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Editorial Board Members’ Collection Series: Resources and Sustainable Utilization

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Resources and Sustainable Utilization".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2025 | Viewed by 10313

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Gbekeloluwa B. Oguntimein

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Department of Civil Engineering, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD 21251, USA
Interests: environmental impact and risk assessment; water supply engineering; biological wastewater treatment; civil engineering project management; sustainable energy
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Prof. Dr. Antoni Sánchez

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Department of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, 08193 Barcelona, Spain
Interests: biological treatment of organic waste (composting and anaerobic digestion); solid-state fermentation to convert wastes into bioproducts and nanotechnology for environmental remediation
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Dr. Dimitrios Komilis

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Department of Environmental Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, Kimmeria Campus, GR 671 32 Xanthi, Greece
Interests: municipal solid waste management; composting; biorefining of solid waste; life cycle analysis
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Dr. Grigorios L. Kyriakopoulos

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Photometry Laboratory, Electric Power Division, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, 9 Heroon Polytechniou Street, 15780 Athens, Greece
Interests: engineering; environment; energy; renewable energy sources; waste management from organic pollutants; properties of polymer materials; business administration; education; culture; human resource management; psychology; urban and regional development; forest resource management; extroversion and internationalization of small and medium enterprises (SMEs); development economics; environmental systems; circular economy; behavioral ecology
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Prof. Dr. Rajesh Kumar Jyothi

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CSIRO Mineral Resources (CMR), Australian Minerals Research Center (AMRC), Waterford, WA 6152, Australia
Interests: resources to materials via environmental management; sustainable secondary resources innovation; hydrometallurgy & urban mining; clean energy technology applications & sustainable energy solutions; establish policy for resources recovery and recycling
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Dr. Michal Borecki

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The Institute of the Theory of Electrical Engineering, Measurement and Information Systems, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
Interests: lightning protection; electromagnetic compatibility; safety of electrical and electronic devices; risk management
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Dr. Baoguo Zhang

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Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201210, China
Interests: metabolic regulation of microbiological cell factories; biotechnology for microbial synthesis of important pharmaceutical intermediates/bioactive substances; application of environmental biotechnology
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce this Collection titled “Editorial Board Members’ Collection Series: Resources and Sustainable Utilization”, which will collect papers invited by the Editorial Board Members.

The aim of this Collection is to provide scholars in the field of Resources and Sustainable Utilization with a platform for networking and communication. All papers will be fully open access upon publication after peer review.

