Floriculture Sustainability Research Coalition: Bringing the Latest Sustainability Research to the Industry

Sustainability in the wine industry: key questions and research trends

Sustainability is playing a key role in the wine industry as shown by the attention paid at several levels by the academia, institutions and associations. Nevertheless, the principle itself of sustainability opens a wide debate and it significantly affects firms in all their activities. Using a systematic literature review, this paper wants to highlight some of the questions that academics must...

Sustainability in biomedical research.

We hear a lot about sustainability these days–sustainability of health and environment, of economic prosperity, of conservation of nature, and so on (3). Great! But what about sustainability in an area that makes so much other sustainability possible? Scientific research . . . and more specifically for our purposes, biomedical research. This editorial continues a theme that I introduced on two ...

Sustainability science: the emerging research program.

T he last decade has witnessed the emergence of an array of increasingly vibrant movements to harness science and technology (S&T) in the quest for a transition toward sustainability. These movements take as their point of departure a widely shared view that the challenge of sustainable development is the reconciliation of society’s development goals with the planet’s environmental limits over ...

The Sustainability Imperative in Information Systems Research

The Significance of Biobanking in the Sustainability of Biomedical Research: A Review

Biobank, defined as a functional unit for facilitating and improving research by storing biospecimen and their accompanying data, is a key resource for advancement in life science. The history of biobanking goes back to the time of archiving pathology samples. Nowadays, biobanks have considerably improved and are classified into two categories: diseased-oriented and population-based biobanks. U...