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

1999 - 2025

Current editor(s): Luc Hens

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Volume 7, issue 4, 2005

Public Participation and Effective Water Governance at the Local Level: A Case Study from a Small Under-Developed Area in Chile pp. 417-431

Tarisai Garande and Suzan Dagg

Consensus Building and Sustainability: Some Lessons From an Adverse Local Experience in Greece pp. 433-452

Kalliopi Sapountzaki and Louis Wassenhoven

Physical and Economic Sustainability of Water: New Approach Using the Case of the Big Lost River, Idaho pp. 453-464

Ahmed Said, David Stevens and Gerald Sehlke

Urbanisation Without Development: Environmental and Health Implications in African Cities pp. 465-500

Kwasi Boadi, Markku Kuitunen, Kolawole Raheem and Kari Hanninen

Debates on Sustainable Development: Towards a Holistic View of Reality pp. 501-518

Leonardo Osorio, Manuel Lobato and Xavier Castillo

Land Cover Changes Between 1968 and 2003 In Cai Nuoc, Ca Mau Peninsula, Vietnam pp. 519-536

T. Binh, Nico Vromant, Nguyen Hung, Luc Hens and E. Boon

Volume 7, issue 3, 2005

Perceived Impacts of Ecotourism on Environmental Learning and Conservation: Turtle Watching as a Case Study pp. 291-302

Clement Tisdell and Clevo Wilson

Tourists‘ and Locals‘ Preferences Toward Ecotourism Development in the Maya Biosphere Reserve, Guatemala pp. 303-318

Bob Hearne and C. Santos

Ethanol From Corn: Clean Renewable Fuel for the Future, or Drain on Our Resources and Pockets? pp. 319-336

Tad Patzek, S.-M. Anti, R. Campos, K. Ha, J. Lee, B. Li, J. Padnick and S.-A. Yee

Resource Potentials and Limitations of A Nicaraguan Agricultural Region pp. 337-361

Franziska Pfister and Peter Baccini

Environmental Optimisation in Fractionating Industrial Wastes Using Contribution Margin Analysis as a Sustainable Development Tool pp. 363-376

Jan Stenis

Economic Modelling in Sustainability Science: Issues, Methodology, and Implications pp. 377-400

Sardar Islam

Discussion pp. 401-415

Sergio Madrid

Volume 7, issue 2, 2005

An Assessment of the Valuation Methods Used to Calculate the Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare (ISEW), Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI), and Sustainable Net Benefit Index (SNBI) pp. 185-208

Philip Lawn

On Sustainable Development of Social Forestry in Bangladesh: Experiences from Sal (Shorea Robusta) Forests pp. 209-227

Md. Salam and Toshikuni Noguchi

Environmental and Economic Costs of the Application of Pesticides Primarily in the United States pp. 229-252

David Pimentel

Sustainable Agriculture in the UK pp. 253-270

Joy Ogaji

The Environmental Effects of New Zealand’s Free-Market Reforms pp. 271-289

Jon Barnett and Jonathan Pauling

Volume 7, issue 1, 2005

The Literature Aftermath Of The Brundtland Report ‘Our Common Future’. A Scientometric Study Based On Citations In Science And Social Science Journals pp. 1-8

András Schubert and István Láng

The Orthodoxy And Sustainable Development A Potential For Broader Involvement Of The Orthodox Churches In Ethiopia And Russia pp. 9-21

Valery Votrin

Population, Land Use and Deforestation in the Pan Amazon Basin: a Comparison of Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Perú and Venezuela pp. 23-49

Stephen Perz, Carlos Aramburú and Jason Bremner

Multiscale Methodological Framework to Derive Criteria and Indicators for Sustainability Evaluation of Peasant Natural Resource Management Systems pp. 51-69

S. López-Ridaura, H. Keulen, M. Ittersum and P. Leffelaar

Land Cover and Use Changes in Relation to the Institutional Framework and Tenure of Land and Resources in Eastern Tanzania Miombo Woodlands pp. 71-93

E. Luoga, E. Witkowski and K. Balkwill

Economic Underdevelopment And Sustainable Development In The World:Conditioning Factors, Problems And Opportunities pp. 95-115

Francisco Ayala-carcedo and Manuel González-Barros

“Measuring Sustainability”: A Multi-Criterion Framework pp. 117-134

Giuseppe Munda

The Scene Model: Getting A Grip On Sustainable Development In Policy Making pp. 135-151

Jasper Grosskurth and Jan Rotmans

Distribution Of Cadmium And Nickel Among Various Forms In Natural And Contaminated Soils Amended With Edta pp. 153-160

B. Panwar, K. Ahmed, D. Sihag and A. Patel

The Potential of Soil Carbon Sequestration Through Improved Management Practices in Norway pp. 161-184

