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Burdock, Robert P., and Peter Ampt. "The Characteristics of Five Food Production Systems and Their Implications for Sustainable Landscapes." Journal of Agricultural Science 10, no. 2 (January 12, 2018): 23. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/jas.v10n2p23.

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This paper presents a classification of agricultural production systems that we believe characterises the complex interface between agriculture and the landscapes in which they are managed. Farmers have a choice about how they will manage their land, either to exclude inherent environmental complexity or to engage with it, mindful of risks associated with their approach. Adding to this complexity is the interplay between key natural, social, human, physical and financial resources in agricultural systems, highlighting the importance of extending sustainability principles to aspects of ecology,

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Kanga, Shruti, Suraj Kumar Singh, Gowhar Meraj, Anup Kumar, Ruby Parveen, Nikola Kranjčić, and Bojan Đurin. "Assessment of the Impact of Urbanization on Geoenvironmental Settings Using Geospatial Techniques: A Study of Panchkula District, Haryana." Geographies 2, no. 1 (January 6, 2022): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/geographies2010001.

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Urbanization is an unavoidable process of social and economic growth in modern times. However, the speed with which urbanization is taking place produces complex environmental changes. It has affected the surface albedo and roughness of the soil, thereby modulating hydrological and ecological systems, which in turn has affected regional and local climate systems. In developing countries of South Asia, rampant and unplanned urbanization has created a complex system of adverse environmental scenarios. Similar is the case in India. The state of the urban environment across India is degrading so q

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Soe Htet, Maw Ni, Honglu Wang, Lixin Tian, Vivek Yadav, Hamz Ali Samoon, and Baili Feng. "Integrated Starches and Physicochemical Characterization of Sorghum Cultivars for an Efficient and Sustainable Intercropping Model." Plants 11, no. 12 (June 15, 2022): 1574. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants11121574.

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Sorghum has good adaptation to drought tolerance and can be successfully cultivated on marginal lands with low input cost. Starch is used in many foods and nonfood industrial applications and as a renewable energy resource. Sorghum starches with different amylose contents affect the different physicochemical properties. In this study, we isolated starches from six sorghum varieties (i.e., Jinza 34, Liaoza 19, Jinnuo 3, Jiza 127, Jiniang 2, and Jiaxian) and investigated them in terms of their chemical compositions and physicochemical properties. All the starch granules had regular polygonal rou

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Bettencourt, Luís M. A., and Christa Brelsford. "Industrial Ecology: The View From Complex Systems." Journal of Industrial Ecology 19, no. 2 (March 11, 2015): 195–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jiec.12243.

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Ahram, Tareq Z. "ENGINEERING SUSTAINABLE COMPLEX SYSTEMS." Management and Production Engineering Review 4, no. 4 (December 1, 2013): 4–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/mper-2013-0032.

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Abstract Given the most competitive nature of global business environment, effective engineering innovation is a critical requirement for all levels of system lifecycle development. The society and community expectations have increased beyond environmental short term impacts to global long term sustainability approach. Sustainability and engineering competence skills are extremely important due to a general shortage of engineering talent and the need for mobility of highly trained professionals [1]. Engineering sustainable complex systems is extremely important in view of the general shortage

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Diwekar, Urmila. "Green process design, industrial ecology, and sustainability: A systems analysis perspective." Resources, Conservation and Recycling 44, no. 3 (June 2005): 215–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2005.01.007.

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Zhao, Qing Jian, and Zuo Min Wen. "Complex Social-Ecological Systems Network：New Perspective on the Sustainability." Advanced Materials Research 361-363 (October 2011): 1467–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.361-363.1467.

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The complex social-ecological systems network is an integrative platform of ecology, economy, management and complex networks which providing a new perspective on the comprehensive management of ecological and socio economical processes. Through research of the structures, functions and processes, one four-dimensional conceptual model of the complex social-ecological system for sustainable development was set up. The complex social-ecological systems comprise of natural subsystem, social subsystem, economic subsystem and integrative decision subsystem. The complex social-ecological systems net

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Pan, Mingmin, and Mee Kam Ng. "Implementing industrial ecology in regeneration activities: A possible pathway for transforming China's local-regional industrial systems towards sustainability?" Journal of Cleaner Production 338 (March 2022): 130601. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2022.130601.

