Top Research Papers on Sustainability

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 hand. In the course of time, the concept has been re-interpreted as encompassing three dimensions, namely social, economic and environmental. The paper argues that this change in meaning (a) obscures the real contradiction between the aims of welfare for all and environmental conservation; (b) risks diminishing the importance of the environmenta...

This review on S sustainability covers selected 2018 publications on the focus of Sustainability and is divided into the following sections: •Water quantity, water quality, planning and ecosystem evaluation, and sustainable management.

Sustainability seeks a way for human and natural systems to work together so that all species can survive and thrive over the long-term from the local to global scales. The Bachelor of Science in Sustainability provides the broad fundamental knowledge, skills and competencies to drive sustainable outcomes that address today's urgent environmental, economic and social challenges. This degree can be applied across a wide range of fields: from management, design and planning, to environmental services in business, nonprofit and public institutions.

This review on Sustainability covers selected journal articles and conferences papers published in 2010 and is divided into the following sections
 • Sustainable water and wastewater utilities:
 • Sustainable water resources management
 • Industrial and corporate approaches towards sustainability
 • Stormwater and green infrastructure
 • Sustainability in wastewater treatment
 • Life cycle assessment (LCA) applications
 • Sustainability and energy in wastewater industry
 • Sustainability and climate change
 • Sustainability and water reuse
 • Sustainability rating systems
 The sustainable wate...

As awareness has grown about the damage being done to the natural environment, limits of the earth’s finite resources, and the realities of climate change, environmental advocates have demanded sustainable development practices so that future generations will be able to meet their needs. Meanwhile, the widespread exploitation of workers in the industrial sector triggered the labor movement’s fight for social-economic justice. This focus on socio-economic justice that characterizes the labor movements is enlarged in the “sustainable development” framework which articulates triple bottom line pr...

Although it is important to set targets for improving the environmental sustainability of a publishing house, it is vital that the management accounting systems reflect the actuality of a book’s cost, including all overhead transactions, in order to measure and motivate appropriately.

This paper supplies a critique of the view that a practice which ought not to be followed is ipso facto not sustainable, a view recently defended by Nigel Dower. It is argued that there are ethical criteria independent of the criterion of sustainability. The concept of sustainability is thus retrieved for the distinctive role and the important service in which environmental and social theorists (paradoxically including Dower) have hitherto employed it, not least when debating the nature, merits and demerits of sustainable development.

Sustainability seeks a way for human and natural systems to work together so that all species can survive and thrive over the long term, both locally and globally. The Bachelor of Science in Sustainability provides the broad fundamental knowledge, skills and competencies needed to drive sustainable outcomes that address today's urgent environmental, economic and social challenges. This degree can be applied across a wide range of fields, from management, design and planning to environmental services in business, nonprofit and public institutions.

This first issue for 2023 focuses on sustainability in several forms: the capacity of an industry to keep going in the face of financial restrictions, the ability to keep farming in an increasingly hostile climate, the need for community participation for sustainable adaptation. All of these things are, of course, linked, and this issue brings together several articles from a range of countries in the Global South— including Pakistan, Myanmar, Ghana, Kenya, Sierra Leone and India—which focus on a common goal: the sustainability of an industry, approach, or practice that will improve the lives ...

: This review section covers journal articles and conferences papers on sustainability that were published from 2006 to 2008. The literature review has been divided into the following sections:
 •Sustainable water and wastewater utilities
 •Sustainable watersheds and water resources management
 •Industrial and corporate approaches towards sustainability
 •Stormwater and green infrastructure
 •Sustainable wastewater technologies
 •Life cycle analysis (LCA)
 •Sustainability and energy in wastewater industry
 •Sustainability and climate change
 •Sustainability and water reuse
 •Application of LEE...

