Search Results - subject:"Sustainable development"

Sustainability of an economy relying on two reproducible assets

Cairns, Robert D.; Del Campo, Stellio; Martinet, Vincent - 2017

Evaluating the sustainability of a society requires a system of shadow or accounting values derived from the sustainability objective. As a first step toward the derivation of such shadow values for a maximin objective, this paper studies an economy composed of two reproducible assets, each...

ФОРМИРОВАНИЕ МОДЕЛИ УПРАВЛЕНИЯ УСТОЙЧИВЫМ РАЗВИТИЕМ ПРЕДПРИЯТИЯ (ОРГАНИЗАЦИИ)

ЮРЬЕВНА, ГОНЧАРОВА СВЕТЛАНА; … - In: Бизнес Информ (2015) 3, pp. 372-377

Статья посвящена теоретическим и практическим аспектам формирования модели управления устойчивым развитием на уровне предприятия или организации....

Sociology of sociology : strengthening the role of social sciences as a new priority of climate and sustainability policy

Strzałkowski, Andrzej - In: Economic and environmental studies : a journal for … 16 (2016) 3, pp. 453-468

Today, there are a lot of studies on climate change and sustainability from social sciences’ perspectives. Achievements of sociology, psychology or political sciences can be extremely helpful in designing, adopting, implementing and evaluating of effective climate and sustainability policy....

The Sustainable Development Goals and the systems approach to sustainability

Barbier, Edward; Burgess, Joanne C. - 2017

The authors explore the link between the systems approach to sustainability and the 17 Sustainable Development Goals … (SDGs), which were formally adopted by the UN in 2015. The systems approach depicts sustainable development as the …

The concept of SDG-sensitive development cooperation : implications for OECD-DAC members

Rudolph, Alexandra - 2017

Modeling sustainable long-term electricity supply-demand in Africa

Ouedraogo, Nadia S. - 2017

This paper develops a scenario-based model to identify and provide an array of electricity demand in Africa, and to derive them from the African power system of development. A system-based approach is performed by applying the scenario methodology developed by Schwartz in the context of the...

The role of participation in sustainable community development programmes in the extractives industries

McDonald, Catherine - 2017

A major challenge for almost all extractives activity is that benefits accrue predominantly at the national level while disruptions are invariably highly localized close to the resource. Recently, extractives companies have intensified efforts to correct this imbalance. The aim of this paper is...

The Sustainable Development Goals and the systems approach to sustainability

Barbier, Edward; Burgess, Joanne C. - 2017

THE MOST IMPORTANT GOALS OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY IN THE EUROPEAN UNION AND THE WESTERN BALKAN COUNTRIES

JOVANOVIĆ, Sonja; Ilić, Ivana - 2017

More efficient use of resources and economy based on the principles of sustainable development presents a development … development achievements. The latest in a series of documents governing the issue of sustainable development is Agenda 2030, where … the majority of sustainable development goals is directly linked to the environment and focus on the sustainability of …

How well are the links between education and other sustainable development goals covered in UN flagship reports? : a contribution to the study of the science-policy interface on ed...

Vladimirovna, Katja Ivanova; Le Blanc, David - 2015