Capabilities and Sustainability
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Innovative circular business models in the olive oil sector for sustainable mediterranean agrifood systems
Considering the large amounts of harmful waste produced in the Mediterranean olive sector, entrepreneurial initiatives creating value from olive waste and by-products via circular bio-economy approaches are reviewed. These circular business models aim to enhance the functionality use of olive trees beyond traditional patterns for value creation. Th...
Xitle Volcano Geoheritage, Mexico City: Raising Awareness of Natural Hazards and Environmental Sustainability in Active ...
Published in Geoheritage
The conservation of geosites in a region can foster its sustainability and develop geotourism. These geosites provide geoeducation, raise people’s awareness on natural hazards, and increase their resilience. Low-income cities located in tectonically active areas combine high geohazards with high vulnerability and low sustainability. Geosites in the...
A Lesson of Sustainability Given by The Tropical Modernism in Kinshasa: The BCB Headquarters by Maurice Houyoux
The tropical region is often considered as a region where the sun shines intensely and the temperature varies at certain times of the year. In the case of Congo, the average weather condition is considered cool, however, there have been cases where the temperature reached up to 43° C. It is therefore imperative for buildings in this region to take ...
Rôle des systèmes de gestion environnementale dans la transition écologique du secteur d'huile d'olive en Andalucia (Esp...
À l'heure actuelle, le concept de durabilité et de production durable est de plus en plus présent dans les milieux universitaires, dans l'administration, les entreprises et les consommateurs, ainsi que dans les conseils d'administration directs des organisations. Le concept de durabilité est considéré dans ses trois dimensions sociale, économique e...
Integrated Approach for the Assessment of Strategies for the Decarbonization of Urban Traffic
This paper presents a new methodology to derive and analyze strategies for a fully decarbonized urban transport system which combines conceptual vehicle design, a large-scale agent-based transport simulation, operational cost analysis, and life cycle assessment for a complete urban region. The holistic approach evaluates technical feasibility, syst...
Probing the gap between policy and practice in initial early childhood teacher education in Australia in relation to edu...
Unsustainable living is a critical challenge for all sectors of society. While many universities promote sustainability by supporting campus resource efficiency and sustainability-focused research, these approaches fail to harness the full power of higher education. We argue that Education for Sustainability (EfS) should be at the heart of higher e...
Sustainability of a biobehavioral intervention implemented by therapists and sustainment in community settings.
Published in Translational behavioral medicine
The ultimate aim of dissemination and implementation of empirically supported treatments (ESTs) in behavioral medicine is (a) sustainability of the therapist/provider's EST usage and (b) sustainment of EST delivery in the setting. Thus far, sustainability has been understudied, and the therapist and setting variables that may be influential are unc...
Public debt and economic growth in Euro area countries. A wavelet approach
In this paper we propose to analyze the dynamic of the relation between public debt and economic growth rate for Euro area countries by employing a wavelet approach, establishing thus both short-term and long-term correlations between these two variables. In this way we will present time-frequency dependencies between debt and economic growth and d...
A review of melting ice adaptation strategies in the glacier tourism context
Globally, tourism is being deeply impacted by glacial retreat caused by climate change. However, research on stakeholders’ adaptation to climatic change and its threat to the industry on tourism niche is currently inadequate. Thus, through a literature review of 61 glacier peer-reviewed papers, this paper highlights the advancement in research on g...
