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Agriculture is a conflict region for economical development and environmental protection, and agroecosystem health assessment is its foundation of sustainable development. Based on the character of agroecosystem and PSR (pressure-state-response) model, this paper selected some indicators of agroecosystem health and constructed the model of matter-element evaluation, which is applied to seven towns...
Land is vitally related to human existence and development. It has being evidently proved that sustainable utilization of land resources is the core problems of sustainable development. Taking Beijing city as a model case, we used the Delphi and Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) methods to assess the land intensive use level from 1996 to 2005. By building respective index system of intensive land use,...
The aim of this paper is to advance the existing research into the synergistic concepts of the virtual organisation, Living Labs and Digital Ecosystems. The instrument described in this paper enables organisations to test their degree of sustainability internally from an operational point of view. The paper contends that synergies that exist between terms such as virtual organisations, living labs...
Increasingly, organizations develop professional communities for knowledge transfer, usually so as to draw on a vast pool of expertise, or to enable participants to help each other when problems arise. Such communities can be perceived as digital ecosystems, where individuals with different levels of interest and resources participate and provide resources in a give-and-take that creates benefits...
In this paper, we propose a methodology for real-time characterization of the operational state of a subsystem, device or process in an ecosystem, with the goal of improving its sustainability. The objective is to re-describe the operational state, identified by a set of relevant sensor measurements and other parameters, in terms of known operational patterns. Each pattern is also associated with...
In sustainability science (SS) it is not only difficult to identify what needs to be solved but how to solve the problems once identified. There has been no consensus on underlying question of ldquowhat is structuring in SS?rdquo This paper focuses on articulating in the form of a reference model a set of required elements, functions, and actions for structuring SS knowledge and on realizing a part...
This paper argues against using the practice of discounting and shows that both the time preference and the opportunity cost of capital arguments, put forward to justify discounting, are in conflict when we take the holistic approach to the environment. Both the time preference and the opportunity cost concepts are the tools to support the institution of interest. Using hierarchical systems approach...
Sustainable development and growth of agriculture sector calls for improving its competitiveness through a better understanding of lands, weather and climate, and planting, especially prediction of events with increased accuracy, and systematic integration of observations and prediction into decision-making in agriculture management. In this short paper, a systematic approach based on integrated information...
This paper presents nature and principles of technology strategy and includes developed classifications of eco-technologies. Also, the paper describes new paradigm of mining technological development.
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