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Sustainability, Volume 3, Issue 6

June 2011 - 7 articles

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Articles (7)

  • Article
  • Open Access
58 Citations
18,427 Views
23 Pages

The Dynamics of Brownfield Redevelopment

  • Todd K. BenDor,
  • Sara S. Metcalf and
  • Mark Paich

23 June 2011

Negligence of former industrial sites (“brownfields”) has adversely impacted urban landscapes throughout the industrialized world. Brownfield redevelopment has recently emerged as a sustainable land use strategy and impetus for urban revitalization....

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
8,793 Views
17 Pages

Low Discounting Behavior among Small-Scale Fishers in Fiji and Sabah, Malaysia

  • Louise S. L. Teh,
  • Lydia C. L. Teh and
  • U. Rashid Sumaila

20 June 2011

Understanding the socio-economic factors that are associated with fishers’ willingness to delay gratification may be useful for designing appropriate fisheries management and conservation policies. We aim to identify the predictors of low discounting...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
12,507 Views
28 Pages

17 June 2011

The development of genetically engineered (GE) crops has focused predominantly on enhancing conventional pest control approaches. Scientific assessments show that these GE crops generally deliver significant economic and some environmental benefits o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
10,028 Views
22 Pages

17 June 2011

Unconferencing is a method for organizing social learning which could be suitable to trigger sustainability learning processes. An unconference is defined as participant-driven meeting that tries to avoid one or more aspects of a conventional confere...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
16,208 Views
24 Pages

16 June 2011

The Peruvian anchovy fishery is the largest worldwide in terms of catches. The fishery started during the mid 1950s, and since then it has been highly dependent on natural stock fluctuations, due to the sensitivity of anchovy stocks to ocean-climate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
12,748 Views
14 Pages

8 June 2011

Modern biotechnology, including the application of transgenic techniques to produce Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs), can play a significant role in increasing agricultural production in a sustainable way, but its products need to be tailored fo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
15,757 Views
20 Pages

7 June 2011

This paper explores the politics around the role of agency in the UK climate change debate. Government interventions on the demand side of consumption have increasingly involved attempts to obtain greater traction with the values, attitudes and belie...

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