Editors
Editor-in-Chief
Professor Walter Leal Filho, PhD, DSc, DPhil, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Associate Publisher
Angela Yang, MSc, Springer Nature, China
Section Editors
Luciana Brandli, PhD, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture (FEAR), University of Passo Fundo, Brazil
Maria Alzira Pimenta Dinis, PhD, Faculty of Science and Technology, University Fernando Pessoa, Portugal
Usha Iyer-Raniga, PhD, School of Property, Construction and Project Management, RMIT University, Australia
Rudi Pretorius, PhD, Department of Geography, University of South Africa (Unisa), South Africa
Mihaela Sima, PhD, Institute of Geography, Environment & GIS Department, Romanian Academy, Romania
Senior Editorial Board Members
Fardous Mohammad Safiul Azam Azam, PhD, School of Life Sciences, Neijiang Normal University, China
Babatunde Bakare, PhD, Department of Chemical Engineering, Mangosuthu University of Technology, South Africa
Kıymet Tunca Çalıyurt, PhD, Faculty of Business Administration and Economics, Trakya University, Turkey
Ee Von Goh, PhD, School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham Malaysia, Malaysia
Sadiq Hussain, PhD, College of Education, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman
Alex Kanyimba, MSc, Centre for Research and Publications, University of Namibia, Namibia
Yen-Lien Kuo, PhD, Department of Economics, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Vanessa Levesque, PhD, Department of Environmental Science & Policy, University of Southern Maine, USA
Chunlan Li, PhD, Faculty of Earth Sciences, East China Normal University, China
Jing Liu, PhD, Graduate School of Education, Tohoku University, Japan
Angelo Paletta, PhD, Department of Management, University of Bologna, Italy
Mustafa Saroar, PhD, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Khulna University of Engineering & Technology (KUET), Bangladesh
Tatiana Teslenko, PhD, Faculty of Applied Science, University of British Columbia, Canada
Renuka Thakore, PhD, University of Central Lancashire, UK
Ubiratã Tortato, PhD, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Brazil
Luis Velazquez, DEng, Industrial Engineering Department, University of Sonora, Australia
Special Content Editors
María García Alvarez, MA, Windesheim University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands
Maria Csutora, PhD, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary
Jintao Lu, PhD, School of Economics and Management, Taiyuan University of Science and Technology, China
Muhammad Usman Mazhar, PhD, Nottingham Trent University, UK
Jose Manuel Diaz Sarachaga, PhD, Universidad de Oviedo, Spain
Marco Tortora, PhD, Polimoda Fashion Institute, Italy
Editorial Board Members
Purushothaman Chirakkuzhyil Abhilash, PhD, Institute of Environment & Sustainable Development, Banaras Hindu University, India
Oluwabunmi Opeyemi Adejumo, PhD, Institute for Entrepreneurship and Development Studies, Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria
Augustine Chioma Affam, PhD, University College of Technology Sarawak, Malaysia
Noe Aguilar-Rivera, PhD, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas y Agropecuarias, Universidad Veracruzana, México
Abdul Ahmad, PhD, School of Chemical Engineering, University of Science, Malaysia
Mohammad Sadegh Allahyari, PhD, Department of Agricultural Management, Islamic Azad University, Iran
Anabela Azul, PhD, CNC-Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Joseph Bandanaa, PhD, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Ghana
María Bermúdez, PhD, Andalusian Institute for Earth System Research, University of Granada, Spain
Justin Bishop, PhD, ARUP, UK
Anna Björklund, PhD, Department of Sustainable Development, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Vincent Blok, PhD, Wageningen University, Netherlands
Yen-Chiang Chang, PhD, School of Law, Dalian Maritime University, China
Mario Coccia, PhD, Research Institute on Sustainable Economic Growth, National Research Council of Italy, Italy
Cristian Dabija, PhD, Department of Marketing, Babes-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Jose Diaz-Sarachaga, PhD, GTDS Research Group, University of Oviedo, Spain
Giovanni Feo, PhD, Department of Industrial Engineering (DIIn), University of Salerno, Italy
Marcos Antonio Leite Frandoloso, PhD, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, University of Passo Fundo, Brazil
Lisa Fröhlich, PhD, CBS International Business School, Germany
Andrea Gatto, PhD, University of Greenwich, UK
