This Special Issue consists of selected papers from the annual international Sustainable Asia Conference (SAC) 2016, held on Jeju Island, South Korea, from 28 June to 2 July 2016. SAC 2016 is one of the leading international conferences for presenting novel and fundamental advances in sustainable development issues for Asia. In this special issue, most of the papers emphasize the importance of ...

This article aims at identifying the research issues and challenges that need to be addressed to achieve sustainable transportation system for Indian cities. The same is achieved by understanding the current system and trends of urbanization, motorization and modal shares in India; and their impact on mobility and safety (the two basic goals of transportation) as well as environment. Further, t...

Zhao Xu DITAG, Dept. of Land, Environment and Geoengineering, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Via Pier Carlo Boggio 61, 10138 Torino, Italy +39 3208339655 [email protected] Abstract: :Considering rapid population growth and urbanization, sustainability assessment of residential development has become increasingly necessary for understanding environmental impacts and supporting urban planning...

Given the current socioeconomic context, in which innovation is a key driver of sustainable development, what are the challenges facing information-based development and cooperation, in a way that contributes to regional policies that stimulate localized learning and indigenous development? This broad question has motivated the work behind the present paper, which considered the development of ...

Demographic change and growing urbanization are essential reasons for the increasing demand for mobility in rural areas in Germany. Municipalities in sparsely populated counties are confronted with the problem of providing a basic supply of public mobility services. Especially for rural areas, established public transport means have to be complemented by additional, new, and innovative mobility...

The transportation sector is a complex system. Collecting transportation activity and the associated emissions data is extremely expensive and time-consuming. Grey Relational Analysis provides a viable alternative to overcome data insufficiency and gives insights for decision makers into such a complex system. In this paper, we achieved three major goals: (i) we explored the inter-relationships...

Rapid urbanization and rapid urban growth present great challenges to the sustainable utilization of land resources. This paper discusses the on-going process of construction-to-ecological land conversion (CELC) in terms of three aspects: land use, environmental effects, and system responses. CELC is compared to other current land conversion strategies in China. Taking Shenzhen City as an examp...