Fast fashion brands create high quantities of synthetic, petroleum-based garments that result in levels textile waste and emissions. To change the dreadful tag hazardous production by fast companies, top-notch leaders started paying attention towards adopting sustainable practices, including supply chain management (SSCM) for a environment. This paper conducts structured review annual reports o...

Cities are in transition towards more sustainable mobilities, and many city cores beyond peak car. However, the suburbs still largely car based. Although that planning principles for compact centres transit-oriented development have been prevalent since early nineties, there has little progress suburban mobility – nor. This is also case Greater Oslo region. To understand this implementation gap...

Metrics for assessing adoption of good development practices are a useful way to ensure that software is sustainable, reusable and functional. Sustainability means that the software used today will be available - and continue to be improved and supported - in the future. We report here an initial set of metrics that measure good practices in software development. This initiative differs from pr...

In developing regions with high levels of poverty and a dependence on climate sensitive agriculture, studies focusing on climate change adaptation, planning, and policy processes, have gained relative importance over the years. This study assesses the impact of farmer perceptions regarding climate change on the use of sustainable agricultural practices as an adaptation strategy in the Chinyanja...

The need for better techniques, tools and practices to analyse ecological and economic systems in an integrated framework has never been so great. Self-organising map (SOM) methods are utilised for this purpose with two examples using regional and global data (ecological and economic) compiled by state and international institutions i.e. Waikato Regional Council and the World Bank. Sustainable ...

Land degradation is one of the major causes of low and in many places declining agricultural productivity and continuing food insecurity and rural poverty in Ethiopia. Achieving sustainable pathways out of the downward spiral of land degradation and poverty requires that farmers adopt profitable and sustainable land management practices, or pursue alternative livelihood strategies that are less...

Firms are continuously improving their human resource management (HRM) practices in order to achieve sustainable competitive advantage and increase their profitability. These practices include employee involvement, training, empowerment, compensation and rewards, etc. The purpose of this research is to examine the relationship between human resource practices and firm performance. Using compani...

This paper explores a design method to generate insights for designing less resource-intensive forms of everyday life. This study takes the assumption that looking at cultural diversity can widen the variety of insights which can be used as a source of inspiration for designing sustainable practices. However, there is a lack of clear-cut approaches for collecting information on sustainable ever...

Lobbying, Trade and Renewable Resource Harvesting Richard Damania and E. Barbier The over-exploitation of renewable resources has intensified international concerns over the management of these resources. This has prompted calls for the use of international policy interventions such as trade sanctions and contingent transfers, to encourage sustainable resource management practices in these coun...