José Baltazar Salgueirinho Osório de Andrade Baltazar Guerra, PhD, Centre for Sustainable Development (Greens), Universidade do Sul de Santa Catarina, Brazil
Dzintra Iliško, PhD, Center of Sustainable Education, Daugavpils University, Latvia
Kamrul Islam, PhD, Research Institute of Science for Safety and Sustainability, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan
Elmira Jamei, PhD, Institute for Sustainable Industries & Liveable Cities (ISILC), Victoria University, Australia
Corina Joseph, PhD, Faculty of Accountancy, Universit Teknologi MARA, Malaysia
Marta Jurchescu, PhD, Institute of Geography, Romanian Academy, Romania
Richard Kotter, MA, Northumbria University at Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Sigrid Kusch-Brandt, PhD, Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering (DICEA), University of Padua, Italy
Grigorios Kyriakopoulos, PhD, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece
Wim Lambrechts, PhD, Department of Marketing & Supply Chain Management, Open University of the Netherlands, Netherlands
Khai Ern Lee, PhD, Institute for Environment and Development (LESTARI), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia
João Leitão, PhD, Department of Management and Economics, University of Beira Interior, Portugal
Attila Lengyel, PhD, Department of Tourism and Catering Management, University of Debrecen, Hungary
Magdalène Lévy-Toedter, PhD, FOM University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Johannes Luetz, PhD, School of Social Sciences, University of New South Wales, Australia
Ying Ma, PhD, Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Dimitra Manou, PhD, Department of International Studies, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Mahitab Mekkawi, PhD, Alliance for Arab Women, Egypt
Anna Mercuri, MSc, Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
Jelena Milovanović, PhD, Environment and Sustainable Development, Singidunum University, Serbia
Leila Dal Moro, PhD, Meridional College, Brazil
Caroline Mulinya, PhD, Kaimosi Friends University College, Kenya
Jelena Nedeljković, PhD, Faculty of Forestry, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Julie Newman, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Edward Nunoo, PhD, Institute for Oil and Gas Studies, University of Cape Coast, Ghana
Pedi Obani, PhD, Department of Jurisprudence and International Law, University of Benin, Nigeria
Yonghyup Oh, PhD, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Marie-Asma Ben Othmen, PhD, UniLaSalle, France
Paul Joseph Pace, PhD, Centre for Environmental Education & Research, University of Malta, Malta
Vimal Pandey, PhD, Department of Environmental Science, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, India
Elizabeth Price, DPhil, Department of Natural Sciences, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Pallav Purohit, PhD, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria
Amanda Lange Salvia, PhD, University of Passo Fundo, Brazil
Rita Senise, PhD, Sustainability Lab, Tekinnova Nordic, Sweden
Ayyoob Sharifi, PhD, Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hiroshima University, Japan
Salman Shooshtarian, PhD, School of Property, Construction and Project Management, RMIT University, Australia
Hugo Manuel Ribeiro Dias da Silva, PhD, Institute for Sustainability and Innovation in Structural Engineering, University of Minho, Portugal
Lindelwa Sinxadi, PhD, Department of Built Environment, Central University of Technology, Free State (CUT), South Africa
Adriano Stinca, PhD, Department of Environmental, Biological and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technologies. University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy
Ranjula Bali Swain, PhD, Department of Economics, Södertörn University, Sweden
Joan Pauline Talubo, PhD, Department of Community and Environmental Resource Planning, University of the Philippines Los Baños, Philippines
Monica Thiel, PhD, Asian Institute of Management, Philippines
Diana-Mihaela Țîrcă, PhD, Faculty of Economics, Constantin Brancusi University of Targu-Jiu, Romania
Shiv Tripathi, PhD, Institute of Health Management Research, IIHMR University, India
Eric Yankson, PhD, Department of Architecture, Planning and Construction, Namibia University of Science and Technology, Namibia
Masaru Yarime, PhD, Division of Public Policy, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Shi Yin, DEng, Hebei Agricultural University, China
Van Quy Khuc, PhD, Faculty of Development Economics, VNU University of Economics and Business, Vietnam National University Hanoi, Vietnam
