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Diverse values of nature for sustainability

Description: Article describes how, twenty-five years since foundational publications on valuing ecosystems services for human well-being, addressing the global biodiversity crisis still implied confronting barriers to incorporating nature's diverse values into decision-making. The authors assert that a better understanding of how and why nature is (under)valued is more urgent than ever.
Date: August 9, 2023
Creator: Pascual, Unai; Balvanera, Patricia; Anderson, Christopher B.; Chaplin-Kramer, Rebecca; Christie, Michael; González-Jiménez, David et al.
Partner: UNT College of Science
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Advanced Air Mobility Operation and Infrastructure for Sustainable Connected eVTOL Vehicle

Description: Article discusses how advanced air mobility (AAM) is an emerging sector in aviation aiming to offer secure, efficient, and eco-friendly transportation utilizing electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. This paper introduces a novel concept addressing future flight challenges and proposes a framework for integrating operations, infrastructure, connectivity, and ecosystems in future air mobility.
Date: May 16, 2023
Creator: Al-Rubaye, Saba; Tsourdos, Antonios & Namuduri, Kamesh
Partner: UNT College of Engineering
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Sustainable and Innovative Packaging Solutions in the Fashion Industry: Global Report

Description: Article states it is the first global report on sustainable packaging innovation in the fashion sector using data-mining to gather a sample of 400 international fashion brands that advertise sustainable packaging solution across five continents. The report discusses the sustainability of the packaging of these fashion brands, testing the validity of their claims of sustainable packaging.
Date: October 19, 2022
Creator: Jestratijevic, Iva & Brodnjak-Vrabič, Urška
Partner: UNT College of Merchandising, Hospitality and Tourism
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Sustainable nutrition: a spatially explicit modeling approach for urban land use planning

Description: Article describes how rapid urbanization has influenced the transformation of local and global food systems, altering the availability, access to, and distribution of healthy food. Micronutrient deficiency and hunger have been exacerbated worldwide. The author's research proposes a simulation strategy to evaluate the impact of agricultural land use and crop choices on nutritional production in rapidly growing urban areas.
Date: October 14, 2022
Creator: Torres, Angélica Torres; Tiwari, Chetan & Atkinson, Samuel F.
Partner: UNT College of Science

Searching for a Little Help From My Friends: Reporting on the Efforts to Create an (Inter)National Distributed Collaborative Social Media Archiving Structure

Description: Presentation for the IIPC General Assembly and Web Archiving Conference held on May 10-12, 2023 in Hilversum, Netherlands. This presentation describes the international collaborative social media archiving project conducted by the International Institute of Social History, KADOC, Amsterdam City Archives, and KB.
Date: May 11, 2023
Creator: Kavvadia, Zefi; Weyns, Katrie; Schaap, Mirjam & Ham, Sophie
Partner: International Internet Preservation Consortium

Radical Incrementalism and the Resilience and Renewal of the National Library of Australia's Web Archiving Infrastructure

Description: Presentation for the IIPC General Assembly and Web Archiving Conference held on May 10-12, 2023 in Hilversum, Netherlands. This presentation discusses the radical incrementalistic approach to renewing the National Library of Australia's web archiving infrastructure, the technology involved in this approach, and the results of the changes.
Date: May 12, 2023
Creator: Osborne, Alex & Koerbin, Paul
Partner: International Internet Preservation Consortium

Unsustainability and Retrenchment in American University Web Archives Programs

Description: Presentation for the IIPC General Assembly and Web Archiving Conference held on May 10-12, 2023 in Hilversum, Netherlands. This presentation discusses the issues encountered by the University at Albany when it came to web archive maintenance and development. These issues are reflected in the larger sphere of university web archive programs conducted in the United States.
Date: May 12, 2023
Creator: Wiedeman, Gregory & Greenwood, Amanda
Partner: International Internet Preservation Consortium

The Human in the Machine: Sustaining a Quality Assurance Lifecycle at the Library of Congress

Description: Presentation for the IIPC General Assembly and Web Archiving Conference held on May 10-12, 2023 in Hilversum, Netherlands. This presentation discusses the three main tenants of quality assurance adhered to at the Library of Congress and the workflow involved when receiving feedback, analyzing feedback, and improving the web archiving capture process.
Date: May 11, 2023
Creator: Bicho, Grace; Lyon, Meghan & Lehman, Amanda
Partner: International Internet Preservation Consortium
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An Examination of Selected Texas Higher Education Institution Environmental Improvement Efforts from the Perspective of Sustainability Managers

Description: The purpose of the present qualitative multiple case study was to identify and describe sustainability efforts and the perceptions of sustainability managers of selected higher education institutions (HEIs) in Texas. Through a Qualtrics survey and semi-structured interviews, sustainability managers shared their experiences regarding the implementation of sustainable initiatives on their campuses. The present study identified four broad themes including Organizational and Leadership Challenges a… more
Date: May 2023
Creator: Moran, Scott Edward
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Conventional and systemic Risks: Implications for Individual and Societal Governance

