human problems become more complex every day. these complexities need new problem solving approaches. design for sustainability is a response to these new demands. an approach leads environment, society and economy to sustain situations. design for sustainability is a new issue for iranian industrial design society. there is a lack of studies in this field. weak interaction, poverty, illiteracy...

Background/Context: This article explores sustainability as an emerging paradigm for preservice preparation of teachers. Sustainability education, which is rooted in Deweyan ideas about the fundamental social purposes of schooling, attends to the tensions created by the interconnectedness of environmental, economic, and social equity systems. Sustainability education extends but does not replac...

This research develops a method to transform the Oregon Benchmarks, a set of internationally recognized quantitative indicators designed to measure a broad array of state-level trends, into indices of social, economic, and environmental sustainability. Through multiple means, an original set of 90 Oregon Benchmarks has been narrowed into a smaller set of sustainability indicators in order to ga...

Sustainability (defined as “the capacity to keep up”) encompasses a wide set of aims: ranging from energy efficient software products (environmental sustainability), reduction of software development and maintenance costs (economic sustainability), to employee and end-user wellbeing (social sustainability). In this report we explore the role that sustainability plays in software product line en...

extended abstract 1. introduction recent century has witnessed a more growing interest in the concept of “sustainability”. the impetus for this interest arises from a number of factors including awareness of worsening social, economic, and environmental conditions and lack of ability on the part of the present economic and social systems in most developing countries to keep population especiall...

There is growing scientific evidence that improving the sustainability of consumer products can lead to significant gains in global sustainability. Historically, environmental policy has been managed by bureaucracies and institutions in a mechanistic manner; this had led to many early successes. However, we believe that if policy concerning product sustainability is also managed in this way, ne...

In practice, the distinctions between tourism and migration are blurred. Tourism often drives various forms of mobility, an international workforce is central to maintaining functioning tourism...