This review on Sustainability covers selected journal articles and conferences papers published in 2012 and is divided into the following sections:
 • Sustainable water and wastewater utilities
 • Sustainable water resources management
 • Industrial and corporate approaches towards sustainability
 • Stormwater and green infrastructure
 • Sustainability in wastewater treatment
 • Life cycle assessment (LCA) applications
 • Sustainability and energy in wastewater industry, climate change, and water reuse
 • Sustainability rating systems
 The Stormwater and Green Infrastructure (GI) describe the ...

A Civil Society Organisation (henceforward CSO) is formed when a group of people decide that they would like to associate around something which they care about. In some cases their decision is made for them as, for instance, the members of an age group in many African countries, or a person being born a Jew or a Muslim, but in many cases, probably most, a CSO is formed from people who voluntarily decide to associate together for some purpose which is important to all of them. In the jargon, this is their “Mission”: it may be to listen to music, it may be to play football, it may be to join a ...

This review on Sustainability covers selected 2015 publications on the focus of Sustainability. It is divided into the following sections :
 • Sustainable water and wastewater utilities
 • Sustainable water resources management
 • Stormwater and green infrastructure
 • Sustainability in wastewater treatment
 • Life cycle assessment (LCA) applications
 • Sustainability and energy in wastewater industry, 
 • Sustainability and asset management

This book seeks to contextualize sustainability in three key ways: interdisciplinary formations, specifically the sciences, arts, societies, scale, and social justice. “Situating” sustainability suggests an analytic that can be applied to any of the individual contributions in this book: it implies an awareness as to the multiple ways that sustainability is marshalled and lack of sustainability/ justice experienced in social and political life. Each section has an “anchor” or framing chapter that will set the stage for the individual chapters to follow as well as a praxis-oriented contribution...

As a consummately effective ‘boundary term’, able to link disparate groups on the basis of a broad common agenda, ‘sustainability’ has moved a long way from its technical association with forest management in Germany in the eighteenth century. In the 1980s and 1990s it defined – for a particular historical moment – a key debate of global importance, bringing with it a coalition of actors – across governments, civic groups, academia and business – in perhaps an unparalleled fashion. That they did not agree with everything (or even often know anything of the technical definitions of the term) wa...

This review on Sustainability covers selected 2014 publications on the focus of the following sections:
 • Sustainable water and wastewater utilities
 • Sustainable water resources management
 • Stormwater and green infrastructure
 • Sustainability in wastewater treatment
 • Life cycle assessment (LCA) applications
 • Sustainability and energy in wastewater industry,
 • Sustainability and asset management

Sustainability is a concept that is becoming increasingly important as human societies recognize the finite nature of many natural resources and the lingering ill effects of overconsumption, pollution and poorly planned land uses. Sustainability is defined as meeting the needs of the current generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs and to do so while maintaining ecological processes, functions, biodiversity and productivity into the future. An understanding of sustainability includes the scientific basis for sustainable resource use as well as t...

Sustainability is a concept that is becoming increasingly important as human societies recognize the finite nature of many natural resources and the lingering ill effects of overconsumption, pollution and poorly planned land uses. Sustainability is defined as meeting the needs of the current generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs and to do so while maintaining ecological processes, functions, biodiversity and productivity into the future. An understanding of sustainability includes the scientific basis for sustainable resource use as well as t...

This review on Sustainability covers selected 2013 publications on the focus of Sustainability. It is divided into the following sections:
 • Sustainable water and wastewater utilities
 • Sustainable water resources management
 • Stormwater and green infrastructure
 • Sustainability in wastewater treatment
 • Life cycle assessment (LCA) applications
 • Sustainability and energy in wastewater industry,
 • Sustainability and infrastructure
 • Sustainability and asset management

To deliver tangible sustainability outcomes, the infrastructure sector of the construction industry needs to build capacities for the creation, application and management of ever increasing knowledge. This paper intends to establish the importance and key issues of promoting sustainability through knowledge management (KM). It presents a new conceptual framework for managing sustainability knowledge to raise the awareness and direct future research in the field of transport infrastructure, one of the fast growing sectors in Australia. A holistic KM approach is adopted in this research to consi...