Department of Environment and Sustainable Development, Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, 2 Laboratory of Applied Stress Biology, Department of Botany, University of GourBanga, Malda, West Bengal, India, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Govt. of India, New Delhi, India, 4 Society for Higher Education and Practical ...

g1 Richard Hall MEng, AIEMA EngD Researcher, Steel Construction Institute, Surrey EngD in Environmental Technology, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK g2 Xiaoxin Wang MSc, PhD Research Fellow, Oxford Institute for Sustainable Development, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK g3 Raymond Ogden DiplArch, PhD Professor, Oxford Institute for Sustainable Development, Oxford Brookes University, Oxfo...

The need for sustainable development has been widely recognized and sustainable development has become a hot topic of various disciplines even though the role of ergonomics in it is seldom reported or considered. This study conducts a systematic survey of research publications in the fields of ergonomics and sustainable development over the past two decades (1992-2011), in order to identify the...

The Biosphere Reserve (BR) concept aims at encouraging sustainable development (SD) towards sustainability on the ground by promoting three core functions: conservation, development, and logistic support. Sweden and Ukraine exemplify the diverse governance contexts that BRs need to cope with. We assessed how the BR concept and its core functions are captured in national legislations. The result...

Rural Development is a priority in Europe and it is supported by specific, financial programmes. At the same time, sustainability is the key word for the European Union to construct programmes and policies for all human activities. However, measuring sustainability of rural areas is not easy, due to their particular features. The improvement of knowledge on sustainability in rural areas is impo...

2014;27(3) S Afr J Clin Nutr Egal AA, Public Health Nutritionist Senior Researcher, Vaal University of Technology, Centre of Sustainable Livelihoods Oldewage-Theron WH, Dietitian, Community Nutritionist Director , Vaal University of Technology, Centre of Sustainable Livelihoods Correspondence to: Abdulkadir Egal, e-mail: [email protected]

René Kemp & Pim Martens 1 UNU-MERIT & International Centre for Integrated Assessment and Sustainable Development, Maastricht University, PO Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands (email: [email protected]) 2 International Centre for Integrated Assessment and Sustainable Development, Maastricht University, PO Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands (email: [email protected]...

1 Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA 2 Energy Center and Laboratory of Molecular Simulation, Institut des Sciences et Ingénierie Chimiques, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland 3 Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, Lenfest Center for Sustainable Energy, Columbia University, Ne...