The Equal Pillars of Sustainability

Sustainability, exemption, and the constrained equal awards rule: a note

We consider the problem of distributing the liquidation value of a bankrupt firm among its creditors. Herrero and Villar [TOP 10 (2002) 261; Mathematical Social Sciences 42 (2001) 307] show that (i) the constrained equal awards rule is the only rule satisfying sustainability and composition down, and that (ii) it is the only rule satisfying exemption, composition down, and bilateral consistency...

Sustaining Oak Forests in Eastern North America: Regeneration and Recruitment, the Pillars of Sustainability

Oak cover types comprise half of the forestlands in the eastern United States. There is a great desire to sustain these highly valued forests. Unfortunately, reports of the successional replacement of oak are all too common, as they are throughout the world. Sustaining the oak resource requires the ability to both regenerate and recruit oak into the overstory as dominant mature trees. Too often...

Ensuring Support for Research and Quality Improvement (QI) Networks: Four Pillars of Sustainability—An Emerging Framework

Multi-institutional research and quality improvement (QI) projects using electronic clinical data (ECD) hold great promise for improving quality of care and patient outcomes but typically require significant infrastructure investments both to initiate and maintain the project over its duration. Consequently, it is important for these projects to think holistically about sustainability to ensure...

The 3 pillars of health.

Rediscovering the pillars.