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Higher education institutions play a leading role in sustainability efforts nationwide. Not only do these institutions …
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ecosystem improvement, protection and sustainability. The binational Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement was first signed in …
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Tourist Centers</em> (IPC) towards sustainability. As the development of these IPCs leads to changes in local communities and … their environment, it is necessary to define how to establish a path towards sustainability and how to measure progress … sustainability indicators at a local level, and to discuss their adequacy in the context of tourism development. The study was …
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This article is based on a qualitative focus group study regarding consumer perceptions about the sustainability of … locally produced food supply chains. Sustainability perceptions were analyzed through thematic content analysis, where the … findings, the socio-cultural aspects encompassing locally produced food form the most important sustainability dimension for …
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are identified using a variety of basic indicators. These “Sustainability Action Areas” can be targeted for collaborative … sustainability initiatives involving groups of municipalities aggregated according to their response to particular indicators. …
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) agropastoral system with common-pool pastures. Sustainability can be enhanced by augmenting (i) the ecological and social capitals …
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This theoretical paper clarifies the concept of sustainability learning and specifically analyzes motivational aspects …. Mastering the challenges of sustainability requires individual learning as well as learning processes on different levels of …, sustainability learning needs to be understood as a multi-level concept, comprising individual learning as well as learning processes …
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A methodology for assessing the sustainability of hydrogen production using solid fuels is introduced, in which three … sustainability dimensions (ecological, sociological and technological) are considered along with ten indicators for each dimension … qualitative sustainability indicators can be reasonably defined based on evaluations of system feasibility, and that adequate …
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The paper presents thoughts on Sustainable Data Infrastructure (SDI) development, and its user requirements bases. It brings Maslow's motivational theory to the fore, and proposes it as a rationalization mechanism for entities (mostly governmental) that aim at realizing SDI. Maslow's theory,...
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As many of us begin to embrace the concept of sustainability, we realize that it is not simply something that we ‘do ….’ Rather, sustainability is a destination that we aspire to reach with the selection of the sustainable pathways that we choose … as we proceed along the journey. We are embarking on a new journey with the creation of <i>Sustainability</i>, an on …
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