Fossil resources-free sustainable development can be achieved through a transition to bioeconomy, an economy based on sustainable biomass-derived food, feed, chemicals, materials, and fuels. However, the transition to bioeconomy requires development of new energy-efficient technologies and processes to manipulate biomass feed stocks and their conversion into useful products, a collective term f...

Knowledge is a primary resource, no less important than land, labour or capital for improving the lives of our people. That it is a vital tool for empowering people to attain Sustainable Development (SD) has long been recognized in India. Since the early years of independence, we have allocated close to 1 per cent of our GNP for scientific research comparable to the percentage spent by some of ...

Despite the fact that Africa is relatively rich in natural resources, development strategies pursued in the continent have not always been in harmony with the objective of ensuring decent living conditions for the population and maintaining a high level of environmental quality. Over the past four decades of political independence, most African countries have witnessed serious socio-economic an...

The financial support for this program from the Emil Aaltonen Foundation, Finland, is gratefully acknowledged. The first author thanks the Fund for Scientific Research – Flanders (Belgium) (FWO-Vlaanderen) for his postdoctoral fellowship. We owe special thanks to Rob Dellink, Marcus Stronzik and Frank Vöhringer for constructive comments. The usual disclaimer applies. ABSTRACT The need for monit...

With the increasing environmental problems, sustainable consumption is an important consumer behavior. Therefore, it is important to investigate further the significant drivers to and barriers against sustainable consumption, in order to increase the share of sustainable consumption and understanding of consumer behavior. This dissertation identifies two gaps. The first is in understanding cons...

the data of this study was collected from 252 teachers, principals and vice-principals offemales’ high schools in district one through one researcher-administered questionnaire, and was then analyzed. the validity of the questionnaire was approved by seven university professors. cronbach’s alpha was used in order to measure the reliability of the questionnaire. the total calculated alpha was 0....

This paper shows that management has dominant influences on sustainable construction practices in Hong Kong. Improving construction business performance along with sustainable development is widely appreciated. Major factors affecting sustainable performance are social, economic and environmental considerations. This has led to the development of various management approaches to advise construc...

The Chinese government started an important project “Geographical conditions monitoring (GCM)” in 2012, which aims at fully revealing the spatial pattern of natural resources, and economic and social development. Urban development assessment and analysis are an important topic of the comprehensive statistics in GCM project. This study quantitatively evaluates the sustainable development level o...

What are the processes behind efforts for more sustainable mountain destinations in the German Alps and what are the views of different tourism stakeholders on these processes? The research deals both with threats pushing the agenda of sustainable development (such as climate change and depletion of resources), indicators of sustainable tourism (to measure the scope of change), as well as cross...