The Green Revolution, through the adoption of new crop varieties, irrigation, and agrochemicals, saved about 1 billion people from famine by increasing global food production (FAO 2011). We now recognize that these enormous gains in agricultural production were accompanied by harm to agriculture’s natural resource base, jeopardizing our future ability to meet human food, fuel, and fiber needs f...

The research proposes and evaluates a structured approach to the development of complex multiorganizational incentive architectures for complex sustainable supply chains. It is proposed that ModelBased Systems Engineering (MBSE), a process for software and systems development, combined with SysML, a structured systems modeling standard, can be combined to design and test complex multiorganizati...

Operations Management) Coordination Mechanism Design for Sustainable Global Supply Networks

the study of those factors facilitating sustainable entrepreneurship in sport according to cultural and ethnic values is important. the aim of this study was to develop sustainable entrepreneurship model based on strauss and corbin’s (1989) systematic model. research method was analytical so qualitative methodology was used. research strategy was grounded theory (gt). participants included 24 s...

Knowledge is a primary resource, no less important than land, labour or capital for improving the lives of our people. That it is a vital tool for empowering people to attain Sustainable Development (SD) has long been recognized in India. Since the early years of independence, we have allocated close to 1 per cent of our GNP for scientific research comparable to the percentage spent by some of ...

This paper concentrates on two key areas connected with business informatics, i.e., business informatics management and the role of ICT in promoting sustainable development. The surveys mentioned in this paper show that organisations in the Czech Republic do not devote sufficient attention to these areas and thus lag behind organisations in other developed countries. To help enterprises with th...

To promote sustainable forest management of production forest and improve sustainability assessment of its management, a research project has been designed and being implemented jointly by the International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation “ITC, TROPENBOS International foundation, and a number of local institutions in Indonesia. The project is aiming at “ Design and d...

Codes of forest practice are sets of regulations or guidelines developed by governments or other organisations to assist forest managers select practices to be followed when carrying out forest management and utilisation operations. These practices, when correctly applied, should meet standards for sustainable forest management (Dykstra 1996; Dykstra and Heinrich 1996). A code of practice is al...

Under the global trend of sustainability, many companies selling fashion products have to reshape their operational strategies. Over the past few years, we have witnessed many fashion companies going green by re-engineering their business processes and establishing their formal sustainability programs. Many important topics, such as closed-loop supply chain management, corporate social responsi...