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Environmental Institutional Awareness in the Context of Sustainable Development

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sustainability and Applications".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 January 2023) | Viewed by 5299

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Maria Alzira Pimenta Dinis

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UFP Energy, Environment and Health Research Unit (FP-ENAS), University Fernando Pessoa (UFP), Praça 9 de Abril 349, 4249-004 Porto, Portugal
Interests: violence and victimization; social sciences; global health; environment and human health; environmental science; sustainability; information and communication technologies (ICTs); statistics and probability
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Prof. Cláudia Oliveira Fernandes

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1. Department of Geosciences, Environment and Spatial Planning, School of Sciences, University of Porto
2. Research Centre in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources - Associate Laboratory (CIBIO – InBIO)
Interests: landscape planning, design, and management; landscape education; (novel) urban ecosystems; social-ecological systems; invasive species

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue will address the actions and attitudes of institutions towards environmental education in the framework of sustainable development. Raising awareness in environmental education is important to sensitize institutions and companies in distinct aspects related to a sustainable environment. Papers in this Special Issue should address measures that contribute to the best methodological practices in the context of mitigating environmental impacts within the scope of institutions as a whole, considering the role they play in society. Selected papers may comprise a wide range of aspects related to environmental sustainability, including instruments and tools within institutions and companies, used to raise environmental awareness and combat fragilities in local contexts of environmental information. Papers related to the multiple benefits of ecosystem services in urban contexts are also welcome. Papers addressing the use of institutional environmental instruments in the scope of sustainable knowledge management are particularly welcome. The methodology used by institutions to raise environmental awareness should be detailed. Papers selected may also address the institutional assessment of environmental sustainability, considering the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). All relevant measures contributing to overall environmental knowledge within institutions and companies are also welcome.

References:

Clegg, T., Boston, C., Preece, J., Warrick, E., Pauw, D. & Cameron, J. (2019). Community-driven informal adult environmental learning: Using theory as a lens to identify steps toward conscientization. The Journal of Environment Education. https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.1080/00958964.2019.1629380

Hill, A. (2012). Developing approaches to outdoor education that promote sustainability education. Journal of Outdoor and Environmental Education. 16: 15. https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.1007/BF03400935

Ioan, C. C., & Carcea, M. I. (2013). Awareness and environmental attitude in the context sustainable development within a knowledge-based society. Environmental Engineering and Management Journal 12: 8. https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.30638/eemj.2013.197

Johns, R.A. & Pontes, R. (2019). Parks, rhetoric and environmental education: challenges and opportunities for enhancing ecoliteracy. Journal of Outdoor and Environmental Education. 22: 1. https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.1007/s42322-019-0029-x

North, C. & Jansen, C. (2013). Holding a sustainability bearing through cutty-grass and clearings: Implementing sustainability during disruptive organisational changes. Journal of Outdoor and Environmental Education. 16: 2. https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.1007/BF03400941

Schank, C. & Rieckmann, M. (2019). Socio-economically Substantiated Education for Sustainable Development: Development of Competencies and Value Orientations Between Individual Responsibility and Structural Transformation. Journal of Education for Sustainable Development 13 (1) 67-91. https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.1177/0973408219844849

Schnitzler. T. (2019). The Bridge Between Education for Sustainable Development and Transformative Learning: Towards New Collaborative Learning Spaces. Journal of Education for Sustainable Development 1-12. https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.1177/0973408219873827

Prof. Maria Alzira Pimenta Dinis
Prof. Cláudia Oliveira Fernandes
Guest 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

  • Best environmental practices
  • Ecosystem services
  • Education for sustainable development
  • Environment and society
  • Environmental awareness
  • Environmental education
  • Environmental sociology
  • Environmental sustainability
  • Ethical awareness
  • Outdoor education
  • Sustainable development
  • Sustainable health
  • Sustainable education
  • Sustainable future
  • Sustainable knowledge management
  • Sustainable landscape management
  • Sustainable urban ecosystems
  • Sustainable landscape planning
  • Corporate social responsibility

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The Order Selection Strategy of Polluting OEMs under Environmental Regulations
by Naiqian Zuo, Shiyou Qu, Chengzhang Li and Wentao Zhan
Sustainability 2021, 13(12), 6835; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su13126835 - 17 Jun 2021
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Under environmental regulations, the government restricts the economic activities of polluting OEMs (Original Equipment Manufacturers) in order to improve ecological and economic efficiency. The most direct measure is to limit the production capacity of the companies. Under the condition of limited capacity, the [...] Read more.
Under environmental regulations, the government restricts the economic activities of polluting OEMs (Original Equipment Manufacturers) in order to improve ecological and economic efficiency. The most direct measure is to limit the production capacity of the companies. Under the condition of limited capacity, the order selection strategy of OEMs will be the direct determinant of the company’s own profits. In the foundry market, there are many low-profit orders, while the number of high-profit orders is limited and uncertain. Companies who choose to wait for high-profit orders must bear the waiting costs and the risk of losing a certain profit. Therefore, it is of great significance for the long-term development of the company to select orders to obtain the best profit under the condition of limited production capacity. This paper takes polluting OEMs as the research object and studies the optimal order selection problems of companies under environmental regulations by establishing order selection decision models for different foundry cycles under the condition of limited production capacity. The study found that in the single foundry cycle, there will be an optimal waiting-time threshold for high-profit orders. Based on this optimal waiting-time threshold, the corresponding order selection strategy can be effectively formulated. However, in the multi-foundation cycle, since the optimal waiting-time threshold of high-profit orders is affected by the long-term average profit, the company’s optimal order selection strategy is based on the long-term average profit maximization. Full article
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Increasing Efficiency of Field Water Re-Injection during Water-Flooding in Mature Hydrocarbon Reservoirs: A Case Study from the Sava Depression, Northern Croatia
by Tomislav Malvić, Josip Ivšinović, Josipa Velić, Jasenka Sremac and Uroš Barudžija
Sustainability 2020, 12(3), 786; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su12030786 - 21 Jan 2020
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The authors analyse the process of water re-injection in the hydrocarbon reservoirs/fields in the Upper Miocene sandstone reservoirs, located in the western part of the Sava Depression (Croatia). Namely, this is the “A” field with “L” reservoir that currently produces hydrocarbons using a [...] Read more.
The authors analyse the process of water re-injection in the hydrocarbon reservoirs/fields in the Upper Miocene sandstone reservoirs, located in the western part of the Sava Depression (Croatia). Namely, this is the “A” field with “L” reservoir that currently produces hydrocarbons using a secondary recovery method, i.e., water injection (in fact, re-injection of the field waters). Three regional reservoir variables were analysed: Porosity, permeability and injected water volumes. The quantity of data was small for porosity reservoir “L” and included 25 points; for permeability and injected volumes of water, 10 points each were measured. This study defined selection of mapping algorithms among methods designed for small datasets (fewer than 20 points). Namely, those are inverse distance weighting and nearest and natural neighbourhood. Results were tested using cross-validation and isoline shape recognition, and the inverse distance weighting method is described as the most appropriate approach for mapping permeability and injected volumes in reservoir “L”. Obtained maps made possible the application of the modified geological probability calculation as a tool for prediction of success for future injection (with probability of 0.56). Consequently, it was possible to plan future injection more efficiently, with smaller injected volumes and higher hydrocarbon recovery. Prevention of useless injection, decreasing number of injection wells, saving energy and funds invested in such processes lead to lower environmental impact during the hydrocarbon production. Full article
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