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requirements of a stakeholder-sensitive, sustainability-oriented benefit analysis of infrastructure project alternatives were …) Incorporating sustainability in the benefit analysis, thereby analyzing project alternatives in terms of their collective social … sustainable civil infrastructure systems. First, a decision-making analysis method for stakeholder-sensitive, sustainability …
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returns then how does this relate to the social and ecological sustainability of the Chilean TURFs? And how are the economic … sustainability of these two management areas, one of which seems to be a ’success’ in economic terms. In order to study these cases … impacts on the sustainability of the ecological system. However, neither the fishers in an economically well-functioning MA …
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From p. 1: "Sustainable development and management of global and regional resources is not an ecological problem, nor an economic one, nor a social one. It is a combination of all three. And yet actions to integrate all three typically have short-changed one or more. "Sustainable designs driven...
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practice it is possible to achieve significant levels of decoupling, and thus environmental sustainability, whilst maintaining … sustainability, economic growth and job creation. This result has important implications for other important sustainability debates … social sustainability goals – reducing poverty, inequality and corruption whilst improving access to education and health …
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Trust has played a central role in human relationships and hence has been the subject of study in many fields including business, law, social science, philosophy and psychology. It has played a pivotal role in forming contracts, carrying out business, assisting people work together...
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between economy, society and environment in order to optimise sustainability of ecosystems is the aim of this paper …. Ontology, a particular type of knowledge based technology, is used to define the variables affected on the relations. Ontology … helps to understand how those variables affect an economy, society and environment. Generally speaking, ontology is used to …
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This paper develops an analysis of innovation based on Allen Oakley's (2002) primary themes of ontological priority, agency-structure and critical realism. I develop a history of thought and contemporaneous endogenous view of innovation in an environment of uncertainty, potential novelty and...
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examining the underlying assumptions of dominant service quality theories, an implicit dualistic ontology is highlighted (where …
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Within the information systems field, the task of conceptual modeling involves building a representation of selected phenomena in some domain. High-quality conceptual-modeling work is important because it facilitates early detection and correction of system development errors. It also plays an...
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Process modeling has gained prominence in the information systems modeling area due to its focus on business processes and its usefulness in such business improvement methodologies as Total Quality Management, Business Process Reengineering, and Workflow Management. However, process modeling...
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