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Human perceptions, decision-making and (pro-) environmental behaviour are closely connected. This Research Topic focuses on bringing together perceptions and behaviour for sustainable coastal and island marine resource use systems. Management and governance of (large and small-scale) coastal marine resource use systems function in highly complex social and ecological environments, which are culturally embedded, economically interest-led and politically biased. Management processes therefore have to integrate multiple perspectives as well as perception-driven standpoints on the individual as well as the decision-makers’ levels. Consequently, the analysis of perceptions has developed not only as part of philosophy and psychology but also of environmental science, anthropology and human geography. It encompasses intuitions, values, attitudes, thoughts, mind-sets, place attachments and sense of place. All of these influence human behavior and action, and are collected or are available within the respective marine resource use system, which may support the livelihood of a large part of the local population. Management and governance are not only about mediating between resource use conflicts or establishing marine protected areas, they deal with people and their ideas and perceptions. Understanding the related decision-making processes on multiple scales and levels hence means much more than economically assessing the available marine resources or existing threats to the associated system. Over the past decade, there has been a growing inter- and transdisciplinary international community becoming interested in research which integrates perceptions of coastal and inland residents, local and regional stakeholder groups, as well as resource and environmental managers and decision-makers. By acknowledging the importance of the individual perspective and interest-led personal views, it became obvious how valuable and important these sources of information are for coastal research. An increase of research effort spent on the link between perceptions and behaviour in marine resource use systems is thus both timely and needed. By offering a diversity of inspiring and comprehensive contributions on the link between perceptions and behaviour, this Research Topic aspires to critically enlighten the discourse and applicability of such research for finding sustainable, locally identified, anchored and integrated marine resource use pathways.

marine resource use --- perceptions --- decision-making process --- stakeholder interactions --- coastal communities --- qualitative research --- community-based marine management --- marine resource use --- perceptions --- decision-making process --- stakeholder interactions --- coastal communities --- qualitative research --- community-based marine management

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The thesis deals with the question of why no international legally binding instrument for forest policy exists so far. The thesis shows that the problem definition presents a form of control for the decision making process and for the problem solution. Therefore, it is demonstrated how locations, reports and non-human objects are related to the development of international forest policy within United Nations. In the development of international forest policy, the policy problem was framed as "deforestation and degradation of tropical forests". In the second phase of policy formulation, the "deforestation and degradation of all forests" moves to the centre of interests. The thesis analyses furthermore the formation of meaning of the policy narratives that are intertwined with international forest policy. The identification of global environmental discourses that transfer a certain kind of meaning of policy and of problem solution, that operate with discursive practices and technologies of power, and that use retorical devices, allows to show which rules and practices influence how natural resource policy arises. In this way it can be shown how policy problems come into being and how they are understood. Furthermore, it allows identifying policy change in a non-decision-making process. Die Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Frage warum kein international rechtlich verbindliches Instrument zur Frage der Waldpolitik verabschiedet wurde. Sie zeigt wie die Definition des Politikproblems eine Form der Kontrolle für den Entscheidungsfindungsprozess und die damit verbundene Problemlösung darstellt. Folglich wird demonstriert wie Orte, Berichte und nicht-menschliche Objekte mit der Entstehung der internationalen Waldpolitik im Rahmen der Vereinten Nationen verbunden sind. Während in der Entstehungsphase der internationalen Waldpolitik das eigentliche Politikproblem als "Entwaldung und Degradierung des Tropenwaldes" verstanden wird, rückt in der zweiten Phase der Politikformulierung die "Entwaldung und Degradierung aller Wälder" in den Blickpunkt des internationalen Interesses. Weiters legt die Arbeit die bedeutungsbildenden Elemente der Policy-Narrative, die mit der internationalen Waldpolitik verwoben sind, offen. Die Identifikation von globalen Umweltdiskursen, die ein bestimmtes Politik- bzw. Problemlösungsverständnis transportieren, die mittels diskursiver Praktiken und Machttechnologien operieren und die rhetorische Mittel - wie z.B. die apokalyptische Vorstellung der Übernutzung - zum Einsatz bringen, erlaubt zu erkennen, welche Regeln und Praktiken sich auf die Art und Weise, wie die Politik der natürlichen Ressourcen entsteht, auswirken. Sie zeigt, wie Policy-Probleme entstehen und wie sie verstanden werden und erlaubt Policy-Wandel, der sich in einer Nicht-Entscheidung vollzieht, zu identifizieren. Der Rolle der Sprache wird folglich besondere Aufmerksamkeit zuteil.

