Sustainability

2009 - 2025

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Volume 1, issue 4, 2009

The Tenuous Use of Exergy as a Measure of Resource Value or Waste Impact pp. 1-20

Kyrke Gaudreau, Roydon A. Fraser and Stephen Murphy

A Model for Sustainable Humanitarian Engineering Projects pp. 1-19

Bernard Amadei, Robyn Sandekian and Evan Thomas

Sustainability: Living within One’s Own Ecological Means pp. 1-19

Lee Liu

Towards Sustainable Urban Water and Sanitation Services: Barriers and Bridges pp. 1-12

Peder Hjorth

Marketing Sustainable Consumption within Stores: A Case Study of the UK’s Leading Food Retailers pp. 1-12

Peter Jones, Daphne Comfort and David Hillier

Hazards and Risks of Engineered Nanoparticles for the Environment and Human Health pp. 1-34

Danail Hristozov and Ineke Malsch

Sustainability of Ancient Water Supply Facilities in Jerusalem pp. 1-14

Jamal M. Barghouth and Rashed M. Y. Al-Sa`ed

New Challenge for Classics: Neutral Zinc Complexes Stabilised by 2,2’-Bipyridine and 1,10-Phenanthroline and Their Application in the Ring-Opening Polymerisation of Lactide pp. 1-14

Janna Börner, Ulrich Flörke, Artjom Döring, Dirk Kuckling, Matthew D. Jones and Sonja Herres-Pawlis

Enabling Sustainability: Hierarchical Need-Based Framework for Promoting Sustainable Data Infrastructure in Developing Countries pp. 1-14

David O. Yawson, Frederick A. Armah and Alex N. M. Pappoe

Water Management in a State-Centered Environment: Water Governance Analysis of Uzbekistan pp. 1-26

Munira Aminova and Iskandar Abdullayev

Place-Making through Water Sensitive Urban Design pp. 1-26

Byron Vernon and Reena Tiwari

Formation and Control of Self-Sealing High Permeability Groundwater Mounds in Impermeable Sediment: Implications for SUDS and Sustainable Pressure Mound Management pp. 1-69

David D. J. Antia

EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement: Potential Impacts on Rural Livelihoods and Gender (with Focus on Bio-fuels Feedstock Expansion) pp. 1-24

Leonith Hinojosa

Sustainability between Necessity, Contingency and Impossibility pp. 1-24

Karl Bruckmeier

Membrane Processes Based on Complexation Reactions of Pollutants as Sustainable Wastewater Treatments pp. 1-16

Raffaele Molinari, Pietro Argurio and Teresa Poerio

Visualizing Consolidation in the Global Seed Industry: 1996–2008 pp. 1-22

Philip H. Howard

Negotiating Uncertainty: Jamaican Small Farmers’ Adaptation and Coping Strategies, Before and After Hurricanes—A Case Study of Hurricane Dean pp. 1-22

Donovan Campbell and Clinton Beckford

Chemically Modified Cyclodextrins: An Attractive Class of Supramolecular Hosts for the Development of Aqueous Biphasic Catalytic Processes pp. 1-22

Hervé Bricout, Frédéric Hapiot, Anne Ponchel, Sébastien Tilloy and Eric Monflier

Does Biodiesel from Jatropha Curcas Represent a Sustainable Alternative Energy Source? pp. 1-7

Isidro Ovando-Medina, Francisco Espinosa-García, Juan Núñez-Farfán and Miguel Salvador-Figueroa

Sustainable Development in Northern Africa: The Argan Forest Case pp. 1-11

Zoubida Charrouf and Dom Guillaume

An Astrobiological View on Sustainable Life pp. 1-11

Takeshi Naganuma

Sustainability in Agricultural Mechanization: Assessment of a Combined Photovoltaic and Electric Multipurpose System for Farmers pp. 1-27

Hossein Mousazadeh, Alireza Keyhani, Hossein Mobli, Ugo Bardi and Toufic El Asmar

Incorporating User Performance Criteria into Building Sustainability Rating Tools (BSRTs) for Buildings in Operation pp. 1-18

George Baird

Economy and Sustainability—How Economic Integration Stimulates Stringent Environmental Regulations pp. 1-18

Jale Tosun and Christoph Knill

Using an Integrated Participatory Modeling Approach to Assess Water Management Options and Support Community Conversations on Maui pp. 1-18

Andrea M. Bassi, John Harrisson and Rushil S. Mistry

Resource Allocation for Sustainable Urban Transit from a Transport Diversity Perspective pp. 1-18

Cheng-Min Feng and Cheng-Hsien Hsieh

The Impact of Field Size on the Environment and Energy Crop Production Efficiency for a Sustainable Indigenous Bioenergy Supply Chain in the Republic of Ireland pp. 1-18

