607 ISSN 1758-3004 10.4155/CMT.11.59 © 2011 Future Science Ltd The converging of climate disruption, energy descent and economic instability is stressing civilization, perhaps foreshadowing a downshift to a lower level of complexity [1]. It is easy to despair at the unsustainability of human behavior; however, such despair may come from taking too narrow and pessimistic a view of human nature, ...

Most of donor supported information technology (IT) based projects developed or implemented in Less Developed Economies (LDEs) end up as a complete or partial failures or unsustainable. Notably, a number of intraorganizational and external factors are associated with this problem including inadequate infrastructure and human resource capacity, fragmented donor policy and lack of policies to man...

Urban sustainability refers to building and maintaining cities that can continue function without running out of resources. However, growing require more land urban sprawl has transformed surrounding rural areas into urbanized settlements. Furthermore, the prosperity large depends on supply both natural human resources from areas, either nearby or remote. On other hand, use by may cause negativ...

Sustainability is an ideal state, that cannot be “measured” per se. We can instead try to measure the distance from this ideal state. Regarding the use of resources and the emission of residues in the environment, the problem is “extensive”, i.e. a function of the magnitude of the problem (with respect to the size of the system). Humanity is approaching its “limits to growth” and this problem i...

for a long time, the concept of sustainability and unsustainability, the ways to assess them, and the factors involved in the process of various areas of scienc, especially the environmental ones. sustainability in rural areas as human settlements depends heavily on a series of factors including environmental and socio-economic factors. this paper aims at introducing fuzzy set theory and the ex...