1.1 What is the problem? Different management paradigms, such as the lean, agile, resilience and green have been adopted for the management of supply chains. The lean supply chain is a paradigm based on cost reduction and flexibility, focused on processes improvements, through the reduction or elimination of the all “wastes”, i.e., non-value adding operations (Womack et al., 1991). It embraces ...

introduction intercropping as a common method in sustainable agricultural systems, plays an important role in increasing productivity and yield stability to improve utilization of resources )alizadeh et al., 2010). studies in different countries showed that intercropping causes increase in diversity, production and more efficient use of water resources, land, labor and nutrients and also reduce...

News reports on catastrophic floods and devastating droughts and their implications abound in recent years. Extreme events are becoming more frequent and their impacts increase in magnitude (Solomon et al. 2007) but societies have also become more vulnerable (Fuhrer et al. 2006; Maslin 2008). A proposed major reason for this increase in vulnerability and the associated environmental degradation...

R reviews describing human impacts on coastal and marine ecosystems in the Caribbean emphasize two major problems. First is the lack of information about processes controlling the productivity of diverse coastal ecosystems. Second is the potential long-term negative impact of human disturbances on the goods and services these ecosystems provide (Richards and Bohnsack 1990, Ogden 1997). The Cari...

Weaning is considered one of the most stressful periods in the beef production system for beef calves. During this process calves are subjected to a variety of stressors including removal from their mothers, new diets, processing (vaccination, dehorning, castration etc.), and possibly even new pen or pasture environments. These stressors, singly or in combination, can result in behavior or phys...

Volume 47 of Advances in Ecological Research is the second in a series of three that address awide-ranging theme in contemporary ecology: global change in multispecies systems. In the previous volume, the ecological consequences of various environmental stressorswere explored ( JacobandWoodward, 2012), including several of the different components of climate change (Ledger et al., 2012; Meerhof...

The Precautionary Principle aims to anticipate and minimize potentially serious or irreversible risks under conditions of uncertainty. It has been incorporated into many international treaties and pieces of national legislation for environmental protection and sustainable development. However the precautionary principle has not yet been applied systematically to novel Information and Communicat...

Commentary: Deworming externalities and schooling impacts in Kenya: a comment on Aiken et al. (2015) and Davey et al. (2015) Joan Hamory Hicks, Michael Kremer and Edward Miguel* University of California, Center for Effective Global Action, Berkeley, California, USA, Department of Economics, Harvard University and NBER, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and Department of Economics, University of Cal...

1 Motivation Today's enterprises find themselves confronted with a changing economic, regulatory, and technical environment that they are forced to adapt to (Ross et al. 2006, Wagter et al. 2005). Performing the necessary and beneficial adaptations is aggravated by the intricate and highly interwoven architecture of the overall enterprise. Therein, local changes to one enterprise artifact, e.g....