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Life-Cycle Assessment (LCA) is one of various management tools for evaluating environmental concerns. This paper reviews LCA from a buildings perspective. It highlights the need for its use within the building sector, and the importance of LCA as a decision making support tool. It discusses LCA...
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This paper presents an overview on the sustainability of ancient water supply systems in Jerusalem from the …
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natural resources and landfills) and economic sustainability. …
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needs are satisfied equitably, and monitor whether transportation systems are moving towards sustainability by confirming …
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Understanding sustainability engages multiple views in a wide spectrum of technological, social and political positions …. Over the last two decades it appears that an evolutionary process reflects a changing sustainability paradigm. At the basis … engage new consumption attitudes and behavior. This review paper adopts a holistic and integrated sustainability perspective …
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The influence of thermodynamics on the emerging transdisciplinary field of 'ecological economics‘ is critically reviewed from an interdisciplinary perspective. It is viewed through the lens provided by the 'bioeconomist' Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen (1906–1994) and his advocacy of 'the Entropy...
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Astrobiology, the study of life in the universe, offers profound insights into human sustainability. However …, astrobiology is commonly neglected in sustainability research. This paper develops three topics connecting astrobiology to … sustainability: constraints on what zones in the universe are habitable, the absence of observations of extraterrestrial …
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Researchers and responsible officials have made considerable progress in recent years in efforts to anticipate, plan for, and respond to drought. Some of those efforts are beginning to shift from purely reactive, relief-oriented measures to programs designed to prevent or to mitigate drought...
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, use of renewable resources, and to recycling and reuse of building materials. In addition, the development of new eco …
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Many factors to be appropriately addressed in moving towards energy sustainability are examined. These include … with the approach put forward, and options for energy sustainability and the broader objective of sustainability. Energy … sustainability is of great importance to overall sustainability given the pervasiveness of energy use, its importance in economic …
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