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Enhancement of Land Tenure Relations as a Factor of Sustainable Agricultural Development: Case of Stavropol Krai, Russia

Trukhachev, Vladimir; Ivolga, Anna; Lescheva, Marina - In: Sustainability 7 (2014) 1, pp. 164-179

The aim of this paper is to give an overview and analyze the contemporary land tenure relations in Russia in view of their influences on economic viability of agricultural production. The paper investigates progress made toward the development of agricultural land market in economies in...

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Edible Mushroom Cultivation for Food Security and Rural Development in China: Bio-Innovation, Technological Dissemination and Marketing

Zhang, Yaoqi; Geng, Wei; Shen, Yueqin; Wang, Yanling; … - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 5, pp. 2961-2973

Mushrooms traditionally collected from forests and now more cultivated have recently become the products of the fifth-largest agricultural sector in China. It was estimated that more than 25 million farmers in China are currently engaged in the collection, cultivation processing and marketing of...

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Ecosystem Management: Tomorrow’s Approach to Enhancing Food Security under a Changing Climate

Munang, Richard Tingem; Thiaw, Ibrahim; Rivington, Mike - In: Sustainability 3 (2011) 7, pp. 937-954

in poverty around the world live in rural areas and depend directly on the productivity of ecosystems for their … financial investment for integrating ecosystem management with food security and poverty alleviation priorities. As the world … food security portfolios. We will not be able to feed the world and eradicate extreme poverty, if we do not protect our …

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Towards an Integrated Framework for SDGs: Ultimate and Enabling Goals for the Case of Energy

Nilsson, Måns; Lucas, Paul; Yoshida, Tetsuro - In: Sustainability 5 (2013) 10, pp. 4124-4151

Discussions on how to define, design, and implement sustainable development goals (SDG) have taken center stage in the United Nations since the Rio+20 summit. Energy is one of the issues that enjoyed consensus, before and after Rio, as an important area for SDGs to address. Many proposals have...

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Leveraging Fuel Subsidy Reform for Transition in Yemen

Breisinger, Clemens; Engelke, Wilfried; Ecker, Olivier - In: Sustainability 4 (2012) 11, pp. 2862-2887

in general, but poverty can increase or decrease depending on reform design. A promising strategy for a successful reform …

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Focal Areas for Measuring the Human Well-Being Impacts of a Conservation Initiative

Leisher, Craig; Samberg, Leah H.; Buekering, Pieter Van; … - In: Sustainability 5 (2013) 3, pp. 997-1010

Within conservation, the need to measure the impacts on people from conservation initiatives such as projects and programs is growing, but understanding and measuring the multidimensional impacts on human well-being from conservation initiatives is complex. To understand the constituent...

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Proportioning of Steel Fibre Reinforced Concrete Mixes for Pavement Construction and Their Impact on Environment and Cost

Achilleos, Constantia; Hadjimitsis, Diofantos; … - In: Sustainability 3 (2011) 7, pp. 965-983

Steel fibre reinforced concrete (SFRC) is a construction material investigated for more than 40 years including for pavement applications. A number of studies have demonstrated the technical merits of SFRC pavements over conventional concrete pavements; however little work has been carried out...

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Planting Trees for Publicity—How Much Are They Worth?

Kronenberg, Jakub; Mieszkowicz, Joanna - In: Sustainability 3 (2011) 7, pp. 1022-1034

Corporate marketing departments use trees and forests for advertising and public relations (PR). Trees and forests constitute a tangible symbol of the environment, reinforced by the growing awareness of the role that trees play in preventing climate change. Although the carbon sequestration...

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Climate Change and Industrial Policy

Naudé, Wim - In: Sustainability 3 (2011) 7, pp. 1003-1021

Industrial policy (IP) can make an important contribution to both environmental and social sustainability. The purpose of this paper is to explore the new rationale for IP due to climate change and to determine its implications for the how of industrial policy. Five implications are discussed,...

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Sustainable Urban Development and Land Use Change—A Case Study of the Yangtze River Delta in China

Zhang, Haiyan; Uwasu, Michinori; Hara, Keishiro; Yabar, … - In: Sustainability 3 (2011) 7, pp. 1074-1089

This paper introduces a sustainability assessment method for the rapidly urbanizing Yangtze River Delta in China addressing the role of land use pattern. We first calculated the sustainability component scores of 16 cities in the area in 2000 and 2005. The results showed that socioeconomic and...

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