Sustainability is a wide concept that contains other concepts such as social responsibility and has been investigated with concepts such as competition sustainability, reporting sustainability, and social sustainability. The present study aims to investigate the role of social interest rate risk management (SIRRM) in the relationship between sustainability performance and investment ef...

land cover mapping is important for many planning and management activities. today, satellite images and remote sensing techniques are extensively used in all sectors including agriculture and natural resources because they provide updated data and high analyzing abilities. in this study, in order to produce land cover map for the northern part of hamedan province , digital satellite data irsp6...

This study presents the natural dye recovery from various biodegradable temple and household wastes. The raw material for colour extraction consisted residual flowers and garlands from various temples as well as onion and vegetables peels from vegetable markets, university hostels, and households, which were washed, dried, crushed, and sieved. The extracted natural colours were produced by mean...

Weak sustainability indicators often suffer from their unrealistic and inadequate assumption of substitutability between natural capital and man-made capital. Defining sustainable development in these terms is almost trivial; measurement problems as well as methodological and sociological issues may be considered as major flaws of operationalizing weak sustainability indicators. On the other ha...

the accurate planning and management for sustainable agriculture results in appropriate behaviors ofindividuals towards sustainability through changes happened in individuals’ knowledge and attitudesof sustainability. a survey of natural resources and agricultural researchers (n = 85) was conducted iniranian province of ilam to explore their attitudes of sustainable agriculture and to identify ...

science data for wildlife surveys Cara Steger* , Bilal Butt and Mevin B. Hooten Natural Resource Ecology Lab, Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523-1499, USA; School for Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48103, USA; and U.S. Geological Survey, Colorado Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit,...