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Evolutionary Plant Breeding in Cereals—Into a New Era

Döring, Thomas F.; Knapp, Samuel; Kovacs, Geza; … - In: Sustainability 3 (2011) 10, pp. 1944-1971

In evolutionary plant breeding, crop populations with a high level of genetic diversity are subjected to the forces of … populations to deal with stressful, variable, and unpredictable environments. This resilience of evolving plant populations is …

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Sustaining Sanak Island, Alaska: A Cultural Land Trust

Reedy-Maschner, Katherine L.; Maschner, Herbert D. G. - In: Sustainability 5 (2013) 10, pp. 4406-4427

Sanak Island is the easternmost of the Aleutian Islands and was inhabited by the Aleut (Unangan) peoples for nearly 7000 years. The past few centuries of Sanak Island life for its Aleut residents can be summarized from ethnohistoric documents and extensive interviews with former residents as...

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A Stepwise, Participatory Approach to Design and Implement Community Based Adaptation to Drought in the Peruvian Andes

Lasage, Ralph; Muis, Sanne; Sardella, Carolina S. E.; … - In: Sustainability 7 (2015) 2, pp. 1742-1773

The livelihoods of people in the Andes are expected to be affected by climate change due to their dependence on glacier water. The observed decrease in glacier volume over the last few decades is likely to accelerate during the current century, which will affect water availability in the region....

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Educating the Future of Sustainability

Bowser, Gillian; Gretzel, Ulrike; Davis, Elizabeth; … - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 2, pp. 692-701

elements of sustainability. Our model is based on a foundation of: (1) diversity; (2) tiered mentoring in cohorts; (3) engaging …

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Whose Diversity Counts? The Politics and Paradoxes of Modern Diversity

Baker, Lauren; Dove, Michael; Graef, Dana; Keleman, Alder; … - In: Sustainability 5 (2013) 6, pp. 2495-2518

Is “diversity” a modern concept, like indigeneity or biodiversity, which is conceived precisely at the time that it … seems to be threatened and on the verge of disappearing? In the face of perceived threats to diversity, projects and … policies have been crafted to protect, promote, or conserve diversity, but in doing so they have often demonstrated a …

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Unraveling the Skilled Mobility for Sustainable Development Mantra: An Analysis of China-EU Academic Mobility

Leung, Maggi W.H. - In: Sustainability 5 (2013) 6, pp. 2644-2663

mobility for sustainability” construct that sidelines important social components such as equity and diversity. Statistical …

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Resilience Assessment of Lowland Plantations Using an Ecosystem Modeling Approach

Wu, Chia-Hsin; Lo, Yueh-Hsin; Blanco, Juan A.; Chang, … - In: Sustainability 7 (2015) 4, pp. 3801-3822

:1 camphor laurel/ash density ratio. From an ecological resilience point of view, rotation length was more important than stand …

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Delivering a Multi-Functional and Resilient Urban Forest

Hale, James D.; Pugh, Thomas A. M.; Sadler, Jon P.; … - In: Sustainability 7 (2015) 4, pp. 4600-4624

tensions more explicit, allowing them to be used to test the decadal-scale resilience of urban street trees. Our analysis …

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The Unsustainable Trend of Natural Hazard Losses in the United States

Gall, Melanie; Borden, Kevin A.; Emrich, Christopher T.; … - In: Sustainability 3 (2011) 11, pp. 2157-2181

In the United States, direct losses from natural hazards are on the rise with hurricanes, flooding, and severe storms contributing about three quarters of the total damages. While losses from severe storms have been stable over the past fifty years, hurricane and flood losses have tripled. Per...

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Emergency Managers Confront Climate Change

Labadie, John R. - In: Sustainability 3 (2011) 8, pp. 1250-1264

Emergency managers will have to deal with the impending, uncertain, and possibly extreme effects of climate change. Yet, many emergency managers are not aware of the full range of possible effects, and they are unsure of their place in the effort to plan for, adapt to, and cope with those...

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