Sustainability education and conservation have become an international imperative due to the rising cost of energy, increasing scarcity of natural resource and irresponsible environmental practices. This paper presents Makahiki, an open source serious game framework for sustainability, which implements an extensible framework for different organizations to develop sustainability games. It provi...

In this paper, we explore a new approach to computational sustainability based on variational inequalities (VIs). Our challenge is to compute the steady state behaviors of networks of supply chains with possibly conflicting objectives. VIs provide a way to handle this problem of modeling large networks with numerous conflicting goals. Given the size of real-world networks, suitable algorithms m...

The CP conference is the annual international conference on constraint programming. It is concerned with all aspects of computing with constraints, including theory, algorithms, environments, languages, models, systems, and applications such as decision-making, resource allocation, scheduling, configuration, and planning. The CP community is very keen to ensure it remains open to interdisciplin...

Many problems in computational sustainability involve constraints on connectivity. When designing a new wildlife corridor, we need it to be geographically connected. When planning the harvest of a forest, we need new areas to harvest to be connected to areas that have already been harvested so we can access them easily. And when town planning, we need to connect new homes to the existing utilit...

In recent years substantial progress has been achieved in the field of ecological economics for clarifying human-nature interrelations. The fundamental role of the lifesupport functions of the environment (Odum, 1975) for economic development and sustainability has entered from ecology into economics, and has started to be theoretically as well as empirically analyzed. This has, in part, given ...

In this paper, we discuss Armstrong’s account of attachment-based claims to natural resources, the kind rights that follow from claims, and limits should impose on such claims. We hope clarify how why attachment matters in discourse resource by presenting three challenges theory. First, question normative basis for certain trying distinguish more clearly between different kinds other Second, hi...