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AbstractSustainability indicators allow to capture urban environment features and reveal the urban (in)sustainability, generating information that support urban public policies and the development process. Based on this evidence, the paper aims to propose a model for urban sustai...

This study is an analysis of the use of indicators for sustainability at the port of Santos - SP. Aims to discuss the use of this kind of indicators for port activities, its importance and difficulties. The exploratory research was based on literature and documents provided by po...

This work examined whether companies that label themselves as sustainable in their strategic discourse (mission and vision), invest in sustainability rather than in their economic and financial performance. It consists in a sample of 15 Brazilian companies, which reported their s...

Abstract This paper discusses a set of sustainability indicators applied to Brazilian Higher Education Institutions (HEINS) to serve as a tool for measuring and disclosing sustainability practices and actions. Methodologically, a qualitative study was carried out with data collec...

This thesis investigates the sustainability of peasant or family farm agriculture in the south of Brazil. Two different technological approaches adopted by those farmers were scrutinized: the agroecological and the conventional technological systems. A methodology to identify agr...

The main goal of this thesis is to analyze the sustainability of family farming, through proposition and evaluation of indicators and indexes regarding economic, social, environmental and institutional dimensions. The study was carried out in the county of Francisco Beltrão, in t...

The debate about Sustainability comes as a new theme to the scientific community and researchers in the area or related areas. Understand that sustainability starts from everyday practices, with the individual's consciousness about their own attitudes toward the reality of the fi...

The present dissertation analyses the production systems and the environmental, economic and sociopolitical sustainability of properties of familybased coffee production with different levels of use of agroecological management in the agroecosystem and in the participation in soc...

One of the great challenges of agriculture in the State of Sergipe is to characterize the sustainability of production systems, and also offer tools and solutions for the certification of agricultural products. This, the objective was to assess the sustainability of production sy...

Sustainability and development can turn into two conflicting objectives to a society due the human activity interaction on environment. Tourism, multisector phenomena in its economic dimension and multidimensional in its impacts, share the complex dilemma of sustainability and de...

A new world order is demanding effectively differentiated postures, organizations from all sectors and spheres, accompanied by the growing surveillance society through mechanisms for evaluating their activities. In order to define ethical parameters have been and are being develo...

The significant increase of deteriorating environmental and social conditions in many parts of the world indicate that sustainability as a whole may be threatened. Thus corporate sustainability has become a very desired objective and of fundamental importance not only for compani...

The modern problems are complex and require solutions that reflect impacts on socioeconomic, environmental, and political-institutional aspects in terms of their different degrees of importance. Within this context, a crosscutting analysis of concepts related to sustainable devel...

Currently there is a need for the development and application of techniques for environmental monitoring and provide data showing reliable, practical and easy to obtain the main spheres of public and population inserted in a given ecosystem. One such technique is the application ...

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This study presents the methodology of construction of the Agricultural Environmental Sustainability Index (ISAGRI). This Index was evaluated in the watersheds of the rivers Oriçanga and Araras, both belonging to the Mogi Guaçu river basin. This is a representative area of differ...

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Urban Solid Waste (USW) management represents an increasing challenge to municipal administration departments due to the growth in quantity of waste and complexity of its management. In Brazil, the National Solid Waste Policy (NSWP), approved in 2010, came to be a reference to lo...

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Social-environmental indicators: evolution and perspectives. This article deals with the balance of sustainability indicators and/or sustainable development indicators. Major gaps and blocks - both conceptual and operational - still hinder the socio-environmental governance from ...