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Sustainability, Volume 2, Issue 11

November 2010 - 15 articles

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Articles (15)

  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
8,421 Views
15 Pages

Sustainable Development: Between Moral Injunctions and Natural Constraints

  • Charles Figuières,
  • Hervé Guyomard and
  • Gilles Rotillon

22 November 2010

Sustainable development must satisfy the needs of present generations without compromising the ability of future generations to meet theirs. Although it looks at the economic, environmental and social aspects of sustainability, this article focuses s...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
11 Citations
7,772 Views
11 Pages

19 November 2010

The research discussed in this paper is a subset of a bigger, NSF funded research project that is directed at investigating the use of sustainable building materials. The deployment context for the research is the hot and humid climate using selected...

  • Article
  • Open Access
209 Citations
47,047 Views
36 Pages

Cassava: The Drought, War and Famine Crop in a Changing World

  • Anna Burns,
  • Roslyn Gleadow,
  • Julie Cliff,
  • Anabela Zacarias and
  • Timothy Cavagnaro

19 November 2010

Cassava is the sixth most important crop, in terms of global annual production. Cassava is grown primarily for its starchy tuberous roots, which are an important staple for more than 800 million people, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa, but also in other...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
9,131 Views
12 Pages

Macro Level Modeling of a Tubular Solid Oxide Fuel Cell

  • Torgeir Suther,
  • Alan Fung,
  • Murat Koksal and
  • Farshid Zabihian

18 November 2010

This paper presents a macro-level model of a solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) stack implemented in Aspen Plus® for the simulation of SOFC system. The model is 0-dimensional and accepts hydrocarbon fuels such as reformed natural gas, with user inputs of c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
11,227 Views
20 Pages

17 November 2010

Increasingly, sustainability is conceived as a crisis of the human mind and the key challenge for pro-sustainability education is developing sufficient motivation in learners. The spiritual aspirations of religious communities contain sufficient moti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
83 Citations
21,559 Views
29 Pages

17 November 2010

Food security in developing countries depends in part on the sustainable use of natural resources. Food security is usually examined through three dimensions, namely the availability, access, and utilization of food. Ecosystems directly and indirectl...

  • Review
  • Open Access
25 Citations
16,601 Views
21 Pages

The Contribution of Wildlife to Sustainable Natural Resource Utilization in Namibia: A Review

  • Diana L. van Schalkwyk,
  • Kenneth W. McMillin,
  • R. Corli Witthuhn and
  • Louw C. Hoffman

15 November 2010

Namibia is the driest country in sub-Saharan Africa, but well known for its richness in species and sustainable natural resource utilization. The Namibian farming sector consists mainly of extensive farming systems. Cattle production contributes 54%...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
10,491 Views
14 Pages

12 November 2010

The complexity and multifaceted nature of sustainable lifelong learning can be effectively addressed by a broad network of providers working co-operatively and collaboratively. Such a network involving the third, public and private sector bodies must...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
10,101 Views
16 Pages

2 November 2010

Destination Marketing Organizations (DMOs) operate at many levels ranging from the national to the municipal and have evolved over the years to respond to the geographical and political realities that are associated with tourism supply. Alongside pro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
13,485 Views
18 Pages

1 November 2010

Groundwater pumping causes depletion of groundwater storage. The rate of depletion incurred by any new well is gradually decreasing and eventually becomes zero in the long run, after induced recharge and reduction of natural discharge of groundwater...

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