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GM Crops, Organic Agriculture and Breeding for Sustainability

Ceccarelli, Salvatore - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 7, pp. 4273-4286

The ongoing debate about the use of genetically-modified (GM) crops in agriculture has largely focused on food safety and genetic contamination issues. Given that the majority of GM crops have been produced to respond to the problem of crop yield reductions caused by diseases, insects and weeds,...

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The Sustainability of Community-Based Adaptation Projects in the Blue Nile Highlands of Ethiopia

Simane, Belay; Zaitchik, Benjamin F. - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 7, pp. 4308-4325

of the sustainability of community based adaptation (CBA) activities in 20 community based organizations (CBO) that were … established in the Blue Nile Highlands of Ethiopia in order to promote resilience to climate change. CBA sustainability was … assessed through multi-criteria analysis using the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). Sustainability was considered for social …

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Greening the Ivory Tower: A Review of Educational Research on Sustainability in Post-Secondary Education

Vaughter, Philip; Wright, Tarah; McKenzie, Marcia; … - In: Sustainability 5 (2013) 5, pp. 2252-2271

There is a deficit of multi-site studies examining the integration of sustainability in the policies and practices of … post-secondary institutions. This paper reviews what comparative empirical research has been undertaken on sustainability … in post-secondary education (PSE) within eight leading international journals publishing on sustainability and education …

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Sustainable Urban (re-)Development with Building Integrated Energy, Water and Waste Systems

Schuetze, Thorsten; Lee, Joong-Won; Lee, Tae-Goo - In: Sustainability 5 (2013) 3, pp. 1114-1127

The construction and service of urban infrastructure systems and buildings involves immense resource consumption. Cities are responsible for the largest component of global energy, water, and food consumption as well as related sewage and organic waste production. Due to ongoing global...

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Effect of Improving Environmental Sustainability in Developing Countries by Upgrading Solid Waste Management Techniques: A Case Study

Vaccari, Mentore; Torretta, Vincenzo; Collivignarelli, Carlo - In: Sustainability 4 (2012) 11, pp. 2852-2861

The present research has focused on a contribution to the improvement of solid waste management in a waste collectors’ cooperative located in Brazil (Marcos Moura district, Santa Rita, Paraiba State) through a technical and organizational up-grading. Collection, processing and final disposal...

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The Architecture and Measurement of an Ecosystem Services Index

Banzhaf, H. Spencer; Boyd, James - In: Sustainability 4 (2012) 4, pp. 430-461

This paper discusses the construction of an ecosystem services index (ESI) and the respective roles of ecology and economics in that effort. It extends the concept of an ESI, analogous to Gross Domestic Product, to other analogous indices, including an ecosystem price or value index, and a net...

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From Talloires to Turin: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Declarations for Sustainability in Higher Education

Sylvestre, Paul; McNeil, Rebecca; Wright, Tarah - In: Sustainability 5 (2013) 4, pp. 1356-1371

Declarations for sustainability in higher education are often seen as a set of guiding principles that aid institutions … of higher learning to incorporate the concept of sustainability into their various institutional dimensions. As the …. In this study, we apply critical discourse analysis to examine how sustainability and the university are socio …

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Approaching the Processes in the Generator Circuit Breaker at Disconnection through Sustainability Concepts

Bulucea, Cornelia A.; Rosen, Marc A.; Nicola, Doru A.; … - In: Sustainability 5 (2013) 3, pp. 1161-1176

advantages related to the sustainability of a power plant. In an alternating current (a.c.) circuit the interruption of a short …

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Energy Recovery from Sludge and Sustainable Development: A Tanzanian Case Study

Torretta, Vincenzo; Conti, Fabio; Leonardi, Matteo; … - In: Sustainability 4 (2012) 10, pp. 2661-2672

ones as future sustainability seemed to be better granted. Best Ray merged the Tanzanian Domestic Biogas Programme …

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What Do We Need to Know to Enhance the Environmental Sustainability of Agricultural Production? A Prioritisation of Knowledge Needs for the UK Food System

Dicks, Lynn V.; Bardgett, Richard D.; Bell, Jenny; … - In: Sustainability 5 (2013) 7, pp. 3095-3115

environmental scientists with direct involvement or expertise in the environmental sustainability of agriculture. The practitioners … long list of 264 knowledge needs to help enhance the environmental sustainability of agriculture within the UK or for the … are about sustainability of livestock feed, trade-offs between ecosystem services at farm or landscape scale, phosphorus …

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