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Multifunctional Rangeland in Southern Africa: Managing for Production, Conservation, and Resilience with Fire and Grazing

McGranahan, Devan Allen; Kirkman, Kevin P. - In: Land 2 (2013) 2, pp. 176-193

Residents of Southern Africa depend on rangeland for food, livelihoods, and ecosystem services. Sustainable management of rangeland ecosystems requires attention to interactive effects of fire and grazing in a changing climate. It is essential to compare rangeland responses to fire and grazing...

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Sustainable Development and Airport Surface Access: The Role of Technological Innovation and Behavioral Change

Ryley, Tim; Elmirghani, Jaafar; Budd, Tom; Miyoshi, Chikage - In: Sustainability 5 (2013) 4, pp. 1617-1631

Sustainable development reflects an underlying tension to achieve economic growth whilst addressing environmental challenges, and this is particularly the case for the aviation sector. Although much of the aviation-related focus has fallen on reducing aircraft emissions, airports have also been...

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Divergent Evolution in Education for Sustainable Development Policy in the United Kingdom: Current Status, Best Practice, and Opportunities for the Future

Martin, Stephen; Dillon, James; Higgins, Peter; Peters, Carl - In: Sustainability 5 (2013) 4, pp. 1522-1544

This paper discusses the current status of all aspects of education for sustainable development (ESD) across the United Kingdom (UK), drawing on evidence from its political jurisdictions (England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales), and setting out some characteristics of best practice. The...

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Controlling and Sustainability: Empirical Evidence from Europe

Porada-Rochon, Alexandra Rausch Nidzara Osmanagiæ … - In: Zagreb International Review of Economics and Business 16 (2013) 1, pp. 37-63

to our hypotheses we reveal that besides Austrian Croatian companies are more advanced in controlling and sustainability … way and to initiate improvements towards sustainability against country-specifi c backdrops. JEL Classification: L2 …

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ACCESS Magazine Fall 2008

Boarnet, Marlon G.; Eisenstein, William; Kanafani, Adib; … - Institute for Transportation Studies (ITS), University … - 2008

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General Principles Regarding the Relationships Among the Environmental Cost Accounting, Environmental Performance Measurement and Eco-efficiency Indicators

Olga, Olaru; Lorena, Radu Andreea; Silviu, Banacu Cristian - In: Ovidius University Annals, Economic Sciences Series XII (2012) 2, pp. 888-893

The scope of hereby paper is drafting a proposal on the environmental cost accounting, environmental performance and … eco-efficiency indicators. The paper briefly presents the main trends on the environmental cost accounting. Having in view … the costs accounting for measuring the indicators. The complementary relation among the environmental costs accounting and …

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Budget – Sustainable Development Tool and Instrument in the Fight of Economic Entities Against Economic Crisis

Lidia, Tãnase Gabriela - In: Ovidius University Annals, Economic Sciences Series XII (2012) 2, pp. 1377-1381

In the current economy, where all countries are affected to some extent by the economic crisis and more companies stop their activity, an increasing importance is given to available resources, their use, savings, efficiency, effectiveness, cost reduction, elimination of waste, and a careful and...

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The Information Society and its Eco-dis/advantages

Cristina, Bãlãceanu; Mihaela, Apostol Diana; Daniela, Penu - In: Ovidius University Annals, Economic Sciences Series XII (2012) 2, pp. 236-242

The concepts of sustainability and information society are different topics, approached through their own different …

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Biofuels and Sustainable Transport: A Conceptual Discussion

Holden, Erling; Gilpin, Geoffrey - In: Sustainability 5 (2013) 7, pp. 3129-3149

Strategies for sustainably using biofuels must be thoroughly assessed at several levels. First, the use of biofuels must comply with sustainable development’s main dimensions. Second, the use of biofuels must comply with sustainable transport’s main dimensions. Third, gains from using...

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The contribution of sustainable marketing to sustainable development

DANCIU, Victor - In: Management & Marketing 8 (2013) 2

threedimensions of sustainability. As marketingsolutions that could contribute to thesustainable development we advance thestimulation … implementation willincrease the economic, social andenvironmental sustainability at a largeextent in the future if they are …

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