Table of Contents: Preface
Chapter 1 - Towards a Sustainable Development through Eco-Innovation; pp. 1-34
(Javier Carrillo-Hermosilla, Totti Könnölä, Instituto de Empresa Business School, Madrid, Spain)
Chapter 2 - An Overview of the Empirical Literature on the Determinants for Innovation and Adoption of Sustainable Technologies; pp. 35-69
(Pablo del Rio Gonzalez, Dept. of Spanish and International Economics, Econometrics and Economic History and Institutions, Univ. of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain)
Chapter 3 - Who Cares? Environmental Sustainability in the National Health Service in England; pp. 71-114
(Jenny Griffiths Obe, Surrey, England)
Chapter 4 - Dryland Farming and Agricultural Sustainable Development; pp. 115-142
(Chu Li-Ye, Institute of Life Sciences, Qingdao University of Science & Technology(QUST), Qingdao 266042, China, Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China and Shao Hong-Bo Institute of Life Sciences, Qingdao University of Science & Technology(QUST), Qingdao 266042, Binzhou University, Binzhou 256603, China, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen361003, China)
Chapter 5 - The Viability Framework: A New Way to address the Sustainability Issue; pp. 143-167
(Vincent Martinet, Univ. Paris)
Chapter 6 - Organizational Culture and Corporate Sustainability: Relationship, Framework and Case Study; pp. 169-188
(Rupert J. Baumgartner, Dept. of Economics and Business Management, Univ. of Leoben, Austria)
Chapter 7 - Employing Life Cycle Management and thinking in Promoting Corporate Sustainable Development; pp. 189-200
(Sumiani Yusoff, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Univ. Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
Chapter 8 - Rubcrete-Rubberized Portland Cement Concrete; pp. 201-214
(N. Oikonomou, Laboratory of Building Materials, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki, S. Mavridou, Dept. of Civil Engineering)
Chapter 9 - Consideration of Component Structure of Sustainable Development: A Case Study of Post-War Croatia; pp. 215-226
(Ryunosuke Kikuchi, Dept. of Basic Science and Environment (CERNAS), ESAC-Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal)
Chapter 10 - Sustainability Indices for Housing Developments;
pp. 227-239
(Gloria P. Gerilla, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Petra Christian Univ., Surabaya, Klagenfurt Univ. Vienna, Austria, Kardi Teknomo, Arsenal Research, Vienna, Austria, Kazunori Hokao, Saga Univ., Saga, Japan)
Chapter 11 - Sustainable Development- A National Perspective;
pp. 241-250
(Fiona Adshead, Dept. of Health, England, Mala Rao, Dept. of Health, England, Allison Thorpe, Networks Development, England)
Chapter 12 - Local Technologies and Spirtuality as the Anchor for Sustainable Development; pp. 251-262
(W. O. Oyawa, Jomo Kenyatta Univ. of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT), Nairobi-Kenya)
Chapter 13 - Necessity of National Environmental Strategic Information System (NESIS) for Supporting Sustainable Development; pp. 263-277
(Sepehr Ghazinoory, Yaser Gholamzadeh Jeddi, Dept. of Industrial Engineering, Bu-Ali Sina Univ., Hamedan, Iran, Mansoureh Abdi, Dept. of Industrial Engineering, Payam Noor Univ., Tehran, Iran)
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