This paper reports on our ongoing work regarding opinion mining from Web-based discussion forums in the realm of the Understanding Advertising (UAd) project. Our approach to opinion mining is to first RDFise discussion forums in SIOC, and in a second phase to interlink the so created data with linked datasets such as DBpedia. We are confident that this should allow a market researcher to formul...

Environmentally sustainable construction is now recognised as a significant element of the broader sustainable development agenda and planners are being called upon to play a role in delivering more sustainable patterns of construction and development. This puts particular demands on the knowledge resources of planners since knowledge is implicated in the power relations between planners and de...

BACKGROUND Little is known of the appropriateness of existing gatekeeper suicide prevention programs for Indigenous communities. Despite the high rates of Indigenous suicide in Australia, especially among Indigenous youth, it is unclear how effective existing suicide prevention programs are in providing appropriate management of Indigenous people at risk of suicide. METHODS In-depth, semi-str...

Rural Development is a priority in Europe and it is supported by specific, financial programmes. At the same time, sustainability is the key word for the European Union to construct programmes and policies for all human activities. However, measuring sustainability of rural areas is not easy, due to their particular features. The improvement of knowledge on sustainability in rural areas is impo...

In the past years there has been crescent global awareness on issues of sustainability. Many social and ecological movements were created in response to the sense of global crisis and the need for a sustainable future. One such movement was Permaculture. Permaculture is a recognised path to sustainable culture which was created by Right Livelihood award winner, Bill Mollison. Permaculture stand...

This interest is fueled by a growing niche market for agricultural commodities that are produced in an environmentally benign and socially responsible manner. This Note builds on the experience from World Bank/Global Environment Facility projects in Mexico, El Salvador, and Uganda to develop more sustainable coffee production (Box 1). Coffee, one of the most widely traded global commodities, is...

Safe, Healthy, Sustainable Communities 1 This paper reports on a special health concern identified in Point Hope during the Climate Change Health Impacts Assessment performed in May 2009: the thawing of traditional food storage cellars due to warming soil temperature. This problem is reducing the quality and quantity of food available to the residents of Point Hope. Adaptive strategies are nece...

Background: For developing nations the development of sustainable communities has to go hand in hand with the achievement of wider goals, where emphasis has to be given to the importance of lifestyle and social change. This interdisciplinary research draws understanding from the social, cultural and economic studies to define the values and aspirations of the middle class and the associated imp...

Anaerobic digestion (AD) is an efficient and sustainable way of using organic carbon from residual biomass and organic waste for the production of renewable energy, while simultaneously recycling nutrients and cleaning up waste streams. The process relies on complex microbial communities comprised of diverse functional guilds; these communities have manifold metabolic pathways and interactions....

The contemporary adaptation of the society to more and more restrictions imposed by global changes, especially by climate ones, involves a vigorous and innovative set of actions. The environment scene is populated by many actors, who play in a synergic and cohesive manner for defining and implementing a real sustainable development. In this context, we assist at increased responsibility of all ...