Defining Design for Sustainability and Conservation Mindsets

Teaching sustainability to business students: shifting mindsets

Purpose – This paper seeks to describe a framework used to help MBA students understand and reconcile the different sustainability perspectives. Design/methodology/approach – A review of the corporate sustainability literature is undertaken to develop the sustainability framework. Findings – The sustainability framework relates basic concepts and assumptions within the ecocentric, ecological mo...

Reflections—Defining and Measuring Sustainability

There is a saying in business schools that ‘‘what gets measured, gets managed.’’ This is bad news for managing our natural capital and the interactions between our economic activity and the environment, which are key to sustainability: these are almost entirely unmeasured and often unmanaged too. None of the usual measures of economic performance—gross domestic product (GDP), unemployment, infl...

Animal conservation, carbon and sustainability.

International conventions to reduce carbon dioxide levels focus on ecosystems and do not specifically recognize the need to conserve species. However, species are the building blocks of ecosystems, they are more widely understood among the public, and they provide means of capturing market values from ecosystems. Achieving successful conservation globally will require ensuring that the systems ...

Window Design in Ardabil Traditional Houses for Conservation of Energy

simulation and design of electronic processing circuit for restaurants e-procurement system

the poor orientation of the restaurants toward the information technology has yet many unsolved issues in regards to the customers. one of these problems which lead the appeal list of later, and have a negative impact on the prestige of the restaurant is the case when the later does not respond on time to the customers’ needs, and which causes their dissatisfaction. this issue is really sensiti...