Rory Deverell, Kevin McDonnell and Ger Devlin

The Influence of Thermodynamic Ideas on Ecological Economics: An Interdisciplinary Critique pp. 1-31

Geoffrey P. Hammond and Adrian B. Winnett

Astrobiology, Sustainability and Ethical Perspectives pp. 1-8

Jacques Arnould

Investment in Sustainable Development: A UK Perspective on the Business and Academic Challenges pp. 1-17

Nigel Garland, Mark Hadfield, George Howarth and David Middleton

Emerging and Innovative Techniques for Arsenic Removal Applied to a Small Water Supply System pp. 1-17

António A. L. S. Duarte, Sílvia J. A. Cardoso and António J. Alçada

Incentives for Improving Energy Efficiency When Renovating Large-Scale Housing Estates: A Case Study of the Swedish Million Homes Programme pp. 1-17

Lovisa Högberg, Hans Lind and Kristina Grange

Evolution of Sustainability in American Forest Resource Management Planning in the Context of the American Forest Management Textbook pp. 1-17

Thomas J. Straka

Wood Polymer Composites Technology Supporting the Recovery and Protection of Tropical Forests: The Amazonian Phoenix Project pp. 1-13

Marcia C. Branciforti, Alessandra L. Marinelli, Marcio Kobayashi, Jose D. Ambrosio, Marcos R. Monteiro and Antonio D. Nobre

Volume 1, issue 3, 2009

Sustainability Promotion and Branding: Messaging Challenges and Possibilities for Higher Education Institutions pp. 1-19

David Selby, Paula Jones and Fumiyo Kagawa

Growth and Development in the U.S. Retail Organic Food Sector pp. 1-19

Travis Smith, Biing-Hwan Lin and Chung L. Huang

Potential Challenges Faced by the U.S. Chemicals Industry under a Carbon Policy pp. 1-20

Andrea Bassi and Joel Yudken

Exploring and Contextualizing Public Opposition to Renewable Electricity in the United States pp. 1-20

Benjamin K. Sovacool

Lessons from Participatory Evaluation of Cropping Practices in Yunnan Province, China: Overview of the Effectiveness of Technologies and Issues Related to Technology Adoption pp. 1-34

Madhu Subedi, Trevor J. Hocking, Michael A. Fullen, Alison R. McCrea and Eleanor Milne

Business Students’ Conceptions of Sustainability pp. 1-12

Anna Reid, Peter Petocz and Paul Taylor

Environmental Strategies for Electrical and Electronic Equipment Supply Chains: Which to Choose? pp. 1-12

Patroklos Georgiadis and Maria Besiou

The Realities of Community Based Natural Resource Management and Biodiversity Conservation in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 1-55

Paul Andre DeGeorges and Brian Kevin Reilly

Design for Sustainability: Current Trends in Sustainable Product Design and Development pp. 1-16

Garrette Clark, Justin Kosoris, Long Nguyen Hong and Marcel Crul

Public Health and the Environment: What Skills for Sustainability Literacy – And Why? pp. 1-16

Walid El Ansari and Arran Stibbe

Tools for Measuring Progress towards Sustainable Neighborhood Environments pp. 1-16

Elizabeth Karol and Julie Brunner

Assessment of Global Emissions, Local Emissions and Immissions of Different Heating Systems pp. 1-22

Johannes Henkel, Robert Kunde, Matthias Gaderer and Georg Erdmann

Biofuels and the Lessons of Easter Island pp. 1-11

Antonio R. Chaves

Linkage-Based Frameworks for Sustainability Assessment: Making a Case for Driving Force-Pressure-State-Exposure-Effect-Action (DPSEEA) Frameworks pp. 1-23

Bushra Waheed, Faisal Khan and Brian Veitch

Policy and Planning Challenges to Promote Efficient Urban Spatial Development during the Emerging Rapid Transformation in China pp. 1-25

Chengri Ding

Life-Cycle Assessment and the Environmental Impact of Buildings: A Review pp. 1-28

Mohamad Monkiz Khasreen, Phillip F. G. Banfill and Gillian F. Menzies

U.S. Demand for Organic and Conventional Fresh Fruits: The Roles of Income and Price pp. 1-15

Biing-Hwan Lin, Steven T. Yen, Chung L. Huang and Travis Smith

Educating for Local Development and Global Sustainability: An Overview in Spain pp. 1-15

María Angeles Murga-Menoyo

Sustainability and Urban Dynamics: Assessing Future Impacts on Ecosystem Services pp. 1-17

Brian Deal and Varkki Pallathucheril

Assessing Public Attitudes and Behaviour to Household Waste Management in Cameroon to Drive Strategy Development: A Q Methodological Approach pp. 1-17

