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Development-related questions have been raised periodically for over forty years. Development cooperation, in its turn, is also controversial, especially since its role is to make good intentions real, i.e. transform them into projects, programmes and other policy instruments generating...
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This paper provides a framework for the analysis of clean technology which covers the factors inducing, stimulating and constraining environmental innovations of firms. Such a framework relies on recent empirical and theoretical contributions to environmental innovations. The representation of...
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Sustainability is a contested term, and has much in common with justice and liberty in meaning very different things to … of a long-term research project based in Kogi State, Nigeria, designed to explore agricultural sustainability, and in …. Agricultural sustainability is but one concern amongst many, and will be compromised in the short term if deemed necessary. The …
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to set up a framework for analysing market evolution toward sustainability. In the first section, the paper briefly …
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Sustainability models are analysed and the ontological relationship between the dimensions of sustainability are … predominantly to social sustainability and technological development. It may be argued that in democratic societies the science …
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The term "proximity" has long been absent from the geographical vocabulary. This term is currently re-emerging among researchers in social geography who are questioning the relationship between spatial and social proximity. This paper analyses how a conflict linked to a planning project can...
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Agenda 21 is to build local capacity and privateâpublicâcitizen partnerships for action on sustainability. This can be seen …, on the one hand, through the development of sustainability indicators appropriate at different scales and, on the other …
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sustainability process objective. Usually, long lists of indicators were established to describe the complexity of sustainable …
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This paper proposes a methodology to assist water resources managers in assessing the hydrological impact of weed control practices in Mediterranean winegrowing catchments. The methodology is based on a spatial representation of practices and its integration in a distributed hydrologic model....
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In many studies on environmental sustainability, research is combined with initiating action. This approach differs …
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