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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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Global energy use : decoupling or convergence?

Csereklyei, Zsuzsanna; Stern, David I. - In: Energy economics 51 (2015), pp. 633-641

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Will history repeat itself? : economic convergence and convergence in energy use patterns

Jakob, Michael; Haller, Markus; Marschinski, Robert - In: Energy economics 34 (2012) 1, pp. 95-104

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A race between economic growth and carbon emissions : what play important roles towards global low-carbon development?

Yang, Jun; Hao, Yun; Feng, Chao - In: Energy economics 100 (2021), pp. 1-16

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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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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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