This paper briefly reviews key insights from natural resource and environmental economics, ecological economics and industrial ecology in an effort to identify the major contributions of these fields to the understanding and promotion of sustainable development. Each is based on overlapping worldviews, methods and tools. Their synthesis and extension– subsumed under the rubric of dNatural Econo...

This article provides an introduction to the special issue dedicated to Service and Life Cycle Management of engineered assets/ goods. Managing engineered assets and goods requires integrative organizational practices to ensure low life cycle costs, high reliability and availability, at maximum safety levels. These integrative practices have always been at the forefront of the research of guest...

This paper explores the determinants of export performance at the level of firms in respect of their characteristics and supply side constraints. The analysis is based on a survey of export-oriented firms in four major sectors. The results indicate a relationship between the better performance of foreign-owned firms to their better know-how and resources compared to the domestically owned firms...

In this review article, we show that occurrence of fungicide resistance is one of the most important issues in modern agriculture. Fungicide resistance may be due to mutations of genes encoding fungicide targets (qualitative fungicide resistance) or to different mechanisms that are induced by sub-lethal fungicide stress. These mechanisms result in different and varying levels of resistance (qua...

The City of Edmonton’s Drainage Operations Branch oversees the inspection, maintenance, and repair of the city’s drainage network of over an area of 700 km to serve a population of over 600, 000. The maintenance activities consume a large amount of funding and, therefore, are sensitive to any improvement in the maintenance crew’s productivity. The study focused on selected drainage maintenance ...

Gianluca Brando 1,*, Domenico Pietro Coiro 2, Marino Coppola 1, Adolfo Dannier 1, Andrea Del Pizzo 1 and Ivan Spina 1 1 Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, University of Naples Federico II, Via Claudio 21, 80125 Naples, Italy; [email protected] (M.C.); [email protected] (A.D.); [email protected] (A.D.P.); [email protected] (I.S.) 2 Department of Indust...

Aalto University, P.O. Box 11000, FI-00076 Aalto www.aalto.fi Author Pekka Töytäri Name of the doctoral dissertation Managing value-based exchange in industrial markets: An organizational capability perspective Publisher School of Science Unit Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Series Aalto University publication series DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS 59/2015 Field of research Service E...