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The Sustainable Lifestyle
Published in Julie Kerr, Introduction to Energy and Climate, 2017
Today, sustainable living is a hot topic. Many people may have heard about sustainable living but are not sure what it exactly means. At its most basic, sustainable living means living a lifestyle that uses as few resources as possible and causes the least amount of environmental damage for future generations to deal with. There are different forms of sustainable living, since the concept can apply to almost every part of a daily life.
Future Energy and Energy Security
Published in Anco S. Blazev, Energy Security for The 21st Century, 2021
Sustainable living is a lifestyle that attempts to reduce the carbon footprint and minimize the use of Earth’s natural resources. This is most often done by alternative methods of transportation, energy consumption, and special diets.
Peripheral Energy Markets
Published in Anco S. Blazev, Global Energy Market Trends, 2021
Sustainable living is a lifestyle that also attempts to reduce the carbon footprint and minimize the use of Earth’s natural resources. This is most often done by alternative methods of transportation, energy consumption, and special diets.
Construction of water space characteristics in Yuanjiang City based on urban water management framework
Published in Urban Water Journal, 2022
Taking the water resource endowment of Yuanjiang City as the main water characteristic, exploring the best integration method of water and natural habitat, human environment, historical context, land space, economic development and other aspects can fully embody the ecological value, aesthetic value, spatial value, cultural value, social value, and economic value of the water resource landscape of Yuanjiang City. While realizing the coordinated development of ‘man, water and city’ and creating a beautiful, pleasant and sustainable living space, it also achieves the purpose of conservation of water ecology, the guarantee of water safety, the water culture heritage, maintenance of the water cycle and revitalization of the water economy (Xia, Jian, and Yuewen 2010). This way, the city will attract people through the most superior natural environment, retain people through a more humanistic quality space, and create charm through a more open and vital city (Jing et al. 2019).
Sustainable Living Environment in Retirement Villages: What Matters to Residents?
Published in Journal of Aging and Environment, 2021
Bo Xia, Qing Chen, Laurie Buys, Martin Skitmore, Jerry Walliah
A limitation of the study is the relatively small sample size, which inevitably limits the generalizability of the findings, although the face-to-face survey proved to be of additional value – the researchers were able to go through individual questions with residents, addressing their questions raised, and understand the rationale behind their answers. A future study would benefit from a broader questionnaire survey incorporating new sustainability features from the current survey and cover more profile information of residents (such as education levels and marital status) to have a holistic picture of the residents’ sustainability perceptions. Despite this, the findings do provide a number of valuable practical implications for the retirement village industry in Australia and other similarly placed countries. In particular, understanding the residents’ preferences for sustainable living environment features is an important step for village operators and developers toward enhancing the retirement village industry’s sustainable development and providing facilities and services that better cater to the residents’ needs.
Simulation of seawater intrusion and optimization of cutoff wall schemes based on surrogate model
Published in Human and Ecological Risk Assessment: An International Journal, 2019
Tiansheng Miao, Wenxi Lu, Jin Lin, Jiayuan Guo, Yue Fan
Seawater intrusion (SI) into coastal aquifers has occurred in many parts of China’s coastal areas, most are due to the impact of human activities on water quality (Salted). It is a serious problem in coastal areas affecting the sustainable development of local economy and the sustainable living of local residents (Li et al. 2018a). Serious SI threatens freshwater supply in coastal areas and increases the risks of sustainable living. Though in inland areas, similar SI can occur through aquifer leakage (Li et al. 2018b), SI in coastal areas is more common. In particular, the problem in Bohai Bay is the most prominent (Guo and Huang 2003). Under the rapid economic development in China in the past three decades, some cities in coastal areas have undergone rapid population growth. Accordingly, the demand on fresh groundwater resources in the densely populated areas has increased. As a result, point-like groundwater funnels have been formed. Groundwater is a crucial resource used to maintain communities and economies in China's coastal areas. As the use of groundwater in coastal areas has increased, it has also been recognized that groundwater supplies are vulnerable to overuse and salinization (Shi and Jiao 2014).