The role of responsible sourcing in creating a sustainable construction supply chain

Responsible sourcing (RS) provides a means to manage and ensure the attainment of sustainability objectives by procuring materials with a certified provenance. It is demonstrated typically through an organisation?s procurement policy, via its purchasing decisions and practices, and addresses a range of environmental, economic and social...

Water management in developing country: A case study of watershade scheme in the state of Bihar, India

It has for long been assumed that low-income communities do not know their infrastructure needs, so that decisions have been made by authorities without obtaining information and understanding of household and agricultural water demand. This top-down approach has been the reason for the failure of many water management initiatives, particularly...

FOCISS: A framework for developing a sustainable buisiness strategy

Most companies find it difficult to integrate sustainability in their business strategy in such way that it will „pay off?. Sustainability with its opportunities and challenges are not understood in its real meaning for their business. A major factor is that a distinction in essential and non-essential (and even irrelevant) issues for the core...

A modular approach for stimulation knowledge use in organizations to attain real sustainable innovations

The Fociss (Focussing Innovation for a Sustainable Strategy) approach is a structured method to define core business related issues within sustainable development that require main attention in a specific company. In theory, Fociss has the ability for all kinds of innovations, but the implementation of radical sustainable innovations is often...

Integrating physical and human management systems for effective water resources management

Integrated water resources management (IWRM) is regarded as an essential framework for the sustainable management of water resources. A key challenge in implementing IWRM involves coordinating the decisions between diverse actors with potentially conflicting interests. It is argued that the attainment of sustainable water management outcomes in...

SLEUTH: Sustainable lifestyles - educating universities towards happiness

SLEUTH is an initiative born out of the need to bring universities towards more happy and sustainable lifestyles. It is the ‘real life’ application of the resulting conceptual design from the main study of the "Design for Happiness" PhD research project. This aims to identify and propose the design characteristics which compose a product,...