Industrial longline fishing can be understood as a case study of the cultural, economic, environmental and social impacts of unsustainable fishing technology. While much attention has been attributed to the impact of industrial longlines on the marine ecosystem, little is known about the impact of longline fishing on local food security, employment, cultural belief systems and traditions, reven...

This paper pretends to make some reflections about the urban sprawl process in the metropolitan areas in Spain 2 and Mexico 3 . The use of technologies related to satellite imagery (remote sensing) allows the characterization of the phenomenon of consumption, pathological or not, of land. And this analysis suggests some hypothesis about the plurality of contemporary of urbanization processes. R...

Although empirical and theoretical studies affirm that punishment can elevate collaborative efforts, its emergence and stability remain elusive. By peer-punishment the sanctioning is something an individual elects to do depending on the strategies in its neighborhood. The consequences of unsustainable efforts are therefore local. By pool-punishment, on the other hand, where resources for sancti...

Existing paradigms, which are deeply rooted in our educational systems, are fomenting unsustainable development. For this reason, it is necessary to opt for a style of education that allows university students to be aware of the need to live in a different way and be aware of our absolute dependency on our natural environment. This goal requires fundamental changes in the curriculum, as well as...

This paper integrates fertility choice and exhaustible resource dynamics in a tractable model of endogenous technological change. The analysis shows that, under the right conditions, the interdependence of population, resources and technology produces a transition from unsustainable resource-based growth to sustainable knowledge-based growth that consists of three phases: (1) an initial phase w...

Information and communication technologies are often considered by policymakers, industrial stakeholders scientists as a key lever in the run towards sustainability, since they should ease energy efficiency dematerialization. In this opinion article, nurtured inputs of broad panel experts, we challenge widely spread view highlighting detrimental social environmental footprints caused digital te...

In July 2008, the Western Australia (WA) Department of Health embarked on a landmark 5-year project to implement a sustainable comprehensive health-system-wide Patient Blood Management Program. Fundamentally, it was a quality and safety initiative, which also had profound resource and economic implications. Unsustainable escalating direct and indirect costs of blood, potentially severe blood sh...

We stand at the precipice of extraordinary changes in medicine. Prior generations of physicians sought to apply any and all treatments available to preserve the health and functioning of patients, despite incomplete knowledge of disease processes and the evidence base to know the efficacy of alternative treatment strategies. Over the past 4 decades, an explosion of technology and treatments, wi...

Cities all over the world are challenged by increasing the quality of life of urban citizens in order to ensure sustainable urban development. However, a lot of policies and planning fail in integrating environmental aspects in a way that makes them applicable for design leading to rather unsustainable developments. This paper presents an approach to integrate ecological parameters into urban d...

List of the last 10 Memoranda: No 26 by Steinar Holden and Karl Ove Moene: Measures to improve Wage Formation in Sweden. 28 p. Speculative attacks in the exchange market with a band policy: A sequential game analysis. 45 p. In the framework of ethical social choice theory, sustainability is justified by Efficiency and Equity as ethical axioms. These axioms correspond to the Suppes-Sen Grading p...