Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development

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Volume 15, issue 6, 2013

Coping with insularity: the need for crop genetic improvement to strengthen adaptation to climatic change and food security in the Pacific pp. 1405-1423

Vincent Lebot

Climate change: an amplifier of existing health risks in developing countries pp. 1425-1442

Maud Huynen, Pim Martens and Su-Mia Akin

Toward systemic campus sustainability: gauging dimensions of sustainable development via a motivational and perception-based approach pp. 1443-1464

Sharmila Moganadas, Victor Corral-Verdugo and Santhi Ramanathan

Energy, environment and growth nexus in South Asia pp. 1465-1475

Muhammad Zeshan and Vaqar Ahmed

The NEP scale: measuring ecological attitudes/worldviews in an African context pp. 1477-1494

Charles Ogunbode

Exploring the effects of population growth on future land use change in the Las Vegas Wash watershed: an integrated approach of geospatial modeling and analytics pp. 1495-1515

Yu Sun, Susanna Tong, Mao Fang and Y. Yang

Impacts of ecotourism in Rajiv Gandhi National Park (Nagarhole), Karnataka pp. 1517-1525

Nichola Ramchurjee

Black granite mining and the implications for the development of sustainability in Zimbabwe: the case of Mutoko communities pp. 1527-1541

Sandra Bhatasara

The world budget constraint pp. 1543-1553

Theodore Lianos

Environmental justice of nuclear waste policy in Taiwan: Taipower, government, and local community pp. 1555-1571

Gillan Huang, Tim Gray and Derek Bell

Sustainability assessment of urban communities through rating systems pp. 1573-1591

Umberto Berardi

Role of remote sensing and community forestry to manage forests for the effective implementation of REDD+ mechanism: a case study on Cambodia pp. 1593-1603

Ram Avtar, Haruo Sawada and Pankaj Kumar

Water management from tradition to second modernity: an analysis of the water crisis in Iran pp. 1605-1621

Masoud Yazdanpanah, Dariush Hayati, Gholam Zamani, Fereshteh Karbalaee and Stefan Hochrainer-Stigler

From the environmental debt to the environmental loan: trends and future challenges for intergenerational discounting pp. 1623-1644

Marta Bottero, Valentina Ferretti and Giulio Mondini

The in-use annual energy and carbon saving by switching from a car to an electric bicycle in an urban UK general medical practice: the implication for NHS commuters pp. 1645-1651

J. Pierce, Andrew Nash and Carole Clouter

Lead content in new decorative paints in India pp. 1653-1661

Ashok Mohanty, Neha Budhwani, Barun Ghosh, M. Tarafdar and Sanchita Chakravarty

Life cycle inventory of the commercial production of compost from oil palm biomass: a case study pp. 1663-1670

Abu Norhasmillah, Chiew Puah, Nor Ibrahim, Azhari Baharuddin and Yuen Choo

Volume 15, issue 5, 2013

Water Bodies Protection Index for assessing the sustainability status of lakes under the influence of urbanization: a case study of south Chennai, India pp. 1157-1171

M. Sudha, S. Ravichandran and R. Sakthivadivel

Towards a contraction and convergence target based on population life expectancies since 1960 pp. 1173-1187

Paul Read, Janet Stanley, Dianne Vella-Brodrick and Dave Griggs

Land use changes and its impacts on water resources in Nile Delta region using remote sensing techniques pp. 1189-1204

Mohamed Elhag, Aris Psilovikos and Maria Sakellariou-Makrantonaki

Protected areas as vehicles in population development: lessons from rural South Africa pp. 1205-1226

André Pelser, Nola Redelinghuys and Nontombi Velelo

Effective coordination and integration of energy and transport policies for CO 2 mitigation in Thailand pp. 1227-1244

Ratchaphong Klinsrisuk, Vilas Nitivattananon and Winai Wongsurawat

Improving food security and safety through use of edible by-products from wild game pp. 1245-1257

Cheryl McCrindle, Marianna Siegmund-Schultze, Alexander Heeb, Anne Zárate and Shashi Ramrajh

No plastic bag campaign day in Malaysia and the policy implication pp. 1259-1269

Irina Zen, Rahmalan Ahamad and Wahid Omar

Flora biodiversity change detection: a case study pp. 1271-1279

Nooshin Madani, Jamal Ghoddousi and Shayda Madani

Changes of public environmental awareness in response to the Taihu blue-green algae bloom incident in China pp. 1281-1302

