The use of plastics in horticulture is reviewed with respect to its sustainability based on the traditional criteria triple Rs (reduce, reuse, and recycling) plus a re-place strategy, taking into account possible alternatives. Hail (and insect) nets made HD-PE, their long-term mostly apple polytunnels LD-PE for cherry strawberry as well solarisation mulches (reuse), were found be relatively sus...

Links between the pond and surrounding land for horticulture is a distinctive feature of farming households in Bangladesh. It was hypothesised that the role of fishponds in integrated aquaculture systems has potential towards improving livelihoods and poverty alleviation. Rural and peri-urban settlements in Mymensingh District, Bangladesh were selected for assessing the importance and role of p...

The need for sustainable development has been widely recognized and sustainable development has become a hot topic of various disciplines even though the role of ergonomics in it is seldom reported or considered. This study conducts a systematic survey of research publications in the fields of ergonomics and sustainable development over the past two decades (1992-2011), in order to identify the...

The Biosphere Reserve (BR) concept aims at encouraging sustainable development (SD) towards sustainability on the ground by promoting three core functions: conservation, development, and logistic support. Sweden and Ukraine exemplify the diverse governance contexts that BRs need to cope with. We assessed how the BR concept and its core functions are captured in national legislations. The result...

Hiroaki KITAZAWA*, Naoko HASEGAWA, Masayasu NAGATA, Machiko FUKUDA, Shin-ichi WATANABE, Atsushi YAMASAKI, Atsuko URAGAMI Food Engineering Division, National Food Research Institute, NARO, Tsukuba, Japan Vegetable Production Technology Division, NARO Institute of Vegetable and Tea Science, Tsukuba, Japan Horticulture Research Division, NARO Kyushu Okinawa Agricultural Research Center, Kurume, Ja...

Karin M. Kettenring*, Kristin L. Mercer, Carrie Reinhardt Adams and Jes Hines Ecology Center and Department of Watershed Sciences, Utah State University, Logan, UT, USA; Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, MD, USA; Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA; Department of Environmental Horticulture, University of Florida, Gainesvi...

ROCK CHABOT, CHANTAL J. BEAUCHAMP, JOSEPH W. KLOEPPER and HANI ANTOUN* De partement des Sols et de Ge nie Agroalimentaire et Centre de Recherche en Horticulture, Universite Laval, Pavillon Charles-EugeÁ ne Marchand, Quebec, Que., Canada G1K 7P4, De partement de Phytologie et Centre de Recherche en Horticulture, Faculte des Sciences de l'Agriculture et de l'Alimentation, Universite Laval, ...