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From evaluating sustainability performance to supporting agricultural management. Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
We performed an integrated evaluation of the sustainability performance of 10 intensive grazing and 10 zero-grazing specialised Flemish dairy farms, using a selection of sustainability indicators from MOTIFS (Monitoring Tool for Integrated Farm Sustainability). We put special effort in formulating useful management advice for farmers of both groups. Therefore, we used multiple regression to identify the most influential factors (independent ...
Elaboration of a Sustainability Assessment Method for Neighbourhoods KU Leuven
In the past decade, the neighbourhood scale has gained importance in the field of sustainable construction. To support designers and building stakeholders in the design of sustainable buildings and neighbourhoods, several sustainability assessment tools have been developed. Among these tools, a distinction can be made between scoring tools and Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) tools. Scoring tools assign scores to a number of criteria covering a wide ...
Assurance on sustainability reports: an international comparison University of Antwerp
Globally, companies increasingly publish separate general purpose, nonfinancial (sustainability) reports. Some of these are independently assured and assurers may or may not be from the auditing profession. We seek to understand this emerging voluntary assurance market. Using a sample of 2,113 companies (from 31 countries) that produced sustainability reports between 2002-2004, we use sequential logit analysis to identify the factors associated ...
Determinants and value relevance of voluntary assurance of sustainability reports in a mandatory reporting context : evidence from Europe Ghent University
This paper investigates the determinants of sustainability report (SR) assurance and whether this assurance is value relevant within the context of the European Union (EU), where, under the Non-Financial Reporting Directive (NFRD), sustainability reporting is mandatory for large public interest entities (PIE) as of fiscal year 2017. Using a sample of 1832 firm-year observations from 660 European listed companies over the period 2017–2020, the ...
Helping mother earth : young children's responses to sustainability labels on food packaging Ghent University
Food miles to assess sustainability: A revision Hasselt University University of Antwerp
Sustainability assessment is an essential process in our aim to reach a more sustainable production and consumption pattern. This research revises the food miles concept as a guiding tool to assess sustainability. Food miles measure the distance that food travels from where it is grown or raised to where it is consumed. Three different concepts to assess sustainability are described: (i) food miles, (ii) enhanced food miles, (iii) food chain ...
Ranking the sustainable development goals : perceived sustainability priorities in small island states Ghent University
Sustainability impacts of tidal river management: Towards a conceptual framework Hasselt University University of Antwerp
The Southwest Coastal people of Bangladesh have introduced Tidal River Management (TRM) as an environmentally acceptable water resource management practice based on their indigenous knowledge of water logging of low lying coastal land. TRM helps to address problems resulting from different anthropogenic and structural development activities, and it has been successful in helping coastal communities to adapt to climate change and rising sea level ...