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Genetically-Improved Tilapia Strains in Africa: Potential Benefits and Negative Impacts

Ansah, Yaw B.; Frimpong, Emmanuel A.; Hallerman, Eric M. - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 6, pp. 3697-3721

Two genetically improved tilapia strains (GIFT and Akosombo) have been created with <i>Oreochromis niloticus</i> (Nile tilapia), which is native to Africa. In particular, GIFT has been shown to be significantly superior to local African tilapia strains in terms of growth rate. While development...

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Research on the Multi-Period Small-Signal Stability Probability of a Power System with Wind Farms Based on the Markov Chain

Ge, Rundong; Liu, Wenying; Li, Huiyong; Zhuo, Jianzong; … - In: Sustainability 7 (2015) 4, pp. 4582-4599

In the traditional studies on small-signal stability probability of a power system with wind farms, the frequency of wind speed was often assumed to obey to some extent a particular probability distribution. The stability probability that is thus obtained, however, actually only reflects the...

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Futures Analysis of Urban Land Use and Wetland Change in Saskatoon, Canada: An Application in Strategic Environmental Assessment

Sizo, Anton; Noble, Bram; Bell, Scott - In: Sustainability 7 (2015) 1, pp. 811-830

This paper presents a scenario-based approach to strategic environmental assessment (SEA) for wetland trend analysis and land use and land cover (LUC) modeling in an urban environment. The application is focused on the Saskatoon urban environment, a rapidly growing urban municipality in...

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Coping with Complex Environmental and Societal Flood Risk Management Decisions: An Integrated Multi-criteria Framework

Hansson, Karin; Larsson, Aron; Danielson, Mats; … - In: Sustainability 3 (2011) 9, pp. 1357-1380

During recent years, a great deal of attention has been focused on the financial risk management of natural disasters … stakeholders (conflicting interests). A systems approach is applied for coping with complex environmental and societal risk … strategies for policy formulation. The framework will aid decision makers with high risk complex environmental decisions subject …

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Intergenerational Justice: How Reasonable Man Discounts Climate Damage

Davidson, Marc D. - In: Sustainability 4 (2012) 1, pp. 106-122

Moral philosophers and economists have evaluated the intergenerational problem of climate change by applying the whole gamut of theories on distributive justice. In this article, however, it is argued that intergenerational justice cannot imply the application of moral ideal theories to future...

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Adaptation to and Recovery from Global Catastrophe

Maher, Timothy M.; Baum, Seth D. - In: Sustainability 5 (2013) 4, pp. 1461-1479

Global catastrophes, such as nuclear war, pandemics and ecological collapse threaten the sustainability of human civilization. To date, most work on global catastrophes has focused on preventing the catastrophes, neglecting what happens to any catastrophe survivors. To address this gap in the...

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A Proposed Methodology for Prioritizing Project Effects to Include in Cost-Benefit Analysis Using Resilience, Vulnerability and Risk Perception

Ortega, Saúl Torres; Hanley, Nick; Simal, Pedro Diaz - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 11, pp. 7945-7966

resilience, vulnerability and risk, we suggest a method for prioritizing project impacts for inclusion in a CBA, which includes …

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An Assessment Framework for Cities Coping with Climate Change: The Case of New York City and its PlaNYC 2030

Jabareen, Yosef - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 9, pp. 5898-5919

Climate change and its resulting uncertainties challenge the concepts, procedures, and scope of conventional approaches to planning, creating a need to rethink and revise current planning methods. This paper proposes a new conceptual framework for assessing city plans based on the idea of...

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A New Strategy for Utilizing Rice Forage Production Using a No-Tillage System to Enhance the Self-Sufficient Feed Ratio of Small Scale Dairy Farming in Japan

Zahra, Windi Al; Yasue, Takeshi; Asagi, Naomi; … - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 8, pp. 4975-4989

Rice forage systems can increase the land use efficiency in paddy fields, improve the self-sufficient feed ratio, and provide environmental benefits for agro-ecosystems. This system often decreased economic benefits compared with those through imported commercial forage feed, particularly in...

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Considerations When Applying Simplified LCA Approaches in the Wine Sector

Arzoumanidis, Ioannis; Raggi, Andrea; Petti, Luigia - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 8, pp. 5018-5028

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) has been increasingly used to improve the environmental performance of food systems and simplification of LCA appears to be a vital question, especially for Small- and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). Following a literature review on simplified LCA tools and their...

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