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Matson, James; VandenBrook, Jim - 2021

Agriculture uses more land and water than any other human activity, and our consumption demands continue to grow even as our resource base shrinks. A highly industrialized U.S. food system produces lots of food at seemingly low per unit cost. But our current system is taking a heavy toll on...

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REDCO Limited - Will Sustainable Energy Be Sustainable Business?

Mishra, Satyendra Nath - 2013

and strategies for entering into these new fields for achieving long-term organizational and financial sustainability of …

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On the attainment of the maximum sustainable yield in the Verhulst-Lotka-Volterra model

Lambertini, Luca; Leitmann, George - 2017

We reformulate the Verhulst-Lotka-Volterra model of natural resource extraction under the alternative assumptions of Cournot behaviour and perfect competition, to revisit the tragedy of commons vs the possibility of sustainable harvesting. We stress the different impact of demand elasticity on...

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Transforming agri-food sectors to mitigate climate change : the role of green finance

Batini, Nicoletta - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 88 (2019) 3, pp. 7-42

sustainability and human health. Feeding a growing world while remaining within safe social-ecological planetary boundaries, as …

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Global Sustainability : The Sequel

Davies, Robin - 2012

The Global Sustainability Panel (GSP), formed by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in August 2010, was asked to think …

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Discounting and Sustainability in Integrated Assessment Models

Gerlagh, Reyer; Zwaan, Bob van der - 2014

Most currently employed Integrated Assessment Models are of a dynastic nature, commonly assuming a fixed relation between pure time preference, economic growth and interest rate. This rigid relation has led to much debate on which level of discounting to adopt. Especially the quantitative...

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Bio-economy and the sustainability of the agriculture and food system : opportunities and policy challenges

Diakosavvas, Dimitris; Frezal, Clara - 2019

The bio-economy is gaining increasing prominence in the policy debate, with several countries developing bio-economy strategies to decouple economic growth from dependence on fossil fuel, as well a pathway to supporting some of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and commitments under...

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Renewable resource use with imperfect self-control

Strulik, Holger; Werner, Katharina - 2020

conservation, and sustainability and discuss policies to curb overuse and potential collapse of the resource due to present …

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Climate change policies and technologies : diffusion and interaction with institutions and governance

Labhard, Vincent; Lehtimäki, Jonne - 2025

Climate change is a global-scale structural change, affecting economies across the world, alongside global fragmentation, digitalisation and demographics. This paper analyses the diffusion of climate policies and technologies and the role of institutions and governance in that process. It...

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The Rise of U.S. Food Sustainability Litigation

Tai, Steph - 2014

movement and its rising use of litigation. In particular, it focuses on two growing areas of food sustainability litigation … legal avenues fail to mesh with the values of the food sustainability movements. This article concludes by drawing from … studies of other historical movements and argues that the food sustainability movement, if it is to succeed in transforming …

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