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Bruce Tonn, Paul Frymier, Jared Graves and Jessa Meyers
This paper presents a scenario depicting life in the United States in the year 2050. The scenario is designed to achieve energy sustainability: fossil fuels and corn ethanol have been replaced by other sustainable and inexhaustible energy sources. The sc...
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Maja Goepel
The nature of the concept of sustainability makes it difficult to coordinate and monitor the implementation of sustainable development in the formulation of effective policy. The International Law Association at its meeting in New Delhi in 2002 offered a...
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Yonghan Zhu and Guitao Kou
Due to the advanced technologies, governments today are facing more challenges in the governance field than ever before. One of the serious issues is how to develop relationships with younger generations. As a purpose of smart governance, sustainability ...
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Tom Kuhlman and John Farrington
Sustainability as a policy concept has its origin in the Brundtland Report of 1987. That document was concerned with the tension between the aspirations of mankind towards a better life on the one hand and the limitations imposed by nature on the other h...
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Laura M. Norman, Miguel L. Villarreal, Rewati Niraula, Thomas Meixner, George Frisvold and William Labiosa
In the Santa Cruz Watershed, located on the Arizona-Sonora portion of the U.S.-Mexico border, an international wastewater treatment plant treats wastewater from cities on both sides of the border, before discharging it into the river in Arizona. These ar...
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Jorge Vieira, Carla Gomes da Costa and Vasco Santos
Generation Z is arriving on the labour scene. In the near future, this generation will dominate organisations? recruitment and selection processes. Theories regarding the attraction and retention of talent were initially developed based on the characteri...
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Farhan Ahmad, Sanket Rawat and Yixia Zhang
Magnesium oxychloride cement (MOC), an alternative to ordinary Portland cement (OPC), has attracted increasing research interest for its excellent mechanical properties and its green and sustainable attributes. The poor water resistance of MOC limited it...
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Jennifer Hasler
Large-scale field-programmable analog arrays (FPAA) have the potential to handle machine inference and learning applications with significantly low energy requirements, potentially alleviating the high cost of these processes today, even in cloud-based s...
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Ricardo Lacava Bailone,Hirla Costa Silva Fukushima,Roberto de Oliveira Roça,Ricardo Carneiro Borra,Luís Kluwe de Aguiar
Pág. 104 - 113
Current methods of meat production are related to many environmental problems. Since the beginning of the last century, the in vitro production of cellular tissues has been speculated, and in 2013 the first bovine hamburger produced from stem c...
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Mehran Idris Khan and Yen-Chiang Chang
This study presents a critical analysis of the environmental challenges regarding global environmental policies and current practices in China. The study provides imperative evidence about the current emission control strategies, environmental planning, ...
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Ivana Ilic,Petar Hafner
Pág. 109 - 120
Growing environmental problems of modern age capture attention of the global society. Man, as a major factor in the process of disturbing the optimal environmental balance, is considered to be the most responsible for the emergence of the environmental c...
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Durmus Kaya, Fatma Canka Kilic
For today?s world, energy is a huge requirement for economic, industrial and social life. The necessity of energy is increasing quite rapidly to keep pace with the technological and economical advancements and this brings about many energy problems like,...
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Daniel I. Chiciudean, Vanessa P. Shonkwiler, Iulia C. Mure?an, Alina Zaharia and Gabriela O. Chiciudean
The hospitality industry has taken advantage of consumers? increasing concerns regarding environmental issues. Worldwide, green restaurants have increased their profitability by using environmental attributes as a competitive advantage. In Romania, resta...
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Chitranshi Patel, Jyoti Singh, Anagha Karunakaran and Wusirika Ramakrishna
Agriculture has long been the cornerstone of human civilization, providing sustenance and livelihoods for millennia. However, as the global population continues to burgeon, agriculture faces mounting challenges. Soil degradation, nutrient depletion, envi...
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Arianna Pavia, Fabrizio Scozzese, Enrica Petrucci and Alessandro Zona
Masonry towers are part of a valuable architectural heritage characterizing the landscape of many historical areas. These towers are vulnerable structures that are prone to earthquake damage. Hence, the design of effective seismic upgrading interventions...
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Afonso Carlos Braga,Erika Camila Buzo Martins
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This paper deals with a perceived conflicting paradox between consumerism and sustainability among top marketing executives of three purposely selected corporations, where each company represent a current organizational paradigm: the functional, the huma...
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Pablo Rodríguez-Gonzálvez, Ángel Guerra Campo, Ángel L. Muñoz-Nieto, Luis J. Sánchez-Aparicio and Diego González-Aguilera
Cultural heritage (CH) documentation is essential for the study and promotion of CH assets/sites, and provides a way of transmitting knowledge about heritage to future generations. The integration of the fourth dimension into geospatial datasets enables ...
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Corey R. Halpin and Craig G. Lorimer
Quantitative criteria for assessing demographic sustainability of tree populations would be useful in forest conservation, as climate change and a growing complex of invasive pests are likely to drive forests outside their historic range of variability. ...
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Larisa MIHOREANU,Carmen COSTEA,Alexandru STEFANESCU
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The analysis of the society development is more complex than one might think at first glance. So is the market. There are sides and activities not easy to see and one needs high capabilities and strength to look beyond the appearances and see what?s not ...
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D. Pantelic,M. Sakal,A. Zehetner
AbstractContemporary research on sustainability is fragmented between multiple disciplines and areas, with on-going debates about methodological as well as practical issues. The core value of sustainability is embedded in the long-term maintenance of qua...
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