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Ildus Rafikov and Riaz Ansary. "Industrial Revolution 4.0: Risks, Sustainability, and Implications for OIC States." ICR Journal 11, no. 2 (December 30, 2020): 298–324. http://dx.doi.org/10.52282/icr.v11i2.787.

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This paper reviews the potential risks of the fourth industrial revolution and how sustainable development goals align with those risks and any benefits. This paper adopts a qualitative research method using content analysis of video and textual materials. This research finds that the increased complexity of IR4.0 carries greater risks but offers greater benefits to humanity. Sustainability is going to be positively affected by the greater use of smart interconnected technologies. However, the fabric of human society will undergo a tremendous change that will often lead to unwanted consequence

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Bezuidenhout, Carel Nicolaas, Muhammad Kadwa, and Milindi S. Sibomana. "Using Theme and Domain Networking Approaches to Understand Complex Agri-Industrial Systems." Outlook on Agriculture 42, no. 1 (March 2013): 9–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.5367/oa.2013.0119.

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Liu, Chunting, and Guozhu Jia. "Industrial Big Data and Computational Sustainability: Multi-Method Comparison Driven by High-Dimensional Data for Improving Reliability and Sustainability of Complex Systems." Sustainability 11, no. 17 (August 22, 2019): 4557. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11174557.

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Sustainable development is of great significance. The emerging research on data-driven computational sustainability has become an effective way to solve this problem. This paper presents a fault diagnosis and prediction framework for complex systems based on multi-dimensional data and multi-method comparison, aimed at improving the reliability and sustainability of the system by selecting methods with relatively superior performance. This study took the avionics system in the industrial field as an example. Based on the literature research on typical fault modes and fault diagnosis requirement

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Tolstykh, Tatyana, Nadezhda Shmeleva, Yulia Vertakova, and Vladimir Plotnikov. "The Entropy Model for Sustainability Assessment in Industrial Ecosystems." Inventions 5, no. 4 (November 7, 2020): 54. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/inventions5040054.

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The aim of this paper is to address the gap in the academic literature towards the development of methodological approaches to the industrial ecosystem sustainability assessment. This study was focused on the industrial ecosystems formed based on an entropy model and implementing the principles of complex systems. This article systematizes the problem of applying the ecosystem approach to cross-industry interaction. A contribution to the literature was achieved by providing a systemic perspective on the sustainable industrial process. In this paper, we develop the methodological foundations to

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Priyadarshini, Priya, and Purushothaman Chirakkuzhyil Abhilash. "Rethinking of higher education institutions as complex adaptive systems for enabling sustainability governance." Journal of Cleaner Production 359 (July 2022): 132083. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2022.132083.

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Akberdina, V. V., O. P. Smirnova, and L. M. Averina. "Sustainability and adaptability of spatial development of industrial complexes in networked economy environment." Economic Analysis: Theory and Practice 19, no. 12 (December 25, 2020): 2186–209. http://dx.doi.org/10.24891/ea.19.12.2186.

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Subject. Industry largely determines the economic growth of Russia. Industrial regions are the basis for developing the network technological structure of the economy, changing the technological modes, modernizing the production and consumption. Objectives. The study aims to consider the spatial distribution of resource-deficient regions and risks inherent in spatial distribution of the defense industry complex; to develop a methodological approach to comprehensive assessment of regional industrial complex stability, considering its adaptation to turbulent environment; to highlight and analyze

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Morales, Manuel, and Arnaud Diemer. "Industrial Symbiosis Dynamics, a Strategy to Accomplish Complex Analysis: The Dunkirk Case Study." Sustainability 11, no. 7 (April 3, 2019): 1971. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11071971.

