Sustainable Development, Wellbeing and Material Consumption: A Stoic Perspective

Enhancing Health and Wellbeing through Immersion in Nature: A Conceptual Perspective Combining the Stoic and Buddhist Traditions

Water and Sustainable Development: a Southern Perspective

Sustainable Development and Transportation: A Taiwan Perspective

In response to The Rio Agenda 21 and The Kyoto Protocol, Taiwan government has formulated important policies and set up implementation guidelines for national sustainable development over the past few years. This paper presents the policies and strategies that Taiwan has endeavored to pursue environmental, social, and economic sustainability. In transportation sector, some important undertaking...

Icts and Sustainable Development: a Capability Perspective

Much research on developing countries highlights the developmental potential associated with ICTs as a rationale for implementing particular information systems. However, such initiatives are often problematic to realize and difficult to sustain. In this paper we examine the promise of development associated with the introduction of an Electronic Voters’ Registration (EVR) system in Nigeria. We...

Innovation and Sustainable Development: A Bioeconomic Perspective

Sustainability is a relationship, or balancing act, between many factors (social, environmental and economic realities and constraints) that are constantly changing (Munasinghe & McNeely, 1995; Pirages, 1994). Ensuring sustainability over time means maintaining a dynamic balance among a growing human population and its demands, the changing capabilities of the physical environment to absorb the...