Lawrence O. Mbeng, Jane Probert, Paul S. Phillips and Roy Fairweather

Social Equity Considerations in the Implementation of Caribbean Climate Change Adaptation Policies pp. 1-21

Hari Dulal, Kalim Shah and Nilufar Ahmad

The Growth Delusion pp. 1-21

Bob Lloyd

Volume 1, issue 2, 2009

Soil Microbial Activity in Conventional and Organic Agricultural Systems pp. 1-9

Ademir S.F. Araújo, Luiz F.C. Leite, Valdinar B. Santos and Romero F.V. Carneiro

Methanetrisulfonic Acid: A Highly Efficient Strongly Acidic Catalyst for Wagner-Meerwein Rearrangement, Friedel-Crafts Alkylation and Acylation Reactions. Examples from Vitamin E Synthesis pp. 1-26

Werner Bonrath, Fabrice Aquino, Alois Haas, Simone Hoppmann, Thomas Netscher, Francesco Pace and Horst Pauling

Renegotiating the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement: The Process for a Sustainable Outcome pp. 1-14

Gail Krantzberg

Improving the Sustainability of Office Partition Manufacturing: Balancing Options for Reducing Emissions of Volatile Organic Compounds pp. 1-20

Frank S. Luisser and Marc A. Rosen

Agricultural Systems Located in the Forest-Savanna Ecotone of the Venezuelan Amazonian. Are Organic Agroforestry Farms Sustainable? pp. 1-19

Danilo López-Hernández, Carmen Leonor Hernández, Igor Netuzhilin and Ana Yamila López-Contreras

Automobility: Global Warming as Symptomatology pp. 1-22

Gary Backhaus

A Blueprint for Florida's Clean Energy Future - Case Study of a Regional Government's Environmental Strategy pp. 1-7

Margaret Lowman

Biotic Translocation of Phosphorus: The Role of Deer in Protected Areas pp. 1-16

Werner T. Flueck

Construction of an Environmentally Sustainable Development on a Modified Coastal Sand Mined and Landfill Site – Part 1. Planning and Implementation pp. 1-16

Pamela Hazelton and AnneMarie Clements

Environmental Management, Sustainable Development and Human Health. Edited by Eddie N. Laboy-Nieves, Fred C. Schaffner, Ahmed Abdelhadi, Mattheus F.A. Goosen. CRC Press, London, 2009. XIV, 577 pp., Hardcover.179.95. ISBN: 978-0-415-46963-0 pp. 1-4

Shu-Kun Lin

A Methodological Proposal for Corporate Carbon Footprint and Its Application to a Wine-Producing Company in Galicia, Spain pp. 1-17

Adolfo Carballo Penela, María do Carme García-Negro and Juan Luís Doménech Quesada

Considering Structural, Individual and Social Network Explanations for Ecologically Sustainable Agriculture: An Example Drawn from Washington State Wheat Growers pp. 1-13

Raymond A. Jussaume and Leland Glenna

Production of Biosorbents from Waste Olive Cake and Its Adsorption Characteristics for Zn 2+ Ion pp. 1-21

Ana Fernando, Sofia Monteiro, Filomena Pinto and Benilde Mendes

Selective Reduction of Dimedone pp. 1-6

Ulla Létinois and Werner Bonrath

The Challenge to Revert Unsustainable Trends: Uneven Development and Water Degradation in the Rio de Janeiro Metropolitan Area pp. 1-28

Antonio A. R. Ioris and Maria A. M. Costa

Volume 1, issue 1, 2009

Climate Change and Air Pollution: Exploring the Synergies and Potential for Mitigation in Industrializing Countries pp. 1-12

Frances C. Moore

Energy Sustainability: A Pragmatic Approach and Illustrations pp. 1-26

Marc A. Rosen

Wrapping Our Brains around Sustainability pp. 1-9

Mary Ann Curran

On the Way to Improve the Environmental Benignity of Chemical Processes: Novel Catalysts for a Polymerization Process pp. 1-8

Silvana F. Rach and Fritz E. Kühn

Opportunity and Problem in Context (OPiC): A Framework for Environmental Management pp. 1-16

David Tsetse and Wouter T. De Groot

Sustainable Agriculture and Innovation Adoption in a Tropical Small-Scale Food Production System: The Case of Yam Minisetts in Jamaica pp. 1-16

Clinton L. Beckford

Sustainability: A Crucial Quest for Humanity - Welcome to a New Open Access Journal for a Growing Multidisciplinary Community pp. 1-4

Marc A. Rosen

Sustainability: A Platform for Debate pp. 1-5

Hilary Tovey