Bal Singh and Rattan Lal

Volume 6, issue 4, 2005

Re-emphasizing sustainable development — The concept of ‘Evolutionability’ pp. 379-392

Marco Keiner

Equity and sustainability over the next fifty years: An exercise in economic visioning pp. 393-413

Gary Yohe and Emily Engel

Deforestation in the drylands of Africa: Quantitative modelling approach pp. 415-427

E. Abdelgalil

Rethinking the contribution of indigenous management in small-scale water provision among selected rural communities in Cameroon pp. 429-451

Lotsmart Fonjong, Ngwa Emmanuel and Charles Fonchingong

Analysis of availability and accessibility of hydrogen production: An approach to a sustainable energy system using methane hydrate resources pp. 453-471

Ryunosuke Kikuchi

Rural women and agrotourism in the context of sustainable rural development: A case study from Turkey pp. 473-486

Nevin Akpinar, İlkden Talay, Coşkun Ceylan and Sultan Gündüz

Volume 6, issue 3, 2004

US Energy Conservation and Efficiency: Benefits and Costs pp. 279-305

D. Pimentel, A. Pleasant, J. Barron, J. Gaudioso, N. Pollock, E. Chae, Y. Kim, A. Lassiter, C. Schiavoni, A. Jackson, M. Lee and A. Eaton

Popular Use, Chemical Composition and Trade of Cerrado's Medicinal Plants (Goiás, Brazil) pp. 307-316

A.R. Carvalho

Study on Assessing Economic Vulnerability of Small Island Regions pp. 317-336

L. Adrianto and Y. Matsuda

Informal Waste Management pp. 337-353

Peter Nas and Rivke Jaffe

Proposal of Indicators to Assess Urban Sustainability in Brazil pp. 355-366

M. Fehr, K.A. Sousa, A.F.N. Pereira and L.C. Pelizer

Some of the Nineteenth Century Origins of the Sustainability Concept pp. 367-378

Sarah Lumley and Patrick Armstrong

Volume 6, issue 1, 2004

Mitigating Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Tropical Agriculture: Scope and Research Priorities pp. 1-9

Reiner Wassmann and Paul Vlek

Methane and Nitrogen Oxide Fluxes in Tropical Agricultural Soils: Sources, Sinks and Mechanisms pp. 11-49

Arvin Mosier, Reiner Wassmann, Louis Verchot, Jennifer King and Cheryl Palm

Greenhouse Gas Fluxes in Tropical and Temperate Agriculture: The need for a Full-Cost accounting of Global Warming Potentials pp. 51-63

G. Robertson and Peter Grace

Mitigating Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Rice-Wheat Cropping Systems in Asia pp. 65-90

R. Wassmann, H.U. Neue, J.K. Ladha and M.S. Aulakh

Is it possible to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions in pastoral ecosystems of the tropics? pp. 91-109

Robin Reid, Philip Thornton, Graeme McCrabb, Russell Kruska, Fred Atieno and Peter Jones

Implications of Land use Change to Introduced Pastures on Carbon Stocks in the Central Lowlands of Tropical South America pp. 111-131

Myles Fisher and Richard Thomas

Estimation of Soil Carbon Gains Upon Improved Management within Croplands and Grasslands of Africa pp. 133-143

Niels Batjes

Mitigating GHG Emissions in the Humid Tropics: Case Studies from the Alternatives to Slash-and-Burn Program (ASB) pp. 145-162

Cheryl Palm, Tom Tomich, Meine Van Noordwijk, Steve Vosti, James Gockowski, Julio Alegre and Lou Verchot

AN Amazon Perspective on the Forest-Climate Connection: Opportunity for Climate Mitigation, Conservation and Development? pp. 163-174

Georgia Carvalho, Paulo Moutinho, Daniel Nepstad, Luciano Mattos and Márcio Santilli

Soil Respiration and Carbon Storage of an Acrisol Under Forest and different Cultivations in rio de Janeiro State, Brazil pp. 175-182

John Maddock, Maria Dos Santos, Sonia Alves de Sá and Pedro Machado

THE Clean Development Mechanism: Making it Operational pp. 183-211

Matthew Mendis and Keith Openshaw

Energy Use and CO 2 Production in Tropical Agriculture and Means and Strategies for Reduction or Mitigation pp. 213-233

Paul Vlek, Gabriela Rodríguez-Kuhl and Rolf Sommer

GHG Mitigation Potential and Cost in Tropical Forestry - Relative Role for Agroforestry pp. 235-260

Willy Makundi and Jayant Sathaye

Climate Variability and Deforestation—Reforestation Dynamics in the Philippines pp. 261-277

Tolentino Moya and Ben Malayang