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Designing long-term policy: rethinking transition management

Voß, Jan-Peter; Smith, Adrian; Grin, John - In: Policy Sciences 42 (2009) 4, pp. 275-302

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Crisis Management Effects on Tourism Services Firms and its Impact on Development Sustainable Cities

Constanta, Enea; Constantin, Enea - In: Annals - Economy Series 1 (2009) May, pp. 159-170

. Because of this dependency, tourism has an undeniable interest in ensuring the sustainability of these values. …

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A comment on the independence of allocation, distribution and scale

Lawn, Philip - In: International Journal of Global Environmental Issues 4 (2004) 4, pp. 298-303

, distributional equity, and ecological sustainability since Daly's (1992) paper on the subject (Prakash and Gupta, 1994; Daly, 1994 …

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A normative-functional concept of sustainability and its indicators

Renn, Ortwin; Jager, Alexander; Deuschle, Jurgen; … - In: International Journal of Global Environmental Issues 9 (2009) 4, pp. 291-317

Often concepts of sustainability have been criticised for being theoretically ill-founded and lacking practical impact … sustainability are deduced that allow to measure progress in sustainable development. Based on the set of criteria and its indicators …, interdependencies between the different aspects of sustainability are analysed with the help of expert judgements and cross impact …

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Power from closing the Red Sea: economic and ecological costs and benefits following the isolation of the Red Sea

Schuiling, Roelof Dirk; Badescu, Viorel; Cathcart, … - In: International Journal of Global Environmental Issues 7 (2007) 4, pp. 341-361

The closure of the Red Sea at its southern entrance (the Bab-al-Mandab Strait) could well lead to the world's largest hydropower generation, in the order of 50 000 MW. The cost and time-scales involved are beyond normal economical considerations. Macro-engineering projects of this size cause a...

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Current issues of sustainable production, eco-supply chains and eco-logistics for sustainable development

Koh, S.C. Lenny; Birkin, Frank; Lewis, Linda; Cashman, … - In: International Journal of Global Environmental Issues 7 (2007) 1, pp. 88-101

This paper discusses the current issues on sustainable development in the global market in general and focuses the initiatives particularly related to sustainable production, green innovations and practices and eco-supply chain and eco-logistics. Government, enterprises and individual...

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Sustainable development and climate change: applying the sustainomics transdisciplinary meta-framework

Munasinghe, Mohan - In: International Journal of Global Environmental Issues 1 (2001) 1, pp. 13-55

environmental, social and economic criteria for sustainability play an important role in the sustainomics framework. Environmental … sustainability focuses on the overall performance or health of ecological systems. Social sustainability seeks to reduce the … vulnerability and maintain the health of social and cultural systems, and their ability to withstand shocks. Economic sustainability …

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Development patterns in the North and their implications for climate change

Sachs, Wolfgang - In: International Journal of Global Environmental Issues 1 (2001) 2, pp. 150-162

According to the Framework Convention on Climate Change, developed countries should take the lead in combating climate change. This paper highlights development patterns that could gradually transform Northern societies in low-emission countries. Given that the environmental space available to...

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United Nations Secretary-General's High Level Panel on System Wide Coherence and the environment: incremental change or UN reform?

Wilkins, Hugh - In: International Journal of Global Environmental Issues 6 (2006) 4, pp. 285-300

The UN High-Level Panel on System Wide Coherence is to explore how the United Nations system can work more coherently and effectively in the areas of environment, development and humanitarian assistance. Regarding environmental issues, the Panel has focused on: mainstreaming environment in...

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Integrating climate change and sustainable development

Robinson, John B.; Herbert, Deborah - In: International Journal of Global Environmental Issues 1 (2001) 2, pp. 130-149

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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