Category: Social Sustainability and Sustainable Living

Electricity Savings and Carbon Mitigation Potential of a University Campus in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
This study estimates the electricity consumption and related carbon dioxide (CO2¬¬) emissions for the buildings and facilities the main campus …

Socio-environmental Life Cycle & Its Relevance to Long-term Sustainability: A Key Success of Jorong Barutama Greston Coal-mine Closure, South Borneo – Indonesia
Environmental management is currently a priority in various industrial activities, ranging from upstream activities such as mining and energy related …

Get Out of Your Comfort Zone: Externalization Taxonomy as an Implementation Tool for Future Designers
As global warming accelerates, buildings currently account for 39% of energy-related carbon dioxide emissions annually. Architecture, however, is increasingly designed …

Commuting to Computing: A Perspective on the Effects of Mobility of COVID-19
The COVID-19 virus is continuing to disrupt global activities on an unimagined scale. Industries that were flourishing have for the …

Peoples’ Engagement With Renewable Technologies – Roadblocks and Triggers
Peoples' Engagement with Renewable Technologies - Roadblocks and Triggers research aims at developing of new insights in relation to how …

Cultivating Concrete Utopia: Understanding How Japan’s Permaculture Experiments are Shaping a Political Vision of Sustainable Living
The issue of sustainability in agriculture has gained momentum in reaction to the increasingly problematic consequences of the industrial agriculture …

Scenarios and Impacts of Future Floods on Low Income Housing in Chiang Mai, Thailand
This study aimed to estimate the risk of low-income people whose suffer livelihood problems and housing damage due to present …

Redefining Dwelling for the Anthropocene
Between 1970 and 2015, the average size of newly constructed homes in the United States, increased by 79%, from a …

Sustainable Urban Transportation with Demand Management Methods: A Case Study for Istanbul
Increasing population in urban areas necessitates increasing levels, mix and modes of transportation, roads, land use, which all lead to …

The Construction of Low-Carbon Renewal System of Rural Community
Climate change has become a global issue influencing human survival and development while carbon emissions are the main factor. As …

Developing the Methodology to Investigate the Thermal Comfort of the Elderly for Sustainable Living in Hot-Humid Thailand
Providing thermal comfort is one of the main requirements for housing and the ways in which thermal comfort can be …

Piloting the CLIMASP-Tempus Interdisciplinary Minor in Climate Change and Sustainability Policy: Outcomes Achieved
Higher education plays a unique and critical role, one often underestimated and/or neglected in making a more sustainable society. The …

Development of a Behavioural Change Tool for Energy Efficiency in Buildings: A Case of Nigeria Office Buildings
The increasing impacts of global climate change and the building sector’s contribution to reducing this impacts has led to more …

Perception of the Resident Population towards Tourist Presence: A Survey Research in Alcossebre, Castellón, Spain
This empirical research has as main objective to analyze the perceptions of resident population of Alcossebre, on Spanish Mediterranean, in …

Urban Egalitarianism: The Way Forward to Ensure Sustainable Urban Design, Practice and Development in Developing Countries (The Nigerian Case)
Many cities and urban areas across the world are entities with high complexity, most especially with the unavoidable ever increasing …