Professor Walter Leal Filho, PhD, DSc, DPhil, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Associate Publisher
Angela Yang, MSc, Springer Nature, China
Section Editors
Luciana Brandli, PhD, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture (FEAR), University of Passo Fundo, Brazil
Maria Alzira Pimenta Dinis, PhD, Faculty of Science and Technology, University Fernando Pessoa, Portugal
Usha Iyer-Raniga, PhD, School of Property, Construction and Project Management, RMIT University, Australia
Rudi Pretorius, PhD, Department of Geography, University of South Africa (Unisa), South Africa
Mihaela Sima, PhD, Institute of Geography, Environment & GIS Department, Romanian Academy, Romania
Senior Editorial Board Members
Fardous Mohammad Safiul Azam Azam, PhD, School of Life Sciences, Neijiang Normal University, China
Babatunde Bakare, PhD, Department of Chemical Engineering, Mangosuthu University of Technology, South Africa
Kıymet Tunca Çalıyurt, PhD, Faculty of Business Administration and Economics, Trakya University, Turkey
Ee Von Goh, PhD, School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham Malaysia, Malaysia
Sadiq Hussain, PhD, College of Education, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman
Alex Kanyimba, MSc, Centre for Research and Publications, University of Namibia, Namibia
Yen-Lien Kuo, PhD, Department of Economics, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Vanessa Levesque, PhD, Department of Environmental Science & Policy, University of Southern Maine, USA
Chunlan Li, PhD, Faculty of Earth Sciences, East China Normal University, China
Jing Liu, PhD, Graduate School of Education, Tohoku University, Japan
Angelo Paletta, PhD, Department of Management, University of Bologna, Italy
Mustafa Saroar, PhD, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Khulna University of Engineering & Technology (KUET), Bangladesh
Tatiana Teslenko, PhD, Faculty of Applied Science, University of British Columbia, Canada
Renuka Thakore, PhD, University of Central Lancashire, UK
Ubiratã Tortato, PhD, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Brazil
Luis Velazquez, DEng, Industrial Engineering Department, University of Sonora, Australia
Special Content Editors
María García Alvarez, MA, Windesheim University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands
Maria Csutora, PhD, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary
Jintao Lu, PhD, School of Economics and Management, Taiyuan University of Science and Technology, China
Muhammad Usman Mazhar, PhD, Nottingham Trent University, UK
Jose Manuel Diaz Sarachaga, PhD, Universidad de Oviedo, Spain
Marco Tortora, PhD, Polimoda Fashion Institute, Italy
Editorial Board Members
Purushothaman Chirakkuzhyil Abhilash, PhD, Institute of Environment & Sustainable Development, Banaras Hindu University, India
Oluwabunmi Opeyemi Adejumo, PhD, Institute for Entrepreneurship and Development Studies, Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria
Augustine Chioma Affam, PhD, University College of Technology Sarawak, Malaysia
Noe Aguilar-Rivera, PhD, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas y Agropecuarias, Universidad Veracruzana, México
Abdul Ahmad, PhD, School of Chemical Engineering, University of Science, Malaysia
Mohammad Sadegh Allahyari, PhD, Department of Agricultural Management, Islamic Azad University, Iran
Anabela Azul, PhD, CNC-Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Joseph Bandanaa, PhD, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Ghana
María Bermúdez, PhD, Andalusian Institute for Earth System Research, University of Granada, Spain
Justin Bishop, PhD, ARUP, UK
Anna Björklund, PhD, Department of Sustainable Development, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Vincent Blok, PhD, Wageningen University, Netherlands
Yen-Chiang Chang, PhD, School of Law, Dalian Maritime University, China
Mario Coccia, PhD, Research Institute on Sustainable Economic Growth, National Research Council of Italy, Italy
Cristian Dabija, PhD, Department of Marketing, Babes-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Jose Diaz-Sarachaga, PhD, GTDS Research Group, University of Oviedo, Spain
Giovanni Feo, PhD, Department of Industrial Engineering (DIIn), University of Salerno, Italy
Marcos Antonio Leite Frandoloso, PhD, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, University of Passo Fundo, Brazil
Lisa Fröhlich, PhD, CBS International Business School, Germany
Andrea Gatto, PhD, University of Greenwich, UK
