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Establishing a sustainable development goal for oceans and coasts to face the challenges of our future ocean

Visbeck, Martin; Kronfeld-Goharani, Ulrike; Neumann, Barbara - 2013

essential for international trade, recreational, and cultural activities. Free access to and availability of ocean resources and … element for sustainable ocean management. The SDGs will build upon the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) and replace them by … 2015. Even though ensuring environmental sustainability is one of the eight MDG goals, the ocean is not explicitly included …

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Measuring Urban Sustainability Through Common Indicators and Peer City Benchmarking : Assessing Sustainability Assets for Performance Improvement and Economic and Environmental Progress in Delaware

Byrne, John - 2018

The report summarizes first-year research of a three-year study of pathways to urban sustainability. The research team selected the STAR Communities assessment model as the backbone for its analysis. This framework offers a menu-based system for enabling city managers and leaders to build paths...

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Toward a Sustainable Food System

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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Le protocole de Kyoto et les mécanismes de développement propre (MDP) : quels impacts pour les pays en développement à l'horizon 2020--2050 ?

Hristova, Iva - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2013

The present thesis focuses on the definition of potential Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) (or other successor mechanism) financial flows at the horizon of 2020 and 2050 and on their impact on recipient countries’ economies. The analysis is completed by an overview of the current CDM...

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History, challenges and limitations of the "Corporate social responsibility" and "sustainable development" coupling

Capron, Michel; Quairel, Françoise - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2010

In Europe, the concepts of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainable development (SD) are closely linked. Yet this approach to CSR has only taken shape in the last ten years and it is not shared by everyone. The objective of this article is to present the different stages of the CSR...

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The Difficult Path to a Sustainable Economic Growth

Musu, Ignazio - 2017

Economic growth since the industrial era has reduced poverty and increased societies' quality of life, but it also has implied negative environmental effects. There is an urgent need to correct this structural unbalance. The open issue is whether this correction implies sacrificing the...

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Circular Economy

Camilleri, Mark Anthony; Sheehy, Benedict; Fraser, Kym - 2023

This contribution features the submission of one of the most important sustainability keywords to Springer's Encyclopedia of Sustainable Management. It provides a definition and an introduction to the circular economy (CE). It describes key policies and regulatory interventions that are meant to...

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Towards territorial sustainability systems : a step forward

Barrutia, José M.; Echebarria, Carmen; Hartmann, Patrick; … - 2015

Regional research has focused on the innovation-competitiveness-growth chain, which is implicit in Territorial Innovation Systems. This literature has neglected or subordinated social and ecological regional conditions. We see this study as a first step towards more systematic research on what...

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When is it Optimal to Exhaust a Resource in a Finite Time?

Akao, Ken-Ichi; Farzin, Yeganeh Hossein - 2007

Exhaustion of a natural resource stock may be a rational choice for an individual and/or a community, even if a sustainable use for the resource is feasible and the resource users are farsighted and well informed on the ecosystem. We identify conditions under which it is optimal not to sustain...

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Is “Canal Istanbul” Compatible with the Sustainable Development Goals and Paris Climate Agreement?

Sancak, Ibrahim E. - 2022

This study analyzes the compatibility of the Canal Istanbul project with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Climate Agreement (PCA). Turkey ratified the PCA in October 2021 and has committed to the SDGs since 2015. However, the government in Turkey strives to capitalize on a...

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