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Deschooling Society? A Lifelong Learning Network for Sustainable Communities, Urban Regeneration and Environmental Technologies

Blewitt, John - In: Sustainability 2 (2010) 11, pp. 3465-3478

city itself a creative medium for transformative learning and sustainability. …

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Sustainability Paradigm: Intelligent Energy System

Afgan, Naim Hamdia - In: Sustainability 2 (2010) 12, pp. 3812-3830

for the Union. However, the current situation—where the Sustainability is more intention than a practice—risks such … appropriate procedure for the Sustainability Index determination. …

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A Value Function for Assessing Sustainability: Application to Industrial Buildings

Alarcon, Bibiana; Aguado, Antonio; Manga, Resmundo; … - In: Sustainability 3 (2010) 1, pp. 35-50

of sustainability, where variables with different units are involved. One widely accepted framework for standardizing … sustainability. …

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Education as Re-Embedding: Stroud Communiversity, Walking the Land and the Enduring Spell of the Sensuous

Cato, Molly Scott; Myers, Jan - In: Sustainability 3 (2010) 1, pp. 51-68

How we know, is at least as important as what we know: Before educationalists can begin to teach sustainability, we … suggests that the most appropriate pedagogical method for teaching sustainability is one based on situated learning and …

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Effects of Population Growth and Climate Variability on Sustainable Groundwater in Mali, West Africa

Lutz, Alexandra; Thomas, James M.; Keita, Mamadou - In: Sustainability 3 (2010) 1, pp. 21-34

Groundwater is increasingly relied on as a source of potable water in developing countries, but factors such as population growth, development, and climate variability, pose potential challenges for ongoing sustainable supply. The effect of these factors on the groundwater system was considered...

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Agricultural Biodiversity Is Essential for a Sustainable Improvement in Food and Nutrition Security

Frison, Emile A.; Cherfas, Jeremy; Hodgkin, Toby - In: Sustainability 3 (2011) 1, pp. 238-253

Agricultural biodiversity has hitherto been valued almost exclusively as a source of traits that can be used in scientific breeding programs to improve the productivity of crop varieties and livestock breeds. We argue that it can make a far greater contribution to increased productivity. In...

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Reservoir Sedimentation and Flood Control: Using a Geographical Information System to Estimate Sediment Yield of the Songwe River Watershed in Malawi

Munthali, Kondwani G.; Irvine, Brian J.; Murayama, Yuji - In: Sustainability 3 (2011) 1, pp. 254-269

caused the increased flooding events in the lower sub-basin, but also pose a great sustainability risk of sedimentation to …

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Temporal Objects—Design, Change and Sustainability

Walker, Stuart - In: Sustainability 2 (2010) 3, pp. 812-832

development while also adhering to the principles of sustainability, it becomes important to recognise the potential role of …

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Linkage-Based Frameworks for Sustainability Assessment: Making a Case for Driving Force-Pressure-State-Exposure-Effect-Action (DPSEEA) Frameworks

Waheed, Bushra; Khan, Faisal; Veitch, Brian - In: Sustainability 1 (2009) 3, pp. 441-463

delivering effective sustainability assessments. Sustainable development is an idealistic concept and its assessment has always … demonstrated through an example of sustainability in a higher educational institution. …

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Feasibility Analysis of Sustainability-Based Measures to Reduce VOC Emissions in Office Partition Manufacturing

Luisser, Frank S.; Rosen, Marc A. - In: Sustainability 2 (2010) 2, pp. 624-644

manufacturing office furniture partitions, aimed at contributing to efforts to improve the sustainability of the process. A … the measures considered feasible, which can enhance the sustainability of the manufacturing of office furniture partitions …. Reducing VOC emissions using the measures identified can, in conjunction with other measures, improve the sustainability of the …

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