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address sustainability challenges. Communication research can play a critical role in fostering more effective research … and the important roles for communication research within sustainability science, especially with regard to strengthening …
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the commitment of all the participants involved in an educational process specifically dedicated to sustainability and the … sensitivity to the themes of sustainability and the green economy. The investigation has been extended from Italy to Honduras …, where the authors are involved in the development of major projects concerning sustainability. The results of the survey …
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threats to human survival. To achieve sustainability, we must not only understand the ecological dynamics of a system, such as … sustainability, we must develop new or reform existing legal mechanisms to protect ecosystems. …
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Although in Sweden the simultaneous use of forests for timber production and game hunting are both of socioeconomic importance it often leads to conflicting interests. This study examines forest stakeholder participation in improving game habitat to increase hunting opportunities as well as...
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. I address the cultural dimension of sustainability and examine what happens to living traditions in migratory contexts …
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Sustainability issues involve complex interactions between social, economic, and environmental factors that are often … viewed quite differently by disparate stakeholder groups. Issues of non-sustainability are wicked problems that have many …, often obscure causes, and for which there is no single, straightforward solution. Furthermore, the concept of sustainability …
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Cycle time reduction plays an important role in improving the competitiveness and sustainability of a semiconductor … actions to enhance the competitiveness and sustainability of a semiconductor manufacturer. First, some controllable factors …
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Industrial Ecology (IE) is based on the relation between the natural ecosystem and economic ecosystem. The concept refers to the metaphorical relation between the natural and industrial ecosystems as a model for transforming unsustainable industrial systems. Several tools and strategies are...
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It is argued that sustainable development makes best sense as a social learning process that brings tangible and useful outcomes in terms of understanding and skills, and also reinforces the motivation and capability for further learning. Thus, there are always balances to be struck between a...
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Sustainability as a policy concept has its origin in the Brundtland Report of 1987. That document was concerned with … return to the original meaning, where sustainability is concerned with the well-being of future generations and in particular … substitutability, which has been cast into a distinction between ‘weak’ and ‘strong’ sustainability. It is argued that these two do not …
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