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Outlines of a multicommodity and multilateral integrated cooperation agreement for sustainable management of natural resources
Barbiroli, Giancarlo - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 13 (2010) 3, pp. 280-307
's choices, able to deeply modify the paradigms of development and to help pursuing sustainability. After having analysed the …
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Public management and community in rethinking and structuring sustainability: a two-city (USA and Ukraine) comparative analysis
Slava, Svitlana; Condrey, Stephen E. - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 13 (2010) 3, pp. 243-266
Despite a significant pool of sustainable development literature that appeared during the last decade, the term remains unclear. This study involved a theoretical analysis of definitions of sustainable development to identify the weights of different components, to assess what meanings are...
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Evaluation of sustainable development projects: participatory approach
Hartungi, Rusdy - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 13 (2010) 4, pp. 362-373
This paper analyses the strength and constraints of various evaluation methods in sustainable development projects with emphasis on participatory evaluation. An international literature review is used to analyse the application of traditional and participatory approaches. In addition, some of...
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A survey of national sustainable development indicators
Tasaki, Tomohiro; Kameyama, Yasuko; Hashimoto, Seiji; … - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 13 (2010) 4, pp. 337-361
We surveyed sustainable development indicators (SDIs) adopted by 28 national governments, regions, and international organisations and compiled them into a database. The aims of this study were to understand the elements of sustainable development (SD), examine SDIs developed in certain fields...
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Are social performance indicators self-regulatory? The case of two water companies: Suez and Veolia
Lupton, Sylvie - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 13 (2010) 4, pp. 374-392
Veolia Water and Suez Environnement manage drinking water supply not only in France but also across the globe. They have developed a series of social performance indicators that have been used in their sustainable development reports since 2002. This paper examines to what extent the publication...
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From *for* to governance for sustainable development in Europe: what is at stake for further research?
Farrell, Katharine N.; Kemp, Rene; Hinterberger, Friedrich - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 8 (2005) 1/2, pp. 127-150
Following conferences in Pignans, Maastricht, Vienna and Cologne and many e-mail exchanges, the participants of the GoSD-research initiative have identified a path for future research that describes not only governance and sustainable development but also how governance can be *for* sustainable...
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Environmental governance in the European Union: strategies and instruments for absolute decoupling
Giljum, Stefan; Hak, Thomas; Hinterberger, Friedrich; … - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 8 (2005) 1/2, pp. 31-46
The EU recently emphasised the need to speed up the pace of reforms to improve the state of the environment both in Europe and internationally. This becomes in particular challenging, as the "Lisbon Strategy" defines the general goal of an annual economic growth rate of 3%. Decoupling of...
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Symbioses strategies for sustainable company management
Girard, Francesco Fusco - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 12 (2009) 2/3/4, pp. 248-263
Implementing sustainable development means shifting from a linear economic vision to promote a loop economy focused on the closing of both material and non-material flows. In this context, the paper aims at investigating consequences of the above – well accepted and known – statement from...
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The development of an integrated model for assessing sustainability of complex systems
Gamage, Gayathri Babarenda; Boyle, Carol; McDowall, Ron - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 16 (2013) 3/4, pp. 297-309
indices/methods measure single aspects of sustainability and the more integrated indicators are aimed at national or global … level assessments. A review of existing indicators, methods and models within the context of complex system sustainability … showed that no single existing index, method or model was able to assess sustainability of complex systems. Most fail to …
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What is sustainable air quality?
Longley, Ian; Olivares, Gustavo - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 16 (2013) 3/4, pp. 235-245
For 40 years or more, air quality policy has been based on the paradigm of the air quality standard as a uniform criterion of acceptable environmental degradation, built on the foundations of the precautionary principle. However, developments in health science have undermined some of the...
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