While there has been growing recognition that considering environmental and social aspects of sustainability is important for a firm’s reputation and long-term survival, research so far focused on strategic goals and how sustainability becomes relevant and less so on how sustainability practices become embedded and mainstreamed. Our paper addresses the change process of initiating sustainabilit...

In spite of the considerable research on sustainability, reports suggest that we are barely any closer to a more sustainable society. As such, there is an urgent need to improve the effectiveness of human efforts towards sustainability. A clearer and more unified understanding of sustainability among different people and sectors could help to facilitate this. This paper presents the results of ...

In the design of chemical/energy production systems, a major challenge is to identify the bottleneck issues and improve its sustainability effectively. Due to the multi-dimensional feature of sustainability, how to account for the impacts of various design factors and the cause-and-effect relationships can be very difficult. This paper will present a sustainability root cause analysis method ba...

Aalto University, P.O. Box 11000, FI-00076 Aalto www.aalto.fi Author Juho-Kusti Kajander Name of the doctoral dissertation Evaluation of sustainability innovations in the construction sector Publisher School of Engineering Unit Department of Real Estate, Planning and Geoinformatics Series Aalto University publication series DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS 158/2016 Field of research Real Estate Business ...

An increasing number of companies are rapidly adopting sustainability techniques. Sustainability is defined as lowering the environmental impacts of economic activity and buildings to a level which allows the indefinite maintenance of a given production level and lifestyle. Sustainable practices can also increate the quality of life. The implementation of sustainability practices requires the c...

iranian farmers are faced with many challenges. they must be economically efficient, produce enough food for the growing population and must be sensitive to environmental concerns. however, there is a growing concern related to the aftermath and side-effect of some agricultural activities on environment. these concerns made researches to consider agricultural activities with profound care in or...

Sustainability is not supported by traditional software engineering methods. This lack of support leads to inefficient efforts to address sustainability or complete omission of this important concept. Our aim is to support the dimensions of sustainability human, social, economic, and environmental within different phases of the software lifecycle, especially requirements engineering and quality...

It is argued that biodiversity and nutrient status are essential factors in any meaningful assessment of sustainability. Criteria and indicators are the dominant current methodology for the assessment of forest sustainability. Some dangers involved in complete reliance on indicators are discussed. It is suggested that model-based sustainability assessment is often more appropriate for changing ...

An investigation is reported on the importance of integrating sustainability with manufacturing and design, along with other objectives such as function, competitiveness, profitability and productivity. The need of utilizing appropriate tools like design for environment, life cycle assessment and other environmentally sound practices that are cognizant of the entire life cycle of a process or p...

Increasingly, sustainability is conceived as a crisis of the human mind and the key challenge for pro-sustainability education is developing sufficient motivation in learners. The spiritual aspirations of religious communities contain sufficient motivational force, which may be deployed for effective sustainability education. This paper explores the approaches to sustainability and sustainabili...