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Linking Complexity and Sustainability Theories: Implications for Modeling Sustainability Transitions
Peter, Camaren; Swilling, Mark - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 3, pp. 1594-1622
In this paper, we deploy a complexity theory as the foundation for integration of different theoretical approaches to sustainability and develop a rationale for a complexity-based framework for modeling <i>transitions to sustainability</i>. We propose a framework based on a comparison of complex...
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Emergy-Based City’s Sustainability and Decoupling Assessment: Indicators, Features and Findings
Zhang, Liming; Xue, Bing; Geng, Yong; Ren, Wanxia; Lu, … - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 2, pp. 952-966
Decoupling human well-being and local economic growth from resources consumption and environmental degradation has been … decoupling process by proposing a set of new emergy-based and efficiency-oriented indicators. Decoupling process was verified in …-year yield efficiency, the investment cost for decoupling, and the job-opportunities cost for decoupling were developed and …
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Decoupling Economic Growth and Environmental Degradation: Reviewing Progress to Date in the Small Island State of Malta
Conrad, Elisabeth; Cassar, Louis F. - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 10, pp. 6729-6750
This paper considers the challenge of decoupling economic growth from environmental degradation; in contrast to several … decoupling factors, in order to consider the extent to which decoupling has been achieved in four sectors: (i) energy intensity …, climate change, and air quality; (ii) water; (iii) waste; and (iv) land. Results indicate relative decoupling between economic …
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Economic Growth and Climate Change: A Cross-National Analysis of Territorial and Consumption-Based Carbon Emissions in High-Income Countries
Knight, Kyle W.; Schor, Juliet B. - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 6, pp. 3722-3731
find that over this period there is some evidence of decoupling between economic growth and territorial emissions, but no … evidence of decoupling for consumption-based emissions. …
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Resilience Assessment of Lowland Plantations Using an Ecosystem Modeling Approach
Wu, Chia-Hsin; Lo, Yueh-Hsin; Blanco, Juan A.; Chang, … - In: Sustainability 7 (2015) 4, pp. 3801-3822
:1 camphor laurel/ash density ratio. From an ecological resilience point of view, rotation length was more important than stand …
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Delivering a Multi-Functional and Resilient Urban Forest
Hale, James D.; Pugh, Thomas A. M.; Sadler, Jon P.; … - In: Sustainability 7 (2015) 4, pp. 4600-4624
tensions more explicit, allowing them to be used to test the decadal-scale resilience of urban street trees. Our analysis …
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Evolutionary Plant Breeding in Cereals—Into a New Era
Döring, Thomas F.; Knapp, Samuel; Kovacs, Geza; … - In: Sustainability 3 (2011) 10, pp. 1944-1971
populations to deal with stressful, variable, and unpredictable environments. This resilience of evolving plant populations is …
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The Unsustainable Trend of Natural Hazard Losses in the United States
Gall, Melanie; Borden, Kevin A.; Emrich, Christopher T.; … - In: Sustainability 3 (2011) 11, pp. 2157-2181
In the United States, direct losses from natural hazards are on the rise with hurricanes, flooding, and severe storms contributing about three quarters of the total damages. While losses from severe storms have been stable over the past fifty years, hurricane and flood losses have tripled. Per...
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Emergency Managers Confront Climate Change
Labadie, John R. - In: Sustainability 3 (2011) 8, pp. 1250-1264
Emergency managers will have to deal with the impending, uncertain, and possibly extreme effects of climate change. Yet, many emergency managers are not aware of the full range of possible effects, and they are unsure of their place in the effort to plan for, adapt to, and cope with those...
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Creating ‘resilience imaginaries’ for city-regional planning
Pitidis, Vangelis; Coaffee, Jon; Bouikidis, Aphrodite - In: Regional studies : official journal of the Regional … 57 (2023) 4, pp. 698-711
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