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Sustainability, Volume 6, Issue 5

May 2014 - 38 articles

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Articles (38)

  • Correction
  • Open Access
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Correction: Kanie, N., et al. Integration and Diffusion in Sustainable Development Goals: Learning from the Past, Looking into the Future. Sustainability 2014, 6, 1761–1775

  • Norichika Kanie,
  • Naoya Abe,
  • Masahiko Iguchi,
  • Jue Yang,
  • Ngeta Kabiri,
  • Yuto Kitamura,
  • Shunsuke Managi,
  • Ikuho Miyazawa,
  • Simon Olsen and
  • Tomohiro Tasaki
  • + 3 authors

22 May 2014

The authors wish to make the following correction, due to a typographical error, to this paper [1]. On page 1761, the author name “Shunsuke Mangagi” should be “Shunsuke Managi”. [...]

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
15,428 Views
17 Pages

21 May 2014

Puerto Rico generates and disposes nearly five million/year scrap tires (ST), of which 4.2% is recycled and 80% is exported. The Island has one of the world highest electrical service tariff ($0.28 kWh), because of its dependency on fossil fuels for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
8,828 Views
26 Pages

A Benchmarking System for Domestic Water Use

  • Dexter V. L. Hunt and
  • Christopher D. F. Rogers

19 May 2014

The national demand for water in the UK is predicted to increase, exacerbated by a growing UK population, and home-grown demands for energy and food. When set against the context of overstretched existing supply sources vulnerable to droughts, partic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
9,797 Views
24 Pages

19 May 2014

Payments for ecosystem services (PES) are currently being discussed as one of the most promising tools in environmental and sustainability governance. However, much criticism has been voiced against overly optimistic assumptions of PES’ management po...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
8,728 Views
21 Pages

19 May 2014

Universities can contribute to the solutions of major challenges of the 21st century such as increasing environmental and socio-economic crises, inequalities of income and wealth and political instabilities by integrating the concept of sustainable d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
10,082 Views
22 Pages

Involving Corporate Functions: Who Contributes to Sustainable Development?

  • Stefan Schaltegger,
  • Dorli Harms,
  • Sarah Elena Windolph and
  • Jacob Hörisch

19 May 2014

A large body of literature claims that corporate sustainable development is a cross-functional challenge, which requires all functional units to be involved. However, it remains uncertain to what extent and in which way different corporate functions...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
6,587 Views
19 Pages

19 May 2014

The present study was devoted to identify the evolutionary path of a number of local systems in a Mediterranean country vulnerable to soil degradation (SD) in the last decades. A multivariate analysis was used to evaluate the socio-ecological conditi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
141 Citations
30,372 Views
13 Pages

15 May 2014

Mushrooms traditionally collected from forests and now more cultivated have recently become the products of the fifth-largest agricultural sector in China. It was estimated that more than 25 million farmers in China are currently engaged in the colle...

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  • Open Access
65 Citations
11,482 Views
19 Pages

15 May 2014

This paper looks at universities as training centers for a sustainable economy. Their remit is to promote the required competencies to achieve that aim, including competencies in sustainability. This article describes the role that the universities i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
9,547 Views
36 Pages

Laying the Foundation for Transdisciplinary Faculty Collaborations: Actions for a Sustainable Future

  • Linda Vanasupa,
  • Lizabeth Schlemer,
  • Roger Burton,
  • Courtney Brogno,
  • Ginger Hendrix and
  • Neal MacDougall

14 May 2014

How can academicians who desire a sustainable future successfully participate in transdisciplinary projects? Transcending our hidden thought patterns is required. Paradoxically, the disciplinary specialization that enabled the industrial era and its...

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