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This paper presents the first study of environmental inequality related to health in France at the national scale. Through an econometric analysis based on a panel data from 2000 to 2004 at a department level, we investigate total mortality rate in relation to socioeconomic status and air...
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This article uses the European Patent Office Worldwide Patent Statistical Database to examine the geographic distribution and global diffusion of inventions in thirteen climate-mitigation technologies since 1978. The data suggest that until 1990 innovation was driven mostly by energy prices....
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its instrumentation in the form of the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) and the Sustainability Balanced Scorecard (SBSC), faced …
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This paper explores sustainability in supply network from a small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) perspective. The … paper provides a literature review of sustainability in supply chains and networks and defines related concepts and … in sustainability initiatives and the barriers and drivers for SME suppliers in becoming involved in such intitiatives …
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In this paper, we propose an appraisal of combinations of several public policy measures that seem to be the most probable by 2050, for urban goods movement (UGM). The proposed scenarios follow the trends of transportation long-term issues in France and introduce the specificity of the urban...
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sustainability related to city logistics. Then, we present the successful experience of Cityporto, the urban delivery service for the …, environmental and social dimensions. From this qualitative analysis, a discussion about the sustainability of city logistics … practices in Italy and other European countries. Moreover, the relations between city logistics solutions and sustainability are …
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Among recent high-profile propositions to revise national accounts and to provide new indicators of sustainability and …, development and sustainability economics, the indicator is supposed to bring information about the wealth of nations and their … sustainability, in a comprehensive way. The inclusive wealth framework is nevertheless fraught with limitations, due to questionable …
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This chapter introduces the book of homonymous title. It motivaites the development of the book and present the different visions of city/urban logistics. Moreover, all chapters are introduced and commented.
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indicators to assess sustainability empirically. Theoretical and empirical studies alike usually consider the world either as an …This paper aims at reviewing the literature on international trade and sustainability. In the neoclassical sense … sustainability is interpreted as the imperative to maintain constant consumption over time. The literature provides several …
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The Word Summit on Sustainable Development (Johannesburg, 2002) encouraged the application of the ecosystem approach by 2010. In this perspective, we propose a theoretical management framework that deals jointly with i) ecosystem dynamics, ii) conflicting issues of production and preservation...
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