Towards a New Concept of Sustainable Plant Nutrition

Organic school meal systems – towards a more sustainable nutrition

Nutritional and health problems related to life style alarm European governments. The interest in school meals as a lever for change is increasing because young people reside longer in public institutions and their often unsatisfactory eating patterns might be counterbalanced by healthy school food. Organic food contributes to sustainable nutrition, and hence is an interesting starting point fo...

Towards a new concept of software

The article develops three inter-related ideas: that a ‘well structured’ software system may be understood as a compressed representation of its inputs and its outputs; that software design may be seen as a process of information compression; and that the execution of software may also be understood as a process of information compression. Information compression may be achieved by the comparis...

Risk Assessment and Sustainable Development: Towards a Concept of Sustainable Risk

OVERVIEW: PART OF A SPECIAL ISSUE ON PLANT NUTRITION Plant nutrition for sustainable development and global health

†Background Plants require at least 14 mineral elements for their nutrition. These include the macronutrients nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), potassium (K), calcium (Ca), magnesium (Mg) and sulphur (S) and the micronutrients chlorine (Cl), boron (B), iron (Fe), manganese (Mn), copper (Cu), zinc (Zn), nickel (Ni) and molybdenum (Mo). These are generally obtained from the soil. Crop production is o...

Towards sustainable growth of enterprises: a supply chain design

Supply chain design has a crucial role in the prosperity and sustainable growth of enterprises. Network and innovation mutual relationship shapes the orientation and design of the supply chain. Networks are means of securing access to the resources, information and support. A number of studies have examined the relationship between networks and innovation, and show a positive relation between t...