International Journal for Sustainable Innovations (IJSI)

     (Publication Organ of  ISSF)                                                                               

ISSN  2231  - 3664  (Print Version)

ISSN  2231- 3672 (Online Version)

IJSI is an inter-disciplinary journal that follows a three pillar approach for the sustainability i.e.; social, economic and environmental. It highlights any innovative research or action, in energy, environment and other development sectors, for a sustainable future. 

Editors

Vinod  K. Sharma

Professor, IGIDR, Mumbai, India

Basant K. Sahu

Emeritus Professor, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India

 

Managing Editor

Vinod  K. Sharma

Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai-400065, India

Tel: (91-22) 2841-6531/2840-5653
Fax: (91-22) 2840-5653/2840-2752
Email: vks@igidr.ac.in

 

Editorial Board

Akira Hibiki, Environmental Economics and Policy Division, NIES, Japan

Alain Dubreuil, Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa, Canada

Ana Quiros Lara, ECO-GLOBAL and ALCALA, Costa Rica

Atsushi Inaba, Kogakuin University, Japan

Bas de Leeuw, Sustainability Institute, USA

Basudeb Chaudhury, the Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi, India

Charles Mbohwa,  University of JohannesburgSouth Africa

Chen Sau Soon, SIRIM Barhad, Malaysia

Claudia A. Pena, Center of Mining and Metallurgy, Chile

Ian Colbeck, Centre for Environment and Society, University of Essex, UK

Jane Bare, USEPA,  Cincinnati, USA

Guido Sonnemann, UNEP, France

Hongtao Wang, Sichuan University, China

Masayuki Sagisaka, AIST, Japan

Vijay Laxmi Pandey, IGIDR, Mumbai, India

Sanjay Kumar, CIT, Indian Revenue Service, Kolkata, India

Subhas K. Sikdar,  USEPA, Cincinnati, USA

Sangeeta V. Sharma, Air India, Mumbai, India

Tim Grant, Life Cycle Strategies Pty Ltd, Australia

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Contents of the Current Issue (IJSI, Vol. 1, No. 1, January, 2011)   

A Material Flow Cost Accounting Approach to Improvement Assessment in LCA   .1

Tobias Viere, Andreas Möller and Martina Prox

Case Study on Adoption of Environmental Management System and Environmental Management Practices in Japan  8

Akira Hibiki and Toshi H. Arimura

Environmental Indicators Align with Integral sustainability:  the Chilean copper ongoing process  16

Ramón J. Rada, Armando Caldeira-Pires, Catherine Benoît and Claudia A. Peña

Reduction of GHG Emissions by Ash Free Coal Utilization  22

Sagisaka Masayuki, Yamaguchi Masanori, Kobayashi Kensuke and Tahara Kiyotaka

Sustainable Development: Principles and Challenges in Developing Economies  31

Basant Kumar Sahu and Vinod Kumar Sharma

Marginal Abatement Cost Curves in Computable General Equilibrium Model for Transport Sector 36

Hisayoshi Morisugi, Atsushi Fukuda and  Atit Tippichai

Biofuel Production and Water Constraint: An effective utilization of watershed projects in India  46

Anindya Bhattacharya

Refuse Derived Fuel – Case Study of Waste as Renewable Resource. 81

S.S.Chen, Isnazunita Ismail, Abdul Nasir Adnan and Puvaneswari Ramasamy

Conflicts and Failures – Impact on Sustainable Development 87

Sanjay Kumar

On Clean Water Sustainability  55

Subhas K. Sikdar

Achieving Positive Development through Ecological Designs of the Built Environment 60

A.P. Mudiwakure and C. Mbohwa

Streamlining Greenhouse Gas Life Cycle Assessment 74

Tim Grant

Five Key Elements for Environmental Sustainable Progress  91

Jane C. Bare