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Industrial symbiosis (IS) is presented as an inter-firm organizational strategy with the aim of social innovation that targets material and energy flow optimization but also structural sustainability. In this paper, we present geographical proximity as the theoretical framework used to analyse industrial symbiosis through a methodology based on System Dynamics and the underpinning use of Causal Loop Diagrams, aiming to identify the main drivers and hindrances that reinforce or regulate the industrial symbiosis’s sustainability. The understanding of industrial symbiosis is embedded in a theoret

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Adams, Muriel, Sonja Klinsky, and Nalini Chhetri. "Barriers to Sustainability in Poor Marginalized Communities in the United States: The Criminal Justice, the Prison-Industrial Complex and Foster Care Systems." Sustainability 12, no. 1 (December 26, 2019): 220. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12010220.

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In the United States of America, 2.2 million people are incarcerated in public and private facilities and over 700,000 are released yearly back to their home communities. Almost half are rearrested within a year. These problems have been excluded from mainstream sustainability narratives, despite their serious implications for sustainability. This paper addresses how the criminal justice, prison-industrial complex and foster care systems negatively impact these communities and families. To comprehend the system links, a sustainability lens is used to examine and address interlinking system imp

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Carpanzano, Emanuele, and Daniel Knüttel. "Advances in Artificial Intelligence Methods Applications in Industrial Control Systems: Towards Cognitive Self-Optimizing Manufacturing Systems." Applied Sciences 12, no. 21 (October 29, 2022): 10962. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/app122110962.

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Industrial control systems play a central role in today’s manufacturing systems. Ongoing trends towards more flexibility and sustainability, while maintaining and improving production capacities and productivity, increase the complexity of production systems drastically. To cope with these challenges, advanced control algorithms and further developments are required. In recent years, developments in Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based methods have gained significantly attention and relevance in research and the industry for future industrial control systems. AI-based approaches are increasingly

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Galli, Brian J. "Continuous Technological Improvement Using Systems Engineering Principles to Achieve Sustainability." International Journal of System Dynamics Applications 9, no. 3 (July 2020): 1–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijsda.2020070101.

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The design of a continuous plan would benefit society, as seen in systems engineering. To understand complex systems and to uphold the principles of stability, systems engineering has shown that it is a discipline of great importance. The principle of continuous technological improvement has augmented this idea, as the quality improvement of the design to meet inherent objectives would be the focus. This study aims to present the necessity of continuous technological improvement through systems engineering principles for socioeconomic and community-oriented growth. Thus, the context that would

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Rajala, Risto, Esko Hakanen, Juri Mattila, Timo Seppälä, and Mika Westerlund. "How Do Intelligent Goods Shape Closed-Loop Systems?" California Management Review 60, no. 3 (March 5, 2018): 20–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0008125618759685.

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Disruptive technologies can increase the intelligence of goods and revitalize business models in the circular economy. Applying an industrial ecology perspective, this article discusses how intelligent goods can boost the sustainability of industrial ecosystems. North American and European cases highlight how business model innovators can utilize goods-related information to develop more competitive closed-loop systems. The authors identify three archetypes of closed-loop systems—inner circles, decentralized systems, and open systems—and delineate how they leverage information resources for co

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Boschetti, Fabio, Karine Prunera, Mathew A. Vanderklift, Damian P. Thomson, Russell C. Babcock, Christopher Doropoulos, Anna Cresswell, and Hector Lozano-Montes. "Information-theoretic measures of ecosystem change, sustainability, and resilience." ICES Journal of Marine Science 77, no. 4 (June 19, 2019): 1532–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsz105.

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Abstract We introduce five measures describing the system-wide behaviour of complex ecological systems. Within an information-theoretic framework, these measures account for changes in both species diversity and total biomass to describe (i) overall system change, (ii) sustainability to external pressure, (iii) shift from a baseline state and two types of resilience: (iv) ability to recover from local pressures and (v) overall potential to return to a baseline state. We apply these measures to study the behaviour of three computer models: a large 59-functional groups complex ecological model (

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de Bremond, Ariane. "The emergence of land systems as the nexus for sustainability transformations." Ambio 50, no. 7 (March 13, 2021): 1299–303. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13280-021-01519-9.

