TRANSPORT'S SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AS THE ECONOMICAL CHALLENGE

The Sustainable Development Challenge for Technology

Sustainable development is a three-pronged attack on the future. It is shorthand for a world in which economic progress, social equity and environmental quality are being integrated to provide fulfilling lifestyles for the planet’s inhabitants, both now and in the future. Technology will have to play an important role in the transition towards sustainable development, and technological changes ...

UN / SG The Challenge of Sustainable Development

The Daunting Challenge of Ensuring Sustainable Development of Nanomaterials

The development and implementation of nanomaterials (NMs) is rapid and a vast range of applications is already in place or foreseen. Consequently, there is a concomitant increased likelihood for NMs being released into the environment. Given this, there is concern regarding the potential ecological sustainability of nanotechnology [1]. Although, this concern has driven an impressive progress in...

Applying Behavioural Theory to the Challenge of Sustainable Development: Using Hairdressers as Diffusers of More Sustainable Hair-Care Practices

The challenges presented by sustainable development are broadly accepted, yet resource use increases unabated. It is increasingly acknowledged that while technical solutions may play a part, a key issue is behaviour change. In response to this, there has been a plethora of studies into how behaviour change can be enabled, predominantly from psychological and sociological perspectives. This has ...

migration and aging of the rural population of iran: the challenge for rural sustainable development

the present paper that was based on the documentation method and secondary analysis of data from censuses population and housing statistics center of iran, intended to thoroughly analyze the effects of these factors in rural migration on rural aging population in addition, the increase in aging of iranian employees in agriculture sector and its consequences were examined. results have shown tha...