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Cultural aspects of sustainable development

Pink, Małgorzata - In: Economic and environmental studies : a journal for … 18 (2018) 1, pp. 323-339

for 2016. The hypothesis has been verified. There is a positive correlation between values defining European culture and …

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Sustaining Business Excellence

Crowther, David; Aras, Guler - 2011

Many concepts have appeared fashionable as a process of business management and the latest of these is connected to sustainability. Often these concepts are merely refinements of other concepts but are presented as the answer to managing a business. We argue in this paper that these concepts do...

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Trust as a key variable of sustainable development and public happiness : a historical and theoretical example regarding the creation of money

Genovese, Nicola; La Spada, Maria Grazia - 2014

This article purports to trace the origin of money on the basis of factors in interpersonal relationships, affecting a … account these factors. The hypothesis expounded in the paper is that these values underlaid the beginning of economic activity … paper it is also hypothesized that the creation of money is one of the basic factors in the progress of economic and social …

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The impact of market innovations on the evolution of norms : the sustainability case

Müller, Stephan; Wangenheim, Georg von - 2014

That institutions matter is widely accepted among economists and so are social norms as an important category of informal institutions. Social norms matter in many economic situations, but in particular for markets. The economic literature has studied the interrelation between markets and social...

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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....

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The No TAV Entrepreneurs’ Transition Towards a Sustainable Solidarity Economy : Pragmatic Analysis of a Social Innovation Process

Soubirou, Marina - 2018

Whilst a global transition towards sustainability appears to be a pressing challenge, several surveys have shown that sustainable principles and values seem to emerge on a global scale. Various social movements have laid claim to such a transition. An example of these movements is the No TAV...

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NGOs and Social Responsibility

Crowther, David - 2011

world but also is everyday life. There are obviously a lot of factors which have led to this increasing interest – such …

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Trust as a Key Variable of Sustainable Development and Public Happiness : A Historical and Theoretical Example Regarding the Creation of Money

Genovese, Nicola - 2014

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Sustainability and the problem of consumption

Witt, Ulrich - 2011

Strong growth in disposable income has inflated consumption to unprecedented, but not sustainable levels. In this process consumer behavior has been changing. To explain the driving forces of this development, the paper introduces a theory of evolving consumer preferences that is molded in an...

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Endangering the natural basis of life is unjust : on the status and future of the sustainability discourse

Becker, Christian; Ewringmann, Dieter; Faber, Malte; … - 2012

The paper critically examines the status of the sustainability discourse and sustainability politics against the backdrop of considerations about the meaning of justice in the context of sustainability. We argue that the preservation of the natural basis of life is by itself a requirement of...

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