Description: The 17th International Conference on Knowledge Management was held in the historic city of Potsdam, Germany. Since the conference was among the first post-pandemic face to face conferences, the overall theme of the 17th edition of the ICKM conference rightly focused on “Knowledge, Uncertainty and Risks: From individual to global scale” at different levels of analysis and agency. This document highlighted one of the local keynote speeches by Prof. Ortwin Renn, scientific director at the Internat… more
Date: June 2022
Creator: Renn, Ortwin
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Creating a Sustainable Professional Development Program

Description: Article describing a professional development program for academic librarians at a large research university that has been operating continuously for eight years. Multiple components of the program and their related practices and procedures contribute to its longevity and continuing relevance for librarians.
Date: December 8, 2022
Creator: O'Toole, Erin; Sassen, Catherine; Willis, Shannon; Guerrero, Steven & Berg, Jeremy
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Fashion consumption during COVID-19: Comparative analysis of changing acquisition practices across nine countries and implications for sustainability

Description: Article explores and compares changes in clothing acquisition practices during COVID-19 across nine countries: the USA, the UK, Finland, Germany, Switzerland, Iran, Czech Republic, India, and Hong Kong SAR.
Date: April 13, 2022
Creator: Vladimirova, Katia; Henninger, Claudia E.; Joyner-Martinez, Cosette; Iran, Samira; Diddi, Sonali; Durrani, Marium et al.
Partner: UNT College of Merchandising, Hospitality and Tourism
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Electrically tunable, sustainable, and erasable broadband light absorption in graphene sandwiched in Al2O3 oxides

Description: This article is a study of graphene as an electrically tunable material for switchable devices. Graphene is obtained from graphene oxide during the atomic layer deposition of Al2O3, as confirmed by Raman spectrum.
Date: February 11, 2019
Creator: Adewole, Murthada; Cui, Jingbiao; Lowell, David; Hassan, Safaa; Jiang, Yan; Singh, Abhay et al.
Partner: University of North Texas
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Higher education and behavior analysis in Europe: creating a unified approach for the training of autism professionals

Description: Article discussing advances, challenges, and future directions for training of behavior analysts for autism services within the context of higher education in the United Kingdom, the Czech Republic, Greece, Iceland, Italy, Norway, and Sweden.
Date: June 16, 2020
Creator: Ala'i-Rosales, Shahla; Roll-Pettersson, Lise, 1955-; Gena, Angeliki; Eldevik, Sigmund; Moderato, Paolo; Sigurdardottir, Zuilma Gabriela et al.
Partner: UNT College of Health and Public Service

Oral History Interview with Lee E. Cart, July 17, 2015

Description: Transcript of an interview with Lee Cart, homesteader and simple life advocate, concerning her childhood; discovering homesteading and self-sufficiency; decision to homestead in Maine.
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Date: July 17, 2015
Creator: Pomerleau, Clark A. & Cart, Lee E., 1954-
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Sustaining the Texas Digital Newspaper Program

Description: Presentation given at the Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group (PASIG) conference 2019 held in Mexico City, Mexico. This presentation discusses the Texas Digital Newspaper Program (TDNP) at the UNT Libraries and the process to enhance the sustainability of the program.
Date: February 13, 2019
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Out of the Oven and into the (Reusable) Bag: Sous-Vide Book Delivery

Description: This is a section of The Sustainable Library's Cookbook, which is a collection of sustainable activities for academic libraries. This particular section explores sustainable practices in the Access Services Department at the University of North Texas.
Date: November 18, 2019
Creator: Brand, Rebecca; Cornell, Emily; Cunningham, Chris; Johnston, Pamela & Keshmiripour, Setareh
Partner: UNT Libraries
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A Content Analysis of Sustainable Information and Communication Technology Use in K-12 Education

Description: The purpose of this study is to provide a content analysis of specific studies that involve sustainable information and communication technology (ICT) use in K-12 education in the U.S. The results from the content analysis were used to identify factors that may contribute to the sustainable implementation of technologies in K-12 instruction. Factors from specific studies from 2000 to 2018 that have implemented ICT in instruction for three years or more were analyzed. The findings from the analy… more
Date: December 2019
Creator: Martinez, Bonnie M.
Partner: UNT Libraries
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The Conceptual Autopoiēsis of Language-Habits and Language-Cultures that Orient Humans as Separate from Nature

Description: In this dissertation I consider the nature of the relationship between orientation and language-habits in the context of environmental ethics. Specifically, I focus on the problem of orientation as a way of understanding the unabated trend of anthropocentrism in the dominant Western language-culture. Orientation operates as the attitudes, beliefs, and feelings in relation to something that we embody in our lived experiences. One way that we communicate our orientation in relation to the land is… more
Date: August 2019
Creator: Williams, Justin W
Partner: UNT Libraries
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