Increasing interest in sustainability has led to the development of sustainability assessment
tools such as Life Cycle Analysis (LCA), Life Cycle Costing (LCC) and Cost–Benefit Analysis …

Abstract Models for supporting climate adaptation and mitigation planning, mostly in the form
of Integrated Assessment Models, are poorly equipped for aiding questions related to …

The concept of ecosystem services (ES) has taken the environmental science and policy
literature by storm, and has become almost the approach to thinking about and assessing …

The increasing prominence of Sustainable Development as a policy objective has initiated a
debate on appropriate frameworks and tools that will both provide guidance for a shift …

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are one of the most promising materials in nanotechnology. The
various synthesis, purification and postprocessing methods produce CNTs with diverse …

Attempts to integrate sustainability in the decision-making process for transport infrastructure
projects continue to gain momentum. A number of tools and methodological frameworks are …

Sustainable development calls for holistic environmental performance evaluations, forcing
industry to expand its responsibility towards the environment both locally and globally. The …

Climate change is globally recognized as one of the key drivers of degradation of coastal
wetland ecosystems, causing considerable alteration of services provided by these habitats …

Environmental regulation forces many industrial sectors to explore alternative innovative
compliance investments to internalize environmental externalities without hindering …

Both sustainability and sustainable development continue to remain elusive concepts even
now, 20 years after the Brundtland Commission report that brought them into prominence …