The LandCare programme of the South African national government aims to address problems associated with the degradation of natural resources by facilitating rural agricultural projects that are sustainable over their ...
Brent, Alan Colin; Mulder, Jacques(IEEE, 2005-09-01)
The degradation of natural resources has a direct and significant impact on those living in rural areas. The resultant increasing pressure that is placed on the livelihoods of rural people leads to desperate and poor ...
Ndeke, Musee; Brent, Alan Colin; Ashton, Peter J.(Academy of Science of South Africa, 2010-03)
The South African perspective on nanotechnology, recently articulated through its national strategy,envisages nanotechnology to provide solutions to some of the country’s key development challenges,such as the provision ...
Kalenga, C.E.; Brent, Alan Colin(Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2005-11)
The South African automotive industry faces increasing challenges for Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and their suppliers to produce high-quality products at low costs. Items purchased by OEMs from the supply chain ...
Labuschagne, Carin; Brent, Alan Colin(Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2007-05)
Industries are increasingly under pressure to incorporate the objectives of sustainable
development into company policies and decision-making processes. This study introduces a framework of sustainability assessment ...
Brent, Alan Colin; Van Erck, Ron P.G.; Labuschagne, Carin(Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2007-05)
A Sustainability Cost Accounting (SCA) procedure has been introduced that expresses the impacts on sustainable development associated with a developed technology, by means of a common financial denominator. This paper uses ...
Brent, Alan Colin; Van Erck, Ron P.G.; Labuschagne, Carin(Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2006-11)
The development and management of new technologies is fundamental to the
manufacturing sector as a core operational initiative. Managers of a new technology
are increasingly pressurised to consider the economic, ...
Brent, Alan Colin; Van Erck, Ron P.G.; Labuschagne, Carin(International Association for Management of Technology (IAMOT), 2005-05-20)
Decision-makers in the South African process industry have communicated the need to express all aspects of sustainable development into monetary terms for internal decisions. Especially where new technology developments ...
Brent, Alan Colin; Rogers, David E.C.(International Council for Science, 2007-06-15)
The emerging field of sustainability science recognises the important role of technologies in reaching the conditional goals of sustainable development. Research in sustainable technologies requires transdisciplinarity to ...
Brent, Alan Colin; Pretorius, Marthinus W.(International Association for Management of Technology, 2007-05-13)
The complexity of integrating the concept of sustainable development and the reality of technology or innovation management
practices has been argued. The purpose of the research was to establish a conceptual framework ...
Brent, Alan Colin; Pretorius, Marthinus W.(Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2008-05)
The complexity of integrating the concept of sustainable development and the reality of technology or innovation management practices has been argued. The primary objective is to introduce a conceptual framework of technology ...
Social criteria have been proposed to evaluate the sustainability of operational initiatives in the process industry through an integrated Life Cycle Management (LCM) approach. Indicators for these social criteria are ...
Brent, Alan Colin; Labuschagne, Carin(Portland International Conference for the Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET), 2005-07-29)
Corporations are increasingly pressurised to commit to and report on the overall sustainability performances of operational initiatives, i.e. undertaken projects or technological innovations. A prerequisite for aligning ...
Brent, Alan Colin; Labuschagne, Carin(IEEE, 2004-10-15)
Companies that compete globally are
progressively more required to commit to and report on the overall sustainability performances of operational initiatives,
i.e. undertaken projects or technological innovations. A ...
Industries are increasingly pressurised to incorporate the objectives of sustainable development into company policies and decision-making processes, i.e. social equity, economic efficiency and environmental performance. ...
Labuschagne, Carin; Brent, Alan Colin(Elsevier, 2005)
The pressure on businesses to incorporate the principles of sustainable development into policies and activities is mounting. Project management methodologies are not excluded from this pressure. The current project ...
This paper suggests that a system dynamics approach is best suited to assess the sustainability of
technologies, with a specific emphasis on policy interventions for renewable energy in the African
context. A bioenergy ...
Brent, Alan Colin; Kruger, Wikus J.L.(Elsevier, 2009)
Sustainable energy provision is regarded as one of the most significant challenges facing the realm of development, especially in Africa where large proportions of the population still lack access to energy services. ...
Brent, Alan Colin(Life Cycle Management, 2007-08-20)
The complexity of integrating the concept of sustainable development and the reality of technology or innovation management practices has been argued. The purpose of the research was to establish a conceptual framework of ...