The proposed framework synthesizes the evolution of the DfS field, showing how it has progressively expanded from a technical and product-centric focus towards large scale system level changes in which sustainability is understood as a socio-technical challenge.
A model of demographic differences among the clusters shows that sustainability outcomes, understood in terms of both local commute behavior and vehicle emissions, are significantly associated with the diverse demography and politics of the state.
While exploring the links between geography and urban sustainability particular attention is given to the impacts which sustainable thinking has had on urban geography, and to the role which urban geographers have played in informing how urban sustainability is understood and implemented.
While the importance of sustainability is understood, the concept remains ill-defined eg. [ 31, 34].
For the purposes of this study, following Evashwick and Ory (2003), sustainability is understood and approached as the ability to continue the program over time.
Despite the increasing global popularity of corporate sustainability, a nation's culture and its effects on activities relating to corporate sustainability are little understood.
As I put it in a report not long afterwards, "Properly understood, sustainability is not the same as corporate social responsibility (CSR) – nor can it be reduced to achieving an acceptable balance across economic, social and environmental bottom lines.
Rather, through this conceptualisation, sustainability can be understood as an ongoing process that has a politics of change and negotiation and interconnections with the local and global.
The effect of sustainability should be understood in long-term view, and cheap product can be superior as families are more interested in direct and short-term economy.
Sustainability maximization is understood as a multi-criterial optimization problem, addressed by means of the Pareto optimization methodology for trading off P vs. EI.
