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region with broad implications for community sustainability among indigenous communities. We find that by being place …-focused, rather than place-based, community sustainability can be maintained even in the context of relocation and the loss of …
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Companies make significant investments in environmental impacts assessments, biodiversity action plans, life-cycle assessments, and environmental management systems, but guidance on where and when these tools can be best used, and how they may scale-up to inform corporation-wide planning, is...
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In many countries, policymakers have used urban densification strategies in an effort to create more sustainable cities. However, spatial density as a concept remains unclear and complex. Little information exists about how density is considered by decision makers, including the different kinds...
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This article describes the development and history of a sustainability photography competition. From its simple … beginnings as an environmental officer’s idea, an environmental sustainability photography competition began in just one … university. Now hosted by Australasian Campuses Towards Sustainability (ACTS), finalist entries are viewed on a public website …
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The rise of the bioeconomy is usually associated with increased sustainability. However, various controversies suggest … understanding of the relationship between the bioeconomy and sustainability in the scientific literature by means of a systematic … visions about the relationship between bioeconomy and sustainability differ substantially. Four different visions were …
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The ongoing debate about the use of genetically-modified (GM) crops in agriculture has largely focused on food safety and genetic contamination issues. Given that the majority of GM crops have been produced to respond to the problem of crop yield reductions caused by diseases, insects and weeds,...
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resource conservation as the primary motivation for and primary outcome of adaptation activities. Here, we present an analysis … of the sustainability of community based adaptation (CBA) activities in 20 community based organizations (CBO) that were … established in the Blue Nile Highlands of Ethiopia in order to promote resilience to climate change. CBA sustainability was …
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There is a deficit of multi-site studies examining the integration of sustainability in the policies and practices of … post-secondary institutions. This paper reviews what comparative empirical research has been undertaken on sustainability … in post-secondary education (PSE) within eight leading international journals publishing on sustainability and education …
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The construction and service of urban infrastructure systems and buildings involves immense resource consumption. Cities are responsible for the largest component of global energy, water, and food consumption as well as related sewage and organic waste production. Due to ongoing global...
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The present research has focused on a contribution to the improvement of solid waste management in a waste collectors’ cooperative located in Brazil (Marcos Moura district, Santa Rita, Paraiba State) through a technical and organizational up-grading. Collection, processing and final disposal...
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