Forest conservation --- Forest management --- Forest conservation --- international forest policy --- deforestation and degradation of tropical forests --- global environmental discourses --- policy change in a non-decision-making process --- Politikwandel --- internationale Waldpolitik --- Nicht-Entscheidungsfindungsprozess --- Völkerrechtsinstrument --- Diskursanalyse --- Natürliche Ressource --- Vereinte Nationen --- Waldforum der Vereinten Nationen --- International cooperation. --- Political aspects. --- Political aspects. --- international forest policy --- deforestation and degradation of tropical forests --- global environmental discourses --- policy change in a non-decision-making process --- Politikwandel --- internationale Waldpolitik --- Nicht-Entscheidungsfindungsprozess --- Völkerrechtsinstrument --- Diskursanalyse --- Natürliche Ressource --- Vereinte Nationen --- Waldforum der Vereinten Nationen

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Since the conceptualization of bounded rationality, management scholars started investigating how people—managers and entrepreneurs—really make decisions within (and for) organizations. The aim of this eBook is to deeply investigate trends that have flourished within this pivotal research area in conceptual and/or empirical terms, trying to provide new insights on how managers and entrepreneurs make decisions within and for organizations. In this vein, readers that approach this eBook will be taken by hand and accompanied to the discovery of how the mind of decision makers is at the basis of organizational developments or failures. In this regard, published contributions in this eBook underline how executives and entrepreneurs must be ecologically rational, thus be aware of the negative and positive effects that biases can have depending on the context and use them at their advantage. Managerial and entrepreneurial decision-making are phenomena that cannot be detached from the environment in which executives and entrepreneurs are embedded, claiming to establish new approaches to research that looks at decision-making as an individual/group/organization-environment dialectical and multi-level phenomenon.

Business strategy --- Management of specific areas --- behavioral strategy --- decision-making --- core self-evaluations --- intuition --- overconfidence --- performance --- nurse manager --- time pressure --- self-leadership --- stress --- entrepreneurial decision-making --- resource-based view --- opportunity identification --- competitive advantage --- critical assessments --- managerial process --- decision making --- critical infrastructure elements --- resilience --- disruption --- indication --- data lake --- data governance --- data quality --- big data --- digital transformation --- data science --- asset management --- boundary condition --- SME entrepreneurs --- accountants --- cognitive biases --- debiasing --- clinical decision-making process --- clinical reasoning --- orthopaedics --- follow-up decision --- healthcare decision --- behavioral strategy --- decision-making --- core self-evaluations --- intuition --- overconfidence --- performance --- nurse manager --- time pressure --- self-leadership --- stress --- entrepreneurial decision-making --- resource-based view --- opportunity identification --- competitive advantage --- critical assessments --- managerial process --- decision making --- critical infrastructure elements --- resilience --- disruption --- indication --- data lake --- data governance --- data quality --- big data --- digital transformation --- data science --- asset management --- boundary condition --- SME entrepreneurs --- accountants --- cognitive biases --- debiasing --- clinical decision-making process --- clinical reasoning --- orthopaedics --- follow-up decision --- healthcare decision

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In a similar way to many other engineering fields, the road pavement industry strongly affects the critical issues of our generation, including climate change, pollutant emission, the exploitation of natural resources and economic crises. For this reason, technicians and researchers are searching ravenously for sustainable solutions to implement in current road construction systems with the following goals: To reduce the consumption of energy and virgin materials; To run environmentally and economically friendly maintenance; To recycle waste from different industrial processes; To decrease the noise, the pollution and the heat generated by traffic, particularly in urban contexts. This Special Issue aims to collect high-quality studies that combine the aforementioned solutions, including works pertaining to: The hot, warm, and cold recycling of reclaimed asphalt pavement; Marginal materials for asphalt pavements; Innovative sustainable materials; Durability and environmental aspects; Structure performance, modeling and design; Advanced trends in rehabilitation and preservation; Surface characteristics and road safety; Management system/life cycle analysis; Urban heat island mitigation; Energy harvesting.

