• Mottainai in Civil Engineering - A Message from Japan 

      Vaverková, Magdalena Daria; Matsui, Yasuhiro; Vaverka, Igor (Szkoła Główna Gospodarstwa Wiejskiego w Warszawie, 2023)
      This article examines the impact of Japan's mottainai concept on civil engineering practices, focusing on the waste of materials, financial resources, and harmonisation of structures with the environment. The authors ...
    • Smart Village and Sustainability. Southern Moravia Case Study 

      Vaishar, Antonín; Šťastná, Milada (De Gruyter Open Ltd., 2019)
      The paper is aimed at an attempt to define a smart village in the Czech conditions. It argues that the principles of smart villages are very similar to the concept of sustainability. The analysis deals with preventing rural ...
    • A State of Review on Instigating Resources and Technological Sustainable Approaches in Green Construction 

      Vijayan, Dhanasingh Sivalinga; Devarajan, Parthiban; Sivasuriyan, Arvindan; Stefańska, Anna; Koda, Eugeniusz; Jakimiuk, Aleksandra; Vaverková, Magdalena Daria; Winkler, Jan; Duarte, Carlos C.; Corticos, Nuno D. (MDPI AG (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute-MDPI), 2023)
      Green building is a way to reduce the impact of the building stock on the environment, society, and economy. Despite the significance of a systematic review for the upcoming project, few studies have been conducted. Studies ...
    • Sustainable Development of a Peripheral Mountain Region on the State Border: Case Study of Moravské Kopanice Microregion (Moravia) 

      Vaishar, Antonín; Šťastná, Milada (MDPI AG (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute-MDPI), 2019)
      The sustainability of rural areas is considered to be most threatened in peripheral, hardly accessible microregions with insufficient economical sources. The paper analyses one such rural area in the eastern part of Moravia ...
    • Udržitelnost a efektivnost jako klíč k soběstačnosti v produkci cukru a cukrové řepy v České republice 

      Vaněk, Martin; Bečvářová, Věra (Mendelova univerzita v Brně, 2023)
      Příspěvek zkoumá vývoj produkce cukrové řepy s následnou výrobou cukru a hodnotí rozhodující faktory, které jsou nezbytné pro zachování této produkce nejen s ohledem na zabezpečení soběstačnosti ve výrobě jedné ze základních ...
    • Willingness to Pay for Forest Existence Value and Sustainability 

      Bamwesigye, Dastan; Hlaváčková, Petra; Sujová, Andrea; Fialová, Jitka; Kupec, Petr (MDPI AG (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute-MDPI), 2020)
      Uganda is richly endowed with flora and fauna. Until the early 2000s, most of the types of vegetation have remained natural/virgin forests and shrubs until recent years, when human activities have damaged them. Understanding ...