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There is a widespread consensus among the most important players in developed countries (voters, politicians, producers, traditional and green interest groups and bureaucracies) that a shift towards an eco-social market economy is essential for sustainable growth. Nevertheless, market-based...
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effectively respond to or prevent such crises in the future. Central to this rethinking is the concept of sustainability, though … diverse and slippery meanings and uses of sustainability in the post-crisis development assistance architecture. …
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investigating the use of sustainable building materials. The deployment context for the research is the hot and humid climate using … sharing best practices in earth-based building technologies and developing a research and development roadmap. The priority … research areas were broadly classified as optimizing the physio-mechanical properties of earth as a building material and …
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city itself a creative medium for transformative learning and sustainability. …
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for the Union. However, the current situation—where the Sustainability is more intention than a practice—risks such … development of sustainable and safe global life support systems. This comprises monitoring tools for the assessment and evaluation … appropriate procedure for the Sustainability Index determination. …
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of sustainability, where variables with different units are involved. One widely accepted framework for standardizing … sustainability. …
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How we know, is at least as important as what we know: Before educationalists can begin to teach sustainability, we … suggests that the most appropriate pedagogical method for teaching sustainability is one based on situated learning and …
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Groundwater is increasingly relied on as a source of potable water in developing countries, but factors such as population growth, development, and climate variability, pose potential challenges for ongoing sustainable supply. The effect of these factors on the groundwater system was considered...
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Agricultural biodiversity has hitherto been valued almost exclusively as a source of traits that can be used in scientific breeding programs to improve the productivity of crop varieties and livestock breeds. We argue that it can make a far greater contribution to increased productivity. In...
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on hydrological runoff processes using the Pan-European Soil Erosion Risk Assessment (PESERA) model, the estimated amount … caused the increased flooding events in the lower sub-basin, but also pose a great sustainability risk of sedimentation to …
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