Sustainability is a key challenge for humanity in the 21st century. Ecosystem services-the benefits that people derive from nature and natural capital-is a concept often used to help explain human reliance on nature and frame the decisions we make in terms of the ongoing value of nature to human wellbeing. Yet ecosystem service science has not always lived up to the promise of its potential. De...

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Zhuhai is a beautiful city located in south china. Through 20 years of development, Zhuhai has become a garden-like modern city. At present, Zhuhai functions as a Special Economic Zone, a Nation high-tech Developing Zone and a Duty-Free Industrial Zone simultaneously. Its GDP increased from 200 million RMB in 1979 to 23.5 billion RMB in 1997. The actual foreign direct investment volume increase...

The traditional linear industries led to dwindling resources and even exhaustion, as well as worsening pollution, it is a short-sighted unsustainable developing mode of the economy. Ecological industry is to realize the harmonious development between economy and environment by planning industrial systems according to material cycle in the natural ecological system. The Eco-industry coordinates ...

The extent to which people living in developing countries have access to scholarly literature has historically been severely constrained. The constraints in part are created and enforced by academic publishers, primarily for reasons of finance, and in part are a result of the digital divide: the glaring inequality of access to the Internet that pervades the developing world. In this article, we...

6. Epidemiological, antigenic and genetic characteristics of seasonal influenza A(H1N1), A(H3N2) and B influenza viruses: Basis for the WHO recommendation on the composition of influenza vaccines for use in the 2009– 2010 Northern Hemisphere season Pages 1156-1167 Ian G. Barr, John McCauley, Nancy Cox, Rod Daniels, Othmar G. Engelhardt, Keiji Fukuda, Gary Grohmann, Alan Hay, Anne Kelso, Alexand...

Identifying role of extension system in adoption of new technologies have important role to developing favorable extension systems. For supporting sustainable agriculture in Iran needs extension systems to be carefully thought and accurately implemented. The purpose of this is analyzing role of extension activities in adoption of sustainable agriculture. Based on the results the attending agric...

CONTENTS Acronyms and abbreviations Ackowledgements 1 Background to the OECD/DAC donor-developing country dialogues on nssds 1.1 Summary of the project 2 Sustainable development and strategies to reach this goal 2.1 Is there really an understanding of what sustainable development is all about? 2.1.1 Defining sustainable development 2.2 What is a national stratagey for sustainable development ? ...