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Implementing Sustainable Development Goals within the COVID-19 pandemic future challenges for the 2030 Agenda
Żbikowska, Anna Rydz - In: Comparative economic research : Central and Eastern Europe 25 (2022) 4, pp. 135-160
The COVID-19 pandemic has severely changed the world economy and jeopardized the implementation of Sustainable Development Goals on a large scale. Progress in meeting the goals of the 2030 Agenda has been significantly disrupted and stalled, undermining previous efforts of governments and...
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Get Green or Get Out : Decoupling Environmental from Economic Objectives in Agricultural Regulation
Chen, James Ming - 2014
American agricultural law's environmental record is a legacy of legislative failure. Most of the blame can and should be attributed to the failure of the law to separate ecological objectives from competing and ultimately contradictory economic objectives. Two strains of agroecological fallacies...
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Corporate Concentration and Technological Change in the Global Seed Industry
Bonny, Sylvie - 2017
In the past three decades, the seed sector has experienced, and is now again experiencing, corporate concentration trends. The fallout of this consolidation is the subject of numerous concerns. However, the seed sector is rather poorly understood. Thus, it is useful to understand it better and...
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Microfinance for poverty alleviation : do transnational initiatives overlook fundamental questions of competition and intermediation?
Arp, Frithjof; Ardisa, Alvin; Ardisa, Alviani - 2017
interview market participants and triangulate the perspectives of borrowers with those of formal and informal lenders …
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Mainstreaming Sustainable Coffee
Kolk, Ans - 2010
perceptions on how to advance the market from niche to mainstream. The issues at hand are very complex, with different types of …’ to this ‘wicked problem’. The article analyses the market for sustainable coffee, the different types of certified coffee …
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Penalty Zones in International Sustainability Standards : Where Improved Sustainability Doesn’t Pay
Darnall, Nicole; Iatridis, Konstantinos; Kesidou, Effie; … - 2023
acts as a credible market “signal” that legitimizes firms’ latent sustainability practices while improving their market … adoption and their market value and their sustainability performance appear positive. However, beyond a tipping point of 2 ISSs …, firms’ market gains decline, even though their sustainability performance continues to improve until a tipping point of 3 …
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Environmental Sustainability and Human Development : A Greening of Human Development Index
Maccari, Norma - 2014
Human Development Index (HDI) is one of the most widely used measure of well-being. The weak point of this index is that it does not take into account the concept of sustainability and, more precisely, it is lacking in the environmental component specification. On the other side of the spectrum,...
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Natural Capital, Subjective Well-Being, and the New Welfare Economics of Sustainability : Some Evidence from Cross-Country Regressions
Engelbrecht, Hans-Jürgen - 2010
The measurement of natural capital and its management during the economic development process are important aspects of the capital approach to sustainable development. This paper explores whether natural capital per capita is correlated with life satisfaction across fifty-eight developed and...
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Global Green Agenda in the Eurasian Region. Eurasian Region on the Global Green Agenda
Vinokurov, Evgeny; Albrecht, Conrad; Klochkova, Evgeniya; … - 2023
green finance market. If countries work together to coordinate low-carbon development activities, they will avoid excessive … institutions’ role in promoting a low-carbon future …
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International Environmental Law and the Global South - Introduction
Gonzalez, Carmen G.; Atapattu, Sumudu - 2015
The unprecedented degradation of the planet’s vital ecosystems is among the most pressing issues confronting the international community. Despite the proliferation of legal instruments to combat environmental problems, conflicts between rich and poor nations (the North-South divide) have...
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