The difficulty of sustaining ICT4D projects in developing nations is a formidable issue encountered by project managers. Addressing this issue is vital given reasons such as the opportunity cost of IT investment failure in developing-world contexts. This paper presents a study which explores the sustainability of ICT4D projects via a case study of a large-scale, nation-wide, government sector I...

Global cities, the command and control centres of the integrated world economy, are facing a sustainability paradox of greater global competition and greater environmental pressure. This study explores the policy approaches to the sustainability paradox by integrating environmental sustainability and economic competitiveness into the development strategy for “the global city”, based on a case s...

While there has been growing recognition that considering environmental and social aspects of sustainability is important for a firm’s reputation and long-term survival, research so far focused on strategic goals and how sustainability becomes relevant and less so on how sustainability practices become embedded and mainstreamed. Our paper addresses the change process of initiating sustainabilit...

Sustainability governance for resource consumption by humans, such as greenhouse gas (GHG) and electricity consumption in facilities, is a complex issue that requires extensible platforms to manage and analyze multiple types of data over the time. In this paper, we will examine how cloud-based information systems and services can support emerging and future requirements for sustainability gover...

farmers' attitudes play an important role in their towards sustainable agriculture behavior. factors affecting men and women cotton producers’ attitude towards sustainable agriculture were investigated in the course of this worke. the research was a survey one using stratified random sampling, conducted in esfahan province. the subjects were selected from 179 cotton producing families (357...

reaching to a sustainable development of the country requires much attention to the sustainable development of rural areas. in this context, measuring and assessment of the sustainability with the aim of studying current situation, and understanding the differences between the regions in terms of sustainability indicators is very important in order to make optimal decisions regarding rural deve...

This paper explores various linkages between knowledge management (KM) and human capital management (HCM) in the context of developing leadership and management capabilities to support sustainability. Based on the prevailing literature, a framework linking human resource management (HRM), KM and HCM is applied to the development of leadership and management capabilities to support sustainabilit...

Sustainability has become a popular notion in current environmental policy analysis. Various definitions of this concept can be found in the literature. Analytically, the notion is relevant in the integration of socio-economie developments with environmental effects in order to obtain insight into (potential) environmental conflicts. Important in the operationalization of sustainability is the ...

Introduction Increasingly, legislative requirements are being placed on councils and businesses to incorporate sustainability into their activities. However, it is inherently difficult to assess the sustainability of activities and there are few tools to do this. It is therefore difficult to understand if an individual project contributes to broad sustainability objectives or if it incorporates...

This article explores how issues of security, conflict, violence and the military are considered in the sustainability literature. Despite these issues not being particularly well developed within the sustainability setting, various approaches are identified, critiqued, and compiled into a preliminary typology framed around reformist and transformational approaches to a sustainable world. The a...