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Mesurer le développement durable : jeux d'indicateurs et enjeux locaux

DECAMPS, Mélanie; VICARD, Fanny - In: Revue d'économie régionale et urbaine octobre (2010) 4, pp. 749-771

Although the definition of sustainable development continues to be debated, a consensus has emerged on the necessity to act locally in order to solve global issues. Goals and methods of public action should be redefined, and we need to design new tools to measure sustainable development at a...

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L'évolution du débat sur les SYAL : le regard d'un économiste

Requier-Desjardins, Denis - In: Revue d'économie régionale et urbaine octobre (2010) 4, pp. 651-668

This paper sets up a balance of the economic approach of the concept of Localized Agri-food System, since its emergence ten years ago. It assesses its relationship with the more general Local Productive System approach : is it a mere variety of LPS by sector or does it entail a specific...

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Recherche de voies de passage au « développement durable » et réflexivité institutionnelle. Retour sur les prétentions à la gestion d'une transition générale

Rumpala, Yannick - In: Revue française de socio-Economie n° 6 (2010) 2, pp. 47-63

The realization of a ?sustainable development? tends increasingly to be thought in terms of a necessary transition to achieve. This article aims at analyzing how this perspective has penetrated in institutional spheres and showing how it is the product and the vector of a form of collective...

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Role Of Labor Unions Beyond Collective Bargaining

Khan, Muhammad Tariq - In: Far East Journal of Psychology and Business 1 No 1 Paper 5 December (2010) 5, pp. 78-90

According to definition of labour unions, they have always been attributed with securing financial and non-financial benefits for their members through....

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THE UTOPIAN GOAL OF ATTEMPTING TO DELIVER ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE USING SEA

MCLAUCHLAN, ANNA; JOÃO, ELSA - In: Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and … 13 (2011) 01, pp. 129-158

Environmental justice is a contested concept. However, it became a high-level policy objective in the United States and, internationally, policy advocates and academics have identified environmental justice as a fundamental part of sustainable development. Policy appraisal, in particular...

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STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AS A TOOL TO CONTRIBUTE TO HIGH-LEVEL POLICY OBJECTIVES

JOÃO, ELSA; MCLAUCHLAN, ANNA - In: Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and … 13 (2011) 01, pp. 1-7

Strategic environmental assessment (SEA) has often been identified as a key tool to contribute to sustainable development. This special issue of the Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management focuses on European SEA practice between 2003 and 2010 to critically evaluate SEA links...

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Local sustainability in Hungary â€“ an analysis of the factors that determine the low number of LA21 strategies

Baják, Imre; Torcsvari, Zsolt - In: Studies in Agricultural Economics 113 (2011) 1

The concept of sustainable development is currently one of the most important concepts in the world. The implementation of the global idea is in the hands of local communities. The success of LA21 initiatives largely depends on two important factors: the bottom-up initiatives of the community...

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Climate Change, Economic Development, and Global Equity

Rao, J. Mohan - In: QA - Rivista dell'Associazione Rossi-Doria (2011) 1

Climate change involves fundamental international asymmetries in terms of its sources and impacts. The World Development Report 2010 presents an optimistic picture of the possibilities for tackling global warming, its optimism rather at odds with the gloomy prospects that may well be in store...

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A Mixed Bentham-Rawls Criterion for Intergenerational Equity : Theory and Implications

ALVAREZ-CUADRADO, Francisco; LONG, Ngo Van - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie … - 2007

Ranking development programs using integrals of discounted utilities can yield drastic consequences that offend our sense of justice. New alternative social welfare criteria should be considered. A reaction to discounted utilitarianism is to moderate its effects by adding to the social welfare...

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Contents and Measures of Sustainable Progress:the Performance of Italy in a Selection of Synthetic Indices

Altili, Priscilla; Cicerchia, Annalisa; Zoppoli, Pietro - Dipartimento del Tesoro, Ministero dell'Economia e …

), Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI) Ecological Footprint Index (EF) and Ecological Balance (EB) – that could offer a realistic … frame for measuring the progress towards sustainability of nations, as well as a way of ranking their performances. In the … sustainability, and also comparing the resulting shifts in Italy’s rank. In brief, the main result of the paper is related to the …

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