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AbstractThis perspective recognizes the seminal Ambio articles of Sombroek et al. (1993), Turner et al. (1994) and Brussaard et al. (1997), identifying their individual and collective role in laying the ground work for a global change research agenda on land and its human use through increased understanding of terrestrial ecosystem dynamics and global change, and furthering nascent interdisciplinary efforts within the global change science community to better understand the ‘human driving forces’ of change. From these efforts, land system science, as a systemic science focused on complex socio

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Yuldashev, N. K., V. I. Nabokov, K. V. Nekrasov, and O. D. Djurabaev. "Modern models of agro-industrial production organization in Uzbekistan." BIO Web of Conferences 51 (2022): 06007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/bioconf/20225106007.

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The objective need to increase economic efficiency and to intensify the functioning of the agro-industrial complex poses new challenges related to the choice of competitive models that contribute to the maximum use of production capacities and the entire potential of the agricultural sector. The study of the development dynamics of different forms of management has shown a significant impact of various organizational forms and types of integration on economic growth, the sustainability of economic development, the competitiveness of the products of the agro-industrial complex (AIC). The study

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Zaytsev, Andrey. "Rental Income Structure in Economy as a Basis for Sustainable Agrarian Relations in the Agro-Industrial Complex." Sustainability 12, no. 18 (September 5, 2020): 7287. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12187287.

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Modern features of the development of the agro-industrial complex as part of the economy as a whole require changes in the traditional models of state regulation, which do not take into account the structure of rental income in the economy and do not use the capabilities of the relevant instruments. This is reflected in the insufficient efficiency of subsidies provided by the state to agricultural enterprises and the preservation of high social and infrastructural differentiation of the regions, as well as the dependence of the agricultural sector on the pricing policy of other industries. All

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Alexeev, D. K., V. A. Shelutko, N. V. Zueva, E. V. Kolesnikova, E. S. Urusova, and E. A. Primak. "Research results in the field of applied and systems ecology at RSHU." HYDROMETEOROLOGY AND ECOLOGY. PROCEEDINGS OF THE RUSSIAN STATE HYDROMETEOROLOGICAL UNIVERSITY, no. 60 (2020): 306–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.33933/2074-2762-2020-60-306-324.

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The authors’ point of view on formation and development of applied ecology at RSHU is given. The article contains a brief overview of research results over the past 20 years in the field of applied ecology. The main directions of research of the Department of Applied and Systems Ecology are presented: consideration of features of environmental information during the processing of observation data, development of theory and methods of assessment of pollution in rivers and reservoirs, ecological and hydrometeorological problems of large cities and industrial areas, quality management of the urba

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van der Leeuw, Sander. "Closing remarks: novel approaches to complex societal change and sustainability." Sustainability Science 13, no. 6 (May 29, 2018): 1589–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11625-018-0581-2.

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Abstract This paper summarizes some personal impressions of the 7th conference of the International Complex Systems Society, co-organized with “Future Earth”, held in Stockholm on August 24–26, 2017. The main point is that it is urgent and important to consider the sustainability conundrum as long-term, society-driven one, and to place societal dynamics at the core of how we, as a global society, came to this point, how ongoing dynamics are driving us towards a tipping point, and which role the Information and Communication Technology revolution plays in that process. A much wider involvement

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Kadomtseva, Marina Ye. "Theoretical and methodological aspects of ensuring the sustainable development of agro-food systems." Izvestiya of Saratov University. Economics. Management. Law 22, no. 3 (August 24, 2022): 277–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.18500/1994-2540-2022-22-3-277-286.

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Introduction. The relevance of the scientific substantiation of approaches to ensuring the sustainable development of the agro-food system is due to the growing impact of environmental factors on the internal structural balance and the target setting of the agro-food system. The sustainable development of the national agro-food system has begun to imply economic growth in order to achieve indicators of the physical and economic accessibility of quality food for the Russian population. At the same time, environmental priorities increasingly has begun to fade into the background, which contradic

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Willmann, Rolf. "Integration of sustainability indicators: the contribution of integrated economic and environmental accounting." Marine and Freshwater Research 51, no. 5 (2000): 501. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/mf99055.

