In June 2012, the United Nations (UN) Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) will take place in Brazil to mark the 20th anniversary of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED). UNCED was a momentous international event that produced Agenda 21, a platform for action that recognized “to achieve sustainable development and a higher quality of life for all p...

agricultural sustainability (as) in farming systems has turned into an extremely sensitive issue, which has attracted the attention of most researchers in recent years. the main objective of this survey research was to assess the situation with regard to different levels of farming system sustainability among wheat growing farmers in agricultural production cooperatives in fars province of iran...

This article examines the sustainability characteristics of listed firms that raise fresh capital by issuing stocks or bonds. Issuance—that is, primary market—should be paramount importance to sustainable investors because this is where demand for and supply meet, contrary secondary market ownership existing bonds merely exchanged between investors. The authors find no evidence flowing more tow...

abstract reduced inequality in utilization of community resources and facilities is one of the essential standards of sustainable development. in this regard, regional and local inequalities are of special importance. this paper emphasizes district differences in meybod city level in addition to specifying the position of meybod city among our country. it was done using a descriptive-analytic m...

According to the Statistical Yearbook of China's sports undertakings and the related Statistical Yearbook, as well as related indicators Construction principles, the sustainable development evaluation index system of China's sports is constructed. This essay uses entropy coefficient method to research on the weight of every subsystem and indicator in the Sports sustainable development and find ...

It is no easy task to understand either the complexities of sustainability or the meaning and implications of its related concepts, such as sustainable lifestyles and sustainable communities. This paper proposes directions for a situated comprehension of these notions. It will argue that a citizen-centred approach focussing on alternative forms of civil society such as the Simple Living movemen...

the sustainability of farming system (sofs) is considered to be an important principle in a broad concept of sustainable agriculture. variables affecting sofs include alternate crop farming (using nitrogen-fixing plants as alternate crops), utilizing farm animal manure, using plants and crop residues back into the soil system, and utilizing a variety of protective plowing schemes. overuse and p...

Many knowledge management (KM) systems have proven unsustainable to date, exhibiting low quantities and quality of knowledge, with systems falling into disuse. In this paper, we provide and explore a model for sustainable KM systems, focusing on the advantages to be gained from integrating knowledge work with everyday work practices, and enabling sensemaking through personalisation and contextu...

Over the last 50 years the world’s population and industrialization have soared leading to increased resource use, pollution and waste, and in turn to problems including raw materials shortage and unsustainable increases in landfill areas environmental, social and economic expectation stakeholders of the company every day more and more. Designing products with reuse at end of life in mind is a ...

While sanitation is fundamental for health and wellbeing, cities of all sizes face growing challenges in providing safe, affordable and functional sanitation systems that are also sustainable. Factors such as limited political will, inadequate technical, financial and institutional capacities and failure to integrate safe sanitation systems into broader urban development have led to a persisten...