materials demand; however, equally important is the consumption characteristics of the people who occupy the city. While size of … develop consumption benchmarks in the domains of: food, buildings, consumables, transportation, and water that correspond to … these domains for the per capita consumption patterns of urban dwellers to achieve ecological sustainability. The dimensions …

Sustainable consumption has been addressed from different perspectives in numerous studies. Recently, urban structure … study is a consumption-based life cycle assessment of carbon emissions. In more detail, a hybrid life cycle assessment (LCA …

consumption side. Today, we still witness several forms of political consumerism. This contribution explores the possibilities and … limits of consumer involvement in sustainable consumption. The main finding of this study of the political organization of …

solutions and policy measures have been largely outpaced by growing population and increasing consumption levels. Therefore, an … understanding of the essential driving forces and complexities of consumption, and of how environmental impacts from rising … consumption can be reduced, is becoming increasingly important. This understanding can be achieved by analyzing not only economic …

assessment is conducted via means of consumption based hybrid life-cycle assessment, which allows the reduction potential to be …

questionnaire on the consumption patterns of 18 single households. The results are compared to a study on households with varying … income levels, to average consumption patterns and to decent minimum reference budgets. The low-income households have lower … material footprints than average and most of the material footprints are below the socially sustainable level of consumption …

Using Pakistan and the Arctic as examples, this article examines security challenges arising from climate change …. Pakistan is in crisis, and climate change, a transnational phenomenon perhaps better characterized as radical enviro …

The eutrophication of surface waters has become an endemic global problem. Nutrient loadings from agriculture are a … ecosystems and a viable agriculture. Our analysis shows that nutrient loss from agriculture is a challenging issue if farm … and recover these nutrients. Agriculture’s impact on eutrophication risk may also be overestimated in many catchments, and …

the current and future productivity and profitability of Australian agriculture. Current agricultural production is … susceptibility to erosion and thus limit the ability of agriculture to advance without further improving soil management practices … plans that engage science and agriculture to develop practices that simultaneously increase productivity and improve soil …