Prof. Dr. Gbekeloluwa B. Oguntimein
Prof. Dr. Antoni Sánchez
Dr. Dimitrios Komilis
Dr. Grigorios L. Kyriakopoulos
Prof. Dr. Rajesh Kumar Jyothi
Dr. Michal Borecki
Dr. Baoguo Zhang
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Urbanization and Cultural Industry Correlation: An Empirical Analysis from China
by Wen Zhang, Rong Zhang and Yuntao Zou
Sustainability 2024, 16(16), 6807; https://doi.org/10.3390/su16166807 - 8 Aug 2024
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The cultural industry has been recognized as an indispensable component of sustainable economic development. Urbanization often represents a country’s level of economic development. While China is advancing its new urbanization strategy, it is also vigorously promoting cultural revitalization plans. This study employs a [...] Read more.
The cultural industry has been recognized as an indispensable component of sustainable economic development. Urbanization often represents a country’s level of economic development. While China is advancing its new urbanization strategy, it is also vigorously promoting cultural revitalization plans. This study employs a global Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) model and Tobit regression analysis to examine the correlation between China’s cultural industry and urbanization. The results indicate that although the overall economic efficiency of China’s cultural industry is continuously improving, the returns to scale in many provinces are declining. Changes brought about by new urbanization, such as increases in per capita GDP, per capita income, and enterprise scale, have significant positive impacts on the cultural industry. However, the rising urban population ratio has a significant negative impact on the cultural industry. This study suggests that the current new urbanization in China faces issues of oversimplification and excessive advancement. It recommends adjusting relevant policies to allow sufficient time and space for the cultural industry to absorb the benefits brought by urbanization. Given China’s specific national conditions, the conclusions of this study may not necessarily apply to other regions. However, the global DEA-Tobit combination method used in this study aligns more closely with reality and achieves a higher degree of fit, thus possessing a certain level of universality. Full article
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Assessment of the Water Footprint in Low-Income Urban Neighborhoods from Developing Countries: Case Study Fátima (Gamarra, Colombia)
by Brayan Alexis Parra-Orobio, Jonathan Soto-Paz, Anulfo Ramos-Santos, Keiner Fernando Sanjuan-Quintero, Rossember Saldaña-Escorcia, Isabel Cristina Dominguez-Rivera and Antoni Sánchez
Sustainability 2023, 15(9), 7115; https://doi.org/10.3390/su15097115 - 24 Apr 2023
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The increasing pressure on water resources due to population growth and high water consumption, especially in urban areas from tropical developing countries, has led to a rise in water stress. The sustainability analysis of the Total Water Footprint (WFtotal) and the [...] Read more.
The increasing pressure on water resources due to population growth and high water consumption, especially in urban areas from tropical developing countries, has led to a rise in water stress. The sustainability analysis of the Total Water Footprint (WFtotal) and the Environmental Sustainability Index (SIblue) are holistic water management tools that allow for establishing pressures over water resources. This study assessed the WFtotal and their components (Blue, Green, and Gray) in the households of a low-income tropical neighborhood in Colombia with sanitation deficiencies. The activities associated with intra-household water use and higher environmental impact were identified, considering socioeconomic conditions and the water quality in the receiving water body, a wetland, through the application of surveys in a sample of households. The results showed that 86.7% of the WF was the WFgreen, followed by the WFgray (13.2%), and finally, the WFblue (0.2%). The high value of the WFgreen was related to food consumption patterns, which varied according to socioeconomic level. Likewise, the SIblue shows that the Baquero wetland presented scarcity scenarios regarding water quality and sedimentation, threatening the environmental service provision from this strategic ecosystem. Finally, tools such as the WFtotal and SIblue help identify strategies that could be implemented to reduce the pressure on the water resources and the water quality degradation in ecosystems relevant to global sustainability as wetlands. Full article
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A Study on the Influencing Factors of China’s Ecological Footprint Based on EEMD–GeoDetector
by Jiaxin Han and Enkhjargal Dalaibaatar
Sustainability 2023, 15(8), 6680; https://doi.org/10.3390/su15086680 - 14 Apr 2023
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Ecological footprint (EF) is used to measure the energy and resources that are consumed by human beings, and it is used to calculate the energy that ecological services can provide to determine the gap between human behavior and what the earth can tolerate [...] Read more.
Ecological footprint (EF) is used to measure the energy and resources that are consumed by human beings, and it is used to calculate the energy that ecological services can provide to determine the gap between human behavior and what the earth can tolerate so as to ensure that human activities and sustainable development fall within this range. Therefore, it is crucial to research the influencing factors of EF. In this study, the ensemble empirical mode decomposition (EEMD) method was used to decompose China’s per capita ecological footprint from 1961 to 2018 into four intrinsic mode functions (IMFs) and a residual (R) and to conduct factor detection and interaction detection on both each obtained sequence and the original sequence. In order to examine the contributing factors, 15 independent variables representing the economic, social, and environmental pillars of sustainable development were chosen. The outcome under the interaction factor is more logical than the result under the single factor. Under the interaction factor of climate, the short-term changes in the number of doctors per 1000 people, long-term population density, carbon dioxide emissions, and average life expectancy interact with each other and the trend in CO2 emissions to affect the change in ecological footprint. Full article
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An Innovative and Alternative Waste Collection Recycling Program Based on Source Separation of Municipal Solid Wastes (MSW) and Operating with Mobile Green Points (MGPs)
by Konstantinos Tsimnadis, Grigorios L. Kyriakopoulos, Garyfallos Arabatzis, Stefanos Leontopoulos and Efthimios Zervas
Sustainability 2023, 15(4), 3106; https://doi.org/10.3390/su15043106 - 8 Feb 2023
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Recently, among European Union (EU) member states, but also globally, there have been available and successful recycling and treatment practices of Municipal Solid Wastes (MSW). Greece has currently implemented low recycling levels, 21%, of the annually produced MSW, compared to the EU regulations. [...] Read more.
Recently, among European Union (EU) member states, but also globally, there have been available and successful recycling and treatment practices of Municipal Solid Wastes (MSW). Greece has currently implemented low recycling levels, 21%, of the annually produced MSW, compared to the EU regulations. In 2021 the prefectural authorities of Attica Region launched a pilot program of rewarding recycling with source Separation called “THE GREEN CITY”. This program consists of 60 mobile green points (MGPs) that serve at a unified citizen awareness and MSW collection at 7-streams network throughout the prefecture of Attica. In this study, the whole design analysis of “THE GREEN CITY” pilot recycling program contained estimations and calculations of (a) the distances of all waste collection remote itineraries (basic analysis); (b) the annual fuel cost of the MGPs for the realization of all waste collection remote itineraries (financial-based analysis); and (c) the annual carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions into the atmosphere from the IVECO MGPs during the coverage of all waste collection remote itineraries (environmental-based analysis). Then a research synthesis of all these analyses revealed and evaluated the pilot recycling program’s real capabilities and limitations in alignment with: (a) its ultimate goal to help Greece achieve the setting target of Directive 2018/851 for at least 55% by weight recycling and reuse of the total annually generated Greek MSW by 2025 and (b) the MGPs proven ability to support environmental sustainability in densely populated prefectures such as Attica. Full article
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Toward a Sustainable Surimi Industry: Comprehensive Review and Future Research Directions of Demersal Fish Stock Assessment Techniques
by Kuncoro Catur Nugroho, Nimmi Zulbainarni, Zenal Asikin, Slamet Budijanto and Marimin Marimin
Sustainability 2024, 16(17), 7759; https://doi.org/10.3390/su16177759 - 6 Sep 2024
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The surimi industry faces challenges due to the overexploitation of demersal fishes, requiring precise fish stock assessments and the exploration of alternative raw materials. Research in these areas is crucial for fish sustainability. Thus, the current study aims to identify the existing knowledge [...] Read more.
The surimi industry faces challenges due to the overexploitation of demersal fishes, requiring precise fish stock assessments and the exploration of alternative raw materials. Research in these areas is crucial for fish sustainability. Thus, the current study aims to identify the existing knowledge covering the use of the length-based spawning potential ratio (LB-SPR) as a fish stock assessment method and to fill the gap in the research by consolidating relevant literature through a PRISMA SLR, using qualitative and quantitative data. The findings indicate that the LB-SPR method, while effective, needs to be utilized more in the surimi industry. This review highlights the need for precise stock assessments, historical data collection, and advanced sampling technologies, which are crucial for accurate data collection to conduct LB-SPR studies to assess fish stocks. Our study finds that significant research gaps include the need for more empirical studies on reproductive biology and the crucial role of interdisciplinary research in enhancing the long-term viability of fish stocks and the health of marine ecosystems. Full article
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