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also pointed out, according to key observations emerging from the field of sustainability science. These tasks are then … sustainability along six dimensions: (1) the structure of the design process; (2) the scope of sustainability issues considered; (3 …
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Various theoretical models of public policy analysis are used to treat situations of decision-making in which public deciders have to take into account the multifunctionality of agriculture. For some, science-society relations are not really problematical. Others acknowledge the current attempts...
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Stollery (1998) studied a polluting oil extracting economy governed by the constant utility criterion. The pollution caused the growth of temperature, negatively affecting production and utility. Stollery provided a closed form solution for the case with the Cobb-Douglas production function and...
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The possibility of measuring and comparing sustainability performance is generally taken for granted in management … purpose of this article is to question this basic assumption by analyzing the comparability of sustainability performance … sustainability performance, drawing attention to the main reasons that make it very difficult if not impossible to establish a …
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implement such strategies are usually labelled sustainable. In this paper, a number of definitions of corporate sustainability … categorising the current definitions of corporate sustainability and tracing their origin and (2) to choose the most predominant … definition of corporate sustainability. …
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For around 20 years, the sustainability concept and its implementation have been discussed by society at large (Kobiowu … green economics community (Lunn, 2006; Kennet and Heinemann, 2006b; Dobson and Bell, 2005a; Barry, 2005). Sustainability is … measurable sustainability indicators and that the indicators identify the need for political action in the energy sector and thus …
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Environmental valuation "multi-stakeholder" processes, as advocated by ecological economics, often have a strong local character. Critical Natural Capital cannot be defined without referring to a given geographical scale, very often local in terms of the definition of the environmental resource...
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The notion of common good is not clearly defined. Globalisation as well as sustainable development refers to it. This paper recalls four main objections to globalisation, namely institutional contextualisation, experience from economic history, equity issues, and other normative assessments. It...
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The purpose of this article is to test whether the monetary valuation of environmental assets is sufficient to define a sustainable management of natural resources. This discussion is based on a one-year field experience in East Cameroon, one of the aims of which was to question the validity of...
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The purpose of the Activities Implemented Jointly (AIJ) programme is to foster the transfer of technology for global warming abatement from developed to developing countries. Projects should not only reduce greenhouse gases, but also contribute to the sustainable development goals of host...
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