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Sustainability, Volume 3, Issue 2

February 2011 - 8 articles

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Articles (8)

  • Article
  • Open Access
226 Citations
34,351 Views
31 Pages

23 February 2011

The need for integrated methodological framework for sustainability assessment has been widely discussed and is urgent due to increasingly complex environmental system problems. These problems have impacts on ecosystems and human well-being which rep...

  • Review
  • Open Access
41 Citations
12,007 Views
14 Pages

16 February 2011

Because of concerns over the construction industry‘s heavy use of cement and the general dissatisfaction with the performance of building envelopes with respect to durability, there is a growing demand for a novel class of ―green‖ binders. Geopolymer...

  • Review
  • Open Access
52 Citations
16,268 Views
19 Pages

16 February 2011

Many indicator-based methods for the environmental assessment of farming systems have been developed. It is not the absolute values of the indicators that reveal whether the impact of a system is acceptable, but rather the distance between these valu...

  • Review
  • Open Access
72 Citations
19,120 Views
22 Pages

Sustainable Buildings: An Ever Evolving Target

  • Yvan Dutil,
  • Daniel Rousse and
  • Guillermo Quesada

16 February 2011

Environmental considerations have called for new developments in building technologies to bridge the gap between this need for lower impacts on the environment and ever increasing comfort. These developments were generally directed at the reduction o...

  • Commentary
  • Open Access
2 Citations
7,315 Views
4 Pages

16 February 2011

The authors are to be congratulated for their comprehensive research work on the use of RCA as aggregate in structural grade concrete [1], but some of their conclusions with regard to the effect of aggregate type and RCA content on the fresh and hard...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
9,347 Views
14 Pages

15 February 2011

Groundwater is one of the most valuable resources for drinking water and irrigation in the Maheshwaram Catchment, Central India, where most of the local population depends on it for agricultural activities. An increasing demand for irrigation and the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
10,030 Views
33 Pages

31 January 2011

In the late 1990s, the author conducted research entitled “Modeling the demand and supply structure for food in Asia”. The research was based on a system dynamics method and, using time series datasets up to 1998 to estimate the parameters, tried to...

  • Review
  • Open Access
119 Citations
29,254 Views
41 Pages

28 January 2011

About 130 studies were analyzed to compare farm-level energy use and global warming potential (GWP) of organic and conventional production sectors. Cross cutting issues such as tillage, compost, soil carbon sequestration and energy offsets were also...

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