Technology: general issues --- History of engineering & technology --- porous concrete --- metakaolin --- geopolymers --- permeable pavements --- urban drainage systems --- maintenance --- reinforced asphalt pavement --- geogrid --- interlayer bonding --- static shear test --- cyclic shear test --- fatigue properties --- warm mix asphalt --- natural zeolite --- gas emissions --- energy consumption --- production costs --- bituminous mixtures --- nano-additives --- nanoclay --- carbon nanotubes --- graphene nanoplatelets --- nano-calcium oxide --- nano-titanium dioxide --- sonication --- fatigue performance --- self-healing --- hot-mix asphalt --- ageing --- cooling --- temperature segregation --- hauling --- insulated truck --- re-heating --- contact stresses --- rolling resistance --- braking --- free rolling --- load --- inflation pressure --- speed --- porosity --- permeability coefficients --- mixing ratio --- aggregate size --- compressive strength --- computed tomography (CT) image --- ex-post CBA --- road modernisation --- incidence of traffic accidents --- decision-making process --- life cycle assessment --- waste management --- circular economy --- alternative materials --- construction --- road stabilisation --- bearing capacity --- unbound base course --- cold central-plant recycled base course --- falling weight deflectometer (FWD), cold recycling in-plant --- bitumen --- aging --- rejuvenation --- reclaimed asphalt --- recycling --- coal bottom ash --- waste material --- recycle --- construction industry --- civil engineering --- bitumen selection --- performance-graded bitumen --- asphalt pavement temperatures --- temperature maps --- porous concrete --- metakaolin --- geopolymers --- permeable pavements --- urban drainage systems --- maintenance --- reinforced asphalt pavement --- geogrid --- interlayer bonding --- static shear test --- cyclic shear test --- fatigue properties --- warm mix asphalt --- natural zeolite --- gas emissions --- energy consumption --- production costs --- bituminous mixtures --- nano-additives --- nanoclay --- carbon nanotubes --- graphene nanoplatelets --- nano-calcium oxide --- nano-titanium dioxide --- sonication --- fatigue performance --- self-healing --- hot-mix asphalt --- ageing --- cooling --- temperature segregation --- hauling --- insulated truck --- re-heating --- contact stresses --- rolling resistance --- braking --- free rolling --- load --- inflation pressure --- speed --- porosity --- permeability coefficients --- mixing ratio --- aggregate size --- compressive strength --- computed tomography (CT) image --- ex-post CBA --- road modernisation --- incidence of traffic accidents --- decision-making process --- life cycle assessment --- waste management --- circular economy --- alternative materials --- construction --- road stabilisation --- bearing capacity --- unbound base course --- cold central-plant recycled base course --- falling weight deflectometer (FWD), cold recycling in-plant --- bitumen --- aging --- rejuvenation --- reclaimed asphalt --- recycling --- coal bottom ash --- waste material --- recycle --- construction industry --- civil engineering --- bitumen selection --- performance-graded bitumen --- asphalt pavement temperatures --- temperature maps

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The book “Building Energy Audits-Diagnosis and Retrofitting” is a collection of twelve papers that focus on the built environment in order to systematically collect and analyze relevant data for the energy use profile of buildings and extended for the sustainability assessment of the built environment. The contributions address historic buildings, baselines for non-residential buildings from energy performance audits, and from in-situ measurements, monitoring, and analysis of data, and verification of energy saving and model calibration for various building types. The works report on how to diagnose existing problems and identify priorities, assess, and quantify the opportunities and measures that improve the overall building performance and the environmental quality and well-being of occupants in non-residential buildings and houses. Several case studies and lessons learned from the field are presented to help the readers identify, quantify, and prioritize effective energy conservation and efficiency measures. Finally, a new urban sustainability audit and rating method of the built environment addresses the complexities of the various issues involved, providing practical tools that can be adapted to match local priorities in order to diagnose and evaluate the current state and future scenarios towards meeting specific sustainable development goals and local priorities.

Research & information: general --- feature selection --- prediction of energy consumption --- electricity consumption --- machine learning --- non-residential buildings --- sustainability --- buildings --- neighbourhoods --- decision-making process --- key performance indicators --- KPIs --- built environment --- audit --- assessment tools --- brick 1 --- moisture 2 --- heat flow 3 --- energetic rehabilitation 4 --- non-destructive test 5 --- energy community (EC) --- renewable energy sources (RESs) --- citizen involvement --- co-ownership in renewable energies --- nonresidential buildings --- baselines --- EUI --- energy use intensities --- carbon emission intensities --- EPCs --- energy performance certificates --- building energy simulation --- school building --- field measurements --- validation --- airing --- windows and door opening --- occupancy behaviour --- energy efficiency measures --- retrofitting --- thermo-modernization --- final energy --- primary energy --- energy consumption --- home energy management system --- human comfort factor --- thermal comfort --- visual comfort --- demand response --- energy performance --- energy audits --- school buildings --- indoor climate --- HeLLo --- energy retrofit --- non-destructive test --- in situ --- hygrothermal measurement --- dynamic conditions --- hygrothermal simulation --- historic wall --- daylight --- lighting control --- lighting --- occupant preferences --- occupant satisfaction --- photosensor --- post-occupancy evaluation --- survey --- single-family houses --- embodied energy --- operational energy --- benchmarks --- renovations --- energy use intensity (EUI) --- embodied energy intensity (EEI) --- energy recovery time