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An Assessment of Thailand’s Biofuel Development

Kumar, S.; Salam, P. Abdul; Shrestha, Pujan; Ackom, … - In: Sustainability 5 (2013) 4, pp. 1577-1597

of feedstock used, production trends, planned targets and policies and discusses the biofuel sustainability issues … derived from agricultural residues perform favorably on environmental and social sustainability issues in comparison to first …

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Understanding Progress: A Heterodox Approach

Barkin, David; Lemus, Blanca - In: Sustainability 5 (2013) 2, pp. 417-431

This paper examines the possibility of understanding and measuring well-being as a result of “progress” on the basis of today’s dominant epistemological framework. Market criteria distort social values by allowing purchasing power to define priorities, likening luxury goods to basic needs;...

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How Assessment Methods Can Support Solid Waste Management in Developing Countries—A Critical Review

Zurbrügg, Christian; Caniato, Marco; Vaccari, Mentore - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 2, pp. 545-570

these purposes. A range of assessment tools are often designed to assess a specific sustainability domain (technical … more holistic picture by integrating different sustainability domains into the same tool. This paper reviews a number of …

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The Climate Adaptation Frontier

Preston, Benjamin L.; Dow, Kirstin; Berkhout, Frans - In: Sustainability 5 (2013) 3, pp. 1011-1035

operating space between safe and unsafe domains. A number of driving forces are responsible for determining the sustainability … encourages reflexive reevaluation of societal values that enable or constrain sustainability. …

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Planning for Climatic Extremes and Variability: A Review of Swedish Municipalities’ Adaptation Responses

Wamsler, Christine; Brink, Ebba - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 3, pp. 1359-1385

Climate change poses a serious challenge to sustainable urban development worldwide. In Sweden, climate change work at the city level emerged in 1996 and has long had a focus on mitigating greenhouse gas emissions. City planners’ “adaptation turn” is recent and still ongoing. This paper...

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The Potential of IT for Corporate Sustainability

Hack, Stefan; Berg, Christian - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 7, pp. 4163-4180

business processes and enable the measuring, tracking and reporting of sustainability performance, as well as the compliance … with legal regulations, all implying substantial potential for improving corporate sustainability. However, the … understanding of the potential of IT for corporate sustainability poses an interesting and valuable research topic. Drawing on …

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Transport Pathways for Light Duty Vehicles: Towards a 2° Scenario

Fulton, Lewis; Lah, Oliver; Cuenot, François - In: Sustainability 5 (2013) 5, pp. 1863-1874

The transport sector is the second largest and one of the fastest growing energy end-use sectors, representing 24% of global energy-related greenhouse gas emissions. The International Energy Agency has developed scenarios for the transport sector within the overall concept of mitigation pathways...

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Sustainability Indicators for the Use of Resources—The Exergy Approach

Koroneos, Christopher J.; Nanaki, Evanthia A.; Xydis, … - In: Sustainability 4 (2012) 8, pp. 1867-1878

Global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions reached an all-time high in 2010, rising 45% in the past 20 years. The rise of peoples’ concerns regarding environmental problems such as global warming and waste management problem has led to a movement to convert the current mass-production,...

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Wild Food, Prices, Diets and Development: Sustainability and Food Security in Urban Cameroon

Sneyd, Lauren Q. - In: Sustainability 5 (2013) 11, pp. 4728-4759

consumers. The implications of this reality for sustainability are troubling. …

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Modeling Sustainability of Water, Environment, Livelihood, and Culture in Traditional Irrigation Communities and Their Linked Watersheds

Fernald, Alexander; Tidwell, Vincent; Rivera, José; … - In: Sustainability 4 (2012) 11, pp. 2998-3022

themselves. Do past adaptive practices hold the key to future sustainability, or are new strategies required? To explore this … conceptualizations with field data and modeling exercises to capture tipping points for non-sustainability and thresholds for sustainable …

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