Issue Established in 1995, the Lodi Winegrape Comission’s (LWC) Sustainable Winegrowing Program (SWP) promotes grower adoption of best management practices via informational meetings, workshops, vineyard demonstrations and research, the Lodi Winegrowers’ Workbook for sustainability self-assessment, and the Lodi Rules for Sustainable Winegrowing third-party certification program. Understanding g...

identifying role of extension system in adoption of new technologies have important role to developing favorable extension systems. for supporting sustainable agriculture in iran needs extension systems to be carefully thought and accurately implemented. the purpose of this is analyzing role of extension activities in adoption of sustainable agriculture. based on the results the attending agric...

This paper presents a sociological view of the perspectives for sustainable development in Central Lika (Croatia) through the prism of social and human capital. The modernization processes which bypassed the entire Lika region more than they changed it left the environment and rich natural resources intact. A natural environment in this condition meets the basic conditions for articulation of t...

This research aims to investigate the factors that drive suppliers to implement sustainable practices in the supply chain of Iranian Gas Engineering and Development Company (IGEDC) in Iran. This study reviews the sustainability literature and sustainable supply chain (SSC) and the role of suppliers in an SSC. Literature review identified the main categories of internal and external drivers of s...

extended abstract 1. introduction in recent years, so many countries have paid many attention to tourism as a strategy to make money and benefit for the local communities. many researchers consider tourism an appropriate strategy for economic and social development of developing countries know. despite all the benefits of community-based tourism, in most developing countries, little authority i...

BACKGROUND Global health is shifting gradually from a limited focus on individual communicable disease goals to the formulation of broader sustainable health development goals. A major impediment to this shift is that most low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) have not established adequate sustainable funding for health promotion and health infrastructure. OBJECTIVE In this article, we ana...

The present paper is an attempt to investigate gender issues in the mining sector in India with a view to understand how these issues impact on Sustainable Development imperatives in the mining industry as part of a broader study of the Mining and Minerals for Sustainable Development initiative. Because of the male-dominated nature of the industry, in trying to better understand the gender issu...

One of the fundamental notions of realization of sustainable city within the framework of the theory of sustainable development is what affects the urban green spaces as well as the influence they may have. As the upshot of years’ worth of experiences in the ideology of Iranian urban design, Iranian garden is of magnificently high position which possesses the potentials to act as the green spac...