Sustainability

Overview

Definition
Triple Bottom Line
The Case for Sustainable Landscapes
Sustainability and the Value of Plants (Bob Dolibois, ANLA)

Life cycle analyses of nursery and greenhouse crops

Modeling Container-grown Poinsettia (Euphorbia pulcherrima) Production System Components: Impacts on Carbon Footprint and Variable Costs Using a Life Cycle Assessment
Global Warming Potential, Variable Costs, and Water Use of a Model Greenhouse Production System for 11.4-cm Annual Plants (Wax Begonia) Using Life Cycle Assessment
Modeling Global Warming Potential, Variable Costs, and Water Use of Young Plant Production System Components Using Life Cycle Assessment
Analysis of Production System Components of Container-grown Chrysanthemum for Their Impact on Carbon Footprint and Variable Costs Using Life Cycle Assessment
Comparison of Three Production Scenarios for Buxus microphylla var. japonica ‘Green Beauty’ Marketed in a No. 3 Container on the West Coast Using Life Cycle Assessment
Carbon Footprint and Variable Costs of Production Components for a Container-grown Evergreen Shrub (Ilex crenata ‘Bennett’s Compacta’) Using Life Cycle Assessment: An East Coast U.S. Model
Comparison of Carbon Footprint and Variable Costs of Selected Nursery Production Systems for a 5-cm-caliper Red Maple
Carbon Footprint and Production Costs Associated with Varying the Intensity of Production Practices During Field-grown Shrub Production
Carbon Footprint and Related Production Costs of Pot-in-Pot System Components for Red Maple Using Life Cycle Assessment
Carbon Footprint and Related Production Costs of System Components for a Field-Grown Viburnum × juddi Using Life Cycle Assessment
Production Costs of Field-grown Redbud (Cercis canadensis L. ‘Forest Pansy’) Identified during Life Cycle Assessment Analysis
Life Cycle Assessment to Study the Carbon Footprint of System Components for Colorado Blue Spruce Field Production and Use
How Green Are Trees? — Using Life Cycle Assessment Methods to Assess Net Environmental Benefits
Carbon Footprint and Related Production Costs of System Components of a Field-Grown Cercis canadensis L. ‘Forest Pansy’ Using Life Cycle Assessment
Understanding Irrigation Water Applied, Consumptive Water Use, and Water Footprint Using Case Studies for Container Nursery Production and Greenhouse Crops
Understanding Carbon Footprint in Production and Use of Landscape Plants

Consumer Preferences

Campbell, Ben, Bridget Behe, Hayk Khachatryan, Jennifer Dennis, Charles Hall. 2014. U.S. and Canadian consumer perceptions of local and organic. International Food and Agribusiness Management Review. 17(2):21-40.
Khachatryan, Hayk, Ben Campbell, Charles Hall, Bridget Behe, Chengyan Yue, and Jennifer Dennis. 2014. The effects of individual environmental concerns on willingness to pay for sustainable plant attributes. HortScience 49(1):69–75.
Yue, Chengyan, Jennifer Dennis, Bridget Behe, Charles Hall, Benjamin Campbell, and Roberto Lopez. 2011. Investigating consumer preference for organic, local, or sustainable plants. HortScience 46(4):610-615.
Yue, Chengyan, Terry Hurley, and Neil Anderson. 2012. Heterogeneous consumer preference for native and invasive plants: Evidence from experimental auctions. HortScience 47(8):1091-1095.
Hugie, Kari, Chengyan Yue, and Eric Watkins. 2012. Consumer preferences of low-input turfgrasses: A conjoint analysis. HortScience 47(8)1096-1101.
Behe, Bridget K., Benjamin Campbell, Jennifer Dennis, Charles Hall, Roberto Lopez, and Chengyan Yue. 2010. Gardening consumer segments vary in ecopractices. HortScience 45(10):1475-1479.

Grower Adoption of Sustainable Practices

Dennis, Jennifer H., Roberto Lopez, Bridget Behe, Charles Hall, and Chengyan Yue. 2010. Sustainable production practices adopted by greenhouse and nursery plan growers. HortScience 45(8):1232-1237.
Hall, Tanya, Jennifer Dennis, Roberto Lopez, and Maria Marshall. 2009. Factors affecting grower willingness to adopt sustainable floricultural practices. HortScience 44(5):1346-1351.

Standards

Business Strategy Responses

Life Cycle Analysis (carbon footprint)