The Trade Knowledge Network is a global collaboration of research institutions across Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas working on issues of trade and sustainable development. Coordinated by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), the TKN links network members, strengthens capacity and generates new research to assess and address the impact of trade and investment po...

AIM The aim of this study was to explore nurses' perceptions of climate and environmental issues and examine how nurses perceive their role in contributing to the process of sustainable development. BACKGROUND Climate change and its implications for human health represent an increasingly important issue for the healthcare sector. According to the International Council of Nurses Code of Ethics...

Not yet two decades after the publication of Our Common Future, the world’s political and environmental landscape has changed significantly. Nonetheless, we argue that the concept and practice of sustainable development (SD)–as guiding institutional principle, as concrete policy goal, and as focus of political struggle–remains salient in confronting the multiple challenges of this new global or...

The Fourth World Conference on Women acknowledged that environmental degradation 1) disproportionately affects poor women who are powerless to control it, 2) is linked to poverty, and 3) jeopardizes women's reproductive health. Thus, the Platform for Action addresses environmental inequalities among its 12 areas of critical concern, and the governments who signed the consensus agreed to take a...

What is a ‘sustainable nation’ and how can we identify and rank ‘sustainable nations?’ Are nations producing and consuming in a sustainable way? Although several aggregate indexes have been proposed to answer such questions, comprehensive and internationally comparable data are not available for most of these. This paper quantitatively compares three aggregate indexes of sustainability: the Wor...

Neural network design and feature selection using principal component analysis and Taguchi method for identifying wood veneer defects Baris Yuce, Ernesto Mastrocinque, Michael Sylvester Packianather, Duc Pham, Alfredo Lambiase & Fabio Fruggiero a Institute of Sustainable Engineering, Cardiff University, Newport Road, The Parade, Queen’s Building, Cardiff CF24 3AA, UK b Department of Industrial ...

Nisachon JANGPROMMA, Akira SAITO, Tomohiro ARAKI, Prasit JAISIL, Patcharin SONGSRI, Sakda DADUANG, Yuya KAWAGUCHI, Apisak DHIRAVISIT, Sompong THAMMASIRIRAK* Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand Protein and Proteomics Research Center for Commercial and Industrial Purposes, Faculty of Science, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand National ...

1 Environmental Hydrology and Water Resources Group, Department of Infrastructure Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 2 Law School, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 3 Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University, Nathan, QLD, Australia, 4 Institute for Water Education, IHE Delft, Delft, Netherlands, 5 The Murray Darling Freshwater Rese...

1 Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 2 Sustainable Water Future Programme, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 3 Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, 4 Engineering Systems Division, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA, 5 Department of Civil Engineering, The City College of New York, New York, NY, USA, 6 In...

1 Changing Ocean Research Unit, Global Fisheries Cluster, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2 UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Cambridge, UK, 3 Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations, Paris, France, 4 Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, 5 Fisheries Economics Research Unit, ...