The world is confronted with a variety of interdependent problems, including scarcity, unsustainability, inequality, pollution and poor governance. Tackling such complex challenges requires coordinated action. The present paper proposes the development of a self-organizing system for coordination, called an “offer network”, that would use the distributed intelligence of the Internet to match th...

Climate resilience in subsistence agricultural communities depends strongly on the robustness and effective management of the agricultural natural resource base. For this reason, adaptation planning efforts frequently focus on natural resource conservation as the primary motivation for and primary outcome of adaptation activities. Here, we present an analysis of the sustainability of community ...

Edible oil seed crops, such as rapeseed, sunflower, soyabean and safflower and non-edible seed oil plantation crops Jatropha and Pongamia have proved to be internationally viable commercial sources of vegetable oils for biodiesel production. Considering the paucity of edible oils and unsustainability of arable land under perennial plantation of Jatropha and Pongamia in countries such as India, ...

Beginning about 1967, New Zealand experienced a stretch of high inflation that lasted more than two decades. For much of that period, consumer inflation ran in the mid-teens, with peak inflation just short of 20 per cent (Figure 1). Inflation was never politically tolerable. Reflecting that fact as well as the reluctance to grapple with the underlying sources of inflationary pressures, New Zeal...

There are three main theoretical difficulties involved in relating sustainability to aviation, and which a research agenda for sustainable aviation needs to address. The first is uncertainty regarding the critical thresholds of global environmental systems. The second is a lack of protocols for allocating permissible environmental consumption shares to, and hence targets for, individual enterpr...

Overexploitation is one of the principal threats to coral reef diversity, structure, function, and resilience [1, 2]. Although it is generally held that coral reef fisheries are unsustainable [3-5], little is known of the overall scale of exploitation or which reefs are overfished [6]. Here, on the basis of ecological footprints and a review of exploitation status [7, 8], we report widespread u...

Paul M. Sweezy (New York, 1910-2004) was a co-founder and, for over half century, co-editor of Monthly Review. At the basis his theoretical thought there is Marxian approach, open and creative, an attention to high elaboration twentieth century – Hilferding Veblen, Schumpeter Keynes, Kalecki Steindl. With The Theory Capitalist Development (1942) Monopoly Capital (1966, written with Baran), he r...

"This paper considers the extent to which Governor’s profile might influence financial sus tainability of State government, via an empirical study 50 US States during period 2006–2013. The results obtained show that sustain ability may be prejudiced when govern ment experienced unsustainability previous year, and it is led by a Governor who Democrat, Black, and/or long serving. A favorable on s...

The transportation sector has a strong negative impact on the environment and therefore requires new sustainable development measures. This paper proposes indicator of sustainability in transport obtained through multi-criteria analysis based Eurostat data panel 10 academics. results show positive performance Sweden period 2015–2019 small number countries above European average. Furthermore, qu...

The sustainability crisis entails high levels of complexity, not approachable from linear or reductionist stances. Unveiled a holistic stance as multilevel phenomenon characterized by qualitative novelty, emergence pertains to complex self-organizing systems. Emergent properties and behaviors arise only when system parts interact in wider whole. This article positions for enhancing solution pro...