One of the major environmental issues currently facing New Zealand is that of the sustainability of pastoral farming on North Island hill country. To be sustainable, a system must be resource conserving, environmentally compatible, socially supportive and commer-cially competitive. The Resource Management Act defines sustainable management as managing the use, development and protection of natu...

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Objective: Today, manufacturing companies must pay attention to environmental and social issues throughout the supply chain in order to survive. Many efforts have been made to examine the sustainable supply chain, but the agility of sustainable supply chain has been only observed in very few studies. Therefore, the aim of this study is to present an agility model of sustainable supply chain in ...

page 1 The ADVOCATE Project The ADVOCATE Project (Advancing Sustainable In Situ Remediation for Contaminated Land and Groundwater) is now under way. This Marie Curie Initial Training Network is an exciting collaboration between leading European institutions, providing advanced training to young researchers in this field. The network aims to develop innovative in-situ approaches for the sustaina...

In our study, we explore the extension analysis of ecological engineering management of the tourist area. And the primary goal in ecological engineering management is to realize the sustainable development of the tourist area. We set targets for the sustainable development of the tourist area on the basis of the analysis on the current situation. And then we build up target and condition matter...

Sustainable development is contacted with Sustainable Innovation. Innovative culture in enterprise is the core of survival and development, innovative prosecution and innovative management, the fundamentality of maintaining sustainable innovation, the base of developing innovative competitive power. Innovative culture in enterprise helps enterprises achieve sustainable development through influ...

With increase in population and need of a vehicle as a basic need, the traffic problem is increasing rapidly at an uncontrollable rate. Efficient traffic management systems need to be adopted without which it may lead to a traffic chaos in the upcoming future. The aim is to reduce the traffic management problems especially in India by providing the user an overview of the traffic scenario’s in ...

1 Dynamic Traffic Management In urban areas, the infrastructure often represents a bottleneck due to traffic demand exceeding available road capacities. Here, dynamic traffic management is necessary in order to provide strategies for efficient control, e.g. by applying time-dependent signal plans. The traffic load typically varies strongly throughout the day. Therefore an adaptation of the traf...