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Showing 1 to 20 of 8941 for “"sustainable"”.
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Thriving on sustainable development: sustainable autopoietic organisations
… have reacted to the legal principle of Sustainable Development. The proposition is that Sustainable Development is an event-driven principle of becoming where the present depends both on the organisation’s environment and its internal operations. The starting point of the research is the …
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Experiencing Sustainable Architecture
The prevailing approach to sustainable design focuses on low environmental impact objectives rather than the enhancement of the connection between people and the natural environment. According to Edward O. Wilson, biophilic design attempts to place an emphasis on the human to nature relationship in …
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Consumer behavior and policies for sustainable production: essays on sustainable labeling
La tesi si compone di quattro capitoli volti ad analizzare diversi aspetti della certificazione di sostenibilità per le produzioni agroalimentari. Il primo saggio valuta il comportamento di acquisto dei consumatori per i prodotti ittici sostenibili, considerando gli attributi della sostenibilità …
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Creating Sustainable Supply Chains: Influencing Sustainable Practices in the Supply Chain
… are reporting their commitment to create sustainable supply chains. Ultimately, supply chain professionals are the drivers of change within their respective organizations, so this dissertation examines the role of communication as a tool to persuade supply chain professionals to create …
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Sustainable higher education institutions : sustainable development challenges of portuguese higher education institutions
Esta investigação insere-se no domínio do desenvolvimento sustentável das instituições de ensino superior (IES). O seu desenvolvimento foi aplicado às IES portuguesas. Atualmente são conhecidas diferentes práticas internacionais das IES face ao desenvolvimento sustentável. No entanto, em Portugal, …
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Sustainable community : seeking sustainable potentials in an urban community in Kobe, Japan
… In order to explore this, the thesis seeks sustainable potentials in an urban inner-city community in Kobe, Japan and develops a sustainable community with proposals of systems and community design in the scale of urban design, a block, streets, and architecture. The site is located in …
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Sustainable Schools: Beyond Measure ?
… aim was to establish a theoretical framework for Sustainable Development which could then help to shape the analysis. Five specific dimensions were identified as a result of an extensive literature review (Education [A], Community [B], Environment [C], Technology [D] and Economics [E]). It was …
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Developing sustainable catalytic methods
The global chemical industry produces goods that are essential to our way of life. From commodity chemicals to fine chemicals, pharmaceuticals to agrochemicals, these are products that we cannot do without. The energy demands of the chemical sector are also enormous and given that most of this …
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Sustainable food process engineering
… the investigation of biobased edible coatings as sustainable packaging development for RtE seafood products by using a quantitative methodology. A quantitative packaging development approach, in contrast to the often-used qualitative approach in industry, supports an optimal packaging material …
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Designing Sustainable Recommender Systems
… that the canonical recommender system may not be sustainable if, by promoting the content each user likes the most, it suppresses the creation incentive of the less popular but still valuable content. We propose a “sustainable recommender system” solution – subsidize creators with demand according …
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Pathways to Sustainable Housing
… To answer this question, I explore five sustainable housing goals: climate protection, policy innovation, environmental protection, social equity, and economic growth. I use data and empirical analysis to show sustainable development challenges and conflicts are significant. I share …
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Development of Sustainable Masonry Brick
… Sewage Sludge Ash bricks a potentially sustainable construction material in the sense that it uses wastes to replace the use of irreplaceable natural resources. The resulting hybrid bricks will be tested for the effect in compressive strength, flexural strength, split tensile strength, …
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Planetary Praxes and Sustainable Universities
What is sustainability in Higher Education (HE)? How should it be represented? Who gets to decide? This thesis offers a response to a particular technocratic and teleological way of thinking about sustainability in Higher Education, which has a series of high profile advocates in theory and policy. …
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Nanomaterials for Sustainable Water Remediation
… with a double-acoustic irradiation system as a sustainable surfactant and hardwoods as renewable supports for nanosorbents to prevent material agglomeration and facilitate fast water transport. Hardwoods exhibit a unique mesoporous structure, comprising partially aligned, hollow channels …
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GreenLife: A Sustainable Retail Space
GreenLife is the name of the retail interior design project that embodies this thesis. Using interior design as a medium to influence customers,I sought to create an environment that promotes a connection to nature and an awareness of creative possiblities within the context of a store. It …
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Recycling Concrete for Sustainable Construction
… a case by case basis to determine if this is a sustainable practice.
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Sustainable strategic change in practice
… Head Teachers are doing to make strategic change sustainable. It seeks to determine the ways in which senior leaders are using strategic approaches to build in systems and procedures that will secure improvement over the longer term alongside the short term leadership and operational …
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Development of Sustainable Thermoplastic Elastomers
Sustainable poly(styrene-b-(lauryl-co-stearyl acrylate)-b-styrene) (SAS) triblock copolymers containing a rubbery midblock derived from fatty acids were designed with targeted properties appropriate for thermoplastic elastomer applications. Well-defined polymers with desired compositions and …
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