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There is a need to integrate indicators relating to complex human–nature systems. This paper discussesthe scope and limitations of achieving such integration through the interim version of the system of integrated environmental and economic accounting (SEEA) published by the United Nations in 1993. It also briefly considers alternative or complementary approaches such as the National Accounting Matrix including Environmental Accounts (NAMEA) developed in the Netherlands. Issues that arise when applying SEEA to the marine fisheries sector are discussed, and examples are given of indicators for

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Chertow, Marian R., Thomas E. Graedel, Koichi S. Kanaoka, and Jooyoung Park. "The Hawaiian Islands: Conceptualizing an Industrial Ecology Holarchic System." Sustainability 12, no. 8 (April 13, 2020): 3104. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12083104.

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The Hawaiian Islands form a holarchic system with at least five nested layers (holons) at increasing spatial scales: from a single enterprise to cities, to individual islands, to the archipelago (the group of islands), and to the global resource base that connects them all. Each holonic layer operates individually but is also linked to holons at lower and higher levels by material input and output flows. An integrated study of the holarchic system allows us to explore the value of applying this concept to industrial ecology. We present examples from a multi-level material flow analysis combini

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Adedeji, Kazeem B., Akinlolu A. Ponnle, Adnan M. Abu-Mahfouz, and Anish M. Kurien. "Towards Digitalization of Water Supply Systems for Sustainable Smart City Development—Water 4.0." Applied Sciences 12, no. 18 (September 13, 2022): 9174. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/app12189174.

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Urban water supply systems are complex and dynamic in nature, and as a result, can be considered complex to manage owing to enhanced urbanization levels, climate change, growing and varying consumer demands, and limited water resources. The operation of such a system must be managed effectively for sustainable water supply to satisfy the growing consumer demand. This creates a need for intelligent systems for the purposes of operational management. In recent years, computing technologies have been applied to water systems to assist water utilities in addressing some of these problems. Unfortun

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Linnhoff, B., and S. Ahmad. "SUPERTARGETING: Optimum Synthesis of Energy Management Systems." Journal of Energy Resources Technology 111, no. 3 (September 1, 1989): 121–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/1.3231413.

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Thermodynamically based procedures that guarantee minimum energy levels in the design of integrated systems have recently been reported in the chemical engineering literature. These procedures—generally summarized as pinch technology—apply to heat exchanger networks, heat pumps, combined heat and power cycles, and utility systems. The procedures are based on Second Law Analysis. They have proven successful in over 500 industrial applications worldwide and the cost benefits have been significant. This paper describes recent developments in pinch technology aimed at the optimization of energy an

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Javanmardi, Ehsan, Sifeng Liu, and Naiming Xie. "Exploring Grey Systems Theory-Based Methods and Applications in Sustainability Studies: A Systematic Review Approach." Sustainability 12, no. 11 (May 29, 2020): 4437. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12114437.

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In recent years, there have been international movements advocating more sustainable societies, and as a result of such movements, a remarkably important sub-branch has been shaped in systems studies called sustainability. It would be vital to propose methods that could deal with inherent complexities and uncertainties in such systems. Grey systems theory (GST) represents a nascent method that could help to solve complexities in the face of multifaceted problems, uncertainty, and complexity in systems, and the theory could considerably contribute to sustainability studies. The present study so

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Borzì, Iolanda. "Evaluating Sustainability Improvement of Pressure Regime in Water Distribution Systems Due to Network Partitioning." Water 14, no. 11 (June 2, 2022): 1787. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/w14111787.

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Water distribution networks (WDNs) represent essential civil infrastructures providing freshwater for domestic and industrial uses. Pressure management in WDNs is a key issue in operation and management, especially in big and complex networks, and this is the case with Messina City’s WDN. Water network partitioning (WNP) into district zones helps improve water network management; it simplifies water budget computation and consequently helps in the identification and reduction of water loss. In this study, an approach based on sustainability indices (SIs) is proposed to evaluate the improvement

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Hornborg, Alf. "Colonialism in the Anthropocene: the political ecology of the money-energy-technology complex." Journal of Human Rights and the Environment 10, no. 1 (March 2019): 7–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/jhre.2019.01.01.

