Concern about environmental problems has led to more attention being paid to the sustainable development objective. Social entrepreneurship, and entrepreneurship in general, show a direct relationship with this objective, due mainly to the activities carried out by entrepreneurs regarding the...

This article provides one of the first critical looks at the interface between the values of the sustainable food movement and its rising use of litigation. In particular, it focuses on two growing areas of food sustainability litigation "challenges to CAFOs and challenges to the use of...

The UNESCO recently designated the Appennino Tosco-Emiliano as a biosphere reserve (BR) in 2015. On the reserve territory, it is possible to rediscover the constitutive elements of this environmental, socioeconomic and historical-cultural space. In particular, the existence of different...

The paper describes how social economy is a tool to further ambitions of sustainable development in model areas such as biosphere reserves. This is based on the notion of interdependencies between humans and nature in socio-ecological systems. Understanding the local resource base is vital to...

This paper develops the concept of generational imbalance within a broader framework of financial sustainability in the public sector, by evaluating the inter-generational financial dimensions and management performance and control implications of long-term societal demographic trends. We argue...

The aim of this paper is to extract and describe recent social initiatives in food consumption and distribution in Poland and indicate their characteristics related to sustainable consumption, sharing economy and collaborative consumption and to indicate the processes, mechanisms and future...

This paper explores the role of sustainable enterprise in the context of a rapidly emerging economy. It centres on a multiple case study analysis based upon observations and interview data from six organisations operating in Dubai. Preliminary results indicate that the motivation to transition...

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...

This paper, commissioned and sponsored by the IRRC Institute, analyzes the state of environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing by college endowments, by aggregating multiple datasets addressing three areas of activity: 1) incorporation of ESG criteria into endowment management, 2)...

Circular economy business models (CEBM) offer key opportunities to businesses, creating value and prospects for a sustainable growth and long-term prosperity. However, being an emerging approach, issues such as its development and implementation, equity and social integration, its impact and...