Sustainability performance of multi-utility tunnels : Sustainability assessments for furthering knowledge and understanding

Understanding Sustainability as Knowledge Practice

Agent-Based Modelling for Understanding Sustainability

Our aim is to demonstrate how agent-based models can play an important role in understanding sustainability. Here, we describe how the agentbased motivation models support the description of desirable outcomes and help to develop relevant and shared high-level goals in particularly complex areas such as sustainability. We focus on sustainable behaviour in households, and how to provide guidance...

The Sustainability Cycle and Loop: models for a more unified understanding of sustainability.

In spite of the considerable research on sustainability, reports suggest that we are barely any closer to a more sustainable society. As such, there is an urgent need to improve the effectiveness of human efforts towards sustainability. A clearer and more unified understanding of sustainability among different people and sectors could help to facilitate this. This paper presents the results of ...

An Identification Key for Selecting Methods for Sustainability Assessments

Sustainability assessments can play an important role in decision making. This role starts with selecting appropriate methods for a given situation. We observed that scientists, consultants, and decision-makers often do not systematically perform a problem analyses that guides the choice of the method, partly related to a lack of systematic, though sufficiently versatile approaches to do so. Th...

Population and Sustainability : Understanding Population , Environment , and

The triple challenge of rapid population growth, declining agricultural productivity, and natural resource degradation are not isolated from one another; they are intimately related. However, strategic planning and development programming tend to focus on individual sectors such as the environment, agriculture, and population; they do not explicitly take into account the compatibilities and inc...