L. Xu, J. Shen, D. Marinova, X. Guo, F. Sun and F. Zhu

Clean energy and water: assessment of Mexico for improved water services and renewable energy pp. 1303-1321

Kelly Sanders, Carey King, Ashlynn Stillwell and Michael Webber

From economic to environmental sustainability: the forest management debate in 20th century Finland and Sweden pp. 1323-1336

Harri Siiskonen

Elites, climate change and agency in a developing society: the Chilean case pp. 1337-1363

Cristian Parker, Mario Letelier and Juan Muñoz

A study on the significance of lithology in groundwater quality of Madurai district, Tamil Nadu (India) pp. 1365-1387

C. Thivya, S. Chidambaram, C. Singaraja, R. Thilagavathi, M. Prasanna, P. Anandhan and I. Jainab

Stand-alone PV-hydrogen energy system in Taleghan-Iran using HOMER software: optimization and techno-economic analysis pp. 1389-1402

Abolfazl Shiroudi, Seyed Taklimi, Seyed Mousavifar and Peyman Taghipour

Erratum to: Distribution of health costs of pesticide use by household economy pp. 1403-1404

Kishor Atreya, Bishal Sitaula and Roshan Bajracharya

Volume 15, issue 4, 2013

Pesticide handling practices by vegetable farmer in Kenya pp. 887-902

Ibrahim Macharia, Dagmar Mithöfer and Hermann Waibel

Characterising the nature of household vulnerability to climate variability: empirical evidence from two regions of Ghana pp. 903-926

Philip Antwi-Agyei, Andrew Dougill, Evan Fraser and Lindsay Stringer

Population Density and Fertility in Farm Households: A Study of the Millennium Development Authority Zones in Ghana pp. 927-947

Clement Ahiadeke and Dominic Der

Exploring development strategies of agricultural systems of Hill Tracts of Chittagong in Bangladesh pp. 949-966

B. Bala, S. Majumder, S. Altaf Hossain, M. Haque and M. Hossain

The potential conflict between traditional perceptions and environmental behavior: compost use by Muslim farmers pp. 967-978

Shlomit Paz, Ofira Ayalon and Areej Haj

Heterogeneity, collective action and management sustainability in common property forest resources: case study from the Indian state Odisha pp. 979-997

Abhilas Pradhan and Rabinarayan Patra

Animal production in a sustainable agriculture pp. 999-1036

Stefan Hellstrand

Hydrological benefits in the context of Brazilian environmental services program pp. 1037-1048

Dulce Rodrigues, Paulo Oliveira, Teodorico Alves Sobrinho and Eduardo Mendiondo

Developing, designing, and testing artificial set of lithologies for soil-aquifer treatment (SAT) systems without soil, using geosynthetic materials pp. 1049-1064

Anil Misra

Adapting to change: transitions in traditional rangeland management of Tibetan yak herders in northwest Yunnan pp. 1065-1077

Michelle Haynes and Yongping Yang

Can renewable energy technologies improve the management of stressed water resources threatened by climate change? Argentine drylands case study pp. 1079-1097

Gustavo Nadal, Gonzalo Bravo, Leonidas Girardin and Sebastián Gortari

Environmentally extended social accounting matrix for Chile pp. 1099-1127

Alvaro Gallardo and Cristian Mardones

Evaluation of education and water resource types on some wheat land features, using Fars Comprehensive Agricultural Database (case study; Pasargad, Iran) pp. 1129-1142

Mehrzad Kherad, Hossein Ahani, Mohammad Kousari, Arman Beyraghdar Kashkooli and Mohammad Karampour

Social-ecological analysis of integrated agriculture-aquaculture systems in Dedza, Malawi pp. 1143-1155

Jessica Blythe

Volume 15, issue 3, 2013

Distribution of health costs of pesticide use by household economy pp. 827-839

Kishor Atreya, Bishal Sitaula and Roshan Bajracharya

Volume 15, issue 2, 2013

China as a new shaper of international development: the environmental implications pp. 257-263

Frauke Urban, Giles Mohan and Sarah Cook

The potential of corporate environmental responsibility of Chinese state-owned enterprises in Africa pp. 265-284

May Tan-Mullins and Giles Mohan

Chinese hydropower companies and environmental norms in countries of the global South: the involvement of Sinohydro in Ghana’s Bui Dam pp. 285-300

Oliver Hensengerth

An analysis of China’s investment in the hydropower sector in the Greater Mekong Sub-Region pp. 301-324