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This article sketches a transdisciplinary theoretical framework for understanding the so-called Anthropocene in terms of global inequalities. The concept of the Anthropocene has several profound implications that challenge central aspects of the modern worldview. Its relation to issues of global justice requires a cataclysmic reconceptualization of conventional notions of development, economic growth, and technological progress. The article refers to the asymmetric global flows of resources that were a prerequisite to the British Industrial Revolution to illustrate how technological systems an

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Subercaseaux, Diego, Ana I. Moreno-Calles, Marta Astier, and José de Jesús Hernández L. "Emerging Agro-Rural Complexities in Occident Mexico: Approach from Sustainability Science and Transdisciplinarity." Sustainability 13, no. 6 (March 16, 2021): 3257. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13063257.

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Rural and agricultural modernization and industrialization (RAMI) increased in recent decades in a multiscalar way. RAMI has implied the rural landscape transformation through the arrival of industrial models. These processes have not been linear or unidirectional; heterogeneities, opposites, mosaics, hybridizations, new interactions, problems, and tensions, between traditional and industrial agriculture and other agriculture types, have emerged. We tackle and problematized the RAMI processes, which is a complex and a real-world problem, from Sustainability Science (SS) and transdisciplinarity

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Hrestic, Maria-Luiza, and Constantin Popescu. "Sustainability, as a Source of Environmental Law." Logos Universality Mentality Education Novelty: Law 8, no. 2 (December 12, 2020): 44–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.18662/lumenlaw/8.2/44.

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The latest research has approached the ecosystem's carrying capacity, an issue that both the specialists in demography and the specialists in human ecology inquired about, to be able to estimate based on scientific grounds the limits of natural development and of demographic growth. The carrying capacity is a characteristic feature of every ecological system or category of ecosystems, depending on their development stages and the hierarchic stage they are part of. Consequently, the carrying capacity is the concrete expression of the stability domain expressing the ecosystem's ability to modify

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Xu, Hui, Shuxiu Li, Yongtao Tan, and Bin Xing. "Comprehensive Resilience Assessment of Complex Urban Public Spaces: A Perspective of Promoting Sustainability." Land 11, no. 6 (June 4, 2022): 842. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land11060842.

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Complex urban systems, such as multi-floor rail transit stations and integrated railway transport hubs, are termed “complex urban public spaces” (CUPSs). These CUPSs facilitate people’s lives, but, at the same time, are threatened by various risks due to their multi-floor structure, dense crowds, high correlation in multi-function, complex facilities, and space openness. The risk events of CUPSs could have a negative influence on public safety and further influence sustainable development. Increasing the resilience of CUPSs is an effective way to respond to risks and guarantee public safety. T

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Liu, Jin-peng, Yu Tian, Hao Zheng, and Tao Yi. "Research on Dynamic Evolution Simulation and Sustainability Evaluation Model of China’s Power Supply and Demand System." Energies 12, no. 10 (May 25, 2019): 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en12102009.

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Power supply and demand systems are important support systems for industrial production and residents’ lives. They have multiple influencing factors, and complex mechanisms of interaction exist among these factors. In view of the present sustainability problems faced by China’s power supply and demand system, this research adopts a system dynamics (SD) model to simulate the evolution of China’s power supply and demand system, and analyzes the interaction mechanism of various elements of the system. Based on this, an innovative index system for the evaluation of the sustainability of power supp

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Ozigbo, Nathaniel. "BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE SYSTEMS SUPPORTING SUSTAINABILITY ON FIRM’S DECISION-MAKING PROCESSES AND PERFORMANCE." International Journal of Advanced Research in Statistics, Management and Finance 8, no. 1 (January 5, 2021): 64–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.48028/iiprds/ijarsmf.v8.i1.05.

