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Advances in Sustainable Development: Selected Papers from 2016 Energy and Environment Knowledge Week

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2017) | Viewed by 20805

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Gilles Lefebvre

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Centre d'Études et de Recherches en Thermique, Environnement et Systèmes, Université Paris-Est Créteil (UPEC), CERTES/IUT/UPEC, 61 avenue du Général de Gaulle 94010 Créteil, France
Interests: energy modeling; renewable energy systems; heat transfer
Prof. Dr. Francisco J. Sáez-Martínez

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Faculty of Economics, University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM). Plaza de la Universidad, 2, 02071 Albacete, Spain
Interests: entrepreneurial economics; strategic management; international management; entrepreneurship; eco-innovation

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue comprises selected papers from the Energy and Environment Knowledge Week—E2KW 2016—conference, held at the Université Paris-Est Créteil in October 2016. E2KW is an international multidisciplinary event planned to discuss and present multidisciplinary, cutting-edge research in energy and environment fields. This Special Issue will present a selection of papers that show leading examples of the application of sustainable management, green production, and renewable energy. It aims at reporting research focusing on three main topics: (1) sustainability and water: Growing pressure on water resources from economic growth and pollution has major impacts on our economic, social and environmental well-being. Papers from this topic will face cutting-edge research on water management, the impact of climate change on water and ground water pollution. (2) Tourism and sustainability: Tourism produces significant impacts on natural resources, consumption patterns, pollution and social systems. Research from this topic will face critical research on the relationship between tourism and sustainable development. (3) Renewable energy sources and sustainability: Research from this topic will face research on anticipated patterns of future energy use and consequent environmental, social and economic impacts. Bringing together research on these three topics may contribute to our understanding of some of the necessary forces to attain sustainable development.

Prof. Dr. Gilles Lefebvre
Prof. Dr. Francisco J. Sáez-Martínez
Guests Editors

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • Sustainability
  • Energy Efficiency
  • Renewable Energies
  • Sustainable Tourism
  • Water management

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A New Sustainability City Index Based on Intellectual Capital Approach
by José-Luis Alfaro-Navarro, Víctor-Raúl López-Ruiz and Domingo Nevado Peña
Sustainability 2017, 9(5), 860; https://doi.org/10.3390/su9050860 - 19 May 2017
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Urban sustainability is a key factor that must be considered at the local level, however, there are few studies that consider sustainability using the triple bottom line approach and apply it to a large number of cities. In this paper, we develop a [...] Read more.
Urban sustainability is a key factor that must be considered at the local level, however, there are few studies that consider sustainability using the triple bottom line approach and apply it to a large number of cities. In this paper, we develop a sustainability city index based on the triple bottom line using an intellectual capital approach that attempts to solve the negative aspects identified in the main indices proposed in the existing literature, such as the use of: subjective weightings, an arithmetic average or index that is not comparable. Here, we have used information available in the Urban Audit database for 2009. The results for 158 cities in 24 European countries show that the cities with the best positions are in the northern European countries. German cities occupied the best positions in the three dimensions of sustainability, albeit with a slightly worse performance in the social dimension. Moreover, the proposal index is consistent, without redundancy among the variables considered in the three dimensions. Full article
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Rural Tourism: Development, Management and Sustainability in Rural Establishments
by Juan-José Villanueva-Álvaro, José Mondéjar-Jiménez and Francisco-José Sáez-Martínez
Sustainability 2017, 9(5), 818; https://doi.org/10.3390/su9050818 - 14 May 2017
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Tourism is one of the economic driving forces of Spain: the consolidation of existing tourist destinations and new market niches encourage an upward trend of tourism. The economic impacts produced by tourism are one of the major concerns of the authorities; the question [...] Read more.
Tourism is one of the economic driving forces of Spain: the consolidation of existing tourist destinations and new market niches encourage an upward trend of tourism. The economic impacts produced by tourism are one of the major concerns of the authorities; the question is whether it is possible to continue growing without compromising our environment. This work attempts to answer this issue by analysing one of the tourism segments with higher growth in recent years: rural tourism. Using a model of partial least squares (PLS), we will analyse the environmental impacts from the point of view of the supply and its relationships with the environmental management conducted. We will also analyse the rural establishments from a global point of view and, depending on their category, explain the factors which determine the sustainable behaviour of providers, and identify that the establishments of low categories have a more sustainable conduct. Full article
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Strategies to Introduce n-Butanol in Gasoline Blends
by Magín Lapuerta, Rosario Ballesteros and Javier Barba
Sustainability 2017, 9(4), 589; https://doi.org/10.3390/su9040589 - 12 Apr 2017
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The use of oxygenated fuels in spark ignition engines (SIEs) has gained increasing attention in the last few years, especially when coming from renewable sources, due to the shortage of fossil fuels and global warming concern. Currently, the main substitute of gasoline is [...] Read more.
The use of oxygenated fuels in spark ignition engines (SIEs) has gained increasing attention in the last few years, especially when coming from renewable sources, due to the shortage of fossil fuels and global warming concern. Currently, the main substitute of gasoline is ethanol, which helps to reduce CO and HC emissions but presents a series of drawbacks such as a low heating value and a high hygroscopic tendency, which cause higher fuel consumption and corrosion problems, respectively. This paper shows the most relevant properties when replacing ethanol by renewable n-butanol, which presents a higher heating value and a lower hygroscopic tendency compared to the former. The test matrix carried out for this experimental study includes, on the one hand, ethanol substitution by n-butanol in commercial blends and, on the other hand, either ethanol or gasoline substitution by n-butanol in E85 blends (85% ethanol-15% gasoline by volume). The results show that the substitution of n-butanol by ethanol presents a series of benefits such as a higher heating value and a greater interchangeability with gasoline compared to ethanol, which makes n-butanol a promising fuel for SIEs in commercial blends. However, the use of n-butanol in E85 blends substituting either gasoline or ethanol may cause cold-start problems due to the lower vapor pressure of n-butanol. For this reason, a combined substitution of n-butanol by both gasoline and ethanol is proposed so that n-butanol can be used without start problems. Full article
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