Sustainability  

Karen L. Eccleston, Peter R. Brooks and D. Ipek Kurtböke

The future need for sustainable agriculture will be met in part by wider use of biological control of plant pathogens over conventional fungicides hazardous to the environment and to public health. Control strategies involving both (i) direct use of micro... see more

Naim Hamdia Afgan

The promotion of sustainable development is the European affirmation in the international arena and is European policy for the Union. However, the current situation—where the Sustainability is more intention than a practice—risks such European affirmation... see more

Ian Thomas, Orana Sandri and Kathryn Hegarty

This paper captures the breadth of complexity in the debate about ‘green jobs’ as the world seeks to transition to a ‘low carbon economy’ and to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through the reduction of reliance for energy on the burning of fossil fuels. A... see more

Guri Krigsvoll, Marina Fumo and Renata Morbiducci

Sustainability in construction has a short history in terms of principles, standardizations and applications. From the Brundtland Report “Our Common Future”, a new vision of the resource deficits, climate impacts and the social responsibility gave growth ... see more

Miguel Brandão, Roland Clift, Llorenç Milà i Canals and Lauren Basson

An integrated environmental and economic assessment of land use for food, energy and timber in the UK has been performed using environmental Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and economic Life Cycle Costing (LCC), to explore complementary sustainability aspects... see more

William A. H. Scott and Stephen R. Gough

It is argued that sustainable development makes best sense as a social learning process that brings tangible and useful outcomes in terms of understanding and skills, and also reinforces the motivation and capability for further learning. Thus, there are ... see more

Andrea Kollmann and Friedrich Schneider

There is a widespread consensus among the most important players in developed countries (voters, politicians, producers, traditional and green interest groups and bureaucracies) that a shift towards an eco-social market economy is essential for sustainabl... see more

Donald L. Tanaka, Mark A. Liebig, Joseph M. Krupinsky and Stephen D. Merrill

Cropping systems in American agriculture are highly successful since World War II, but have become highly specialized, standardized, and simplified to meet the demands of an industrialized food system. Minimal attention has been given to the efficient exp... see more

Peter O. Kolawole, Leo Agbetoye and Simeon A. Ogunlowo

Cassava is a very important food crop that is capable of providing food security. However, a lot of problems prevent the development and use of modern equipment for its production. Most of the cassava produced still comes from peasant farmers who depend o... see more

Bruce Tonn, Paul Frymier, Jared Graves and Jessa Meyers

This paper presents a scenario depicting life in the United States in the year 2050. The scenario is designed to achieve energy sustainability: fossil fuels and corn ethanol have been replaced by other sustainable and inexhaustible energy sources. The sce... see more

Esther Obonyo, Joseph Exelbirt and Malarvizhi Baskaran

The discussion in this paper is part of research directed at establishing optimal stabilization strategy for compressed bricks. The deployment context for the use of the compressed bricks was Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) where manually fabricated bricks are i... see more

Carlo Aall and Idun A. Husabø

A split review of the environmental impact of Norwegian consumption and production over the last decade illustrates that rising consumption is eliminating the bonus of eco-efficiency in production. Two key drivers behind this situation are the large incre... see more