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Our libraries are ready to support the implementation of the UN 2030 Agenda. There is a lot to be done and said for each of the 17 SDGs. Libraries, as providers of access to information, contribute to both an improvement in people's lives and to an informed decision-making process of governments, communities and other institutions in charge of alleviating poverty and raising living standards around the world. This paper shows the relevance of the 2030 Agenda and its relation with university libraries. It also explains the 17 Sustainable Development Goals by directly linking them with library work and provides practical examples from the day-today of libraries, taking into account various resources, collections and institutional alliances. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the rapid aging of the Cuban population from an informational perspective. In accordance with the United Nations' 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals, this work contributes to preventing this age group's feeling of exclusion from such an important process as society's digitalization, a fastmoving process in which both family and organizations are responsible for their education. A service for public libraries is proposed, as their social function is to meet their community's needs. This service will contribute to the social well-being as well as to the improvement in the quality of life of our elderly. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The sustainability concept has been applied in a number of fields, which has generated different definitions of sustainability. The following paper has critically developed a conceptual framework for defining sustainability based on thermodynamics properties, which can be applied to complex adaptive systems (CAS). First, there is a description of the general perception of sustainable development and the conceptual limitations to evaluate the interaction between a system and its surroundings. Then, the CAS's properties and the impact of resource restriction were critically evaluated and irreversibility on the CAS's conditions was defined. This brought a broad understanding about the effects on CAS, based on the first and second law of thermodynamics. From this analysis, the exergetic aspect emerged as a fundamental property for defining sustainability in the CAS's context. This shows opportunities for developing studies based on thermodynamics properties in multiple systems, such as economic, social and ecological fields, which would require an interdisciplinary approach to generate an integral framework on the application of sustainability definition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The systematic application of environmental management procedures facilitates the environmental impact control caused by a particular process or action. This paper proposes and illustrates its implementation in the field of civil public works at the very initial project stage, in order to enable administrations to develop more sustainable activities without compromising their social and economic profitability. The integration of different sustainability measures, always based on a life cycle view of the work, allows a transparent assessment of results at different levels (especially: economic and environmental) and is the basis for a consistent decision-making at any process stage (awarding, execution, maintenance...). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]