Sustainability Agenda

Lockie, S. 2006. Capturing the sustainability agenda organic foods and media discourses on food scares, environment, genetic engineering and health. Agriculture and Human Values. (In press.)... 

The addition of environmental management to health and safety can be seen as a reflection of the increased prioritisation this aspect has under the sustainability agenda within the construction industry, or, more cynically, as the result of the need to stick its management somewhere. 

Mental Models. Our sustainability agenda comprises four areas our offering, our people, our community engagement and our governance ... 

Much problem-focused and applied research, development, and demonstration (RD D) is needed to advance infrastructure systems, components and products, tools and practices for sustainability. Agendas for such RD D are readily developed for foreseen advances, exploiting known needs and opportunities. Problem-focused and applied RD D is important and will lead to most near-term advances (next 20 years), while advances that cannot now be foreseen are likely to be very fruitful over the longer term (20 to 50 years). 

LaMantia, E, ed. 2002. Handbook of Plastics Recycling. Shrewsbury, U.K. RAPRA. Plastics recycling is the major challenge for the plastics industry if it is to address the sustainability agenda. This represents the state of the art and is of value for all involved in the waste industry. 

Hallddrsson, A., and Kovacs, G. The sustainable agenda and energy efficiency Logistics solutions and supply chains in times of climate change. International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management 40, no. 1/2 (2010) 5-13. 

Resource efficient syntheses and production processes of fine chemicals contribute significantly to sustainable development. This has also been pointed out in Agenda 21 Promote efficient use of materials and resources, taking into account the life cycles of products, in order to realize the economic and environmental benefits of using resources more efficiently and producing fewer wastes (Agenda 21, Chapter 9.18). 

The European Union (EU) environmental policy has put water protection and its sustainable management high on its agenda, reflected by the European Water Framework Directive (WFD), which is now in its implementation phase. 

Agenda 21, the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development. (1992) Chapter 13, Managing Fragile Ecosystems Sustainable Mountain Development... 

A radically modernising agenda, condemning traditional monarchies and customs as feudal and artificially sustained by colonialism. 

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