1 Natural Resources Program, Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States, 2 Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States, 3 Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology Program, Forestry and Environmental Resources, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC,...

In spite of the considerable research on sustainability, reports suggest that we are barely any closer to a more sustainable society. As such, there is an urgent need to improve the effectiveness of human efforts towards sustainability. A clearer and more unified understanding of sustainability among different people and sectors could help to facilitate this. This paper presents the results of ...

The present study assesses the environmental sustainability, or the ecosystem support, of ethanol produced from sugarcane and examines the environmental feasibility of a large-scale production through the use of: emergy methodology. The study includes agricultural and industrial stages, as well the sugarcane transport, and was accomplished for two scenarios: a) only the directly consumed resour...

In public planning processes for sustainable urban development, planners and experts often face the challenge of engaging a public that is not familiar with sustainability principles or does not subscribe to sustainability values. Although there are calls to build the public’s sustainability literacy through social learning, such efforts require sufficient time and other resources that are not ...

Modeling plays a vital role for knowing the status of ‘Ecological viability’ in relation to development phenomenon. However, the sustainability reflects the philosophy of adaptive eco-system management of the natural and man-made resources from the point of sustainability in accordance with changing scenario. The present paper throw an adequate light on the mechanism of model which has develope...

The present work proposes a computer-aided methodology for designing sustainable supply chains in terms of sustainability metrics by utilizing the P-graph framework. The methodology is an outcome of the collaboration between the Office of Research and Development (ORD) of the U.S. EPA and the research group led by the creators of the P-graph framework at the University of Pannonia. The integrat...

Social sustainability is a relatively underexposed dimension of the sustainability debate. Diversified and discipline-specific study perspectives and the lack of contextualization make it difficult to gain a comprehensive understanding of social sustainability in non-Western societies. In examining the problems facing a rapidly ageing Chinese society, this paper aims to construct an integrative...

This introductory chapter provides definitions of sustainability, sustainable development, decoupling, and related terms; gives an overview of existing interdisciplinary research fields related to ICT for Sustainability, including Environmental Informatics, Computational Sustainability, Sustainable HCI, and Green ICT; introduces a conceptual framework to structure the effects of ICT on sustaina...

In recent years a growing interest in the concept of sustainability has manifested itself in the tourism field in the form of policyand planning-related materials which address the environmental and, to a lesser extent, the cultural dimensions of sustainability in tourist industry practices. In essence this literature has focused on the resources on which the tourism industry draws for its prod...