SP-017 SNUC: a sustainable concept?

Concept Mapping for Sustainable Development

Concept mapping has been used as a tool to monitor and promote meaningful learning, thinking, and acting in courses taught by Professor Mauri Åhlberg since 1989 at the University of Joensuu, Finland. In this paper the use of concept mapping is described in an advanced course that focused on teacher as researcher and developer of her/his own work and its preconditions. During the course universi...

Concept for Planning Sustainable Factories

In the current economic climate, for many businesses it is generally no longer sufficient to pursue exclusively economic interests. Instead, integrating ecological and social goals into the corporate targets is becoming ever more important. However, the holistic integration of these new goals is missing from current factory planning approaches. This article describes the conceptual framework fo...

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G .P .S . 01 701 32 W o rk : Q u o ta O w n b u s in e s s C o rp o ra te w o rk e r S tu d y ( > 3 m o n th s ) R e la ti v e ’s S tu d e n t e x c h a n g e p ro g ra m m e C u lt u ra l/ e c o n o m ic /s o c ia l e x c h a n g e p ro g ra m m e W o rk : G e n e ra l In tr a -c o m p a n y t ra n s fe r E x c e p ti o n a l s k ill s M e d ic a l (> 3 m o n th s ) W o rk e x c h a n g e p ro...

Organizing for sustainability: a cybernetic concept for sustainable renewal

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose a holistic structural framework for a sustainable renewal that embraces all relevant contexts – individual, organizational, local-regional and worldwide. This should help humanity achieve a future in which society, economy and ecology are united in an evolutionary process based on multiple symbiosis. Design/methodology/approach – An integrative ...

Risk Assessment and Sustainable Development: Towards a Concept of Sustainable Risk