José Baltazar Salgueirinho Osório de Andrade Baltazar Guerra, PhD, Centre for Sustainable Development (Greens), Universidade do Sul de Santa Catarina, Brazil
Dzintra Iliško, PhD, Center of Sustainable Education, Daugavpils University, Latvia
Kamrul Islam, PhD, Research Institute of Science for Safety and Sustainability, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan
Elmira Jamei, PhD, Institute for Sustainable Industries & Liveable Cities (ISILC), Victoria University, Australia
Corina Joseph, PhD, Faculty of Accountancy, Universit Teknologi MARA, Malaysia
Marta Jurchescu, PhD, Institute of Geography, Romanian Academy, Romania
Richard Kotter, MA, Northumbria University at Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Sigrid Kusch-Brandt, PhD, Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering (DICEA), University of Padua, Italy
Grigorios Kyriakopoulos, PhD, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece
Wim Lambrechts, PhD, Department of Marketing & Supply Chain Management, Open University of the Netherlands, Netherlands
Khai Ern Lee, PhD, Institute for Environment and Development (LESTARI), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia
João Leitão, PhD, Department of Management and Economics, University of Beira Interior, Portugal
Attila Lengyel, PhD, Department of Tourism and Catering Management, University of Debrecen, Hungary
Magdalène Lévy-Toedter, PhD, FOM University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Johannes Luetz, PhD, School of Social Sciences, University of New South Wales, Australia
Ying Ma, PhD, Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Dimitra Manou, PhD, Department of International Studies, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Mahitab Mekkawi, PhD, Alliance for Arab Women, Egypt
Anna Mercuri, MSc, Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
Jelena Milovanović, PhD, Environment and Sustainable Development, Singidunum University, Serbia
Leila Dal Moro, PhD, Meridional College, Brazil
Caroline Mulinya, PhD, Kaimosi Friends University College, Kenya
Jelena Nedeljković, PhD, Faculty of Forestry, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Julie Newman, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Edward Nunoo, PhD, Institute for Oil and Gas Studies, University of Cape Coast, Ghana
Pedi Obani, PhD, Department of Jurisprudence and International Law, University of Benin, Nigeria
Yonghyup Oh, PhD, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Marie-Asma Ben Othmen, PhD, UniLaSalle, France
Paul Joseph Pace, PhD, Centre for Environmental Education & Research, University of Malta, Malta
Vimal Pandey, PhD, Department of Environmental Science, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, India
Elizabeth Price, DPhil, Department of Natural Sciences, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Pallav Purohit, PhD, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria
Amanda Lange Salvia, PhD, University of Passo Fundo, Brazil
Rita Senise, PhD, Sustainability Lab, Tekinnova Nordic, Sweden
Ayyoob Sharifi, PhD, Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hiroshima University, Japan
Salman Shooshtarian, PhD, School of Property, Construction and Project Management, RMIT University, Australia
Hugo Manuel Ribeiro Dias da Silva, PhD, Institute for Sustainability and Innovation in Structural Engineering, University of Minho, Portugal
Lindelwa Sinxadi, PhD, Department of Built Environment, Central University of Technology, Free State (CUT), South Africa
Adriano Stinca, PhD, Department of Environmental, Biological and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technologies. University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy
Ranjula Bali Swain, PhD, Department of Economics, Södertörn University, Sweden
Joan Pauline Talubo, PhD, Department of Community and Environmental Resource Planning, University of the Philippines Los Baños, Philippines
Monica Thiel, PhD, Asian Institute of Management, Philippines
Diana-Mihaela Țîrcă, PhD, Faculty of Economics, Constantin Brancusi University of Targu-Jiu, Romania
Shiv Tripathi, PhD, Institute of Health Management Research, IIHMR University, India
Eric Yankson, PhD, Department of Architecture, Planning and Construction, Namibia University of Science and Technology, Namibia
Masaru Yarime, PhD, Division of Public Policy, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Shi Yin, DEng, Hebei Agricultural University, China
Van Quy Khuc, PhD, Faculty of Development Economics, VNU University of Economics and Business, Vietnam National University Hanoi, Vietnam