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In today’s competitive business environment, there exist the need to investigate the adequacy of infrastructural flexibility for Business Intelligence Systems to support Sustainability on Firm’s Decision-making processes and performance. The Business Intelligence Systems consist of unique functions that are intrinsic aimed at supporting better quality decision-making within the organization. It is critical to the smooth operations of every organization. The intention of this study is not to discuss the technical details of implementing Business Intelligence Systems but to explore how to gain m

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Oatley, Thomas. "Energy and the Complexity of International Order." Global Environmental Politics 21, no. 4 (November 2021): 20–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/glep_a_00637.

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Abstract This article explores the role of states and industrial policy in shaping the historical coevolution of energy and international order. I explore how states, by narrowly self-interested pecuniary goals, the desire for geopolitical advantage, and concerns about the political ramifications of domestic economic structure, use industrial policy to encourage the development of energy-intensive transportation and agricultural systems. Over time, increasingly energy-intensive systems allowed an increasingly complex international order to develop, one characterized by significant differentiat

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Iannino, Vincenzo, Valentina Colla, Claudio Mocci, Ismael Matino, Stefano Dettori, Sebastian Kolb, Thomas Plankenbühler, and Jürgen Karl. "Multi-agent systems to improve efficiency in steelworks." Matériaux & Techniques 109, no. 5-6 (2021): 502. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/mattech/2022010.

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A multi-agent system consists of several computational entities capable of autonomous actions, called agents, which communicate with each other, and have the ability to coordinate their actions and to cooperate. Multi-agent systems received a great interest and attention over time, as they can be seen as a key enabling technology for complex applications, where distributed and processing of data, autonomy, and high degree of interactions in dynamic environments are required at the same time. Therefore, in view of current and future developments of the digitalization of industrial production cy

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Abdullayeva, Nargiz, Tarana Bakirova, and Aytan Rahmanova. "Town-planning Organization of the Baku Industrial Region: 19th – 20th Centuries." Problemy Ekorozwoju 15, no. 2 (July 1, 2020): 223–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.35784/pe.2020.2.22.

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The article considers the emergence in the modern town-planning practice of Azerbaijan complex planning systems require comprehends to historical experience, especially the end of the nineteenth beginning of the twentieth centuries. The industrial revolution started in the middle of the 19th century in connection with the development of the oil industry accelerated the process of urbanization in Absheron also in Baku the centre of population concentration and various types of labour activity. The purpose of the study is to present Baku oil district at the turn of the 19th-20th centuries to rev

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Battistoni, Chiara, Carolina Giraldo Nohra, and Silvia Barbero. "A Systemic Design Method to Approach Future Complex Scenarios and Research Towards Sustainability: A Holistic Diagnosis Tool." Sustainability 11, no. 16 (August 17, 2019): 4458. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11164458.

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This article aims to frame the role of Systemic Design (SD) as an alternative design model for the future of design for sustainability, by defining and assessing a structured process to execute Holistic Diagnosis (HD), an innovative context framework. Taking as its background a deep understanding of the design for sustainability and systems thinking concepts that frame SD as a field where HD is rooted, multiple case-study analyses were performed. HD demonstrates its ability to overcome the design boundaries in different fields such as industrial production, local communities, and policy-making

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Taylor and van der Velden. "Resistance to Regulation: Failing Sustainability in Product Lifecycles." Sustainability 11, no. 22 (November 19, 2019): 6526. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11226526.

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International policy and law have long sought to ensure that states regulate the negative impacts of production processes on people and the planet. Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 12 targets sustainable production and consumption; international conventions, such as the Basel Convention, or the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), and the International Labour Organisation Conventions, all seek to regulate toxic or labour-related impacts associated with industrial production. However, there is ample evidence that such impacts continue. At a time of increasing pressure to develop sustaina

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Richardson, Martin, and Mikhail Soloviev. "The Urban River Syndrome: Achieving Sustainability Against a Backdrop of Accelerating Change." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 12 (June 13, 2021): 6406. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18126406.

