Process intensification connects scales and disciplines towards sustainability

Synergy of Disciplines for Sustainability

Transition is a process of societal change and the consequence of shifting from an unsustainable to a more sustainable state by tackling persistent problems. Transition management is a framework concerned with long term and sustainability-oriented approaches focusing on conceptual learning, reframing and transformative outcomes. In this context, transition models are useful tools to represent t...

Measuring Progress towards Sustainability Principles, Process, and Best Practices

A number of leading companies in the U.S., Europe and Japan have made a commitment to become sustainable enterprises, and have launched proactive programs to improve the environmental and social performance of their products, processes, services, and facilities. However, one of the key challenges faced by these companies is how to track their progress towards sustainability and communicate it t...

Sustainable process synthesis-intensification

Virus Dynamics and Evolution: Bridging Scales and Disciplines

Sustainable intensification of agriculture for human prosperity and global sustainability

There is an ongoing debate on what constitutes sustainable intensification of agriculture (SIA). In this paper, we propose that a paradigm for sustainable intensification can be defined and translated into an operational framework for agricultural development. We argue that this paradigm must now be defined-at all scales-in the context of rapidly rising global environmental changes in the Anthr...