The purpose of this chapter is to advance a competency framework for sustainability, arguing that sustainability initiatives should move beyond basic awareness to deeper knowledge, including understanding of root causes, and development of political skills. This chapter’s discussion and critique of sustainability competence is grounded in data from more than 500 undergraduate residents’ respons...

Linking knowledge to action requires understanding how decision-makers conceptualize sustainability. This paper empirically analyzes farmer "mental models" of sustainability from three winegrape-growing regions of California where local extension programs have focused on sustainable agriculture. The mental models are represented as networks where sustainability concepts are nodes, and links are...

water shortages is one of the main factors inhibiting economic and social development and agriculture in most developing countries, especially in countries located in arid and semi-arid belt of the world. the study tried to investigate the affecting factors on water resources exploitation with considering water utilization pattern and an emphasis on sustainable water use in fars province. due t...

purpose: the main object of this research is to investigate the effective factors on wheat producers' knowledge of soil management in ardabil province. mythology: this study is quantitative in terms of its nature, non-experimental in terms of controlling variables, applied in terms of its objectives and descriptive- analytic in terms of data-gathering procedure. the number of samples was 17500 ...

sustainable and continuous development of each country is depended to sustainable of agricultural system . therefore achieving sustainable agricultural system is one of the important policies of each country agriculture section . the sustainability of agricultural system depends on many factors . the knowledge of these factors can play an important role in compiling the policies and strategies ...

SUMMER 2014 31 Ecological processes that occur at global scales are among the most impressive natural phenomena on Earth; they link environments across the globe and capture the imagination of observers. For example, billions of North American birds, representing more than 400 species, migrate annually, often thousands of miles, frequently under the cover of darkness, between breeding and nonbr...

BACKGROUND Understanding sustainability is one of the significant implementation science challenges. One of the big challenges in researching sustainability is the lack of consistent definitions in the literature. Most implementation studies do not present a definition of sustainability, even when assessing sustainability. The aim of the current study was to systematically develop a comprehensi...

sustainable purchasing and consuming clothes is a massive trend worldwide due to the great amount of production, its complications and also the active role of women; and is specifically so among young population of iran, though the country is moving towards sustainable development. this article aims to investigate the degree of awareness of the notion of sustainability and its impact on the pur...