The first issue of Volume 5 of The International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability is now available.

Volume 5, Number 1 contains:

• Towards a Perpetual Congruence Theory for Sustainability of International Business: A Conceptual Framework by Keson Loke.
• Public-Private Partnerships: The Impact on Local Governance and Living Standards by Giuseppe Argiolas, Cinzia Dessì and Michela Floris.
• Which Strategy to Educate towards Sustainable Development? by Johanna G. Ferreira.
• Mother Nature and Her Discontents: Gaia as a Metaphor for Environmental Sustainability by Spencer S. Stober.
• The Alleviation of Poverty by Security of Communal Land Tenure: The Land Titling Debate in South Africa by Gerrit Pienaar.
• Sustainable Development as Efficiency and Equity by Christopher Warburton.
• Psychological Aspects of Cultural Sustainability: Several Case Studies by William W. Bostock.
• Lack of Citizen Participation and Inefficient Service Delivery at Local Level in South Africa by Shikha Vyas-Doorgapersad.
• Indigenous Environmental Decision Making in New Zealand: Why is the Local Indigenous Group Unable to Make Improvement to their Bay? by Puti Wilson and Willie Smith.
• Authentic Sustainability: How the Reasons for Implementation Affect its Success by Kevin Morrison and James Albers.
• Carbon Reduction at the Local Level by Jon Kellett and Cathryn Hamilton.
• An Adaptive Quantitative Method to Measure Sustainability: An Application for the State of Queensland, Australia by Giuseppe T. Cirella and Longbin Tao.
• Community Sustainability and Social Justice: Whose Vision? by Diane Costello and Brian Bishop.
• A Review of Sustainability Assessment Methods in Engineering by Abdallah M. Hasna.
• Biodiversity Conservation and Landowners: Research, Policy and Developmental Issues for Laikipia District of north-central Kenya by Oscar Wambuguh.
• On Place-ness of Place: ‘Dwelling’ by Fontaine Liu.
• Senselessness: The Manifestation of Educational Practice by Garth Pickard.
• From Scarcity to Abundance: Organisational Sustainability and the Role of the Civic Entrepreneur by Sam Wells and Stephanie Betz.
• Advocating for Civic Spaces in Thailand by Katia Balassiano.
• Watershed Democracy: Hydropolitics and Federalist Experiments in Interstate Water Management by Jenny Rebecca Kehl.
• Sustainability, Climate Change and Energy Use in Buildings by Julian Scott Yeomans.
• (Re)Process: A Case Study of Sustainable Progression in Design Practice by Deborah Schneiderman.
• Indicators of Physical and Social Infrastructure for Sustainable Urban Renewal by Krishna Kumar Dhote.
• An Integrated Approach to Reviving Aquatic Ecosystems: An Alternative to Generate Green Energy by Sarvesh Kumar Srivastava and Namrata Joshi.
• The Globe and the Human Being by Ray M. Golding and Lynton. G.F. Giles.
• Transport Infrastructure and Poverty Reduction in Mauritius: Macroeconomic Evidences by Boopen Seetanah and Ahmad Jameel Khadaroo.
• Integrating Different Forms of Knowledge in Local Policy-Making: The Case of Local Air Quality Management in Southampton by Laurence Carmichael.
• Community Sustainability and Natural Hazard Resilience: All-Hazard and Cross-Cultural Issues in Disaster Resilience by Douglas Paton.
• Exploration of the Impact of Business Improvement approach Lean Six Sigma on the Environment by James Marsh.
• Financing the Climate Agenda through Built Sector Total Life-Cycle Valuing (TLCv) (High Performance Design) by Dennis Ramdahin.