Frauke Urban, Johan Nordensvärd, Deepika Khatri and Yu Wang

Amazonian forest loss and the long reach of China’s influence pp. 325-338

Philip Fearnside, Adriano Figueiredo and Sandra Bonjour

Who is importing forest products from Africa to China? An analysis of implications for initiatives to enhance legality and sustainability pp. 339-354

Wenbin Huang, Andreas Wilkes, Xiufang Sun and Anne Terheggen

China–Africa development cooperation in the rural sector: an exploration of land tenure and investments linkages for sustainable resource use pp. 355-366

Yongjun Zhao

Using biomass residues from oil palm industry as a raw material for pulp and paper industry: potential benefits and threat to the environment pp. 367-383

Pooja Singh, Othman Sulaiman, Rokiah Hashim, Leh Peng and Rajeev Singh

Reallocating water from canal irrigation for environmental flows: benefits forgone in the Upper Ganga Basin in India pp. 385-405

Upali Amarasinghe, Vladimir Smakhtin, Luna Bharati and Ravinder Malik

Convergence of new members of the EU: changes in household consumption expenditure structure regarding environmental impact during the prosperous period pp. 407-427

Genovaitė Liobikienė and Justina Mandravickaitė

Recalculating GHG emissions saving of palm oil biodiesel pp. 429-479

Gernot Pehnelt and Christoph Vietze

Characterization of bottom sediments and phosphorus fractions in hyper-eutrophic Krishnagiri reservoir located in an agricultural watershed in India pp. 481-496

Velu Sudha and Neelakanda Ambujam

Scientific understanding of stakeholders’ behavior in mining community pp. 497-510

Masami Nakagawa, Kyle Bahr and Derek Levy

Comparative analysis of land use and lake water quality in rural and urban zones of south Chennai, India pp. 511-528

Chaithanya Merugu and Ravichandran Seetharaman

Irish fish, Irish people: roles and responsibilities for an emptying ocean pp. 529-546

Dana Miller and Stefano Mariani

Perceptions and patterns of human–elephant conflict at Barjora block of Bankura district in West Bengal, India: insights for mitigation and management pp. 547-565

Kunal Chakraborty and Jhantu Mondal

Volume 15, issue 1, 2013

A system view of solvent selection in the pharmaceutical industry: towards a sustainable choice pp. 1-21

S. Perez-Vega, E. Ortega-Rivas, I. Salmeron-Ochoa and P. Sharratt

Strategies for coastal ecosystem management in India pp. 23-38

S. Marale

Governing protected areas to fulfil biodiversity conservation obligations: from Habermasian ideals to a more instrumental reality pp. 39-50

Peter Jones

Causal relationships between African mahoganies exports and deforestation in Ghana: policy implications pp. 51-66

Jones Danquah, Daniel Sarpong and Ari Pappinen

A modeling analysis of the sustainability of ecotourism in Belize pp. 67-80

David Blersch and Patrick Kangas

ICT applications in the research into environmental sustainability: a user preferences approach pp. 81-100

Aline Chiabai, Dirk Rübbelke and Lisa Maurer

Knowledge, beliefs and attitudes of secondary school students on renewable feedstocks/biomass: the case of Greece pp. 101-116

M. Kapassa, K. Abeliotis and M. Scoullos

Environmental non-governmental organizations: key players in development in a changing climate—a case study of Mali pp. 117-131

Gabriel Ménard

The role of the clean development mechanism in achieving China’s goal of a resource-efficient and environmentally friendly society pp. 133-148

Ruiyue Jia, Xiumei Guo and Dora Marinova

How environmentally focused is the German sustainability strategy? A critical discussion of the indicators used to measure sustainable development in Germany pp. 149-166

Falko Leukhardt and Simon Allen

Physical development trend and green space destruction in developing cities: a GIS approach pp. 167-175

Parisa Olad Ghaffari and Seyed Monavari

Happiness as a harmonising path for bringing higher education towards sustainability pp. 177-197

M. Escobar-Tello and Tracy Bhamra

Effects of a participatory bird census project on knowledge, attitudes and behaviors of coffee farmers in Colombia pp. 199-223

Gloria Lentijo and Mark Hostetler

Reframing social sustainability reporting: towards an engaged approach pp. 225-243

Liam Magee, Andy Scerri, Paul James, James Thom, Lin Padgham, Sarah Hickmott, Hepu Deng and Felicity Cahill

Regional socio-economic impacts of decentralised bioeconomy: a case of Suutela wooden village, Finland pp. 245-256

Olli Lehtonen and Lasse Okkonen