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Cucuzzella, C. (author)Sustainable design is an approach that seeks to adopt an ethic of the future, where the vision of the solutions is based on a temporal and spatial perspective that is predominantly long-term and global. Design is characterized by its projective and ambivalent nature, and therefore a conscious effort to anticipate the outcomes of design...conference paper 2011
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Lozano, R. (author), Lukman, R. (author), Lozano, F.J. (author), Huisingh, D. (author), Zilahy, G. (author)Since the 1972 Stockholm Conference, many Sustainable Development declarations, charters, and partnerships have been developed, both in the overall societal context and within higher education frameworks. This paper addresses two issues: (1) a comparison of the development of sustainable development initiatives in society and in universities and...conference paper 2010
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Itard, L. (author), Van den Bogaard, M. (author), Hasselaar, E. (author)The challenges of sustainable engineering and design are complex and so are the challenges of teaching sustainability to higher education students. This paper deals with teaching environmental sustainability, with a specific focus on the sustainability of buildings. The paper addresses specifically the higher professional and academic education....conference paper 2010
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De Pauw, I. (author), Kandachar, P. (author), Karana, E. (author), Peck, D. (author), Wever, R. (author)Current design practices focus on eco-efficiency as the main approach in the field of sustainable product development. This approach mainly aims at improving existing products and services. Environmental product performance can be greatly improved using ecoefficiency but in many cases the improvements are incremental. Furthermore, the overall...conference paper 2010
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Alcantud, A. (author), Mazo, D. (author)In a resource scarcity context, public bodies have a fundamental role to promote sustainable consumption patterns. In Catalonia water scarcity and organic waste management are two fields in which the public bodies put in practice their instruments in order to change the citizens consumption patterns and to reduce the related environmental...conference paper 2010
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Quevedo Melo, E.F.R. (author), Júnior dos Santos, H. (author), Marcon Astolfi, R. (author), Quevedo Melo, R.H.R. (author), Aimi Severo, B.M. (author)The change in living standards has been done that the contact with nature becomes extremely important to the people life quality and its harmonious relationship with the environment. The preservation of areas like forest fragments contribute to maintaining biological diversity, promote sustainable use of natural resources and foster the...conference paper 2010
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Doyle, R. (author)This paper reflects on the methodological framework employed by an Irish research project, Consensus (www.consensus.ie) in its examination of sustainable water and energy consumption in Irish households. A key criticism of conventional policy responses aimed at promoting sustainable consumption is that they yield only incremental changes rather...conference paper 2010
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Sminia, O. (author), Vogtländer, J. (author), Brezet, H. (author)The European Coastal Islands around the North sea, are joined together in a project that stimulates sustainable development. Within this 'Cradle-to-Cradle Islands' project, some islands were selected as breading grounds for potentially sustainable projects. One of these projects was the development of a device for transport: the Vrachtfiets. A...conference paper 2010
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Ashford, N.A. (author)Scholars and professionals committed to fostering sustainable development have urged a re-examination of the curriculum and restructuring of research and teaching in institutions of higher learning. This paper begins by discussing an expansive definition of sustainable development that includes economic, environmental, and employment concerns...conference paper 2010
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Gerritsen, A. (author), Stuiver, M. (author), Termeer, C. (author), Werkman, R. (author)Rural regions in the Netherlands cope with the challenge of sustainable rural development in a complex network context. There is neither consensus on facts nor consensus on values about what is sustainable and what not. Literature suggests knowledge governance as a promising form of governance. It focuses on the coordinative power of knowledge...conference paper 2010
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Heeney, A. (author), Foster, J. (author)This paper discusses how Engineering Science, an undergraduate division within the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Toronto in Toronto, Canada, has worked to foster engineers that can meaningfully contribute to sustainable development (SD). Specifically, Engineering Science has developed ESC102: Praxis II, a core course required for...conference paper 2010
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Saecker, S. (author), Willms, L. (author)High quality solvent cleaning is indispensable for human progress especially in applications for peoples safety and security. Effective Risk Management enables the sustainable use of chlorinated solvents. SAFECHEM has implemented innovative business models like Chemical Leasing which enable industry to maintain the required surface cleaning...conference paper 2010
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Spirinckx, C. (author), Vanderreydt, I. (author), Vercalsteren, A. (author), Aranyi, S. (author)The paper describes the importance that the European Plastic Pipes and Fittings Association (TEPPFA) attaches to sustainability aspects that are related to their business and products and focuses on a recently performed life cycle assessment (LCA) and environmental product declaration (EPD) project. First the incentives of TEPPFA to apply the...conference paper 2010
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Köhler, A.R. (author), Bakker, C. (author), Peck, D. (author)Societal stakeholders are expressing concerns over the increasing scarcity of critical elements on which high-tech industries rely. Geochemical rare elements are indispensable in producing high-tech products such as electronic gadgets and renewable energy technologies. The surge in demand for critical elements presents a risk of exhaustion of...conference paper 2010
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Pesch, U. (author), Sleenhoff, S. (author), Van der Veen, M. (author)The biobased economy is a concept proposed by policymakers to accommodate the transition towards a sustainable society. This concept however is not familiar outside of policymaking and some academic circles, while a socio-technical transition supposes the shared commitment of the whole society. The need for this commitments becomes even bigger...conference paper 2010
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Zanoria, H.C. (author)Incidence of strong typhoons, threatened small islands to sea level rise and storm surges and inundation of low lying areas to flooding are just a few of possible disasters in the Philippines as identified by climatologists and policy makers within the next 10 years. The most vulnerable regions are in the Central Visayan provinces. Talisay City...conference paper 2010
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Van Slobbe, E. (author)Consensus in Dutch society is that the existing coastal defence regime is not sustainable. Adaptation is not only a technical challenge, but affects elements like ecology, cultural heritage, recreation, urban development, making the issue complex both from a political and from a scientific point of view. And innovations must cope with the actual...conference paper 2010
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Andersson, U. (author), Boman, J. (author)Shortly before the EU summit in Gothenburg in 2001, the University of Gothenburg and Chalmers University of Technology arranged their first international conference in learning for sustainable development, entitled Knowledge and Learning for a Sustainable Society?. At the UN World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg 2002, Sweden...conference paper 2010
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Huenecke, K. (author), Fritsche, U.R. (author), Brohmann, B. (author)The EU FP7 research project European Policies to Promote Sustainable Consumption Patterns (EUPOPP) analyses the impacts of policy strategies and instruments on consumption patterns in order to identify which sustainable consumption policies and instruments are effective, can be improved, and be implemented successfully. A focus is on the need...conference paper 2010
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Johansson, K. (author), Gluch, P. (author)The Swedish building sector has for a long time struggled with the difficulty to create and share new knowledge. Within the sector, groups of professionals have been found to only share knowledge with members of their network, not with those they consider to be outsiders. As an attempt to unite different views and professional groupings, an...conference paper 2010
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