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Eco-Self-Build Housing Communities: Are They Feasible and Can They Lead to Sustainable and Low Carbon Lifestyles?
Broer, Steffie; Titheridge, Helena - In: Sustainability 2 (2010) 7, pp. 2084-2116
-term through occupancy and activities. Current approaches, which require housing developers to reduce the carbon emissions of the …This paper concerns how sustainable and low carbon living can be enabled in new housing developments in the UK. It is … type of development. Conventional business models for new housing development, operating under current government …
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Retrofitting Housing with Lightweight Green Roof Technology in Sydney, Australia, and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Wilkinson, Sara; Feitosa, Renato Castiglia - In: Sustainability 7 (2015) 1, pp. 1081-1098
carbon emissions, reduced urban heat island effect, increased bio-diversity, housing temperature attenuation and reduced …
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Mapping of Biomass Fluxes: A Method for Optimizing Biogas-Refinery of Livestock Effluents
Nardin, Francesca; Mazzetto, Fabrizio - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 9, pp. 5920-5940
This paper presents the topic of the management of livestock effluents and, therefore, nutrients (particularly N) in the framework of the biogas supply chain. The bio-refinery will be analyzed as a unique system, from the farm to the biomass produced and sent to anaerobic digestion, focusing on...
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National Sustainability Outreach Assessment Based on Human and Social Capital: The Case of Environmental Sciences in Switzerland
Mieg, Harald A.; Hansmann, Ralph; Frischknecht, Peter M. - In: Sustainability 4 (2011) 1, pp. 17-41
This paper reports on a sustainability outreach study based on an assessment of human and social capital. The aim was to capture the national sustainability outreach of twenty years of Environmental Sciences education, centered at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. The...
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Social Capital and Walkability as Social Aspects of Sustainability
Rogers, Shannon H.; Gardner, Kevin H.; Carlson, Cynthia H. - In: Sustainability 5 (2013) 8, pp. 3473-3483
The concepts of sustainability and sustainable development are frequently described as having three main components, sometimes referred to as the three pillars or the triple bottom line: environmental, economic, and social. Because of an historical focus in the sustainability field on correcting...
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Human Capital and Sustainability
Šlaus, Ivo; Jacobs, Garry - In: Sustainability 3 (2011) 1, pp. 97-154
A study of sustainability needs to consider the role of all forms of capital—natural, biological, social, technological, financial, cultural—and the complex ways in which they interact. All forms of capital derive their value, utility and application from human mental awareness, creativity...
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Identification and Induction of Human, Social, and Cultural Capitals through an Experimental Approach to Stormwater Management
Green, Olivia Odom; Shuster, William D.; Rhea, Lee K.; … - In: Sustainability 4 (2012) 8, pp. 1669-1682
Decentralized stormwater management is based on the dispersal of stormwater management practices (SWMP) throughout a watershed to manage stormwater runoff volume and potentially restore natural hydrologic processes. This approach to stormwater management is increasingly popular but faces...
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Social Capital and Longitudinal Change in Sustainability Plans and Policies: U.S. Cities from 2000 to 2010
Pierce, John; Lovrich, Nicholas; Johnson, Bonnie; … - In: Sustainability 6 (2013) 1, pp. 136-157
This study examines changes from 2000 to 2010 in the adoption of sustainability plans and policies in a sample of U.S. cities. The study’s framework posits sustainability initiatives as communitarian outcomes intended to meet the needs of both current and future generations. We hypothesize,...
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Challenges for Sustainable Development and Its Legal Response in China: A Perspective for Social Transformation
Qin, Tianbao - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 8, pp. 5075-5106
With rapid development since the 1970s, China is entering a period of social transformation, which not only creates favorable conditions for sustainable development but also presents new challenges. The transitional period in China is a stage in which two types of social transformation coexist,...
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Sustainability Assessment and Indicators: Tools in a Decision-Making Strategy for Sustainable Development
Waas, Tom; Hugé, Jean; Block, Thomas; Wright, Tarah; … - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 9, pp. 5512-5534
Recognizing the urgent need for sustainability, we argue that to move beyond the rhetoric and to actually realize sustainable development, it must be considered as a decision-making strategy. We demonstrate that sustainability assessment and sustainability indicators can be powerful...
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