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Kinetic models for apple quality indicators throughout a sustainable postharvest chain KU Leuven
Once harvested, apples, like every other fresh fruit and vegetable, undergo continuous changes in quality as part of the normal ripening and senescence. Ripening may be desirable in that it makes the fruit palatable, but it limits the storage life of the fruit. To ensure year-round supply of apples, considerable effort is made to slow down ripening. The most common practice is to store apples at low temperatures, under an atmosphere with reduced ...
Tools for sustainability assessment and management : food chains and household waste case studies Universiteit Gent
Sustainability is the ability of a system to overcome shocks and stresses in seeking a balance upon the interactions of ecological, economic and social systems. Many countries have set national strategies for pursuing higher sustainability, including sustainability targets and indicators. Several attempts were undertaken to make the agricultural sector in general and the food sector in particular more sustainable. However, there is no harmonized ...
Focusing on sustaining human well-being: a rationale for an anthropocentric sustainability concept Universiteit Gent
In sustainability assessment, the damage or benefit to certain final aspects one wants to protect/sustain is assessed. For example in life cycle assessment (LCA) these aspects are the predefined areas of protection (AoPs): human health, natural ecosystems, the human/industrial system and natural resources. Hence an LCA outcome minimally exists out of four indicators that express damage or benefit to these AoPs. However, no sound approach is ...
Participatory tuning agricultural sustainability assessment tools to Flemish farmer and sector needs Universiteit Gent KU Leuven Universiteit Antwerpen Instituut voor Landbouw-, Visserij- en Voedingsonderzoek
Assessing the sustainability of community forest management: A case study from Iran Universiteit Hasselt Universiteit Antwerpen
The development of sustainability criteria and indicators is necessary to assess the current management and to recognize appropriate management approaches towards sustainable forest management (SFM). The aim of this study is to assess the sustainability of current management in the Dopolan community forest and assess alternative management scenarios towards SFM. To this end, we applied multi criteria analysis which consists of three steps: a) ...
Identifying sustainability issues for soymeal and beef production chains Universiteit Gent
Multi criteria sustainability assessment of biogas production in Kenya Universiteit Gent
Analysis of economic and environmental performance indicators in Belgian GRI reports KU Leuven
Over the last decade, there has been an upsurge in sustainability reporting worldwide. Nevertheless, there is still a large gap between the reporting rates of different countries and sectors around the world. This paper analyses how Belgian organizations report the economic and environmental performance indicators in their sustainability reports, with the aim to evaluate the quality and completeness of this information. As the Sustainability ...