is a major challenging …

The non-parametric Data Envelopment Analysis approach is increasingly used to construct
composite indicators for country performance monitoring, benchmarking, and policy …

The Chinese government has conducted the Returning Grazing Land to Grassland Project
(RGLGP) across large portions of grasslands from western China since 2003. In order to …

Sustainable Rural Development is essential to maintain active local communities and avoid
depopulation and degradation of rural areas. Proper assessment of development in these …

Natural resources degradation poses multiple challenges particularly to environmental and
economic processes. It is usually difficult to identify the degree of degradation and the critical …

Ecological vulnerability refers to the degree of ecosystem disturbance, system damage, and
the ability of system restoration. Although case-specific evaluations of ecological …

Abstract Adopting Renewable Energy Systems (RES) in Multi-Owned Buildings (MOBs) is
critical for achieving sustainability goals, yet the equitable allocation of energy from a jointly …