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A multiple imputation technique is proposed to measure sustainable development using models of structural equations (LISREL) for the treatment of missing data. The reliability of such technique is verified comparing the estimation model with missing data to the estimation model with imputed...
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This paper aims to show how the process of diffusion of 'clean technologies' confronts a variety of forces at the macro level that create systematic, technological and institutional barriers to their adoption. There is abundant literature on the role of technology transfer in the development of...
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Green accounting theories have shown that negative genuine savings at some point in time imply unsustainability … sustainability be rejected. This criterion is not forward-looking: positive current genuine savings do not rule out ’genuine … limiting sustainability condition in the capital-resource model: if the sum of the rates of resource regeneration and …
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– economic, environmental and social – of sustainability. For each considered theme we select a set of variables and frame them …
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The paper takes for granted that urban areas - and hence the built environ­ment - may play a catalytic role for effective environmental policy. This position is based on the fact that most residential, production and transportation activities in the developed world take place in urban areas. A...
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systems and on their related consequences induding environmental sustainability and urban form. The paper presents empirical …
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Currently, there is much interest in stimulating or 'speeding up' socio-technical transitions to sustainable systems, most notably in the sectors of energy, transport and agriculture. This essay attempts to assess whether and how 'transition' type problems and issues are being addressed in the...
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established in Local Agenda 21 and adapts to the four components or basic dimensions of sustainability: institutional …
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The links between climate issues and sustainable development are manifold. Given these interconnections, the lack of close integration of the sustainable development and climate change literatures is puzzling; part of the reason for this lack of connectivity may be the very different research...
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