This article suggests that sexual and reproductive health and rights activists seeking to influence the post-2015 international development paradigm must work with sustainable development advocates concerned with a range of issues, including climate change, environmental issues, and food and water security, and that a way of building bridges with these communities is to demonstrate how sexual a...

A comprehensive discussion of feasible strategies for sustainable energy supply is urgently needed to achieve a turnaround of the current energy situation. The necessary fundamentals required for the development of a long term energy vision are lacking to a great extent due to the absence of reasonable long term scenarios that fulfill the requirements of climate protection and sustainable energ...

water is a valuable and irreplaceable element for the socio-economic development of countries. it is also the most important factor for the equilibrium of the ecosystem and environment. todays, several factors cause water problems and related issues around the world. governments and nations are always looking for the correct understanding of water issues and providing sustainable solutions to s...

We propose a hybrid evolutionary algorithm based on discrete Particle Swarm Optimization for solving a novel remanufacturing sustainable supply chain design problem. There is little research being done in mathematical modeling and solutions methods for these problems. The paper describes a NP-hard mixed-integer 0-1 model (MIP) for this remanufacturing sustainable problem in which given a networ...

This article presents an effective solution method for a two-layer, NP-hard sustainable supply chain distribution model. A DoE-guided MOGA-II optimiser based solution method is proposed for locating a set of non-dominated solutions distributed along the Pareto frontier. The solution method allows decision-makers to prioritise the realistic solutions, while focusing on alternate transportation s...

The recognition of the limits of resources is almost as old as the realization that our planet is a sphere leading to concerns about sustainable resources management. Water resources in particular receive growing attention given its uneven distribution in many parts of the world. Engineering solutions to address water management challenges played significant roles in the past in areas such as a...