Universities are paramount change drivers in bringing about a culture of sustainability in society by setting themselves up as models and nurseries for sustainable development. Thus, assessment of sustainability integration within universities is key to their impact on sustainable development. This study conducted an assessment of different public sector universities of Saudi Arabia based on fi...

Abstract This article aims to present the analysis of sustainability practices and objectives sustainable development recovery in small businesses carried out through survey research. The work was based on understanding how theme applies businesses, using application a questionnaire 24 social enterprises agribusiness industry state Rio Grande do Sul (RS), at largest Fair Cooperativism Latin Ame...

The declining availability of natural resources and the environmental impacts of continued extraction of primary resources for production activities have forced greater focus on waste streams and recycling activities. Industrial ecology as a field of practice and theory has been closely related to sustainability issues, yet despite the development of much theory and specific tools and methodolo...

Shale oil/gas is one of the most rapidly growing types of unconventional fossil fuel development and the abundance of this resource has postponed peak oil and gas. Physical scarcity of hydrocarbons is now less likely to occur in the near future; however, the likelihood of social scarcity is increasing. Despite the clear economic benefits of production in terms of jobs, tax revenue, and the prov...

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...

Waste management is a challenge of modern society, and there is awareness that responsibility of waste management should be shared by all community, to cooperate and ensure a sustainable development with the best principles and best management practices. It is a citizenship issue, where citizens contribute adopting preventative behaviours in the production of waste, as well as practices that fa...

Requirements engineering is a core practice within eXtreme Programming. Practising teams learn to not abandon any of the interconnected core practices. The continuous feedback teaches the team that they will develop at a faster and more reliable pace with the full set of practices. This paper shares an experience of how teams could accelerate development out of necessity, while maintaining thei...

Profile: Dr Jarrod Haar from the Waikato Management School is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Strategy and HRM. His research interests focus on work-family practices and issues from employee and employer perspectives, as well as the strategic management practices of New Zealand firms. He is a named researcher on a Foundation for Research, Science & Technology grant (contract number U0WX0...

Current research examines the economic, social, cultural, policy, educational and promotional factors in using sustainable agriculture operations. Research is an applied type and its method is correlation. The statistical population consisted of 102 members of Iran Potato Cultivars. Data were collected using a census method and a questionnaire was used. The Cronbach's alpha coefficient was obta...

Sustainable IT is the design, production, operation, and disposal of IT and IT-enabled products and services in a manner that is not harmful and may be positively beneficial to the environment during the course of its whole-of-life [1]. Sustainable IT requires the responsible management of resources (both IT and non-IT) encompassing environmental, economic, and social dimensions. The first wave...