H uman activity is changing the climate, depleting biodiversity, destroying habitats and poisoning the earth, the water and the air. It is increasingly understood and accepted that natural resources are limited and that their use should be sustainable. Campaigns to raise awareness and improve education have highlighted to the general public that human civilisation is on an unsustainable path th...

To achieve sustainable development, focal firms should balance two paradoxical kinds of innovation activities: exploitative and exploratory ones. Published works found that ambidexterity is an effective way to resolve paradoxical tensions, but few in-depth studies have been conducted to explore the innovation paradox of focal firms in the innovation ecosystem from an ambidextrous capability per...

The continuation of widespread poverty apart, the biggest danger that India faces is the wanton destruction and degradation of all the country’s natural resources and a growing, unsustainable, dependence on the use of hydrocarbon fuels. We are losing ten percent of our GDP as a result of the damage to and degradation of our natural resources. But environmental decision-making has not yet been m...

China has achieved rapid urbanization and unprecedented economic booming over the past three decades. Numerous cities and towns dreamed of cloning the miracles of Shenzhen and Pudong, Shanghai, in terms of their international development. However, inappropriate development strategies have meant that the majority of fast expanding urban suburbs or newly developed towns suffer a high ratio of vac...

The current economic instability is the result of under regulated markets built on an ideology of free market capitalism and unlimited economic growth. Since the onset of industrialization and conceptualization of economic theories various externalities are not considered as a part of economy. They were assumed to be relatively small and solvable. The consequences that declare an economic model...

To increase understanding of agricultural intensification processes over time and their sustainability, we studied dimensions sustainability in the context ongoing expansion intensive, commercial mono-cropping banana Southwestern Uganda. In our approach considered five sustainability: economic, productivity, environment, social human. We compared farming systems 1998 2018 integrated a gender le...

D evelopment agencies want their interventions to be sustainable. The Offi ce of Sustainable Development of the Bureau for Africa of the United States Agency for International Development defi nes sustainability as " the ability of host country entities (community, public and/or private) to assume responsibility for programs and/or outcomes without adversely affecting the ability to maintain or...

The purpose of this article was to assess the overall health behaviors of African American emerging adults who live in a Midwestern city. Two hundred participants, ages 18-25, completed a 129-item survey. Results indicate that African American emerging adults are engaged in relatively healthy behaviors (i.e., physical activity, low substance use). The results also showed that within the emergin...

o The overall aim oithis project is to address the current unsustainable situation §f the manufacturing industry in Penang, and thdjnadequacies in the regulation of this industry, in order to point towards ways that a regulation of the industry can support a less unsustainable industrial development. Penang, a small state in Malaysia, has the past 20 years underwent a tremendous economic growth...