Background/Context: This article explores sustainability as an emerging paradigm for preservice preparation of teachers. Sustainability education, which is rooted in Deweyan ideas about the fundamental social purposes of schooling, attends to the tensions created by the interconnectedness of environmental, economic, and social equity systems. Sustainability education extends but does not replac...

The concept of corporate sustainability suggests that firms need to maintain sustainability principles and practices by addressing stakeholders’ economic, ecological, and social concerns. Social media has become a knowledge depository where managers can evaluate stakeholders’ concerns about the firm’s sustainability-related issues. This study proposes a computational approach that utilizes natu...

The paper presents a methodology for the quantitative assessment of sustainability applied to the design of chemical plants. Specifically, we focus on the economic and environmental sustainability. The methodology implemented for the economic assessment is the predictive conceptual design (PCD) that uses as indicator the cumulated dynamic economic potential over a long-term horizon. PCD account...

introduction there is a wide transformation achieving to sustainable development terms. sustainable development is not a new concept but it shows the process of transformation of social, economic and natural systems. at the end of 1987s a new paradigm, called sustainability, concluded that scientific evidence demonstrated rapid destruction of air, water, species of flora and fauna, deserts, for...

External Posting Date: September 6, 2011 [Fulltext]. Approved for External Publication  Cloud Sustainability Dashboard, Dynamically Assessing Sustainability of Data Centers and Clouds Cullen Bash, Tahir Cader, Yuan Chen, Daniel Gmach, Richard Kaufman, Dejan Milojicic, Amip Shah, Puneet Sharma HP Laboratories HPL-2011-148 Sustainability; Clouds; monitoring; and modeling. Quantifying and underst...

Climate change has profound consequences for the agriculture of south-eastern Australia and its climate-induced water shortage in the Murray-Darling Basin. Post Keynesian Economics (PKE) macro-dynamics, along with Kaleckian investment and growth theory, are used to develop an ecological-economic system dynamics model of this complex nonlinear river basin system. The MurrayDarling Basin Simulati...

Nowadays, issues such as global climate change, poverty and inequity, and the unsustainable use of resources are driving organizations to incorporate the principles of sustainable development into projects. Sustainable development of organizations and companies requires consideration of all three sustainability dimensions: environmental, economic and social should integrate economic, social and...

Literature on eco-parks and eco-clusters has emphasized the opportunities for the coupling of local economic development and sustainability, going beyond firms’ green strategies to include also supply chains and local networks of firms. Studies have described the conditions and policies for the development of new sustainable economic activities in specific areas based on the industrial ecology ...

Real estate market development and its sustainability are closely associated with history and development. Numerous problems have existed in society in the course of the years, including socio-economic problems. Real estate market development is also closely related to economic development, philosophical issues, and the analysis of these issues over the course of time makes it possible to explo...

In recent years, an important increase in the amount and impact of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) threats has been reported by the different information security organizations. They typically target the depletion of the computational resources of the victims, hence drastically harming their operational capabilities. Inspired by these methods, Economic Denial of Sustainability (EDoS) attac...