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Universal access to modern energy services, in terms of access to electricity and to modern cooking facilities, has been recognized as fundamental challenge for development and is likely to be included in the post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals. Despite a strong praise for action and several...
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Universal access to modern energy services, in terms of access to electricity and to modern cooking facilities, has been recognized as a fundamental challenge for development. Despite strong praise for action and the deployment of large-scale electrification programs and improved cookstove (ICS)...
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In this paper we document the stylized facts about the relationship between international oil price swings, sovereign risk and macroeconomic performance of oil-exporting economies. We show that even though being a bigger oil producer decreases sovereign risk–because it increases a...
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key port performance indicators that can be used to monitor sustainability performance and help make business decisions … associated targets represent an authoritative global guideline to achieving sustainability across different sectors. The agenda …
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We implement a mixed method approach that combines a randomized controlled trial and qualitative data collection to assess whether, and if so how, behavioural change can be sustained. We do so in the context of Pakistan’s national sanitation strategy to combat open defecation, Community-Led...
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-START "Territorial Resilience of the Central Apennines Earthquake Reconstruction'' assessing their impacts on the sustainability … sustainability - environmental, social, and economic - are embraced by the public interventions. However, clear priority has been … given to social and environmental sustainability. The economic dimension results under-represented. Additional policies are …
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determinations that are, in the parlance of sustainability management, context-based. As such, the method proposed is normative and …
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While sustainability issues increasingly gain importance for new product design, they also further complicate the NPD … process. In many cases it is hard to exactly measure the socio-environmental impact of new products, and sustainability … targets may conflict with other ones. Innovators can aim to manage these challenges by turning to voluntary sustainability …
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