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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...

Claim of sustainability are virtually impossible to prove but enough is known about tropical forest ecology and silviculture to protect ecosystem functions and maintain biodiversity while still deriving financial profirs from logging . Rapid improvements in long-term forest production will derive from better planning of harvesting operations and stand improvement treatments. Lack of good manage...

Geothermal resources have the potential of contributing significantly to sustainable development in many parts of the world. Sustainable management of a geothermal resource involves utilization at a rate, which may be maintained for a very long time (100300 years). The energy production potential of geothermal systems is primarily determined by the pressure decline caused by production. Overexp...

The broad range of applications of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) to forest management has demonstrated its potential as an interdisciplinary methodological framework for decision-making. However, traditional MCDA methods have also shown to have some limitations in addressing the inherent complexity of forest resources management and planning problems. This is particularly true in sust...

The challenges of how to respond to climate change and ensure sustainable development are currently high on the political agenda among the world’s leading nations. The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is part of the global carbon market developing rapidly as part of the Kyoto response towards mitigation of global warming. One of the aims of the CDM is to achieve sustainable development in deve...