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Human activities have been affecting rivers and other natural systems for millennia. Anthropogenic changes to rivers over the last few centuries led to the accelerating state of decline of coastal and estuarine regions globally. Urban rivers are parts of larger catchment ecosystems, which in turn form parts of wider nested, interconnected systems. Accurate modelling of urban rivers may not be possible because of the complex multisystem interactions operating concurrently and over different spatial and temporal scales. This paper overviews urban river syndrome, the accelerating deterioration of

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Grubic, Tonci, Liz Varga, Yukun Hu, and Anurag Tewari. "Micro-generation technologies and consumption of resources: A complex systems’ exploration." Journal of Cleaner Production 247 (February 2020): 119091. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.119091.

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Han, Feng, Zhangcong Feng, Chao Wang, Nujie Yang, Dong Yang, and Feng Shi. "Interweaving Industrial Ecology and Ecological Modernization: A Comparative Bibliometric Analysis." Sustainability 13, no. 17 (August 27, 2021): 9673. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13179673.

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Although industrial activity has brought about rapid economic growth, it also faces the dual challenges of resource constraints and environmental pressure. Industrial ecology (IE) and ecological modernization (EM) are two theories regarding the conceptualization and implementation of sustainable development that emerged from the natural and social sciences, respectively. Over the past three decades, scholars have conducted copious amounts of theoretical and applied research on IE and EM, but comparative studies from an interdisciplinary perspective on the relationship between the two remain re

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Roci, Malvina, Niloufar Salehi, Saman Amir, Sayyed Shoaib-ul-Hasan, Farazee M. A. Asif, Aleš Mihelič, and Amir Rashid. "Towards circular manufacturing systems implementation: A complex adaptive systems perspective using modelling and simulation as a quantitative analysis tool." Sustainable Production and Consumption 31 (May 2022): 97–112. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.spc.2022.01.033.

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Sessa, Maria Rosaria, Benedetta Esposito, Daniela Sica, and Ornella Malandrino. "A Logical-Mathematical Approach for the Implementation of Ecologically Equipped Productive Urban Areas." Sustainability 13, no. 3 (January 28, 2021): 1365. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13031365.

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Sustainability is a complex phenomenon that refers to economic, environmental, and social aspects. Any concept of sustainable urban development must incorporate sectoral concepts; these must be well integrated into the overarching urban, regional, and governance policies. One sectoral policy of great importance is the redevelopment processes of disused industrial areas into Sustainable Industrial Areas (AIS), Ecologically Equipped Productive Areas (APEA), or Eco-Industrial Parks (EIP). These territories, as socioeconomic systems that are being observed in the framework of the development of su

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Vargas-Hernández, José G., and Olga E. Domené-Painenao. "Contributions of Urban Agro Ecological Agriculture to Ecosystem Services." International Journal of Urban Planning and Smart Cities 2, no. 1 (January 2021): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijupsc.2021010101.

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This paper has the aim to analyze the implications of the transition of ecosystem services based on urban agro ecology. It advances on the debate over the negative effects of the traditional and industrial oriented agricultural production on the ecosystem services, food systems, climate change, etc. and analyses the principles, methods, and some practices that support the transition to urban agro ecology. The method employed is the analytical of the theoretical and empirical literature review. It concludes that a transition from traditional and industrial-oriented agriculture towards more urba

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Ruiz-Puente, Carmen. "Proposal of a Conceptual Model to Represent Urban-Industrial Systems from the Analysis of Existing Worldwide Experiences." Sustainability 13, no. 16 (August 18, 2021): 9292. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13169292.

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The adoption of Industrial Symbiosis (IS) practices within urban areas is gaining interest due to the environmental impacts entailed by the development of cities. However, there is still a lack of knowledge about how the relationships between industrial and urban areas can be modelled. In this context, this research aimed at posing a conceptual model to understand and represent Urban-Industrial Systems (UIS). To this end, a set of worldwide previous UIS experiences were overviewed to identify the agents, dynamics, and collaboration opportunities that characterize them. The multi-perspective an

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