In our research, we have been expanding our conceptual and methodological frames of reference as designers, in order to explore the complexity of factors involved in environmental sustainability and the consequent challenges posed for design research. In this paper, we discuss some of these issues in user-centered and sustainable design, drawing out and developing relations to concepts from oth...

Individuals, organizations, and governments are increasingly becoming aware of the necessity of sustainability in living, organizing, performing, and managing work. In this context, “green IS” has become an established colloquial term, acknowledging that information technology, corporate information systems, and the surrounding practices are both a contributor to the sustainability challenge an...

The New Zealand deer industry is growing rapidly and the development of sustainable management practices for deer farming is becoming increasingly important. The main environmental issues facing the deer industry are the effects on soil and water quality, exacerba ted by the behaviour responses of deer to confinement (in particular fence pacing and wallowing). In addition, the projected increas...

In struggles for cultural leadership, advocating a paradigm helps to disseminate, example, style of life, thinking, or common practices. Promoting practice, that is, branding it, includes the use simple name symbol (semiotic sign). Within geosciences, label “geoethics” refers school thought uses established philosophical concepts promote responsible professional The outcomes are available aggre...

Broadly defined, “fashion” refers to the symbolic, aesthetic, and cultural meanings that objects carry, especially the ways in which people use objects to express their taste, lifestyle, social status and belonging to a community. We don’t ordinarily think of fashion as a positive force for sustainable practices in the design of products and services. One imagines that fashion drives consumptio...

Agricultural credit card innovation : the case of Financiera Trisan / Mark D. Wenner, Rodolfo Quirós. p. cm. (Sustainable Development Dept. Best practices series ; MIC-107) Includes bibliographical references.

Social investment funds and indigenous peoples/Jonathan Renshaw. p. cm. (Sustainable Development Department. Best practices series; IND-108) Includes bibliographical references.

In this work, the implications of new technologies, more specifically the new optical FTTH technologies, are studied both from the functional and non-functional perspectives. In particular, some direct impacts are listed in the form of abandoning non-functional best practices, such as micro-registration, which would be implicitly required for functioning before arrival these new access technolo...