Natural resources are limited and uncontrolled exploitation can have negative effects on the environment. It is necessary to find approach of their sustainable use. Sustainable development framework for defining strategies continuous state social progress, without harm environment natural essential human activities in future. Model that regulates use considers legal regulations energy. Goal ens...

Cities are increasingly challenged in sustaining their growing populations with food. As fossil energy reserves are depleted, the sustainability of food production is highly dependent on the ability to yield more food relative to resource use. In preparing cities for peak oil, urban food systems are therefore needed that make better use of local and renewable resources, as opposed to imported a...

The tourism sector accounts nowadays for about 10% of world GDP (source: World Travel & Tourism Council – WTTC) and it is widely acknowledged that tourism activities depend highly on the quality of natural resources (see, among others, Inskeep, 1991). Thus, the aim of sustainable tourism development plans, in order to reach sustainable development goals, should be the decoupling of economic gro...

Acknowledgments: the work of Carmelo Maucieri was supported by Cost Action FA1305 “The EU Aquaponics Hub; Realising Sustainable Integrated Fish and Vegetable Production for the EU” grant COST-STSM-ECOST-STSM-FA1305-011016-080268 and by a Department of Agronomy, Food, Natural resources, Animals and Environment research grant “Aquaponic Sustainable management of aquaculture effluent as an unconve...

This paper describes work the Open Language Archives Community (OLAC) is doing to contribute to a global infrastructure for the sustainability of language resources. After offering a definition of language resource, it addresses the issue of what makes language resources sustainable by defining six necessary and sufficient conditions for their sustained use, then discusses what it takes to make...

1. The 1994 ICPD Programme of Action recognised among other things the inter-relationships between population, sustained economic growth and sustainable development. As it mentions, demographic factors, combined with poverty and lack of access to resources in some areas, and excessive consumption and wasteful production patterns in others, cause or exacerbate problems of environmental degradati...

Many of us wish we could design inventions and make decisions that were optimal and sustainable, but we do not know how to begin the approach. This book offers a guide to dramatically improve the quality of innovation and solution-making through the respectful use of existing and abundant, but often-ignored, resources. Sustainable innovation is about creative combination of ideas, materials, me...

The resource-based cities in Heilongjiang Province occupied a very important position. These cities and regions mostly faced with relative decline dilemma due to natural resources plunged. These directly affect the development of resources city. Therefore, industry transformation of resources city is realizing the sustainable development of regional economy.

As demands for limited natural resources increase, developing management institutions that ensure the sustainability of such resources is essential. Natural resources are Common Pool Resources (CPRs), managed under different noncooperative, cooperative, and externally imposed management frameworks. While early studies of non-cooperative CPR management suggest inevitable “tragedy of the commons,...

Land cover mapping relates to identifying the types of features present on the surface of the earth. It deals with discerning the extent of land cover features namely vegetation, geologic, urban infrastructure, water, bare soil or others. Variations in land cover and associated physical characteristics do influence weather and climate of our earth and hence, it is considered an essential elemen...