Involvement in Higher Education is seen by many people as a means of developing students’ critical abilities and is allied with the assumption that such learning will be benefi cial to the world-wide community. Th is viewpoint was exemplifi ed in the 2002 Johannesburg Earth Summit, where the role of Higher Education in preparing students to participate in an informed way with sustainable develo...

This paper focuses attention on the relevance of the notion of sustainable development in a regional context and the use of models in analyzing sustainable development. The paper discusses first the notion of sustainable development, linking socio-economic, ecological and political-ethical elements. Time and space prove to be important dimensions of sustainable development, in both distribution...

Sustainable IT (Information Technology) involves the responsible management of resources (both IT and non-IT) encompassing environmental, economic, and social dimensions. Sustainable IT has the potential to be a significant contributor to an organization’s sustainability strategy. In this teaching case, we examine what Intel IT has done to transform its operations with Sustainable IT, resulting...

Despite the significance and growth of tourism in the Caribbean, ontologies and epistemologies of sustainable tourism in island societies remain fragmented, fragile, fleeting and fatalistic. In a review of, and reflecting on the classical canons of tourism, sustainable tourism, and islands, within contemporary Caribbean island societies, this paper contends that our current scientific modes, mo...

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...

1 I Background Sociological legacies Long before there was a conception of sustainable development, sociologists (as well as other social scientists) were conducting research on development issues (such as modernization, socioeconomic development, distorted development, unequal development, etc.) as well as sustainability issues (pollution, environmental degradation, resource depletion, key res...

in recent decades, extensive studies in order to achieve sustainable patterns of cities and settlements have done in the global arena. that two of the most important theory is urban village in the 80’s and timeless patterns of christopher alexander in the late 70s. jane jacobs and christopher alexander’s ideas, in many aspects provide the context for the idea of an urban village. urban village ...

metals such as copper. Once the manganese protein has folded, the metal-binding sites are inaccessible to other metals, and the protein can be safely exposed to the periplasmic envi­ ronment. In other words, the metal that binds to the protein is selected by the compartment in which the protein folds. Tottey and colleagues suggest that cytoplas­ mic metal insertion might be crucial not only for...

Innovation is the soul of modern enterprise, and sustainable innovation is the essential for enterprises to keep their long-term energies. Small and medium enterprises should start from the construction of interior sustainable innovation ability cultivation system, cultivate innovational leading thinking, establish innovational enterprise culture, improve innovational encouragement system, walk...